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34 Pages • Four Sections

Volume 22 • Number 36

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Published in Scott City, Ks.

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Council oks $280,000 in local grants The Scott City Council has approved $289,000 in sales tax grants for local organizations during the upcoming year.

Thirteen organizations will be receiving grants ranging from $4,900 to $50,000 from a one-half percent sales tax raised in the city.

“Everyone who applied was awarded a grant,” says Councilman Fred Kuntzsch, a member of the Sales Tax Committee.

Grants are disbursed in two installments on April 1 and October 1.

Kuntzsch said that some organizations requested grants that exceeded what they were eligible to receive.

For example: •No organization can receive a grant which exceeds 50% of their annual income from the previous year.

•No organization can receive more than 30 percent of the total grant distributions.

Scott City senior Peter Nguyen (foreground) checks the brake light to see that it’s operational while Daniel Varela builds a part for one of the vehicles that will be competing in ElectroRally races.

(Record Photo)

(See GRANTS on page 10)

Housing project is on the table A regional housing development program that could result in four homes being built in Scott City’s Eastridge Addition has been proposed to the Scott City Council.

The project is being put together

by Northwest Kansas Housing, based in Hill City. As of this week, investors had yet to make a final commitment to the project, according to executive director Loyce Schamberger.

In a presentation to the Scott City Council, Schamberger said tentative plans are to purchase four lots immediately north of the home that’s already been built in the addition.

NKH wants to build four singlefamily units with basements.

Rent would be based on income, with Schamberger estimating it would range from $500 to $600 per month.

The occupants would enter into a 15-year lease-to-purchase agreement.

Schamberger informed the council that the NKH is working with investors with a goal of putting together $7 million for the construction of 38 housing units in eight counties.

“This is not a sure thing,” she emphasized. “Even though the need (See HOUSING on page 10)

SC crew getting charged up for another ElectroRally season Peter Nguyen was checking the brake connections on one of Scott City’s electric car entries as instructor Chuck Ellis leaned over the vehicle to observe his work.

“The brake light is working,” reaffirmed Ellis.

Meanwhile, Daniel Varela was preparing metal plates that would be attached near the accelerator and brake pedals to provide more support for the feet during an hour of racing.

The two Scott Community High School seniors are part of the six-person crew that is preparing entries for three ElectroRally state races that are being

held in Beloit, Scott City and Hays. The second race in that series will be held at the Scott City Airport on Wed., April 22, starting at 10:30 a.m.

Ellis is faced with the unusual situation of having a full crew of rookies - three boys and three girls - who are part of this year’s driving team. They got their first experience last fall in a preliminary race at Hays where Nguyen drove SCHS to a second place finish in the solar division.

Nguyen said it took awhile to make the adjustment to his first competitive race.

“I was trying to be pretty cautious at the beginning. By the time we finished I was making pretty good time,” says Nguyen. “I’m going to be a lot more aggressive next time.”

He also had a slightly renovated car for the first state race which was held on April 16 at Beloit. The metal body the vehicle had last fall, that Ellis says “wasn’t much to look at,” has now been replaced with fiberglass.

“It’s lighter and it handles much better,” Nguyen says.

There are no new cars in the growing SCHS fleet, but that doesn’t mean they (See ELECTRO on page two)

Cost is biggest obstacle to recycling effort

Convincing people that recycling is good for the environment is the easy part.

But when it comes to persuading people to invest in recycling with their tax dollars, or to dig into their pockets to pay for disposing of e-waste, that’s when the argument becomes a little more difficult to sell for those who operate the Northwest Kansas Regional Re-

cycling Organization which is based in Colby.

The group offers a central collection point for recyclable material from an eight-coun-

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ty area, which includes Scott County.

While recycling continues to grow in popularity the NWKRRO “operates on a shoestring budget” whose existence depends on the fluctuating market for recyclable materials.

“Our biggest challenge is finding the money and keeping good employees so we can keep running,” says Lynette Koon,

manager of the NWKRRO who started the recycling program in Thomas County in 1995.

When the nation’s economy hit a tailspin that began in 2008, it also had a huge impact on the prices paid for recyclable goods which Koon says “still aren’t back to where we’d like to see them.”

Outside of $116,196 in annual dues from the eight partici-

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pating counties (official 2010 census x $4), the only other revenue for the center comes from the recycled material that it sells.

The only state support came in 2003 when a warehouse was established in Colby and grants were provided to help with the purchase of equipment.

(See RECYCLING on page nine)

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Fixing budget mess could undo no-tax pledge Many lawmakers ignoring Brownback’s call to hike taxes The path for digging Kansas out of a deep budget mess could end up paved with broken promises.

Conservative Republicans came to power vowing a leaner state government, one that would cut taxes and leave a smaller footprint.

Cut taxes they did. But a massive budget hole followed, one that may now require higher

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taxes to balance a still-growing state budget.

Gov. Sam Brownback, who pushed for those deep income tax cuts, wants fellow conservatives to ignore the no-new-tax pledges so many of them have made since 2012.

Brownback proposed higher taxes on cigarettes and booze, an idea that has been coolly received in the Legislature. The governor’s budget also depends on a $136 million tax increase on health maintenance organizations.

Meanwhile, leading lawmakers have entertained their own

ideas, including hikes in sales or gas taxes or a tax on “passive income,” including earnings from rent.

Another move afoot would close a loophole that lets wages go untaxed for owners of limited liability companies, sole proprietorships and the like.

While income from those businesses was supposed to be tax-free, the wages paid from that revenue were always still intended to be taxed, lawmakers said.

Efforts to raise taxes, however, run headlong into traditional opposition from conservatives

who ran for office touting their anti-tax credentials.

About one-third of the 125-member Kansas House has signaled an unwillingness to raise taxes when revenues fall short of spending. Almost half the 40-member Kansas Senate is on record opposing new taxes.

The calculus presents a political problem for legislative leaders piecing together a budget puzzle that will dominate the Legislature’s attention when it reconvenes at the end of April after a month long break.

“It’s going to be difficult to

put together a revenue solution,” said Rep. Marvin Kleeb, an Overland Park Republican and chairman of the House tax committee.

The problem is compounded because Democrats aren’t eager to bail Brownback out of a budget mess they believe he caused with the very income tax cuts he signed into law.

And it worsens still because moderate Republicans aren’t likely to raise taxes after they were targeted by the conservative wing of their party for doing just that in the past when the (See PLEDGE on page 18)

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haven’t been busy making preparations over the last several months.

For example, the vehicle that Nguyen is competing in had previously been driven by former SCHS student Andrew Brown, who was about 10 inches taller. That meant literally chopping about a foot off the front of the vehicle and making adjustments to the driver controls and the main body.

In addition, the crew has continued to improve on last year’s new addition to the fleet. That vehicle is constructed with layers of fiberglass (foam core fiberglass). The only metal on the vehicle is the axle.

“Ideally, you’d like to use carbon fiber because it’s lighter, but it’s also more expensive,” says Ellis. “We aren’t gaining that much in weight compared to other cars we’ll be racing against, but it involves different construction which the kids can learn from.”

And that suits Nguyen who plans to attend Manhattan Area Technical College and enroll in the automotive technician program.

“That’s one reason I wanted in this class. I didn’t just want to drive, but I wanted to learn about building cars,” explains Nguyen.

in his first competitive ElectroRally race will be Daniel Varela. That won’t be the only challenge for the SCHS senior who also has cerebral palsy.

However, Varela has a letter from the Kansas Department of Motor Vehicles confirming that he is eligible to acquire a driver’s license. He has to complete a short driving test on the Scott City course prior to the race to show he is capable of handling a vehicle.

“I don’t have any second thoughts about allowing Daniel to drive,” says Ellis.

Varela admitted that when he first signed up for the program he thought that by the way it was titled on the enrollment form he was going to be in an art class. He’s happy about the mistake.

“I’ve learned a lot. It’s been fun to help build these cars,” Varela says.

“When you’re building them you get a lot better understanding of how everything works.

While test driving a vehicle, Varela says one has to always be conscious of the surroundings and where other drivers are.

“You have to have your head in the race. I think the toughest part will be concentrating for an entire hour,” he says.

In order to give other drivers some experience, First Time for Varela Preparing to compete Ellis says the game plan is

SCHS ElectroRally racing instructor Chuck Ellis and Peter Nguyen make adjustments to one of their vehicles in preparation for races this week in Beloit and next week in Scott City.

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for Varela to drive for 30 minutes and then hand the controls over to Leonel Castillo to finish the hour long race.

Other members of the racing team include Karlee Logan, Nancy Wiebe and Coby Belt.

Ellis says there will be about 12 schools and close to 40 vehicles which will be divided into two heats. Races will be held at 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.

Action will be held on a .27 mile course on the

asphalt apron immediately north of the Spencer Flight and Education Center. Spectators are welcome.

The final race in the state series will be held Fri., May 1, in Hays.

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Community Living

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Simple steps to a successful garage sale Holding a successful garage sale takes time and energy. But if you have enough stuff to make it worth the effort, it’s also profitable.

Here are some tips for a successful sale: •If it is broken, throw it away. Nobody is interested in a trash sale.

•Pick your date at least a month in advance and advertise what your bad weather plans will be.

•Check your homeowner’s liability policy.

•Put your ad in the local paper and pitch your ad

so that it sounds inviting.

Listing a few of the best items or most sought after will help draw a crowd.

Many times, people are looking for specific items.

The Record charges a very minimal cost to advertise your garage sale and it will help entice people to come. Also, making signs

with black markers and big lettering that’s large enough for a driver to read and put them at a busy intersection.

•Position your items to help people avoid steps and other hazards that might cause someone to fall.

•Sort items into categories and group them together on tables or in large boxes. The more accessible the items are to potential buyers, the more likely they will look.

Nobody really wants to

dig in boxes for items to buy.

Hang clothing on a rack or clothesline so people can look through them easily might help you move them. Children clothing always tends to sell well if priced correctly, but adult clothing doesn’t. So if you have adult clothing, price it to move.

•Price everything ahead of time. For clothes or books, make a large sign with prices instead of pricing them individually if you are lacking time

Historical Society annual meeting Sunday in Scott City

Sara Jane Richter will be the featured speaker for the Scott County Historical Society annual meeting on Sun., April 19, 2:00 p.m., at the El Quartelejo Museum, Scott City.

Following a brief business meeting, Richter will give the program, “Grandmother’s Dust Bowl Garden.” She is the dean of the School of Liberal Arts at Panhandle State Univesity, Goodwell, Okla.

Sr. Citizen dance Sunday

The Scott Community High School Student Council will be sponsoring its annual VIP dance on Sun., April 19, 2:30-5:00 p.m., in the high school gym.

All seniors who are 55-years or older are invited to attend. Any SCHS student may attend if they are accompanied by a senior citizen.

Those attending are asked to bring finger foods.

Music will be provided by “The Moonshiners.”

Nickole Vallejo and Aydan Kinney

Vallejo-Kinney to wed June 13 Mario and Rhonda Vallejo, Scott City, announce the engagement of their daughter, Nickole, Lawrence, to Aydan Kinney, Lawrence.

Aydan is the son of Orlando and Rolanda Kinney, Garden City.

The bride-to-be is employed by the Corporate World Headquarters of Payless Shoesource in the buying/merchandising department.

The prospective groom will graduate from the University of Kansas in

May 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in industrial design. He is currently employed by AT&T. Nickole is the granddaughter of Robert Lewis, Scott City, and the late Zada Lewis and Manuela and Greg Rodriguez.

Aydan is the grandson of Bobby and Yolanda Clymer, Garden City, and Charles Kinney, Houston, Tex., and the late Ernestine Kinney.

The couple is planning a June 13 wedding in Garden City.

Blue Steele at Park Lane

The Blue Steele Band will be playing at Park Lane Nursing Home on Sat., April 18, 2:30-3:30 p.m.

The public is invited to attend. Refreshments will be served.

to prepare. If you plan on making all clothing 50 cents each, make sure you put that in your advertisement.

•If you have multiple families participating, color code items or mark them with initials as you consolidate items so you can keep track of sales and will know what belongs to who when the sale is over.

•Expect to negotiate over prices. If someone gives you a low offer and you’d like to wait to see if you’ll get your asking price, take his name and

number and offer to call back towards end of the sale if the item doesn’t sell. If someone wants to buy a more expensive item, does not have the cash, and wants to come by later to pick it up, ask for identification and a down payment.

•Remember, you put it in the sale for a reason.

You don’t have space for it or don’t need it. Consider all offers. Something is better than nothing for items that are no longer useful to you.

(See SALE on page seven)

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Editorial/Opinion

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Weighing the cost: Block grants could be forcing a moral dilemma

As school administrators and boards of education across the state figure how they will adjust to a block grant funding plan for public education, many are going to find themselves faced with difficult decisions.

Under the current finance plan, a district receives state funding for each student enrolled. It has been beneficial to accept students from outside the district because that meant more state funding. (i.e., Garden City students to Holcomb, Dodge City students to Spearville, etc.).

More importantly, these out-of-district transfers are rarely blocked because they generally involve circumstances which are often seen as in the best interest of the student.

What will happen when the block grant program takes effect in 2015-16? Two Shawnee County school districts have already said they don’t plan on accepting new students next year who live outside their boundaries.

The reason is simple. Gaining or losing students will not change the amount of state funding.

Some lawmakers are apparently appalled that this is even an issue. In response, Sen. Ty Masterson (R-Andover) quickly drafted a bill in his budget committee which would prevent school districts from telling out-of-district students they have to leave.

It’s no surprise that Masterson misses the point since he manages to do so with such consistency.

The potential impact of the legislature’s funding plan doesn’t end there. Districts are also evaluating whether to continue offering community learning centers which provide non-traditional students an opportunity to earn a high school diploma.

It’s also been used effectively by the Scott County school district to provide an alternative path for students who have trouble adjusting to the traditional education system.

Again, districts have to determine whether grant funding - and in Scott City’s case it’s agreement with the Southwest Plains Regional Service Center - makes it feasible to continue offering the program. In other words, districts are being forced to weigh the real costs involved with education programs against the benefits for a small group of students.

It’s a moral dilemma for educators.

Of course, that’s not a concern for too many legislators who have manufactured a financial disaster. They not only refuse to take responsibility for their actions, but they seem to be equally blind to the consequences.

Estate tax:

GOP’s familiar rhetoric built on illusion, not fact

The U.S. House of Representatives voted on April 15 to repeal the federal estate tax. It did so under the guise of protecting tens of thousands of small businesses and farmers. The real beneficiaries, however, are millionaires and billionaires who will enjoy a tax break estimated at $270 billion over the next 10 years.

House Republicans, including the Kansas delegation, like to echo the familiar rhetoric about a balanced budget, but all they offer are more tax cuts that further increase the debt without offering proposals that will bring in revenue that can really balance the budget.

The estate tax is perhaps one of the most egregious attempts to create an issue where none should exist. Only individual estates worth more than $5.4 million (double that for couples) pay any estate tax. Just two out of every 1,000 estates are affected. How many of you and your friends fall into that elite category?

Here’s what Congressman Tim Huelskamp and other Republicans won’t tell you.

•According to the Tax Policy Center, only about 20 small business and small farm estates nationwide owed any estate tax in 2013.

•Much of the money that wealthy heirs inherit would never face any taxation were it not for the estate tax. That’s one reason why the estate tax was created in 1916: to tax the income of wealthy taxpayers that would otherwise go completely untaxed. The increase in the value of an asset is never subject to income tax if the owner holds on to the asset until death, according to the TPC. •Gutting the estate tax would actually hurt family farms. The estate tax helps make family farms more competitive against mega-scale agriculture because it moderates ever-larger concentrations of wealth. Repeal of the estate tax or exempting farms completely will only encourage further concentration of farm ownership, which reduces competition.

The estate tax continues to be another horror story created by the GOP. Given the facts, the question that should be asked is: Who really benefits if the tax is repealed?

Keeping the poor in their place Have you ever had one of those days when you’re waiting in line for your psychic reading and wondering just how much shorter the line would be if all those welfare recipients weren’t already ahead of you, spending their food stamp money so they can get some inside knowledge about Saturday’s winning Lotto numbers?

And who hasn’t been to a travel agency booking their Caribbean cruise, worried that the people in the cabin next door will be Kansas welfare recipients who should have spent that money on food and clothes for their kids?

Be honest, now. You know that’s crossed your mind.

And if it hasn’t, we can be thankful that we have Kansas legislators and staff members with the Kansas Department of Children and Families who are thinking for us.

They have decided it is well past time to slam the door on poor people who are wildly spending welfare dollars at casinos, liquor stores and strip bars.

Newly passed legislation will ban people who receive money through the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program (food stamps) from using the money at liquor stores, massage parlors, movie theaters, theme parks, swimming pools and cruise ships, among other places.

It’s easy to see how people would feel a little uneasy about welfare recipients spending money at Denver’s Coors Field ($102.25, according to Kansas Watchdog). The way the Rockies have played the last couple of years, just going to Coors Field can make you an accessory to a crime.

Other than a questionable taste in sports teams, what’s more interesting is the spending patterns of Kansas welfare recipients.

During the three month period in which Kansas

Watchdog collected data, 44.4% of the questionable spending went to smoke shops and 15% was spent at liquor stores while another 19.7% was cash advances, which presumably was spent on liquor and tobacco.

Apparently, this abuse of welfare spending isn’t happening at health clubs and nutrition centers.

Would lawmakers feel better if TANF recipients were spending their money at the local YMCA or for a gym membership?

And do we really want our kids going to the local swimming pool and seeing their young friends on welfare (yes, we know who you are because we talk about you at the dinner table)? That sends the message that you can be on welfare and be . . . well, you know . . . human . . . which is exactly the wrong message we want for our kids. It would be a far better learning experience if all these young welfare recipients had to stand outside the swimming pool with their long faces pressed against the

chain link fence wishing they could join their friends.

We should feel fortunate in Kansas that we have lawmakers who understand the valuable life lesson that comes from humiliation. It’s in all of our interests to more clearly identify the haves from the have-nots.

Unfortunately, not everyone understands that.

Lawmakers and the Kansas DCF have come under a lot of criticism from the national media and late-night talk show hosts. It didn’t escape the attention of the legislature’s critics that two things missing from the long list of prohibited spending were guns and ammo.

In other words, a welfare recipient will have no problem using TANF money to purchase a weapon because, as DCF spokeswoman Theresa Freed explained, “A gun could be used by a family . . . to hunt for food . . .” which is what a lot of Kansans are accustomed to doing.

(See POOR on page six)

Extremism not just for radicals On Sunday, it will be 20 years since the morning a bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and took 168 human lives. Nineteen of those lives belonged to children.

Maybe it takes you by surprise that it has been so long. Maybe you wonder where the time went. And maybe you remember… …the ghastly pictures of that building, the front of it sheared away. …the firefighter emerging from the rubble, tenderly cradling that dying baby. …the bloody and lacerated people wandering dazedly from the wreckage. …the breathless speculation that surely the culprits had to be Muslims.

And maybe you remember, too, that sense of vertiginous shock some people felt when we got

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our first look at the man who planted the bomb and discovered him to be, not a swarthy Muslim with a heavy beard and hardto-pronounce name, but a clean-cut, apple pie-faced young white man named Timothy McVeigh. People could not have been more nonplussed if Richie Cunningham had shot up a shopping mall.

But the tragedy was to contain one last surprise.

It came when we learned why McVeigh committed his atrocity. It seems he hated the government.

That revelation was our introduction to a world whose very existence most of us had never suspected. Meaning the so-called patriot movement, the armed, radical

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right-wing extremists who refuse to recognize the authority of the nation’s duly constituted and elected government. Maybe you remember the news reports of how they spent nights and weekends drilling in the woods, playing soldier in anticipation of the day ZOG - the Zionist Occupied Government ceded the country to the United Nations and soldiers of the New World Order came rappelling down from black helicopters to seize everybody’s guns. Maybe you remember how crazy it all sounded.

But that was then.

Twenty years ago, the idea of anti-government resistance seemed confined to a lunatic fringe operating in the shadows beyond the mainstream. Twenty years later, it is the mainstream, the beating heart of the Republican Party. And

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while certainly no responsible figure on the right advocates or condones what he did, it is just as certain that McVeigh’s violent antipathy toward Washington, his conviction that America’s government is America’s enemy, has bound itself to the very DNA of modern conservatism.

It lives in Grover Norquist’s pledge to shrink government down until “we can drown it in the bathtub,” in Chuck Norris’ musing about the need for “a second American revolution,” in Michele Bachmann’s fear that the census is an evil conspiracy.

It lives in dozens of right-wing terror plots documented by the Southern Poverty Law Center since the 1995 bombing, including last year’s murder of two police officers and a (See RADICALS on page six)

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Wind industry blowing past political turbulence

by Emily Schwartz Greco

The gaggle of workers in Montana’s Carbon County hacking at the barely thawed ground in late December were on a mission: Secure Mud Springs Wind Ranch’s eligibility for a green-energy incentive.

Why were they racing to catch a tax credit in that sparsely inhabited land? Congress.

While ambling across its latest do-nothing finish line, lawmakers approved a bill that extended five-dozen tax breaks.

The last-minute move retroactively restored the Production Tax Credit, the wind industry’s primary source for federal support, with a catch: Only projects underway by the year’s end would qualify.

When President Barack Obama signed the legislation on December 19, Washington

had officially extended the wind incentive for the tenth time since 1992 in the least helpful way possible.

In this industrial Cinderella fairytale, Washington fleetingly granted some wind entrepreneurs their wish. Flipping the switch on for two weeks barely gave Mud Springs crews enough time to cut the 1,500 feet of access road and do the turbine prep work required to meet Washington’s evolving definition of getting started, the Billings Gazette reported.

Yet extinguishing this tax credit won’t stop the wind business. Thanks mainly to the increasingly cheap power it generates, it’s flourishing.

Wind generates over 4.5 percent of the nation’s electricity today, enough to power 18 million homes. By 2020, this energy source’s share of the

Building wind farms takes about two years, so lapses like the one the industry now faces trigger delayed reactions. The pace of wind capacity growth will plunge to 6.5 percent in 2016 from a projected 16 percent this year.

total power market could more than double to 10 percent.

By 2030, wind may fuel one out of every five kilowatts consumed in America, the Obama administration predicts.

In contrast to the main federal tax credit supporting solar power and offshore wind, which gives people and companies a break based on the quantity of money they spend, the Production Tax Credit ties tax breaks for wind farm operators to how much power they generate.

Uncle Sam issues a 2.3-cent tax credit for each kilowatthour produced for 10 years

once qualifying energy projects go live.

As you might expect, plenty of conservatives favor this arrangement because it rewards performance. With the wind energy credit dead once again, will the Republican-led Congress revive it for the eleventh time in 2015?

That’s up in the air.

Lawmakers have rebuffed Obama’s efforts to make this energy incentive permanent. A bid to renew the tax credit failed by a slim margin earlier this year in the Senate. Votes fell largely along party lines, with some notable exceptions: Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia rejected it, while Republicans Mark Kirk of Illinois, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, and Susan Collins of Maine supported the measure.

Several Republicans who hail from America’s wind belt

states voted no, including Steve Daines of Montana.

Yet with the arrival of GOP rising stars like freshmen Joni Ernst of Iowa and Cory Gardner of Colorado, who have supported an extension in the past, the industry hasn’t lost hope.

“We are optimistic that Congress will extend the tax credit this year,” said David Ward, the American Wind Energy Association’s spokesman.

Building wind farms takes about two years, so lapses like the one the industry now faces trigger delayed reactions. The pace of wind capacity growth will plunge to 6.5 percent in 2016 from a projected 16 percent this year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Congress, not market forces, fuels this boom-and-bust cycle.

(See WIND on page six)

Can presidential candidates relate to the voters?

by Donald Kaul

Corporate weasels at it again

by Jim Hightower

When you come across a corporate lobbying group claiming to be pushing “Responsible Alternatives to Such-and-Such,” you can rightly assume that it’s really pushing something totally irresponsible, as well as malicious, self-serving, and even disgusting.

That’s the case of ARAWC - the Association for Responsible Alternatives to Workers’ Compensation. Mother Jones magazine reports that this is a front group funded by hugelyprofitable retail chains and other corporate behemoths that want to weasel out of compensating employees who suffer injuries at work.

By law, corporations in near-

ly every state must carry workers’ comp insurance, but the ARAWC lobbying combine is pressuring legislators to allow the giants to opt-out of the state benefit plans and instead substitute their own, highly-restricted set of benefits.

What a deal! But it’s a raw deal for injured workers. In Texas, which already has this writeit-yourself loophole, more than half of the corporate plans - get this - pay nothing to the families of workers who’re killed in job accidents!

Similarly, under an ARAWCwritten opt-out provision that a Tennessee senator sponsored this year, employers wouldn’t have to cover artificial limbs, home care, or even funeral expenses of on-the-job accident

victims.

Also, the Tennessee bill lets a company simply walk away from maimed workers after just three years, or after paying only $300,000 in expenses. Corporations always claim to “value” their employees - and this tells us exactly how little that value is.

By the way, the CEO of ARAWC also happens to be the head of “risk management” at the mingiest of workplaces: Walmart. And that’s what this opt-out scam amounts to - corporate profiteers hoping they can manage to escape paying for risking the lives of America’s workforce.

Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator, writer, public speaker and author

That harsh whine you hear in the background - like a buzzsaw getting ready for a log to come down the chute - is the vast right-wing conspiracy revving its engines.

America Rising, an opposition research Super PAC that lives to trash the Clintons, dashed off a press release challenging the notion that Hillary was going to “drive to Iowa” to start her campaign as she said she would. Hillary doesn’t drive, it said. Someone would have to drive her.

Not exactly the Teapot Dome on the scandal meter. But it’s a start.

Observers say that the main thrust of the Republican strategy will be an effort to make her into a Democratic Mitt Romney - rich, privileged, and clueless as to how real people live.

“How can she relate to the cost of gas?” asked Republican strategist Kevin Madden. “How can she relate to rising food prices when she doesn’t shop herself?”

And Rand Paul, a libertarian Republican hopeful, is about to run a series of ads accusing Clinton of “representing the worst of the Washington machine” that’s “destroying the American dream.”

In contrast, the former Hillary Rodham seems to be in a Mr. Rogers mood. She’s wandering around Iowa, meeting people, and saying, “It’s a lovely day in the neighborhood. Will you be

It’s the Republican way. Before, during, and after an election they attempt to delegitimize the opposition. Carter, Dukakis, Kerry, Clinton, and Obama all got the same treatment. It’s the only arrow in the Republican quiver.

my friend?”

Her announcement, by way of a video, was so low-key as to be boring. She made the obligatory genuflection to hard-working American families who are “struggling to get ahead.” She promised to be their champion.

Ho hum.

Expect all of this to change in the coming months. The Republicans say they’re not going to get personal, but they won’t be able to help themselves. That conspiracy won’t let them.

You’re about to be inundated by a veritable tsunami of campaign garbage coming from the dozens of right-wing organizations that have been collecting ammunition for just such an assault. Whitewater, Troopergate, Vince Foster (If you don’t remember that White House aide, look up the name. Hillary Clinton was supposed to have killed him), sex in the White House, sex out of the White House, Travelgate, Benghazi, emailgate, her jet-setting ways.

All of this baggage and paranoia will come flooding back in its rancid glory. Lies will be mixed with truth, truth with exaggeration. There will be a lot of outright fantasy.

My own personal favorite anti-Clinton story is Bill’s for(See WEALTHY on page six)

Lawmakers rush to humiliate the poor

Rick Brattin, a young Republican state representative in Missouri, has come up with an innovative new way to humiliate the poor in his state.

Call it the surf-and-turf law.

Brattin has introduced House Bill 813, making it illegal for food-stamp recipients to use their benefits “to purchase cookies, chips, energy drinks, soft drinks, seafood or steak.”

“I have seen people purchasing filet mignons and crab legs” with electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards, Brattin said, according to The Washington Post. “When I can’t afford it on my pay, I don’t want people on the taxpayers’ dime to afford those kinds of foods either.”

Never mind that few can afford filet mignon on a lessthan-$7-a-day food-stamp allot-

behind the headlines

by Dana Milbank

ment; they’re more likely to be buying chuck steak or canned tuna. This is less about public policy than about demeaning public-benefit recipients.

The surf-and-turf bill is one of a flurry of state and local proposals to dehumanize and even criminalize the poor as the nation deals with the highpoverty hangover of the Great Recession.

The Kansas Legislature has passed House Bill 2258, punishing the poor by limiting their cash withdrawals of welfare benefits to $25 per day and forbidding them to use their ben-

efits “in any retail liquor store, casino, gaming establishment, jewelry store, tattoo parlor, massage parlor, body piercing parlor, spa, nail salon, lingerie shop, tobacco paraphernalia store, vapor cigarette store, psychic or fortune telling business, bail bond company, video arcade, movie theater, swimming pool, cruise ship, theme park, dog or horse racing facility, pari-mutuel facility, or sexually oriented business . . . or in any business or retail establishment where minors under age 18 are not permitted.”

The Kansas legislators must be pleased that they have protected their swimming pools from welfare recipients. But the gratuitous nature of the law becomes obvious when you consider that it also bans all

out-of-state spending of welfare dollars, so the cruise-ship ban is redundant in landlocked Kansas.

The Topeka Capital-Journal quoted a champion of the bill saying “this is about having a great life.” And the law is helping the poor have a “great life” by forbidding Kansas from accepting hardship waivers from Washington that extend time limits for food-stamp recipients - reminiscent of many states’ refusal to accept an expansion of Medicaid that was funded by the federal government.

Numerous laws that have bubbled up across the country in the last few years have imposed punitive new conditions on the poor. Many are from Republican states opposed to big government, but not entirely: The National Conference of

State Legislatures says another state that prohibits welfare funds for cruise ships is trueblue Massachusetts (though it at least touches the ocean.)

In their budget plans in Congress, Republicans propose “devolving” food stamps and other programs to state control by awarding block grants with few strings attached. The states, the thinking goes, are closer to the people and have better ideas about how to reduce caseloads.

But recent experience suggests one strategy for reducing caseloads is to harass recipients: Some states have been hiking legal fees for poor defendants - in Washington state, the American Civil Liberties Union has found, such obligations average $2,540 per case - and (See HUMILIATE on page six)

The Scott County Record • Page 6 • Thursday, April 16, 2015

Making the business case for expanding KanCare

by Terry Dunn

Business, health care providers, hospital administrators and consumers came together in Topeka recently to detail our unified support for House Bill 2319, which would expand KanCare, the state’s version of Medicaid.

I was one of several who testified before the House Health and Human Services Committee that day, representing the private business sector, more than 2,400 Kansas City Chamber business members and nearly one mil-

lion lives on the Kansas side of the metropolitan area.

This bill should be passed for a number of pragmatic reasons: •Kansas budget - The state of Kansas is expecting a $400 million budget shortfall for FY2016. HB 2319 will enable the state to secure an estimated $2.2 billion in muchneeded federal funds between 2016 and 2020.

•Kansas taxpayers Kansas taxpayers are paying millions of dollars annually to support the Affordable Care Act.

Poor

But without KanCare expansion, by the end of 2015 more than $355 million in taxes and fees paid

by Kansans to support the ACA will leave our state and go to D.C. and other states.

•Employee health insurance - Kansas wants to be known as a businessfriendly state. Yet, without this bill and KanCare expansion, Kansas employers will pay higher prices for employee insurance because younger, healthier workers cannot afford employer-sponsored coverage.

•Jobs - Kansas leaders promote “job creation” as a top goal. Yet a recent study by George Washington University shows that without expansion of KanCare, the state will lose nearly 4,000 new jobs in all sectors in the next five years.

•Expanding the workforce - Kansas leaders and businesses want to move citizens off welfare rolls and back to work.

Yet, without KanCare expansion, 27 percent of the state’s economically disadvantaged citizens without a high school de-

gree will remain unable to achieve self-sufficiency, which is important to the workforce and Kansas employers.

•Health care costs Without KanCare expansion, the state’s uninsured will continue to seek access to health care in the most expensive place - the emergency room - leading to increased costs for all Kansas taxpayers.

As Dr. Bob Moser of The University of Kansas Hospital told the committee, for some rural hospitals, expansion of KanCare may mean the

difference between staying open and having to close their doors.

Meanwhile, his hospital had $60 million in uncompensated care last year.

Expanding KanCare will bring health care costs down and jobs up, and would provide health care coverage to an additional 169,000 Kansas residents.

HB 2319 represents a Kansas solution to new federal regulations impacting Kansas employers, employees, health

We want the government to keep its distance when it comes to protecting the right of everyone and anyone to carry a gun, regardless of their ability to handle such a weapon.

Because, as CoutureLovelady makes clear, “The government should trust its citizens.”

Of course, he wasn’t referring to all citizens.

You can’t be trusted if you’re a Kansan without a job, a Kansan who requires some assistance

to feed yourself and your family, or a poor Kansan who, once in awhile, doesn’t want to be made to feel so poor, so they want to send their kids to a swimming pool, or they want to buy a six-pack of beer or even go to a movie.

That’s too bad for you, but not for the rest of us.

We will soon be able to enjoy shorter lines at Madame Ufraine’s tattoo and psychic readings shop, seating won’t be near as

hard to find at the Boot Hill Casino slot machines and movie theaters will be less crowded.

It doesn’t mean that you’re any less poor or that there are fewer of you around. Think of it as an out-of-sight-out-of-mind approach to poverty.

You know how that works . . . as long as you’re out of sight, you’re out of our minds.

(See KANCARE on page 7)

(continued from page four)

This is where Kansas law just keeps getting better and better. Not only can a welfare recipient buy a gun, but they can soon enjoy the same privilege as their non-welfare neighbors by not being required to go through the hassle of being trained in how to use it.

That eight hours of firearms instruction which had been required to get a concealed-carry permit can be much better spent elsewhere, according

to Rep. Travis CoutureLovelady (R-Palco). The class was simply the state “lecturing you what you should and should not do,” explained CoutureLovelady.

The best experience, says Couture-Lovelady, is to actually go out and start shooting stuff.

When we were in high school we made that same argument about driver’s ed. Instead of being in the classroom, we felt our time would have been

Hillary officially begins 19 months of looking concerned

by Andy Borowitz

LE CLAIRE, IOWA (The Borowitz Report) With a stop in Iowa on Tuesday, the Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton officially embarked on a nineteen-month marathon of looking concerned.

Sitting with patrons at Jones Street Java House, in Le Claire, the former Secretary of State listened intently, sipped from a cup of coffee, and nodded her head at appropriate junctures, flawlessly re-enacting a brief scene from her first campaign video.

After about 20 minutes of virtually nonstop displays of empathy, a Clinton aide said, “we decided to shut it down.”

“Hillary is staring down 19 months of sipping coffee and nodding her head,” the aide continued.

“We want to make sure she paces herself.”

After her Iowa visit, Clinton is scheduled to bring her looks of concern to New Hampshire, South Carolina, and other early primary states.

Andy Borowitz is a comedian and author

Radicals

(continued from page four)

Walmart shopper by two anti-government activists in Las Vegas. It lives in Cliven Bundy’s armed standoff with federal officials.

These days, it is an article of faith on the political right that “government” is a faceless, amorphous Other. But this government brought itself into being with three words - “We the people” - and they are neither incidental nor insignificant. Our government may be good, may be bad, may be something in between, but as long as we are a free society, the one thing it always is, is us.

Meaning: a manifestation of our common will, a decision a majority of us made. We are allowed to be furious at it, but even in fury, we always have peaceful tools for its overthrow. So there is never a reason to do what McVeigh did.

We all know that, of course. But 20 years after the day they brought babies out of the rubble in pieces would be an excellent time to pause and remind ourselves, just the same.

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Obviously, we were way ahead of our time. Or we can blame our Founding Fathers for not putting some provision in the Constitution which guaranteed our right to drive a horseless carriage.

This is what makes Kansas politics so intriguing and, at the same time, leaves it dripping with hypocrisy.

Wealthy mer lover who claimed that the Clintons had killed her cat.

It’s the Republican way. Before, during, and after an election they attempt to delegitimize the opposition. Carter, Dukakis, Kerry, Clinton, and Obama all got the same treatment. It’s the only arrow in the Republican quiver.

At some point, however, Hillary will have to come out of her shell and go on the counter-attack.

And I think she can do

Wind That 16 percent growth is a big deal in today’s electricity market. It represents nearly half of the more than 20 gigawatts of power being added in 2015 to the nation’s collective grid.

Wind is currently the leading source of the national grid’s new capacity, sailing past natural gas.

Meanwhile, coal-fired power plant shutdowns will unplug 13 gigawatts.

The wind industry now employs more than 50,000 American work-

Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com

(continued from page five)

that. For one thing, she’s got a shot at amassing a reported $2.5-billion war chest.

So what if she’s rich?

Pretty much all presidential candidates are rich. So what if she’s out of touch?

Do you think Jeb Bush shops for his own dinner or washes the dishes every night? And if he did, how much better would he be able to deal with Iran?

The thing that this campaign will demonstrate yet again is that the way we choose U.S. presidents is broken.

(continued from page five)

We require our candidates to go around with a tin cup begging for money, promising this to that group and that to this other one. And then we expect them to be honest and principled once in office.

That’s unrealistic. If you’re lucky, you get a semi-honest, semi-principled person who campaigns for high-minded goals, without conviction.

Although I will never understand how the Republicans figure that get-

Donald Kaul is a retired Washington columnist for The Des Moines Register.

He covered the capital for 29 years. dkaul1@verizon.net

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sometimes imprisoning them for their inability to pay.

An NPR study last year found that defendants are routinely charged for public defenders, room and board in jail, parole supervision and electronic monitoring devices - items that were once free.

NCSL also reports that 12 states, most in the South, have passed laws in the last three years requiring drug testing for publicassistance applicants.

Emily Schwartz Greco is a And what if all these former foreign corresponnew costs for the poor put dent and financial reporter ers. It’s reducing pollution that causes cancer, seeds climate chaos, and increases asthma.

How can there be any debate over whether Congress should sustain this successful tax credit?

Maybe those Montana construction workers should come to Washington to talk sense to Senator Daines. When it comes to renewing the tax credit for wind energy, he’s blowing it.

ting rid of health insurance for millions of people qualifies as high-minded.

The ultimate result is either Republican presidents who favor the rich or Democrats who also favor the rich, but not as much.

I just don’t think that’s what the framers of the Constitution had in mind.

At least I hope not.

(continued from page five)

them out on the street?

The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty last year reported a 60 percent increase since 2011 in citywide bans on public camping and a 43 percent increase in prohibitions on sitting or lying down in public places.

Even then, poor people can still stay on the right side of these new punitive laws, as long as they don’t sleep, keep moving at all times - and lay off the steak and fish.

Dana Milbank is a columnist for The Washington Post

The Scott County Record • Page 7 • Thursday, April 16, 2015

Sale

(continued from page three)

•Have a box marked FREE for items you don’t think you could sell, but want to get rid of. This is the easiest way to get rid of them.

Be ready early in the morning, as many people will show up hours before the sale officially starts to get the best stuff. Set up the day before, if possible.

•Keep one person in charge of the money box and have plenty of change.

Take cash only, and accept personal checks only from people you know well.

Whatever you do, do not leave the money box or bag on the table if you need to walk away. If you can, keep the money on your person by using an apron with pockets.

KanCare

•Provide boxes, newspapers, and bags to help shoppers package what they buy.

•Find a charity that will come to your house the next day to pick up unsold items and give you a receipt for your taxes.

Be sure to list item and replacement cost for your tax records.

Often, by donating to the local thrift store, you can easily get rid of unwanted items, save yourself a lot of time, get a break on your taxes that might exceed what you would have earned at a sale and do good to the environment and your community.

You can also involve

your children in the sale; give a percentage of sales to your child to donate to the charity that they choose if they help with the sale. Suggest that they run a concession stand: lemonade, cookies and snacks.

To help them part with unneeded items; let them keep the money from items that they pick to

sell or have them donate those items to a charity of their choice. If you do allow your children to help, please be sure to keep a close eye on them at all times.

If you would like any other tips or have any questions, please contact the Extension office (8722930).

(continued from page six)

care providers and Kansas communities.

I urge our Kansas Legislature to do the right thing: Expand KanCare in Kansas.

It is good for Kansas and for Kansans.

Terry Dunn is a former president and CEO of JE Dunn Construction Group and currently serves as chairman of the board of directors for the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce

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SCHS Sr. Citizen Dance @ High School, 2:30-5:00 p.m.

Attend the church of your choice.

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20 SCHS Var. Golf Sublette Inv. @ Buffalo Dunes, 9:30 a.m.

21 SCHS Track Inv., 9:30 a.m.

SCHS JV Golf @ Goodland, 2:00 p.m.

SCHS Softball @ Spearville, 4:45 p.m.

Wednesday

Thursday

22 ElectroRally State Race @ Scott City Airport, 10:30 a.m.

Friday

23 SCHS Tennis @ Hoisington, 3:00 p.m.

SCMS Track @ Colby, 3:00 p.m.

SCHS Var. Tennis @ Ulysses, 3:00 p.m.

City Council mtg., 7:30 p.m.

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SCES Round-up (pre-school, kinderprep and kindergarten), 6:30 p.m.

SCHS Var. Golf Inv., 3:00 p.m.

ES Site Council mtg., 7:00 p.m.

SCHS JV Tennis

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28 SCHS Baseball/Softball

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25 HS State Solo/Small Ensemble

SCES Round-up (pre-school, kinderprep and kindergarten), 9:00 a.m.

SCMS Track @ Goodland, 10:00 a.m.

SCHS Var. Golf @ Leoti, 3:00 p.m.

SCHS JV Tennis @ Hoisington, 3:00 p.m.

SCHS Var. Tennis Inv., 3:00 p.m.

SCHS Var. Track @ Holcomb, 3:00 p.m.

Al-Anon meeting @ Pack 66/Troop 149, Community Christian 5:00 p.m.

Church, 6:30 p.m.

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Earth Day 2015

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‘3 Rs’ for the environment

Every year, Americans throw away 50 billion food and drink cans, 27 billion glass bottles and jars, and 65 million plastic and metal jar and can covers. More than 30% of our waste is packaging materials.

Where does it all go?

Some 85% of our garbage is sent to a dump, or landfill, where it can take from 100 to 400 years for things like cloth and aluminum to decompose.

Glass has been found in perfect condition after 4,000 years in the earth!

We are quickly running out of space. It’s time to learn the three R’s of the environment: reduce, reuse, recycle. Then practice what you preach: don’t buy things you don’t need or items that come in wasteful packaging or that cannot be recycled. Reuse and recycle whatever you can.

Reduce Reducing the amount of waste you produce is the best way to help the environment. There are lots of ways to do this. For example: •Buy products that don’t have a lot of packaging. Some products are wrapped in many layers of plastic and paperboard even though they don’t need to be. You can also look for things that are packed in materials that don’t require a lot of

energy or resources to produce. Some products will put that information right on their labels.

•Instead of buying something you’re not going to use very often, see if you can borrow it from someone you know.

•Cars use up energy and cause pollution. Some ways to reduce the environmental damage caused by cars include carpooling with friends, walking, taking the bus, or riding your bike instead of driving.

•Start a compost bin.

Some people set aside a place in their yard where they can dispose of certain food and plant materials.

Over time, the materials will break down through a natural process called decomposition. The compost is good for the soil in your yard and means that less garbage will go to the landfill.

•Save energy by turning off lights that you are not using.

•Save water by turning off the faucet while you brush your teeth.

•Lots of families receive a large amount of advertisements and other junk mail that they do not want. You can stop the mailings and reduce waste by writing to the following address and requesting that they take your name off of their distribution list: Direct Marketing Association Mail

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able plastic utensils and plates.

•Store food in reusable plastic containers.

Reuse Instead of throwing things away, try to find ways to use them again!

For example: •Bring cloth sacks to the store with you instead of taking home new paper or plastic bags. You can use these sacks again and again. You’ll be saving some trees!

•Plastic containers and reusable lunch bags are great ways to take your lunch to school without creating waste.

•Coffee cans, shoe boxes, margarine containers, and other types of containers people throw away can be used to store things or can become fun arts and crafts projects.

Use your imagination!

•Don’t throw out clothes, toys, furniture, and other things that you don’t want anymore.

Somebody else can probably use them. You can bring them to a center that collects donations, give them to friends, or even have a yard sale.

•Use all writing paper on both sides.

•Use paper grocery bags to make book covers rather than buying new ones.

•Use silverware and dishes instead of dispos-

Recycle Many of the things we use every day, like paper bags, soda cans, and milk cartons, are made out of materials that can be recycled. Recycled items are put through a process that makes it possible to create new products out of the materials from the old ones.

In addition to recycling the things you buy, you can help the environment by buying products that contain recycled materials. Many brands of paper towels, garbage bags, greeting cards, and toilet paper, to name a few examples, will tell you on their labels if they are made from recycled materials.

In some towns you can leave your recyclables in bins outside your home, and a truck will come and collect them regularly.

Other towns have recycling centers where you can drop off the materials you’ve collected. Things like paper and plastic grocery bags, and plastic and aluminum cans and bottles can often be brought to the grocery store for recycling.

Whatever your system is, it’s important to remember to rinse out and sort your recyclables!

Landfills not the place for e-waste

Electronic waste, or “e-waste,” is a term used to describe any electronic device that is outdated, obsolete, broken, donated, discarded, or at the end of its useful life.

This includes cell phones, computers, laptops, PDAs, monitors, televisions, printers, scanners, and any other electrical device .

With the rapid expansion of technology, combined with the relatively short shelf life of many present day electronic devices, more and more e-waste is generated each

year.

Often, these discarded devices end up in landfills or are incinerated, which can cause major environmental problems in our communities.

Many of the materials found in electronic devices are extremely hazardous. These include lead, mercury, and cadmium.

When these electronics end up in landfills, many of these chemicals leach into the soil during rainfall or are released into the atmosphere when burned.

These chemicals can have dangerous impacts

on the health of plants and animals and when inhaled can lead to serious respiratory problems.

The simple solution to limiting the effects of e-waste disposal is safe and responsible recycling.

Each year, the United States alone produces up to 50 million tons of e-waste. Of this, only 20-25% is recycled safely and responsibly. The other 75% ends up in landfills.

As a direct consequence, hazardous materials found in this waste routinely contaminate air and water supplies.

Car care good for the environment

tires inflated to the proper pressure. Under-inflated tires can lower gas mileage by 0.3 percent for every one psi drop in pressure of all four tires.

Properly inflated tires are safer and last longer.

The proper tire pressure for your vehicle is usually found on a sticker in the driver’s side door jamb or the glove box and in your owner’s manual.

Do not use the maximum pressure printed on the tire’s sidewall.

Fuel economy benefit: up to 3% Equivalent gasoline •Keep Tires Properly savings: up to 9 cents/ Inflated gallon You can improve your gas mileage by up to 3.3 •Use the Recommended percent by keeping your Grade of Motor Oil Fixing a car that is noticeably out of tune or has failed an emissions test can improve its gas mileage by an average of four percent, though results vary based on the kind of repair and how well it is done.

Fixing a serious maintenance problem, such as a faulty oxygen sensor, can improve your mileage by as much as 40 percent.

Fuel economy benefit: 4% Equivalent gasoline savings: 11 cents/gallon

You can improve your gas mileage by 1-2 percent by using the manufacturer’s recommended grade of motor oil.

For example, using 10W-30 motor oil in an engine designed to use 5W-30 can lower your gas mileage by 1-2 percent.

Using 5W-30 in an engine designed for 5W-20 can lower your gas mileage by 1-1.5 percent.

Also, look for motor oil that says “Energy Conserving” on the API performance symbol to be sure it contains frictionreducing additives.

Fuel economy benefit: 1-2% Equivalent gasoline savings: 3-6 cents/gallon.

Earth Day 2015

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NWKRRO Recycling Breakdown by County Material Newspapers Magazines Cardboard

Gove 2013 2014

Rawlins 2013 2014

Cheyenne 2013 2014

Sheridan 2013 2014

Logan 2013 2014

Decatur 2013 2014

Scott 2013 2014

Thomas 2013 2014

Total 2013 2014

28,995

30,506

16,501 13,358

28,584

28,553

19,419

24,447

16,793

15,835

27,589

27,679

30,921 24,374

143,754

89,527

254,179 254,839

45,93

47,167

27,636 24,976

60,483

48,659

25,660

33,209

17,303

14,724

26,981

24,776

38,816 31,328

78,855

72,341

363,709 297,180

122,652 119,751

48,084 42,843

117,056 104,617

270,326 383,167

1,039,252 1,066,155

Chipboard

21,122

Junk mail

25,898

9,762

104,029 130,436

9,501

20,317

12,730 11,164

14,312

136,012 137,842 8,255

8,004

7,654

48,804

55,521

90,462 91,978

6,976

8,110

7,654

14,351 13,107

60,038

72,317

137,882 168,226

23,040

24,434

11,063

7,023

13,159

17,438

11,497

6,605

10,161

8,837

14,248 10,729

57,272

74,909

130,845 161,139

Shredded paper

9,031

10,848

7,936

5,894

3,668

5,248

13,815

10,704

4,669

2,639

5,644

1,960

21,571 15,679

32,655

37,146

113,788

90,118

Tin cans

6,653

7,490

3,614

3,481

6,808

7,681

4,954

8,103

2,582

2,422

3,695

3,635

7,256

7,276

13,987

21,695

52,193

61,783

No. 1 plastic

7,140

7,670

3,766

3,322

5,777

5,557

2,238

3,538

3,200

2,884

3,889

4,020

5,739

5,721

22,896

18,575

48,562

51,287

No. 2 nat. plastic

3,447

2,983

1,251

1,799

1,620

2,279

803

1,119

904

896

1,167

1,063

2,286

1,340

8,357

10,176

20,946

21,655

No. 2 col. plastic

9,153

7,887

1,438

2,166

4,191

5,884

331

274

1,665

2,203

2,042

2,058

3,673

3,225

8,266

3,673

31,659

31,983

13,965 11,212

36,290

33,964

26,030

22,055

12,032

8,081

17,949

18,922

23,288 21,849

56,334

56,109

197,791 196,553

4,464

4,521

0

0

837

932

1,342

1,192

1,194

1,398

1,109

2,911

13,003

13,814

21,759

24,361

Aluminum cans

Glass (boxed)

2,146

2,860

0

0

Books (boxed)

21,040

10,365

6,447

2,657

6,024

10,986

14,636

9,486

9,962

967

2,456

3,499

4,759

4,721

0

0

72,674

42,681

Clothes

0

335

3,690

4,332

23,526

20,872

5,394

6,650

6,295

3,402

12,956

13,210

0

0

12,660

19,229

67,712

68,030

e-waste

382

42

1,490

55

786

618

410

101

6,069

4,838

65

178

530

0

14,456

12,567

21,467

18,399

Total 322,493 322,597 All weights are listed in pounds

158,510 136,760

Recycling Recycled material received at the center dipped by 17 tons during 2014 for a total of 1,266.6 tons.

Three of the counties saw a significant increase in their recycled tonnage during 2014, three declined and the other two saw very little change.

In Scott County, 116.3 tons of material were recycled in 2014, compared to 129.5 tons the previous year.

Contributing Factors But Koons cautions against reading too much into those numbers from year to year.

In Scott County, along with several other participating counties, stores such as Dollar General, Shopko and Pamida used to send their cardboard to the recycling center, but they now process that on their own.

309,630 326,593

271,116 282,970

175,515 174,560

259,094 232,726

764,145 878,955

2,566,304 2,533,181

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“It’s great that they’re recycling, but I wish they were doing it through us.

This is revenue out of our pocket,” Koon notes.

As the NWKRRO has seen its operating revenue decline it has been forced to rely on counties to increase their annual membership dues. Most have been on board with the increases, but for different reasons.

Koon says four counties are currently operating landfills, but rely on the NWKRRO to help extend the life of their facility.

“Every pound they can send to us is one less pound that goes into their landfill and that means they can keep it open a little longer,” says Koon.

“Another county nearing their 20-ton-per-day limit.

If they go over that amount they lose their exemption

and would have to put in a sub-title D landfill which is very expensive.”

Other counties, however, feel they can save money by hauling their recycled material to a landfill outside their county.

“The big selling point with those counties is that they must have a waste reduction tool that’s part of their solid waste plan,” emphasizes Koon. “By sending their recycled material to use they are meeting that requirement. They can establish exactly how much they are reducing the amount of trash going into the landfill.”

While other counties around the state have joined efforts to establish regional sites, Koon says the NWKRRO is unique in that it sends a truck to each county to collect material which is then stored

Earth Day at GC zoo on April 22

The Lee Richardson Zoo is expecting over 1,200 students from Garden City and surrounding communities at the zoo’s Earth Day celebration on Wed., April 22.

The annual Party for the Planet runs from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and is open to the public. Special activities and games are geared for students third grade and above.

Reservations for schools are requested.

This year’s theme is “Caring for Keeps” and participants will learn different ways to care for animals at the zoo and how the staff takes care of the environment as well.

The celebration will take place inside the Finnup Center for Conservation Education and out on zoo grounds.

Displays, activities, and demonstrations by zoo staff, volunteers, and over 15 local and regional exhibitors will give students an opportunity to get outside and learn about water, wildlife, recycling,

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energy efficiency, and more.

Students will have the opportunity to play games that demonstrate the importance of animal care, make enrichment for the animals at the zoo, touch animal biofacts, and hear talks by animal keepers at select exhibits.

This year the zoo has invited Kevin Horner and his entourage of puppet animals. Horner specializes in ventriloquism and illusions with a heavy dose of educational fun.

Spaces are limited for his performances and reservations are taken on a first come, first served basis.

Richard Renner from

Vodvill Entertainment will also be returning with his “Recycle Cycle,” touring the zoo and demonstrating that one man’s trash really can be another man’s treasure.

This year participants will also have the chance to contribute to the new Nature Play Space by helping artist Jayson Fann construct a “Spirit Nest” behind the Finnup Center.

The first Earth Day was held in Washington, D.C. in 1970 to call attention to the declining health of our planet. The zoo has made Earth Day celebrations an annual tradition to help current and future generations learn how to be better stewards of the Earth.

at the Colby location until they have enough on hand to satisfy buyers.

That means paying for the truck, driver, processing and gaylord boxes used to contain the recycled material.

Koon says the markets demand full truckload quantities before they will accept recycled products and, on their own, each county would have to find storage for long periods of time to meet this requirement. For example, it takes 44 bales of plastic bottles to fill a semi-trailer and “we might only send out two trucks of plastic a year. That’s with eight counties working together,” she points out.

“On their own, it might take a small center two or three years to have enough plastic bales for a truckload.”

Further complicating

the market for plastic has been tightening import restrictions by China which is limiting the plastic that enters their country.

“They’re inspecting every container. They’re tired of taking our trash,” says Koon. e-Waste Issues There are similar concerns with disposing of e-waste which can range from old televisions and stereos to computers and cell phones.

Initially, the NWKRRO received a couple of state grants which allowed them to conduct e-waste collection days throughout the region and collect material at no cost to individuals. Today, however, the e-waste has to be delivered to Colby and the individual must pay 25 cents per pound to dispose of it.

“We don’t have enough people to do the collections anymore and no one wants to make the drive to Colby,” says Koon, who noted that e-waste is collected only on Thursdays.

The only exception is the City of Oakley which collects e-waste at its recycling center and then hauls it to Colby. There is no cost to individuals who drop off e-waste. Those fees are paid for by the city.

“It would be great if more cities were willing to do that,” Koon says.

She says most e-waste items would only cost a person $3 or $4 to dispose of.

Koon is hopeful the recycling center can get their trailer back on the road again this summer and conduct e-waste collection days in member counties.

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Wind and Wheels in Leoti Saturday

The third annual Wind and Wheels Festival returns to Leoti on Sat., April 18.

This all-day event at the Wichita County High School will celebrate the area’s abundance of wind in a unique fashion.

The festival will feature kite demonstrations and open kite flying, a car and motorcycle show, live music performances and food.

Professional kite flyers

Grants

will be demonstrating kite flying techniques as well as showing off their giant, larger than life kites.

Wind energy presentations, model rocket launches, a candy drop and parachute races for the kids will keep the whole family engaged all day. The day will kick off with the AIM Coalition’s AIM for the Track 5K fundraiser for improvements to the high school track..

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Entrance to Wind and Wheels Festival is free.

All attendees are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and kites for the open kite flying opportunities.

Vendors will be on hand selling kites, food and drinks.

The evening will be capped off with the Jared Daniels Band performing at the Wichita County Fairgrounds. Tickets for the concert are $20 at the door; $15 for students.

Housing

exists, we’ve had a tough time selling this project in northwest Kansas.”

If the investors come through, housing group would be under a very tight time frame. They would have eight months to complete all 38 units. If that happens, construction would begin in Scott City Organizations who received grants, the amounts in June or July.

Because of the numand plans for the grant money include: ber of homes that would Russell Child and Development Center Grant: $4,400.

Money to be used to purchase learning tools for families and learning stations for businesses in the community.

The tools would include wooden puzzles, wooden blocks, etc., that would remain in homes. The stations would be set up in businesses to provide information about RCDC in addition to activities for children while they are with their parents in a business.

There had also been discussion about whether to allow grant money to be awarded to non-profit organizations whose home office was located outside Scott County, even if they had employees living in the county. One organization who would be affected by that policy is City on a Hill substance abuse treatment center near Marienthal.

Kuntzsch said the Sales Tax Committee had considered the situation but decided to leave the policy as it is.

“We are especially excited for the live music we’ve added this year,” said Simone Elder, event coordinator and Wichita County Economic Development director.

Interested car enthusiasts can email windandwheels@gmail.com or call (620) 375-2182. For more information about the event, be sure to like Wind and Wheels on Facebook or visit www. windandwheels.org.

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need to be constructed in a short time, Schamberger said some of the projects would be site-built and others would be Wardcraft homes.

City Attorney John Shirley reminded Schamberger that whoever owns the homes would also be responsible for curb/gutter/street special assessments.

Scott City Stars Swim Club Grant: $11,600 Purchase six new starting blocks and a laptop computer.

Scott Community Foundation Grant: $20,200 To complete phases No. 3 and No. 5 in the community walking trail. The Foundation has pledged to match the city’s grant.

Scott Community Golf Course Grant: $50,000 The grant will be divided among summer labor; the annual fertilizer/pest/chemical treatment program; tree/grounds maintenance; cart path improvements; and a new mower for the greens and tee boxes.

The club also has a one-time expense of $10,000 to complete a new green and tee box.

Scott County Arts Council Grant: $24,000 To pay the executive director’s salary ($20,000) and programming ($4,000).

Scott County Extension Grant: $4,900 To purchase three new desktop computers and monitors for the office staff plus one laptop computer that would be available to 4-H families.

Scott County Fair Board Grant: $12,000 To purchase a new Gator for use at the fairgrounds.

Scott County Historical Society Grant: $48,700 To be divided among paid staff (33,500), purchase a new heating/AC unit ($5,000), and insurance ($10,500).

Scott Co. Indoor Arena Grant: $26,600 Purchase a Kiser Dragmaster ($14,600) and replace a 14x28 ft. overhead door ($12,000).

Scott County VIP Center Grant: $13,400 To be used for building maintenance, custodian wages ($6,000), bus maintenance and fuel.

Scott Recreation Commission Grant: $50,000 Annual payment of $37,915 on the lighting system that was replaced at the Sports Complex six years ago. $15,000 in improvements to the sprinkler system at the Complex.

Spencer Flight and Education Center Grant: $6,200 This would be divided among establishment of an IMC Club ($1,200), expenses for two educational speakers ($2,000) and expenses for pilot education ($3,000).

Western Ks. Child Advocacy Center Grant: $17,000 To assist with staff salaries and an addition to the building which houses the four mobile units.

65th Anniversary Sale For five days we’re treating you to even lower prices on delicious Dairy Queen specials!

Monday, April 20 Small Cone - 65¢

Tuesday, April 21 Small Sundae - 65¢

Wednesday, April 22 Single Hamburger - 65¢

Thursday, April 23

Small Shake or Malt - 65¢

Friday, April 24 Small Cone - 65¢

Ken, Steve, Loretta and all the employees of the Scott City Dairy Queen thank you for 65 years of tremendous community support.

Dairy Queen

1211 S. Main, Scott City • 872-3215

The Scott County Record

Youth/Education

there can only be one

Mr. SCHS

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Carson Haupt strikes a pose while he’s being introduced to the audience during the Mr. SCHS Pageant on Saturday evening.

(Record Photo)

Pageant circuit may be next for Baker Beauty wasn’t the number one criteria in Saturday’s pageant at Scott Community High School.

Neither was talent.

As for the evening gown . . . it may have helped, but not enough to crown the winner of the first ever Mr. SCHS Pageant.

The event was a fundraiser for the forensics department which will be sending three students to the national tournament. But it was mostly a fun evening for those in attendance and even the eight contestants who were brave enough to lip sync to female vocalists and reveal their favorite hobbies.

None were as brave as freshman Dexter Gooden who appeared in drag while singing “Let it Go” by Idina Menzel. The performance was a crowd favorite and earned him second runner-up honors.

The first runner-up was Carson Haupt who carries the heavy burden of being Mr. SCHS should this year’s winner be unable to perform his many duties during the upcoming year. And wearing the crown as Mr. SCHS is senior Sloan Baker who thanks his mother in the audience “for encouraging me not to be afraid to try anything.”

By the time Baker finished his acceptance speech he was on an empty stage as the other seven contestants turned their backs and walked away after he was named the winner.

“I think everyone had a great time,” says forensics coach Summer Ford.

“We’ve had a lot of people asking us to do this again, so it looks like we’ll crown a second Mr. SCHS next year.”

(Above left) Dexter Gooden lip syncs to “Let it Go” by Idina Menzel.

(Above) Ben Wagner performs to “Kung Fu Fighting” by Charles Douglas.

(Left) Mr. SCHS Sloan Baker gives his acceptance speech while the other contestants turn their backs and walk away at the conclusion of the pageant.

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For the Record Resetting your retirement following a divorce The Scott County Record

Jason Alderman

Retirement planning can face derailment after a divorce. Married, twoincome couples have the advantage of splitting living expenses and pooling all their investment assets, including retirement accounts.

Once the marriage is over, costs for separate households may limit the ability of ex-spouses to keep their retirement on track.

After a divorce, indi-

viduals generally walk away with a share of joint retirement assets based on how they negotiate that split. However, returning to singlehood means the end of shared expenses with housing, food, transportation and related expenses now being paid out of one wallet, not two.

This can mean considerably less money to direct toward retirement and other savings and investments.

To assure a comfortable retirement, many experts

Scott City Council Agenda Mon., April 20 • 7:30 p.m.

City Hall • 221 W. 5th •Call to Order •Approve minutes of April 6 regular meeting •Certify general election results •Recognition of out-going council members •Adjourn Swearing in of Newly Elected Officials •Scott County Development Committee 1) Request for 2016 funding •Scott Recreation Commission 1) Water conservation plan and updates 2) Discuss power lines to playground area at Sports Complex •Governing Body Institute 1) Training for city officials in Topeka •Open agenda: audience is invited to voice ideas or concerns. A time limit may be requested Pool Department 1) Misc. business Police Department 1) Request to attend “DWI Detection/ Standardized Field Sobriety Testing” workshop in Goodland 2) Discuss server at LEC Parks Department 1) Recommend hiring of seasonal employee 2) Discuss walking trail Public Works Department 1) Discuss well No. 8 2) Discuss meter readers Clerk’s Department 1) Misc. business •Financial and investment reports •Mayor’s comments

Public Notice

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advise individuals to save and invest over time so they can live annually on at least 70 percent of their pre-retirement income.

Divorcing couples should retain separate qualified financial experts to assure an equitable split of assets and a continuing plan to build a solid retirement in single life.

Here are a few steps to reset one’s retirement goals after divorce.

•Gather a personal finance team.

It’s a good idea to hire

a financial professional to offer advice on all relevant financial, investment, tax, estate and retirement details of a divorce negotiation.

Afterward, individuals may continue with these advisors or interview new ones.

•Budget.

Spending priorities can change after a divorce. Newly divorced spouses should track all new spending diligently so they can reset their budget for retirement.

Scott Co. LEC Report Scott City Police Department April 6: Thomas Lawrence, 17, was arrested for possession of an hallucinogenic drug and use/possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia. He was transported to the LEC. April 8: Donald Graham, 24, was arrested for driving on a license that was cancelled/suspended/revoked.

He was transported to the LEC. April 8: Lenora Young, 41, was arrested for DUI, transporting an open container and refusal to submit to alcohol/drug testing. She was transported to the LEC. April 9: Sondra Berry was westbound in the 400 block of East 9th Street, preparing to make a right turn, at the same time that Bianca Alfonso was also westbound. The Alfonso vehicle slowed down, then accelerated, striking the Berry vehicle.

April 11: Dale Sharpe reported a theft in the 800 block of South Antelope Street.

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., April 2, 2015; last published Thurs., April 16, 2015)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GREG B. HELMERS, deceased Case No. 2015-PR-03 AMENDED NOTICE OF HEARING AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS You are hereby notified that on the 6TH day of March, 2015, a Petition was filed in this Court by Linda D. Helmers, an heir of Greg B. Helmers, deceased, praying: That descent be determined of the following described real property owned by the decedent: An undivided one-half interest in and to: Lot Five (5), Block Three (3), C.A. Steele & Sons 3rd

Addition to the City of Scott City, Scott County, Kansas and all other real and personal property owned by decedent at the time of his death.

You are required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 23rd day of April, 2015, at 10:00 o’clock a.m., in said Court, in the City of Scott City, in Scott County, Kansas, at which time and place said cause will be heard. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition. s/s Linda D. Helmers Petitioner WALLACE, BRANTLEY & SHIRLEY 325 Main Street P.O. Box 605 Scott City, Kansas, 67871 Attorneys for Petitioner

Public Notice (Published in The Scott County Record Thurs., April 9, 2015; last published Thurs., April 16, 2015)2t NOTICE OF SALE OF ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLES To all persons concerned: You are here hereby notified that the following abandoned and impounded motor vehicle will be sold at public auction by the Scott County Sheriff at the Scott County Courthouse, 303 Court, Scott City, Kansas, on Tues., April 28, 2015, at 10:00 a.m., unless the owner of the vehicle, within 10 days of the second publication thereof, claims such vehicle and pays all removal and storage charges and publication costs incurred by the Scott County Sheriff.

(First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., April 9, 2015; last published Thurs., April 16, 2015)2t Notice Model Serial Number Owner USD 466 Scott County, Scott City, Ks, is requesting qual- Make ified providers to propose solutions for a strategic energy 2011 GMC Pickup VIN#1GT121CG7BF237517 Frank Rebarchek management and maintenance program. These proposals may include implementation of energy, equipment and repair, modernization, maintenance and training services in Dated: April 7, 2015 Glenn Anderson District buildings.

Scott County Sheriff The District’s objective in issuing this Request for Pro301 Court posals is to provide a competitive means in which to select Scott City, Ks. 67871 a single Qualified Provider with whom to negotiate a final (620) 872-5805 contract. The Board of Education may elect to implement the improvement measures in phases pursuant to the final contract. The work to be included in the final contract may include maintenance and upgrades to or replacement of equipment included in, but would not be limited to, the following systems: lighting, heating, air conditioning, temperature control, mechanical, Facility Management, domestic water, security, fire alarm, doors, windows and roofs.

Proposals shall be received in the office of Mr. Jamie Rumford, Superintendent, USD 466 Scott County, Ks., 704 S. College, Scott City, Ks. 67871, (620-872-7600) no later than 2:00 p.m., May 1, 2015. The sealed proposals will be publicly opened at that time and the contents will be announced. USD 466 Scott County will assess the proposals based on the selection criteria identified in the Request for Proposal document.

A pre-proposal conference is scheduled for 9:00 a.m., Thursday, April 16, 2015, at the district office. Attendance at the pre-proposal conference is mandatory.

Interested providers may secure additional information from Mr. Jamie Rumford, Superintendent, USD 466 Scott County, 704 S. College, Scott City, Ks. 67871.

Friendship ‘Meals to Go’ available from the VIP Center Individual frozen/sealed trays • Good for special diets only $3.25/meal • Call 872-3501

(http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/retirementcalc).

Qualified financial advisors can help review a divorcing individual’s budgeting strategy to make sure as much money goes to savings as possible.

•Evaluate all retirement assets.

When divorce is finalized, it is a wise idea to take inventory of all retirement assets to determine whether they still fit investment goals.

If one’s 401(k) or employer plan administrator does not have a calculator to help estimate how accounts will grow under certain investment scenarios, refer to Bankrate. com’s various retirement calculators for help.

•Review Social Security benefits.

Most experts urge individuals to wait as close to age 70 as possible to start drawing their Social Security benefits.

(See DIVORCE on page 13)

Kansas unveils new aviation information site

People looking to build near an airport in Kansas have a new tool to tell them if they need approval from the Federal Aviation Administration.

The Kansas Department of Transportation has unveiled a new aviation information “portal.” It mostly will be useful to consultants and aviation planners, though the general public also can use it.

The site uses mapping software so people can locate their property and put in the type of structure they want to build and how high it will be. If the structure is more than 200 feet tall or located within five miles of an airport, the person building it

will have to file with the FAA to make sure it won’t interfere with air traffic, she said.

A message will come up almost instantly in red if the proposed structure requires a filing and in green if it doesn’t.

The portal allows people to look up the pavement conditions of Kansas airports and their economic impacts on the city and county level. It also has other three-dimensional mapping features useful for people who work with airports and need to know about specific space regulations.

To try out the portal, visit ksaviationportal. ksdot.org.

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County Commission March 3, 2015 Scott County Commissioners met in a regular meeting with the following present: Chairman James Minnix, Commissioners Jerry Buxton and Gary Skibbe; and County Clerk Alice Brokofsky were present.

•County Attorney Rebecca Faurot discussed the current diversion program. She would like to change requirements to get into the program and will keep the commission informed.

•Jon Berning updated the commissioners on the Zella Carpenter Trust farm ground base reallocation and yields. Commissioners suggested using the best option offered from the Farm Service Agency.

•VIP Center representative Elmer Snyder asked for financial help for building improvements. A wall needs repaired in the kitchen office along with plumbing issues. He also presented a bill from Faurot Heating and Cooling that he asked the commissioners to pay. It was agreed to spend up to $2,500 on repairs to the building.

•Sheriff Glenn Anderson updated the commissioners on the progress of securing the jail facility. They reviewed a bid quotation from Shane Faurot for fence to secure the area surrounding the facility. Approval was given to spend $15,023.10 for the project which includes materials and labor.

•The following road permit was approved and signed: Dreiling Construction: placing two pairs of service wire from terminal on Cherokee Road S22-21, T17S, R34N. •Bids were opened from Murphy Tractor and Equipment for the purchase of a new road grader.

1) John Deere 772G motor grader with 6WD, new 2015 model, S/N Factory order: $250,429 Guaranteed Buyback 6 years or 5,000 hours: $174,485. (Net after buyback: $75,944.00) 2) John Deere 672G Motor Grader with 6WD, new 2015 model, S/N Factory order: $225,913 Guaranteed Buyback 6 years or 5,000 hours: $154.798. (Net after buyback: $71,115.00) The bid for the John Deere 772G was accepted.

•There was discussion about water usage between the road department, indoor arena and fairgrounds.

Commissioners recommended the city water department replace a meter and continue to monitor the usage.

•Approval was given to the following change orders: Abatement Miller Enterprises Inc. $ 271.74 Added Dennis Davis $ 422.58 Abatement Oscar Gutierrez $ 82.42 Added Beef Belt LLC $ 572.72

Divorce (continued from page 12)

(Published in The Scott County Record on Thurs., April 16, 2015)1t City of Scott City • 221 W. 5th • Scott City, Ks. 67871

TREASURER’S FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE PERIOD FROM JANUARY 1, 2015, THRU MARCH 31, 2015

Check the Social Security Administration’s FUNDS Dec. 31, 2014 RECEIPTS DISBURSED Delayed Retirement General Fund $ 457,372.92 $ 1,446,602.79 $ 585,535.47 Benefits page (http:// Sewer Use Fee 231,503.33 51,583.02 34,966.14 w w w. s s a . g o v / r e t i r e 2 / Special Highway 108,403.96 25,257.89 23,125.54 delayret.htm) for a dis- Trans. Guest Tax 140,337.41 21,475.70 7,270.49 cussion of how and when Airport Enterprise 14,540.71 6,060.78 2,471.21 to start taking payments. Airport Sinking 269,772.55 29,524.02 Also keep in mind that Special Parks 13,364.61 1,330.43 retirees married 10 years Employee Benefit 18,078.74 151,719.84 51,050.28 or longer who have stayed Water Improv. Fund 0.00 0.00 0.00 single may be entitled Water Utility 1,119,881.79 137,059.55 181,504.36 to Social Security ben- Fire Equipment 130,412.79 22,566.52 efits on their ex-spouse’s Street Imp. Fund record if they meet certain Municipal Equip.

86,255.81 Clearing Fund 119,450.99 354,227.69 360,705.21 requirements. $ 2,709,375.61 $ 2,247,408.23 $ 1,246,628.70 •Be honest about new TOTALS financial limitations.

AVAILABLE CASH If a serious retirement shortfall emerges after divorce, it’s important to I, Dan Weides, hereby certify that the above statement is correct reset financial priorities.

That may mean speaking with family members about necessary cutbacks Dan Weides in certain expenses.

City Treasurer It is important to have retirement in the best shape possible to avoid stress on family finances later.

Bottom line: The personal and financial disruption caused by divorce can make it easy for newly single individuals to neglect their retirement planning. It is important to seek advice and take all necessary steps to keep one’s retirement on track.

March 31, 2015 $ 1,318,440.24 248,120.21 110,536.31 154,542.62 18,130.28 299,296.57 14,695.04 118,748.30 0.00 1,075,436.98 152,979.31 86,255.81 112,973.47 $ 3,710,155.14 $ 3,710,155.14

•The commission signed an oil/gas lease for the Zella Carpenter Trust with Wildcat Resources for the 160 acres of land located in the southeast quarter of Section 10, Township 17 South, Range 32 West of the 6th P.M. for $50 an acre for three years.

Tools, Toys, Antiques and Guns Sunday, April 26 • 10:00 a.m.

Location: William Carpenter Building, at the fairgrounds, north edge of Scott City Robert Rein - Owner Toys JD Model A pedal tractor, needs restored JD Model 70s pedal tractor, needs restored JD 4000 Series pedal tractor Murray Model T pedal car Pull behind wagon US Postal air planes and banks JD air planes Texaco and Conoco banks 1/16 Scale Far Toys Tractors MM:BE, BU, 125 Anniversary, 38 Comfort, G850, Spirit of MM and others Oliver:1555, 1655, 880, 770, Super 77,1855,1955, Spirit of Oliver and others Ford: Golden Jubilee, TW25, 8730, 1710, 9N, 5000, 901, 9N precision and others Versatile:1156, 935, 836, 876, 936, 825 Massey Harris: Challenger, 270, 44, 33, 55, 101, Pacemaker and others MF Combines: 760 and 850 850 MF:135 AgCo Allis:8630, 8030,6240, 6260, 9150 Allis Chalmers: WD45,8030, 8010, D-21, D-19, JD Combines: 9600 Titan II JD: D, 2640, A, M, R, G, A, 20, 70, 720, 2755, 4255, BR, 4955, 630, 8760, 4020, 7800, 60, AR, 820, 4000, 4960, GP, LA and others Several precision models

Case:600, L, 3294, 2594, VAC, 800, Steam engine and others IH:4994, 2594, 7140, 5140, 7130, 5250, 7250, MTA, F-20, M, Super MTA, Cub, 1466, 1586, 5288, H, 350, 6388, 7488, 682, WD-9, 1066, 1466, 100, 966, 1586, 5200 Bud:1/64 scale: 400/30, 525/50, 400/20, 528/84, 370, 440, 350, 250 Caterpillar and JD industrial model toys Lots of 1/16 implements and wagons, some precision 5-Tractors with Farm hand loaders Lots of 1/64, 1/32, 1/43 model toys, sets and series, large collection Gold JD tractors, dealer models, 4010, 70 Some older toys True Scale two-row corn picker JD 12A combines Spray coupe Tin air planes and cars Fire trucks models and banks Coca-Cola banks Semi trucks Vintage JD tractor with corn picker This is just a fraction of the toys selling, see web site for pictures Old Toy Farmer magazines Antiques Wooden looms and bobbins Large collection of wooden shaper planes Tins Ice tongs Block planner Shirt collar press Kraut cutter Sad irons Monkey wrench collection Coke and Pepsi bottles

Rabbit planes Cast iron skillets Tobacco cutter 2-Cast iron waffle irons Lots of old hand saws Sausage stuffer Crock jugs Old scales Pitcher pumps Crocks Cream cans Hit and Miss engine dolly (hard to find) Hayloft Grapple Iron wheels Ice skates 2-walking plows German antique wooden sled Small cream cans Bicycle lamp Glass bottom butter churn Milk bottles Miners hat Wooden advertising box Duck decoys Butcher block table Herford Hotel picture Shop Items and Tools Forney 180 amp welder Cutting torch and bottles Dewalt 10” table saw Delta 10” radial arm saw Craftsman 12” band saw Dewalt 12” planer Craftsman barrel sander Dewalt 12” mitre saw Lots of hand tools Lots of hand electric tools Craftsman router and table Bosch nail gun Stanley nail gun 2-Heavy vises 3/4” drive socket set Guardian 16 spd. drill press, floor model 4-tool chests on rollers Drill bits “C” clamps Wood clamps Router bits

Air compressor Lots of fasteners Tool boxes Ammo boxes Log chains Shovels, rakes, hoes, etc.

36” wood lathe and tools Wood bench vise 4” Craftsman jointer 6” belt bench sander Ace 16” scroll saw Tile cutter, wet and dry Tow rope Pipe threaders and cutters Lots of plumbing and electrical supplies Aluminum cross bed tool box Poly pickup tool box Many other shop items Guns and Fishing Henry 22 cal. lever action rifle, #012612 Savage 243 cal. rifle with scope, #383053 Smith Corona M-1 30-06 rifle, bolt action, US Military, #3621453 with bayonet Remington 30-06 Gamemaster pump, Model 760, #77105 Revelation Model 800 shotgun 12 gauge, rib barrel National 12 gauge shotgun, pump with hammer, #137928 Stevens 410 gauge shot gun, Model 311, side-by-side, #399106 410 gauge, single shot, shotgun Old Bamboo fishing fly rod Browning graphite fly rod with case Eagle brand graphite fly rod, in case Tasco spotting scope Other fishing tackle Mobility Scooter Sundance electric mobility scooter Lark electric mobility scooter Select electric mobility scooter

Terms: Lunch Served. Must have ID to register. Cash or approved check day of sale. Everything sold as is. No warranties expressed or implied. Not responsible for theft or accident. Announcements day of sale take precedence over printed material. No pets allowed in the building. Check us out: www.berningauction.com and facebook

KU invests over $1B in cancer research Over a span of a dozen years, the University of Kansas Cancer Center estimates that philanthropists, taxpayers and other funders will plow about $1.3 billion into its effort to become one of the nation’s most elite cancer-fighting institutions.

In fact, nearly half that sum is already out the door, spent mostly in the run-up to the 2012 announcement that the KU Cancer Center had become the only institution within hundreds of miles to earn recognition through the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

The rest, according to fiveyear projections through 2018, would go toward elevating the KU Cancer Center into the upper echelons of NCI-designated centers by earning it “comprehensive” status. The cancer center’s methodical march toward that goal - benchmarked all the way down to the specific application date of Sept. 26, 2016 - comes amid a rapidly shifting cancer market in the Kansas City area.

Yet measured purely in breadth and depth, the cancer center’s effort is arguably the biggest of all the moving parts among oncology providers in the region. Of the 68 NCI-designated centers across the country, three in five have earned “comprehensive” status, meaning that they have enhanced their clinical and research capabilities in addition to demonstrating their ability to reduce cancer prevalence in their service areas.

Of the four NCI-designated centers within the four-state region, including KU Cancer Center, two have earned comprehensive status: Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center in Iowa City, Iowa, and the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis. The fourth is the Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center in Omaha, Nebr.

4 more tested positive for TB at Olathe North Kansas health authorities say four additional people have tested positive for tuberculosis out of 70 tested last week at Olathe Northwest High School.

The tests were conducted after a student came down with the infection last month. More than 300 people were tested shortly afterward and 27 tested positive for the disease.

The latest tests were done after officials found additional people who may have had contact with the student.

Being infected isn’t the same as having the disease, whose symptoms include fever, night sweats, coughing and weight loss.

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Case workers see problems with restrictions in state’s welfare bill Ashley Booker KHI News Service

Gov. Sam Brownback said Wednesday that he intends to sign a controversial welfare bill despite concerns from those who work with poor Kansans about whether the restrictions it imposes are realistic or enforceable.

Kansans who do “street level” work with the poor are concerned about the restrictions. Those include Barry Feaker, the director of the Topeka Rescue Mission and a member of Brownback’s task force charged with reducing

childhood poverty.

“The bill raises a number of concerns,” Feaker said. “One of those concerns would be: How would someone whose rent is $400 a month pay that rent if it has to be in cash and they’re only able to withdraw $25 a day? How would they be able to do that if the rent is due on the fifth and the cash assistance benefit isn’t loaded into the system until about that time?”

Many of the 6,200 families on the state’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, he said, do not have checking accounts.

Another section in the bill would prohibit TANF recipients from spending their cash assistance on alcohol, cigarettes, lottery tickets, pornography, lingerie, tattoos, body piercings, fortune-telling sessions or cruises.

“I’m in agreement with that,” Feaker said. “People with limited resources shouldn’t be using those resources to gamble or buy alcohol. But how are we going to enforce that prohibition.”

Theresa Freed, a spokesperson for the Kansas Department for Children and Families, said that after someone with-

draws money from their cash assistance accounts, subsequent transactions would be “very difficult to track.”

DCF, Freed said, is assuming that TANF recipients will work around the ATM limitation by using the “cashback” option when making food purchases at grocery stores. Freed said the $25-aday restriction applies only to ATM transactions.

While the list of new restrictions on how welfare dollars can be spent is long, it does not include any prohibitions on guns or ammunition.

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Huelskamp opposes Medicare changes Lone holdout in state delegation as bill is approved Legislation to shift the way medical providers are paid

by Medicare passed through Congress late Tuesday night with wide bipartisan support and the votes of all but one member of the Kansas congressional delegation.

By a vote of 92-8, the

Senate passed H.R. 2, which repeals Medicare’s sustainable growth rate formula for doctors and replaces it with one that rewards and penalizes doctors based on performance scores they receive from the federal government.

The scores, which will begin in 2019, will be based on the value of care provided rather than the quantity of patients.

Both Sen. Jerry Moran and Sen. Pat Roberts voted in favor of the repeal Tuesday

night. All eight “nay” votes were cast by Republicans, including 2016 presidential candidates Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida.

“For more than a decade, the broken SGR formula has frustrated health care providers, threatened access for Medicare beneficiaries, and created budgetary dilemmas for Congress,” Moran said in an emailed statement.

“This especially jeopardizes patients’ access to health care

Only 251 hospitals nationwide earn 5 stars from Medicare In an effort to make comparing hospitals more like shopping for refrigerators and restaurants, the federal government has awarded its first star ratings to hospitals based on patients’ appraisals.

Many of the nation’s leading hospitals received middling ratings, while comparatively obscure local hospitals and others that specialized in lucrative surgeries frequently received the most stars.

Evaluating hospitals is becoming increasingly important as more insurance plans offer patients limited choices. Medicare already uses stars to rate nursing homes, dialysis centers and private Medicare Advantage insurance plans. While Medicare publishes more than 100 quality measures about hospitals on its Hospital Compare website, many are hard to decipher, and there is little evidence consumers use the site very much.

Many in the hospital industry fear Medicare’s five-star scale

won’t accurately reflect quality and may place too much weight on patient reviews, which are just one measurement of hospital quality.

Medicare also reports the results of hospital care, such as how many died or got infections during their stay, but those are not yet assigned stars.

“We want to expand this to other areas like clinical outcomes and safety over time, but we thought patient experience would be very understandable to consumers so we started there,” said Dr. Patrick Conway, chief medical officer for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Medicare’s new star rating, posted on its Hospital Compare website, is based on 11 facets of patient experience, including how well doctors and nurses communicated, how well patients believed their pain was addressed, and whether they would recommend the hospital to others.

(See 5-STAR on page 15)

in Kansas where our hospitals, physicians, and other medical professionals care for an increasingly aging population across a wide area.”

On March 26, the legislation passed the House by a 392-37 margin before both chambers left for a two-week recess. Of the 37 “nay” votes, 33 were cast by Republicans, including Rep. Tim Huelskamp.

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Officials push for 3-day Medicare inpatient rule Andy Marso KHI News Service

Hospitals and skilled nursing facilities in Kansas are part of an ongoing national conflict over “observation stays” that can leave the facilities and Medicare patients on the hook for uncovered rehabilitation costs after they leave the hospital.

The conflict revolves around Medicare’s three-

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Kansas Reps. Lynn Jenkins, Kevin Yoder and Mike Pompeo voted in favor of the legislation.

“We’re anxious to get the Medicare bill, the SGR repeal, across the finish line,” Jenkins told reporters. “That can be a huge win for the American people.”

Jenkins noted the bipartisan nature of the SGR repeal, saying “the stars have aligned on this particular bill.”

“We finally came together and found some common ground,” Jenkins said. “It really is something that should be signed into law relatively quickly.”

Opposition to the bill has predominantly come from fiscal conservatives, such as Huelskamp. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the bill would increase the federal deficit by $141 billion over the next 11 years.

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Hospitals collect the reviews by randomly surveying adult patients - not just those on Medicare after they leave the facility.

In assigning stars, Medicare compared hospital against each other, essentially grading on a curve. It noted that “a one-star rating does not mean that you will receive poor care from a hospital” and that “we suggest that you use the star rating along with other quality information when making decisions about choosing a hospital.”

The American Hospital Association also issued a caution to patients, saying: “There’s a risk of oversimplifying the complexity of quality care or misinterpreting what is important to a particular patient, especially since patients seek care for many different reasons.”

Nationally, Medicare awarded the top rating of five stars to 251 hospitals, about 7 percent of all the hospitals Medicare judged.

day rule, which requires a person to be admitted to the hospital on an inpatient basis for at least three days in order to qualify for inpatient rehabilitation at a skilled nursing facility, covered by Medicare, after they’re discharged.

When patients arrive at the emergency room, physicians decide whether they should be admitted on an inpatient basis or kept under observation on

an outpatient basis. When it comes to Medicare the government’s health insurance program primarily for Americans 65 and older - there are financial incentives and risks to doing either.

Patients, by and large, can’t tell the difference.

The doctors, the nurses and the care are largely the same whether they’re admitted or under observation status. But that des-

Welfare Vickie Judy, 40, of Topeka, and her three children, ages nine to 18, receive $359 in cash assistance and $580 in SNAP benefits each month.

“I wouldn’t care if they tell me I can’t take out more than $25 a day, just as long as there’s a way I can use my (debit) card to pay rent and utilities,” Judy said earlier this week as she and a friend picked through boxes of oranges, apples and lettuce left over from a recent food giveaway in the Kansas Expocentre parking lot.

“If I don’t pay the rent by the fifth (day of the month), my landlord gets mad,” she said. “I’ll get evicted by the eighth. It’s happened before.”

Judy, a longtime nursing home worker who went on TANF after losing her job and separating from her husband, admitted that she had used her cash assistance to buy non-essential items for her children.

“When you’re poor and you see how it is that rich people live. You’ll go

ignation has major payment implications if their next stop is at a skilled nursing facility.

Advocates for those facilities say they are increasingly seeing patients who need their services but don’t have coverage for them under current Medicare rules.

A Medicare denial leads to thousands in outof-pocket costs that must be borne by the patient or

the facility.

Karen Vidrickson, executive director of Eaglecrest Retirement Community in Salina and Kansas’ liaison to the National Center for Assisted Living, said facilities across the state and the nation are struggling to serve those patients.

Tish Hollingsworth, vice president of reimbursement for the Kansas

Hospital Association, said hospitals are between a rock and a hard place. If they don’t admit patients, they face lower reimbursements for services and more out-of-pocket costs.

But if they do admit a patient and a Medicare auditor later determines it was unnecessary, they could lose their reimbursement for that patient’s stay.

mother and two children, typically - is eligible for cash assistance if the household’s gross income is below 26 percent of the federal poverty level, or roughly $435 a month.

Those living in urban areas are eligible for more than those in rural areas.

According to DCF reports, in February, 14,749 Kansans - 3,906 adults, 10,843 children received cash assistance.

The average per-person payment was $114. The reports also show that between July 2014 and February 2015, 81 adults - two percent of the total - lost their cash assistance due to fraud.

“I’d like to see the data that shows how many of these people are spending oodles of money on cruises and the like, because I don’t see it,” said Joyce Stockham, who runs the Mid-Kansas Community Action Program, an 18-county anti-poverty program headquartered in Augusta. “What I see is people using their TANF to pay rent and utilities and not having anything

left over.”

In 2013, Kansas Watchdog.org, a conservative online news organization, found that TANF beneficiaries had used their state-issued debit cards to withdraw more than $43,000 over a three-month period from ATMs in or near a casino, a strip club, an adult video store, payday loan shops, liquor stores and smoke shops. There was no way of knowing how much was actually spent at these locations.

The $43,000 represented less than two-tenths of one percent of all TANF monies spent in the previous year.

Karen Wulfkuhle, executive director at the United Community Services of Johnson County, shared Stockham’s concern.

“This appears to be policy-by-anecdote rather than policy-by-evidence,” she said, referring to the bill. “I don’t see anything here that’s evidence-based that’s going to help anyone become self-sufficient.”

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crazy if you don’t buy things for your kids once in a while,” she said. “I’ve done it, but not very often.

Because if you want to know the truth, after you pay rent and utilities the money isn’t there. And whatever is there, you need to be spending on food. Your food stamps won’t get you to the end of the month.”

Talk to the Experts Miriam Krehbiel, chief executive with United Way of Greater Topeka, said she and others who work with “street level programs” could have alerted lawmakers to some practical problems with the bill.

“When I first heard about this I wanted to say, ‘No! Stop! Wait! You need to talk with some of the experts, the people who are dealing with these folks every day,’” Krehbiel said. “If they did, I think they’d see how reckless it is for them to be cutting such a wide swath when they ought to be using a scalpel.”

Support for the bill,

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Krehbiel said, appears to be driven by oftenrepeated stories of people on welfare mismanaging their money.

“I hear those stories too. I get it,” she said.

“People on public assistance shouldn’t be spending what little money they have on things like cruises. But what I don’t get is how we think that someone on public assistance - as little as it is - would ever be able to save up enough money to be on a cruise ship?”

Earlier this month legislators approved the bill by votes of 30-10 in the Senate and 87-35 in the House. Sen. Michael O’Donnell, a Republican from Wichita, carried the bill to the floor. He and other supporters said the bill would prevent fraud and help recipients move off welfare and into the workforce.

“We’re trying to make sure these benefits are used the way they were intended to be,” O’Donnell said.

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Pastime at Park Lane The Immanuel Baptist Church led Sunday afternoon services.

Residents played pitch and dominoes on Monday afternoon. Game helpers were Joy Barnett, Wanda Kirk, Madeline Murphy, Dorothy King, Hugh McDaniel, Gary Goodman and Mandy Barnett.

Pastor Bob Artz led Bible study on Tuesday morning. Doris Riner and Elsie Nagel led the hymns.

Rev. Warren Prochnow led Lutheran Bible study on Wednesday morning.

Dottie Fouquet was visited by Jon and Anne Crane, Mark Fouquet, Rebecca Faurot; Emily, Marshall, Loren and Carson Faurot; Fritzi Rauch and Donna Gaschler.

Blue Steele performs for residents

The Blue Steele Band played on Tuesday evening. Band members are Mike Steele, Keith Steele and Dan Dunn.

Residents enjoy bingo

Residents played bingo on Wednesday afternoon. Bingo helpers were Madeline Murphy, Barbara Dickhut, Wanda Kirk and Mandy Barnett.

Pat Lawrence was visited by Bob and Marilyn Waters, Julie Kelsie, Myles and Chris Conard, and Kim Smith.

LaVera King was visited by Gloria Gough, Carol Latham, Gavin Summers, Shellie Carter, Kalacia Carter, Harrison King and Kay King.

Cecile Billings was visited by Delinda Du-

nagan, Neta Wheeler and Lorena Turley.

Arlene Beaton was visited by Nancy Holt, Albert and Linda Savolt, Ann Beaton, William Beaton, Ethel McClure, John and Colleen Beaton, Aaron Beaton, Thelma Miller, JoNell Beaton, Landry Beaton, Margie Stevens, and Justin and Lindsay Singley.

Deaths Mary Frances Emberton Mary Frances Emberton, 71, died April 11, 2015, at her residence in Garden City.

She was born on Feb. 11, 1944, in Sublette, the daughter of Robert and Allie Frances (Tyler) Park.

Mary was a truck driver until 2002 when she retired.

On Feb. 20, 1983, she married Hobart Emberton.

He survives.

Other survivors include: her mother, and husband, Ray Knaus, Garden City; one daughter, Kim Howerton, and husband. Tim, Wichita; two stepsons, Brian Emberton, and wife, Susan, and Clifford Emberton, both of Garden City; one stepdaughter, Donna Gibson, of Texas; two sisters, Sharon Sue Papay, Ft. Mohave, Ariz., and Betty Ann Waltz, Garden City; one sister-in-law, Linda Park, Garden City; and four grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her first husband, Allen Peitz, and one brother, Robert Park.

Funeral service will be Sat., April 18, 10:00 a.m., at the First Christian Church, Garden City.

Memorials may be made to the Mary Emberton Memorial Fund in care of Price and Son Funeral Home, 620 N. Main St., Garden City, Ks. 67846.

There will be no calling times.

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Nella Funk was visited

by Pastor Dennis Carter, Kim Smith, John Kropp and Dianna Howard.

Emogene Harp was visited by Nancy Holt, Alicia Harp, Rick Harp; Tim, Denise and Lauren Murphy; Reed Harp, Ryan Harp, Maranda Dawn and Joy Barnett.

Clifford Dearden was visited by Janet Ottaway.

Bonnie Pickett was visited by Larry and Gloria Wright, Joel Wright, and Justin and Betsy.

Yvonne Spangler was visited by Yvette Mills, Adalei Zeller and Jerica VanCampen.

Albert Dean was visited by Nancy Holt.

Harold and Ruth White were visited by

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Adalei Zeller and Jerica VanCampen.

Lorena Turley was visited by Neta Wheeler, Tracy Hess, Rachelle Roth, Katherine Roth, Emily Hess and Rex Turley.

Vivian Kreiser was visited by Larry and Sharon Lock.

Jake Leatherman was visited by Otto Harp.

Geraldine Graves was visited by Denise Murphy, Alonna Mantzke and Joie Tedder.

Corrine Dean was visited by Pastor Dennis Carter, Kim Smith, Ron Hess, John Kropp, Dianna Howard and Nancy Holt.

Lowell Rudolph was visited by Tom and Kathy Moore and LuAnn Buehler.

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Georgie Louise Bever Georgie Louise Bever, 86, died April 11, 2015, at the Wichita County Health Center Long Term Care, Leoti.

S h e was born on Feb. 18, 1929, in Garden City, the daughter of George Georgie Bever and Vivian (Reid) Fahrenholtz.

Georgie was a Scott City resident from 194891, then moving to Garden City until retiring to Green Valley, Ariz., in 2008. She returned to Western Kansas, moving to Leoti, so she could be close to her family.

She was a member of the First Baptist Church, Scott City, as well as Beta Sigma Phi, The Red Hat Society and was a former docent for The Green Valley Parkinson’s Support Group, Green Valley, Ariz.

On June 13, 1948, she married Reuben W. Hemel at Dighton. He died Aug. 22, 1994, in Scott City.

She married Joe H. Bever on March 16, 1974, in Scott City. He died Dec. 20, 2007, in Green Valley, Ariz.

Survivors include: two daughters, Janetha Abeyta,

and husband, Paul, Loveland, Colo., and Marilyn Luebbers, and husband, Bill, Leoti; one son, Virgil Hemel, Colby; one stepdaughter, Vicki Trillo, and husband, Cype, LaVeen, Ariz.; two stepsons, Jack Bever, and wife, LoRetta, Ness City, and Jim Bever, and wife, Janet, Hutchinson; two sisters, Phyllis Jean Church and Eileene Moore, both of Kaw City, Okla.; two brothers, Bennie Fahrenholtz and Alvin Hausman, both of Kaw City, Okla.; 21 grandchildren, 27 great-grandchildren and one great-greatgrandchild.

She was preceded in death by her parents and one granddaughter, Stephanie Leatherman.

Memorial service will be held Mon., April 20, 10:30 a.m., at the First Baptist Church, Scott City, with Rev. Kyle Evans officiating.

Inurnment will be held privately at a future date in the Scott County Cemetery.

Memorials may be given to the Leoti EMTs in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 202 N. 4th, Leoti, Ks. 67861.

Condolences may be sent to the family through the funeral home website at priceandsons.com.

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James Still and Mike Leach were visited by Linda Dunagan and Rev. Don Martin from St. Luke’s Church.

Darlene Richman was visited by Tina Turley.

Edna Uppendahl was visited by Maranda Dawn Barnett.

Delores Brooks was visited by Nancy Holt, David and Cheryl Perry, Charles Brooks and Kandi John.

Dona Dee Carpenter was visited by Pastor Dennis Carter, Roger and Jackie John, Kade John, Gloria O’Bleness and Larry LaPlant.

Jim Jeffery was visited

by Pastor Dennis Carter, Wade Jeffery and Shawn Jeffery.

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‘Full circle . . . an aging expo’ at Colby April 24 Although Ron Willis has met many people in his travels throughout the United States, he recalls four individuals from his childhood who taught him early on about being a person with integrity and compassion.

Those people included his grandfather, a wise man and retired railroad engineer who completed school through the eighth grade.

“He always taught me that in the business of helping other people, what we had living in our hearts was more important than diplomas hang-

ing on a wall,” said Willis, who believes that to this day despite the fact that he holds an education specialist degree from Ft. Hays State University and has served as a mental health consultant throughout his adult life.

Others on that list include a kindergarten teacher who helped him through his second year of kindergarten, a high school librarian who always remembered him with a birthday card every year of his four years of high school and his high school track coach who taught him to save a little

back for the finish line.

“I was an awful miler,” Willis recalled. “I usually came in toward the last of every race. But, my coach said, ‘No one will remember years later where you finished in a race, but they will remember how you finished.’”

“Finish well!” is the theme for an upcoming event open to seniors, their families and their caregivers.

K-State Extension will sponsor the event, titled “Full Circle…an Aging Expo,” on Friday, April 24, at the Colby Community College Student Union in

Colby. Willis is one of the featured speakers.

“I’m a storyteller,” Willis said, “so I believe that we hold people’s attention better when we use stories - personal examples and the like to make our points. My grandfather, who was a real storyteller, always told me that I should have a point for their heads and a picture for their hearts, so they are apt to walk away knowing at least one thing they need to remember and focus on to make a difference.”

While presenting at the Full Circle expo, Willis

plans to engage all participants in some way. For those who care for seniors, he plans to talk about how to avoid burnout and compassion fatigue, which he said are two major struggles for caretakers.

In addition to Willis, a variety of other speakers will present information as part of the expo.

Charmane Kandt of the Neuromuscular Wellness Center at Fort Hays State University will focus on exercising and being active to achieve optimum health.

Other session topics will cover death and

grieving, knowing your health history, financial matters for seniors, estate planning, memory and making reading more fun.

Registration is $30 per person or $50 for two family members. Registration at the door is $35 per person and will take place until 9:15 a.m. on April 24.

Registration at the door does not guarantee lunch.

The program will be from 9:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Contact the K-State Northwest Area Office (http://www.northwest. ksu.edu/p.aspx) for registration and program information at 785-462-6281.

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No Excuses This last weekend was the time of year for my favorite event. I spent most of my weekend watching the Masters golf tournament on my television. This year’s event was pretty special. A young, new star led the event from the first day through the very last shot of the tournament.

It’s called a wire to wire victory. Something that hasn’t happened at the Masters since Raymond Floyd did it back in 1976. That’s before I was born.

All throughout the event, the commentators kept pointing out that Jordan Spieth was so composed, calm and collected. They made a big deal about this because Jordan is only 21 years old.

It was as if the experts expected him to fail because most young golfers get nervous and “choke” when something so grand is on the line.

I thought they were expecting it and giving ways for him to be excused if he did falter coming down the stretch.

But, with all the pressure, the cameras, the $1.8 million paycheck, and the prestige of winning the Masters didn’t phase Jordan Spieth. Instead he became the second youngest winner of the event’s 79 year history.

All the talk about Jordan’s age and the example that he was setting for young golfers everywhere, it made me think back to my days as a youth minister. One of my favorite passages to teach on is when Paul was

writing a letter to a young minister named Timothy.

He told Timothy, “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.”

What a message Paul gave Timothy. He essentially told Timothy, you have no excuse. Being young isn’t an excuse. I wonder if you’ve ever excused your behavior or performance on anything. Paul only used the word “young” because Timothy was young. I think if Paul was writing this to us, he would use the excuse we are prone to using.

What’s your excuse? Fill in the blank: Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are ______, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. I don’t know how you would fill in the blank, maybe with: old, young, tired, overworked, underpaid, mistreated, unpopular, single, divorced, or anything else; Paul would tell you that there are no excuses. If you are a believer, you should be an example in the way you conduct yourself, speak to and treat others, do your business, and your worship of God. So like Jordan Spieth is to the young golf world, if you are a believer, I would hope your life would set an example for others. No excuses!

Pastor Shelby Crawford Community Christian Church, Scott City

Scott City Assembly of God

Prairie View Church of the Brethren

1615 South Main - Scott City - 872-2200 Ed Sanderson, Senior Pastor 9:00 a.m. - Pre-Service Prayer 10:00 a.m. - Sunday Worship Service and Children’s Church Wednesday: 7:00 p.m. - Bible Study and Prayer

4855 Finney-Scott Rd. - Scott City - 276-6481 Pastor Jon Tuttle Sunday School: 10:00 a.m.

Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Men’s Fellowship • Tuesday breakfast at 6:30 a.m.

Held at Precision Ag Bldg. west of Shallow Water Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m., at the church

St. Joseph Catholic Church

Holy Cross Lutheran Church

A Catholic Christian Community 1002 S. Main Street - Scott City Fr. Bernard Felix, pastor • 872-7388 Secretary • 872-3644 Masses: 1st Sunday of month - 8:30 and 11:00 a.m.

Other weekends: Sat., 6:00 p.m.; Sun., 11:00 a.m.

Spanish Mass - 2nd and 4th Sundays, 1:30 p.m.

1102 Court • Box 283 • Scott City 620-872-2294 • 620-872-3796 Pastor Warren Prochnow holycross-scott@sbcglobal.net Sunday School/Bible Class, 9:00 a.m.

Worship every Sunday, 10:15 a.m.

Wed.: Mid-Week School, 6:00-7:30 p.m.

Pence Community Church

Community Christian Church

8911 W. Road 270 10 miles north on US83; 2 miles north on K95; 9 miles west on Rd. 270 Don Williams, pastor • 874-2031 Wednesdays: supper (6:30 p.m.) • Kid’s Group and Adult Bible Study (7:00 p.m.) • Youth Group (8:00 p.m.)

Sunday School: 9:30 • Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.

12th & Jackson • Scott City • 872-3219 Shelby Crawford, pastor Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship, 10:45 a.m.

Wednesday Night Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.

Wednesday: God’s High School Cru, 7:30 p.m.

First Baptist Church

Immanuel Southern Baptist Church

803 College - Scott City - 872-2339

1398 S. US83 - Scott City - 872-2264

Kyle Evans, Senior Pastor Bob Artz, Associate Pastor

Robert Nuckolls, pastor - 872-5041

Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. • Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Sunday morning worship: 8:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.

Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.

Gospel Fellowship Church 120 S. Lovers Lane - Shallow Water Larry Taylor, pastor Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.

1st United Methodist Church 5th Street and College - Scott City - 872-2401 Dennis Carter, pastor 1st Sunday: Communion and Fellowship Sunday Services at 9:00 a.m. • Sunday School, 10:30 a.m.

All Other Sundays • Worship: 8:30 and 10:45 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. • MYF (youth groups) on Wednesdays Jr. High: 6:30 p.m. • Sr. High: 7:00 p.m.

First Christian Church

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

701 Main - Scott City - 872-2937 Scotty Wagner, pastor Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.; Worship, 10:45 a.m.

Wednesday is Family Night Meal: 5:45 p.m. • Study: 6:15 p.m.

Website: www.fccscottcity.org

Elizabeth/Epperson Drives • Scott City • 872-3666 Father Don Martin Holy Eucharist - 11:45 a.m.

St. Luke’s - 872-5734 (recorded message) Senior Warden Bill Lewis • 872-3347 or Father Don Martin - (785) 462-3041

Scott Mennonite Church

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

12021 N. Eagle Rd. • Scott City

9th and Crescent - Scott City - 872-2334 Bishop Irvin Yeager • 620-397-2732 Sacrament, 9:30 a.m.

Sunday School, 10:50 a.m.

Relief Society and Priesthood, 11:20 a.m.

YMYW Wednesday, 8:00 p.m.

Franklin Koehn: 872-2048 Charles Nightengale: 872-3056 Sunday School Worship Service: 10:00 a.m.

Sunday Evening Service: 7:00 p.m.

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Pledge budget was hurting.

But the biggest block of lawmakers who will need to be coaxed into a tax increase will be conservatives.

Without their support, it will be hard to get anything passed without the backing of Democrats and moderates - maybe an even less likely possibility given the fallout from past tax increases they supported.

That means some promises may need to be compromised.

In the last two election cycles, the conservative group Americans for Prosperity has surveyed legislative candidates about their views on taxes. The group, funded partly by billionaire industrialists David and Charles Koch, asked candidates for their top priority if revenues fell short of expenses.

Thirty-six House members said they would cut spending and not raise taxes.

Another seven House members said they would only consider a tax increase if spending was cut more than five percent.

The proposed state budget for 2016 is now at $6.5 billion, about $200 million more than the current budget.

Political support for a tax increase faces similar problems in the Senate, where 11 legislators said they would prefer to cut spending over raising taxes.

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Another six senators signed pledges with anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist’s group - Americans for Tax Reform promising to oppose new taxes.

Some lawmakers answering the Americans for Prosperity survey were open to higher consumption taxes as long as the overall tax burden is reduced or remains steady.

The proposed 2016 budget currently depends on about $200 million in new taxes, unless the state revenue picture gets gets gloomier - a distinct prospect because the state is already about $48 million below estimates for the current year.

Meanwhile, Brownback’s idea for raising taxes on cigarettes and alcohol has been widely criticized.

Americans for Prosperity is watching the tax debate in the Kansas Legislature. The organization is ready to hold lawmakers accountable for their promises.

“We’ll certainly remind them,” said Jeff Glendening, state director of Americans for Prosperity in Kansas.

Now, some of the lawmakers who said their top priority was cutting spending are softening their anti-tax rhetoric.

Among them is House Speaker Ray Merrick, a Johnson County Republican. For months, the

4-H Club News New Horizons hear about club projects

The April meeting of the New Horizons 4-H Club was full of exciting programs that are great projects that you can do in 4-H. Brodi and Brooke Strine talked about the animals that they will be showing. Madison and Eric Shapland told us about a photography camp they went to and Zach and Brodi Rohrbough talked about their pigs and what other projects they are in.

The club voted to make centerpieces for the nursing home at the May meeting which Karlee Logan will be in charge of.

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speaker has often repeated the mantra that the state has a spending problem, not a revenue problem.

Maybe not so much any more. Merrick was among the lawmakers who said their priority was to cut spending instead of raising taxes, but acknowledged that his goal faced a “big obstacle.”

He said the legislature promised not to cut schools while a new funding formula is developed.

He also said the Legislature can’t control escalating costs for social services, including medical care for the poor. Cutting is hard.

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Confidence grows with strong start to SC season

Just six games into the season, the Scott Community High School softball team finds itself in uncharted territory.

They don’t have a losing record.

At 3-3, they don’t have a winning record either, but when you’ve been part of a program that has finished above .500 Scott City 3 15 Liberal 1 8 just once in its 19 year history (12-11 record in 2011) it’s still been a very respectable start for the Lady Beavers.

“You can see the confidence starting to build,” says first year head coach Erin Myers. “We still have a long way to go as a program, but we’re making some progress.”

Confidence is going to build when you win three of your last four games, including a sweep of Liberal. That included a 3-1 win in extra innings in the opener.

(See SOFTBALL on page 22)

Scott City shortstop Nicole Latta backhands the ball in the gap during Tuesday’s non-league game against Southwestern Hts. on the home field.

(Record Photo)

Offense continues to struggle in sweep by Horns Just how much has the Scott Community High School baseball team struggled at the plate this season?

“We’ve played seven games and we still have two starters who have yet to establish a batting average,” notes head coach Neil Baker.

Through those seven games, Scott City is hitting only .164

as a team and has just two players - Sloan Baker (.400) and Gustavo Gonzales (.316) - who are hitting better than .250.

The Beavers were limited to seven hits in a double-header loss to Holcomb - 13-4 and 12-2 - in Great West Activities Conference play last Friday.

Six of those hits came in the opening game when it appeared

that SCHS might find a way to upset the league favorites.

The Beavers led 3-1 after two innings and were down just 5-4 heading into the bottom of the sixth before the Longhorns were finally able to score six runs and take control of the game.

“It was a lot better game than the final score showed,” says

Baker. “Sloan (Baker) pitched pretty well and we were able to scratch out enough hits that we kept the game interesting.”

Baker, who was the starting pitcher, gave up no hits and had seven strikeouts through five innings before he left the game. However, he also issued six walks and had two hit batsmen which contributed to five

gold standard 4x3200 is still winning with lineup change Having lost half of their state championship and school-record setting 4x800m relay to graduation, there may have been some questions about whether the Wichita County High School boys could have similar success in that event this year.

They haven’t had to wait long for the answer.

In their first two track meets of the season, the Indians have claimed gold medals, including Friday’s performance at the Tribune Invitational where they coasted across the finish line 39 seconds ahead of the runner-up.

Jorge Gallegos, one of the two returning relay members isn’t surprised.

“We have two incredible runners who are part of the team now,” says the sophomore. “Our coach is pushing us hard and we’re off to a pretty good start.”

Gallegos, in the anchor spot, was able to coast across the finish line as the relay posted a winning time of 8:55.99. That was nearly 10 seconds faster than their gold medal mark a week earlier at Cimarron.

“We’ve been working hard the first two weeks and our times are looking pretty good,” noted Gallegos.

Rounding out the relay are Layton Tankersley, who was also a member of last year’s squad, along with newcomers Kyler Long and Jacob Schumacher. Long was an alternate on the relay at last year’s state meet while Schumacher is showing he can run the 800m in addition to his 200m and 400m events.

“I saw the success they had last year and how hard they worked. I wanted to

unearned runs.

Over the final two innings, Holcomb managed to get just four hits, but four walks and two more hit batsmen led to eight runs - six of those earned.

Baker is also starting to swing the bat well, going 3-for4 at the plate with a double and a triple in the opener. But he has (See OFFENSE on page 21)

Scott City Invite Tues.

Twenty teams from across Western Kansas will be competing in the annual Scott City Relays on Tues., April 21, with field events starting at 9:30 a.m.

Teams are divided into two divisions, including: Class 3-4A: Colby, Goodland, Hoisington, Hugoton, Lakin, Phillipsburg, Scott City and Ulysses.

Class 1-2A: Atwood, Dighton, Healy, Hoxie, Leoti, Ness City, Oakley, Stanton County, Sublette, Syracuse, Tribune and WheatlandGrinnell.

Golf Invitational

SCHS will also be hosting an 18-hole tournament at the Scott Community Golf Course on Tuesday. Play begins at 3:00 p.m.

Teams will include Scott City, Leoti, Garden City JV, Oakley and Wheatland-Grinnell.

Winderlin wins 4 golds at Norton Inv.

“They had four really good runners on the team and I wasn’t quite up to their level, but I’m getting there,” he says.

The Indians figure to get their toughest test of the season on Tuesday during the Scott City Relays. There will be 12

The Scott City Middle School seventh grade boys didn’t just win a title at the Norton Invitational last week, they literally ran away with it.

The Bluejays scored 181 points, more than doubling up on runner-up Colby (78) in the nine team field.

The three relays each collected first place finishes and Brandon Winderlin hauled in four individual gold medals.

(See RELAY on page 24)

(See NORTON on page 21)

Anchor runner Jorge Gallegos takes the baton from Jacob Schumacher in the 4x800m relay at the Tribune Invitational last Friday.

(Record Photo)

be a part of that,” says Schumacher about joining the 4x800m relay. “I’d made up my mind at the start of the season to be part of this relay.”

Given the caliber of last year’s relay, Schumacher knew he’d have to wait for his opportunity.

The Scott County Record • Page 20 • Thursday, April 16, 2015

Outdoors in Kansas by Steve Gilliland

If you love ‘em, leave ‘em One of our city employees called me at work the other day to tell me that an owl was perched in a tree in the city park just a few feet above where the guys were cutting up a tree felled by a recent storm.

He said it just sat there while they worked just below it, so he figured it was sick or injured. He told me the Hutchinson Zoo would take it into their wildlife rehab program if someone could just catch it and wondered if I wanted the job.

I asked him if the owl was really white and fluffy. If so, it was a young one and would leave on its own and be just fine if left undisturbed.

He acknowledged that yes, it was very fluffy, and when I stopped there an hour later it was gone already.

This is the third year in a row someone has contacted us about an owl somewhere near the park that has proven to be a juvenile and soon went on its way. Evidently a pair of great horned owls have hatched and reared a single chick somewhere there in the park each spring for a few years now.

Joyce and I were first introduced to this fact two years ago when a lady living just across from the park called us about an owl that had barricaded itself behind a planter on her patio. We caught what appeared then to be a young great horned owl, named it Ozzy and kept it in a box in the laundry room overnight.

The next morning, Joyce took it to the Hutchinson Zoo which does have an excellent wildlife rehabilitation program.

The lady there was amazed at what she saw. She said they are deluged each spring with young wildlife, (See LEAVE on page 22)

Thomas shatters 1600m record Faurot ties school mark in pole vault Trace Kendrick earned his place among Scott City’s running elite as a cross-country and track state champion.

Jack Thomas may have served notice that he’s willing to challenge the SCHS standout. Thomas,

an eighth grader at Scott City Middle School, erased Kendrick’s 1600m record by more than nine seconds in the season opening meet at Norton.

Thomas was a gold medalist in a career best of 4:56.58 - improving on Kendrick’s old mark of 5:06 that was set in 2004.

The performance is even more impressive considering the less-thanideal weather conditions

- rain, wind and a high temperature of only 42 degrees.

“When you consider the circumstances the boys all competed very well,” says head coach Larry Fox. Thomas added another individual gold in the 800m (2:15.34).

11-feet in the pole vault, tying the school mark first set by Winston Sattler in 2004.

Faurot also cleared 5-foot-4 in the high jump for a gold medal and was a runner-up in the 100m hurdles (16.68).

The only other first place finish came in the 4x200m relay (1:53.06).

Faurot Wins Gold Relay members were Jose Marshall Faurot put Trejo, Angel Rodriguez, his name into the SCMS Kevin Duong and record book by clearing Thomas.

Win Team Title The Bluejays (119) easily won the eighth grade division, finishing ahead of Phillipsburg (90) and Colby (86.5) in the 11-team field.

They were aided by second place performances in the 4x100m and 4x400m relays along with Jaren Berning in the triple jump (33-1.5) and Faurot in the 100m high hurdles (16.68).

Lara a triple gold medalist at Goodland; SC girls win title When Scott Community High School track coach talks about the young thinclads who have made a strong impression so far this season, two names quickly come to mind.

Freshmen Shantice Lara and Emily Smith have shown they could have a bright future on the track.

Neither did anything to dispel that optimism with strong performances at the Goodland junior varsity track meet on Monday.

Lara picked up three gold medals, including a pair of individual wins while Smith added a pair of gold medals.

Lara is emerging as a middle distance runner with varsity talent. She claimed a first place finish in the 400m (64.41) and followed that with a 64.38 split on the gold medal 4x400m relay.

Her time in the open 400m was nearly five seconds faster than she ran at Ulysses just 11 days earlier.

“Shantice ran a strong race in the open 400, but it was just as impressive to see her back it up in the relay,” says Turner.

Lara easily had the fastest time on the first place relay which also included Macy Berning (67.31), Smith (69.84) and Olivia Prieto (72.12).

“Emily wasn’t being pushed. She’s run a low 68, so I know that she’s capable of doing better,” Turner notes. “I feel that Shantice is capable of bringing her time down to the 60 or 61 second range.”

Smith’s other gold

medal came in the 200m (28.49) where the Lady Beavers had four of the top six finishers. Other medalists included Berning (3rd, 30.45), Tyler Vondracek (4th, 31.45) and Kaylene McGonagle (6th, 31.61).

Smith also had strong performances in the 300m low hurdles (1st, 51.74) and a personal best in the 100m high hurdles (3rd, 19.75). In addition, she cleared 7-foot-6 for a bronze medal in the pole vault.

Distance Golds In her first competition of the season because of an early season injury, freshman Makaela Stevens was a gold medalist in the 1600m (6:08.62) and added a silver in the 3200m (13:31).

“Neither of those times are close to what Makaela’s capable of running. We just need to get her back to where she feels healthy and can compete at 100 percent,” Turner says. SCHS did dominate the field in the distance events where Trella Davis was a gold medalist in the 3200m (13.31). They swept three medals in the 1600m, including Davis (3rd, 6:17.45), Delaney Kitch (6:26.99) and Ashley Prewit (7:04.63).

It was Scott City’s ability to place so many athletes in the running events that allowed the Lady Beavers to claim the team title over Burlington, Colo.

Scott City sophomore Haley Allen competes in the triple jump at Goodland McGonagle (14.65) on Monday.

(Record Photo) and Vondracek (14.8) finThe 4x100m relay ran bers were Vondracek, ished first and third in the gold medalist in the javelin (80-5), which was well a season best of 57.04 for Haley Allen, Jalynn 100m. a gold medal. Team mem- Habiger and McGonagle.

Clarissa Ratzlaff was a off her career best.

The Scott County Record • Page 21 • Thursday, April 16, 2015

4x100, 4x400 are first at Goodland; Vasquez, Lozano, Reulas win golds

Gold medal performances in two relays and the middle distance events contributed to a second place finish by the Scott Community High School boys at the Goodland junior varsity track meet on Monday.

Kevin Lozano, with a time of 57.72 in the 400m, claimed one of the three individual gold medals for SCHS. Freshman Marco Vasquez ran a season best of 24.82 for a first place finish in the 200m to go along with a bronze in the 100m (12.15).

Claiming the only other individual gold was freshman Adrian Ruelas in the 800m (2:19.74).

The Beavers picked up a win in the 4x100m relay (47.5).

Members were Jarret Jurgens, K. Lozano, Nick Nowak and Vasquez.

Jurgens added a season best of 56.76 in his split of the 4x400m relay (3:53.5) to help lead that team to a gold medal finish. Other relay members were Vasquez (58.88), Ruelas (59.24) and K. Lozano (58.72).

Nowak was a silver medalist in the 300m int. hurdles (49.46) while Chance Jones (12:06.18) improved on his season best by more than 11 seconds to finish second in the 3200m.

SCHS freshman Daniel Nolasco was a fourth place finisher in the shot put at the Goodland Scott City dominated the junior varsity meet.

(Record Photo) 1600m where they placed three medalists, led by Ruelas (2nd, 5:35.51). for a third place medal in the Daniel Nolasco (4th, 34-0) 5:17.45), Jones (5th, 5:35.28) Sophomore Eddie Tilton’s javelin while Ruelas added a and Tilton (5th, 33-4) each had and freshman Austin Rios (6th, career best of 107-6 was good bronze in the pole vault (9-6). career bests in the shot put.

Offense

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been the lone bright spot in an and VanCleave were locked in a otherwise anemic offense. dual when the SCHS senior drilled a full count pitch to cenStart Strong ter for a triple. He would score Trailing 1-0 in the bottom on an infield out that put the of the first, SCHS wasted little Beavers on top, 3-1. time putting together a scoring The Longhorns took a 5-3 threat against Holcomb’s ace lead into the bottom of the fifth Conner VanCleave. Baker and when SCHS again got on the Gonzalez opened with back- scoreboard. Drew Duff hit a to-back singles and a one out leadoff double to center and walk to Hunter Braun filled the scored on a single by Kevin bases.

Aguilera.

Sophomore Kyle Cure colAfter issuing a pair of walks lected two RBIs with a single to start the sixth inning, Baker to center that gave Scott City was pulled and Hunter Braun the lead. entered the game in relief. By In his second plate appear- the time the inning was over the ance in the second inning, Baker Longhorns owned an 11-4 lead.

The second game was never in doubt as Holcomb led 4-1 after two innings and extended that advantage to 7-1 before adding five runs in the sixth.

SCHS scored in the bottom of the second inning when Gonzalez hit a one-out double to left field and scored on a line drive single by Aguilera.

They added another run in the sixth inning when Baker hit a leadoff single and would later score on an error.

“We are scrimmaging a lot and playing situational baseball,” said Coach Baker. “There are too many times when the boys don’t hit their cutoff man

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or know what play to make in certain situations. That’s where our lack of game experience is pretty evident.”

He says a big factor is lack of communication.

For example, there was one instance where the bases were loaded and when the ball was hit to an infielder the throw went to first base instead of a force at home plate.

“Part of that is having rookie catchers,” notes Baker.

“Physically, they’re doing okay, but they’re the quarterback of the team. They have to make sure everyone understands what play needs to be made.”

Need volunteers for SC Relays

Anyone interested in assisting with the Scott City Relays track meet on Tuesday, April 21, is asked to contact activities director Randy Huck at 8727620.

Volunteers are needed for the field events.

Midwest Energy awards SRC $500

The Scott Recreation Commission has been awarded a $500 grant from Midwest Energy.

The money will be used for SRC youth programs.

Correction

The Record apologizes to SCHS tennis player Chandler Janssen for identifying him as Corbin Janssen in last week’s story.

Norton (continued from page 19)

Winderlin swept the sprints by breaking the tape in the 100m (12.68), 200m (26.25) and 400m (59.96). He added a fourth gold in the long jump (16-1).

Kaden Wren was a double individual winner in the high jump (4-8) and the 800m (2:25.4).

Justus McDaniel cleared 7-foot-6 to win the pole vault and was a runner-up in the 800m (2:35).

Claiming the only other individual gold was Hunter Yager in the triple jump (30-4) while adding a third place finish in the pole vault (7-0).

Scott City was untouchable in the relays.

They posted a winning time of 54.46 in the 4x100m.

Members were Cale Goodman, Caleb VanDegrift, Fernando Garcia and Eli Amack.

The 4x200m (1:54.48) included Sam Irwin, Amack, Parker Gooden and Sterling Wright.

The 4x800m (4:14.03) included Wright, McDaniel, Irwin and Wren.

Goodman claimed a silver medal in the shot put (28-4 1/2) while Gooden was a runner-up in the triple jump (29-5).

Sterling Wright was second in the 100m hurdles (18.81) and long jump (15-9).

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Moore has proven to be among best GMs Kansas City Royals General Manager Dayton Moore has done an amazing job. by It’s too earMac ly to become Stevenson wildly enthusiastic about the Royals, but they are off to a sensational start.

KC lost three key players from the 2014 team: DH Billy Butler, RF Nori Aoki and RHP James Shields.

Moore replaced them with DH/FB Kendrys Morales, RF Alex Rios, and RHP Edinson Volquez.

Morales and Rios appear to be upgrades over Butler and Aoki and Volquez may prove to be the equal or better than Shields was last season. That’s some accomplishment.

It’s hard to imagine a team playing better than the Royals did in their first three games. KC’s defense, hitting, and pitching were close to flawless.

Volquez’s first start for the Royals was particularly encouraging following some unimpressive exhibition games.

KC’s bullpen has been terrific. Through the April 12 games, the Royals’ relievers hadn’t given up a run. Kelvin Herrera, Wade Davis, and closer Greg Holland have lived up to all the high expectations.

Kansas City expected the defense and pitching to be exceptional; the only preseason question was whether or not the hitting would be improved over a mediocre 2014 season. So far the answer is an emphatic “yes.”

Through the first six games, six of KC’s everyday players were hitting .300 or better: Alcides Escobar (.375), Mike Moustakas (.333), Lorenzo Cain (.417), Kendrys Morales (.400), Alex Rios (.360) and Salvy Perez (.417).

Eric Hosmer had a .259 average and Alex Gordon was off to an abysmal start, hitting just .077. Omar Infante isn’t much better at .158. Gordon has always been streaky and Infante is a proven major league hitter.

They will get it going.

Moore’s strategy to obtain Morales and Rios will prove to be the best move (See MOORE on page 26)

Relays dominate at Norton Invite

The Scott City Middle School seventh grade girls swept gold medals 7th Grade in all three Girls Track relays which helped them claim the team title at the season opening Norton Invitational last Thursday.

Under cold and wet conditions, Madison Shapland added a pair of individual gold medals to go along with a pair of relay golds as Scott City

Softball After giving up a run in the first inning, starting pitcher Bre Smull was able to hold the Redskins’ offense in check, scattering just nine hits over eight innings.

Freshman Kaitlyn Roberts scored a run to tie the game in the fourth inning and the score remained 1-1 until the top of the eighth when Amanda Kough and Kaely Zilla each reached base. With two outs, sophomore Krystal Appel hit a two-run double up the middle to put the Lady Beavers on top.

“Krystal didn’t touch a softball until last year and she’s becoming a player who is playing very well in the field and at the plate,” says Myers.

Normally a left fielder, Appel filled in at shortstop in the first game while Nicole Latta stepped over to third base in the absence of usual third baseman Kristi Faurot.

Leave most of which are injured, and many too badly to survive. But she took one look at Ozzy and told Joyce, “You take this owl back immediately and turn it loose in the park near where it was found.”

She said it was possibly the healthiest specimen they had ever gotten and that its parents would find it and make sure it survived. After chasing Ozzy around the park, trying to get him to stay near the trees and out of sight, we left him there

scored 92.5 points, nudging Norton (91) for top honors in the 11 team field.

“Considering the conditions and it being our first meet, the girls did really well. I’m anxious to see what some of these girls can do when we have a nicer day to compete on,” says coach Kyle Carroll.

The relays set the stage for Scott City success, which included the •4x100m (58.84): Shapland, Shelby Patton, Piper Wasinger and Deborah Murray.

•4x200m (2:08.9): Shapland, Lyndi Rumford, Amanda Lara and Murray.

•4x400m (4:49.9): Wasinger, Jace Rose, Emily Weathers and Patton.

Shapland’s individual wins came in the pole vault (6-6) and 200m (30.59).

Weathers picked up a pair of silver medals in the high jump (4-0) and 100m hurdles (19.12).

Patton claimed a second place finish in the 400m (72.8).

Adding a bronze medal in

the 200m was Murray with a time of 31.97 while Samantha Aguilar was fourth in the 1600m (6:50.9).

“We had a lot of girls who finished fifth and sixth and that really helped our team score,” adds Carroll.

There were six medalists who finished fifth or sixth which accounted for an additional nine team points.

Next meet for the Bluejays will be April 23 at the Colby quad, followed by the Goodland Invitational on April 25.

we are the better it’s going to make us in the long run.”

Appel made a couple of big catches in left field that prevented at least three runs from scoring and keeping the Lady Beavers in the game.

“Krystal is getting a lot more comfortable in the outfield. She does a nice job of seeing the ball off the bat and getting into position to make plays,” says the SCHS coach.

She also credited junior Nicole Latta with taking over pitching duties late in the game when she was called on.

Trailing 3-1 in the bottom of the second inning in the nightcap, Scott City poured on the offense with 13 runs in their next three at-bats to pull away for the easy win.

They also helped their cause defensively, holding the Lady Mustangs scoreless over the final three innings. The game was called after five innings on the mercy rule.

(continued from page 19)

“We had a couple of early fielding errors, but then the girls settled down and played well. And Bre also pitched a nice game,” adds Myers.

Offense Explodes The Lady Beavers exploded for 13 runs in the first three innings of the nightcap for an easy 15-8 win. A highlight of the game was a third inning inside-the-park home run by Kough.

Scott City pounded out 20 hits, including three each by Kough and freshmen Jordan Miller and Roberts.

“We probably could have run-ruled them, but I wanted to use the game as an opportunity to work on our base running,” said Myers. “I want the girls to be more aggressive on the base paths. We ran into a couple of outs, but the more aggressive

Split With SWH Scott City was back on the home field Tuesday where they split with Southwestern Hts. in non-league play. They dropped the opener, 13-10, but came back to win the nightcap, 14-3.

The first game was a heartbreaker for the Lady Beavers who had erased a 7-2 deficit after 3-1/2 innings to take a 10-8 lead into the top of the seventh. Fielding errors by SCHS contributed to a five run rally by the Mustangs.

“Bre pitched a good game and gave us opportunities, but we weren’t making the routine plays,” Myers says. “We have to get mentally tougher and learn how to put a mistake out of our minds and focus on the next play.”

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and sure enough, he disappeared on his own just as she said.

I tell you this story to reiterate that it is indeed the season when new life is born into the wild, and some of those babies are found by humans. We have an innate nurturing spirit within us that makes us want to capture and “help” young wildlife we find.

In most cases we are not helping at all as those babies are just fine and will be found

by their mothers as soon as we leave. In fact, in some cases their mothers may even be watching.

Taking a young animal from the wild actually decreases its chance of survival exponentially. It is also illegal to possess wildlife without the special permits and training like the people have that operate the Hutchinson Zoo rehab program.

It would probably have been okay to have moved

Ozzy back into the park right away and left him there, as his folks might’ve had a tough time finding him behind that planter.

But all-in-all, if you love wildlife babies, then leave them where you find them and trust their mothers to take care of them.

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Steve can be contacted by email at stevegilliland@idkcom.net

The Scott County Record • Page 23 • Thursday, April 16, 2015

Free entrance at Kansas state parks on April 25 If you’re looking for a quality family activity that doesn’t cost money and doesn’t come with strings attached, take advantage of the Kansas State Parks Free Park Entrance events April 25.

On this day, families can visit any Kansas State Park without the purchase of a daily vehicle permit, and a variety of parks will be hosting open houses, allowing visitors to also tour cabins and other facilities.

If that’s not incentive enough, select parks will be providing additional family-friendly activities on-site such as guided hikes, animal displays, Takedown Wrestling Club members competing in the Heartland National prize drawings, fishing Dual Tournament were (front row, from left) Leightyn Heim, Jarron Gregory and archery tournaments, and Lance Miller. (Back row) Jack Thomas, Wyatt Hayes and Kaden Wren.

(Record Photo) 5k races, and more.

To plan your April 25 state park visit, visit ksoutdoors.com and click on the “Event Calendar” for a list of state park locations, contact information, After losing his sec- to the Heartland National honors with his 6-1 record and details on activities ond round match at the Duals. during the weekend. offered.

Middle School Nationals, While Hayes, comThe 160-pound memWyatt Hayes knew he peting in the 140-pound ber of the Takedown Kids Support Your couldn’t afford any more division, rarely comes out Wrestling Club was comHometown Merchants mistakes. of the first period without peting in the elementary He didn’t make any. a takedown, he says his division.

The Scott City grap- strength is in the bottom The 11-year-old won pler swept through his position. all six of his matches by next five matches, earn“I do a pretty good falls, but also lost his ing All-American honors job of hitting my stand- only match by a pin. Five during tournament action ing switch and getting of Gregory’s matches held at Council Bluffs, Ia. an escape or a reversal,” were decided in less than “That was one of Hayes says. “I’m pretty a minute. Total elapsed my goals and I knew it confident that I can score time in the six wins was wasn’t going to happen if from the bottom posi- just 4:41.

I lost again,” says Hayes. tion.”

“I was a little ner“When you’re competing Hayes says he enjoys vous because there were at this level you learn that the chance to see new so many kids there from things may not work out competition from different states. I didn’t the way you planned. I throughout the U.S. know how they would made some adjustments when he competes at the wrestle,” said Gregory, and I was able to refo- Heartland Nationals. who was making his first cus.”

“It’s a chance to see trip to nationals.

His only loss of what you need to work Gregory dominated his the weekend was by a on,” says the 15-year-old. opponents on his feet with 5-3 decision to Carter “And it’s not just a matter a steady diet of headlocks Starocci (Pennsylvania of being ready physically, and even an occasional Gold). In the other six but mentally.” lateral drop. matches, the Scott City “I had a fun time,” grappler posted four pins Gregory is 6-1 adds Gregory. “I was able Jarron Gregory also to try a couple of different and two major decisions.

It was his third trip earned All-American moves and they worked.”

KDWP Report All park offices will be open 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. but schedules are subject to change without notice.

Visitors can purchase annual camping permits and make cabin or camp-

site reservations during the open houses, as well.

For pricing information and to purchase permits online at ksoutdoors.com.

For online permit purchases, click “License/ Permits.” For campsite and cabin reservations, click “Reservations.”

Hayes, Gregory are named dual tournament All-Americans

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Speer a triple winner at Ness; DHS girls first Jordan Speer may not yet be in mid-season form, but she had no problem dominating the field at the Ness City Invitational on Tuesday.

The Dighton High School sophomore swept all three throwing events and that helped the Lady Hornets nudge Holcomb for the team title - 82 to 77.

Speer’s only close call came in the discus where her toss of 87-7 was just seven inches ahead of Esperenza Ortega (Holcomb). She enjoyed plenty of cushion in winning the shot put (35-6 3/4) and the javelin (106-6).

Payden Shapland continued her winning ways in the 1600m (6:01.25) and added a season best in the 3200m (13:10.22).

Likewise, Sara Cramer also had a season best of 63.47 to win a gold medal in the 400m and she settled for a silver in

Ayala wins 2 distance silver medals

the 800m (2:40.3) behind Kinsley’s Kate Gleason (2:32.73).

Dominguez Fourth It was a tough day for the Dighton boys with Nate Dominguez turning in the top individual performance. He was fourth in the 400m (55.42) - just one second out of second place.

Wyatt Habiger was fifth in the discus (121-0) and fifth in the javelin (149-0).

The team title was won

by Holcomb (103), followed by Ness City (97) and LaCrosse (80).

Tribune Invite Habiger was a triple medalist at the Tribune Invitational last Friday with top finishes in each of the Dylan Foos takes the baton from Nate Dominguez to begin the third leg of throwing events. the 4x100m relay at the Tribune Invitational.

(Record Photo) The DHS senior was Habiger added bronze time of 54.98 in the 400m 4x100m relay (48.95). second in the javelin (148Team members were Mar4) while teammate Dylan medals in the discus (120- for a bronze medal.

1) and the shot put (40-0).

The Hornets added a cos Cruz, Dominguez, Foos (129-2) was a third Dominguez posted a sixth place finish in the Foos and Habiger. place finisher.

Budde making up for lost time in sprints Last season was a lost one for Leoti’s Morgen Budde who had a difficult time competing while recovering from hip surgery.

“She was in constant pain, and she still is,” says Wichita County High School track coach Janee Porter.

The pain may still be there, but winning can make it a lot easier to deal with.

The sophomore is starting to do just that after turning in gold and silver medal performances at the Elkhart Invitational on Tuesday. Budde (13.67) ran a career best in the 100m finals and needed that to nudge Lakin’s Molly Hendrix by 3/100 of a second for the gold medal.

She followed that with a second place finish in the 400m (75.75).

“That was the first time she’d run the 400 and she enjoyed it,” says Porter.

Aylin Heredia ran a season best in the 300m hurdles (57.39) to pick up a silver medal.

“Aylin ran them for the first time at Tribune and she wasn’t sure if it was an event she’d like. I asked her to give me three track meets and see what she thought.”

After just two meets the freshman is convinced that it’s a good event for her.

“She has so much room for improvement in both hurdles. Once we can get her to three-step the highs she’ll really start to see her time improve,” noted Porter.

Heredia added a silver

Relay

Leoti sophomore Morgen Budde reaches the finish line in third place at the Tribune Invitational last Friday.

(Record Photo)

medal in the long jump with a career best of 13-9 3/4.

WCHS finished second in the 4x800m relay (11:18.9), less than two seconds behind Lakin.

Relay members were Kinzie Bangerter, Hannah Martin, Summer Smades and Mareli Salazar.

“Each of those girls are capable of bringing their times down by five to seven seconds,” says Porter.

Salazar was second in the triple jump (29-10

1/2).

Anna Leigh Whitham was a triple medalist in all three of the throwing events, including a first place finish in the discus with a season best of 91-8.

She was also third in the shot put (28-11) and the javelin (93-11).

Senior Vallie Kenfield competed in her first track meet of the season and came away with a gold medal in the javelin with a toss of 102-7.

Because of a hip injury,

Kenfield didn’t compete in any running events, but Porter says they didn’t feel there was any risk in throwing the javelin.

“We’d like to have her run at Scott City, but she probably won’t compete until Holcomb,” Porter says.

In the boy’s division, Jacob Schumacher competed in the 100m for the first time this season and collected a silver medal in 10.97.

“Jacob’s capable of

running anything from the 100 to the 800. We know he’s going to be in the relays. Now we’re trying to figure out what else he can have the most success doing,” says Porter.

Schumacher added golds in the 200m (23.53) and the 400m (53.72).

Juan Alvarado won the high jump (5-10) and was second in the long jump (19-1 1/4).

Zeke Castillo was a gold medalist in the triple jump (39-8 3/4).

Niswonger (11:22.44) provided a 2-3 finish in the 3200m while Long added a silver in the 800m (2:10.17).

The 4x100m relay was fourth in 47.91 - just 59/100 of a second out of second place. Relay members included Zeke Castillo, Louis Rangel, Kolton Sheppard and Josh

Gallardo.

Juan Alvarado, a sophomore, was the top medalist in the field events, finishing second in the long jump (18-5 1/4) and third in the high jump (5-10).

Jacob Clark was fourth in the shot put (39-0 1/2) while Castillo was fourth in the long jump (18-2 1/2).

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schools competing in the Juan Alvarado, Long, 2-1A division, making it Schumacher and Galone of the top meets in the legos. region.

Schumacher had a very good day individuAnother Relay Gold ally with a first place finThe WCHS boys also ish in the 200m (23.24) picked up a 4x400m re- 43/100 of a second ahead lay gold in 3:42.26 - just of Heartland Christian’s 26/100 of a second ahead Blaine Wertz. He was a silof Deerfield. ver medalist in the 400m Relay members were (53.2), behind Deerfield’s

Mark Skipper (51.1).

WCHS had a huge day on the track where they had seven top three finishes which contributed to their team title. The Indians (105) finished well ahead of Sharon Springs (81) and Deerfield (69) in the 12-team meet.

John Biermann (11:18.69) and Dylon

Scott City eighth grader Dolce Ayala claimed a pair of silver medals in the distance events during the season opening track meet at Norton.

Dolce finished second in the 1600m (6:38.4) and added a runner-up finish in the 3200m (13:54) as the top individual medalist for the Lady Bluejays.

Scott City Middle School also earned silver medals in the 4x200m (2:09.1) and the 4x400m (5:06.9).

Members of the 4x100m were Stacy Dominguez, Lynell Wessel, Natalie Navarette and Kally Kough.

Competing on the 4x400m were Aly Tarango, Dominguez, Arrianne Eatmon and Ayala.

Tarango was also a bronze medalist in the 1600m (7:12.1).

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SCMS Track

Takedown Kids Wrestling

April 9, 2015 • at Norton 7th Grade Boys Team scores: Scott City 181, Colby 78, Norton 55, Phillipsburg 43, Hill City 35, Logan 33, Quinter 33, Thunder Ridge 16, Northern Valley 6.

Long jump: Brandon Winderlin, 1st, 16-1; Sterling Wright, 2nd, 15-9.

High jump: Kaden Wren, 1st, 4-8.

Triple jump: Hunter Yager, 1st, 30-4; Parker Gooden, 2nd, 29-5; Eli Amack, 3rd, 27-10.

Pole vault: Justus McDaniel, 1st, 7-6; Sam Irwin, 2nd, 7; Yager, 3rd, 7.

Shot put: Cale Goodman, 2nd, 28-4.5.

100m: Winderlin, 1st, 12.68; Amack, 5th, 13.53.

200m: Winderlin, 1st, 26.25.

400m: Winderlin, 1st, 59.96; Irwin, 3rd, 1:05.1.

800m: Wren, 1st, 2:25.4; McDaniel, 2nd, 2:35.

100m hurdles: Wright, 2nd, 18.81; Fernando Garcia, 4th(T), 19.31.

4x100m relay: Goodman, Caleb VanDegrift, Garcia, Amack, 1st, 54.46.

4x200m relay: Irwin, Amack, Gooden, Wright, 1st, 1:54.48.

4x400m relay: Wright, McDaniel, Irwin, Wren, 1st, 4:14.03.

Heartland National Duals April 11-12, 2015 • at Council Bluffs, Ia. Elementary 100: Leightyn Heim pinned Robert Streine (Kentucky Red) 2:13; pinned by Parker Peterson (Missouri Greater Heights) 0:42; dec. by Joshua Miller (Nebraska Blue) 4-0; dec. by Gavin Layman (Indiana Blue) 4-0; pinned by Brody Nelson (Nebraska Gold) 0:23; pinned by Carter Abels (Nebraska Camo) 2:58; dec. Tommy Kratt (Texas Blue) 5-0.

130: Lance Miller pinned by Joey Johnson (Minnesota Storm) 2:43; dec. by Tristan Pekas (North Dakota Twisters) 4-2; pinned by William Freimark (Iowa Blue) 0:23; tech. fall

by Wren Jacobs (South Dakota Rushmore) 16-0; pinned by Jake Gillespie (Colorado Mile High) 2:28; pinned by Steele McLaren (Iowa White) 2:35; pinned by Nolan Thomsen (Nebraska Blue) 2:25.

160: Jarron Gregory pinned Grant Garrison (Kentucky Red) 0:23; pinned Cole Henderson (Missouri Greater Heights) 0:39; pinned Aiden Worthey (Nebraska Blue) 0:40; pinned Granger Dick (North Dakota Blizzards) 1:30; pinned by Cade Haberman (Nebraska Gold) 1:12; pinned Jared Janssen (Nebraska Camo) 0:35; pinned Diego Falcon (Texas Blue) 0:54.

Middle School 110: Kaden Wren pinned by Tate Torgerson (Minnesota Storm) 0:24; dec. by Cody Carlson (Nebraska Camo) 6-2; dec. Ethan Bowman (North Dakota Thunder) 8-2; dec. by 8th Grade Boys Joe Chavez Jr., (Colorado Red) 8-2; pinned Graham Calhoun Team scores: Scott City 119, Phillipsburg 90, Colby 86.5, (Indiana Mat Mafia) 0:48; pinned by Colton Camacho (PA Norton, 59, Northern Valley 56, Hill City 36, Thunder Ridge Blue) 3:00; dec. Trevor Dopps (Kansas Starships) 6-5.

17.5, Logan 17.5, Rawlins Co. 7.5, Oberlin 7, Quinter 2.

140: Wyatt Hayes pinned Jacob Frenzen (Nebraska Blue) Long jump: Remington Wright, 5th(T), 14-3.5.

0:56; dec. by Carter Starocci (PA Gold) 5-3; pinned Nathan High jump: Marshall Faurot, 1st, 5-4.

Weigel (North Dakota Lightning) 2:16; pinned Carter GosTriple jump: Jaren Berning, 2nd, 33-1.5; Parker Vulga- lee (Missouri Greater Heights) 2:26; maj. dec. Dylan Yancey more, 6th, 30.

(Colorado Red) 14-0; pined Alex Larson (Quest) 0:25; maj.

Shot put: Kyle Sherwood, 3rd, 34-4.25; Caleb Carter, dec. Brian Boyd (Missouri Greater Heights) 9-0.

6th, 32-5.

Pole vault: Faurot, 1st, 11.

100m: Vance Armstrong, 4th, 13.53; Chaseton Cupp, 5th(T) 13.65.

200m: Faurot, 3rd, 26.08; Wright, 6th, 28.25.

Jr. Varsity 400m: Berning, 5th, 1:01.4.

April 13, 2015 • at Goodland 800m: Jack Thomas, 1st, 2:15.34; Miles Haire, 6th, Girl’s Division 2:36.5.

Triple jump: Haley Allen, 5th, 29-5.

1600m: Thomas, 1st, 4:56.58; Angel Rodriguez, 3rd, Shot put: Clarissa Ratzlaff, 4th, 26-8.5.

5:44.26; Haire, 4th, 4:48.31.

Javelin: Ratzlaff, 1st, 80-5.

3200m: Vulgamore, 6th, 13:50.

Pole vault: Emily Smith, 3rd, 7-6.

100m hurdles: Faurot, 2nd, 16.68; Rodriguez, 6th, 18.27.

100m: Kaylene McGonagle, 1st, 14.65; Tyler Vondracek, 4x100m relay: Armstrong, Berning, Kevin Duong, Cupp, 3rd, 14.80.

2nd, 53.56.

200m: Shantice Lara, 1st, 28.49; Macy Berning, 3rd, 4x200m relay: Jose Trejo, Rodriguez, Duong, Thomas, 30.45; Vondracek, 4th, 31.45; McGonagle, 6th, 31.61.

1st, 1:53.06.

400m: Lara, 1st, 1:04.41; Berning, 3rd, 1:06.78; Brandi 4x400m relay: Duong, Rodriguez, Vulgamore, Thomas, Shearmire, 6th, 1:14.87.

2nd, 4:13.71.

800m: Olivia Prieto, 2nd, 2:51.86; Delaney Kitch, 3rd,

SCHS Track

2:57.81; Ashley Prewit, 4th, 3:12.73.

1600m: Makaela Stevens, 1st, 6:08.62; Trella Davis, 3rd, 6:17.45; Kitch, 4th, 6:26.99; Prewit, 6th, 7:04.63.

3200m: Davis, 1st, 13:31; Stevens, 2nd, 13:31.

100m high hurdles: Smith, 3rd, 19.75.

300m low hurdles: Smith, 1st, 51:74; Mya Foster, 6th, 1:06.44.

4x100m: Vondracek, Allen, Jalynn Habiger, McGonagle, 1st, 57.04.

4x400m: Berning, Lara, Smith, Prieto, 1st, 4:33.64.

Boy’s Division Triple jump: Reid Brunswig, 3rd, 34-10; Jarret Jurgens, 4th, 34-9; Nick Nowak, 5th, 33-11.

Long jump: Brunswig, 3rd, 17-9; Nowak, 4th, 17-4.

Shot put: Daniel Nolasco, 4th, 34; Eddie Tilton, 5th, 33-4.

Javelin: Tilton, 3rd, 107-6; Baron Strine, 4th, 103; Brunswig, 6th, 87-6.

Pole vault: Adrian Ruelas, 3rd, 9-6.

100m: Marco Vasquez, 3rd, 12.15.

200m: Vasquez, 1st, 24.82.

400m: Kevin Lozano, 1st, 57.72.

800m: Ruelas, 1st, 2:19.74.

1600m: Ruelas, 2nd, 5:17.45; Chance Jones, 5th, 8th Grade Girls 5:35.28; Austin Rios, 6th, 5:35.51.

Team scores: Phillipsburg 101, Thunder Ridge 69, Nor3200m: Jones, 2nd, 12:06.18. ton 65, Northern Valley 61, Scott City 59.5, Colby 58, Oberlin 300m int. hurdles: Nowak, 2nd, 49.46; Tre Stewart, 4th, 46, Rawlins 32, Hill City 16, Quniter 13, Logan 6.5.

51.59.

Long jump: Lynell Wessel, 4th, 12-1.5; Kally Kough, 5th, 4x100m: Jurgens, K. Lozano, Nowak, Vasquez, 1st, 11-10.5.

47.50.

Triple jump: Alyssa Storm, 6th, 25-9.

4x400m: Vasquez, Jurgens, Ruelas, K. Lozano, 1st, Shot put: Jera Drohman, 5th(T), 26.

3:53.50.

1600m: Dolce Ayala, 2nd, 6:38.4; Aly Tarango, 3rd, 7:12.1; Ashley Leightner, 4th, 7:13.4.

3200m: Ayala, 2nd, 13:54; Hallie Wiechman, 4th, 15:48.8; Kodi Rogers, 6th, 16:20.

4x100m relay: Wessell, Storm, Ayala, Kough, 4th, 1:00.1.

4x200m relay: Stacy Dominguez, Wessell, Natali Navarrete, Kough, 2nd, 2:09.1.

4x400m relay: Tarango, Dominguez, Arrianne Eatmon, Ayala, 2nd, 5:06.09.

7th Grade Girls Team scores: Scott City 92.5, Norton 91, Rawlins Co. 58, Colby 51, Phillipsburg 50, Thunder Ridge 40.5, Quinter 34, Hill City 30, Oberlin 22.5, Logan 14, Northern Valley 13.

Long jump: Jace Rose, 7th, 11-1.

High jump: Emily Weathers, 2nd, 4; Cynthia Gonzales, 6th, 4.

Pole vault: Madison Shapland, 1st, 6-6; Shelby Patton, 5th, 5-6.

200m: Shapland, 1st, 30.59; Deborah Murray, 3rd, 31.97.

400m: Patton, 2nd, 1:12.8; Piper Wasinger, 5th, 1:14.9.

800m: Rose, 6th, 3:05.2.

100m hurdles: Weathers, 2nd, 19.12; Abbie LeBeau, 5th, 20.87; Gonzales, 6th, 21.19.

1600m: Samantha Aguilar, 4th, 6:50.9.

4x100m relay: Shapland, Patton, Wasinger, Murray, 1st, 58.84.

4x200m relay: Shapland, Lyndi Rumford, Amanda Lara, Murray, 1st, 2:08.9.

4x400m relay: Wasinger, Rose, Weathers, Patton, 1st, 4:49.9.

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Shapland runs fast, smart in distance sweep When you are doubling up in both distance events, sometimes it’s better to run a smart race rather than a fast pace.

Dighton’s Payden Shapland was able to do both in sweeping the distance gold medals at the Tribune Invitational last Friday.

The junior ran smart in the 1600m, doing just what she needed to finish six seconds ahead of Wallace County’s Roby Selzer with a winning time of 6:18.83.

Shapland was content with riding on Selzer’s shoulder for the first 3-1/2 laps before pulling away on the back stretch and building on that advantage as she neared the finish line.

“I felt pretty comfortable with the pace, especially with the 3200 (meter) still to run,” says Shapland. “I always feel that I can rely on my kick during the final 100 (meters).”

Shapland considers the 3200m her strongest race and she did nothing to prove otherwise in claiming first place by 57 seconds with a time of 13:28.3.

“I’m running the 3200 a lot better than I have before. A year ago at this time I hadn’t broke the 14s and so far this year I’ve beaten that twice,” she points out.

Cramer Wins 400m Coming off a slight quad injury, Sara Cramer competed in the 400m for the first time this season and looked impressive with a winning time of 64.15 more than 4-1/2 seconds ahead of the runner-up.

“She’d run 66 (seconds) in

Moore by any major league general manager in 2015.

Moore has an instinct of knowing where to find quality ballplayers with a limited budget.

Owner David Glass’s first priority should be to make sure that Moore’s family is happy in Kansas City and do all he can to keep Moore as the Royals’ head man in their front office.

Early Departures Cliff Alexander and Kelly Oubre have left the Kansas basketball team and declared for the NBA draft. Perry Ellis has decided to stay.

The rest of the roster - including guard Wayne Selden - is set.

KU will have a competitive team, however, if they are going to be top 10 material Coach Bill Self will have to land two or three talented recruits. KU is in the running for five or six of the top players who

Dighton junior Payden Shapland pulls away for an easy win in the 1600m at the Tribune Invitational.

(Record Photo)

practice so we were hoping to be around 64 against competition,” said head coach Ken Simon.

The DHS sophomore was able to accomplish that goal without being pushed at all down the home stretch.

The 800m was much more competitive with Cramer (2:43.22) picking up a silver medal behind Leoti’s Hannah Martin (2:42.84).

Competing in her first meet of the season, sophomore Jordan Speer dominated the field

with first place finishes in the shot put (38-10 1/2) and the discus (101-7) while adding a silver in the javelin (94-6).

Mallory Dowell picked up a fourth place finish in the 1600m (6:41.7), Maegan Seifried finished fifth in the triple jump (29-11 1/2) and Madison O’Brien was sixth in the long jump (13-7).

elin with throws of 148-4 and 129-2, respectively.

Habiger, a senior, completed a solid day in the field events with a pair of bronze medals in the discus (120-1) and shot put (40-0).

Nate Dominguez added a third place finish in the 400m (54.98).

Dighton’s only other points in the boy’s division came in the 4x100m relay where they were Habiger Wins 3 Medals sixth (48.95). Team members Wyatt Habiger and Dylan were Marcos Cruz, Dominguez, Foos led a 2-3 finish in the jav- Foos and Habiger.

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that the problems were are undeclared.

The issue with recruit- exclusively the players’ ing is that it doesn’t help fault.

Evidently AD John to finish second.

Currie is going to keep Weber for at least another KSU a Shambles Everyone is out of step year and that’s hard to unbut Johnny, which perfect- derstand. K-State is going ly describes Kansas State to be the doormat of the basketball coach Bruce Big 12 in 2015-16. CurWeber. K-State’s program rie extended Weber’s contract twice, through the is in a state of disarray.

Weber dismissed Mar- 2018-19 season and that cus Foster and Malek was another mistake.

Weber will be paid Harris from the team and $1.95 million for the Jevon Thomas, Tre Harris and Nigel Johnson 2015-16 season and his jumped ship voluntarily. salary increases automatiThomas Gipson and Nino cally by $100,000 each Williams used up their eli- year after while he is KState’s coach. gibility.

If Currie had fired WeThat leaves the Wildcats’ ship taking on water ber it would have cost Kand listing at an alarming State $2.5 million. That’s rate. going to sound cheap beThe players who were fore this is all over. dismissed or left on their Kansas State is all set own were all Weber re- for a disastrous basketball cruits. It’s difficult to ac- season this coming winter cept that five players were and there won’t be any that unhappy with Weber. cause for optimism anyAnd it’s difficult to accept time soon.

The Scott County Record WCAA cast pays tribute to longtime member

Little more than a year ago, the Wichita County Arts Alliance was in the process of preparing for its annual production when they lost one of their founding members.

“Joan (Ayers) was a valued member and a close friend to each of us,” says Janelle Downs, a WCAA officer. “Joan’s talent as a pianist was instrumental in the success of our first community theatre production.”

That first production in 2006 was the melodrama, “Blazing Guns of Roaring Gulch,” which included the traditional audience participation of booing the villain, cheering the hero and an audience sing-along.

It was the start of a tradition that has included many of the same cast members over of the years. That tradition, however, was put on hold last year with the sudden death of Ayers.

“We all loved and miss Joan, but we also know that she believed, as we do, that having a community theatre is important,” says Downs. “This year’s production is in her memory.

We are excited to bring the show back again and keep this art form alive in our community.”

“Joan’s influence extended far beyond her many skills and talents which she so willingly shared,” says WCAA President Dorene Reimer. “Joan was a positive, sweet-spirited, accepting influence. People like her are rare and irreplaceable.”

Cast members will be presenting “The Hallelujah Girls” in two performances on Saturday and Sunday, April 25-26.

Saturday’s performance includes a carry-in dinner which starts at 6:30 p.m. with the show to follow at 7:00 p.m. Sunday’s performance begins with a carry-in dessert at 2:30 p.m. and the show at 3:00 p.m.

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let the show continue!

Cast members react to the latest trouble stirred up by Bunny. They are (from left) Dorene Reimer (Carlene), Shad Mehl (Bobby Dwayne), Linda Smades (Nita Mooney), Willard Sanders (Porter), Julie Conard (Crystal Hart) and Kara Ayers (Bunny Sutherland). (Below) Carlene accepts an unexpected marriage proposal (her fourth) from Porter Padgett.

(Record Photos)

“If people don’t want to eat they can arrive just before the show begins, but it may be standing room only,” notes Downs. “There is always plenty of food, and we encourage everyone to come whether they bring food or not.”

Admission is a free-will donation and tips after the show are accepted.

Performances are held in the First Presbyterian Church which has seating for just over 100 people.

Cast members include Shad Mehl, Willard Sanders, Dorene Reimer, Kara Ayers, Brenda Ridder, Linda Smades, Carol Laws and Julie Conard.

Joan’s family, including her husband, Charles, daughter, Kara, and grandson, Elian Dorantes, also assist in the show’s production.

Keeping the Art Alive As part of their ongoing effort to “keep this art from dying out in our part of the world,” the alliance also sponsors a kids’ theatre which this past year was “The Best Christmas Pageant

Ever” under the direction of Tori Koehn.

The WCAA relies on community support, including assistance from the Wichita County Community Foundation and the Alfred Droste Memorial.

Downs says the WCAA also applies annually to the Finnup Foundation Trust for assistance in funding a grade school art instructor.

The WCAA is self-supporting and receives no funding from the city or county.

Comedy Production “The Hallelujah Girls” tells the amusing story of a group of feisty females in Eden Falls, Ga., who decide to shake up their lives.

The action takes place in SPA-DEE-DAH!, an abandoned church-turned-day spa, where these friends gather every Friday afternoon. After the loss of a dear friend, the women realize time is precious, and if they’re going to change their lives and achieve their dreams, they have to get on it now.

Sugar Lee, their high-spirited, determined leader, has her

hands full keeping the women motivated. Carlene’s given up on romance, having buried three husbands. Nita’s a nervous wreck from running interference between her problematic son and his probation officer.

Mavis’ marriage is so stagnant she’s wondering how she can fake her own death to get out of it. And sweet, simple

Crystal entertains them all, singing Christmas carols with her own hilarious lyrics.

The comic tension mounts when a sexy ex-boyfriend shows up unexpectedly, a marriage proposal comes from an unlikely suitor and Sugar Lee’s arch rival vows she’ll stop at nothing to steal the spa away from her.

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Late nitrogen application not likely to help wheat

FDA releases latest antibiotic sales report for animal ag

With the struggling wheat we are seeing right now, many producers are wondering if they can do anything to help. So this week I thought I’d share some information in regards to late nitrogen applications.

With the wheat being unusually late and small this year, and still pale or yellowish in some cases, producers may be wondering whether they would still get any benefit from topdressing with nitrogen (N) at this point in the season.

The short answer is, even though some are desperate to help the crop, no it won’t really help. If a topdressing application of N had been made earlier and the wheat is still short and pale, the cause is most likely because: 1) root development is poor due to dry conditions, limiting total nutri-

The FDA has released its latest report on antimicrobial sales for use in food-producing animals, reflecting 2013 sales compared with the previous year and longer-term trends.

The report predictably generates criticism of animal agriculture from activist groups, some of which is based on misinterpretation of the data.

In the report, FDA acknowledges that the sales data do not include information on how products actually are used, such as in what species or for prevention, control or treatment of disease.

Some antimicrobial products, for example, are labeled for use in companion animals such as dogs and cats, along with food animals, but information on distribution of those uses is not reported to FDA or broken out in the report. Because of all these variations, FDA notes in the report, assumptions cannot be made about actual product use.

Key findings in the report include: •Domestic sales and distribution of antimicrobials approved for use in food-producing animals increased by 17 percent from 2009 through 2013, and increased by one percent from 2012 through 2013.

•Domestic sales and distribution of medically important antimicrobials approved for use in foodproducing animals increased by 20 percent from 2009 through 2013, and increased by three percent from 2012 through 2013.

(See REPORT on page 29)

Down on the Farm Chris Long Walnut Creek Extension Agent

ent uptake, 2) the applied N hasn’t yet been moved into the soil by precipitation, 3) only a small portion of the N in the soil has been moved to the surface of the plant roots with water via mass flow, the primary N uptake process, 4) the N has been tied up by surface residue or lost due to volatilization, or 5) another nutrient, such as sulfur, may be limiting.

With a rain, most of these issues may be resolved. In many of these dry soils, the breakdown of crop residues and organic matter will

kick into high gear once it rains, releasing N and S. Root growth will also kick into high gear and expand the exploited zone of soil.

As the water begins to flow towards the roots, mobile nutrients like nitrate and sulfate dissolved in that soil water and will flow to the plant roots for uptake.

There are three primary components of yield: the number of heads per foot of row; the size of the head or number of kernels per head; and the size of the individual kernels.

Number of heads is a function of the initial plant stand, tillering, and tiller survival. In many fields initial stands were spotty, but tillering was adequate.

As the dry spring progressed, tillers began to abort due to drought stress.

Head size is determined around Feekes 5, prior to first hollow stem.

The plant responds to environmental conditions and produces a head of the size that it can successfully fill under existing conditions.

If conditions are bad, which was the case in many fields, small heads are formed, and the plant sheds tillers through tiller abortion, further reducing total potential kernel numbers.

So by jointing and stem elongation, the maximum number of kernels which can be produced is already set.

The final yield component, kernel size, is yet to be determined at this point in the season. Weather conditions at heading and pollination will impact the number of actual kernels set per head, and rain (See NITROGEN on page 29)

Farmers wearing a target in parched California

“I feel like I’ve got a target on my back.”

This is the repeated phone call coming across the lines, says president of the California Farm Bureau, Paul Wenger, in an interview with Reuters.

After an executive order was issued by California’s Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., on April 1,

Cattle feeders college in Scott City

The 2015 edition of the K-State Cattle Feeders College is planned for May 14 at the Scott County Indoor Arena and Activities Center, 610 E. Fairground Road in Scott City.

Joe Wolter, who has built a reputation for his work with horses and people, is the featured speaker.

More information about Wolter is available at www.joewolter.com.

Cattle feeders and others are welcome to attend, but must pre-register.

The day starts with registration at 3:30 p.m., and also features the “Top Hand” Cattle Feeding Industry Awards. Those awards recognize hard work, honesty, reliability, integrity and animal stewardship. Nominations in 100 words or less, are due

by May 8 to Dr. Justin Waggoner, 4500 E. Mary St., Garden City, KS 67846.

There is no cost to attend the Cattle Feeders College, but registration is required, by contacting either Justin Waggoner at 620-275-9164 or jwaggon@ksu.edu; or John Beckman, 620-872-2930 or jbeckman@ksu.edu.

More information is available at www.southwest. ksu.edu.

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for the state’s first ever mandatory water reductions, a lot of criticism has been issued, saying not enough pressure was put on agricultural producers.

The executive order comes a little over a year from when Gov. Brown proclaimed California in a State of Emergency in January 2014, due to

severe drought conditions. It sets a goal of cutting water usage by 25 percent.

The executive order highlights water conservation through banning the watering of ornamental grass, cut backs on campuses, cemeteries and recreational parks, and a rebate program to assist in

replacing old appliances with more efficient models.

The order also states, “Agricultural water users - which have borne much of the brunt of the drought to date, with hundreds of thousands of fallowed acres, significantly reduced water allocations and thousands of farm-

Farmers and ranchers are tired of EPA doubletalk Bob Stallman, president American Farm Bureau

Business owners around the country have joined with farmers and ranchers in speaking out on the Waters of the U.S. rule. More than 30 states also oppose the rule. Yet, even in the face of mounting opposition, the EPA still isn’t listening.

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy has unveiled her latest, campaignstyle WOTUS spin, calling the effort the “Clean Water Rule” - as though a bumper-sticker approach to a complex regulation would change anything for people so profoundly affected by her agency’s actions.

Slogans may matter more than facts at the EPA, but the details still matter to farmers and ranchers who know full well the importance of clean water. We depend on it for our livelihoods, after all. Our biggest objection, in fact, is not about clean water. It’s about land.

McCarthy insists that the rule will allow business as usual for agriculture. She has said farmers and ranchers won’t need special permits “to go about their business.”

But what she’s saying just doesn’t match up with the language of the rule. Anyone who’s been out on farmland knows that water collects in spots that aren’t regular water (See EPA on page 29)

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workers laid off - will be required to report more water use information to state regulators, increasing the state’s ability to enforce against illegal diversions and waste and unreasonable use of water under today’s order.

In addition, the governor’s action strengthens standards for Agricultural

Water Management Plans submitted by large agriculture water districts and requires small agriculture water districts to develop similar plans.

These plans will help ensure that agricultural communities are prepared in case the drought extends into 2016.”

Market Report

Weather

Closing prices on April 14, 2015 Bartlett Grain Wheat.................. $ 4.82 White Wheat ....... $ 4.97 Milo .................... $ 4.28 Corn ................... $ 3.81 Soybeans (new crop) $ 8.80 Scott City Cooperative Wheat.................. $ 4.82 White Wheat ....... $ 4.97 Milo (bu.)............. $ 4.29 Corn.................... $ 3.82 Soybeans ........... $ 8.80 Sunflowers.......... $ 17.75 ADM Grain Wheat..................

Milo (bu.).............

Corn....................

Soybeans............

Sunflowers..........

$ 4.85 $ 4.29 $ 3.89 $ 8.80 $ 18.30

(See TARGET on page 29)

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Ag Facts In 1970, consumption of broccoli was only a half a pound per person. Today, the average person in the United States eats 4-1/2 pounds a year.

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Target Since then, environmental groups have publicly criticized the state’s leading industry.

However, California’s agricultural industry has already been taking a hit prior to the executive order due to historically low precipitation levels, with over 500,000 acres of farmland going out

(continued from page 28)

of production just in the San Joaquin Valley alone this year, according to the California Farm Water Coalition (CFWC).

“Farmworkers who are at (the) very low end of the economic scale here are out of work,” Gov. Brown says. “There are people in agriculture areas that are really suffering,”

EPA sources for anything else, let alone major streams and rivers.

Prairie potholes are a good example of the “waters” the EPA is targeting. These isolated wetlands are sprinkled across the Upper Midwest and Northern Plains. By pooling these isolated features together, the Waters of the U.S. rule would let the agencies treat them as a “significant nexus” to streams and rivers - an idea that’s simply not supported by law or common sense.

Together, the prairie potholes in a region could be treated just like a large body of water, even though the end result would be more control over land,

not water - something that Congress never intended.

Rather than recognizing the careful stewardship that farmers and ranchers practice, EPA keeps forcing farmers and ranchers back on the defensive.

McCarthy said farmers shouldn’t worry about the rule at all “unless you want to pollute or destroy jurisdictional water.”

Statements like this hint that the agency is looking to broaden the rule by making it more ambiguous, not less.

Farmers and ranchers can’t afford the steep fines that regulators could impose for normal farming practices. And farmers aren’t looking to sidestep regulations: We have the (continued from page 28)

rain during grain fill will produce big plump kernels.

While kernel size is very important and will determine the number of kernels actually set which can be harvested and marketed, maximum kernel size is set genetically. Unfortunately we can’t produce a wheat kernel the size of an apple.

So while correcting an N or S deficiency now can have some potential to preserve potential yield or increase yield by maximizing the size and number of potential kernels harvested, the extent of that response is limited since the maximum number of heads and kernels per head was determined several weeks ago.

The bottom line is there are limited opportunities to increase wheat yields in most fields this late from N applications. The last opportunity for improving yield is maximizing grain fill with larger berries.

Additional N applications now will likely result in reduced profit per acre.

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•The percentage of domestic sales and distribution of medically important antimicrobials approved for use in food-producing animals that have an approved indication for production use decreased from 72 percent to 68 percent from 2009 through 2012, but then increased from 68 percent to 72 percent from 2012 through 2013.

This number does not represent sales attributable to products used solely for production indications because most of these products are also approved for therapeutic indications.

•The percentage of domestic sales and distribution of medically important antimicrobials approved for use in food-producing animals that are sold over-thecounter (OTC) did not appreciably change from 2009 through 2013, including from 2012 through 2013, remaining relatively steady at 98 percent.

It is important to note that the FDA in 2013 published a draft rule that will place virtually all feedgrade antibiotics under the veterinary feed directive (VFD). FDA has indicated it will release a final VFD rule this spring, for full implementation by 2016, ending OTC sales of those products.

Also, FDA guidance 213 will lead to removal of production or performance label claims from medically important antibiotics, limiting their use to prevention, control or treatment of disease.

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A Domino Effect In a breakdown by the CFWC, a non-profit organization founded in the heat of a six-year drought in 1989 to educate the

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Nitrogen

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noting that hitting agriculture harder by shutting off water would jeopardize “hundreds of thousands of people.”

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most to lose if one of our most valuable resources is compromised.

EPA claims that it’s simplifying regulations and making them easier to follow, but the fine print tells another story.

No matter what name the agency gives its rule, it can only lead to needless pain for agriculture and businesses across the country.

If EPA won’t listen, perhaps Congress will.

Please let your senators and representative know that farmers, small business owners and state and local governments are looking to them to stop the Waters of the U.S. rule.

public on farm water use, these figures are given: •$640 billion in goods are processed by the ports in Los Angeles, San Diego and Bay Area counties.

•1.6 million jobs throughout the Southern California region are related to the movement of goods.

•Nine percent of GDP is tied directly to agri-

culture and this grows to about 21 percent when we include the ripple effects.

•When considering direct, indirect and induced effects, agricultural production and processing accounts for 6.8 percent of the state’s 20 million jobs, six percent of the state labor income, and 5.9 percent of the state value added.

•The San Joaquin Valley accounts for nearly 50 percent of the state’s agricultural output.

“Agriculture in California produces the food we all rely on,” Secretary for Natural Resources John Laird told Reuters. “Folks want to point fingers, but we’re all in this together.”

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Card of Thanks We would like to take a moment to thank everyone that was involved in the planning and orchestration of the community benefit for Marilee and Emily Cramer. It was such a blessing to have so many churches, businesses and individuals dedicate their time and gifts to benefit our family.

Thanks to everyone that contributed and attended to benefit. This benefit was an amazing act of kindness and generosity. We will never forget what you have done to help our family get through this rough time.

Scott City is truly an amazing community and we are so very blessed to live in an area where neighbors truly care about each other.

Paul, Lee Ann, Jordan, Logan and Emily Cramer

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• Rental assistance available.

Open to general public, singles and couples.

Housing project is now taking applications for apartments.

Equal opportunity housing project.

1411 1/2 Myrtle Scott City Call 872-5458

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LOVELY BRICK HOME Two large bedrooms, one average bedroom, plus 1 3/4 baths up with full

basement and 3/4 bath, 2 car garage, on corner lot.

baths, large family room

and detached garage on a large corner lot. Stucco

exterior with new windows throughout. $72,500

Thomas Real Estate

www.thomasreal-estate.com

914 W. 12th Scott City, Ks. 67871 (620)-872-7396 Cell: (620)-874-1753 or Cell: (620)-874-5002

Agriculture

Help Wanted

PRESCRIPTION GLASSES. Last seen Saturday, March 25 at City Park. Thick black frame with red and blue around eye piece. Please call 874-8527 if you have found 34tfc them.

NEW COUPLE MOVING to town. Looking for a house in the country to buy or rent.

Call or text 785-569-1127.

USD 466 NEEDS substitute route bus drivers. For applications and additional information contact Lance Carter at 620-872-7655.

Real Estate

WANTED: Yards to mow and clean up, etc. Trim smaller trees and bushes too. Call Dean Riedl, (620) 872-5112 or 8744135.

34tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– FURNITURE REPAIR and refinishing. Lawn mower tune-up and blade sharpening. Call Vern Soodsma, 872-2277 or 874-1412.

36tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– MOWER REPAIR, tuneup and blade sharpening.

Call Rob Vsetecka at 620214-1730.

36tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– METAL ROOFING, SIDING and TRIMS at direct-to-the-public prices. Call Metal King Mfg., 620-872-5464. Our prices will not be beat!

37tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– “JEN’S GROOMING” also offering boarding.

By Jennifer Milner, hours: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. call 620-214-0097. Located in Shallow Water.

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WANTED TO BUY. Stored corn. Call for basis and contract information.

1-800-579-3645.

Lane County Feeders, Inc. 32tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– WANTED TO BUY. Wheat straw delivered.

Call for contracting information. Lane County Feeders. 397-5341. 44tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– HORSE STALLS FOR RENT with runs, storage space for hay, access to arena, close to town. Call 620-214-3242 for more information.

33t4p ––––––––––––––––––––– FOR SALE BLACK ANGUS BULLS, registered, tested, 2 year olds, yearlings, heifer bulls, delivery, conformation, performance. Contact: Black Velvet Ranch, Aaron Plunkett, Syracuse, Ks., 620384-1101.

33t19c ––––––––––––––––––––– REGISTERED ANGUS bulls, Crooked Creek Angus, St. Francis, Ks. 785332-6206.

35t12c ––––––––––––––––––––– ANGUS OPEN Replacement heifers, Crooked Creek Angus, St. Francis, Ks. 785-332-6206.

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COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS for sale 40’x60’ metal shop building and a 133’x45’ (approx.) round top building.

Serious inquiry’s only seller is a real estate agent selling own property 87426tfc 5109 or 874-2124.

Rentals HIDE AND SEEK STORAGE SYSTEMS. Various sizes available. Virgil and LeAnn Kuntz, 41tfc (620)874-2120.

––––––––––––––––––––– MULTIPLE HOUSES FOR RENT. 1 bedroom homes available. Also 8x10 storage units available. Stop by PlainJans to fill out an application or 01tfc call 872-5777.

––––––––––––––––––––– STORAGE UNITS in various sizes available at The Storehouse, Don and Trudy Eikenberry 62007tfc 872-2914.

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Services

PRICE REDUCED

3-bedroom, 1 bath, double car garage, sprinkler system, $61,000.

Jones Club Lambs

Show lambs for sale!

Call for Appointment!

Jeremy 620-397-1638 Stefanie 620-397-8075

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––––––––––––––––––––– POSITION AVAILABLE in swine finish facility in Scott County. Good schedule and benefits. Call 620-874-1017 or 620-21428tfc 1864.

––––––––––––––––––––– CHILD CARE NEEDED after SCORE each day 5:15-6:00 p.m., and when there is no school. Also needing summer care for one 7-year-old and one 9-year-old. Responsible teenagers accepted. Call or text 620-521-1567. 33tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– DRIVERS NEEDED, combine and truck. Starts May 10. Call Gerald Baker 620-874-2060 or 620-37936t2c 4693 evenings.

––––––––––––––––––––– LANE COUNTY TREASURER OFFICE, Dighton, has a position opening up. For more information on the position, hours, benefits and general knowledge please contact Pat Sharp, Lane County Treasurer at 620-397-2802 during business hours of 8:00 a.m.-noon and 1:00-5:00 p.m., or 620-397-3737 after hours. Lane County is an EOE. Drug testing will be required before employ36t2c ment.

Eggleston Real Estate PO Box 316 • Scott City

Broker: Gary V. Eggleston 620-872-2123 36tfc

LOVELY

3-bedroom home on one level. Owner has

replaced the central heat

and air, plus it has a large double garage! $84,500.

BIG

With over 1,800 sq. ft.,

home with 5 bedrooms, 2

Notice

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NEW LISTING

Well kept 1 1/2 story

Lost

upstairs and 1,110 sq. ft., down there is room to roam! 2+1 bedrooms,

1 1/2 baths and shower down, family room,

storage room, nice car

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS If you want to drink, that’s your business.

If you want to stop, that’s ours.

Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

Tuesday nights at 8:30 p.m. at the United Methodist Church basement (use west door).

412 College, Scott City.

Al-Anon at same time and location.

Contact: 874-0472 or 872-3137. 30t52

port, large SD garage, all on corner lot,

nice area. $119,500.

Lawrence and Associates

Deb Lawrence, GRI Broker Shorty Lawrence, Sales Assoc.

513 Main • Scott City 872-5267 ofc. 872-7184 hm. lawrenceandassocrealty.com Sheila Ellis, Broker Assoc.

872-2056 Kerry Gough, Sales Assoc.

872-7337 Russell Berning, 874-4405 www.berningauction.com

4-bedroom, 2-bath home all on one level! One of the bathrooms has been completely remodeled, has a very large family room, nice updated kitchen, S/A garage, wood privacy fence, shed, enclosed back porch, covered front porch and even has a horse shoe pit in the backyard. Call for your private showing today!

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Employment Opportunities STAFF CLERK

TWO SEASONAL POSITIONS

TELLER/RECEPTIONIST

The City of Scott City is accepting applications for Staff Clerk.

Benefits include BC/BS, vacation, and sick leave.

Applications may be obtained at: City Hall, 221 W. 5th, Scott City Applications accepted until position is filled.

EOE Employer

The City of Scott City is accepting applications for two seasonal positions, one in the street department and one in the parks department.

Applicants must be 18 years of age.

Applications can be picked up and returned to: City Hall, 221 W. 5th, Scott City Applications will be accepted until position is filled.

First State Bank of Healy is taking applications for the position of Teller/Receptionist.

Looking for a friendly, customer-oriented person who can be skilled in financial matters, with attention to detail. This is an entry level position. Wages are subject to experience.

Send resume to: First State Bank, PO Box 200 Healy, Ks. 67850.

Attention of Walter Johnson, President Accepting applications until Thursday, April 30.

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ACCEPTING BIDS

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The City of Scott City is selling a 2003 Ford pickup.

Pickup can be seen outside the city shop.

Sealed bids labeled “2003 Ford Pickup” will be accepted at City Hall, 221 W. 5th, Scott City, until 5:00 p.m., May 4, 2015.

The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

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PUBLIC SERVICE OFFICER The City of Scott City is accepting applications for the position of Public Service Officer.

Applicant must possess a HS diploma or GED equivalent, a valid driver’s license, and must be 21 years of age. Graduates of KLETC are preferred, but not required.

The City offers a full benefit package with KPERS, BCBS, vacation and sick leave, EOE. Applications may be obtained and returned to the: Law Enforcement Center 602 W. 5th, Scott City. (620) 872-2133.

Applications accepted until position is filled.

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PARK LANE NURSING HOME

SPECIAL EDUCATION PARA-PROFESSIONAL For High Plains Educational Cooperative Unified School District No. 466 is seeking a special education Para-Professional in each school building to work with students.

The positions are available as soon as possible.

For more information and applications please contact: Susan Carter Board of Education Building 704 College, Scott City, KS 67871 24tfc

SECRETARY USD 466 is seeking a secretary at Scott City Middle School.

Applicant must have a High School Diploma, be organized, dependable, have good computer skills, positive attitude, good communication skills, and willingness to work with students and the public.

HOUSEKEEPING AIDES Scott County Hospital is seeking a full-time Housekeeping Aides for flexible hours day and night.

This position requires dependable team players, in good health, energetic and who has high standards of cleanliness.

Offering full and part-time positions starting at $9/hour with benefits and $12/hour without benefits.

Pre-employment physical, drug/alcohol screening, immunization titer, physical assessment and TB skin test required.

SCH is a tobacco free facility.

Applications available on our website at www.scotthospital.net or call 620-872-7772 for more information.

Responsibilities include answering the phone, monitoring student attendance and data, and duties assigned by the principals.

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Job begins August 3, but would need to be available for paid training part of May and June.

Has openings for the following positions: Full-time/part-time CNA/CMA Full-time/part-time RN/LPN Full-time Dietary Aide/Cook Shift differential pay offered for evening and night shifts!

Please apply in person at:

For more information contact: Jana Irvin at 872-7640.

Applications may be picked up at: Scott City Middle School 809 W. 9th St. Scott City, Ks. 67871 Applications and Resumes need to be turned in by April 20, to Scott City Middle School.

Park Lane Nursing Home

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210 E. Parklane Scott City, KS 67871 Or visit us at our website: www.parklanenursinghome.org “Quality Care Because We Care”

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GRAIN OPERATOR

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COUNTY CLERK The Lane County Republican Committee is accepting applications for County Clerk of Lane County.

Duties include carrying out the elections in Lane County, serving as Secretary for the Lane Co. Commissioners, and serving in the position of Human Resources.

Applicants should have skills in accounting and computer skills including Excel and Microsoft Office. Applicants should also be willing to learn and train for AS400 Computer Administration and be willing to travel to attend meetings and trainings as required by the Secretary of State and Kansas State Statutes.

Selected person should be ready to assume the position on July 1, 2015.

Applications are due by May 15, and should be mailed to: Lane County Republican Committee Secretary, Debbie Hagans, 104 East Rd. 240 Utica, Ks. 67584.

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EVENING COOK Scott County Hospital is seeking the right person to fill a full-time food preparation position which includes a rotating schedule of four nine-hour day shifts per week (10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.).

Dependability is key to success in this position.

Applicant must be able to work well with others and should like to prepare food to serve to patients, guests and staff. No experience necessary. This position requires applicants to be able to read, write and understand English.

We offer competitive wages and excellent benefits. Newly improved pay scale makes this an optimal position within the service field.

Pre-employment physical, drug and alcohol screen, and TB skin test required.

SCH is a tobacco free facility.

APPLY TODAY! Applications available our website at www.scotthospital.net or call 620-872-7772 for more information.

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Now Hiring!!

Bartlett Grain, has an immediate opening for a hard working operator. This is a year-round position with opportunity for overtime. You will be involved in grain operations at both our Scott City and Healy elevators.

Bartlett offers competitive wages along with great benefits: health and life insurance premiums paid 100% for employee, dental, vision, 401k with company match, profit sharing and paid vacation.

Apply in person or send resume: Bartlett Grain Company, L.P. 305 W. Bellevue, Scott City, Ks. 67871 Fax: 816-753-1775 jobs@bartlett-grain.com or call Matt in HR 800-860-7290

EOE/AA/D/V/Drug Screen/Background Checks

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SERVICE TECHNICIAN American Implement, Inc., a progressive John Deere agricultural dealership in Southwest Kansas, is experiencing significant growth and is currently seeking qualified individuals to fill the position of Service Technician in the Scott City location.

Responsibilities are to analyze, troubleshoot and perform electrical and mechanical repairs on agricultural equipment. Experience in maintenance and repair of automotive, diesel or heavy equipment required.

Qualified applicants must own a set of tools to perform the functions of the job.

American Implement offers competitive wages and an excellent benefits package, which includes life, health and supplemental insurance, 401(k) plan and a quarterly incentive bonus program.

Interested applicants may send a cover letter and resume to: Tyler Kough Location Manager PO Box 20, Scott City, KS, 67871 or Call: (800) 779-7244 or (620)872-7244.

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RCDC is accepting applications for the following positions: · Early Intervention Speech Language Pathologist · Early Intervention Occupational Therapist · Early Interention Social Worker Work full or part-time, year-round with topnotch team providing early intervention services to infants and toddlers in home and community settings.

Competitive pay, great benefits based upon qualifications and experience. Flexible scheduling, travel required.

To apply contact Deanna Berry, Executive Director, 620-275-0291 or go online to greenbush.schoolrecruiter.net Complete job description is available at: www.rcdc4kids.org.

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SCOTT COUNTY HOSPITAL HAS OPENINGS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS PATIENT CARE Acute Care RNs Physical Therapist Respiratory Therapist Operating Room RN C.N.A.s Home Health Aide Home Helath LPN CLERICAL Ward Clerk HIM Clerk Materials Management Assistant HR Temporary Records Scanner Clinical Informatics Coordinator SERVICE PRN Nutritional Service Aide Evening Cook Full-time Housekeeping Aide Part-time Housekeeping Aide-No Benefits Applicants for these positions are required to be able to read, speak and understand English.

Pre-employment physical, drug/alcohol screening, immunization titer, physical assessment and TB skin test required. We are a tobacco free campus.

We offer competitive pay and great benefits.

Due to our recent expansion of services and rapid growth, we are in need of Acute Care RNs and are offering financial incentives.

Applications are available on our website at www.scotthospital.net or call 620-872-7772 for more information.

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Controlling broadleaf weeds in spring is an uphill battle Broadleaf weeds such as dandelion, henbit and chickweed become very visible in the spring but, unfortunately, are also very difficult to control.

Early November is the most effective time to control these broadleaf plants.

The winter annuals (henbit and chickweed) germinate in the fall and are weak and easily killed.

The perennial dandelion moves materials from the leaves to the roots in the fall to survive the winter and will carry a herbicide into the roots and thereby kill the plant from the roots up.

So, what do you do in the spring?

First, realize that even if you do everything right, you may not obtain good control. Let’s look at what we can do to maximize our chances of success.

Apply your herbicide early but be sure the weeds are actively growing. The better the weed is growing, the more herbicide is taken up and the more likely you are to see good control. Therefore, do not spray too early in the spring.

On the other hand, the longer the delay once weeds are growing well, the more time the weed has to build up energy

reserves and the harder it will be to control.

We must also be concerned with drift when we apply herbicides later in the spring. Certain plants are very sensitive to many of our broadleaf herbicides and can be harmed.

For example, grapes, tomatoes and redbuds are indicator plants for 2,4-D damage. In other words, they will suffer greater harm than other plants from the spray. Try to apply your herbicide before the grapes and redbuds have broken bud and before tomatoes are planted.

What to Use The next question is what do we use?

Use products that contain a mixture of herbicides such as Trimec, Weed-B-Gon, Weed-Out, Weed-Stop and Weed Killer for Lawns.

These products contain 2,4-D, MCPP and Dicamba. Weed Free Zone (also sold under the name of Speed Zone) contains the three active ingredients mentioned above plus carfentrazone. It gives a

quicker response than the other products mentioned and will work better when temperatures drop below 50 degrees.

As I mentioned before, even if everything is done correctly, success is difficult. Remember that henbit and chickweed are winter annuals and will die naturally when the weather turns hot.

The long-term solution for weeds is a good, thick lawn. Consider overseeding or redoing your lawn

next September in order to avoid weed control problems.

If you do have thin areas in the lawn and broadleaves invade, spray in late October to early November on a day that is over 50 degrees. Control at that time is easy and effective.

The hard part is to remember to look for the weeds in the fall as they are small and easily overlooked. Mark your calendars now as a reminder.