The Scott County Record

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52 Pages • Five Sections

Volume 22 • Number 40

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Published in Scott City, Ks.

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Little change in state funding, so far

As Supt. Jamie Rumford looks at anticipated state funding for the remainder of this school year and the next two years, he tries to remain upbeat.

“It’s not an ideal situation, but it could be worse,” says the Scott County school superintendent.

And it could still get worse depending on what the state legislature does to close a project-

Staff salaries still a priority for USD 466 ed $422 million budget gap in the upcoming school year and whether the state keeps its funding commitments for the next two years under a new block grant funding program.

Even if those promises are kept, the district could be looking at a couple of lean years

with respect to state funding and meeting the district’s expenses.

Scott County hasn’t been forced to cut short it’s school year as a money saving effort, like a number of districts around the state. And the district doesn’t anticipate asking the state for emergency funding,

which was recently approved for five school districts.

“It looks like we’ll make it through the school year with a little money in our budget - not what we were hoping for at the start of the year, but at least we didn’t have to close early,” notes Rumford.

Part of that is due to a bump in the enrollment numbers, along with a bit of good fortune.

An annual audit of the district’s enrollment by the state determined that USD 466 was eligible for an additional $54,000 in state funding than had been included in the 2014-15 budget.

This is the last year the district can expect that kind of windfall.

(See FUNDING on page two)

SCHS graduation is Saturday Commencement ceremonies will be held this weekend for graduating seniors in Scott and Lane counties.

Scott Community High School will hand out diplomas to 44 seniors who have completed requirements. The ceremony will be held Sat., May 16, 2:00 p.m., in the high school gymnasium.

Honor students who have maintained a 4.0 grade point average and will be speakers include Marshal Hutchins, Chantz Yager and Macy Davis.

SCMS Promotion Promotion exercise for Scott City Middle School eighth graders will be held on Fri., May 15, 6:00 p.m., in the SCHS gym.

Learning Center ceremony is Fri.

Graduation ceremony for students enrolled in the Scott City Learning Center will be held Fri., May 15, 7:30 p.m., at the Scott Community High School commons area.

Two students will be participating in the ceremony and receive their SCHS diplomas.

Graduation at Healy is Sunday Healy High School commencement will be held on Sun., May 17, starting at 2:00 p.m.

Six seniors will be taking part in the commencement program and three eighth graders will be in the promotion exercise.

Long-time bus driver Jan Tucker will be retiring from the district at the end of the school year. (Record Photo)

40 years as a route, activity driver for USD 466 is coming to an end Few people have been connected with more students in the Scott County school district than Jan Tucker.

She greets the sleepy faces that board her route bus every morning.

And she’s seen the faces of Scott Community High School athletes beaming with pride as they disembark and are greeted by local fans celebrating another state championship.

Having provided transportation for at least two generations of students in USD 466, Tucker is preparing to hand over her keys and retire as a bus driver for the district.

“State track will be my final trip,” says Tucker. “It’s going to be tough to call it

Jan Tucker Retirement Party Sun., May 24 • 2:00-5:00 p.m.

Bryan Conference Center

quits after all these years, but it’s time.”

Tucker’s long stretch as a bus driver began shortly after she and her husband, Gary, were married.

“I didn’t know hardly anyone in the community and this seemed like a good way to get to know people,” she noted.

“And I love kids, so this was a perfect fit for me.”

Tucker began as a route driver, picking up students to attend classes at Beaver Flats, or transporting students into Scott City. She would return everyone to their

homes in the evening.

“I love my regular route kids, but those numbers have dwindled down a lot over the years,” she points out. At one time she was transporting more than 36 students on her Beaver Flats route, but now she’s down to eight or nine.

When the Beaver Flats school was closed, Tucker took on the added role of activity bus driver. As a result, she has become an avid fan of SCHS and SCMS activities, logging countless miles and hours driving high school and middle school students across Western and central Kansas, as well as trips into Nebraska and Colorado.

(See TUCKER on page two)

SRC will try again for mill levy hike

Just five weeks after a proposed two mill hike for the Scott Recreation Commission was defeated by voters, the SRC board is back with a request for another mill levy increase.

Only this time the SRC is only asking for one mill and there’s no wellness center involved.

Mill Levy Info Meeting Tuesday, May 19 • 7:00 p.m.

Bryan Conference Center Downtown Scott City

The SRC advised the USD 466 board of education of its plans during Monday’s meeting and the effort received the school board’s unanimous sup-

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SCHS graduates to receive diplomas this weekend special section

port.

Despite the two mill request being rejected by nearly a 3-to1 margin, the SRC board feels it has little choice but to ask again for a one mill increase or begin cost-cutting measures.

Board members emphasized that an additional mill - which would generate approximately

$100,000 depending on property valuations in the school district - is essential to continuing present operations.

“We spend about $102,000 annually on the (sports) complex each year,” said board member Chris Irvin. “That doesn’t leave much for salaries and other expenses.”

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Board member Troy Lewis said that prior to the recent election it was the SRC board’s intention to ask voters only for a one mill increase to meet general operating expenses.

“We had nothing to do with the wellness center. It landed on our doorstep,” he said.

(See SRC on page 10)

Scott City’s Meyer shatters career best at Russell Relays Page 21

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Renewable energy bill is ‘largely symbolic’ When Gov. Sam Brownback announced an agreement last week between the wind industry and opponents of the state’s renewable energy standards, most of the attention focused on the renewable energy mandate becoming a voluntary “goal.”

But rolling back the renewable energy standards largely was a symbolic win for opponents of the standards. The buildup of wind power has most of the state’s utility companies already past the final requirement of 20 percent of peak ca-

pacity from renewable sources by 2020.

From a policy standpoint, the more consequential part of the pact is the wind industry agreeing to a 10-year cap on property tax exemptions for devices that generate renewable energy. That change would go into effect Jan. 1, 2017, if the bill, which was in a conference committee Tuesday, passes the Senate.

Under current law, the exemption is good for as long as the device generates energy.

Rep. John Carmichael (D-

Tucker Tucker has progressed from the yellow route buses that were originally used for all activities, to the original Beaver tour bus to the more modern - and much more comfortable - tour buses. When the district purchased the first activity bus, Tucker was concerned.

“These are so much bigger than the old, yellow buses,” she says. “I was worried about handling them. The ones we drive now are so much easier than the original (Beaver) bus.”

The district has two activity buses and Tucker has been the primary driver for one of them since 2008. From September to May, she puts on between

2016, date was put into place largely to protect seven wind projects already in process.

The developers on those projects signed purchase agreements with public utilities to buy wind energy at a fixed price for 20 years and expect the lifetime exemption. Other new projects would have to secure a permit from their county or complete a filing with the Kansas Board of Tax Appeals to qualify. Neither is quick or easy, Svaty said, making it unlikely there will be

a rush of new builds in the next 18 months.

“Might there be one or two projects that will come under that? Potentially,” Svaty said.

“But they will be well-vetted projects and projects that are moving forward.”

An $8 Billion Force Svaty said the lifetime property tax exemption was enacted when few expected the state’s wind industry to become its current $8 billion force.

(See ENERGY on page 8)

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27,000 and 30,000 miles kids were yelling at me to a year. stop, but it was too late.

We broke out a window Only One Mishap and had to cover it with It’s been an accident- cardboard and whatever free 40 years, unless one else the kids could find to asks members of the keep the wind from blowSCHS track team. ing through.”

Of course, inclem“They’ll tell you different,” says Tucker with her ent weather is part of the winter sports season and unmistakable laugh.

She recalls the time Tucker will remind her when she was returning coaches - as if any of them from a high school track need it - that “I’ll get them meet in Cheney and they where they need to be. If were pulling through a the weather’s bad, it may McDonald’s. They had not be on the schedule a Redbox movies kiosk they were expecting, but with an awning. we will get there.”

The long-time driver “I don’t think McDonald’s realized that says that the activities the awning stuck out so especially the state tourfar that it was difficult naments - have provided to turn and avoid it,” the biggest thrill during remembers Tucker. “The her four decades behind

Funding of windfall. Under the new block grant plan, districts will get a predetermined amount of state funding regardless of enrollment.

The “good fortune” is a result of the district requesting an “advance” in state funding early in the budget year.

“Because of our budget shortfall from a year ago, we didn’t have the reserves we’d normally like to carry to meet our expenses early in the school year,” explains Rumford. “We asked the state to provide us an extra $20,000, which would have normally been distributed later in the year, and the state complied.”

However, because of a major cash shortfall, the state began cutting funding that had been designated for public education. Rumford says the

Wichita) said the Dec. 31, 2016, deadline for the full exemption could set up Kansas for a temporary turbine-building boom.

“There may be a window here where the wind industry could put some substantial assets and growth into Kansas real quick in order to take care of a lifetime of the project tax exemption,” Carmichael said.

But Kimberly Svaty, a lobbyist for the wind coalition, cautioned against expecting too much of a boom - or the resulting bust afterward. The Dec. 31,

the wheel.

“I was there for the different championships in football, basketball, track and wrestling. That’s a tremendous and exciting time,” she says with a huge smile.

“I have a great time with the basketball boys.

We’re at the state tournament for several days so I know their schedule, what they expect and where they want to be,” she says.

“And then to bring home the championships. It’s been a great experience.”

What’s also made the last 40 years so enjoyable, she emphasizes, is the kids.

“I talk to bus drivers from other communities.

I’m so proud of how our

kids conduct themselves, especially when I hear stories from other drivers,” she says. “Our kids know they have rules when they get on my bus and they respect that. They’ll even tell the kids who haven’t traveled with us before that ‘Jan has rules, but that’s okay.

“I think they’ll miss me when I’m gone,” she says.

And Tucker knows that she’ll miss the kids. She’s already a little apprehensive about the final bus trip to state track in Wichita in another couple of weeks.

“When we get home from state track I know I’m going to sit there for a long time and cry and cry and cry,” she adds.

enrollment could increase by about 20 students next year with larger classes coming into the district and a graduating class of less than 45 students.

“Under the old formula, we would have received at least $4,000 per student without weighting. Take that times 20 students and it’s another $80,000 for the district we aren’t getting - and that’s being conservative.”

One area in which Rumford anticipates some gain is by replacing several experienced staff members who have resigned with less experienced staff who will be paid less.

“If we do come out ahead on our (staff) turnover, it’s my recommendation that we put any money we gain into salaries,” Rumford emphasizes. “The staff has already

sacrificed with a two percent pay cut this year. We need to take steps to get that back.

“We want to take care of our staff, but we can’t make promises that we can’t afford. We’ve already been down that road.”

And the district can’t overlook infrastructure needs. Rumford says they were advised recently that building roofs are in need of significant repairs estimated at more than $800,000.

“We have a number of deferred maintenance items that we can no longer afford to put off,” he added. “We need to take care of our people, take care of our buildings and provide a quality education. The state is making that harder and harder to accomplish.”

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state didn’t ask the district to return the $20,000 it had been advanced.

“They basically said, ‘Forget it. We’ll start with a clean slate from here,’” says Rumford.

The state did cut funding to the district that had been included in the budget by $76,000. However, with the $54,000 gain through higher enrollment, plus the $20,000 advance that was forgiven, the state funding shortfall has been reduced to just $2,000 for the 2014-15 school year.

However, because the state reneged on its funding commitment, the district was suffered a financial blow that could have been avoided. The district was told it would receive $76,000 in LOB aid.

“This wasn’t money that was added to our

budget. This was money we didn’t have to levy through the local option budget,” emphasizes Rumford. “We chose to take the state at its word we’d get the money and we reduced our local tax levy by that amount in order to help our taxpayers.”

Had the district not agreed to accept LOB aid, and raise that money as it had originally planned, the board would have had another $76,000 in its budget this year.

Tight Budgets Ahead Going forward, the funding picture appears much tighter under the block grant program.

Regardless of enrollment increases, which Scott County has been experiencing over the past decade, funding will not increase. Rumford says it’s possible the district’s

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Clarifying meaning of ‘natural’ on food labels What does “natural” mean when it appears on a food label? A recent survey shows consumers really don’t know.

Nevertheless, the survey, conducted by Consumer Reports, showed that consumers do want, and are willing to seek out, foods that are natural. Fifty-nine percent of consumers take time to look for the natural label, and those foods created a $40.7 billion market last year, according to Nielsen.

The survey showed that what consumers thought they were getting from “natural” meat and poultry was products

from animals not given growth hormones (89 percent) or antibiotics and other drugs (81 percent), and animals whose feed did not contain genetically engineered organisms (85 percent) or artificial ingredients (85 percent).

But the natural label neither promises, nor has any bearing whatever on, any of those factors.

According to the USDA (which regulates meat, poultry and egg products), any meat item can be called natural if it contains no artificial ingredients or added color, and it is only minimally processed - meaning that processing did not funda-

mentally alter the product.

Just about all fresh beef meets that definition.

For the FDA, which regulates all other foods, a formal definition for use of the term natural does not exist. In 1993, after giving up on trying to form such a definition, the agency decided to “not restrict the use of ‘natural’ on products.

It is a very complex term,” said the FDA’s Ritu Nalubola in a press release from the Institute of Food Technologists. According to the FDA’s own website, “From a food science perspective, it is difficult to define a food product that is ‘natural’ because the

food has probably been processed and is no longer the product of the earth.”

Even in the absence of a definition, the FDA does not object to the term being used if “nothing artificial or synthetic (including all color additives, regardless of source) has been included in, or has been added to, a food that would not normally be expected to be in the food.”

But the FDA discourages food manufacturers from using it. “Natural may unjustifiably imply that a food is of superior quality or safety compared to other similar foods,” Nalubola added.

Take steps to ‘age gracefully’ May is Older Americans Month so I thought an article on aging would be appropriate.

The process of aging is something that we all hope to go through, not because we want to age, but because we want to live and enjoy our lives more fully.

But, aging doesn’t have to mean growing old.

Many of us want to age with our health, mobility and cogitation intact. But to grow older youthfully, we must begin to take care of ourselves today, no matter what age we are.

Begin with eating a balanced diet. Eat lots of fruits, grains, vegetables and fiber. Stay away from high fat and low nutrient food items. Drink lots of water.

Make your food choices wisely, including a wide variety of foods of different colors.

Become physically active if you aren’t

already. Thirty minutes of physical activity per day is necessary for strength and balance. Increase your activity workout as you become stronger.

Don’t forget to take care of your health by seeing your doctors regularly and educate yourself on any health care issues that you might have. Don’t smoke and quit if you do. Also encourage those around you to quit as well.

Avoid second-hand smoke as often as possible.

Be street smart.

Use common sense when traveling. Always wear your seat belt, even in town. Wear a bike helmet if you go biking.

Watch where you are walking and avoid uneven surfaces. Find a friend

to walk with. People are safer in groups.

Be house smart.

Purchase a smoke and carbon monoxide detector for your home. Keep your doors locked when not at home and at night.

Keep your home well lit and dispose of any extra clutter that might be lying around.

Also, throw out the throw rugs. Throw rugs and indoor pets are the two main reasons for falls in the home.

Use medicines wisely.

Follow all medication directions and ask your pharmacist or doctor about side effects. Keep a list of medications that you take and keep them in your wallet.

Be safe outdoors.

Enjoy the outdoors, but take precautions by using sunscreen and wearing a hat. Don’t go out in extreme heat unless you have to and drink plenty of fluids if you do.

High Plains has spring luncheon “Spring” was the theme for the High Plains Study Club luncheon which was held at Shirley Griffith’s home and was co-hosted by the social committee which consists of Jean Hardy, Marvel Keyse, Thelma Miller, Jane Ann McClellan and Cozette Buckner.

The group enjoyed a luncheon at colorfully decorated tables. Little pots of flowers that decorated the tables were given to each member.

Following the lun-

cheon, the meeting was called to order and President Marilyn Dryer led the club collect and flag salute. Summer birthdays were also announced.

Celia Fouser’s devotion, dedicated to Patsi Graham, was memories and impressions of the first Bible study group in Scott City which Celia attended.

New member Karen Compton was welcomed into the club. Twenty-five members answered the roll call of, “What time of

day and season of the year were you born?”

Dryer installed the new officers for 2015-16.

They are president, Suzy Gooden; vice-president, Gwen Huck; secretary, Sue Pammenter; and treasurer, Jane Ann McClellan. She gave each new officer a letter opener, explaining how it pertained to her office.

The remainder of the meeting was spent signing up for committees, volunteering to be hostesses and co-hostesses and making plans for the coming year.

Keep your financial records in order.

Know where you are financially and always take care of business on time. Plan for the future, it is still important to save - even in retirement.

Watch for scams. Don’t lose all that you have worked for all your life for a deal that is too good to be true. Check out all opportunities and business prospects that you are not familiar with the Better Business Bureau.

Keep your memory sharp.

Be social and stay in touch with family and friends. Activities keep your mind sharp.

Challenge yourself often by learning new tasks.

Volunteer at the local school, hospital or for another organization.

For more information, contact the Extension office or the National Institute of Aging at www.

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Based on their survey results, which clearly reflect the confusion over “natural” foods on the consumer side, Consumer Reports is joining in a campaign called “Know your labels, know your food,” calling for a ban on the natural label.

Part of the objection, as they describe it, is the fact that “Meat labeled as ‘natural’ can come from animals that were raised with daily doses of antibiotics and other drugs, given artificial growth hormones, fed genetically engineered soy and corn feed and other artificial ingredients and continually confined indoors,”

according to the TakePart website.

The Consumer Reports survey did also illuminate some of the other attributes of interest to consumers: •An overwhelming majority - 92 percent - want to support local farmers when they purchase food.

•Eighty-nine percent want to protect the environment from chemicals; •86 percent want fair conditions for workers; 80 percent want good living conditions for animals; and •78 percent want less use of antibiotics in food production.

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Editorial/Opinion

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editorially speaking

Lower standards:

Being the best no longer a goal for Kansas education

Imagine if our local board of education were to inform parents and students in the district that it was no longer their goal to provide the best education possible. Their obligation consists only of keeping the buildings open the required number of days and finding warm bodies to fill staff positions.

We can expect the same standard for our sports programs. What’s wrong with just showing up and saying, “We tried”?

We know how the patrons of the Scott County school district would respond - right before they hold a recall election. We imagine that same sentiment would be shared by most - if not all - school districts around the state.

So it should be just a little disturbing when an attorney arguing on behalf of the State of Kansas tells a district court panel that our state constitution doesn’t require us to have a “perfect” education system, or even the best.

“Our duty is to be constitutional,” argued the state’s attorney Arthur Chalmers.

Considering that the courts in Kansas have repeatedly found the state to be failing its constitutional responsibility to provide a “fair and equitable” education for all students - and considering that is one of the arguments being made by four school districts in this latest plea before the district court - we find Chalmers’ logic to be a little flawed.

But putting the constitutional element aside for a moment, we are even more bothered when the state’s attorney seems to be so flippant in saying the constitution doesn’t demand that we be the best, so why bother?

How would we feel if a teacher set such a low bar for their students, or if a football coach told his team at the start of the season that their goal isn’t to be the best. It’s not written in the state’s constitution and it doesn’t appear in the school’s policy handbook that the football team has to be the best, so it must not be that important, right?

Any coach who adopts that philosophy won’t be around very long. Neither should Kansas lawmakers whose viewpoint, we must assume, is being echoed by Chalmers.

There was a time when Kansas schools were considered among the best and we had test scores to show it. People and corporations paid their income taxes, but in return they knew Kansas had a quality public education system from which they could draw a quality workforce.

It was seen as a worthwhile investment - not a cost to squabble over year after year after year.

Today, we have teachers who are no less committed to providing a quality education, but they are being asked to do more for less. Districts reduce or take away their health insurance benefits and pay increases don’t keep pace with the cost of living.

If that isn’t enough, we now have lawmakers who are so disconnected from reality that they see no problem with freezing state spending for education over the next two years under some misguided thinking that a district’s operating costs - insurance, utilities, fuel, etc. - will somehow remain unchanged as well.

We expect to draw the best and brightest people to education - and to keep the quality teachers we already have - when they have to wonder year after year whether their wages will keep pace with the cost of living and whether they can make enough money to help send their children to college.

We’ve seen an unusually high number of longtime educators leaving the Scott County school district. We’ve heard from other school districts who are experiencing the same thing. Nearly all of the local resignations aren’t the result of people unhappy with teaching in Scott County. They are unhappy with what’s happening in education and they are getting out of the profession.

We’ll fill the teaching positions. We always do.

But for how long?

When will this latest group of young teachers grow weary of fighting the same battle? At what point will they look around and decide they can make more money, with a lot less uncertainty, outside of education? You can bet that dilemma will hit Western Kansas long before it reaches into eastern Kansas.

And if you’re looking for answers to come out of Topeka, guess again. The current collection of conservative, anti-education lawmakers are perfectly content with the disastrous course we are taking. They not only aren’t interested in whether or not Kansas has the best education system, but they’re doing all within their power to keep it from happening.

Just being good enough is apparently good enough.

Should we be surprised? We’ve set that low standard for lawmakers in Kansas. Why should we demand anything more from our public education?

Knowing what you don’t know As high school students prepare for that momentous occasion when they walk across the stage and accept their long-awaited diploma, we want to offer this observation from someone who has been there and done that.

You will never again be as smart as you think you are at this moment.

I know that must sound a little disheartening. An entire life ahead of you and you’ve reached the pinnacle of intelligence at the age of 18.

But that’s not exactly true either.

What we’re saying - and we speak from experience - is that you think you have a wealth of knowledge and wisdom that you’ve amassed through 18 years of life.

Outside of a nuclear blast occurring in your backyard leading to a Mad Max apocalyptic future, what could possibly happen in your life that you’re not prepared for or that you can’t get the answer to on social media?

And there’s Google at your fingertips.

Back in our day, google was the indiscernible language that came out of our mouth when we tried to ask a good looking girl to be our date to a high school dance. Today, it’s responsible for contributing to the perception that you are smarter and better prepared for what you are about to confront - or that’s going to confront you head-on - in the real world.

Your teachers have spent the past 12 years not only passing along knowledge but, more importantly, trying to help you understand how to process it. How well you’ve learned that valuable lesson is related directly to how many times you crash and burn and crash all over again in real life.

Which leads us to real world lesson No. 1: 1) Knowledge isn’t measured only by how much you know, but how

much you know that you don’t know.

The first step to true wisdom is the realization that you don’t know everything. This realization doesn’t come to everyone at the same point in their lives. For some it’s when they get their first fulltime job, get married, buy their first home, have their first child, spend their first night in jail . . . in other words, when they start living life without a safety net.

You think you know it all? Tell that to your boss or to the judge. See how far that gets you.

Think you have all the answers? Stay up all night with a screaming baby who has colic. Or think what you will tell your wife when you are told that your company is downsizing and you no longer have a job.

Look as hard as you want, but you won’t find the answers scribbled in the margins on your diploma.

2) Just because you don’t know something doesn’t entitle you to create your own reality.

Politicians are among the worst offenders.

Just because you don’t understand climate change doesn’t mean it’s not happening.

Just because someone is poor doesn’t mean they choose to be that way.

Just because someone doesn’t have a job doesn’t mean they want to be unemployed.

The issues we face in life can’t be condensed into a bumper sticker or a 30-second political sound bite. Being ignorant is no defense for making claims about “death panels” or making such inane comments such as “We want to take our country back.”

Rise above that.

Approach life with an open mind.

3) Life gets better the sooner you know that you don’t know all there is to know.

When you think you know all there is to know in life, and you proceed without heeding the advice of others, you are only setting yourself up for failure.

(See KNOWING on page six)

Policies let poor kids go hungry To hear some politicians tell it, America’s welfare system is facing a grave crisis: Millions of poor people, they say, are idling away their time eating lobster and relaxing on cruises.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, for example, recently signed welfare reform rules banning people receiving public assistance from using their $100 a week in benefits to buy steak or seafood, go to swimming pools, or take cruises.

Meanwhile, some members of Congress are taking aim at food aid for hungry Americans. They want us to associate “hungry” with “too lazy to work.”

They’re lashing out at an imaginary problem.

Who benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise

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known as food stamps?

Nearly half of recipients are children, 16 percent are disabled adults who can’t work, and nine percent are senior citizens.

Nearly a third of people who get food stamps have a family member who is working, many at big box retailers like Wal-Mart or fast food establishments.

These folks may not be able to get enough hours to work full-time, or their employers pay them so little that even with a fulltime schedule, they can’t pay for rent and utilities and still afford enough food for the family.

Even 5,000 active-duty military families rely on public assistance because their pay is not enough to raise a family on.

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But that’s only half the problem.

While these politicians are restricting the public assistance that many Americans use to make ends meet, they’re also busy cutting taxes for the idle rich - who, as it happens, already have plenty of disposable income for expensive seafood and luxury cruises.

The House, for example, just passed a bill repealing the estate tax.

That tax affects just one out of every 700 estates left by Americans who die each year, but it’s a crucial source of revenue.

Repealing it will save the nation’s multi-millionaires and billionaires about $27 billion a year.

It means that the heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune who’ve collectively inherited nearly $150 billion in wealth - will pass on nearly $60 billion more to

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their kids when they die.

Opponents of the estate tax claim that it prevents people from passing on family farms or small businesses, but that’s nonsense.

In 2013, the feds taxed just 120 estates that were comprised primarily of a farm or a small business, according to the Tax Policy Center. These families paid an average tax rate of less than five percent.

Meanwhile, the tax code remains stacked against working families.

The idle rich who live off investments pay a maximum rate of 20 percent on dividends and gains.

Working parents, though, can pay nearly double that.

One out of every five children in America lives in poverty. In the wealthiest country in the world, (See HUNGRY on page six)

Sen. Jerry Moran 141 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

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Presidential candidates losing touch with reality

by Donald Kaul

Hardly a day goes by that another candidate doesn’t announce his or her intention to run for the presidency. One day it’s Carly Fiorina, the next it’s Mike Huckabee, Bernie Sanders, or Hillary Clinton, even.

It’s like the circus - when the little car rolls into the center ring and a clown gets out, then another, then two more, and on and on until the ring is overflowing with 1,000 clowns, or so it seems.

We won’t get up to 1,000 politicians yearning to lead the “free world,” or what’s left of it.

But we should reach two dozen presidential aspirants who are asking us voters to take them seriously before we’re done.

It’s still early, but it looks as though the major message of this election is going to be

about closing the cavernous gaps between the rich and the poor.

Democrats have always suspected that the poor are being victimized by our economic system, but now it seems that the Republicans are singing that song too.

Former First Brother Jeb Bush, whose family has been rich ever since his grandfathers got into oil and weapons 100 years ago, is now excoriating the “elites” who’ve stifled growth and left the middle class to twist slowly in the wind.

Marco Rubio, the Florida senator who wants to raise the sales taxes that weigh most heavily on poor people, now urges us not to forget those same people - the workers who do our society’s grunt work.

He’s also quick to remind us that he’s the son of a bartender and a maid.

Fiorina, who got a $21 million severance package when she was fired as head of HewlettPackard, is determined to protect workers from minimumwage raises, which she says hurt folks hunting for entry-level jobs.

Ted Cruz, leader of the Senate’s loudmouth caucus, does Rubio one better. His parents, he says, were both drunks.

How’s that for humble beginnings?

Still, it’s hard to beat the unintended irony of Hillary Clinton.

Who else complains with a straight face that “the deck is still stacked in favor of those on top” while she’s busy setting up a super PAC that she hopes will raise $100 million for her campaign by July?

Bill Clinton isn’t much help either. Asked whether he’ll continue to make his six-figure

speeches to fat cats while his wife runs for president, he said he’d have to.

“Got to pay our bills,” he said. Some bills.

Fiorina, who got a $21 million severance package when she was fired as head of Hewlett-Packard, is determined to protect workers from minimum-wage raises, which she says hurt folks hunting for entry-level jobs.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a pastor’s son, wants to protect workers from unions, in the name of defending the middle class. And Ben Carson, an African-American neurosurgeon, thinks that the Affordable Care Act is the worst thing since slavery.

Do you get the theme here?

This campaign is going to be conducted almost entirely in a parallel universe. It will have no relation to reality, and what can-

didates say will have no relationship to anything that’s actually happening. Black is going to be white and white is black.

Not all the goofballs are running for president - or married to someone who is - yet.

Do you know that there’s a sizeable faction in Texas that thinks U.S. Army exercises over there are prep work for the declaration of martial law and the confiscation of all weapons?

Gov. Greg Abbott actually tried to deploy the Texas Guard to ensure that wouldn’t happen.

What’s happened to this country? It used to be a fairly sensible place.

Maybe it’s time to send in the clowns.

Oh, I forgot. They’re already here.

Donald Kaul is a retired Washington columnist for The Des Moines Register. He covered the capital for 29 years. dkaul1@verizon.net

If we really want to run government like a business

by Catherine Rampell

A racket to make Capone proud

by Jim Hightower

Al Capone, the infamous mob boss and bootlegger in Chicagoland during the 1920s, always maintained that he was just a businessman.

The only difference between him and others, he insisted, was that the law criminalized his business while legalizing the criminality of so-called “legitimate” businessmen.

Of course, big business bosses today would find their comparison to mob bosses distasteful. Yet it’s not that far from a true fit for many of their corporate “enterprises.” After all, we regularly see shameless racketeering schemes from the establishment peers of Wall Street, Big Oil, Big Food, etc.

Then there are the Big Pharma wiseguys. Their business model is based on legalized price gouging.

On February 10, for example, Valeant Pharmaceuticals stunned heart patients, doctors, and hospitals by suddenly jacking up the price of two essential life-saving heart drugs. Valeant tripled the price of a single vial of Nitropress, from $260 to more than $800, while sextupling the price of Isuprel from $215 a vial to over $1,300.

Had the drugmaker improved the medicines? No, they were exactly the same formulations as before.

The only thing that changed was ownership: Valeant had bought the rights to the medi-

cations from another company on the very day if its announcement. It arbitrarily used its monopoly control to exact a rip-off price from those who have no choice but to pay it.

A spokeswoman for Valeant was unrepentant: “Our duty is to our shareholders and to maximize the value” of their investments, she declared.

By “duty,” the lady from Valeant didn’t mean a moral duty, but a “duty” manufactured by corporate lawyers and lobbyists to extract profits from vulnerable people.

Al Capone would approve of that business model.

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

Seemingly every presidential election cycle, at least one candidate pledges to use his or her C-suite bona fides to whip the feds into shape.

Specifically, to “run government like a business.”

This talking point dates at least to Ross Perot’s ’90s campaigns. Then in 2000 George W. Bush’s supporters boasted that, unlike any prior president, this Decider had an MBA. (Because, you know, that served him so well in his many successful business ventures.)

Since then, we’ve had a crush of hopefuls hyping the value of their corporate know-how, including some who emphasized it because they had no experience in elected office (Herman Cain, Donald Trump) and others because their only experience in elected office was a political liability (Mitt Romney).

Even Carly Fiorina, who was very publicly fired from her job as chief executive of HewlettPackard, has instructed observers to look to her track record there for a taste of what she’d be like as president (perhaps an unprofitable merger with Canada is in the offing?).

Now Ben Carson, brain surgeon and Fox News personality emeritus, is selling the same line.

“We are going to change the government into something that looks more like a well-run business than a behemoth of inefficiency,” he pledged last week,

In other words, “running government like a business” means not cutting every government program by 10 percent . . . but adequately funding the initiatives that offer the highest returns on investment.

perhaps not recognizing that the industry in which he got his business experience, health care, is not exactly a bastion of efficiency.

Carson may not be much of a businessman, though. At least not if you examine the policies he and other self-proclaimed private-sector savants advocate under the guise of B-schoolinspired budget-busting, which generally translates as acrossthe-board government spending cuts.

A good CEO knows that not all spending is created equal.

Sometimes you have to spend money to make money. In other words, “running government like a business” means not cutting every government program by 10 percent, as Carson has suggested, but adequately funding the initiatives that offer the highest returns on investment.

To that end, I humbly suggest several places these corporate-minded, fiscally conservative candidates should increase spending: ●The Internal Revenue Service.

Though despised, the IRS is a positive-cash-flow agency.

For every dollar appropriated to the IRS in 2013, it collected $255.

(See BUSINESS on page six)

Junk food giants putting the blame on us New rule (as Bill Maher would say): If you make billions of dollars a year selling unhealthy food, you don’t get to tell us to work out.

It was one thing when Cookie Monster began telling kids to eat vegetables. Cookie Monster doesn’t earn a living by selling cookies, and vegetables are a fantastic alternative to cookies.

But it was a totally different story when Ronald McDonald went all Richard Simmons on us, visiting schools to tell kids to work out.

Exercise is a great idea, but it’s not diet advice. Yet this is a frequent tactic of many of the corporations that rake in profits by selling us junk.

Take Coca-Cola’s shameless new fitness campaign. “Are you

behind the headlines

by Jill Richardson

sitting on a solution?” asks a photo on the company’s website, depicting two people cuddled up, sitting on a beach. The thing is, they’re drinking the problem: Coca-Cola.

Let me translate Coke’s new campaign into plain English: “Don’t blame us for America’s public health crisis.”

The company is also asking you to not notice that while the American Heart Association recommends no more than six teaspoons of sugar per day for women (nine for men), a single can of Coca-Cola has nearly 10 teaspoons of the sweet stuff.

Or maybe this is what the ad campaign is really saying: “Please ignore the fact that, over the years, we’ve sold our flagship product in larger and larger containers. Just exercise a bit more - here, we’ll even help with some tips - and then you won’t notice that our product is terrible for you. Keep drinking Coke, and don’t regulate us.”

That’s the message, anyway.

And what’s more pathetic is that some folks are falling for it.

The BlogHer conference enthusiastically announced that its sponsor, Coca-Cola, will help attendees stay fit by giving out free pedometers as well as other prizes like yoga mats and jump ropes.

And when attendees get Type II diabetes will Coke be there to give out insulin?

As far as our bodies are concerned, eating well and exercising are not an either/or thing.

Nor is avoiding smoking, managing stress, getting enough sleep, or brushing your teeth. A healthy body requires all of the above.

So let’s leave exercise out of it and talk about diet. The average American drank 401 servings of Coke products in 2012. Sure, that includes juices, sports drinks and water, but Coca Cola’s top four brands each bringing in more than $10 billion in sales per year - are all soft drinks.

McDonalds’ top sellers worldwide are french fries and Big Macs, but even the fast food giant’s “healthy” offerings tend to be terrible for you.

Many Americans enjoy these unhealthy foods and beverages.

And yes, drinking a soda or eating some nachos once in a while won’t kill you.

But these days, eating anything but junk can feel like an uphill battle. Healthy food is often more expensive, more perishable, and, well, less addictive. Not to mention less available 24/7 through a drive-thru.

Unhealthy diets have reached the point of a public health crisis. And while there can be debate over the role food companies have played in causing the crisis, it’s clearer than Sprite that they’ve profited from it.

The purveyors of junk food and fast food know they have some responsibility too. That’s why they are so worried.

(See JUNK on page six)

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When students are learning it’s in their eyes bone tissue. He got to the end of the blackboard and asked, “Where would I find an example of calcium carbonate?” as he began erasing.

So, I diverted my eyes downward and avoided his gaze as he scanned the class.

“Mr. Schrock” - he called on me!

“The chalk in your hand, sir,” I crisply replied.

The immediacy of my reply caught Dr. Brett off guard. For a moment, he stopped erasing.

by John Schrock

Professor Bill Brett was a wonderful lecturer. He filled the blackboard with meaningful and organized notes. Then, while erasing the board, he asked us questions.

Somehow he could always detect who had not paid attention or who did not understand.

Since I was a “field kid” growing up, I knew a lot of biology. So I never got called on!

One day he was explaining clam shells and

Scientists: earth is endangered by strain of fact-resistant humans

by Andy Borowitz

MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report) - Scientists have discovered a powerful new strain of fact-resistant humans who are threatening the ability of Earth to sustain life, a sobering new study reports.

The research, conducted by the University of Minnesota, identifies a virulent strain of humans who are virtually immune to any form of verifiable knowledge, leaving scientists at a loss as to how to combat them.

“These humans appear to have all the faculties necessary to receive and process information,” Davis Logsdon, one of the scientists who contributed to the study, said. “And yet, somehow, they have developed defenses that, for all intents and purposes, have rendered those faculties totally inactive.”

More worryingly, Logsdon said, “As facts have multiplied, their defenses against those facts have only grown more powerful.”

While scientists have no clear understanding of the mechanisms that prevent the fact-resistant humans from absorbing data, they theorize that the strain may have developed the ability to intercept and discard information en route from the auditory nerve to the brain.

“The normal functions of human consciousness have been completely nullified,” Logsdon said.

While reaffirming the gloomy assessments of the study, Logsdon held out hope that the threat of fact-resistant humans could be mitigated in the future. “Our research is very preliminary, but it’s possible that they will become more receptive to facts once they are in an environment without food, water, or oxygen,” he said.

Andy Borowitz is a comedian and author

Hungry

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nearly 16 million of our children and nearly 5 million of our elders lack food security.

But congressional leaders think the first piece of business should be to ensure that those who pay little in life leave nothing of their great fortunes to the common good after they die.

Hard-hearted politicians think that if they paint the people who get food stamps as lazy and undeserving, it will blind us to what’s really going on: They’re handing out more tax cuts for those who can afford caviar and champagne and more budget cuts for those trying to put the bare essentials on their kitchen tables.

Scott Klinger is the director of Revenue and Spending Policies at the Center for Effective Government. He can be reached at ForEffectiveGov.org

Junk

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These companies are trying to shift the blame. They want you to believe that it’s your fault that you didn’t run a marathon to burn off the calories from your meal at Taco Bell.

Jill Richardson is the author of “Recipe for America: Why Our Food System Is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It”

“You did that to me,” he smiled.

“Yes, sir,” I confessed.

The rest of the class did not have the least idea what we were talking about. I had baited him to call on me.

Have you ever wondered how teachers can always pick out the student in class who does not know the answer?

Yes, it is the eyes.

Today, when I visit student teachers, I do not sit at the back of class to watch them. And I don’t want a videotape of them

teaching. I sit forward enough in class that I can look back and see what the teacher is responding to.

How many kids are getting “Ah ha’s” in their eyes, as they now understand something that they formerly did not.

How many students eyes show they are totally lost.

“Huh?” is also obvious in their eyes?

And do my student teachers then use this information to adjust their explanation on the spot.

Perhaps they call upon a

Knowing We were fortunate to have a father who made sure that our failures weren’t near as bad as they could have been and was still there to support us when we refused to recognize our ignorance and insisted on doing things our own way again and again.

Eventually, some of us learn. Eventually, some of us get it right.

Yet Congress has been hacking away at its budget for years, while loading it up with new responsibilities. The cuts have led to worsening customer service for honest taxpayers and fewer resources for hounding the dishonest ones. Over time, both consequences seem likely to cost the government serious dough. ●Medicare and Medicaid fraud prevention. As with IRS enforcement, each dollar spent rooting out fraud translates to substantially more than a dollar in government savings.

Sequester-driven cuts to this program have therefore had the opposite of their intended effect. The next CEO of the U.S.A. ought to reverse them. ●Family planning for poor women. Every $1 in-

Distance learning?

Same problem.

Not enough resolution. When time-consuming feedback mechanisms have to be used, the efficient flow of the message and the group train of thought are lost.

There is science behind this skill. Fifty years ago, in the April 1965 Scientific American, Eckhard Hess described how pupil size revealed ongoing mental activity in “Attitude and Pupil Size.”

Using the technology of that time, his experiments (See EYES on page seven)

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Most importantly was when we experienced the epiphany in our lives that, yes, we weren’t as smart as we thought we were and, yes, our dad was pretty damn smart.

Once we realized our own shortcomings and that we didn’t know all there was to know, life got better. We still made mistakes, but we were more

Business

student whose eyes show that they do know, to reexplain for those who do not?

Teachers can “read eyes” back five or six seats in each row. That is what makes a regular classroom very efficient.

But students sitting in a large lecture hall beyond those first five rows might as well not be there. Unable to see the students’ eyes, the teacher cannot adjust the message to be sure those distant students understand the message.

accepting of those lessons and the realization that we were responsible for what happened in our life.

We still make mistakes and we’re still learning.

The first will never quit happening; hopefully, neither will the latter.

That’s life, and for most graduates it begins the moment they step off the stage with their high

school diploma or their college degree.

That’s when your real education begins. Make the most of it. Never stop learning.

And remember, you don’t know what you don’t know until you don’t know it.

If you don’t know what that means, you soon will.

Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com

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vested in publicly funded family planning services saves an estimated $7 in Medicaid and other public expenditures. Yet funding for Title X, the federal program that helps lowincome Americans obtain birth control, has sustained serious cuts as part of shortsighted efforts to reduce the federal deficit.

A program in Colorado that provided low-income women and teens with long-acting reversible contraceptives, and likewise sharply reduced unintended pregnancies (and abortions), was killed by state legislators last month.

These are exactly the kinds of programs presidential contenders should champion if they want to prune our bloated welfare state.

●High-quality early childhood education. As research from Nobel laureate James Heckman and others has shown, preschool presents a huge bang for the buck. Every dollar spent on early childhood education returns 10 cents annually over the life of the child, through a combination of both higher earnings and lower public spending.

Want to improve the country’s bottom line tomorrow? Invest in the human capital of toddlers today. ●Publicly funded research. Government researchers and grants have enabled countless major scientific and technological breakthroughs, including the Internet, Google, vaccines and the Human Genome Project.

Yet Washington’s been cutting funding for public R&D. Just as at a private company, the next American president should remind legislators not to eat the seed corn.

Of course, unlike a forprofit entity, governments also fund some programs because they are simply the right thing to do, even when they’re unlikely to increase revenue (shielding the elderly from dire poverty, for example).

But, happily, many spending programs happen to be two-fers: They serve the greater good, and they save taxpayers money.

We just need a president who’s willing to crunch the numbers.

Catherine Rampell is a columnist at The Washington Post

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Eyes

editor’s mail (continued from page six)

measured how pupil response “is a measure of interest, emotion, thought processes and attitudes.” Just airbrushing the pupils on a girl’s photo made a dramatic difference in male’s judgements; large pupils revealing interest while small pupils meant no date tonight.

They extended this to spelling and math problems.

Recite a simple math problem to a person - a problem they can do in a few seconds in their mind - and watch their eyes. Their pupils dilate as they work it out and the split second they arrive at the answer, but just before they say it, the pupils constrict.

As Aristotle said millennia ago, the eyes are the windows to the mind.

I describe this art of teaching and the instantaneous reading of students’ eyes because there are new digital education fads that claim to be a breakthrough in evaluating whether students are learning. Similar to most digital distractions, they ignore current good teaching practices and offer a poor substitute at many times the cost.

Customized online evaluation systems are now being hawked to universities and public schools to provide feedback from students. But it is a day late and costs dollars more.

But any parent who wants to really know their child’s understanding has always been able to determine that in a few seconds, and for free.

Similar to good teachers, they just say: “Look me in the eye and tell me.”

Thanks for support in denying parole for killer In late March, I asked the community to provide “backup” for my dad, the late Leoti Chief of Police Carl A. Simons who was killed on May 25, 1976.

I would like to thank all of those who responded to my request. Richard McCowan was denied parole on May 12 for two more years - the maximum the board could apply.

Our family appreciates the efforts of the community and the support given.

C.J. Davis and Families Scott City

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Regional Baseball @ Lyons

HS Regional Golf @ TBA

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SRC mill levy info. mtg., @ Bryan Education Center, 7:00 p.m.

SCMS Music 5th/6th Choir/Band, 7:00 p.m.

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Thursday

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Friday

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Scott City, 10:30 a.m.

K-State Fry @ HRC Feed Yard, 6:00 p.m.

SCMS End of Year dance, 7:00 p.m.

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

Al-Anon meeting @ Community Christian Church, 6:30 p.m.

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Energy (continued from page two)

The 10-year tax abatement brings it more in line with what other energy sources enjoy, removing one more grievance for those who say state officials have distorted the market by favoring renewable energy sources over fossil fuels Those grievances were voiced frequently at the Statehouse by lobbying groups like the Kansas Chamber and Americans for Prosperity and shared by influential lawmakers like Rep. Dennis Hedke, chairman of the House Energy and Environment Committee, and Sen. Rob Olson, chairman of the Senate Utilities Committee.

The near-annual attempts to repeal the renewable energy standards worried investors as they decided whether to put their capital into Kansas wind projects.

But what really spooked them, Svaty said, was when legislators introduced a bill this session to levy a 4.33 percent excise tax on renewable energy. Facing a budget crisis, legislators are likely to put together a tax increase package and vote on it with little warning.

In that atmosphere of uncertainty, Svaty said, the hearing on the renewable energy excise tax bill had the effect of “completely destabilizing the investment environment.”

“Developers and investors, where they had been concerned before, were getting very seriously concerned,” Svaty said.

So in exchange for assurances that the excise tax would not be enacted, wind industry advocates agreed to soften the renewable energy standards and cap the property tax exemption at 10 years.

After 10 years, renewable energy devices will be taxed as commercial property, which is a lower rate than public utilities.

Environmental advocacy groups were critical of the deal, saying the wind industry capitulated on measurable policy gains in exchange for promises that may not be kept.

When Gov. Brownback was asked at a news conference what assurances the bill gives that the excise tax won’t be proposed again next year if the state has budget problems, there was a lengthy pause.

“We’re not going to have budget problems next year,” Brownback said.

Jeff Deyette is a senior energy analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists, a group that favors renewable energy as a way to ameliorate the effects of global climate change. If the bill keeps the excise tax off the table, Deyette said, then the Kansas wind industry made a decent deal.

And limiting the property tax exemption to 10 years should not kill a wind industry that has gained an $8 billion foothold in Kansas.

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Honor SCHS seniors at annual Awards Night

State of Kansas Awards Kansas State Scholars Curriculum Completer: Macy Davis.

Designated Kansas State Scholar: Macy Davis.

Local Scholarships Alpha Omega Sorority Scholarship: $1,000 each to Hunter Braun, Emily Buxton, Jami Emahizer, Kristi Faurot, Marshal Hutchins, Briana Hutton, Brett Meyer, Elizabeth Murray and Reagan Smyth.

Doornbos Family Scholarship: Macy Davis, $1,000.

FFA of Scott City Scholarships: $500 each to Macy Davis and Lane Hayes (Local Chapter). $250 each to Treyston Buffington and Layton Wright (FFA Alumni).

First National Bank of Scott City Scholarships: $250 each to Emily Buxton, Macy Davis, Marshal Hutchins, Brett Meyer and Chantz Yager.

Phyllis Kamp Memorial Scholarship: Brett Meyer, $1,000.

Avis Murphy Memorial Farm Bureau Scholarships: $250 each to Emily Buxton and Macy Davis.

PEO Chapter AW of Scott City Scholarships:

$750 each to Kristi Faurot and Briana Hutton.

Scott City Quilt Guild Scholarships: $250 and a quilt each to Hunter Braun, Miguel Chavez, Macy Davis, Jami Emahizer, Kristi Faurot, Lane Hayes, Elizabeth Parkinson, Reagan Smyth and Chantz Yager.

VFW post No. 7773 Scholarship: Chantz Yager, $1,600 ($400/year).

XI Delta Kappa Sorority Scholarship: Briana Hutton, $250.

Scott Community Foundation Scholarships Brett K. Todd Memorial Scholarship: Layton Wright, $400.

Animal Health International Scholarship: Jami Emahizer, $500.

William L. Dryer Memorial Scholarship: Briana Hutton, $500.

SC College Fund Scholarship: Samantha Garcia, $500.

Security State Bank Scholarships: Kristi Faurot, $500.

Albert and Dee Hoeme Memorial Scholarship: Sloan Baker, $1,000.

Glenn J. Novak Memorial Scholarship: $1,000 each to Lane Hayes and Anna Miller.

Hildred and Raymond Armantrout Scholar-

ships: $4,000 each to Miguel Chavez and Brett Meyer.

Everett Hueftle Scholarships: $1,000 each to Hunter Braun, Miguel Chavez, Kambra Dearden, Marshal Hutchins, James Jurgens and Brett Meyer. $1,500 each to Emily Buxton and Trey O’Neil.

Woodrow and Loyal Hoffman Scholarships: $5,000 each to Macy Davis and Chantz Yager.

Special Awards “Wall of Fame” Awards: Trey O’Neil (football); Trey O’Neil and Brett Meyer (basketball); James Jurgens (wrestling).

State Football Champions (Class 3A) 2012: Sloan Baker, Hunter Braun, Wyatt Eitel, Blaine Fairleigh, Lane Hayes, Marshal Hutchins, James Jurgens, Brett Meyer, Trey O’Neil and Chantz Yager.

Boy’s State Basketball Champions 2012: Trey O’Neil.

2013: Brett Meyer and Trey O’Neil.

2015: Sloan Baker, Brett Meyer, Trey O’Neil, Chantz Yager. Marshal Hutchins (mgr.)

State Wrestling Champions 2012: James Jurgens

KSHSAA Citizenship Awards: Sloan Baker and Kambra Dearden.

Dale Dennis Excellence in Education Award: Macy Davis.

KSU Outstanding Senior in Math and Science Award: Macy Davis.

Community Service Award: Miguel Chavez (109 hrs.,), and Briana Hutton (109 hrs.,), $100 each.

National FFA Scholarships “Built Ford Tough” Truck Scholarship: Macy Davis, $1,000.

“Arysta Life Science of North America” Scholarship: Macy Davis, $1,200.

Citizen Pottawattamie Nation Scholarship: Sloan Baker, $2,200, and Lane Hayes, $2,500.

Kansas Western Horseman’s Association Scholarship: Anna Miller, $1,000.

National Saddle Club Association Scholarship (NSCA Sr., Princess): Anna Miller $500.

Pioneer Communications Scholarship: Macy Davis, $250.

Wheatland Electric “Delivering Energy for Life” Scholarship: Marshal Hutchins, $1,000.

Pittsburg State Univer-

sity Army ROTC Award: Chantz Yager, $47,500.

Institutional Awards Butler Community College, El Dorado: Sloan Baker, Athletic award (Baseball) (books and tuition).

Colby Community College, Colby: Anna Miller, Athletic award, (Equestrian) (books and tuition).

Dodge City Community College, Dodge City: Layton Wright, Athletic award, (Rodeo) ($500 + books).

Fort Hays State University, Hays: Hunter Braun, Hays City Silver award ($800), Academic opportunity award (Justice Studies) ($900); Emily Buxton, Fort Hays Bronze award ($700), Academic opportunity award (Nursing) ($900); Wyatt Eitel, Hays City Silver award ($800); Marshal Hutchins, Fort Hays Copper award ($500), Athletic award (Golf) ($750), Academic opportunity award (Nursing) ($500); Brett Meyer, Athletic award (Track and Field) ($5,000); Trey O’Neil, Athletic award, (Basketball) (Full Ride: tuition and housing); Brianna Smull, Fort Hays Copper award ($500); Reagan Smyth, Aca-

demic opportunity award (Chemistry) ($500).

Garden City Community College, Garden City: Kambra Dearden, Music award (Band) (books and tuition), Academic award ($500).

Kansas State University, Manhattan: Macy Davis, Kassebaum award ($5,000), Foundation Plus Scholarship ($4,750 renewable over 4 years), Forensics Scholarship (amount is undetermined at this time); Jaylee York, Music award (Choir) ($4,000).

Northwest Kansas Technical College, Goodland: Lane Hayes, Athletic award (Wrestling) ($1,000).

Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Okla.: James Jurgens, OSU NonResident Achievement Scholarship ($8,750).

Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg: Chantz Yager, 4 year Army ROTC Scholarship ($47,500).

Sterling College, Sterling: Briana Hutton, Art and Academic Scholarship ($12,000/year for 4 years).

University of Kansas, Lawrence: Miguel Chavez, Academic award ($1,000).

An open letter from SRC board of directors Citizens of Scott County, The Scott Recreation Commission Board of Directors would first like to thank you for your efforts in casting your vote on April 7. The number of voters showed that Scott City truly cares about its future and what that future holds.

Although the vote did not turn out exactly the way we hoped, we feel there is much to learn from the results and how the SRC plans to move forward.

For some people it may come as a shock that there was more to the question than just the proposed Wellness Center. Although we tried to inform voters about both proposals, Scott Recreation Commission takes blame for not being more adamant about properly informing the community on what both sides of the question proposed.

The two mill increase was a twofold purpose proposal: 1) SRC’s unencumbered cash reserves are diminishing as we see the cost of doing business go up and the amount of income staying approximately the same which gives reason for ONE of the two mill proposal.

2) The second mill was going to provide a wellness center. One mill of the two mill proposal was intended to be used for debt services on the construction of the building.

The wellness center was only going to receive ONE of the two mill increase.

Since our existence in 1990, Scott Recreation Commission has been on a tax levy of two mills. These two mills come from county tax dollars that equals, on average, $200,000 per tax year for the two mills combined.

We currently receive $50,000 from the 1/2% sales tax grant of which we apply for yearly through the City of Scott City and the grant committee. This amount of money may seem appropriate, but as we spend over $100,000 of our annual budget at the SRC Sports Complex our funding begins to propose a complex situation.

Light poles that were installed in 2009 equals $38,000 per tax year and will not be paid off until 2019.

SRC is also held accountable for mowing, water, fertilizer programs, weed control, sprinkler system, field maintenance and electricity.

We are all aware of the drought and water situation that we have been in for many years and working closely with

the City of Scott City, SRC has adopted a water conservation plan in order to conserve water for the longevity of Scott City.

The irrigating system in place at the SRC Sports Complex was installed in the early 1990s. The system has reportedly been leaking hundreds of gallons of water per hour.

The SRC board of directors have been taking steps to improve the leaks; those steps require financial responsibility. Not only are we paying to make the necessary repairs to the system, but we are also paying for hundreds of gallons of water per hour that is being lost.

As a part of this community, we feel that it is our obligation to preserve the limited water for this area for as long as possible so we have adopted the 2015 Water Conservation plan that was presented at the April 20 city council meeting.

Although we have made a great start on water conservation, there is a long road ahead to where we need to be when looking at the current irrigation system that was installed in 1990.

Let us reiterate that this one mill levy increase has NOTHING to do with a proposed wellness center. When reviewing our annual budget and at the request of our auditors (Dirks, Anthony and Duncan), in order to maintain a healthy budget and continue to provide recreational programs for you and your family the additional one mill increase is a necessity.

Without this one mill increase, Scott Recreation Commission will be forced to begin cutting back in numerous departments with the possible consideration of giving up facilities.

The SRC board of directors and staff would like to entertain any questions you may have, and explain these details at a community meeting to be held on Tuesday, May 19, 7:00 p.m., at the Bryan Conference Center meeting room.

Thank you for your time and consideration of this matter.

SRC Board of Directors Marci Patton, Chair Troy Lewis, Vice-Chair Chris Irvin, Member Ben Taylor, Member Matt Fox, Member Danny Morris, Advisor Brent Faurot, Advisor

SRC

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School Board President Mark Davis felt the proposed wellness center lacked adequate community input. He feels it’s possible to build consensus for a wellness center, “just not this rec center.”

Davis noted the community has a history of supporting improvements that have required a major commitment in tax dollars, including the high school, hospital and nursing home, but he doesn’t understand why it’s been so difficult to get voters to support the recreation commission.

“It seems that this community will vote down anything to do with the kids which blows my mind,” Davis said.

SRC Director Lauren Robinson emphasized “there are consequences” if this additional mill doesn’t pass. That would include returning the soccer fields to the city so that the SRC wouldn’t have those maintenance costs. Programs would also have to be cut along with higher participation fees.

Even though participation in SRC programs has increased significantly in recent years that hasn’t meant an increase in revenue. Many of the participants pay no fee or a reduced fee because they are from low-income families. The SRC adjusts the participation fee for

youngsters who meet free/reduced price lunch guidelines through the school district.

“If we eliminate that price break and start charging more than our participation will drop,” noted Robinson. “That doesn’t solve our (budget) problem. It only means that fewer kids are involved in activities.”

While the board of education has given its okay for the SRC to seek additional tax support, the SRC board is uncertain when that will happen.

Robinson says they will need to have a special election - most likely by mail ballot - very soon in order to prepare their 2016 budget.

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Davis, Smith are among KU spring graduates Chris Davis, Scott City, and Sarah Smith, Marienthal, will be among more than 4,000 candidates for degrees taking part in commencement ceremonies at the University of Kansas on Sun., May 17.

Davis has completed a Pharm.D and bachelor’s degree in pharmaceutical studies.

Smith has completed a Master’s degree in occupational therapy.

Honors College scholarship to Dighton grad Clayton Capra, a junior majoring in music education, has qualified for a $6,700 Ft. Hays State University Honors College Scholarship.

He is a 2013 graduate of Dighton High School.

Capra is part of the inaugural Honors College class which includes 31 students, 17 of them incoming freshmen. The program begins next fall.

They will join 12 students converting from the Distinguished Scholars Program, which the Honors College replaces. The idea in both is to provide a challenging curriculum across the range of programs for academically gifted and ambitious students.

Eighteen of the students qualified for three scholarships created especially for the Honors College.

“We have a great incoming class, and we exceeded our incoming freshman goal by 60 percent,” said Matt Means, director of the Honors College.

He also founded the predecessor Distinguished Scholars Program.

“This is an impressive cadre of bright young minds,” said FHSU President Mirta M. Martin. “Matt Means and his team have accomplished in three and a half months what it has taken other universities 2-1/2 years to accomplish.”

Of the college scholarship winners, two won full-ride Regents Scholarships, which provide full tuition and housing to qualifying students from in or out of state. It also provides up to $450 per semester for books.

Twelve students qualified for $10,000 FHSU Honors College Scholarships, which provide $4,000 for tuition and fees and $6,000 toward room and board.

The housing award is dependent on the student living on the honors floor established in McMindes Hall.

Four others qualified for $6,700 FHSU Honors College Scholarships, which provide $2,700 for tuition and fees and $4,000 for housing.

Newest inductees into the National Honor Society at Scott Community High School are (front row, from left) Emma Price, Clarissa Ratzlaff, Paige Winderlin, Macy Berning, Kiana Yager, Paige Eggleston, Katie Nowak, Kylee Trout, Tyler Vondracek, Cayleigh Ramsey and KelsiJo Crouch. (Back row) Eddie Tilton, Bo Hess and Carson Haupt.

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NHS honors Eaton for many years as organization sponsor Fourteen new members were accepted into the Wood Chapter of National Honor Society at Scott Community High School during an induction ceremony held on May 6.

Community service continues to be a major emphasis for NHS members - in addition to academic excellence. Each Chapter member must fulfill five hours of community service each year, which is in addition to the 20 hours required for graduation from SCHS. Junior Asher Huck was presented the NHS Service Award for his commitment to the organization and volunteer work.

“Asher turned in about 29 hours of volunteer work, but like so many of our students he did a lot of community service projects that he doesn’t turn in to us,” says organization sponsor Jerrie Brooks.

“Our students understand the impor-

tance of volunteering and giving back to the community.”

Long-time sponsor Deena Eaton, who is stepping down from her role with NHS, was also recognized by the chapter for her work.

“Even though she lives in Shields she never complained about 7:00 a.m. meetings that caused her to leave her house so early,” said assistant principal Randy Huck.

It was noted that Eaton has supervised every NHS activity for eight years.

“She’s been creative in helping officers find new activities and project ideas for membership consideration,” Huck said.

Community service projects during the past year include: Recycling: This is the sixth year the Chapter has hauled materials for the high school to the recycling center.

Veterans Day service: Members assisted local veterans with this service on the courthouse lawn. Participants carried flags and read poems.

SCES fun day: Each year, chapter members assist with the year-end fun day for students in grades 1-4.

Memorial Day service: Members participate in the service held at the Scott County Cemetery.

They also held a hat/mitten/scarf drive with items donated to the Scott County Health Department.

Newly inducted NHS members are: Junior: Cayleigh Ramsey.

Sophomores: Macy Berning, KelsiJo Crouch, Paige Eggleston, Carson Haupt, Bo Hess, Katie Nowak, Emma Price, Clarissa Ratzlaff, Eddie Tilton, Kylee Trout, Tyler Vondracek, Paige Winderlin and Kiana Yager.

State officials want emphasis on financial literacy

The chairmen of the Kansas House Education Committee and the State Board of Education are urging local school districts to teach financial literacy.

Republican state Rep. Ron Highland of Wamego and GOP state board member Jim McNiece of Wichita signed a joint let-

Free lunches for kids this summer

ter this week to local school board presidents and superintendents.

Their letter said financial literacy is an essential part of a sound education.

The House Education Committee had hearing earlier this year on a bill to require students to pass a financial literacy course in 11th or 12th grade to graduate from

Young people will still have the opportunity to enjoy a hot, healthy lunch available through the Scott County school district for nearly six weeks this summer.

Free lunches will be offered at Scott City Elementary School from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. every Monday through Friday from May 26 through July 17.

Anyone 18-years or younger is invited to participate. There is no income requirement or registration required.

For more information contact Kathy Eaton (872-7605) or Keaton@usd466.com.

high school.

But Highland and McNiece said in their letter that they’re urging districts to teach financial literacy instead of seeking a mandate. They said the state board and the House committee would monitor districts’ efforts.

For the Record Deal is reached on moving Kansas elections The Scott County Record

House and Senate negotiators have reached agreement on a bill that would move city and school board elections in Kansas to November of even-numbered years and keep them non-partisan.

Rep. Mark Kahrs (R-Wichita), who led negotiations for the House, said most groups that had opposed earlier versions were either “on board” with the current

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bill, or at least had withdrawn their objections.

Notable exceptions, however, include the Kansas National Education Association and the Kansas Association of School Boards, which say the change will still cause logistical problems for schools.

Besides moving elections from spring to November, the bill would also change the date when

Scott City Council Agenda Mon., May 18 • 7:30 p.m.

City Hall • 221 W. 5th •Call to Order •Approve minutes of May 4 regular meeting •Approve Wanrack Fiber Optics contract •Open agenda: audience is invited to voice ideas or concerns. A time limit may be requested Pool Department 1) Request for Compass Behavioral Health ‘Get Set’ program to use swimming pool Police Department 1) Misc. business Parks Department 1) Misc. business Public Works Department 1) Request to advertise for chip sealing bids Clerk’s Department 1) Misc. business •Financial and investment reports •Mayor’s comments

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., April 30, 2015; last published Thurs., May 14, 2015)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LAWERENCE DWIGHT McCOMBS JR., deceased, Case No. 2015-PR-08 NOTICE OF HEARING AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS You are hereby notified that on the 23rd day of April, 2015, a Petition was filed in this Court by Kamala Kay Good, an heir of Lawrence Dwight McCombs Jr., deceased, praying: That descent be determined of the following described real property owned by the decedent: South Fifty Feet (S 50’) of Lot Three (3), Block Five

(5), Starr Suburb to the City of Scott City, Kansas and all real property and any other Kansas real or personal property owned by decedent at the time of his death.

You are required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 26th day of May, 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.

Kamala Kay Good, Petitioner WALLACE, BRANTLEY & SHIRLEY 325 Main Street P.O. Box 605 Scott City, Kansas, 67871 Attorneys for Petitioner

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., April 30, 2015; last published Thurs., May 14, 2015)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JUDY MARIE MEYER, deceased, Case No. 2015-PR-07 NOTICE OF HEARING AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS You are hereby notified that on the 17th day of April, 2015, a Petition was filed in this Court by Rex W. Grothusen, an heir, devisee and legatee, and Executor named in the Last Will and Testament of Judy Marie Meyer, deceased, dated August 27, 2002, praying that the Will filed with the Petition be admitted to probate and record; that he be appointed as Executor without bond; that he be granted Letters Testamentary.

You are required to file

your written defenses thereto on or before the 26th day of May, 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.

All creditors are notified to exhibit their demands against the Estate within four months from the date of the first publication of this Notice, as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, they shall be forever barred.

Rex W. Grothusen, Petitioner WALLACE, BRANTLEY & SHIRLEY 325 Main Street P.O. Box 605 Scott City, Kansas, 67871 (620) 872-2161 Attorneys for Petitioner

new terms begin, putting new school board members in place in the middle of a school year, just as boards are required by law to begin superintendent reviews and teacher contract talks.

Kahrs said passage of the bill would have a “dramatic” effect on increasing voter turnout, which hovered around 15-20 percent during recent spring elections. With the

change, he said, Kansas can expect to see turnout for those races jump to 30 percent or more.

Some groups had argued the bill was really an attempt to give conservatives a better shot at taking control of school boards and city councils.

But Kahrs insisted that his motivation was increasing turnout, and that by leaving the elections nonpartisan, it shouldn’t have

much of an impact on the ideological bent of local governments.

Two other electionrelated bills were added into the package: The socalled “Chad Taylor” bill proposed by Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach to prohibit people from withdrawing from the ballot unless they die before election day (the negotiated bill also allows for medical hardship); and

a bill to repeal the law calling for a presidential preference primary in Kansas (parties could decide for themselves how to select delegates to their national conventions).

The conference committee report will go first to the Senate. Kahrs said he expects it will clear both chambers before the end of the week, and he thinks at least a few Democrats will vote for it.

Scott Co. LEC Report

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., May 14, 2015; last published Thurs., May 21, 2015)2t RESOLUTION NO. 2015-1 WHEREAS, the Scott Recreation Commission has adopted a resolution declaring it necessary to increase the annual property tax levy for the use of such Commission to operate a public recreation system and has requested the Unified School District No. 466 to authorize a maximum mill levy of not to exceed 3 mills; and WHEREAS, the provisions of K.S.A. 12-1927, and amendments thereto, provide for such an increase, subject to a petition of the voters for a referendum thereon; BE IT RESOLVED, by the Board of Eduction of Unified School District No. 466 that the Scott Recreation Commission be authorized to levy ad valorem property tax of not to exceed 3 mills in the tax year 2015 and thereafter, subject to the aforementioned petition and referendum.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this resolution shall be published once each week for two consecutive weeks in the official school district newspaper and that an amount not exceeding said maximum mill levy may be made for the Recreation Commission in the ensuing budget year and each successive budget year unless a petition requesting an election upon the proposition, signed by at least five percent of the qualified voters of the school district, shall be filed with the county election officer within 30 days following the date of the last publication of this resolution.

PASSED, by the Board of Education of Unified School District No. 466 on this 11th day of May, 2015.

USD 466 Board of Education Mark Davis, president

Scott City Police Department May 1: Joseph Torres, Jr., was arrested on a Kansas Department of Corrections warrant and transported to the LEC. May 7: A report was taken of a burglary in the 100 block of East 3rd St. May 7: A theft of property was reported in the 200 block of South College.

May 7: Anna Miller was westbound on 9th Street when she rear-ended a vehicle operated by Felix Gonzalez that was stopped and waiting at a traffic control light.

May 9: A report was taken of criminal damage to property in the 900 block of Crescent Avenue.

May 11: An accident occurred in the 1300 block of south US83 Highway when Seth Cardenas, driving a 2006 Chevrolet Impala, failed to yield while turning south and struck a vehicle owned by Claudia AstudilloAguirre.

Scott County Sheriff’s Department May 3: Martin Castillo, 17, was arrested for rape, battery and criminal damage to property and transported to juvenile detention in Garden City.

May 11: Shawn Mohler reported an attempted theft and criminal trespass on south US83 Highway.

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., May 7, 2015; last published Thurs., May 14, 2015)2t NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that the Scott City Planning Commission will hold a special meeting on June 11, 2015, at 7:00 p.m., at the Scott City Council Meeting Room at City Hall, 221 West 5th Street, Scott City, Kansas, to consider the following agenda items: 1. Application for conditional use permit by Jerome Berning/Berning Classic Cars to buy and sell automobiles on the following described property which is zoned Ag-Agricultural District The Northwest Quarter (NW/4) of Section Sixteen (16), Township Eighteen (18), Range Thirty-two (32), (1500 N. Highway 83) All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard at such hearing.

Dated: May 5, 2015 Rodney Hogg, chairman Scott City Planning Commission

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Teen driving means insurance concerns Kansas teenagers will soon be out of school for the summer, and with that will come increased opportunities for them to drive their own vehicles to work, ball games or to hang out with their friends.

While the freedom and independence teenagers feel behind the wheel is an important rite of passage in their lives, it can also be expensive in terms of vehicle insurance.

But there are ways that teenagers and their parents can hold down those costs. Here are a few ideas: •If you or your teen are considering a vehicle purchase, consider the cost of

insurance. Insurance rates vary with the type and model of vehicle.

Often, smaller vehicles carry a higher insurance premium because of the cost of repair. The same is true for performance cars.

•If you purchase an older used car, consider not covering it with collision coverage as a way to cut expenses. The cost of the coverage could exceed the value of an older car.

•If you have a higher deductible (the amount you would have to pay out of pocket before your insurance coverage kicks in), the lower your premiums might be.

•Parents, if your teenager doesn’t own a car

(the title is not in his or her name), you might be able to have the teen rated on the family’s personal insurance as an occasional operator.

•Because teens are more likely to drive with their friends as passengers, talk to your agent about increasing the liability coverage on your policy.

That would provide greater protection for everyone.

•Check with your insurance agent on discounts for having multiple vehicles insured with the same company; for your teen having good grades; and for your teen maintaining a good driving record.

With respect to driving records, auto insurance companies will usually rate policyholders and their family members into three categories - nonstandard, standard and preferred.

Nonstandard premiums are higher and are often assigned to higher-risk drivers, including younger drivers with less experience, as well as those with moving traffic violations and accidents.

Standard premiums are assigned to moderate risk drivers who may have a moving traffic violation in the last three to five years.

Preferred premiums are assigned to drivers who have no moving viola-

Verizon, Sprint customers eligible for refund Verizon and Sprint customers in Kansas who were charged for thirdparty services on their mobile phone bills without their consent are eligible to receive refunds as part of a multi-state settlement.

The national settlement was reached between Verizon, Sprint and the attorneys general of Kansas and 49 other states and the District of Columbia,

the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Communications Commission.

It resolves allegations that Verizon and Sprint placed charges on consumers’ mobile phone bills for third-party services that had not been authorized by the consumer, a practice known as “mobile cramming.” This settlement follows similar settlements reached with AT&T and T-Mobile last year.

Register of Deeds Gary and Julie Miller to R Brothers Auto Body and Mechanic, tracts in SE4 of 25-18-33.

Scot D. Aytes and Rodney and Pamela Wheeler to Jesus Alfredo Bejarano and Isabel Enriquez Chacon, Lot 2, Blk. 4, East Acres Addition.

Scoular Company to Scott Ag, LLC, two tracts in NW4 of 22-16-34.

James Radnor to Derek Brau, Lot 8, Blk. 56, Original Town.

Wilford Crist and Louise Crist Trust to Minnix Farms, a tract in NE4 of 13-20-34.

Dorothy Spitzer to Dedra McKinney Trust No. 1, Lot 11, Blk. C, Manor Heights Addition.

Marin and Anita Loya to Armando and Judith Puente, Lot 3, Blk. F, in Shallow Water

Moving?

Remember to contact The Scott County Record with your new address.

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Under the terms of the settlement, Sprint and Verizon are required to provide $50 million and $70 million, respectively, in refunds to consumers who were victims of cramming.

“Consumers have a right to know what services they are signing up for and to be clearly informed about the cost of those services,” said Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt.

Consumers who are uncertain whether or not they are owed a refund can file a request with the mobile carrier to identify any third-party charges they may have been unaware of.

For information on how to do this or to file a claim, Kansas consumers should visit the attorney general’s consumer protection website at www.

InYourCornerKansas.org or call (800) 432-2310.

tions or accidents in the last three to five years.

Obviously, everyone wants to be in the preferred category, but it might not be in the cards for a teen driver.

Remember, too, that each insurance company has its own underwriting guidelines that will determine where individuals fall in the three categories.

The Kansas Insurance Department publication “Kansas Auto Insurance and Shopper’s Guide” provides more tips on saving money for the whole family. The 2015 version should be available soon on the KID website, www.ksinsurance.org, for download and printing.

1.3M Kansans eligible for free preventive care In Kansas an estimated 1,310,249 individuals, including 524,509 women and 290,340 children, have private health insurance that covers recommended preventive services without cost sharing, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Under the Affordable Care Act, most health plans are required to provide coverage for recommended preventive health care services without copays.

Increased access to preventive services can reduce and prevent costly chronic diseases and help Kansans live healthier lives.

These services include but are not limited to: •Blood pressure screening •Well-baby and well-child visit •Obesity screening and counseling •Flu vaccination and other immunizations •Well-woman visits •Tobacco cessation interventions •Domestic violence screening and counseling •Vision screening for children •Breastfeeding support and supplies •HIV screening •FDA-approved contraceptive methods •Depression screening

Tobacco tax is still part of state budget mix A couple of items relevant to public health and the health insurance industry are in the mix as lawmakers seek a tax plan that will allow them to end the 2015 session.

Kansas legislators need to locate between $400 million and $500 million in new revenue to fund the budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. As the House and Senate move toward the 90th day of the legislative session, most debate has focused on how much of that new revenue should come from rolling back income tax cuts passed in 2012 and how much should come from new sales taxes.

But lawmakers also are discussing what role cigarette taxes and an increased fee on health maintenance organizations (HMOs) should play.

Public health advocates have strongly supported increasing the cigarette tax by $1.50 per pack since Gov. Sam Brownback proposed it in January. But the plan ran into resistance from the tobacco industry and convenience stores, as well legislators from border counties who feared losing business to low-tax Missouri.

Tax packages under consideration this week in the House Taxation Committee called instead for a 75-cent per-pack hike. The Senate Committee on Assessment and Taxation is considering per-pack increases of 50 cents and $1.

Reagan Cussimanio, a lobbyist for the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network, said the lower amounts would dull the deterrent effect of the tax increase.

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Kansas House okays low-THC marijuana oil for seizure disorders Andy Marso KHI News Service

The Kansas House last week passed a measure legalizing the use of low-THC marijuana oil for people with persistent seizure disorders.

Rep. John Wilson (D-Lawrence) championed the oil legalization on behalf of Ryan and Kathy Reed, who moved to Colorado to access it for their young son, Otis.

Wilson successfully brought together House colleagues from across the political spectrum on the measure by emphasizing how much

narrower it was than prior medical marijuana bills that never cleared the committee process. The final vote was 81-36.

“This bill represents a Kansas solution, I think,” Wilson said. “A solution that is designed to be very specific and meet a very specific medical condition, and has very limited forms of consumption and access.”

Wilson’s amendment allows for regulated facilities to grow low-THC marijuana, manufacture oil from it and dispense it to patients with cards verifying they have

persistent seizures that have defied other treatments. The plants grown must be three percent THC or less, rendering them unable to provide the “high” that recreational marijuana users seek.

Prospective dispensary owners would have to apply for registration through the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. They would be required to pass a background check, show evidence of at least $250,000 in liquid assets and pay a $20,000 registration fee.

Opponents of Wilson’s amendment questioned the

evidence that low-THC marijuana oil is beneficial to seizure patients, noted that all forms of marijuana remain illegal at the federal level and questioned whether the bill, by circumventing the Food and Drug Administration approval process, puts patients at risk.

“What this says is, ‘Fine, do whatever experiments you want on people, and hopefully the results will be good,’” said Rep. Jan Pauls (R-Hutchinson).

Pauls, an attorney, said the bill provides no legal (See DISORDERS on page 15)

‘Free’ contraception means ‘free’ Insurers left with no doubt about law’s intention

by Phil Galewitz Kaiser Health News

Free means free.

The Obama administration said Monday that health plans must offer for free at least one of every type of prescription birth control - clarifying regu-

lations that left some insurers misinterpreting the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate.

“Today’s guidance seeks to eliminate any ambiguity,” the Health and Human Services Department said. “Insurers must cover without cost-sharing at least one form of contraception in each of the methods that the Food and Drug Administration has identified . . . including the ring, the patch

and intrauterine devices.”

The ruling comes after reports by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the National Women’s Law Center, an advocacy group, found many insurers were not providing no-cost birth control for all prescription methods.

Gretchen Borchelt, a vice president with the women’s law center, applauded the guidance.

“Insurance companies

Moran, VA secretary tangle over program for rural veterans Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran has what amounts to a running feud going with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He says the agency is dragging its feet implementing a new law called the Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014 that’s designed to help veterans in rural areas get the care they need.

But Robert McDonald, the new VA secretary, says Moran’s claims are baseless.

Finding alternative ways to get health care services to veterans who live in rural areas - far from VA medical centers - has been a priority for Moran since his early days in the U.S. House of Representatives.

“I represented a congressional district that was larger than the state of Illinois,” Moran said. “The First District of Kansas has lots of square miles - no VA hospital.

So what we’ve been interested in is how do you get services when there’s no VA hospital close by?

How do you get services to those veterans? And the answer initially was outpatient clinics.”

In part due to Moran’s efforts, the VA now operates 15 outpatient clinics in communities across Kansas.

But there are still parts of Kansas - especially in the west - where veterans have to drive a long way to get to one of those clinics.

“But if you’re a 92-year-old World War II veteran in Atwood, Kansas, how do you get to an outpatient clinic in Hays or Burlington?

There are many veterans whose problems we did not solve,” Moran said.

So last year Moran helped push for and pass the Choice Act. Among other things, it requires the VA to pay local doctors for providing care to veterans who live more than 40 miles from the nearest VA health care facility.

But Moran said the VA seems intent on undermining the law.

Examples he cites are the agency’s (See MORAN on page 15)

have been breaking the law and, today, the Obama Administration underscored that it will not tolerate these violations,” she said. “It is now absolutely clear that ‘all’ means ‘all’- ‘all’ unique birth control methods for women must be covered.”

The law requires that preventive services, such as contraception and well-woman visits, be covered without (See FREE on page 15)

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Mental health drug change goes to governor A proposal to allow prior authorizations for Medicaid reimbursements on mental health drugs passed its final legislative hurdle Friday.

The measure, which was requested by Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration as part of a budget proposal and projected to save $8 million, passed the House 82-31 as part of a small health confer-

ence committee package.

It passed the Senate 31-6 earlier in the week and now heads to the governor’s desk.

Until Brownback signs the measure, state law will continue to prohibit any regulation of mental health drugs under Medicaid.

Mental health advocates argued against a bill to repeal that statute,

Disorders recourse for patients harmed by the oil.

Rep. John Carmichael, an attorney who has worked on both sides of medical malpractice cases, said Wilson’s bill was so narrowly tailored as to make serious harm unlikely and the risk-benefit ratio acceptable.

Wilson had support from across the aisle, as well.

Rep. Barbara Bollier (R-Mission Hills), a retired physician, said she was skeptical of the bill at first but swayed by the pleas of desperate parents whose children suffer hundreds of seizures a day.

“Parents want to take care of their children,” Bollier said. “These children are very, very ill and have an unimaginable life

Moran stricter-than-necessary interpretation of the 40-mile rule and its decision to enforce the 40-mile rule even when the nearest VA facility doesn’t provide the particular services that a veteran needs.

“The VA is interpreting this legislation in a way that makes it difficult for veterans to access that health care,” Moran said. “And the hope that the Choice Act provided - while it’s beneficial to some, in some instances it’s working well - in many instances the VA, it seems to me, has gone out of its way to make it less likely that veterans get the

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saying it was necessary to ensure there were no delays in getting effective drugs into the hands of people with severe and persistent mental illnesses who could be a danger to themselves or others without the drugs.

Administration officials said the current law kept them from preventing reimbursements for prescribing patterns

- especially for young and old patients - that do not fit Food and Drug Administration guidelines for the drugs in question.

But the advocates came together with the administration on the revised bill that was part of the conference committee report that passed this week. It allows the secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment

to require prior authorization for new mental health drugs, subject to a review by an independent advisory board that includes psychiatrists, pharmacists and other health care professionals.

“This is a workable compromise that can lead to positive outcomes for patients and provide more clarity for prescribers,” said Kyle

Kessler, executive director of the Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas.

The conference committee report passed this week also included a non-controversial provision mandating Medicaid reimbursement for donor breast milk for babies in neonatal intensive care units.

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to you or I.” Rep. Don Hill (R-Emporia, a pharmacist, cautioned colleagues not to oversell the benefits of the oil in question for treating seizure disorders, noting that initial research has shown benefits in only half - or less - of study participants.

But Hill said he still supported Wilson’s narrowly tailored amendment.

To illustrate the bipartisan nature of the oil bill, Rep. Brett Hildabrand (R-Shawnee) noted that both Oklahoma and New York have passed similar laws in recent years.

If the marijuana oil measure passes the Senate and is signed by the governor, Kansas would join 23 other states that allow some level of marijuana

for medical use.

Wilson’s amendment was tacked on to House Bill 2049, a bill to lessen the penalties for first and second convictions of possession of small amounts of marijuana. The sponsor of that bill, Rep. John Rubin, said he’s against decriminalization of marijuana. But he said current law - which makes possession a felony on second conviction - is not serving the state or offenders well.

Rubin said his bill would save the state money on prison bed space, push low-level drug offenders toward community treatment that’s more beneficial and bring the state’s drug sentences more proportionate to the offense when compared to penalties for more serious crimes.

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services they need.”

McDonald responded to Moran’s charges at a recent meeting of health care journalists and rejected the notion that the VA is trying to undermine the Choice Act. “Despite what you may have heard, we’re very much in favor of community care,” McDonald said. “Right now, even before the Choice Act, 20 percent of our appointments have been outside, in the community - 20 percent. So it’s hard to say we’re not in favor of community care. We are. And it’s a good thing for us.”

Much of the criticism

about how the VA has implemented the Choice Act has focused on the 40-mile distance requirement. McDonald said the agency has listened and is willing to make adjustments.

“We’re reinterpreting the 40 miles. Because that was done in conference, working with Senator Moran and others, we think that we can reinterpret that as driving distance, and we think that will double the number of veterans able to use the Choice program,” McDonald said.

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out-of-pocket expenses, such as a co-pay or deductible.

While HHS said insurers must offer for free at least one version of all 18 FDA approved contraceptives, the plans still may charge fees to encourage individuals to use a particular brand or generic.

For example, a generic form might be free, while a brand-name version of the drug can include costsharing, HHS said.

The administration Monday said insurers could have misinterpreted prior rules to mean they only had to offer certain types of contraception without costsharing. Plans have until July to implement the policy, which generally will not take effect until a new plan year begins. That means for most people the new rule will start in January.

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Pastime at Park Lane The Prairie View Church of the Brethren led Sunday afternoon services.

Residents played pitch and dominoes on Monday afternoon. Game helpers were Dorothy King, Wanda Kirk, Gary Goodman and Doris Riner.

Elsie Nagel and Doris Riner led Tuesday morning Bible study.

Residents decorated cupcakes on Tuesday afternoon.

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

Madeline Murphy and Barbara Dickhut helped with bingo on Wednesday afternoon.

Several residents played cards on Wednesday evening. Elsie Nagel gave manicures on Thursday morning.

Fr. Bernard Felix led Catholic Mass on Friday morning. Rev. Warren Prochnow led Lutheran services on Friday afternoon.

Hit and Miss Band entertains

The Hit and Miss Band from the VIP Center performed on Thursday afternoon. Band members were Margie Stevens, Melody Stevens and Herb Stevens. Jane McBroom furnished cookies.

Piano students present recital

The piano students of Ann Hawkins held a piano recital at Park Lane on Saturday afternoon.

Performers were Maile Depperschmidt, Carter Gooden, Dexter Gooden, Parker Gooden, Tanner Gooden, Claire Hawkins, Augustus Hawkins, Kalo Hineman, Abigail Prochnow, Annie Talbert, Landon Trout and Megan Trout.

Cookies were served by the piano students.

Thanks to the New Horizons 4-H Club for making centerpieces for the dining room tables.

Thanks to the family of Mae Hillery for the flowers brought to Park Lane in her memory.

Dottie Fouquet was visited by Jon and Anne Crane, Danean Metheney, Mark and Terri Fouquet, Susan Amack and Tava See. Thelma Branine was visited by Chandler Hornbostel and Hunter Smith.

Darlene Richman was visited by Mary Webster, Phebe Unruh and Darla Luebbers.

Lloyd Eitel was visited by Carl and Shirley Rempa, Roswell, N.M.; Mary Lou Oeser, Vick and Sandy Eitel, Veronica and Jeff Mayer, and Kurt and Tina.

Visitors of Lowell Rudolph were Tom and Kathleen Moore, Chuck Kirk, Rev. Don Martin, Jon Buehler and LuAnn Buehler.

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LaVera King was visited by Velda Riddiough, Gloria Gough, Shellie Carter; Randy, Kay, Harrison King; Lawrence Bird, Forest Gough, Danea and Andie Wasinger, Carol Latham, Shanna Wells, and Tatum and Hunter Wells.

Verna Willman was visited by Bill Willman, Bob Willman, D’Ann Markel and Ed Norton.

Cecile Billings was visited by Ann Beaton, Delinda Dunagan, Larry Billings, Bill Beaton, Thurman Dunagan, and Erik, Leann, Hallie, Hope and Hayden Wiechman.

Nella Funk was visited

by Dianna Howard, Aaron and Mandy Kropp, and Kim Smith.

Emogene Harp was visited by Alicia Harp, Rick Harp, Margie Stevens, Nancy Holt and Reed Harp.

Clifford Dearden was visited by Kirk and Janet Ottaway from Hays.

Lorena Turley was visited by Neta Wheeler.

Deaths Jack Anderson

Jack Anderson, 77, died May 8, 2015, at Willow Brook Assisted Living, York, Nebr.

H e was born on Nov. 1, 1937, at Healy, the son of Raymond H a r ley and Jack Anderson Christina Marion (Reed) Anderson.

He married Frances Kenoyer and later married Yvonne Billings on Dec. 18, 1971, at Ottawa.

He was a member of the United Methodist Church, Healy, and the Healy Odd Fellows Lodge.

Jack graduated from Healy High School and then served as an aircraft mechanic in the United States Air Force. After his discharge he returned to Healy and worked for the Healy Co-op for 44 years, retiring as the grain department manager.

He was the football announcer for Healy High School for 15 years and a longtime coach and pitcher for the Healy men’s softball team.

Survivors include: his wife; three sons, Harold Anderson, and wife, Ei-

Mary Lou Coates

Mary Lou Coates, 74, died May 8, 2015, at St. Catherine Hospital, Garden City.

S h e was born on Sept.

7, 1940, in Fame Bottom, Okla., the daughter Mary Lou Coates of Cecil and Oleta Marie (Windham) Miller.

On May 30, 1998, she married Mark Coates in Shallow Water. He died on May 1, 2015, in Garden City.

Survivors include: two sons, Nathan Burns, Dighton, and Bryan Coates, Moses Lake, Wash.; two daughters, Darlicia Ladner, and husband, Mark, Scott City, and Kristi Coates, Moses Lake, Wash.; five brothers, Cecil, Jr., Perry, Bobby,

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Boots Haxton was visited by Melissa Jasnoch and Rod and Kathy Haxton.

Vivian Kreiser was visited by Larry and Sharon Lock and Lorena Turley.

Bonnie Pickett was visited by Larry and Gloria Wright, Larry and Philene Pickett, Chris Pickett, Joel Wright; Justin, Betsy, Eli and Ethan Wright; and Josh, Jenny, Kylie and David Wright.

Jake Leatherman was visited by Tava See. Margie Harper was visited by Denise Unruh.

Lucille Dirks was visited by David Dirks and Dale and Vicki Dirks.

Yvonne Spangler was visited by Yvette Mills, Adalei Zeller, Jerica VanCampen, Danny Spangler; Danica, Will and Jag; and Les and Mary Ann Spangler.

Harold and Ruth White were visited by Sharon Strecker, Jerica VanCampen, and Adalei Zeller.

Corinne Dean was visited by Dianna Howard; John, Kylee, Warren and Wyatt Kropp; Aaron and Mandy Kropp, and Kim Smith.

Arlene Beaton was visited by William Beaton, Albert and Linda Savolt; Aaron, Holly and Landry Beaton; Bill and Ann Beaton; Erik, Leann, Hallie, Hope and Hayden Wiechman; and John and Colleen Beaton.

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

Herb Graves was visited by Marilyn Waters and Tina Turley.

Dona Dee Carpenter was visited by Marvel Hopkins, Roger and Jackie John, Gloria O’Bleness, Larry LaPlant, Billy and Lori Stephens, Kade and Josh John, Bill and Kandi John, Brad and Kylee Ludowese, Cashlyn and Camden Ludowese, Bill and Kirsten John, and Sherill Tubbs.

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Anthony William ‘Tony’ Akers leen, Hays, Greg Anderson, and wife, Chelle, Dighton, and Byler Sunley, and wife, Terra, Healy; three daughters, LaFonda Sharp, and husband, Dan, Healy, Rhonda Koehn, and husband, Jeff, Henderson, Nebr., and MaReike Vogt, Germany; two sisters, Marilyn “Dee” Smith, Dighton, and Mona Walker, Eads, Colo.; 11 grandchildren and three great-grandchilldren.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one sister, Zada Lewis.

Funeral service was held May 12 at the United Methodist Church, Healy, with Rev. Bud Tuxhorn officiating.

Burial was at the Healy Cemetery with graveside rites by American Legion Post No. 190 and the Kansas Army Reserves National Guard.

Memorials may be given to the United Methodist Church, Healy, or the Healy EMTs in care of Boomhower Funeral Home, 145 N. Wichita, Box 891, Dighton, Ks. 67839.

Condolences may be posted at www.garnandfuneralhomes.com.

George and Roger Miller; four sisters, Kelly Thompson, Lisa Mills, Betty Smith and Robin Miller; and six grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents and one son, Keith Burns.

Memorial service will be held Sat., May 16, 10:30 a.m., at Price and Sons Funeral Home, Garden City.

Inurnment will be at Valley View Cemetery immediately following the memorial service.

Memorials may be made to St. Catherine Hospice (make checks payable to St. Catherine Hospital with Hospice in the memo line) in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 620 N. Main St., Garden City, Ks. 67846.

There will be no calling times.

Anthony William, “Tony” Akers, 53, passed away at St. Francis Hospital on April 12, 2015, after an 11-month battle with cancer.

F o r most of his life, T o n y struggled w i t h chronic and often Anthony Akers uncontrollable epilepsy.

Despite this adversity, Tony was an accomplished mechanic, woodworker, and for the past several years, IT professional.

He attended and graduated from Wichita Automotive and Electronics Institute in the early 1980s, and completed a correspondence course from the National Radio Institute in the late 1990s. He then became the owner/ operator of Compu-Doc in Scott City until he and his family moved back to Wichita in 2001.

On January 19, 1985, Tony married Denise Appel from Scott City, Ks. To this union, two sons, Whitney and Sidney, were born.

Tony is survived by his wife, Denise, of Wichita; his two sons, Whitney Akers and wife, Bevin (FitzGerald), Andover, and Sidney Akers and fiancé, Jennifer Bowers, Wichita; his mother, Madeline (Hill) Akers, Wichita, one brother, Jon Akers, Wichita; one step-sister, Joy Brakey, Manhattan;

lifelong best friend Riley “Danny” Mallatt, Black Diamond, Wash.; brothers and sisters-in-law, Jim and Robyn (Appel) Brady, Littleton, Colo., James and Melodee (Appel) Ramey, May, Okla., Pamela (Gimler) Appel, Scott City, Gary and Lark (Appel) Speer, Scott City, Brian and Cynthia Appel, Scott City, and Nate Appel, Wichita; 17 nieces and nephews, 15 grand nieces and nephews, four greatgrand nieces and nephews, and one grandchild, Levi Anthony FitzGerald Akers, born the day after Tony passed.

He was preceded in death by his father, William E. Akers; brotherin-law, Robert “Baxter” Appel; and grand-nephew Ethan Rodenberg.

A celebration of Tony’s life will be held at The Museum of World Treasures, 835 E. 1st Street, Wichita, on Sat., May 23, 5:00-8:00 p.m.

Those attending are asked to write down their fondest memory of Tony and bring it to the memorial. These will be collected and shared aloud while while gather for food and fellowship.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that contributions in Tony’s name be made to the Epilepsy Foundation, 8301 Professional Place, Suite 200, Landover, Md. 20785.

Services are being conducted by Broadway Mortuary.

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Wednesday: Choice of ham and beans or stew, tossed salad, cornbread, strawberries and pears.

Thursday: Grilled chicken with gravy, sweet potato fries, corn, whole wheat roll, fruit mix.

Friday: Barbeque beef, potato salad, copper penny salad, fruit cocktail. meals are $3.25 • call 872-3501

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Deaths Mary Plum

Mary E. Plum, 92, died May 7, 2015, at the Scott County Hospital, Scott City.

S h e w a s born on Nov. 25, 1922, in L e a d a y, Tex., the Mary Plum daughter of William Thomas and Nora Belle (Weddle) Moore.

A resident of Scott City since 1955, moving from McLean, Tex., she was a retired head cook at USD 466 (Scott County) for over 20 years.

She was a member of the First Baptist Church, Evening Circle of the First Baptist Church and Independent Living morning coffee group.

On July 13, 1943, she married Thomas H. Plum in Sayre, Okla. He died Sept. 16, 2010, in Scott City.

Survivors include: one son, Bob Plum, and wife, Georgia, Scott City; three daughters, Teena

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She was preceded in death by her parents; one great-granddaughter, Bobbi Beckman; and three brothers, Jairrel, Chalmus and James Moore.

Funeral service was held May 11 at the First Baptist Church, Scott City, with Pastor Jason Dirks officiating.

Interment was at the Scott County Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church or Pence Community Church in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 401 S. Washington St., Scott City, Ks. 67871.

Harold Wayne Lappin

Harold Wayne Lappin, 76, died April 28, 2015, at his home, in Albuquerque, N.M. He was born on March 23, 1939, in Dodge City.

Harold served his country in the US Navy.

He retired from PNM as a line Harold Lappin man and worked many more years for the Albuquerque Mortuary Service and Hope Christian School.

He was a past Master of Temple Lodge No. 6. A.F. and A.M. He then spent the last nine years in Scott City enjoying retirement and volunteering at the VIP Center.

Survivors include: his wife, Maria Lappin; one daughter, Mitzi Hoeme,

and husband, Kelly, Scott City; step-children Donnie, Danny and wife, Kathy, and Neta and Chach Dominquez, Albuquerque, N.M.; one sister, Norma Franklin; two granddaughters and four step-grandchildren.

He was preceeded in death by his parents and three sisters.

Memorial service was held May 2 at Remedy Church of God, Albuquerque, with Pastor Dennis Carter, Scott City, presiding.

Graveside memorial service was held May 13 at the Scott County Cemetery.

Memorials may be given to the First United Methodist Church, Scott City, in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 401 S. Washington St., Scott City, Ks. 67871.

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Attend the Church of Your Choice

Awake Ephesians 5:14;15;17 “Awake O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will give you light. So be careful how you live. Don’t act like fools, but like those who are wise....Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do.”

Nearly every morning when 6:15 comes around I hear my 14-year-old son’s phone alarm going off downstairs. As I make my way down the stairs I find the phone lying beside my son, but he is sound asleep, oblivious to the fact that his phone alarm is going off.

He is clearly still in a sound state of sleep, unaware of what is going on around him. After I shake him a little bit he will hit the snooze option and roll over for a few more moments of sleep.

How often is our lives similar to this picture? We can get so focused on our own little world, doing our own thing where we become self-centered, self-seeking, self-immersed while being asleep to the things of Christ. There may be alarms going off around us, attempting to awake us, but we are either unaware of them or we hit the snooze button and say, “just a little more time to myself.”

Maybe it is a crisis event God is using to try and get our attention, or maybe it is something we hear

at church or that we read in our Bible or maybe it is something we hear on the news and yet we fail to come awake.

The Bible tells us that when we are only tuned into our own little world we are acting thoughtlessly and like a fool, but when we awaken to what God is speaking to us and responding to what He wants us to do, we are then acting wisely! Do we want to be known as wise or as a fool?

If my son continues to roll over and hit snooze he will miss school, which will lead to getting behind in his class work, which will lead to poor grades which will lead to failing which will lead to discouragement and dropping out which will lead to him being known as a fool!

Don’t be the one who stays asleep to the things of Christ and be known as the fool, but rather be the one who comes awake to the things of Christ, becoming aware of what God wants you to do and be wise.

I want to encourage you to come awake to the things of Christ and become aware of what God is doing and what He wants you to do in your life. Then you will be acting wisely and will be blessed!

Pastor Kyle Evans First Baptist 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

1st United Methodist Church

Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.

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.

120 S. Lovers Lane - Shallow Water Larry Taylor, pastor Sunday School: 9:30 a.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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Lawn and Garden

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Act now to discourage deer from visiting Early each spring, deer have many new opportunities for browsing routes. They scout out the best sources of succulent new leaf growth - which they’ll return to again and again through the growing season.

“That’s your best chance with repellents to have a real impact by somehow making your plants unappealing. Deer will check out your site a couple of times. If the plants always smell or taste bad, or if your site remains scary or hard to reach, deer may avoid your property for the rest of the season. They tend to be creatures of habit,” said Charlie Lee, K-State Extension wildlife specialist.

Unfortunately, deer also habitually cause more than $250 million in damage to home landscapes, commercial areas and civic parks every year.

That’s more than two and one-half times the annual

deer damage in agricultural crops, according to USDA’s National Wildlife Research Center.

“Loud, protective dogs can be a great deterrent, but they aren’t much help in residential areas, due to leash laws and nighttime noise restrictions. So, human population centers serve as deer refuges - full of carefully tended landscapes with all kinds of deer food options,” Lee says.

Other deer deterrents are imperfect solutions, in part because deer can figure out when repeated scare tactics bring no physical harm.

“To a degree, though, you’ve got to weigh how much time and money you’re willing to invest, to try to save vulnerable plants. You might decide you’d rather replace what you’ve got with more deer-resistant plants,” Lee said, offering these deterrent options: •Deer repellents avail-

able in most nurseries and garden supply stores, as well as in some farm supply stores.

They may not be safe or labeled to use on fruit and vegetable crops. Rainfall usually washes them away. Even without rain, some don’t weather well.

Among the “smell” repellents, a strong rottenegg odor probably works best, either applied near plants that need protection or in a border around an entire area.

Among the “taste” repellents, the fungicideand hot pepper-based tastes can work fairly well, if applied directly onto individual plants, up to about six feet from ground level (as far as white-tailed deer can typically reach to eat).

Timing is Helpful “I personally haven’t had consistent success with commercial repellents,” Lee said. “But, some may be more ef-

Identifying poison ivy

With Memorial Day weekend just around the corner, many families will be heading off to area lakes and recreation areas with the family for a funfilled weekend.

One pesky plant that can put a damper on the fun is poison ivy.

Learning to identify poison ivy is the best way to prevent the unwelcome rash that often accompanies an unexpected encounter with this plant.

Poison ivy is somewhat difficult to identify because of its growth habit. Its most common form is that of a climbing plant, which can grow skyward as much as 60 feet if there is something for it to attach to.

Where there is nothing for it to cling to, poison

ivy may form a thicket of medium-sized shrubs or simply trail along the ground.

Poison ivy clings to fence posts, trees, and walls by means of stubby aerial roots which protrude from its stems. The numerous aerial roots, especially on thick stems, gives the poison ivy vine the appearance of a fuzzy rope.

The leaves of poison ivy are also varied in form and can easily fool you.

Its leaf margins may be smooth, incised or coarsely toothed. The size of the

leaf can be small or large depending upon whether the plant is growing in full sun or shade, along a river bank or by itself on the top of a hill.

The one common characteristic most useful for identifying poison ivy is its compound leaf made up of three leaflets. The center leaflet is the only one with a long stalk, the two side leaflets are directly opposite of each other and closely attached to the petiole (leaf stalk).

This unique characteristic of poison ivy gives rise to the saying, “leaves of three, let it be!”

Two other key features of poison ivy useful in identification are the alternate attachment of leaves on the stems and the aerial roots.

Self-cleaning plants a bonus Petunias and roses continue to soar in the home garden market, as plant breeders add to the species described as “selfcleaning.”

“Hardiness and disease resistance are still the most important factors when gardeners choose new plants,” says Ward Upham, K-State Extension horticulturist.

Self-cleaning plants are those that drop their spent flowers and bloom again.

In many cases, they’re sterile varieties, bred not to produce seeds, Upham said. Self-cleaning roses, for example, don’t develop rose hips.

That’s an issue because

plants that aren’t selfcleaning will sometimes bloom more profusely if their old, spent flowers are removed - a process called deadheading. This can include pinching off the flower or clipping back the flower’s stem to the next bud or leaf.

“Annuals, in particular, tend to focus their energy on seed production after flowering, to insure that their species survives.

But, if you deadhead the old flowers, the plants’ seed-making energy will switch to making more blooms,” he explained.

“Deadheading lengthens some perennials’ flower season, too.”

Upham listed the following as plants that respond to deadheading floriferously: begonias, blanket flowers, campanulas, coreopsis, delphiniums, hardy geraniums (perennial cranesbills), annual heliotropes, marigolds, Pelargonium geraniums (annuals), some petunias, some roses, salvia, scabiosa, snapdragons, sweet peas, zinnias and yarrows.

“With ordinary petunias, you have to remove every bloom as soon as it fades - preferably pinching back the stem a bit, too. Otherwise, they’ll quickly lose their looks,” he said.

fective than others. Some homeowners have told me of repellents’ working very well, especially if started while plants are still dormant and before deer have made a habit of consuming your plants.”

•Hanging deer repellents sometimes available commercially (e.g., coyote urine containers), but traditionally homemade by drilling a hole in a cheap, smelly bar of soap and stringing twine or rope through the hole.

Research with fruit trees found “soap on a rope” can be effective in some cases. The approach requires hanging a soap bar every few feet from a valuable tree or along an entire fence line.

“Again, however, nothing works with deer every time. I’ve read reports of deer actually eating the soap,” Lee said.

•Stiff netting designed to protect fruit tree canopies and/or “tubes’ designed to protect trees’

emerging shoots. In practice, they’re much like the fencing, wraps and tubing used to protect tender trunk bark from antler rubbing. But, they can be difficult to install, and they may degrade in sunlight.

•“Baited” electric fencing. Lee recommends metal conductor-reinforced polyethylene fence netting at least four feet high and attached to fiberglass posts (perhaps with wood corner posts).

He also recommends two rows of stainless steel-reinforced polyethylene tape, strung 6-18 inches above the top of the netting (i.e., 12 inches apart). These ribbon-rows will make the fence more visible and reduce the probability of jumping.

“Deer can easily clear a fence that high, so you have to ‘drape and bait’ it to attract their attention and lure them in close enough to get a little shock,” he said. “I pre-

fer peanut butter for bait, smeared at intervals on the tapes and netting. But, you could try peanut oil, apple flavoring or something similar.”

•Motion-activated water-blaster hooked to a garden hose and staked out where it probably will water the garden as it startles wildlife. Some brands may adjust for a small or narrow yard.

“This seems like such a good idea. And, evidently, it’s fairly effective at repelling rabbits and roaming housecats. Unfortunately, I’ve never heard of anybody successfully using one to repel deer,” Lee said.

•Propane cannons, whistle bombs, shellcrackers, sirens, fireworks and gunfire are effective short-term “scare tactics,” particularly in early spring.

But, having to create such noises when deer are present can mean losing sleep.

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A few simple steps to growing great tomatoes Nothing beats the flavor of fresh-from-the-garden tomatoes. Make this your biggest and tastiest tomato harvest yet with proper planting and care.

Reduce pest problems and increase the harvest by growing your tomatoes in a sunny location with well-drained soil or in a quality potting mix for container gardens.

Improve your garden soil by adding several inches of organic matter to the top 8-12 inches of soil prior to planting.

Compost, aged manure, and other organic materials help improve drainage in heavy clay soil and increase the water holding ability of sandy soil.

Add a slow release organic nitrogen fertilizer according to label directions at planting. Slow release fertilizers provide a constant diet that is better for your plants and less work for you.

Save yourself more time by mixing the fertilizer into the soil when incorporating the organic matter. Then give your plants a midseason boost as needed.

Once the soil is prepared, wait for the air and soil to warm to plant your tomatoes. Planting too early when the soil is still cool and the nights are chilly can stress the plant and delay your harvest.

Trenching Tomatoes Plant your tomatoes slightly deeper or in a trench for better rooting. Trench tomatoes by digging a shallow trench about 3-4 inches deep.

Remove the lower leaves and lay the plant on its

Plant tomatoes slightly deeper or in a trench for better rooting.

side in the hole. Roots will eventually form along the stem.

Carefully bend the stem, so the upper leaves will be above the soil. Fill the trench with soil and water.

Stake or tower your tomatoes to reduce insect and disease problems and make harvesting easier.

The type of tomato and your schedule will help determine the training system that works best for you.

Determinate tomatoes (look for the D on the tag) grow a certain height and stop. They work well in towers, containers or even hanging baskets.

Indeterminate tomatoes, labeled with an I, keep growing taller, producing more flowers and fruit until the end of the growing season.

These do best when grown on tall sturdy stakes or extra tall strong towers.

Towering Tomatoes Towering tomatoes is easy. Simply place the tower over the tomatoes at planting. Tomatoes grown in towers produce a larger, but later harvest than staked tomato plants.

Allow a bit more time if you decide to stake your plants. Place the stake in the ground at planting. Be careful not to injure the roots. As the plants begin to grow prune off all side branches, suckers, that develop between the main stem and leaves.

Loosely tie the remaining one or two stems to the stake. Cloth strips, twine or other soft ties work well. Keep tying up the plants as they continue to grow. Staked tomatoes produce the earliest and smallest harvest.

Check new plantings every few days and water often enough to keep the developing root system moist. Reduce frequency as plants become estab-

Keep mower blades sharp to avoid damage to lawn

Catching up with lawn mowing after several days of rain, or following a vacation, can be as stressful for the lawn mower as it is for the grass.

At this time of year, tall grass can be tough grass. Kansas’ favorite lawn turfs - tall fescue and Kentucky bluegrass - go to seed in late spring and early summer. The stems holding that seed are much tougher than your typical grass, so they dull your mower blades much faster than usual.

K-State Extension recommends sharpening mower blades after every 10 hours of normal use.

“Seed stems always tend to shred. As mower blades get duller, however, they start tearing off grass blades, too,” says Chip Miller, horticulturist with KSU Extension.

“And, when the shredded ends dry out, the lawn develops a kind of sicklooking, whitish cast.”

Research has found that recurring dull-blade injury increases the odds for disease problems in turf.

Beyond that, the cutting resistance that dull blades encounter not only creates extra work for a mower’s engine but also burns up 22 percent more fuel.

“Research has refuted one generally accepted

premise, though. Evidently, dull-blade injury does not increase turf’s water loss,” Miller said. “Even so, one of the best things homeowners could do for their lawn’s appearance and health in the weeks ahead would be to keep their mower blade sharp.”

Mowing a too-tall lawn can also hurt the grass.

Turf plants overreact when they lose more than a third of their height in any one cutting.

They quickly use their stored energy reserves to send up new growth. This can leave them more vulnerable to insects and disease.

lished.

Water established plants thoroughly whenever the top few inches of soil are slightly moist.

Mulch the soil with evergreen needles, shredded leaves or other organic mulch to keep the soil consistently moist and suppress weeds.

Consistent soil moisture encourages more flowering and fruiting, while reducing the risk of blossom end rot, cracking and misshapen fruit.

Harvest your tomatoes when fully colored.

Leave them on the plant an extra five or six days for even better flavor.

Unfortunately, the animals often move in and feast on the ripening fruit.

In this case, you may need to finish ripening tomatoes indoors.

And once you taste that first red ripe tomato, you’ll be looking for more sunny spots for containers or to expand your garden.

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National recognition for Ks. archeology training program The Kansas Archeology Training Program (KATP), sponsored by the Kansas Historical Society and the Kansas Anthropological Association, has received the 2015 Award for Excellence in Public Education: Community and Public Programming.

This major award from the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) is considered only every three years and demonstrates that the KATP is among the best archeol-

ogy public education programs in the United States.

The SAA is the largest and most prestigious archeological organization in the Western Hemisphere, dedicated to the research, interpretation, and protection of the archeological heritage of the Americas.

According to Kansas State Archeologist Robert Hoard, “The KATP allows the public to participate in

science. Instead of listening to experts describing and interpreting evidence that they have recovered, non-professionals are given training and guidance that allow them to work alongside professionals to uncover the evidence for themselves.

“The program is designed to be as affordable as possible and allows people as young as ten years of age to participate under the supervision of a responsible adult.”

While the annual summer field school is an important component of the KATP, the program also offers opportunities throughout the year, including seminars on specific archeological topics and an optional certification program that encourages participants

to reach levels of competence that they may not have attempted otherwise.

The volunteer program has participants who return year after year, choosing to spend part or all of their summer vacations learning about and contributing to what is known about the Kansas

past.

For more information on the upcoming KATP field school in Ellis County, June 5-20, visit w w w. k s h s . o r g / 1 4 6 2 2 or contact Public Archeologist Virginia Wulfkuhle at vwulfkuhle@kshs.org or 785-2728681 ext. 266.

‘Edventures’ returning this summer to Garden City zoo

Lee Richardson Zoo’s Edventures are back and ready to engage young people in hands-on learning adventures throughout the summer.

Zoo Edventures are full of games, activities, live animals, crafts and more for students entering first through 12th grade in the fall. Each Edventure is geared toward the developmental abilities and interests of a specific age group and run Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to noon.

First and second graders can attend Grossology June 8-12 and/or Wild Things from July 6-10.

In Grossology campers will explore the things that make them go “yuck” and end up saying, “cool”!

Third and fourth graders we will delve into DNA to explore the hows and whys of inheritance in “Gene-y in a Bottle” June 15-19.

From July 13-17 campers discover the methods animals use for survival and then try it out themselves in “I Will Survive.”

“Friendy Competition” is the fifth/sixth garde camp June 22-26.

Sometimes it’s a dogeat-dog world but can

animals ever just get along?

Campers will look into the relationships that make the wild world work and maybe even learn something about their own interactions in the process.

Seventh and eighth graders can participate in the Junior Wildlife Biologist Edventure.

July 20-24 attendees will get hands-on experience doing the things wildlife biologists do every day.

Students will participate in real research activities and contribute to scientific studies. This is a great opportunity for students interested in a career working with wildlife.

A new opportunity this summer will be available to students entering high school. They are eligible to become “Zoo Insiders.”

Attendees will participate in a training week June 1-5. They will learn about running a day camp as well as a peek at what a zookeeper’s life entails.

At the end of the week students can sign up to return for one of the younger Edventures as a “volunteen” camp leader.

In addition, volunteens can return for a week of

zookeeper duties during which they will try their hand at caring for animals.

Registration forms can be found at www.leerichardsonzoo.org/zooedventures or at the Finnup Center for Conservation Education (the building by the duck pond at the zoo).

Each week long Zoo Edventure costs $75 ($70 for FOLRZ members), need-based financial assistance is available.

For more information contact Tarra Tyson, Manager of Educational Outreach at tarra.tyson@ gardencityks.us or 620276-1250.

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shattering the barrier

Beavers finding offense, gain split

Career best puts Meyer among Class 3A elite

There’s never been any doubt that Brett Meyer would break the two minute mark in the 800m.

The Scott Community High School senior didn’t just slip under the two minute mark - he shattered it - at the Russell Relays on Friday.

Meyer ran a career best of 1:56.41 to hold off a strong challenge from Russell’s Noah Gfeller (1:58.75).

“It feels really good to finally run a race like this,” says Meyer.

“This whole year I’ve been hanging around that 2:01 and 2:02.

Breaking two minutes, and not just with a 1:58 or a 1:59, but to take it all the way down to 1:56 feels great.”

Credit Gfeller for helping to make that happen. The Russell junior set a strong pace on the opening lap and held a 10 meter lead on Meyer, who was in third place at the midway point. That didn’t concern Meyer, who says he felt comfortable with the pace and his position after the first 400 meters.

“I was really glad that kid took off. The last couple of meets I’ve been jogging and going off with the leaders, but this guy took off at a pretty good pace so I had to go with him,” Meyer says. “I felt that, with my kick, I could catch him at the end. I was really pretty comfortable with the whole race.”

Meyer was forced to make his move with 300 meters remaining (See MEYER on page 22)

After struggling for most of the season at the plate, Scott City seems to finally be finding their offense - and just in time with the regional tournament next week.

Led by the suddenly hot bat of Kyle Scott City 1 13 Cure, the Hugoton 7 3 Beavers pounded out nine hits against Hugoton on their way to a 13-3 win and a split of Friday’s doubleheader in Great West Activities Conference action.

Cure, who was 3-of-5 at the plate and drove in a run in the nightcap, has boosted his season average to .309 with his recent hitting streak. Gustavo Gonzales was 2-of-4 and has seen his batting average inch up to .263.

“We’re starting to get things figured out at the plate. The boys aren’t chasing so many pitches outside the strike zone and we’re making contact,” says Baker. “They may not always be hit real hard, but at (See SPLIT on page 22)

Line a little blurry on NFL’s integrity of the game

SCHS senior Brett Meyer pulls away down the stretch for a career best of 1:56.41 to win the 800m at the Russell Relays on Friday.

(Record Photo)

Tennis duo is regional runner-up Two times the doubles team of Dylan Hutchins and Bo Hess dug themselves into a one set deficit during Monday’s Class 3A regional tournament.

Twice the Scott Community High School duo recovered, eventually claiming a second place finish and advancing to this weekend’s state tennis tournament at Emporia.

Their secret?

“We started playing more aggressive,” says Hess.

Their ability to regroup and maintain their aggressive play

sends Hutchins and Hess to their first state tournament with a 22-5 record.

The Beavers cruised to a 6-0, 6-0 sweep against Russell in the opening round, which may have also contributed to their slow start in the quarter-finals.

“We weren’t warmed up and it took us awhile to get going against Meade,” Hutchins says of their second round opponent. After dropping the first set (3-6), Scott City dominated in the second set (6-2) to force

a super tie-breaker which SCHS won, 10-8.

That set up a huge match in the semi-finals between the No. 3 seeded SCHS pair and No. 2 seeded Matt Demel/Michael Lamatsch (25-4, Central Plains). Once again, Scott City lost the first match before rallying for a three-set win, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2.

“I think Claflin was a little overconfident after the way they beat us in the first set,” says Hutchins, a junior. “In the second set we figured out what

they were doing well and were pretty much in control.”

Hutchins/Hess jumped out to a 4-1 lead in the second set and they used that momentum to carry them into the finals.

The semi-final win advanced Scott City into the championship match against the other powerhouse team from Central Plains that consisted of Layne Bieberle/Michael Ryan (29-0).

They remained unbeaten and are favorites to win the state title after a pair of 6-1 wins over (See TENNIS on page 23)

There are some Rod t e a m s Haxton, that peosports ple simeditor ply love to hate . . . Boston Red Sox, the Yankees, Dallas Cowboys and the Patriots.

There’s no middle ground.

It’s love or hate; black and white.

It’s that simple.

So there’s little wonder that when anything happens to taint the Patriots (Spygate or Deflategate) it brings out the emotions in all football fans.

(See INTEGRITY on page 23)

Another SCMS record bites the dust

Hayes shatters SC triple jump; Faurot breaks 2 GWAC marks

Scott City eighth grader Wyatt Hayes nears the finish line for a silver medal in the 400m at the GWAC track meet.

(Record Photo)

With a stiff 20-25 mph wind throughout the day, records on the track were going to be difficult to come during Tuesday’s Great West Activities Conference meet.

The Scott City Middle School eighth graders solved that problem with three record-setting performances in the field events to finish off an outstanding season.

Wyatt Hayes broke a school record (39-3) and GWAC (37-7) record in the triple jump with a wind-aided leap of 40-feet. The old school mark had been set by Rylan Smith in 2002.

“I was waiting for a good day like this with the wind to my back,” said Hayes. “Everything was coming together at the end of the season and I had a good week of practice.”

Hayes knew he might be in for a record-setting day after his opening mark of 38-11. That was followed by 39-10 before finishing

off the event with a 40-foot mark on his final leap.

“After I hit 38-11, I felt that 40 feet was within reach. Then when I got 39-10 I thought I could get one more out there,” says Hayes.

The eighth grader added a pair of individual silver medals in the 200m (25.73) and the 400m (56.6).

Faurot Wins 4 Golds Marshall Faurot finished off an outstanding junior high track career with four individual league championships, including recordsetting heights in the pole vault (11-feet) and high jump (5-feet-8).

The SCMS eighth grader raised the league mark in the pole vault by a foot and added two inches to the high jump record.

A strong south wind prevented league or school records from falling in the 100m hurdles (16.21) and the 200m hurdles (29.27) (See HAYES on page 26)

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Outdoors in Kansas by Steve Gilliland

Let the show begin The shows on this stage have always been more than spectacular and tonight’s performances even exceeded our expectations.

A bumbling pair of wild turkeys were the opening act. The hen pecked contentedly at the corn beneath a deer feeder while the long-bearded gobbler who played her sidekick milled about rather aimlessly, acting as though he was too good to be seen grazing with the likes of her.

At this time of year wild tom turkeys usually fall all over themselves to impress the ladies, twirling and prancing with their tails fanned out, but this fellow acted as though he had either lost all his mojo or totally forgotten his lines.

By the way, kudos to the set designers and to the orchestra for the astounding life-like sights and sounds they prepared for tonight’s show.

The sets were marvelous and the designers totally nailed the colors of the dogwood blossoms and the purple and yellow wildflowers that dot the hillsides this time of year.

The orchestra perfectly recreated the silky-smooth cooing of the mourning doves, and even the raucous buzzing made by the hummingbird’s tiny wings seemed impeccable this evening as they chased each other from feeder to feeder.

Now and then the muffled gobbles of wild tom turkeys could be heard drifting through the theater, sounding forall-the-world like we were actually sitting in the hills hearing their unmistakable throaty warbles echoing across the ridges.

(See SHOW on page 25)

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least we’re forcing teams to play defense.”

And to make mistakes.

The Eagles committed five errors in the loss.

SCHS (3-14) never trailed in the game, scoring twice in the opening inning and adding another run in the top of the second.

Scott City took advantage of early control problems by Hugoton’s starter in the first inning when he walked Baker in the leadoff spot and then hit Justin Faurot with a wild pitch.

A fielding error allowed Baker to score and Faurot crossed home plate on a wild pitch.

More Hugoton mistakes in the field allowed SCHS to pad their lead with four more runs in the fourth inning. Following a couple of errors by the Eagles that put runners on first and second, Scott City made them pay with consecutive singles by Gonzalez, Kevin Aguilera and Chase Rumford that scored three runs. A sacrifice fly by Drew Duff

Meyer

SCHS sophomore Gustavo Gonzales picked up his first win of the season when the Beavers rolled over Hugoton, 13-3, in league action last Friday.

(Record Photo)

extended the lead to 7-0.

Gonzales, who pitched a complete game, held Hugoton scoreless through four innings, but the Eagles finally got on the scoreboard with three runs in their half of the fifth.

Scott City answered with six runs in the top of the sixth. A three-

rule.

Hugoton Takes Opener Baker limited the Eagles to just four hits in the opener, but they were able to convert those - and three Scott City errors into a 7-1 win.

Hugoton did most of their damage in the second inning when they scored six runs on three

errors.

“Even though we didn’t get the win, these boys are starting to play with a different attitude.

They’re going into these games believing they can win and that makes a difference in the field and at the plate,” Baker says.

“I feel like we’re playing better now than our record indicates.”

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away the field for a gold medal and a career best in the 300m int. hurdles - shaving 18/100 of a second off his previous best.

The sophomore is pleased with the progress he’s made since the start of the season.

“I didn’t think I could cut down as much time as I have since the first meet,” says McRae. In the season opener at Ulysses, McRae was timed in 44.72. That compares with his gold medal time of 41.81 at Russell which also puts him at the top of the Class 3A regional field at Beloit.

“I’ve worked hard on them in practice and I’ve been able to keep cutting my time down at each meet,” he says.

The biggest improvement has been in technique. McRae has made a lot of progress in bringing his trail leg down to “keep from floating” over a hurdle.

The 4x800m added a gold medal with a season best of 8:25.8. The big difference has been the steady improvement of sophomore Jess Drohman who ran a career best of McRae Wins 300m Drake McRae blew 2:05.64 as the second leg rather than waiting until the 200 meter mark. The SCHS senior was able to overtake Gfeller with just under 200 meters left and he continued to pull away for the remainder of the race.

“With 300 meters to go I was feeling strong and that’s when I knew I’d have to go after him. I knew the Russell kid had a pretty good kick and I had to start earlier than usual and I couldn’t wait until 200 (meters) to go,” Meyer says.

Last year, Meyer didn’t break two minutes until the Class 4A regional, but that was as a leadoff runner in the 4x800m relay.

He accomplished that feat in the open 800m at the state track meet with a time of 1:57.47 which was good enough for fourth place.

Friday’s race marked the second time he’d run a sub-two minute time in the open 800m.

“It feels good to break it earlier this year and it gives me something I can keep building on,” Meyer says.

run home run over the left field fence by Sloan Baker was the big hit of the frame that extended the SCHS lead to 11-3.

Braun would later add a RBI double.

After extending the lead to 13-3, the Beavers were able to keep Hugoton off the scoreboard in the bottom of the sixth to end the game on the 10-run mercy

SCHS junior Josh Becker rounds the final curve in the 400m at the Russell Relays on Friday.

(Record Photo)

in the relay.

“He says his goal is to get down to 2:02,” says head coach Jim Turner.

“For as hard as he works I wouldn’t be surprised to see that happen.”

The Beavers also added a season best of 3:28.44 and needed that

kind of performance to defeat Beloit who they will see again at regional.

McRae ran on the relay for the first time this season and was in the leadoff spot where he posted a 51.38, followed by a season best from Warren

Kropp (52.09). Rounding out the relay were Trey O’Neil (53.21) and Meyer (51.16).

Cooper Griffith added a season best of 131-11 in the discus for a gold medal. That improved on his previous best by three feet.

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Tennis

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Scott City in the championship match.

“I felt we played them better than the score shows. We had some good rallies, but we couldn’t get on any kind of a roll against them,” Hess says.

Both Scott City players feel they are playing their best tennis of the season at the right time after battling through a minislump at mid-season.

“We had a couple of tournaments when we weren’t playing well, but we turned it around and have been playing better the last couple of weeks,” notes Hess, a sophomore.

Hutchins says part of that quick turnaround was their ability to adjust to teams who like to play aggressively at the net.

“I was overthinking things and trying to be too precise with my shots,” says Hutchins. “I went back to hitting the ball harder and being more aggressive and it paid off.”

The SCHS junior feels they are taking a lot of confidence into the state tournament and he expects a good weekend.

“I think we’ll place (top 12), but I don’t know how high,” he says. “If we get off to a good start and can take care of things in our first couple of matches, we’ll be okay.”

The Scott City team may do more than “okay.” They have the third highest win percentage of the 24 state qualifiers and the team with the second best win percentage they defeated in the regional semi-finals. The top three teams - in terms of record all came out of the WaKeeney regional.

Sophomore Bo Hess hits a backhand return during doubles action earlier this season.

(Record Photo)

Integrity We are just as guilty.

We’re New England fans.

Now that we’ve made that disclaimer, there’s more than just a few ironic twists that come with the NFL’s four-game suspension of quarterback Tom Brady and the other penalties heaped upon the Patriots.

First of all, there should be no mistaking that the NFL loves every minute of this. As the saying goes, “There’s no such thing as bad press,” and as long as this story is being picked apart by the media and every call-in

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talk show, the NFL is on everyone’s mind.

This story is bigger than the NBA playoffs and Rickie Fowler’s great comeback in last week’s Players Championship hardly moved the needle with all the attention given to Brady and Deflategate.

It’s pretty remarkable how justice works in the NFL. A thorough investigation fails to find Brady guilty - only that he might have known the balls had been tampered with.

Maybe. Sort of. You know . . . it’s the kind of stuff that would make judg-

es laugh you out of the courtroom.

But what about Brady’s lack of cooperation. He wouldn’t turnover his phone so that investigators could check his text messages, etc. But that overlooks the fact they had the phone of team employee John Jastremski who was supposedly in on the scheme with Brady.

Unless investigators are assuming that Tom was sharing every detail about Deflategate with his wife. Sure, that must be the missing link in this mystery.

Of course, the real

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reason behind the stiff penalty against Tom and the Patriots is because the NFL cares so deeply about the integrity of the game. We’ve been hearing that a lot.

Fans aren’t so angry with Brady as they are about their beloved game’s image being tarnished.

Hey, we believe in rules and that they must be followed by everyone.

We want football to be beyond reproach, as with every sport. That’s why boxing is little more than an asterisk in the world of sports anymore.

But let’s also be honest. Commissioner Roger Goodell and most of the NFL hierarchy have little, if any, room to talk about integrity.

Ray Rice uses his thengirlfriend as a punching bag and was handed a two game suspension from the NFL. There was a lot more evidence that Rice had done something terrible than what’s been proven so far with Brady.

It wasn’t until Goodell was buried under an avalanche of criticism that he ended up suspending Rice for an entire season. And that probably wouldn’t

have happened if not for security film providing undeniable, indisputable proof of what occurred in the casino elevator.

Rice was originally handed a two game suspension for beating a woman. Brady is given a four game suspension for maybe knowing that someone had deflated footballs.

Which just goes to reaffirm that in the NFL you can mess with your girlfriends/wives, but under no circumstances are you to mess with the game.

That’s what you call integrity.

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A new threat to college and NBA Just when it appeared that most of the major college basketball teams - including names like Kansas and Duke and Kentucky were all set for the 2015-16 season, a new and potentially devastating problem has arisen for the most successful programs. by There’s an Mac independent Stevenson professional team being developed by a California group that’s being called the Las Vegas Dealers. This unique professional team will recruit members of the 2015 McDonalds’ All-American team to play for them this fall.

It’s serious. Team owner Cerruti Brown is offering McDonalds’ players about $700,000 for the upcoming season. He is also dangling $400,000 contracts to underclassmen and $100,000 for free agents. If that doesn’t scare the living daylights out of a lot of college coaches, it should.

“We don’t see any problems in landing the right kids,” said Brown. “Now, I’m not going to say we’ll have 10 of the top 25 kids this year, but I’m going to go on record as saying we’re going to have five.”

According to Brown, this new team will play 35 games in Las Vegas against teams from Europe and also take a 15-game tour to play European League ballclubs.

The Las Vegas team’s website is (lvdbasket.com).

Brown elaborated further on this new concept: “College is not for every young man that is trying to use basketball to provide a better situation for their families. Our innovative model targets the McDonald’s AllAmericans who are projected first-round prospects

by NBA scouts and general managers. This concept allows for the highly touted player to bypass college and immediately become a paid professional.

“The Dealers’ niche will be based on giving basketball players a different option than what is presently offered in America. Before this, underclassmen had to either play college ball or go overseas. Venturing to Europe will not be a ne(See THREAT on page 26)

Dighton High School senior Wyatt Habiger competes in the javelin during a recen track meet.

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Dighton boys first in home quad Dominguez, Habiger win two golds Wyatt Habiger and Nate Dominguez were each double winners and the Dighton High School boys easily claimed team honors in a home quadrangular on May 8.

It was also the first high school competition on the new DHS track.

The Hornets (195) finished well ahead of Quinter (157), Tribune (73) and Western Plains (8).

Habiger (38-2) and teammate Logan Lingg (34-5 1/4) finished 1-2 in the shot put.

Both DHS athletes finished in the same order in the discus, led by Habiger’s 131-8 while Lingg added a toss of 107-7.

Habiger completed a solid day in the field events with a silver in the javelin (150-3) while teammate Dylan Foos was a bronze medalist (140-0).

Dominguez, a sophomore, led a contingent of Hornets in the sprints.

He set the pace in the 100m (12.19) for a gold, followed by teammates Foos (12.35), Marcos Cruz (12.55) and Lake Lewis (12.99) who finished 2-4, respectively.

Cruz picked up a gold in the 200m with a time of 25.27.

But it was Dominguez leading the way to a win in the 400m (53.67) while freshman Isaac Torson (59.78) was third.

The 4x100m relay (48.91)

finished first. Team members were Cruz, Dominguez, Foos and Habiger.

O’Brien Wins Sprints In the women’s division, Madison O’Brien was a gold medalist in the 100m (14.3) and the 200m (29.65).

The senior was second in the javelin (91-0) third in the long jump (13-5).

Payden Shapland continued to be among the area’s top distance runners in Class 1A with wins in the 1600m (6:12.13) and the 3200m (13:05.54).

Freshman Mallory Dowell (6:27.15) was a runner-up in the 1600m and teammate Kierra Bradstreet finished second in the 3200m.

Sophomore Sara Cramer ran a very good 63.0 in the 400m, but had to settle for a

silver medal behind Quinter’s Sara Bird (61.75).

In the field events, Jordan Speer dominated in the shot put (38.4 1/2), finishing nearly two feet ahead of her nearest rival. She also had a winning toss of 104-3 in the javelin, but had to settle for a silver in the discus (88-7).

Maegan Seifried (30-2 1/4) and Regan Foos (27-9 3/4) were second and third in the triple jump.

Quinter (204) claimed the team title ahead of Dighton (163), Tribune (111) and Westsern Plains (56).

Following the Northwest Kansas League track meet at Atwood, which was held on Thursday, the Hornets will be in action next Friday at the Class 1A regional track meet.

Fishing Report Scott State Lake Updated May 14 Channel cats: fair; up to 6.5 lbs. Still fishing prepared baits over shallow flats has produced more fish recently. A few fish up to 8 lbs have been reported.

Crappie: fair; most up to 9 inches. Recent unstable weather has backed the fish off the spawning beds, but the shallow bite should resume with warmer weather. Fishing a jig under a bobber in spawning areas can result in catches of good numbers of fish. Some traditional spawning beds you might try are the north shore of Timber Canyon Cove and the rip-rap along the Apache area. Anglers have reported catching limits of fish from time to time and fish have been typically ranging in the 8 to 12 inch range.

Walleye/saugeye: fair; saugeye up to 3.6 lbs.; walleye up to 6.1 lbs. Jig and nighcrawler or minnow combos fished over points and along drop-offs can be productive this time of year. Anglers reported catching some nice saugeye in the 21 to 23 inch range and a few larger walleye last week. Also reported were catches of good numbers of smaller saugeye in the 12 to 15 inch range. Remember, all saugeye and walleye must be 18 inches or larger to be legal for harvest.

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For the next couple hours we were treated to an unbelievable evening of sights, sounds and smells so realistic that with our eyes closed it seemed as though we were actually somewhere in the woods experiencing them firsthand in the wild.

The closing act for the evening was the comedy duo of two beavers.

They appeared on stage by suddenly popping to the surface of their little pond one-at-a-time, then cruised aimlessly around before suddenly disappearing just as silently as they had appeared. This routine was repeated several times before one of them began drifting slowly up the creek above their little pond.

Just ahead of the beaver, a deer stood near the creek, gobbling corn from beneath the same feeder that was the opening prop for the turkeys. As the beaver reached the feeding deer, it loudly slapped its tail in the creek, throwing water everywhere and sending the poor deer, who was minding its own business bolting from under the feeder with its ears laid back.

The deer stood looking around as if to wonder what it had done wrong while the cranky beaver sped on up the creek.

By now the house lights had been brought low and the entire theater was bathed in moonlight.

You could feel the tension building toward a dramatic ending of some sort. Then, just when we thought nothing could top the last act, the evening reached a crescendo and was followed by . . . absolutely nothing!

The absolute stillness of the night was beyond any “quiet” I have ever known!

Okay, I have a confession. We saw and heard all the above from the front porch, yes from the front porch of my brother’s cabin, deep in the Ohio woods, which I guess can be considered God’s theater, and God’s stage.

While I realize this was not Exploring Kansas Outdoors per se, I didn’t think you’d mind a change of location for a week as long as you got a good story!

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Marshal Hutchins signs a letter-of-intent to play golf at Ft. Hays State University next year. He is joined by his parents (seated) Devin and Dawn Hutchins, along with swing coach Kirby Garrison (left) and head coach Brian Gentry.

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Hutchins will tee it up for Tigers While he’s always enjoyed playing golf, Marshal Hutchins didn’t think of himself as a college prospect when he first began playing at Scott Community High School.

After two trips to the state tournament, and a potential third trip still pending, the SCHS senior feels he has proven that he’s capable of playing at the next level.

He’ll have an opportunity to do just that at Ft. Hays State University where Hutchins has signed a letter-of-intent to play next year.

Threat cessity when a U.S.-based organization will play top European teams.”

How many of the players who recently played in this year’s McDonald’s game will be interested in cashing a $700,000 check as opposed to being a college freshman with little or no money?

This has to be an eyeopener to everyone associated with the NBA. It could develop into a world basketball league featuring teams in the U.S., Europe, Canada and South America. Such an enterprise would usher in a new era in college basketball.

Perhaps this won’t come to fruition. But it sounds like an idea that could take off. As for the upcoming season, there could be some major upheavals of college rosters.

Rotation Concerns The Kansas City Royals’ fast start in the American League Central Division is not an indication they are going to blow away the other four contenders.

KC has the best defensive team in Major League Baseball. They are hitting much better than the 2014 team and the bullpen is among the league’s best.

But, as with most teams, there’s an Achilles’

“I’d planned on going to Hays so I’d mentioned I was interested in playing golf. I heard back from them and I was glad to hear that I could be a good fit in their program,” Hutchins says.

Hutchins feels his mental approach to the game has shown the biggest improvement in preparing him to play college golf.

“I’ve learned not to get ahead of myself and to focus only on the next shot,” says the senior. “I’ve also gotten a lot of help from Coach (Brian) Gentry and Kirby (Garrison) with the

technical aspects of my swing.”

One of the biggest changes that Hutchins is looking forward to is the opportunity to play golf more than five months out of the year.

“It’s going to be different having facilities available to work on my game throughout the year and to play on some great courses,” he says. “It will be interesting to see how much my game will improve when I can hit 50, 100 or 150 balls a day.

“And the best part,” he adds with a grin, “is that I won’t have to pick them up.”

Eighth grader Remington Wright takes the baton from Vance Armstrong in the 4x200m relay at Ulysses.

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Hayes

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where Faurot collected his “I was hoping for sub-five minutes,” says other two gold medals.

Thomas, “but I wasn’t sure it could happen today Thomas Dominates Jack Thomas wrapped in this wind. My legs got up an undefeated season really tired and I couldn’t in the 800m (2:17.14) and maintain the same pace the 1600m (5:03.9) with for the final two laps.”

Under better condiGWAC titles in both. And tions, Thomas was hoping as has been the case all to lower his own school season there was no one record in the event to who came close to chalaround 4:45. lenging him.

“On a different day, I Thomas was running think I might have been alone after two laps in the able to do that, but it 1600m when he reached would have been hard,” the midway point at about he says.

2:21, but the strong wind Likewise, his 800m took its toll on the final time was about six sectwo laps and he was onds off his season best. unable to challenge his Thomas was also part school record of 4:51. of a league championship

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heel. The Royals’ starting pitching has been okay so far, but red flags are waving in the air.

Almost all of the better teams in MLB have at least two solid starting pitchers that can be counted on for quality starts in just about every outing. Kansas City is lacking. Yordano Ventura and Danny Duffy are the two best young pitchers in the rotation; nevertheless, both have been inconsistent and immature.

Edinson Volquez has been the most consistent in the rotation. However, doesn’t appear to have the ability to become the stopper that KC will need over the long haul.

That brings us to Jeremy Guthrie and Jason Vargas. Guthrie pitched his best game in some time in last week’s series against Detroit. Meanwhile, Vargas went on the 15-day DL with a bad elbow.

If neither Guthrie nor Vargas is effective, the Royals will be hurting for two more pitchers. It would be a disaster if Ventura and Duffy become wildly inconsistent.

What’s been amazing is KC’s ability to stay close to the top of their division with all the injuries, fight suspensions, and Mike Moustakas’ absence due to a family issue.

4x400m relay (3:57.62) that also included Hayes, Angel Rodriguez and Jaren Berning. He added a silver medal as a member of the 4x200m relay (1:51.82) which included Vance Armstrong, Remington Wright and Jose Trejo.

Jaren Berning brought home a silver medal in the triple jump (38.2 3/4) and was third in the high jump (5-foot-2).

The Bluejays (106) were locked in a battle for the team title with Ulysses (109), losing out by three points. Colby (71) was a distant third, followed

by Holcomb (63) and Goodland (25).

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SCMS Track May 12, 2015 • at Ulysses 7th Grade Boys Team scores: Scott City 155, Ulysses 99.5, Holcomb 47, Colby 43.5, Goodland 8 Long jump: Brandon Winderlin,1st, 17-5.5; Sterling Wright, 2nd, 17-4.

Triple jump: Parker Gooden, 2nd, 34-9.5; Hunter Yager, 3rd, 32-8.75.

High jump: Noah Kliesen, 2nd, 4-10; Kaden Wren, 4th, 4-8.

Pole vault: Justus McDaniel, 1st, 9-0; Sam Irwin, 2nd, 8-0.

Shot put: Cale Goodman, 2nd, 32-4.

Discus: Caleb VanDegrift, 1st, 89-9; Goodman, 2nd, 863.

100m: Winderlin, 2nd, 12.89.

200m: Winderlin, 1st, 25.67.

400m: Winderlin, 1st, 55.57; Wren, 2nd, 56.49.

800m: Wren, 1st, 2:18.50; McDaniel, 3rd, 2:30.84.

100m hurdles: Wright, 2nd, 18.74; Fernando Garcia, 5th, 20.22.

200m hurdles: Wright, 1st, 30.34; Gooden, 3rd, 32.59.

4x100m relay: Goodman, VanDegrift, William Cupp, Eli Amack, 1st, 54.27.

4x200m relay: Irwin, Goodman, McDaniel, Amack, 2nd, 1:55.96.

4x400m relay: Wright, Gooden, Irwin, Wren, 1st, 4:11.01.

4x800m relay: McDaniel, Garcia, Kevin Herman, Yager, 1st, 11:01.26.

8th Grade Boys Team scores: Ulysses 109, Scott City 106, Colby 71, Holcomb 63, Goodland 25 Triple jump: Wyatt Hayes, 1st, 40; Berning, 2nd, 38-2.75; Parker Vulgamore, 5th, 33-1.

High jump: Marshall Faurot, 1st, 5-8; Jaren Berning, 3rd, 5-2.

Pole vault: Faurot, 2nd, 11.

Discus: Kyle Sherwood, 4th, 101-3.

200m: Hayes, 2nd, 25.73.

400m: Hayes, 2nd, 56.60.

800m: Jack Thomas, 1st, 2:17.14; Miles Haire, 5th, 2:30.5.

1600m: Thomas, 1st, 5:03.90; Angel Rodriguez, 4th, 5:45.72.

3200m: Rodriguez, 4th, 12:52.5 100m hurdles: Faurot, 1st, 16.21.

200m hurdles: Faurot, 1st, 29.27.

4x100m relay: Vance Armstrong, Remington Wright, Kevin Duong, Chaseton Cupp, 4th, 53.55.

4x200m relay: Armstrong, Wright, Trejo, Thomas, 2nd, 1:51.82.

4x400m relay: Hayes, Rodriguez, Berning, Thomas, 1st, 3:57.62.

4x800m relay: Haire, Trejo, Duong, Vulgamore, 3rd, 10:23.74.

7th Grade Girls Team scores: Scott City 101.5, Holcomb 99, Colby 58.5, Ulysses 54, Goodland 40 Triple jump: Deborah Murray, 2nd, 27-10.5.

High jump: Cynthia Gonzales, 4th (T), 4-2.

Pole vault: Madison Shapland, 2nd, 7; Abbie LaBeau, 4th (T), 5-6.

Shot put: Amanda Lara, 4th, 28-2.5; Lyndi Rumford, 5th, 26-11.5.

Discus: Gabby Martinez, 5th, 58-6.5.

100m: Shapland, 2nd, 14.99.

200m: Shapland, 2nd, 30.77; Isabelle Crane, 5th, 33.57.

400m: Emily Weathers, 1st, 1:06.

800m: Weathers, 1st, 2:47.1; Patton, 2nd, 2:47.5; Jace Rose, 4th, 3:02.3.

1600m: Piper Wasinger, 1st, 6:37.5; Samantha Aguilar, 2nd, 6:42.6.

100m hurdles: Weathers, 2nd, 18.58.

4x100m relay: Murray, Wasinger, Patton, Shapland, 2nd, 57.76.

4x200m relay: Lara, Rumford, Crane, Murray, 3rd, 2:12.1.

4x400m relay: Wasinger, Rose, Rumford, Patton, 1st, 4:49.9.

4x800m relay: Patton, Rose, Kaylee Logan, Weathers, 1st, 12:00.

8th Grade Girls Team scores: Ulysses 107, Holcomb 93, Colby 75, Scott City 66, Goodland 27 Long jump: Lynell Wessel, 4th, 12-8.

Triple jump: Alyssa Storm, 5th, 27-10.25.

Pole vault: Kally Kough, 2nd (T), 6; Stacy Dominguez, 4th, 6; Arrianne Eatmon, 5th, 5-6.

Shot put: Jera Drohman, 3rd, 29-4.25.

200m: Wessel, 4th, 32.4.

800m: Aly Tarango, 2nd, 3:09; Hallie Wiechman, 3rd, 3:11.

1600m: Dolce Ayala, 2nd, 27:43.06; Ashley Lightner, 4th, 7:18.

3200m: Ayala, 2nd, 14:12; Wiechman, 5th, 15:47.

4x100m relay: Wessel, Dominguez, Storm, Kough, 2nd, 1:00.3.

4x200m relay: Wessell, Dominguez, Natali Navarrette, Kough, 2nd, 2:09.8.

4x400m relay: Dominguez, Tarango, Navarette, Ayala, 2nd, 4:51.9.

4x800m relay: Tarango, Alexis Hoeme, Molly Eikenberry, Lightner, 2nd, 13:24.

SCHS Track May 8, 2015 • at Russell Girl’s Division Team scores: Beloit 158.5, Hoisington 90, Larned 67, Russell 59, Hays-TMP 50, MInneapolis 48, Phillipsburg 46, Scott City 35 Javelin: Madison Braun, 3rd, 102-11; Kiana Yager, 6th, 95-6.

Pole vault: Cayleigh Ramsey, 6th (T), 7-6.

800m: Makaela Stevens, 2nd, 2:35.03; Cami Patton, 4th, 2:38.98.

1600m: Trella Davis, 4th, 6:00.88.

3200m: Davis, 5th, 13:03.52.

100m high hurdles: Emily Smith, 6th, 19.32.

4x400m relay: Shantice Lara, Paige Winderlin, Smith, Macy Berning, 6th, 4:30.82.

4x800m relay: Makaela Stevens Winderlin, Olivia Prieto, Patton, 2nd, 10:39.79.

Boy’s Division Team scores: Beloit 142, Scott City 84.5, Hays-TMP 76.5, Russell 58, Larned 56, Hoisington 53, Phillipsburg 52, Minneapolis 34 Discus: Cooper Griffith, 1st, 131-11; Wyatt Eitel, 6th, 118-5.

100m: Wyatt Kropp, 6th, 11.89.

200m: Kropp, 3rd, 24.07.

400m: Irvin Lozano, 4th, 55.57, Kevin Lozano, 5th, 56.05.

800m: Brett Meyer, 1st, 1;56.41; Jess Drohman, 4th, 2:08.66.

3200m: Miguel Chavez, 4th, 11:32.20.

110m high hurdles: Drake McRae, 4th, 17.27.

300m int. hurdles: McRae, 1st, 41.81.

4x100m: Kropp, Trey O’Neil, I. Lozano, McRae, 5th, 46.38.

4x400m: McRae, Kropp, O’Neil, Meyer, 1st, 3:28.44.

4x800m relay: I. Lozano, Drohman, Chavez, Meyer, 1st, 8:25.80.

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7th grade Jays sweep GWAC Winderlin sets 400m record; relays claim 3 gold medals When head coach Larry Fox pulled Kaden Wren off the 4x800m it was with the idea of giving the seventh grade Bluejays a chance at a 1-2 finish in the 400m.

The only question was who would finish one and who would be two between teammates Brandon Winderlin and Wren.

On Tuesday, it was Winderlin who’s power against a strong south wind on the home stretch allowed him to pull away for the gold medal. What made the win even more impressive in the 20-25 mph wind was that Winderlin also set a new Great West Activities Conference record with a time of 55.57 eclipsing the old mark of 55.8.

Wren was equally impressive with his second place time of 56.49.

While Winderlin knew he would face a tough test from Wren who was in lane four, he knew there were a couple of speedsters in lanes one and two.

“I knew both of those kids were fast so I had to get out to a fast start and keep my lead,” said Winderlin. “I pushed the pace pretty hard.”

As for whether he was concerned about having enough left once he hit the home stretch, Winderlin replied, “That’s what you practice for.”

After claiming a first place finish in the long jump (17-5 1/2), Winderlin had an outstanding day on the track with two more league titles and a silver medal. His only setback came in the 100m against Edgar Soto (Ulysses). The two were locked in a dual from start to finish with Winderlin’s 12.86 just 3/100 of a second behind Soto.

Soto was a distant third behind Winderlin and Wren in

the 400m, but it was another home stretch battle in the 200m where Winderlin was able to get the early lead and maintain it as they came down the front straightaway. Soto made his move and was just a half stride behind Winderlin with about 70 meters remaining, but the Scott City sprinter was able to hold off the challenge and post an impressive 25.67 against the wind - 15/100 of a second ahead of Soto.

The Blujays (155) cruised to the team title over Ulysses (99.5), followed by Holcomb (47), Colby (43.5) and Goodland (8).

VanDegrift Wins Discus Caleb VanDegrift picked up a gold medal in the discus with a toss of 89-9 and Justus McDaniel added another field event win when he won the pole vault with a leap of nine-feet.

Sterling Wright continued his season-long domination of the 200m hurdles with a gold medal time of 30.34 to go along with a silver medal in the 100m hurdles (18.74). He was also second in the long jump (17-4).

Cale Goodman was a double silver medalist in the shot put (32-4) and discus (86-3).

Parker Gooden had a leap of 34-9 1/2 to finish second in the triple jump and he was also third in the 200m hurdles (32.59).

Noah Kliesen was a silver medalist in the high jump (4-10) and Hunter Yager’s lealp of 32-8 3/4 was good enough for a third place finish in the triple jump.

SCMS was also a dominating force in the relays where they added three more gold medals and a silver.

They won the 4x100m

SCMS seventh grader Fernando Garcia leads a pack of runners in the 1600m during the GWAC track meet. (Below) Brandon Winderlin wins the 200m.

(Record Photo)

(54.27) with Goodman, VanDegrift, William Cupp and Amack.

Scott City was first in the 4x400m (4:11.01) with Wright, Gooden, Sam Irwin and Wren.

They added another league title in the 4x800m (11:01) with McDaniel, Fernando Garcia, Kevin Herman and Hunter Yager.

The silver came in the 4x400m (4:11.01) with Irwin, Goodman, McDaniel and Amack.

Weathers, Wasinger are middle distance champs Emily Weathers says it’s hard to decide which is her favorite race - the 400m or the 800m.

When you’re collecting gold medals in both you don’t have to pick a favorite.

The Scott City Middle School seventh grader swept both events at the Great West Activities Conference track meet on Tuesday, taking the 400m in 66.0 and adding the 800m in 2:47.1.

Piper Wasinger added a first place finish in the 1600m, and the Lady Bluejays were champions in the 4x400m and 4x800m relays as they claimed the seventh grade team title.

Scott City (101.5) narrowly defeated Holcomb (99), followed by Colby (58.5), Ulysses (54) and Goodland (40).

Weathers enjoyed a great day on the track that also included a silver medal in the 100m hurdles (18.58).

The times weren’t what she was hoping for in her final meet of the season, but that was no surprise given the stiff wind that proved troublesome for everyone once the running events got underway.

“I was trying to beat my record but the wind was causing problems,” she noted. “I had to run smarter. I wanted to be sure I had enough energy for the front stretch.”

That was no problem for Weathers in the 400m where she easily outdistanced the runnerup by nearly three seconds.

The 800m was a tougher battle and that came from teammate Shelby Patton. Patton was only about half a stride behind Weathers for most of the final 100 meters, and it appeared she might pull even with about 20 meters remaining before Weathers was able to hold on for the win by just 37/100 of a second.

“Shelby and I push each other hard in practice every day. I figured she would be my toughest competition today and she pushed me right until the end,” Weathers said.

Weathers added a silver medal in the 100m hurdles (18.58).

Wasinger’s win in the 1600m wasn’t near as dramatic as the seventh grader led for most of the race and posted a gold medal time of 6:37.57, finishing ahead of teammate and silver medalist Samantha Aguilar (6:42.6).

Madison Shapland was a triple silver medalist in the pole vault (7-feet), 100m (14.99) and 200m (30.77).

The 4x400m relay (4:49.9) finished first with team members Wasinger, Jace Rose, Lyndi Rumford and Patton. The 4x800m relay picked up a gold medal in 12:00 with Patton, Rose, Kaylee Logan and Weathers.

Deborah Murray was a silver medalist in the triple jump (27-10 1/2).

Claiming a second place finish in the 4x100m relay (57.76) were Murray, Wasinger, Patton and Shapland.

Debra Murray takes the baton from Isabelle Crane in the 4x200m relay at the league track meet.

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SCMS in league track

Scenes from GWAC track (clockwise, from top) Seventh grader Sterling Wright claims a gold medal in the 200m hurdles; Justus McDaniel passes the baton to Eli Amack in the 4x200m relay; Eighth grader Lynell Wessel competes in the 200m; Seventh grader Piper Wasinger nears the finish line for a gold medal in the 1600m; and eighth grader Kassy Troyer competes in the 100m.

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Water concerns will continue for ag industry Water has been near the top of the headlines lately and will continue to generate debate as the drought in California and much of the West reaches unprecedented proportions. And as water sources turn dry and municipalities claim a larger share of the resource, agriculture will need to adjust.

The California drought also serves to illustrate how, when water becomes

ag briefs

Spring field day June 5 in Garden City The focus is on wheat and triticale at the Spring Field Day planned for Fri., June 5, at Kansas State University’s Southwest ResearchExtension Center in Garden City.

Registration and introductions begin at 4:30 p.m. Extension specialists will provide information on wheat varieties, plus managing diseases and insects that pose a challenge to wheat production.

A presentation on triticale forage varieties wraps up the program, which is followed by a complimentary supper.

More information is available by calling 620-276-8286.

House votes to reauthorize price reporting

This week the House Agriculture Committee approved HR2051, the Mandatory Price Reporting Act of 2015. The bill would reauthorize the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act originally enacted in 1999. The current bill is set to expire on September 30.

According to committee Chairman K. Michael Conaway (R-Tex.), mandatory price reporting provides transparency in the market to make sure producers get a fair price.

“This system allows producers and packers to access timely and accurate information regarding the price of the products they buy and sell,” he says.

The law mandates price reporting for live cattle, boxed beef, and live swine, and allows USDA to establish mandatory price reporting for lamb sales.

“We fully understand that government mandates like price reporting can be onerous,” said Conaway.

“That said, it is apparent that mandatory reporting has become an essential tool for producers and packers to compete as the industry continues to evolve.”

scarce, agriculture takes the heat from an urban population disconnected from farming and the requirements of food production. To some, the issue is one of “farmers making profits while our lawns turn brown.”

Water is, of course, critical in beef production, but the volume used is commonly overstated.

There have been claims, often parroted by

. . . irrigation of feed crops and pastures accounts for about 95 percent of water use attributed to beef production. Continued improvements in crop yields and genetics for drought resistance, along with more efficient irrigation technology and agronomic practices, result in more feed produced per gallon of water.

anti-meat groups, that production of one pound of beef requires from 1,800 to over 2,000 gallons of water. Jude Capper, PhD, a livestock sustainability consultant, looked at the origins of that exagger-

ated claim. She found the figure originally came from the Water Footprint Network, a group of water analysts who used outdated information.

The group, she says, based their estimate on a

beef animal needing three years to grow to slaughter, producing 441 pounds of boneless beef. Based on average yields, that’s a 588-pound carcass weight and 948-pound live weight.

In reality, Capper points out, typical U.S. production systems finish cattle weighing approximately 1,300 pounds at slaughter, with 806-pound carcasses and 605 pounds

of boneless beef. And they do it in an average of about 450 days, not 1,095.

Water use varies but, in reality, probably averages less than one-third of that 1,800-gallon figure. And most importantly, water use for beef production has been declining for years.

While on the faculty at Washington State University, Capper con(See WATER on page 31)

A sliver of hope for wheat crop Yields forecast to increase 11 bu. above last year The 2015 Hard Red Winter Wheat Tour was full of surprises for participants and led to a sliver of hope for producers statewide. On day three, the participants stopped at 70 fields, an increase from last year’s day three total of 45 fields.

The daily average was 48.9 bushels an acre, more than an 11 bushel increase from last year.

The official tour projection

Wheat Scoop Jordan Hildebrand communications director

Kansas Wheat

for total production numbers of hard red winter wheat to be harvested in Kansas is 288.5 million bushels. This number is calculated based on the average of estimated predictions from tour participants who gathered information from 659 fields across the state.

“After these three days on the road, I think that number is pretty accurate,” said Daryl Strouts, president of the Kansas Wheat Alliance. “My official projection was not far off. I was hoping that the num-

ber would be a little bigger, but I think there is some potential in this crop.”

While he remained coy about his predicted number, Strouts emphasized that this year is looking more promising than last year’s crop in the majority of the state.

“The main takeaway for producers is that the crop is better than last year,” Strouts said. “Now we have moisture, so it’s important to protect that yield. The numbers from today confirm that there is yield potential, so if producers haven’t taken measures to protect that, they should start considering it soon.”

Wheat Stripe Rust One of the most common factors from all of the six routes was the presence of stripe rust. The disease was found in many fields across the state.

“The stripe rust found was concerning to us,” said Aaron Harries. “There were signs of it present in nearly every field we visited, especially in the central corridors of the state.

In some fields the disease had even spread to the flag leaf, which can lead to yield loss.”

Other issues found statewide throughout the tour were drought stress (despite the rain and sludge during the tour), (See WHEAT on page 31)

KLA: land excise tax an assault on ag

The Kansas Livestock Association is urging farmers and ranchers to contact their state senators and express opposition to SB 302.

If the bill is approved by the Kansas Legislature, it would impose a $3 per acre excise tax on all land in Kansas. The effect, according to KLA projections, would increase the

World food import bill in decline

International prices for agricultural commodities continued to decline in April and abundant inventories are poised to offset any pressure from the slight reduction in global harvests expected this year.

Worldwide cereal production will likely decline by 1.5 percent from last year’s record-breaking output, mainly due to reduced acreage planted with maize, but the impact will be cushioned by “exceptionally high” levels of existing stocks, according to the latest forecasts in the biannual food outlook report.

The first forecast for global cereal production in 2015, assuming normal weather conditions for the remainder of the season, amounts to 2.509 billion tons, down from last year’s record, but nearly five percent above the average of the past five years.

The modest decline in output will require running inventories down by around three percent in the new season (2015-16), with faster drawdowns for coarse grains and rice than for wheat.

current average property tax of $4.67 per acre on Kansas agricultural land by 64 percent.

“This bill represents a direct and targeted assault on Kansas farmers and ranchers, who, unlike homeowners, depend on the land for their livelihood,” said KLA President Jaret Moyer, a rancher from Emporia.

SB 302 is expected to come to a vote in the Kansas Senate as an amendment to a tax package.

Although supporters claim SB 302 is an excise tax, KLA legal analysis shows it is a property tax that violates Article 11, Section 1 of the Kansas Constitution. The state

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Ag Facts About 240 million laying hens produce about 5.5 billion dozen eggs per year in the U.S. Egg yolks are one of the few foods that naturally contain Vitamin D.

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constitution requires all agricultural land be valued and assessed based on its agricultural income or agricultural productivity.

The impact of SB 302 would be especially burdensome for livestock producers, as it would increase the average property tax on grassland from $1.38 per acre to $4.38 per acre, a 217 percent

jump, according to the KLA. In addition, landowners in Western Kansas with less productive ground would be penalized more severely than those in the eastern part of the state.

Farmland comprises 89 percent of the total land area in Kansas, which (See ASSAULT on page 31)

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Spring heat more damaging to wheat than fall freeze

A team of researchers including a Kansas State University professor has released results of a study that measures the effects of climate change on wheat yields, findings that may have implications for future wheat breeding efforts worldwide.

Agricultural economist Andrew Barkley, who has studied wheat for nearly 30 years, said that the team’s major finding is that heat appears to be more damaging to wheat yields than freezing temperatures.

“There’s a lot of evidence to suggest that temperatures will increase in the future,” Barkley said.

“What we’ve done here is estimate the impact of what might happen to wheat yields if temperatures increase in Kansas.”

In Kansas, farmers plant winter wheat in the fall and harvest it in late spring and early summer.

The nine-month growing season makes the crop susceptible to many temperature swings.

If temperatures continue to rise, as climate

patterns currently suggest, wheat yields may be damaged in the spring when flowering and grain filling occur.

“In Kansas, wheat is extremely important economically; crops are worth up to $3 billion per year just in Kansas, and we produce about 15 percent of the wheat that is grown in the U.S.,” Barkley said.

“So we’re interested in wheat for several reasons, but with climate change, we’re concerned about the potential impact of that on wheat in the future.”

Barkley added that more recently released varieties of wheat - which are normally higher yielding - are less heat resistant than older varieties. For farmers, it could force a decision about using those pest- or disease-resistant varieties and accepting the risk of losing yield to high spring temperatures.

“Our research points to developing genetic strategies to identify the exact genes and DNA that will help us change the wheat plant so that it can accommodate for heat,” Barkley

FFA donation

Tyler Kough, manager of American Implement in Scott City, presents a check for $2,580 to the Scott Community High School FFA chapter as part of their winter service program. Local producers who bring their equipment into American Implement in the winter for full inspections can choose one of three pre-selected organizations to donate a portion of their repair bill directly to. Options for the Scott City location were Scott County 4-H, SCHS FFA or Lane County 4-H. Through their 14 locations, American Implement donated approximately $60,000 to schools and organizations.

Wheat wheat streak mosaic virus, barley yellow dwarf virus, winter kill and pest infestations such as aphids.

Even with these issues, the 288.5 million bushel projection is a relief for many in the wheat industry. This is an improvement from last year’s wheat tour prediction of 260 million bushels and actual production of 246.4 million bushels.

Water ducted an analysis of resource use in beef production, including water, from 1977 through 2007, which was published in the Journal of Animal Science. Her analysis showed water use in U.S. beef production during that time declined 12 percent.

More recently, Kim Stackhouse-Lawson, PhD, director of sustainability research for NCBA, oversaw a checkoff-funded lifecycle assessment (LCA) of beef production, detailing all the inputs and environmental impacts involved in putting beef on the table. The initial LCA covered the years from 2005 through 2011 and will serve as a baseline for measuring progress in sustainability.

The LCA data showed a three percent reduction in water use between 2005-07. (You can access a summary of the study online at beefresearch. org).

Stackhouse-Lawson and Capper say most of the reductions in resource use in beef production come as a result of improvements in production efficiency.

Capper says, for example, if we use growthenhancing technologies

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The 2014 wheat crop suffered from severe drought stress due to lack of moisture throughout the growth stages and an overabundance of it during harvesting time. Many attribute recent rains to be worth millions of dollars for this year’s crop.

“What is different about this year is this last minute moisture,” Harries said. “It will be an asset

to the wheat during grain quietly optimistic that the fill.” wild weather may ultimately make a difference Impact of Weather for the wheat they evaluThe sudden influx of ated along the tour. moisture and extreme The Hard Red Winter weather was exciting for Wheat tour is sponsored scouts on the tour. After by the Wheat Quality witnessing flooding in Manhattan on Monday, Council. This year’s tour wading through ankle hosted 92 participants deep mud and seeing a from across the globe in tornado on Tuesday (pos- 21 vehicles while travelsibly a first for the Wheat ing across the state on six Tour), participants are routes.

said. “At this time, the [Kansas State] agronomy department is working on that exact thing.”

From 1985 to 2013, breakthroughs in wheat breeding helped Kansas farmers improve their yields by 27 percent, according to Barkley.

“We’ve had huge success in increasing the amount of food we get from each acre in Kansas,” he said.

Knowing that rising temperatures threaten that success, though, is “good news, in a way,” Barkley noted.

“As we progress, we are going to be able to deal with these changes in temperature as they arise.

Climate change is a slow process, and wheat breeding also is relatively slow, but there’s been major advances in wheat breeding, so that we can change the average time it takes to develop a new variety from over 10 years to about half that time.

“We really have a positive forecast of changing these wheat varieties to accommodate for the heat,” he added.

Wheat plot tours in Scott, Lane counties

Scott County Extension will be sponsoring a wheat plot tour on Thurs., May 28, 6:00 p.m. The plot is located 4.3 miles east of Scott City on the north side of K96 Highway.

Farm cooperators assisting with the plot are Buehler Farms and Dona Dee Carpenter.

Lucas Haag, an Extension agronomy specialist with the Northwest Area office, and Sarah Zukoff, field crop entomologist with the Southwest Area office, will provide information on the various wheat varieties and issues affecting this year’s crop. A meal will be served immediately following the tour courtesy of Norder Supply, Scott City.

Those planning to attend are asked to RSVP with the county Extension office (872-2930) by Wed., May 27, or e-mail Extension Agent John Beckman at jbeckman@ksu.edu.

Lane County Tour Walnut Creek Extension District will host their wheat plot variety demonstrations on Wed., May 27.

The final stop will be at the Vance Ehmke farm at 6:00 p.m. The plot is located seven miles west of Dighton on K96 Highway and 1-1/2 miles south on Eagle Road. It is located on the west side of the road.

Erik DeWolf, K-State plant pathologist, will discuss wheat diseases. Lucas Haag, Northwest Area agronomist for K-State Extension will discuss the varieties.

A light supper will follow the tour at the Ehmke farm.

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means farmers and ranchers would bear that percentage of the additional tax burden if the bill passed.

Moyer said adding a tax of this nature would have a broad negative effect on the Kansas economy.

“This is a punitive tax that will take money out of the pockets of farm families and hurt the Main Street businesses in rural Kansas,” said Moyer.

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check us out at scottcountyrecord.com such as implants, ionophores and beta agonists where appropriate from the stocker stage onward, the improved productivity can save 22,722 gallons of water per 800-pound carcass.

Stackhouse-Lawson notes that irrigation of feed crops and pastures accounts for about 95 percent of water use attributed to beef production.

Continued improvements in crop yields and genetics for drought resistance, along with more efficient irrigation technology and agronomic practices, result in more feed produced per gallon of water.

Shifting Patterns The water-use issue is real though, and evidence points to long-term shortages of water in key agricultural areas.

The recent National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA) conference focused on the theme of “Water and the Future of Animal Agriculture.” The program kicked off with a presentation from hydrologist Jay Famiglietti, PhD, a professor of earthsystems science and civil and environmental engineering at the University of California-Irvine, and

in California, he had a bit of good news for the state’s farmers and ranchers. Noting that agriculture already had borne the brunt of the drought, with hundreds of thousands of acres left fallow and thousands of farm workers out of work, his executive order mostly exempted agriculture from the new restrictions.

Instead, the policy focused on residential lawns and landscapes and other large areas of irrigated grass such as golf courses, campuses and highway medians.

That action quickly generated criticism and protests from environmental groups and antimeat activists.

Famiglietti believes that for agriculture to remain productive, it’s important to change the dialogue on water and shift away from the “us versus them” conflict between agriculture and other users that tends to emerge when water supplies become scarce.

“We need betterdefined processes for deciding how to allocate water for various uses Ag Takes Heat When Gov. Jerry while learning to produce Brown announced state- food with less water,” he wide water restrictions says. the senior water scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology.

Famiglietti and NASA scientists have spent 30 years developing satellites, monitoring systems and computer models for tracking and predicting water trends.

Through these studies and others, Famiglietti estimates total water storage in California has declined eight trillion gallons per year over the past three years. The High Plains aquifers have lost a volume of water nearly equal to that in Lake Tahoe over the past decade.

Overall U.S. water supplies have declined since 2002 in much of the West, Southern Plains and Southeast. In California, with the ongoing drought persisting and surface water mostly depleted, the state is shifting toward nearly 100 percent reliance on groundwater.

Globally, groundwater accounts for about onethird of all water withdrawals.

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Lane County Feeders, Inc. 32tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– WANTED TO BUY. Wheat straw delivered.

Call for contracting information. Lane County Feeders. 397-5341. 44tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– 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.

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USD 466 NEEDS substitute route bus drivers. For applications and additional information contact Lance Carter at 620-872-7655.

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Services WANTED: Yards to mow and clean up, etc. Trim smaller trees and bushes too. Call Dean Riedl, (620) 872-5112 or 87434tfc 4135.

––––––––––––––––––––– METAL ROOFING, SIDING and TRIMS at direct-to-the-public prices. Call Metal King Mfg., 620-872-5464. Our prices 37tfc will not be beat!

––––––––––––––––––––– FURNITURE REPAIR and refinishing. Lawn mower tune-up and blade sharpening. Call Vern Soodsma, 872-2277 or 874-1412.

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bedrooms, 3 baths, family room down, SA garage, brick, covered patio,

enclosed plant room and

New home being built on Maple St., in Eastridge

addition. 1,300+ sq. ft.,

with double garage and up grade interior.

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

30’x50’ shed. Located in

Shallow Water, $130,000 with $4,000 carpet allowance.

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

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.

FOR SALE

Call: 620-872-2576 or 620-874-1009

Apartments available for qualifying tenants 62+ or disabled with rental assistance available.

Hours: Tuesday, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. by appointment Call Steve 872-2535 or (620) 255-4824.

GARAGE SALES Friday-Saturday, May 15-16 Garage Sale 601 Madison St., Scott City Fri., May 15, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

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Sat., May 16, 8:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Housewares, decorations and lots of unique misc.

Rain or shine!

COUNTRY LIVING

Garage Sale Inside PlainJan’s, 511 Monroe, Scott City Mon.-Fri., May 18-22, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Girl’s clothes (newborn to 4T), boy’s clothes (newborn to 3T), shoes for boys and girls.

Items will continually be added.

UPCOMING SALE Saturday, May 23 3rd and Jackson, Scott City (Hide & Seek Storage) Sat., May 23, 9:00 a.m.-??

Antiques, stained glass, copper, movie posters, furniture and misc. Reba Lewis (719) 838-0138.

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.

––––––––––––––––––––– PRICE REDUCED! Cute, cozy home, 3 bedrooms, 1 3/4 baths, large family room and fenced backyard on a large corner lot. Close to Main St., in a west location. New tile in main bath, new paint, new flooring in kitchen and laundry room. Central heat and air, garbage disposal, fridge, stove and dishwasher included. Motivated sellers now only $77,500! Call Maranda at 620-874-8332 for a private 39t3c showing today!

Pine Village Apartments 300 E. Nonnamaker

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Al-Anon at same time and location.

Contact: 874-0472 or 872-3137. 30t52

Garage Sale 1605 Court, Scott City (in alley) Fri., May 15, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Sat., May 16, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Sewing machine, tools, jewelry, furniture, older scooter, yard furniture, kid’s stuff, house stuff, fishing poles. Lots of stuff. No checks!

Real Estate

Unique acreage located between Scott City and Garden City. Do you want to have livestock or a private hunting retreat or a little piece of farmground? You can here. Newer brick home that has been recently updated sitting on over 40 acres.

Huge shop, airplane hanger, and outbuildings galore. Trees and more trees surround this acreage.

If you would like more information or to schedule a showing.

Please call (620) 214-2775

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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.

––––––––––––––––––––– THE WICHITA C O U N T Y R E P U B L I C A N Committee is accepting applications for County Clerk of Wichita County.

Duties include carrying out the elections in Wichita County, serving as Secretary for the Wichita County 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 in the form of a resumee are due

by May 27, 2015, and should be mailed to Wichita County Republican Committee Chairman, Dorene Reimer, 1294 West County Road P, Leoti, Ks. 40t2c 67861.

––––––––––––––––––––– MIDWEST ENERGY, INC., in Scott City is looking for a motivated individual to clean the office twice a week.

You will need to provide your own certificate of insurance. If interested, please bring resume and references by the office at 1301 S. Main or call 620-872-2179 with questions. 40t2c

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Employment Opportunities MULTIPLE POSTIONS

JONES CLUB LAMBS

CITY CLERK

Tate’s Restaurant is looking for experienced kitchen help. Fry Cooks, Dishwashers and Prep.

Experience a must.

Call for an Appointment Today!

Jeremy • 620-397-1638 Stefanie • 620-397-8075 bustn2kick@st-tel.net

The City of Leoti, is accepting applications for the position of City Clerk.

The position requires knowledge of public finance, human resources, and supervisory experience. A high school diploma or equivalent is required. Some experience in accounting and human resources is preferred.

Please visit www.leotikansas.org or call 620-375-2341 for an application and job description.

First review of applications will begin Monday, May 18, 2015.

Apply in person at: Tate’s Restaurant, 405 Main St., Scott City.

County Fair Champions!

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PERSONAL CARE/ HOMEMAKER ATTENDANT Scott County Health Department has a full-time position available for a personal care/homemaker attendant to work with the elderly.

Must be compassionate, responsible, reliable, highly motivated, and be able to work independently. Prefer CNA. Work involves mostly housekeeping services.

Applications available at: 608 S. Main, Scott City 40t1c

SEASONAL POSITION The City of Scott City is accepting applications for a Seasonal employee in the street 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.

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NIGHT STAFF PERSON City on a Hill a faith based substance abuse treatment center for women in Marienthal is looking for a night staff person.

Must have valid drivers license and computer skills.

Send resume and references to: chislu@aol.com

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PARK LANE NURSING HOME Has openings for the following positions: Part-time CNA/CMA Part-time Dietary Aide (evening shift) Shift differential pay offered for evening and night shifts!

Please apply in person at:

Park Lane Nursing Home

210 E. Parklane Scott City, KS 67871 Or visit us at our website: www.parklanenursinghome.org “Quality Care Because We Care”

Show Lambs for Sale!

Western State Bank is accepting applications for the position of Teller.

Applicants must be professional, organized individuals, with strong computer skills.

Please apply in person at our office.

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PARTS DIVISION Scott City has an immediate opening in our parts division. Experience is preferred, but will train the right individual.

We offer health, dental, vacation, sick pay, 401K and uniforms. We are a drug free workplace. Pay will be based on experience.

Send resumes to: PO Box 572, Scott City, Ks. 67871 39t2c

DRIVERS, MAINTENANCE and MILL Full-time feedtruck drivers, maintenance workers and mill persons needed. Must have valid drivers license.

We offer competitive pay, health insurance, meat card and 401K plan.

Please apply at: Brookover Cattle Co. of Scott City, LLC 4000 E. Road 200 Scott City, Ks. 67871.

For High Plains Educational Cooperative Unified School District No. 466 is seeking a special education Para-Professional in the elementary and high school 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 39tfc

So we can make sure your paper makes the move too.

406 Main • Box 377 Scott City, Ks. 67871

ROUTE SALES PERSON

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Qualified candidates must have excellent customer service skills and good communication and problem-solving skills. Computer knowledge and good interpersonal skills are important.

Interested indivduals may complete an application or send a cover letter and resume to: Tom McDaniel, Parts Manager, American Implement, Inc., 232 East Hwy. 96, Leoti, Ks. 67861.

Call 620-375-2621 or 844-484-3375.

SPECIAL EDUCATION PARA-PROFESSIONAL

*Please note: Change of address cards at the Post Office DO NOT apply to newspapers and magazines.

The Scott County Hospital is seeking full-time and part-time (including working with High School and College student schedules) Certified Nurse Aides.

Applicants must have an active Kansas Certification, must be dependable, in good health and compassionate to patients and their families.

We offer competitive pay, evening and weekend differentials and great benefits. Pre-employment physical, drug/alcohol screen, physical assessment and TB skin test are required.

SCH is a tobacco free facility.

Applications are available on our website at: www.scotthospital.net or call 620-872-7772 for more information.

Responsibilities of this position are to perform a variety of customer service duties related to the sale, delivery and inventory of agricultural equipment and irrigation parts and acessories.

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*with your new address*

CERTIFIED NURSE AIDES

American Implement, Inc., in Leoti, currently has a full-time position open for Parts Counter Sales Representative.

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Remember to call us!

620-872-2090 39tfc

PARTS COUNTER SALES REP.

High Plains Energy, LLC a rapidly growing service oriented company, is seeking a full-time Route Sales Person for the Tribune, Leoti and Scott City area.

Applicant must be 21, have a valid CDL and good driving record. Hazmat endorsement, tanker, air brakes and/or propane delivery experience, a plus. We will train the proper applicant.

We offer competitive wages, health insurance, life insurance, retirement, sick leave, vacation and paid holidays.

For an application Call: Office: 877-607-0040, Jim Green, Operations Manager: 620-260-6207, or Bryon Lopez, General Manager: 620-640-4445.

Safety, THAT makes a difference.

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Serving Southwest Kansas Since 1961 EOE – Drug Free Workplace

Need a summer job?

Are you looking to make a difference in a child’s life?

If so, we are looking for a few great people to make that difference during our 2015 Summer Program in June, July and the first part of August. $8.25/hr., hours will vary Monday through Friday.

Applicants must have the following: an interest in working with children who experience a mental illness and their families, High School Diploma or GED, good driving record, and a valid driver’s license.

Applications are available at: www.compassbh.org Forward application and references to: Human Resources PO Box 853 Garden City, KS 67846 Fax number: 620.272.0171 E-mail: hr@compassbh.org 37t4c

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 - FT and PT Clinic Medical Assistant Director of Nursing Emergency Department RN CLERICAL Ward Clerk SERVICE PRN Nutritional Service Aide Dietary/Housekeeping Shared Position Morning Cook 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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a day on the farm

Scott City Elementary School third graders had an opportunity to learn about farm life with a “Day on the Farm” field trip sponsored by Scott County Farm Bureau.

Students learned about the Scott Co-op, farm equipment from American Implement and rotated through stations that included an “edible soil” profile (right photo), roasting hot dogs and learning how farmers and ranchers care for their animals.

(Above) Youngsters watch a dairy calf from McCarty Family Farms as it’s being bottle fed.

District Conservation Kasey Robinson explains the parts of soil.

(Below) Scott County Extension Agent John Beckman introduces youngsters to Meep, a four-year-old Sphynx cat. (Record Photos)

Retirement Party for Jan! Sunday, May 24 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Bryan Conference Center 416 S. Main St., Scott City