The Scott County Record

A fisherman enjoys a quiet Sunday afternoon on Beaver Creek at Lake Scott State Park

34 Pages • Four Sections

Volume 22 • Number 42

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Published in Scott City, Ks.

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Health care foundation has returned

leaping into summer

While his dad, Justin, looks on, four-year-old Ethan Wright of Holcomb leaps off the dock and into Lake Scott during the Memorial Day weekend. The Wrights were among more than 5,500 visitors at the state park over the holiday weekend.

(Record Photo)

Before there was a Scott Community Foundation there was a Scott County Health Care Foundation.

History has come full circle with the revival of the original foundation which will be operatMegan ing separately Grapengater from the SCF. The newly created Scott County Health Foundation has hired Megan Grapengater as its executive director and, for the present time, has office space in the Scott County Hospital.

The decision to remove the Scott County Health Foundation from under the SCF umbrella is not a sign of any disharmony within the Foundation, emphasizes Karma Huck, a longtime SCF board member who is now on the board of the SCHF. “The (Scott Community) Foundation has done a great job, but that is a communitywide foundation and they assist a lot of different organizations,” says Huck. “Our focus will be strictly on the Scott County Hospital and the entities we partner with.

Rainfall, cool spell a boost to wheat crop, area economy No surprise!

(See FOUNDATION on page 16)

Western Kansas farmers are more than familiar with “million dollar rains.”

As the rains keep pouring throughout the region, farmers are looking at their wheat crop with renewed optimism and anticipating a harvest that had all but been written off just 5-6 weeks ago. Yields that only a short time ago had been projected in the 20-25 bushel range are now climbing into the 30-35 bushel category following 7-8 inches of rain during the past month across much of Scott, Lane and Wichita counties.

That upbeat outlook was evident on Wednesday evening during the final stop of the Wet Walnut Creek Extension wheat tour on the Vance Ehmke farm in western Lane County.

“The last three or four weeks have seen a lot of improvement

in the wheat crop,” observed Erick DeWolf, plant pathologist with Kansas State University Extension. “There is still a lot of thin, drought-stressed wheat that didn’t tiller very well. It’s making somewhat of a comeback, but there is a limit to how much it can recover and become an average crop.”

While prospects have improved dramatically, there was nowhere else for them to go but up. The recent rains can’t undo an extremely dry winter and major freeze damage.

According to Lucas Haag, northwest area agronomist for KSU, evidence of winter injury is pretty widespread across the region. He says that a 50 percent loss is “pretty general in most fields.”

“I’d say we’re still looking

at half the yield potential we normally hope to see,” he says.

The wet weather and cooler temperatures have also put harvest on a more normal time frame.

“Based on heading, at one time we were looking for harvest to start possibly as early as June 10,” said Ehmke, noting that would be about 10 days ahead of normal. “How much do you think it’s been pushed back?”

DeWolf says the wheat’s development is now on a more normal pace and “maybe a little behind, perhaps a week.”

“The story of this wheat crop isn’t finished yet,” says Ehmke with a bit of optimism and also the knowledge that just about anything can happen between now and when the crop finally gets into the bin.

Disease Issues The onset of heavy rains have also provided a breeding ground for diseases that have “started to blossom and become a major issue pretty rapidly,” says DeWolf. Wheat streak mosaic has been particularly prevalent this year and DeWolf expects leaf rust to make another big push before harvest. He said that producers who have already applied one fungicide treatment for leaf rust won’t need another application.

Several factors can impact the amount of yield loss.

DeWolf said that because it may appear 70 percent of a flag leaf has been destroyed that doesn’t mean a 70 percent reduction in yield.

“It’s not a one-to-one loss ratio,” he explained. “But the (See WHEAT on page two)

Federal court dismisses lawsuit against Scott City A lawsuit filed by a Scott City resident against the City of Scott City has been dismissed in U.S. District Court.

Don Dornon had filed legal action against the Scott City Council, Scott City Police Department and the city attorney.

He claimed that the city had violated his constitutional rights when police officers entered his property without a warrant and removing a number of items that were hauled to the county

landfill.

Prior to seizing his property, the city had notified Dornon that he was in violation of city ordinances and advised him to begin clean-up of his lots at 107 and 109 Court Street. It was the latest in an on-going dispute in which the city has attempted to get Dornon to clean up what it has identified as “junk.”

Dornon counters he has often been singled out by the city when there are other property

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Mr. Science retires after 32 years in Scott Co. schools Page 9

owners who haven’t been cited for violating the junk property ordinance.

Dornon had always been successful in municipal court in battling the city’s repeated efforts to clean up his property.

That finally changed in April of 2014 when city personnel were able to enter his property and begin clean-up efforts.

Dornon’s response was to file a lawsuit in federal court, claiming that in addition to his

rights being denied, his property was improperly seized and destroyed without a conviction or warrant.

U.S. District Judge Richard Rogers determined there was clear evidence that Dornon received notice of the nuisance. “(Dornon) has made no allegation that the defendants did not follow the procedures set forth in the civil abatement ordinance,” noted Judge Rogers.

(See LAWSUIT on page eight)

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Water usage nosedives With more than 8-1/2 inches of rainfall since the first of the year, it’s no surprise that water usage in Scott City has been on the decline.

Water consumption is down by 5.4 million gallons through May 10 when compared to a year ago.

So far this year, the city has pumped 72.5 million gallons of water compared to 77.9 million in 2014.

On a per capita basis, city residents are averaging 156.9 gallons per day so far this year while a year ago they were averaging 168.5 gallons.

These numbers are down significantly from the long-term average.

Looking at the last five years, Scott City residents averaged 238.5 gallons of water per day. Water usage for all of 2014 averaged 211 gallons per person.

“This shows that the city is taking its water conservation efforts seriously,” says Public Works Director Mike Todd.

“We were recognized for water conservation at the Kansas Rural Water convention, which is something we should all be proud of.”

(See WATER on page two)

SCHS boys claim 5 gold medals at 3A regional track meet Page 19

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Wheat

(continued from page one)

closer you are to the flowering stage when you start to see this loss, the more it will affect yield. If you lose the flag leaf at the time of flowering, you could see a 40 percent yield loss.”

Over the last few weeks, DeWolf says he’s met more farmers who wish they would have sprayed for disease. But he understands the thinking of a lot of producers when they were looking at 20-bushel yields or less.

“Now with the prospect of yields improving by five to seven bushels (per acre), it changes their outlook.”

He adds that many producers were also caught unprepared for how quickly disease issues began appearing and how bad the situation became in such a short time.

“When you start to see 20 percent damage on a leaf, that’s when you should get concerned.”

DeWolf says that his tour of fields throughout the state has revealed that flag leafs are generally smaller than normal.

“I want to say it will affect yields, but there’s

Water

nothing to prove that,” he said.

DeWolf says there’s possibly a chance for those farmers who can get into their fields to use fungicide. However, that application is limited by growth stage and conditions in which the fungicide would be applied.

As for the growth stage, DeWolf says application is “pushing the back side of our window.” When wheat begins to flower that’s when we begin to lose fungicide products.

“Some products will allow you to apply them into the flowering stage, but then you have a 30day pre-harvest time frame that has to be met,” he pointed out.

Analyzing Varieties Of course, the wheat tour offers an opportunity to analyze wheat varieties and see which are faring better in side-by-side comparisons. The unusual conditions over the past few weeks have allowed some of the medium to medium-late maturing varieties to shine.

“The Montana varieties with stripe resistance will

look like a million bucks,” said DeWolf.

When making comparisons, Ehmke said it’s “hard not to fall into the trap” of choosing to plant the later developing varieties. Farmers may also be looking in a different direction after watching some of the mainstays, such as Tam 113, “getting battered this year.”

“The bottom line is that you should spread your risk,” emphasizes Haag, acknowledging that Tam 113 has “too many strikes against it.”

He said the long-time variety is dead at the Tribune experiment station.

“There are better varieties coming,” he noted, advising farmers to also start dialing back on the acreage they are planting to Tam 111.

“There are so many good varieties coming this way that it appears the life of a variety may only be two or three years,”

said Ehmke. “If you stay with a variety for five or six years you are leaving money on the table.”

DeWolf said that if it gets to the point where varieties have such a short shelf life it will be more difficult to know how they react to disease.

“It’s going to be harder to make recommendations,” added Haag. “We aren’t going to have the years of performance testing before people need to make a decision.”

“The smaller the amount of data you have the greater the chance of making a mistake,” agreed Ehmke.

Winter Injury KSU Extension specialists noted that the primary cause of winter injury has been due to the wheat’s inability to establish hardiness prior to a sudden drop in temperatures.

Haag attributed winter injury to:

•Lack of hardening conditions prior to midNovember.

•Management issues (inadequate seeding depth, seedbed conditions and cropping conditions).

•Lack of water.

Haag says the hardening process begins when wheat crown temperatures are below 50 degrees, and it accelerates when temperatures are below 45 degrees. Maximum hardiness is achieved with six weeks of temperatures between 32-50 degrees.

“There had been basically no hardening of the wheat when we experienced the arctic blast (this winter),” says Haag.

“That’s why we’re seeing so much damage. It wasn’t that the arctic blast was so severe, but the wheat hadn’t experienced enough cold weather prior to that.”

“You end up with crown loss and you lose the capability of creating tillers,” he added.

(continued from page one)

Todd noted that during the first three months of the year, the city had exceeded the five-year average due to a very dry winter and early spring.

For example, the city had pumped 24.2 million gallons during March and 24.8 million gallons in April.

The five-year average is 17.3 million gallons for March and 25.8 million gallons for April.

Usage began to take a downturn in late April with additional rainfall. The city has benefitted from more than 8-1/2 inches of rain during May. “Mother Nature has now given us some moisture and hopefully we’ll continue to see a reduction in our water usage,” adds Todd.

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Community Living

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Whatever variety you choose, it’s cherry time During June and July, sweet and sour cherries will be ready for picking and to enjoy in a variety of ways. But you have to pick cherries quickly as birds can devour a cherry crop before you know it!

Bing cherries were named after a Chinese man who worked in an Oregon cherry orchard in the late 1800s. The worker discovered a particular tree with the beautiful cherries.

Most are grown in the Pacific Northwest.

Cherries don’t ripen further once they’re picked. They are very delicate fruits and need to be treated with care.

Select firm, red cherries with bright green stems. Avoid any cherry that is soft, shriveled or blemished. The darker the cherry, the riper they will be.

Choose cherries with stems still attached; this helps them maintain their freshness.

Look at the stems of the cherries. Those with plump, bendable stems have been picked recently.

Recipe favorites . . .

Strawberry Shortcake An old fashioned, tender shortcake with two layers of strawberries topped with whipped cream.

Prep time: 30 minutes Cook time: 20 minutes Ingredients 3 pints 1/2 cup 2 1/4 cups 4 teaspoons 2 tablespoons 1/4 teaspoon 1/3 cup 1 2/3 cup 2 cups

fresh strawberries white sugar all-purpose flour baking powder white sugar salt shortening egg milk whipped heavy cream

Directions Slice the strawberries and toss them with 1/2 cup of white sugar. Set aside.

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Grease and flour one 8 inch round cake pan.

In a medium bowl combine the flour, baking powder, 2 tablespoons white sugar and the salt. With a pastry blender cut in the shortening until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Make a well in the center and add the beaten egg and milk. Stir until just combined.

Spread the batter into the prepared pan. Bake at 425 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool partially in pan on wire rack.

Slice partially cooled cake in half, making two layers. Place half of the strawberries on one layer and top with the other layer. Top with remaining strawberries and cover with the whipped cream.

Yield: 8 inch round cake

If the cherry stems are shriveled and brittle, the cherries are older and will be past their prime before long.

Store cherries in a plastic bag with holes in it and keep separate from strong smelling foods.

You can store sweet cherries unwashed in the refrigerator up to 10 days.

Sour cherries can be kept unwashed in the refrigerator and are best used in 2-3 days.

Plan on buying only what you can quickly eat.

Rainier cherries are red with a creamy white coloring. They may have slight discoloration and

brown spotting. This indicates they are higher in sugar content.

They are sweeter than Bing cherries and have a slightly shorter season.

Lamberts are heartshaped beauties with dark red flesh and skin. Their sweet, rich flavor and juicy, meaty flesh make them a favorite for eating fresh as well as for cooking.

Sour cherries are a favorite in pies, preserves, syrups, sauces and pair well with meats. Dried cherries make tasty snacks and add color to salads, stews and rice dishes.

Sour cherries (Prunus cerasus, named for the

Aviation day camp June 12

The annual Aviation day camp will be held on Fri., June 12, at the Spencer Flight and Education Center, Scott City. The program is free to all youngsters in grades K-8.

Participants will have an opportunity to fly the RedBird simulator and fly a Phantom drone.

Young Eagle rides will be offered for everyone in grades 4-8.

Session times are: 8:00-9:30 a.m.: grades K-2 10:00 a.m. to noon: grades 3-5 1:00-3:00 p.m.: grades 6-8 Register on-line at spencerflightcenter.com

Survivor Reception

Relay for Life in Scott County will host its annual “Survivor Reception” on Tues., June 16, 6:00 p.m., at Wheatland Broadband, 101 Main St., Scott City.

There will be refreshments and survivors can also pick up their t-shirts to wear on the night of the Relay.

Seeking reunion volunteers

The All-School Reunion Committee is seeking volunteers for events to be held from July 3-5.

Anyone who is not an alumni, but would like to be a part of the festivities, is asked to contact Kate Macy (872-3788), Sara Goodman (872-3571) or Merilee Epler (872-2291), or e-mail SCHSALUMNI@wbsnet.org; or oldkate@yahoo.com

Turkish city of Cerasus) are rarely available fresh; most are immediately processed.

Sour cherries are smaller and rounder than sweet ones, and do not keep well once they’ve been picked.

When sour cherries are at their peak, most of them are picked and pitted, then immediately frozen, canned, or dried.

When buying frozen or canned sour cherries, check the label to see if they have already been sweetened so that you can adjust the amount of sugar in your recipe accordingly.

There are several easy ways to get your cher-

ry fix. Make some trail mix with dried cherries, almonds, whole grain cereal and if you need the chocolate, toss some mini chocolate chips in with the rest of the ingredients.

Toss some dried cherries on your cold or hot cereral Add them to salads to give color and tastes.

Switch out the blueberries in your favorite recipes for cherries, fresh, canned or dried all work well.

Add them to your best cookies recipe instead of other fruits or chips.

Cherries are fat free, sodium free, cholesterol free; and good sources of vitamin C and potassium.

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Editorial/Opinion

Page 4 - Thursday, May 28, 2015

editorially speaking

Extortion:

Legislature undermining core system of government

When you threaten someone with physical or financial harm unless they do what you demand, that’s extortion.

It’s against the law. It’s that simple.

That’s exactly what is happening with the Kansas Legislature’s threat to cut off all funding to the Shawnee County District Court if it rules against a law passed by the legislature which says chief judges in district courts can be elected by other judges rather than be appointed by the Supreme Court?

In other words, Gov. Sam Brownback and conservative lawmakers are declaring themselves the final authority on what is or isn’t allowed under the Kansas Constitution and the judiciary’s job is to either go along or get out of the way.

So much for three separate, but equal, branches of government.

It could also be argued that the threat over judicial appointments is a warning shot across the judiciary’s bow. While lawmakers probably see the change in judicial appointments as a means by which they can start getting more like-minded appointees into the judicial system, the bigger prize is school funding.

Conservative lawmakers are sending a message that the Supreme Court had better return a favorable ruling on “fair and equitable” funding for public schools or judicial employees had better bring candles to work because there won’t be any money for electricity . . . or anything else for that matter.

At a time when the legislature can’t come to grips with a $420 million projected deficit, the last thing it wants is a court ruling that says it must come up with several hundred million dollars to fund K-12 education. If the court rules in favor of public schools, the legislature will refuse and, in retaliation, pull all funding for the judiciary.

It won’t matter that the legislature is violating the Kansas Constitution. Neither will it matter that conservative lawmakers are violating their sworn oath to uphold that same Constitution.

The option is simple. If lawmakers don’t like what’s in the Constitution, change it. See if Kansas voters feel the same way you do.

But you can’t pick and choose which laws and which parts of the Constitution you want to follow and which ones you don’t. And you can’t threaten to shutdown the judiciary if the courts don’t rule the way you like.

That’s what we would expect from a Third World dictator, not a democracy.

What the legislature is threatening to do is against the law. It’s that simple.

Research:

GOP doesn’t apply same standard to all legislation

The Kansas Senate has stopped a proposed bill that would, among other things, legalize the production of hemp oil for the medicinal treatment of seizures. Republican Sen. Greg Smith says he won’t proceed “without having the research to back that up.”

When the Kansas Legislature passed a massive tax cut bill that exempted corporations from paying income taxes, it was estimated that 191,000 would take advantage. It turns out that 280,737 corporations are paying no taxes, plus another 53,055 farms that the legislature didn’t take into account.

Apparently, the legislature didn’t do its research.

Of course, there’s also the matter of whether “trickle down economics” - the driving force behind the Republican tax plan - even works. It was a failure under the Reagan Administration.

Surely, Republican members of the Kansas Legislature have research-based evidence to show that their tax cut plan would be a huge success - not just a wild-eyed theory from economist/ GOP adviser Art Laffer.

Then again, maybe not.

As legislators continue slashing the state budget, they must surely have done the research to know how reduced funding will impact public education. There must also be some evidence which shows that as low-income Kansans are taken off welfare rolls they really do get jobs which provide them a living wage.

Gov. Sam Brownback and Republican leaders in the legislature are willing to stall a medicinal marijuana bill because they are waiting for additional research, but it’s obvious these lawmakers don’t apply that same standard to all that they do.

The consequences of governing that’s based on faith rather than research is having devastating consequences for Kansas communities, families and our state’s overall well-being.

Then again, when you’re driven by ideology, facts simply aren’t that important.

Kicking the Ogallala bucket It would be almost impossible to find anyone who doesn’t agree that something should have been done yesterday to prolong the life of the Ogallala Aquifer.

Mike O’Brate, an irrigator in Southwest Kansas, expressed his concern about prospects for the next generation of Kansas farmers during a recent meeting of the Kansas Water Authority held in Greensburg.

O’Brate, along with 13 other basin team leaders from across the state, presented their ideas on how to preserve and extend the state’s water resources.

State officials like to boast they’ve held more than 140 meetings which were attended by more than 8,000 people.

“We have a lot of momentum right now on this,” said Tracy Streeter, director of the Kansas Water Authority. “We’ve moved the ball quite a ways from a decade, decade and a half ago in terms of water.”

Really?

We’ve “moved the ball” so much that we’re

talking about developing a 50-year plan for a resource that can no longer be tapped for ag irrigation in parts of Western Kansas and which a growing number of farmers acknowledge will last only another 20-30 years for their operations . . . if they’re lucky.

That 50-year plan which Gov. Sam Brownback wants to unveil in November will have little significance for those farmers.

Of course, we’re all practical people. No one should be so naive as to think that any water plan can erase decades of bad policy and water mismanagement. We all can share the blame for pretending the inevitable would never happen and for not having the will to tackle this critical issue 20 or 30 years ago.

We can’t undo what’s already been done. But

surely we now see the magnitude of the situation and we finally have the resolve to establish the groundwork that will prolong agricultural opportunities for our grandchildren as well as maintain the economic viability of communities in Western Kansas?

Apparently, not yet.

The Upper Republican Basin wants a water reduction plan that can be implemented by January.

They want to reduce the rate of aquifer depletion within five years in order to minimize the impact on the economy.

How much water reduction are we talking about?

That’s anyone guess.

The Upper Smoky Hill Basin wants to reduce overall water use by Jan. 1, 2017.

The Red Hills region in south-central Kansas wants to reduce water use by 10 percent by 2025.

The Great Bend Prairie team wants to see development of a high-yielding feed wheat to replace water-intensive corn production. There are some who argue that we already

have other options (i.e., triticale) and that it will create another storage dilemma for elevators.

Those issues aside, the basin advisory team said it would like to see livestock trials on a variety by 2025.

We act as if we’re serious, but we just keep kicking the water pail down the road.

Credit the KWA for asking basin advisory representatives to provide goals that were specific, measurable, achievable, result-focused and timebound - or SMART. And that’s where this whole process gets bogged down. It’s easy to set a goals, but without the details that spell out how much we plan to reduce usage, how it will be implemented and, most importantly, how it will be enforced, this is little more than an exercise in futility.

What we have right now is a major crisis on the horizon and most of those who can do something about it are standing on the sideline hoping that (See BUCKET on page six)

Ks. coming apart at the seams Kansas is coming apart at the seams.

The state legislature cannot figure out how to plug a more than $400 million budget gap, and tax proposal after tax proposal keeps getting voted down. Some school districts ended the school year early when they ran out of cash.

The superintendent of the Skyline school district in Pratt even resigned so they wouldn’t have to pay him: no money left.

Emporia State University is known for our Teachers College, and today’s students are telling their professors they have second thoughts about teaching in Kansas.

After all, the state has cut funding for education, removed their statemandated right to dispute being fired, and even considered legislation that could put teachers in jail.

Where to Write

another view by Michael Smith

The legislature is also on the verge of passing a bill to defund the state’s court system in the event that the state Supreme Court does not rule the way the legislators want regarding the control of lower-court judges.

Gov. Sam Brownback and his legislative allies have quickly transformed a smoothly functioning, generally low-key government of moderate tax rates and middle-of-theroad politicians into a political and fiscal basket case, repeatedly ignoring warnings from experts.

Paraguay may be our only hope.

The small South American country has a close relationship with Kansas: a legacy of a

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Kennedy administration program called the Partnership of the Americas, which paired Latin American countries with U.S. states. Former Sen. Bob Dole was later a big supporter.

The partnership still exists today. Teachers, firefighters and others travel back and forth.

There is an active Kansas Paraguay Partners group; college students from Paraguay study here, and some of ours study there.

Kansas University professors have traveled there, too.

In 2014 and 2015, Gallup polling ranked Paraguay as the happiest country in the world.

Paraguay had a particularly high percentage of people answering that they “experienced enjoyment; smiled or laughed; felt well-rested; and thought they were treated with

Sen. Pat Roberts 109 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

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respect.” Many also “said they had learned or did something interesting the day before.”

Yet Paraguay’s history features two futile wars that killed huge percentages of the country’s population. They suffered one of the longest-serving dictators of the late 20th century, a cruel man named Alfredo Stroessner who tortured his enemies and left behind a corrupt, bribery-driven political system that persists today.

Smuggling is one of the country’s biggest industries, and Paraguay ranks 138th in the world for gross domestic product per person.

Like Kansas, Paraguay is completely landlocked and highly agricultural.

The country’s budget is so mismanaged that no one knows how much its huge Itaipu Dam (shared (See SEAMS on page six)

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Tax cuts not delivering as promised Whatever Kansas lags in job creation, personal income growth The tax structure changes in 201213 were passed with the promise they would create private sector jobs, but recent economic reports clearly indicate that hasn’t happened.

Those who have supported the tax system that permits corporations to pay no income taxes report that, indeed, new jobs were created in the last two years. But if we look more closely at the data, Kansas is not doing as well as many other states.

The Kansas Center for Economic growth is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that conducts studies of state government policy. A May 14, 2015, post reports that Kansas has created more than 42,000 private sector jobs since the tax changes were implemented in January 2013.

That number alone is quite impressive, but Idaho created 38,000 private sector jobs during the same period.

behind the headlines Bob Grover and Jim Calvert

However, Idaho has a population of 1.6 million people while Kansas has a population of 2.9 million.

By percentage, Idaho’s private sector job growth is 7.5 percent while Kansas’ is 3.8 percent (http://realprosperityks. com).

This same report, which uses the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data from the period January 2013-March 2015, Kansas trails both the region and the nation in job creation. In the sixstate region around Kansas, job growth is 3.9 percent, while the growth rate nationally is 5.2 percent.

Examining median personal income of Kansans shows a similarly disturbing picture. Bureau of Economic Analysis data show personal income growth in Kansas between January 2010 and December 2012 - before the tax changes went into effect - and between January 2013 and December 2014 (after the tax policy went into effect) Kansans’ personal income growth went from 13th

nationally to 32nd.

Personal income growth during the three years before the tax policy change was 6.5 percent; after implementation of the new tax policy, personal income growth dropped to 3.4 percent (Kansas Center for Economic Growth May 11, 2015).

Let’s also look at how the tax cuts for businesses are having an impact. In a letter to the Gazette published May 18 (“This Is Why”) former Kansas Rep. Jim Lowther uses information from the Kansas Department of Revenue to provide evidence that the current tax structure passed by the Legislature in 2012 is not creating jobs.

As Lowther pointed out, of the 333,771 business filers, 53 percent of business filers (176,920) with income up to $25,000 saved an average of $158 in taxes, costing the state $28 million in lost revenue - not nearly enough to create jobs.

The job creators would be the 2.274 businesses with the highest incomes (over $500,000 - .068 percent of filers); each saved an average of $38,310, costing the state $87.1 million in revenue.

(See TAX CUTS on page six)

Living in a fountain pen economy

by Jim Hightower

Even the word “greed” is not negative enough to characterize the all-out assault on workers by today’s corporate elite.

From offshoring jobs to busting unions, from slashing wages to looting pensions, corporate take-aways from America’s used-to-be middle-class workforce certainly are driven by the avarice of top executives and wealthy investors.

Plainly put, the more they can take from workers, the more they can put in their own pockets (or, most likely, in their offshore bank accounts). It adds up to a massive redistribution of wealth from the many to the few.

In addition to greedy, though, these people are rank thieves. As Woody Guthrie succinctly put it: “Some’ll rob you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen.”

We’re now in a rapacious fountainpen economy. Since the Wall Street crash of 2008 (itself a product of grand theft by financial elites), the productivity and creativity of all Americans have regenerated every bit of the wealth that was frittered away by bankers, and we created trillions of dollars in new income.

What a phenomenal national achievement that is, produced in an astonishingly short time by the shared effort of our people!

But strenuous effort is all we shared.

The richest one-percent of Americans

have grabbed 91 percent of the gains in income, and the even-richer one-tenthof-one-percent sucked up 22 percent of the new wealth.

Thus, the vast majority of us have still not recovered the wealth we lost (homes, cars, savings, etc.) and 99 percent of us are getting less income today than we were before Wall Street crashed our economy seven years ago.

It’s time we robees started talking plainly about what’s going on. The rich are not getting richer because they’re more enterprising than everyone else, harder-working, or of strong moral character. They’re thieves. They’re getting richer by stealing from you.

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

The high cost of low taxes Californians offset property tax freeze with outrageous fines Earlier this month, I arrived in San Diego following five days of driving across the country from Wisconsin.

I pulled into my friend’s driveway, brought my things inside, and went back to my car to park it on the street.

Almost immediately, a cop’s siren and flashing lights went off. I’d left my license in my friend’s apartment, so I was in trouble no matter what.

But I was in even more trouble because, the cop told me, my license had been suspended since September.

My jaw dropped. “I take it from the look on your face that you didn’t know that,” the cop ventured.

No. I didn’t.

The state of California hadn’t gone to the trouble of telling me that it had suspended my license due to a $300

other voices

by Jill Richardson

ticket from last summer - one I thought I’d already paid. I wasn’t able to pay it on time, but I did make good on it eventually. Including the late fee, it had cost me a grand total of $554.

This is where the nightmare really starts.

I spent two hours at the DMV the next day, only to discover I had to call the court to settle the matter. The court only answers its phones three hours a day, Monday through Friday, and its website is confusing and unhelpful.

So for the weekend, I was stuck without a license.

Some people would start shouting about bureaucracy and inefficiency and Big Government - and I can’t say they’re totally wrong. The wheels of California’s government turn very slowly. It’s painfully inconvenient.

But I don’t think it has to be this way.

I trace the problem back to 1978, when California voters decided they didn’t much care for property taxes.

They overwhelmingly passed a ballot initiative that effectively froze the rates at 1970s levels in perpetuity.

Known as Prop 13, this ballot blunder has put the squeeze on state and local authorities ever since. Furthermore, it’s extremely difficult to increase taxes in California, because doing so requires a two-thirds majority vote in the legislature.

Flash-forward to today, and the state doesn’t have enough money to pay for schools or govern itself well.

When I held a state job as a software analyst several years ago, my colleagues and I were paid 30 percent less than the going rate for the field.

Consequently, it was nearly impossible to recruit or retain talented employees for the job.

(See TAXES on page six)

happened to enforcing antitrust?

by Robert Reich

Last week’s settlement between the Justice Department and five giant banks reveals the appalling weakness of modern antitrust.

The banks had engaged in the biggest price-fixing conspiracy in modern history. Their self-described “cartel” used an exclusive electronic chat room and coded language to manipulate the $5.3 trillion-a-day currency exchange market.

It was a “brazen Drug comdisplay of collusion” panies pay that went on for the makers years, said Attorney of generic General Loretta drugs to delay cheaper verLynch. sions. Such But there will be “pay-forno trial, no execu- delay” agreetive will go to jail, ments are the banks can contin- illegal in other advanced ue to gamble in the economies, same currency mar- but antitrust kets, and the fines - enforcement although large - are a hasn’t laid a finger on them fraction of the banks’ in America. potential gains and They cost you will be treated by and me an the banks as costs of estimated $3.5 billion a year. doing business.

America used to have antitrust laws that permanently stopped corporations from monopolizing markets, and often broke up the biggest culprits.

No longer. Now, giant corporations are taking over the economy - and they’re busily weakening antitrust enforcement.

The result has been higher prices for the many, and higher profits for the few. It’s a hidden upward redistribution from the majority of Americans to corporate executives and wealthy shareholders.

Wall Street’s five largest banks now account for 44 percent of America’s banking assets - up from about 25 percent before the crash of 2008 and 10 percent in 1990. That means higher fees and interest rates on loans, as well as a greater risk of another “too-big-to-fail” bailout.

But politicians don’t dare bust them up because Wall Street pays part of their campaign expenses.

Similar upward distributions are occurring elsewhere in the economy.

Big-Pharma Antitrust Americans spend far more on medications per person than do citizens in any other developed country, even though the typical American takes fewer prescription drugs. A big reason is the power of pharmaceutical companies to keep their patents going way beyond the 20 years they’re supposed to run.

Drug companies pay the makers of generic drugs to delay cheaper versions. Such “pay-for-delay” agreements are illegal in other advanced economies, but antitrust enforcement hasn’t laid a finger on them in America. They cost you and me an estimated $3.5 billion a year.

Or consider health insurance.

Decades ago health insurers wangled from Congress an exemption to the antitrust laws that allowed them to fix prices, allocate markets, and collude over the terms of coverage, on the assumption they’d be regulated by state insurance commissioners.

But America’s giant insurers outgrew state regulation. Consolidating into a few large national firms and operating across many different states, they’ve gained considerable economic and political power.

Cable Companies in Control Why does the United States have the highest broadband prices among advanced nations and the slowest speeds?

Because more than 80 percent of Americans have no choice but to rely on their local cable company for high capacity wired data connections to the Internet - usually (See ANTITRUST on page six)

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Paying the price for what is done in haste John Heim

The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.Turkish Proverb * * * Once again it is May, and our elected officials are struggling to get their work completed at the last minute. For observers and representatives alike, it is similar to how my brother used to describe his police career: long periods of boredom interspersed with brief moments of excitement.

We were in a great hurry to get block grants passed so we would have a school finance plan.

Now we have a budget hole to fill that gets bigger every day and only two more weeks to finish the task on time. Throw in changes to KPERS and a host of smaller issues and it looks like we are on the verge of more all-nighters at the last hour.

My daughter just left my office talking about pulling all-nighters for two finals. I imagine she

Antitrust Warner. And these corporations are among the most politically potent in America (although, thankfully, not powerful enough to grease the merger of Comcast with Time-Warner).

Have you wondered why your airline ticket prices have remained so high even though the cost of jet fuel has plummeted 40 percent?

Because U.S. airlines have consolidated into a handful of giant carriers

Junction City to support his raging farm jones. He would give assignments on the weekends and my brother and I would do the work. The day before I was to leave for my teaching job, he called with a problem. He needed one last quarter mile section of fence done before we quit for the summer.

If we could do it in one day, we would both get crisp $100 bills. My dad had/has an affinity for getting “one more thing” done, as anyone

who has ever worked for him can attest. We were not surprised; the pay was good and we were young, strong, focused and dumb.

We started at the break of dawn and worked until the sun went down. This is stone post country folks, the posts that can withstand the charge of a 2000-pound bull, but will break if hit just right with a hammer. At the end of the day, we had broken a few posts, strung a lot of wire, built a tear-away over a draw and collect-

ed our $100 bills. It was a great sense of accomplishment.

Until Christmas, when we came home and asked, “Where’s dad?” My mom had the look that we knew ever so well, the look that said, “Lay low boys, until the heat is off.”

There is art and science to stringing wire. The art is knowing how to get it just tight enough in the summer so when the cold weather comes and the steel contracts it doesn’t

harm to consumers and to innovation.”

The commissioners decided against the lawsuit, perhaps because Google is also the biggest lobbyist in Washington.

The list goes on, industry after industry, across the economy.

Antitrust has been ambushed by the giant companies it was designed to contain.

Congress has squeezed the budgets of the antitrust division of the Justice Department and

the bureau of competition of the FTC. Politically-powerful interests have squelched major investigations and lawsuits.

Right-wing judges have stopped or shrunk the few cases that get through.

We’re now in a new gilded age of wealth and power similar to the first gilded age when the nation’s antitrust laws were enacted. But unlike then, today’s biggest corporations have enough political clout to neuter

antitrust.

Conservatives rhapsodize about the “free market” and condemn government intrusion. Yet the market is rigged. And unless government unrigs it through bold antitrust action to restore competition, the upward distributions hidden inside the “free market” will become even larger.

(See HASTE on page seven)

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that divide up routes and collude on fares. In 2005 the U.S. had nine major airlines. Now we have just four. And all are politically well-connected.

Why does food cost so much? Because the four largest food companies control 82 percent of beef packing, 85 percent of soybean processing, 63 percent of pork packing, and 53 percent of chicken processing.

Monsanto alone owns the key genetic traits to

Hillary comes clean on 20,000 spam e-mails from Old Navy

by Andy Borowitz

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) Hoping to quell the controversy over e-mails missing from her private account, the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released 20,000 spam e-mails she received from Old Navy.

“In an effort to be transparent, I have gone above and beyond what is required of me by law and released every last e-mail I received from this retailer,” she told reporters. “Now I think we can all consider this case closed.”

The e-mails reveal an extensive one-way correspondence between Clinton and Old Navy, as the retailer sometimes contacted her up to a dozen times in a single day to inform her of sales and other offers.

“This is one of the main reasons I set up a private e-mail account,” she said. “I did not want spam from Old Navy clogging up the State Department servers.”

But if the former Secretary of State thought that she could end the controversy swirling around her e-mail account by releasing the Old Navy spam, she may have miscalculated.

Rep. Trey Gowdy, the Republican chairman of the House Benghazi select committee, questioned why Clinton would let 20,000 spam e-mails from Old Navy accumulate rather than simply unsubscribe. “It doesn’t pass the smell test,” he said.

Responding to that allegation, Clinton said, “I want the American people to know that, on multiple occasions, I tried to unsubscribe from Old Navy and my requests were ignored. The most frustrating part of this whole affair is that I’ve never even bought anything from Old Navy.”

Andy Borowitz is a comedian and author

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will be as receptive to my advice on the efficacy of this strategy as the legislature.

My parents and I had dinner in Hays last week and we were discussing the phenomenon of waiting to the last minute to get your work done.

I recalled the summer before my first teaching job, when my brother and I hired on to build fence.

My dad was truly a gentleman farmer at that time, holding a second job as superintendent at

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more than 90 percent of the soybeans planted by farmers in the United States and 80 percent of the corn.

Big Agribusiness wants to keep it this way.

FTC Backs Down Google’s search engine is so dominant “google” has become a verb. Three years ago the staff of the Federal Trade Commission recommended suing Google for “conduct (that) has resulted and will result - in real

Bucket others will make the sacrifice so they don’t have to or, at a minimum, the sacrifice will be painless.

As we saw with efforts to organize a Local Enhanced Management Area (LEMA) in Groundwater Management District No. 1, stakeholders can find plenty of reasons not to support the idea. They don’t like the voting process, they don’t like the reduction levels, they simply don’t like someone

Taxes

We were extremely inefficient, working with an understaffed team.

Odds are the state could have actually saved money if it had paid more in salaries and benefited from the productivity it Michael Smith is an associate professor of political science would’ve gotten in return. at Emporia State University The miserable quality of state services like food stamps and unemployment - both of which I’ve had to rely on in rough with Brazil) cost to build. Paraguayans do not think there is anything odd about this. They are used to it.

If the Paraguay example serves, perhaps fiscal integrity, a competitive political system, a well-maintained infrastructure and a solid economy are not necessary for people to be happy.

There may be hope for Kansas after all.

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telling them what they can or can’t do.

We couldn’t get a consensus to reduce water usage by 20 percent which, according to most experts, barely scratches the surface with respect to what we really need to be thinking about. If we can’t get a majority of stakeholders to agree to a modest 20 percent reduction, just how do we expect to get voluntary support for a more aggressive goal of cutting irrigation usage by 50 percent or more?

Tax Cuts As the job growth figures above indicate, the amount of job creation is far below predictions.

So which businesses are receiving the greatest tax benefits?

Kansas Department of Revenue information indicates that 89 percent of businesses filing for the new tax breaks (297,853) reported income of $50,000 or less and cost the state (us) $105.6 million in tax revenue, while 10.15 percent (35,918) of business filers report-

Robert Reich is a former secretary of labor, is currently a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, and is an author

Unfortunately, we have a lot more excuses than we do time.

In all honesty, how much can we expect to reduce irrigation and how long can we expect to prolong the life of the Ogallala Aquifer if we leave it up to local producers and landowners in the five basin advisory committees sitting on top of the Ogallala to set the rules?

And while the state deserves credit for opening the dialogue about

water, it appears state officials are also lacking in resolve. Gov. Brownback and state officials seem determined to remain spectators while leaving it up to local producers and landowners to develop a plan to prolong the Ogallala.

In November, we’ll see how serious we are about saving the aquifer.

Right now, we’re not very optimistic.

Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com

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ed income of more than $50,000 and cost Kansas $205 million in revenue.

There is little doubt that the high rollers benefit most from the new tax structure.

When considering income taxes overall, information from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy indicates that the poorest 20 percent of Kansans pay 11.1 percent of their income in taxes while the wealthiest one percent of Kansans pay only 3.6 percent.

We have an unfair tax system. More than 300,000 businesses in Kansas are paying no income taxes while not creating jobs as our leaders promised. The tax structure gives these businesses a free ride while creating a fiscal crisis in the state; in turn, public services, our highway system and schools suffer from underfunding.

Our economic growth trails nearby states and the country as a whole. And the more individuals earn,

the less one pays in taxes as a percentage of income.

This unfair system will only get worse with an increase in the sales tax.

We have a tax structure that has created a financial crisis in the state, and our state leadership must fix the tax structure so that Kansas can provide the services needed for all of its citizens - not just the needs of big business and the wealthy.

Bob Grover and Jim Calvert are columnists for the Emporia Gazette

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times - falls unfairly on the poor.

Traffic tickets like mine do too, since being unable to pay right away can cost hundreds extra in late fees. I had to choose between eating and paying rent or paying my ticket last summer, so the ticket had to wait.

It turns out I’m not the only one. A new report from civil rights groups

found that California has slammed thousands of drivers - especially poor people and people of color - with steep fines and suspensions in an apparent bid to raise revenue.

It’s no fun paying taxes, but the saying about “death and taxes” holds true. They’re unavoidable. And when you try to reduce taxes irresponsibly, you end up with California-style bureau-

cratic shortcomings and predatory revenue schemes.

We’re all paying anyway - just in tickets, suspended licenses, deteriorating school systems, and out-of-control traffic fines, instead of by just footing our tax bills.

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

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pop like a violin string at an elementary orchestra concert.

In our haste, we pulled just a little too hard. George knows about shrinkage, and so did we when Max came home cussing about the shoddy job that had been done that summer. I’m surprised he didn’t ask for his $100 back, but it was Christmas.

My concern about hastily constructed block grant bills and budget plans is that when Christmas comes around, the wires will pop, the cows will get out, and we will have already spent those crisp hundred dollar bills. Just as was the case 35 years ago, some emergencies can’t be foreseen. I sure hope the result isn’t the same.

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The judge further determined that Dornon “made no mention of how his rights under the First, Fifth and Sixth Amendments have been violated.”

Honor guard members participating in the Memorial Day service were (from left) Bill Lewis, David Lewis and Honor Guard Commander Harold Irwin.

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Giving thanks to those ‘who sacrificed for our ideals’

The occasion was Memorial Day, but former Marine Capt. Skip Numrich reminded those attending Monday’s service at the Scott County Cemetery they should also be thankful.

“If we accomplish nothing else today, let us be thankful,” Numrich said during the Memorial Day service.

Among those to be thanked are the military men and women who are “willing to defend and, if necessary, sacrifice for our ideals.”

Memorial Day, noted Numrich, is a time that’s been set aside “to give thanks and honor our citizen warriors who have kept watch over us since the founding of our nation.”

“They deserve our thanks and remembrance for their many sacrifices,” he emphasized.

He said that among those to be remembered are the 27 Scott County veterans who died during evaluate how to best simple thankfulness and bilities. combat. honor their sacrifice,” an understanding that our “There “Each of us should he said. “A good start is rights also entail responsi- lunch.”

(Above) Scott Community High School National Honor Society member Kiana Yager places a flower at the base of a new memorial at the Scott County Cemetery. Twentyseven flowers were placed at the memorial to honor each of the Scott County service members who died in combat.

(Right) John Fisher joins other members of the honor guard during the salute.

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No Conspiracy In his complaint, Dornon alleged the city’s representatives were involved in a conspiracy to deprive him of his constitutional rights, but the judge said there was no evidence detailing “how the conspiracy was formed.”

Likewise, Judge Rogers said there was insufficient evidence to show the city had not followed established procedures that gave Dornon adequate time to address the city’s complaint.

As a result, Dornon’s efforts to seek $10 million in damages from the city have been dismissed.

For years, the city has heard complaints from Dornon’s neighbors and has tried to get Dornon to clean up the eyesore.

Prior to this latest effort to force Dornon to take action, the council adopted a new ordinance which it felt would give them the necessary leverage to force Dornon to either clean up his property or allow the city to do so. In addition to Dornon’s property, the city issued citations to three other property owners and four other sites in town. Each of the other property owners took action to clean up their locations.

Dornon refused to ask for a hearing prior to the city entering his lots and begin removal of property that was in front of his house and a garage to the south, in addition to an enclosed fence behind the garage at 109 Court.

Dornon argued that city employees broke the law by entering his property without a warrant and taking what was his in addition to hauling the items to the landfill without giving him a chance to redeem them.

Property identified by the city in its “nuisance abatement” filled six type written pages and included in excess of 100 items. These included children’s toys, stacked lumber, exercise machines, an electric wheelchair, four push lawn mowers, two riding lawn mowers, 12 bicycles, 37 tires (without rims) and a metal swimming pool.

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Crane has made classroom education a hands-on experience Education, as Jon Crane learned many years ago, goes beyond what is taught from a book.

For nearly three decades, his students have been famous for building volcanoes in the fall and launching rockets in the spring.

In between, his fourth graders have dissected parts of animals, viewed life under a microscope and conducted numerous experiments that offered lessons about the world around them.

“I was fortunate to have a teacher who taught me at an early age about the importance of hands-on learning,” says Crane.

Crane, 60, will no longer be sharing those lessons with his young students after deciding this past week that he will resign after 37 years in education - 32 of those with Scott County schools.

He had actually “retired” from the district two years ago, but continued teaching at Scott City Elementary School. His plans were to remain with the district one more year, after which he and his wife, Anne, would pursue overseas mission work.

However, Crane was concerned that it would be difficult to continue teaching full-time and also prepare for mission work in Israel.

“Even though we won’t begin our mission work for another year, I knew it would take a major commitment in order to learn another language and make other preparations,” Crane says. “This will give me the opportunity to do that. I can still (substitute) when needed and also do some work for area farmers.”

Having been to Israel on three other occasions, the Cranes are looking forward to spending extended time in the region.

“It will be very interesting.

We really like the area and we really care about the many types of people living there,” Crane says.

‘A Powerful Influence’ Having been raised in a farm family north of Dodge City, it was expected that Crane would pursue that same career. That changed with the help of fourth grade teacher Mary Winter who Crane described as “a powerful influence on my life.”

“It was because of her that I wanted to teach fourth grade,” Crane says. “She was innovative and she challenged me. She taught me the value of handson learning and how that helps to capture a student’s imagination and to keep them more interested in what’s happening in the classroom.”

After attending Dodge City Community College, Crane earned his bachelor’s degree in education from Ft. Hays State University.

Following graduation, Crane’s first job was as a fifth grade teacher in Scott City, followed by five years as a sixth grade math and social studies teacher in Maize. Crane returned to Scott City where he has remained for the past 31 years where he split time between the Shallow Water School (15 years) and Scott City schools (16 years). Since the closing of Shallow Water School, Crane has been a fourth grade teacher at Scott City Elementary School for the past 12 years.

Crane says it was about 27 years ago that he began involving students in a variety of classroom experiments - he estimates 130-140 a year - remembering the lessons he learned as a fourth grader.

“I tried to do an experiment each day in class. It made learning so much more interesting for the kids and for me,” he says. “Education may go in cycles, but hands-on sticks. It’s not a fad.”

The experiments would incorporate lessons that could be applied to social studies, reading and math.

“It got to where kids would be disappointed if we hadn’t conducted an experiment by the end of the day. If it was getting close to 3:00 and we hadn’t

Dearden is KWU grad Kayla Dearden, Scott City, was among graduates from Kansas Wesleyan University, Salina, who participated in commencement ceremonies on May 9.

Dearden graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts degree in elementary education.

She is the daughter of Lonny and Coleen Dearden, Scott City.

Cramer earns Bethany honors Katren Cramer, Dighton, was named to the spring semester Dean’s List at Bethany College, Lindsborg.

Cramer is majoring in elementary education (K-6).

To qualify for the honor list, full-time students must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.5.

Retiring after 33 years in the Scott County school district is SCES fourth grade teacher Jon Crane. (Record Photo)

done our experiment yet, kids would start asking what our experiment was going to be,” Crane notes.

Not that there was any shortage of ideas from which to choose.

Shelves along the south wall of his classroom are filled with everything a creative mind could want - microscopes, volcano building kits and models of the human anatomy, just to name a few. Open the doors on a cabinet and there are additional shelves filled with fossils.

Crane pulls a small anemometer (used to measure wind speed) from one shelf and jokes, “I’d tell the kids we’re going to see who is the windiest person in class today.”

“Very seldom was there a day when we didn’t do something hands-on. Sometimes I’d do it, but most of the time I tried to get interaction from them. We covered physical science, astronomy, electricity and even biology.”

The latter would often be with the help of local veterinarians or Percival Packing who were more than willing to share organs, eyeballs and other body

parts from a cow.

Being an avid fisherman, Crane might also bring a fish species from the lake that students could dissect and examine under a microscope.

“I rarely had a kid who didn’t like the experience. I knew it would make school more interesting to them,” says the longtime teacher.

The payback would often come when they would meet a former student who had gone on to major in biology or science.

“They remember their fourth grade experiments and how it impacted what they wanted to do in life,” he notes. “It makes you feel pretty good to think that something you did as a teacher way back then made that kind of a difference.”

Crane feels fortunate to have been in the teaching profession and to have spent most of his career in Scott City.

“I once heard that education is a reflection of a community and I think it’s apparent most people here are behind education,” he said. “I can honestly look back and feel I’m very glad I had the privilege of teaching here.”

Haupt wins Young Entrepreneur scholarship Carson Haupt, a sophomore at Scott Community High School, was awarded a $500 scholarship as the winner of the Youth Entrepreneurship local business plan competition held in April in Scott City. Haupt advanced to the regional contest in Garden City.

The business plan was for an optometry venture called Infinite Eyewear. His business plan encompassed the various aspects of starting and operating a business, including organizational and marketing strategies, financial goal setting and projections, target market analysis, feasibility calculations and exit strategies.

Kaleb Roberts also attended the regional contest as an at-large entry featuring his paint ball team-building venture which he called Target Acquired.

The SCHS sophomore won “Best Trade Show Display” and was awarded a $50 cash prize.

Conard is state 4-H photography project winner Kelsie Conard, Leoti, has been named a state 4-H project award winner in photography.

She was among 29 4-Hers selected for the state awards, which are based on work completed the previous year.

Project winners represent 4-H at its best, according to Barbara Stone, assistant director, K-State Extension.

“These young people represent Kansas 4-H Youth Development and highlight the essence of 4-H – setting goals, gaining knowledge, learning and mastering new skills, and sharing that knowledge with others,” she said.

The awards were presented at the 4-H Emerald Circle Banquet held in Manhattan on May 28.

The projects are designed to explore a variety of interests, but also reflect three core competencies integrated into 4-H programs: •Science, engineering and technology; •Citizenship, leadership and service, and •Healthy living.

“The 4-H project experience allows youth to learn valuable life skills as well as prospective career choices,” said Kylie Dicket, Kansas 4-H project manager.

Deardens on KWU honor roll

Kayla and Krissa Dearden, Scott City, have been named to the spring semester President’s Honor Roll at Kansas Wesleyan University, Salina.

They were among 94 students earning semester honors.

To be named to the academic list, full-time students must maintain a grade point average of 3.75 or higher.

SCHS sophomore Carson Haupt is presented a $500 scholarship as the Youth Entrepreneurship business plan competition winner. Making the presentation are Pamela Caldwell, assistant executive director of the Scott Community Foundation and Ryan Roberts (far right), SCF executive director. Also pictured is SCHS business instructor Kevin Reese.

“Both students were able to gain an appreciation for the challenges involved with writing and then presenting their plans,” says business instructor

Kevin Reese. “Hopefully, it’s the start to someday starting and operating their own successful businesses.”

The Youth Entrepreneurship

class at SCHS is funded by the Scott County Commission through the Scott County Development Committee and Scott E-Community Team.

For the Record Kansas Senate puts brakes on marijuana bill The Scott County Record

Jason Alderman

A bill that would ease marijuana laws in Kansas has stalled in the state Senate and will likely not be considered further this year after its unexpected approval by the House.

The bill would decrease penalties for marijuana possession, order a state study of industrial hemp and allow limited production and sale of hemp oil to treat seizures. It represents the most serious

push to liberalize Kansas’ marijuana policies in decades, but Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce said that it has “a lot of moving parts” and the chamber likely would not be able to approve it without careful consideration.

“We’re just going to have to take a look at that next year,” the Nickerson Republican said. “It’s a big issue.”

The legislature is

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Scott County Library budget request

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Scott Co. Extension budget request

4:30 p.m.

Chamber of Commerce request for funding

5:00 p.m.

Scott Co. Historical Society budget

5:30 p.m.

Public Works Director Richard Cramer

Agenda may change before the meeting. Contact County Clerk Alice Brokofsky for an updated agenda (872-2420) or visit www.scott.kansasgov.com

Scott City Council Agenda Mon., June 1 • 7:30 p.m.

City Hall • 221 W. 5th •Call to Order •Approve minutes of May 18 regular meeting •Discussion of special assessments for possible housing development in Eastridge Subdivision Loyce Schamberger: Northwest Kansas Housing director •SCHS Alumni Association to discuss blocking of 8th Street between Main and Washington for school reunion, parade and placement of SCHS championship signs •Approve specifications to resurface retaining wall around City Hall and advertise for bids •Open agenda: audience is invited to voice ideas or concerns. A time limit may be requested Pool Department 1) Update on delayed pool opening Police Department 1) Misc. business Parks Department 1) Misc. business Public Works Department 1) Kancap board/council education training on June 11 in Garden City 2) Discuss long-term employee sick leave Clerk’s Department 1) Misc. business •Financial and investment reports •Mayor’s comments

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already in overtime on its 90-day session - Friday will be its 99th day. With a looming budget deficit of about $406 million in the fiscal year beginning July 1, all attention has been put toward work on budget and tax proposals to close the gap, said Senate President Susan Wagle (R-Wichita).

Republican Rep. John Rubin from Shawnee, one of the authors of the bill, said it was “dead on arrival” in the Senate.

The fact that it has hit a roadblock is “so frustrating, it’s heartbreaking,” said Democratic Rep. John Wilson from Lawrence. Wilson has pursued the legalization of hemp oil since 2014 after speaking with constituents who moved to neighboring Colorado to obtain such treatments for their son, who suffers from a seizure disorder.

Fourteen states have legalized some medical

use of hemp oil, as the Kansas bill would do.

To get traction for his proposal in the GOPdominated House, Wilson lobbied hard and swayed many Republican lawmakers. The bill gained the bulk of the House’s 97 Republican votes to be sent to the Senate.

If the bill is taken up next session, it will face fresh skepticism in Senate Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee, to which it has been referred.

Republican Sen. Greg Smith from Overland Park, who chairs the panel, said he is interested in splitting the broad measure into separate bills dealing with its criminal, agricultural and medical changes.

“I have some serious issues with, ‘Let’s legalize something just because everyone wants to do it,’ without having the research to back that up,” Smith said.

Kansas seat belt usage reaches all-time high The highest-ever percentage of buckled drivers and passengers in Kansas was recorded in 2014.

“Eighty-six percent of drivers and front seat passengers were buckled up. That’s a five percentage point increase from the previous year,” said Kansas Transportation Secretary Mike King.

In 2003, a year after the observed seat belt rate was only 61 percent; Kansas implemented the safety campaign, “Click it. Or ticket.” which combines education with the help of Kansas law enforcement agencies.

Law enforcement works with the KDOT-sponsored program, the Kansas Traffic Safety Resource Office (KTSRO), and uses their high school-based education program, Seat belts Are For Everyone (SAFE) to get the message to new drivers.

The SAFE program began in six high schools.

Today it is in 128 schools in 60 counties, and reaches more than 100,000 students. The observed teen rate for seat belt usage has been increasing at a greater rate than any other age group.

Scott Co. LEC Report

Toys, Collectibles and Guns

Sunday, June 7 • 10:00 a.m.

Scott City Police Department Location: William Carpenter 4-H Building, fairgrounds, north edge of Scott City May 18: Amanda MarSteve Smith-Owner quez was arrested on a Sunday, February 2 • 11:00 a.m.

Mulch rippers Remington model 10 Gleaner A85 special warrant from another Toys 1/16 scale rare models pat. 1905, 12-gauge 85th anniversary 1/32 Precision county and transported to pump shotgun 1/32 Forage Harvesters JD 772 grader Tractors Case 1550 dozer Volunteer M63 shotNew Holland FX 60 CIH STX 450 with the LEC. Case W30 wheel loader gun 12-gauge, New Holland FK 9090 triples Bobcat S300 skid steer single shot CIH 620 Gold Signature May 18: Joshua Dirks CIH JD 320 skid steer Stevens model 94, Edition Magnum 305 JD 775 CE IH T-340 crawler 12-gauge shotgun Square baler JD 100 was arrested for domestic Steiger 538 CE JD 1010 crawler Ranger 22 cal. rifle Combines CIH 535 with triples Lots of smaller battery and transported to JD 9420T with clip JD 9610 tractors, implements Mossberg model 35 JD 9600 Limited Edition the LEC. and trucks rifle, 22 cal.

Gleaner R62 Big Bud Toy Farmer Tonka toys German 30-06 rifle MF 850 and 900 hp May 19: Daniel Skibbe JD760hp Large collection of with scope 9750 STS combine NH Twin Rotor Match Box and Hot Marlin model 60 rifle, Tractors CE and shelf was arrested on a warrant 1/16 Precision Wheels, some carded 22 cal. models Tractors before 1990 from another county and Farmall 706 Marlin model 43 shotJD 8410 FWA Race cars, 32nd scale gun,12-gauge pump, JD 70, 4640, 9400T, Farmall 400 Die cast cars transported to the LEC. pat. Nov. 1909 8520 with triples IH 1466 Car and truck banks Mossberg model 395T JD 50 series 4wd and 1468 May 19: Darren Mal- IH Franklin Mint cars 12-gauge shotgun MFW IH 560 with 2-row Metal toy trucks H&R 12-gauge shotJD 9630 corn picker (rare) chow reported a hit-andOther Collectibles gun, single shot JD 8310T JD 7020 Knife Collection H&R Topper model run accident in the 300 JD 4000 JD 4010 with cab Large collection of cast M48, 12-gauge JD 4320 JD 4020 with 2-row iron banks block of East Victor. single shot shotgun JD 9620 with triples corn picker (rare) Large collection of belt Stevens single shot Stieger Panther 1400 Collector buckles, JD gold, May 19: An accident Prestige 12-gauge shotgun with triples Steiger Panther PTA complete set of Versatile 936 was reported in the 200 325 4wd brass Hesston buckles Iver 38 cal. pistol, pat. Dec. 1893 Versatile 1150 Ford FW 60 4wd with the 1974 and Rohm model 66 pistol, CIH 2394, 2594, 7120, block of East First St. Dealer Edition youth belt buckle 22 cal.

7520, STX 4440 with 40-brass bridle 3-Case 4994 when Gloria O’Bleness JD 4620 H&R Bull Dog 32 cal. triples, MX 270 fwa, ornaments pistol with triples 4320 200-Regal china was making a right turn JD Young America 32 cal.

IH 1586, 5288, Hydro Spec Cast whiskey decanters pistol 100 with ROPS, 856 450 including K-State, and struck a parked ve- Farmall S&W model 40F pistol with cab Farmall 400LP Wichita State, Iver Johnson 32 cal.

Oliver 770 with loader AC 220 hicle.

Wild Turkey, Elvis, pistol DA 8030 50th anniversary cars, train set May 20: Alex Mal- Oliver 540 planter Iver Johnson 32 cal.

Ford 5000 Dolls by Precious pistol, pat. Aug. 1895 1/16 scale equipment Series Moments chow, 20, was arrested for Anniversary Springfield Arms V-10 Manure spreaders Case 2390 Glass display cases Ultra Compact 1911 Forage equipment 5488 duels Hot Wheel shelving domestic battery and dis- IH semi-auto pistol, Class, CIH, Hesston, JD 4020 Kawasaki Mule .45 cal.

JD, IH orderly conduct and trans- Farmall 806 Has oil leak Taurus 738 TCP 380 Windrowers AC 7080 Guns ported to the LEC. cal. semi-auto pistol Wagons 1/24 Collector’s JC Higgins 12-gauge S&W Body Guard 380 Grinder mixers Edition shotgun, bolt action Scott County cal. semi-auto pistol Planters MF 9895 JC Higgins 16-gauge with laser Plows Cat combine 590R shotgun, full bolt Sheriff’s Department Ammunition Disks duels action May 19: Virginia Gil- Terms: Must have valid ID to register. Cash or approved check day of sale. Everything sold as is. No warranties excrease reported criminal pressed or implied. Not responsible for theft or accident. Announcements day of sale take precedence over printed material. No pets allowed in the building. Lunch served. Check us out: www.berningauction.com and facebook damage to property.

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Applications open for victim assistance grants Five grant programs serving victims of crime across Kansas are open for application.

Nearly $2 million in grant funds are distributed each year from five different state programs through the office of the attorney general. Funds are used to assist local and state crime victim assistance organizations across Kansas in providing direct

services to crime victims, as well as in developing prevention programs to address violence.

Grant opportunities are open in the following programs: Human Trafficking Victim Assistance Fund (HTVAF): This fund provides training regarding human trafficking for law enforcement agencies throughout Kansas, and to support care, treatment

and other services for victims of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of a child.

Deadline to apply: June 2.

Child Exchange and Visitation Center Program (CEVC): This fund seeks to provide supervised child exchange and visitation to children and families at risk due to circumstances relating to domestic or family violence.

KDR plans to change vehicle renewal notices

The Kansas Department of Revenue plans to change the way it notifies residents that they need to renew their vehicle tags.

The state agency wants to replace 2.6 million personalized vehicle renewal letters sent annually to residents with a generic postcard reminder as a cost-saving measure. The letter-to-postcard swap is

expected to save the state around $500,000.

Counties that want to continue the previous method would bear the cost of printing and mailing the letters.

The first postcards that would go out will cover those with last names starting with M, N and O with renewals due in August.

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., May 28, 2015; last published Thurs., June 4, 2015)1t NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CHANGE OF ZONING REQUEST Notice is hereby given that the Scott City Planning Commission will hold a special meeting on June 25, 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: Application for amendment of the official zoning map by Stacy Hoeme/Love’s Travel Stop & Country Store to change the zoning from Ag-Agricultural District to C-2 General Commercial District for the following described property to wit: A parcel of land located in the Northwest Quarter (NW/4) of Section Thirty (30), Township Eighteen (18) South, Range Thirty-Two (32) West of the Sixth Principal Meridian, Scott County, Kansas being further described as follows: Commencing at the Northwest corner of said Section 30 being a found Survey Spike, Matthews; thence North 89˚48’11” East on the North line of said Section 30, a distance of 51.90 feet; thence South 00˚03’37” East on the East Highway right-of-way line, a distance of 1,110 feet, to the point of beginning being a found 1/2-inch R-bar, Matthews; thence North 89˚48’11” East on the South lines of Hoeme Addition and Scott County Hospital Addition, a distance of 861.07 feet, to a set 1/2-inch R-bar, Parks cap typical; thence South 00˚03’37” East, a distance of 430 feet, to a set 1/2-inch R-bar; thence South 89˚48”11” West a distance of 861.07 feet to a set 1/2-inch R-bar; thence North 00˚03’37” West on the East highway right-of-way line, a distance of 430 feet, to the point of beginning containing an area of 8.5 acres, more or less. (A portion of such tract is currently within the city limits).

All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard at such hearing.

Dated: May 27, 2015 Rodney Hogg, chairman Scott City Planning Commission

The new method will not list information about the vehicles up for renewal nor the amount due.

The postcard, instead, directs the recipient to the state revenue department’s website to renew online or print a detailed letter and renew by mail or in person at the local treasurer’s office.

Deadline to apply: June es of programs assisting crime victims, and estabChild Abuse and lishing and maintaining Neglect (CVAF-CA): new programs providing This fund seeks to pro- services to the victims of vide for ongoing operat- crimes.

Deadline to apply: June ing expenses of programs 5. assisting child victims.

State Protection from Deadline to apply: June Abuse Fund (PFA): This 4. fund seeks to provide Crime Victims Assist- temporary emergency ance Fund (CVAF): This shelter, counseling and fund seeks to provide for assistance to victims of ongoing operating expens- domestic abuse and their 3.

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dependent children; and to provide educational services directed at reducing the incidence of domestic abuse and diminishing its impact on the victims.

Deadline to apply: June 5.

Application forms and more detailed information on the application process for each of the grant programs can be found at www.ag.ks.gov/grants.

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Insurance department predicts jump in 2016 health premiums Pre-existing conditions a factor in hikes Dave Ranney KHI News Service

The Kansas Insurance Department on Tuesday announced that premiums for some individual and small-group health plans are likely to increase by as much as 38 percent for 2016.

The projection is based on an early review of the health insurance companies’ requests for raising rates.

The proposed increases, which are not yet public, were filed with the depart-

ment on or before May 1.

“It’s safe to say that most - but not all - of the major carriers in the state are proposing double-digit rate increases,” said Clark Shultz, the department’s director of governmental affairs.

The department on June 1 will identify which plans have proposed increases of more than 10 percent.

The information will be posted on the department’s website.

The increases, Shultz said, appear to be driven by requirements in Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

Those include a requirement that all U.S. citizens have health insurance and

that insurance companies cannot deny coverage for people with pre-existing health conditions.

“What’s happening is that the new federal law has some coverage mandates, as well as guaranteed issue, that weren’t there before. People with pre-existing conditions are buying insurance now,” he said.

“These things cost money, and this is the first year that companies have a full year’s worth of experience for measuring the effects of those costs.”

The proposed rate increases are subject to department analysis and approval. If upheld, the increases will be reflected

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in the policies available to Kansans for 2016 on the federal government’s online marketplace, healthcare.gov. Identical policies will be available outside the online marketplace.

Open enrollment for the 2016 marketplace begins Nov. 1, 2015, and ends Jan. 31, 2016. It will be the third year of operation for the marketplace, which was established by the health reform law as a way to to increase access to health insurance.

“This is a process that in one form or another goes on every year,” Shultz said. “What’s new here is that we’re seeing

Free cancer screening to be held with June Jaunt in Tribune A free cancer screening will be held at the Greeley County Family Clinic, 321 E. Harper, Tribune, on Sat., June 6, 9:00 a.m. to noon (MT).

The screening is sponsored by the Sharon Springs Masonic Lodge No. 417. No appointment is necessary.

Medical professionals from University of Kansas Medical Center, along with Lodge members and staff from the Midwest Cancer Alliance, will be on hand to provide services that include: •Skin cancer screenings •Bone density screenings •Prostate screenings •Breast cancer education and self-exam information This free event is one of 22 being held across the state this year by the Kansas Masonic Foundation.

For more information about the screening outreach event call (620) 376-8266.

(See PREMIUMS on page 13)

Medicaid expansion cuts rate of uninsured adults Michelle Andrews Kaiser Health News

The Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid coverage to adults with incomes over the poverty line was key to reducing the uninsured rate among 50- to 64-yearolds from nearly 12 percent in 2013 to eight percent in 2014, according to

a new analysis.

“Clearly most of the gains in coverage were in Medicaid or non-group coverage,” said study coauthor Jane Sung, a senior strategic policy adviser at the AARP Public Policy Institute, which conducted the study with the Urban Institute.

Under the health reform law, adults with

Are there ways to fight memory loss? by the American Counseling Association

Each of us, regardless of age, forgets things. As teenagers we often “forgot” we were supposed to clean out the garage or be home by 11:00, though it usually bothered our parents more than it did us.

But as we age we begin to notice that our memory may really be a little less sharp. That can be frightening, since we’ve all heard about Alzheimer’s disease and early onset Alzheimer’s, and may feel anxious that’s our problem.

While Alzheimer’s is a very serious disease, with no known cure or treatment, the fact that your memory sometimes is a bit hazy is not necessarily an indication of the illness. Today about 5.3 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s and about 200,000 of them experience early onset Alzheimer’s (affecting someone under 65).

What most of us face is not Alzheimer’s, but simply growing older. Experts tell us that some memory loss is a natural part of the aging process.

While we all forget things now and then (like those stupid car keys), it usually is after age 70 that most people notice it may be happening more frequently.

Fortunately, there are things you can do to combat the natural memory loss of getting older.

One is to avoid smoking and heavy alcohol use. A Harvard Medical School study found that smokers perform much worse than non-smokers in memory and thinking skills test.

Experts also advise watching your diet. A diet rich in fruits and vegetables, but low in saturated fat and cholesterol, may improve brain health.

They also suggest that foods high in omega-3 fatty acids, like salmon and tuna, can help the brain.

Staying physically and mentally active will also fight memory loss. Physical exercise increases blood flow to the brain, which again means better brain health and function.

Exercising the brain itself also helps. An active social life is one way to do that. Activities like puzzles, reading, writing, playing games and using online “brain exercise” programs appear to stimulate brain cells and the connections between the cells.

You might also want a health check. Your drugs, cholesterol, blood pressure, or some diseases, can all play a role in memory loss.

If you’re forgetting more frequently, find yourself repeating yourself in the same conversation, or being lost when faced with a familiar activity, it could be more serious. Talk to your doctor or a professional counselor for an evaluation.

“Counseling Corner” is provided by the American Counseling Association. Comments and questions to ACAcorner@counseling.org or visit the ACA website at counseling.org

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incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level ($16,105 for one person) are eligible for Medicaid if a state decides to expand coverage. Twenty-seven states had done so by the end of 2014.

The study found the uninsured rate for people age 50 to 64 who live in states that haven’t expand-

ed Medicaid was twice as high - 11 percent - as for those who live in states that have done so. Kansas is among the states that have not expanded eligibility for Medicaid.

More than two million people age 50 to 64 gained coverage between December 2013 and December 2014, according to the study.

The figures are based on the Urban Institute’s quarterly Internetbased Health Reform Monitoring Survey, which includes 8,000 adults age 50 to 64.

During the same period, the uninsured rate among all adults age 18 to 64 fell from 17.5 percent to 12.8 percent, said Laura Skopec, a research

associate at the Urban Institute who co-authored the study. Other studies that have looked at the population overall also have shown deeper cuts in the uninsured rate in states that expanded Medicaid.

Many people in the older 50-to-64 age group have employer-sponsored insurance, Skopec said.

(See ADULTS on page 13)

KSU studies health risks for teens, young adults Research at Kansas State University examined the health risks pre-teens, teens and young adults experience in Kansas to determine opportunities to improve adolescent health.

Many health professionals across the United States are currently concentrating on the increased health needs of baby boomers, an aging population of individuals born in the 1940s through the 1960s. While health care for seniors is important, just as important are the health needs of the younger generation.

“Right at the heels of our aging needs, we have this younger population that will soon be entering adolescence, ages 10 through 19,” said Elaine Johannes, associate professor in the School of Family Studies and Human Services at Kansas

State University.

Johannes said there are not enough health care providers to take care of people of all ages. In addition to this, health care providers are faced with unique health issues of concern in teens, issues such as self-injury prevention, reproductive health, stress management and developing meaningful relationships.

“To equip providers, they need to know about adolescents and their health needs,” Johannes said. “If we have people in our communities who understand and work alongside teens, maybe give that health professional a chance to get familiar with how an adolescent thinks. Open the dialogue between adolescents and health care providers.”

To increase the dia-

If (teens) don’t have anything to do, whether it’s because they don’t have money or don’t have time, that boredom factor leads to risky behaviors.

Bryant Miller, KSU graduate student

logue about adolescent health needs and potential barriers for receiving health care, Johannes and some of her colleagues on the Kansas Adolescent Health Project Team completed a study this spring, made possible by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) (http://www. kdheks.gov/), to further understand the issues.

A Look at Specifics The study involved an online survey and focus groups hosted across the state, and respondents included more than 1,200 Kansans representing youth and adults. Findings from the survey showed the top health issues

among adolescents were substance abuse, mental health, obesity or being overweight, and adolescent pregnancy and parenting.

In the focus groups, the top issues discussed were similar to those found in the survey, as well as concerns of not getting enough to eat at school lunch, overall stress, bullying, boredom leading to the use of technology, wanting real services and information pertinent to today’s society, and wanting to confide in adults and mentors.

The research found the top barriers that youth faced in accessing health services included a lack of (See RISKS on page 13)

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Premiums increased-cost factors that haven’t been there before.

They’re more of an issue this year than they have been in years past.”

Mary Beth Chambers, a spokesperson for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas, the state’s largest insurer, affirmed the insurance department’s projection.

“The cost of providing health care has the biggest impact on health insurance premiums, and our 2014 claims experience was more adverse than expected,” Chambers said in an email.

“We anticipate the same to be true in 2015, meaning that the cost of paying

Risks their knowledge about services available, cost and affordability of services, embarrassment or shame in seeking services, and adults being unaware of adolescent needs.

Bryant Miller, a K-State graduate student in marriage and family therapy and project manager for the study, said much of the issues were related to living in rural communities, which primarily make up the State of Kansas.

“A large barrier, one we were not expecting, was the factor of embarrassment or shame for adolescents in seeking services in rural communities,” Miller said. “If you go somewhere (to seek services), you are going to see people you know.”

In rural areas, find-

Adults But until the health law passed, “those who didn’t have access to employersponsored coverage didn’t have very good options.”

In addition to expanding Medicaid coverage,

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the medical claims in our ACA-compliant individual block of business has been substantially higher than the amount of premiums that we collected during 2014 and 2015,” she said. “Our proposed rates reflect the cost of care for those with chronic or long-term medical conditions, an aging population, guaranteed issue of coverage and the increased cost of new medicines, procedures and technologies.”

The company, Chambers said, will begin notifying its customers of the increases prior to Nov. 1, assuming they are approved.

Though the depart-

ment’s announcement Tuesday focused on individual and small-group plans, Shultz said premiums for large-group and self-insured plans are likely to increase as well.

“Every situation is different,” he said. “A lot is going to depend on the type of policy, the employer and how much gets passed on the employee.

But, yes, you’re probably going to see an increase.”

The premium increases for large-group and selfinsured plans, he said, will be driven more by medical costs than by Affordable Care Act mandates. The insurance department does not regulate premiums

for large-group and selfinsured plans.

In Kansas, three companies sell plans on the state’s federally administered online marketplace: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, and Coventry and Aetna Health Company.

For 2015, the three companies offered 18 small-group plans and 64 individual market plans.

Collectively, the companies have let the insurance department know that they plan to offer 22 smallgroup and 75 individual plans on the 2016 marketplace.

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ing something to do also becomes an issue, and boredom could lead to other health problems, he said.

“If they don’t have anything to do, whether it’s because they don’t have money or don’t have time, that boredom factor leads to risky behaviors,” Miller said.

Another item that stuck out to the researchers was how systemic the issues were in specific adolescents. For example, many of them would say, “I overeat after school, because I’m not getting enough food in school and also because I don’t feel good about myself.”

“They recognized (overeating) as a negative coping strategy and not helpful for them, which

impacts school, home and all systems that are involved,” Miller said.

“We could find a link to most of the issues back to mental health,” said Michelle WashburnBusk, a project assistant on the study. “We could even find a link that kids who were depressed were overeating or under eating because they weren’t feeling fulfilled in their family lives or social lives.”

Washburn-Busk said the research suggests the need for mentors, especially in the school system, to provide youth with the skills necessary to manage stress and handle relationships. She said study participants mentioned they had a hard time distinguishing between love and lust, as an example.

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the health law prohibits insurers from charging older people premiums that are more than three times higher than those for younger people.

The law’s prohibition

against insurers refusing to cover people because they have pre-existing medical conditions also has helped many older people gain coverage, Skopec said.

“I was surprised at how self-aware these adolescents were,” WashburnBusk said. “I think sometimes we don’t give them the benefit of the doubt.

These youth were selfaware and insightful about the things they needed in their own lives. They were aware of their needs but unaware of how to meet their needs.”

Johannes said more federal funding has become available for states to suppress concerns in adolescent health, so examining their unique health issues is important.

Pastime at Park Lane Sunday afternoon Church services at Park Lane were held by the Community Christian Church.

Monday afternoon pitch and dominoe game helpers were Dorothy King, Wanda Kirk, Madeline Murphy, and Gary and Janet Goodman.

Tuesday morning Baptist Bible study was led

by Bob Artz. Doris Riner played the piano and Elsie Nagle led the singing.

On Tuesday afternoon Naomi Teubner provided the musical entertainment with Joyce Koehn furnishing the cookies.

Warren Prochnow lead Lutheran Bible study on Wednesday morning Wednesday afternoon bingo games were led by Madeline Murphy and Barbara Dickhut.

Elsie Nagle gave manicures on Thursday morning.

4 with May birthdays honored

Park Lane residents with May birthdays were honored during the monthly party on Thursday.

Celebrating birthdays are Dona Dee Carpenter, Geraldine Graves, Lorena Turley and Margaret Lee.

‘Over 50 Chorus’ performs

The Over 50 Chorus performed at Park Lane.

Singers were Dora Mae Bowman, Irma McDaniel, Neva Jacobus, Madeline Murphy and Dorothy Milburn.

On Thursday afternoon Darci Berry and her “Little Missionaries” visited and brought treats for residents and staff.

On Friday morning Catholic mass was led by Fr. Bernard Felix. Rev Warren Prochnow led Lutheran services Friday afternoon.

Thelma Branine was visited by Sue Eddy, Michelle Flagg, Kylee Jackson, Sherri and Kennedy

Smith, Hunter Smith and Chandler Hornbostel.

Cecile Billings was visited by Ann Beaton and Delinda Dunagan.

Yvonne Spangler was visited by Yvette Mills.

Albert Dean was visited by Kent Geist and Carol Davey.

Arlene Beaton was visited by Danielle Massaglia, Shelby Massaglia, Erin Massaglia and Margie Stevens.

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Visitors of Lowell Rudolph were Kathleen Moore, Erin Massaglia, LuAnn Buehler, Jeff Brenda and Elizabeth Buehler, Rev. Don Martin and Tom Moore.

Nella Funk was visited by Aaron and Mandy Kropp, Kim Smith and Dianna Howard.

Corrine Dean was visited by Aaron and Mandy Kropp, Jynette Taylor and daughter, Lisa; Martha Eaton, Kim Smith and Dianna Howard.

Lorena Turley was visited by Chuck and Belma Patton from Colorado Springs, Colo., George Turley, Neta Wheeler, Roy and Tina Turley, Shantel Lobmeyer, Toshia Budd and Ali Rios.

Dona Dee Carpenter was visited by Ryan and Lisa Long, Ashlyn Long, Grant Long, Fritzie Rauch, and Larry and Gloria.

Deaths Donna J. Eitel

Donna J. Eitel, 81, died May 23, 2015, at the Scott County Hospital, Scott City.

S h e was born on Feb. 9, 1934, in Liberal, the daughter of Frank Donna J. Eitel Brice and Lena M. (Brown) Sperling.

She was a resident of Scott City since 1943, moving from Lamar, Colo. She was a nurse’s aide, lab technician, mother and housewife.

She was a member of the First United Methodist Church and Women on Mission at the Immanuel Baptist Church, both of Scott City.

On Feb. 12, 1973, she married Marvin E. Eitel at the Camp Lakeside Chapel in Scott County.

He died May 23, 2004, in Scott City.

Survivors include: four daughters, Jynette Gibbs, and husband, Phil, Susan Wiechman, Kendra

Iona Mae Dierks

Iona Mae Dierks, 86, died May 21, 2015, at the Wichita County LTCU, Leoti.

S h e was born on Feb. 16, 1929, in Greenw o o d CounIona Dierks ty, the daughter of James Owen and Margaret Almira (Hirsh) Tatman.

A Wichita County resident since 1948, she was a farm wife and homemaker.

Iona was a member of the First Baptist Church, Leoti.

On March 28, 1948, she married W. Clair Dierks at Madison. He died June 20, 2000, in Leoti.

Survivors include: two daughters, Jana Simon, and husband, Ed, Marien-

Kendrick, and husband, Brett, and Denise Murphy, and husband, Melvin, all of Scott City; one step-daughter, Janet Hyatt, Oklahoma City, Okla.; one step-son, Gary Eitel, and wife, Deandra, Scott City; one sister, Norma Thomas, Garden City; 11 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; two sisters, Mary Lee Telander and Ilene Wren; one sonin-law, Gordon Wiechman; and two brothers-inlaw, Kenneth Thomas and James T. Telander.

Funeral service was held May 27 at the United Methodist Church, Scott City, officiated by Rev. Dennis Carter.

Interment was at the Scott County Cemetery.

Memorials may be given to the Scott County EMTs, United Methodist Church or the Golden Rule Preschool, in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 401 S. Washington St., Scott City, Ks. 67871.

thal, and Ruth Ritter, Leoti; six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

She was preceded her in death by her parents; seven brothers; one sister; two sons, Harold and Mark Dierks; one grandson, Hans Dierks; and one son-in-law, Michael Ritter.

Funeral service was held May 26 at the First Baptist Church, Leoti, with Rev. Gary Salmans officiating.

Burial was at the Leoti Cemetery.

Memorials may be given to the Wichita County Long Term Care Unit in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 202 N. 4th, Leoti, Ks. 67861.

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

Dianna Jo Martin

Dianna Jo Martin, 63, died May 22, 2015, at Via Christi/St. Francis, Wichita.

S h e was born on Dec. 25, 1951, in Garden City, the daughter of Dianna Jo Martin William Dean and Betty Jo (Armstrong) Yotter.

A resident of Deerfield since 2014, she was a homemaker.

Dianna was a member of the First Baptist Church, Holcomb.

On June 17, 1970, she married Konrad H. Martin at Leoti. He died April 6, 2013, in Garden City.

Survivors include: her mother, Leoti; one daugh-

ter, Mindy Marie Harrison, and husband, Darold, Deerfield; one son, Matthew Dean Martin, and wife, Chanelle, Leoti; and six grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her father.

Funeral service was held May 27 at the First Baptist Church, Holcomb, with Pastor Joe Stephens presiding.

Inurnment will be in the Leoti Cemetery at a later date.

Memorials may be given to the Dianna Jo Martin Memorial Fund in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 202 N. 4th, Leoti, Ks. 67861.

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

Randy Charles Pollman

Randy Charles Pollman, 58, died May 18, 2015, at his home in La Salle, Colo.

He was born on Nov. 27, 1956, in Scott City, the son of Harold and Mary Ellen (Worsham) Pollman.

Randy graduated from Scott Community High School. In the early 1970s, the family moved to Colorado, settling in Fort Collins.

He was a member of the Harvest Time Tabernacle Church, Evans, Colo. He worked in transportation and as a handyman.

He married Norma May Martin at the courthouse and then they remarried in a church.

Survivors include: his wife; three daughters, Mi-

chelle Pollman and Heidi Pollman, both of Greeley, Colo., and Jackie Pollman, South Korea; one son, Nick Pollman, Ft. Collins, Colo.; three brothers, Rich and wife, Janett, Sterling, Colo., Steve, Ulysses, and Terry and wife, Laura, Scottsdale, Ariz.; 14 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother, Robert.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Harvest Time Tabernacle Church in care of Stoddard Funeral Home, 3205 West 28th St., Greeley, Co. 80634.

Friends and family can visit www.stoddardsunset.com to sign an online guestbook.

by Jason Storm

Emogene Harp was visited by Alicia Harp, Rick Harp, Kay Davis, Ryan Harp, Margie Stevens and Denise Murphy.

Bonnie Pickett was visited by Gloria Wright, Margie Stevens, and Larry and Philene Pickett.

Boots Haxton was visited by Rod and Kathy Haxton.

Harold and Ruth White were visited by Kadra Boulware.

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

Lucille Dirks was visited by Jerome and Darla Luebbers and Dale and Vicki Dirks.

Geraldine Graves was visited by Howard Sheley, Gus and Pat Sheley, and Denise Murphy.

Dottie Fouquet was visited by Jon and Anne Crane and Mark and Terri Fouquet.

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

Margaret Harper was visited by Christine Nichols, Gerald and Kathy Koehn, Denise Unruh and Amber Koehn.

LaVera King was visited by Harrison and Kay King; Daren, Andie; and Tinley Wasinger; Carol Latham and Gloria Gough.

Darlene Richman was visited by Gus and Pat Sheley and Phebe Unruh.

Melva Rose was visited by Sonny and Virgie Redding and Bob and Irma McDaniel.

Jim Jeffery was visited

by Libbie Joles and Calvin, Nathella and Bree, and Jett Humburg.

Delores Brooks was visited by Beth Tuck and Charles Brooks.

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Deaths Theodore ‘Ted’ John Graff

Theodore (Ted) John Graff, 82, died May 26, 2015, at Hays Medical Center, Hays.

He was born on Aug. 12, 1932, in St. Theresa, the son of John and Josephine (Werth) Graff.

Ted was a lifetime farmer and stockman.

He was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Marienthal, and an honorary life member of the Knights of Columbus.

He was also a past board member of the Wichita County Historical Society.

On Dec. 27, 1956, he married Darlene Marie Strasser in Garden City.

She died Feb. 20, 2011.

Survivors include: four daughters, Meleesa Louder, and husband, Sam, Lubbock, Tex., Carla Geyer, and husband, Danny, Leoti, Linda Klatt, and husband Eugene, Canton, and Jennifer Rack, and husband, Marvin, Hays; three sons, Tim and wife, Cathy, Scott City, Kurt and wife, Tammy, Leoti, and Loren and wife, Kristen, Salina; four sisters, Armenia Palkowitsh, Henrietta Baker, Thelma DeWitt and Bernita George; 14 grandchildren; three step-

grandchildren; six greatgrandchildren; and 10 step-great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers, Victor, Marcellus and Justin; two sisters, Delphine Schmidt and Pauline Schiffelbein; and four infant siblings, Ferdinand, Nicholas, Dennis and Mary Alice.

Vigil service will be held on Fri., May 29, 7:00 p.m., at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Marienthal.

Funeral service will be held Sat., May 30, 10:30 a.m., at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Marienthal, with Fr. Benjamin Martin presiding.

Interment will be at St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery.

Visitation will be Friday from 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. at Price and Sons Funeral Home, Scott City.

In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to Leoti EMS, Wichita County Health Center, or for Catholic masses, in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 401 S. Washington St., Scott City, Ks. 67871.

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The Rebel Yell Often at this time every year many of us are reminded of the cost of the freedoms we enjoy. Almost all of us, if we have not had a family member in the military, know someone that has. We are called to reflect on those brave men and women that have given their lives in order for us to indulge in the lives we have.

At the end of every May we remember the fallen and rejoice in the freedom by gathering together for some sort of food and fellowship with those that are like us.

Have we ever really considered what it was that the blood and sweat of so many American lives was intended to purchase?

Was it the right to own 3 cars? Or was it the privilege to destroy the family because we no longer “feel” the same way? Maybe they bought us the desire to live life the way we want with no regard for anyone but ourselves.

A solider is chosen to answer a call that is, for the most part, voluntary. They are tasked with protecting the freedoms and lives of others with little regard for their own. Upon entering the armed service a person’s freedom is stripped from them. Their right to decide for themselves where they will go and what they will do

is held in the iron grip of the government. Their lives are no longer their own but are now the property of a self-righteous, self-indulgent society that is more concerned with their own lusts than in honoring the reason these men and women willfully sacrificed their own desires, freedoms, and lives. So what was purchased?

The liberty to do what we ought; not the right to do what we want was what so many have given their lives for. That is true freedom. Real and lasting freedom is not built on the whims of the many but on the vision of the few. Peace is not purchased by the desires of the flesh but by the blood of the fallen.

Wants, desires, lusts, whims, and urges do not make a strong foundation, but sway and vacillate with time and thought. However, honor, valor, humility, and commitment do not change like the wind and when these are in line with a vision that is beyond ourselves, a vision that requires sacrifice, then we achieve true freedom.

“We are persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the dying of the body of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.” 2Cor. 4:9-10

Jared Young, associate pastor of children and youth 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 120 S. Lovers Lane - Shallow Water Larry Taylor, pastor Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.

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

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

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

First Christian Church

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

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

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

Website: www.fccscottcity.org

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

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

Scott Mennonite Church

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

12021 N. Eagle Rd. • Scott City

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

Sunday School, 10:50 a.m.

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

YMYW Wednesday, 8:00 p.m.

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

Sunday Evening Service: 7:00 p.m.

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Foundation “We feel this is a way to capture opportunities for donations that were passing us by,” she says.

Huck says the two foundations won’t be competing with each other, but will coordinate their efforts.

“People give to those causes they feel passionate about, whether it’s the library, the schools, a playground or something else. If someone is passionate about giving to the hospital so we can purchase a MRI, we’re here to work with that individual and make it happen.”

When the Scott Community Foundation was organized in 2000, not only did it absorb the original health care foundation but also the approximately $350,000 which it had raised since its inception in 1987. The new SCHF will be starting from scratch, but will

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get $50,000 per year over the next three years as start-up money to help with salaries and other expenses. That money is coming from the original foundation’s assets which have grown to more than $400,000 today.

Director on Staff Grapengater, 26, is a native of Garden City and a Kansas State University graduate with a bachelor’s degree in business.

Since graduation in 2011, Grapengater has been employed in banking and as assistant director of the Small Business Development Center at Garden City Community College.

“I’ve been involved in community work and working with the Chamber of Commerce.

I enjoy working with people,” says Grapengater.

The Foundation’s goal

in its first few years will be to build relationships and awareness with the community, she emphasizes.

“When people want to gift to the community in some way, or if they have a special project they want to support at the hospital, we want them to think about the health foundation like they do now with the community foundation,” she says.

She will also pursue grant opportunities for the Foundation.

Grapengater is engaged to Cody Palen, Scott City, with the couple planning a June 13 wedding.

Scott County Health Foundation board members are Kelly Funk (chairman), Jim Rodenbeek (vice-chair), Karma Huck (secretary-treasurer), Joe Meyer, Dwight Koehn, Sue Pammenter and Lisa Crist.

Smoky Valley Ranch seeks volunteers for tree removal Families, civic groups, students and anyone who loves nature can come spend a day outdoors helping The Nature Conservancy improve grassland habitat.

Volunteers are needed to help with cedar tree removal, clearing debris and facilities’ cleanup at Smoky Valley Ranch in Logan County on Friday

and Saturday, June 5-6.

Smoky Valley Ranch is located approximately 20 miles south of Oakley.

This beautiful 16,800acre nature preserve and working ranch is an important site for mixed and short-grass prairie conservation. Chalk bluffs buttress the vast grasslands and the Smoky Hill River bisects the interior

of the ranch.

Smoky Valley Ranch hosts several research projects that target species like the lesser prairie chicken, black-footed ferrets and numerous other wildlife species.

Anyone interested in volunteering or who has questions can contact Ruth Palmer at kansas@ tnc.org or (785)233-4400.

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Commission RM, Municipal Bldg., Pratt

Tuesday, June 2 8:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

1:30 p.m.

4:30 p.m.

The Inn Pancake House, Dodge City Council RM, City Hall, Ashland Don’s Place, Protection Community Center, Greensburg

Wednesday, June 3 8:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

1:30 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

Cimarron City Library, Cimarron Chuck Wagon Restaurant, Meade Community Bldg., Plains Liberal City Library, Liberal

Thursday, June 4 8:30 a.m.

Stevens County District Courthouse (3rd Floor Jury Rm.), Hugoton 11:00 a.m. Grant County Library, Ulysses 2:00 p.m. Haskell Township Library, Sublette 5:00 p.m. Lone Star Steakhouse, Garden City

Friday, June 5 8:00 a.m. Scott County Public Library, Scott City 10:30 a.m. Oakley Public Library, Oakley 1:00 p.m. Community Bldg., Colby In the past 24 months China rejected more than 5 million tons of U.S. Corn due to MIR – 162 unapproved variety marketed by Syngenta.

In the event of an actual tornado sighting there will be a steady five minute blast from the Scott City siren.

Following the five minutes, the siren will not sound again until the “all-clear” which will be a steady one minute blast.

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Leading AG experts say damages to ALL corn co farmers could exceed 5 billion dollars.

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Lawn and Garden

Create backyard paradise with a container garden Create a backyard escape with the help of container gardens.

Whether you’re looking for a visit to the desert, an English garden or tropical paradise, a few planters can help create the mood.

Reduce your workload and increase your enjoyment with a bit of planning and proper planting.

Select a container with drainage holes and one that mimics the color and feel of the location you are trying to recreate. Use troughs, stone or other containers made from neutral colors when growing succulents.

The container should complement, but not overpower the simple beauty of the desert plants.

Keep things warm and natural when going for a more tropical feel.

Wicker, bamboo and other natural materials work well with the lush foliage and vibrant colors of tropical plants.

Add a few terra cotta, metal and basket type containers when creating an English cottage setting.

Set them on your patio, steps or in the garden to create a focal point.

Keep your plants looking good throughout the season with the proper planting mix. Look for potting mixes with good drainage and water holding abilities. Check the label as some mixes contain enough fertilizer to last the entire season and water-retaining crystals to reduce the need to water.

Use a cactus mix that provides the perfect growing conditions for cacti and succulents. The pot-

Container gardens are a creative and easy way to add to your backyard landscape.

ting mix should retain the moisture and nutrients the plants need, while providing the excellent drainage that is a must for these plants.

Plant any orchids added to your backyard tropical paradise in a potting mix designed for these plants.

Use an orchid mix that has excellent drainage and aeration, yet retains the moisture and nutrients these beauties need to thrive.

Check your planters

daily and water thoroughly whenever the top few inches of soil are crumbly and slightly moist. Allow cacti and succulents to go a bit drier.

Mulch the soil in tropical, herb, vegetable and annual container gardens.

Spread a thin layer of shredded leaves, evergreen needles or twice shredded bark over the soil surface. Use fine pebbles for cacti and succulents that like things hot and dry.

When it’s too wet to mow

A series of weather systems that dumped rain across the heartland this spring have posed a dilemma for homeowners - what to do when the lawn hasn’t been cut in awhile because of wet weather?

“It’s best to set your mower as high as possible and bring it down in steps,” advises Kansas State University horticul-

turist Ward Upham. “It is always best never to take more than one-third of the grass blade off at any one time.”

If more is taken off, the plant reacts by using stored energy reserves to quickly send up new growth, he said. This reduces the amount of energy available for the plant to deal with stress or insect or disease damage.

“Sometimes, however, it is just not possible to keep the ‘one-third rule.’

In such cases, cut as high as possible even though it may mean you are cutting off more than one third of the blade,” he said.

“Bring the height down gradually by cutting more often and at progressively lower heights until you reach the target height.”

And don’t forget about garden accents. A wattle fence and arbor of twigs and branches work well for an English garden setting, while a water feature can enhance a tropical paradise themed garden.

Some southwest garden art can complete the desert scene you’re going for.

Invest in a few containers, the right potting mix and plants. Then plant your way to the retreat of your dreams.

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Healy High School alumni who gathered for the all-school reunion held over the Memorial Day weekend.

USD 466 Summer Menu Week of June 1-5 Lunch Monday: Pizza quesadilla, celery and carrot sticks, fruit.

Tuesday: Submarine sandwiches, lettuce leaf and tomato, oven fries, fruit.

Wednesday: Corndogs, green beans, fruit.

Thursday: BBQ chicken, corn on cob, dinner roll, fruit.

Friday: Hot dog on bun, tator tots, fruit.

Western Ks. art exhibit coming to Stauth Museum The Stauth Memorial Museum, Montezuma, will be hosting the Western Kansas Art “Hang-In” from June 21 through July 12.

This exhibit is designed to give artists in Western Kansas a showcase to exhibit their work. Western Kansas is defined as anywhere west of Hays.

This is not a juried (judged) art exhibit, but an opportunity to showcase talented artists in the region, whether they are a professional or an amateur.

All art forms including paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, metals, woods, jewelry, glass, ceramics, and more will be accepted. A maximum of three works will be accepted per artist.

All artwork must be original to the artist/exhibitor and created within the last five years. All artwork must be entered in person by the artist.

The museum will have a two-day “Hang-In” on Friday and Saturday, June

19-20. Artwork will be “hung” as it comes in the door.

Three-dimensional artwork will be displayed on tables, pedestals or covered Plexiglas vitrines as they arrive as well. When the exhibit space is full, no more artwork will be accepted.

“Hang-In” times are Friday from 10:00 a.m. to noon and 1:00-5:00 p.m.; Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to noon and 1:00-4:00 p.m.

Call (620) 846-2527 or email stauthm@ucom.net for questions or to receive an information packet and guidelines.

A certificate will be given to the People’s Choice Award winner for the artwork which received the most votes from visitors during the exhibition.

Business hours for the Stauth Memorial Museum are: Tues.-Sat. 9:00-noon and 1:00-4:30 p.m,.; Sunday from 1:30-4:30 p.m. It is closed Mondays and major holidays.

Admission is free.

Wolfe is grad of basic training

Air Force Airman Camren Wolfe has graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Tex. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills. Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.

Wolfe is the son of Jason and Deneen Wolfe, Scott City.

He is a 2013 graduate of Scott Community High School.

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SC boys win 5 regional golds 4x400, 4x800 relays sweep; Meyer, McRae dominate What the Scott Community High School boys have lacked in quantity they have more than made up for in quality during the 2015 track season.

That was evident again on Friday during the Class 3A regional at Beloit. SCHS qualified for state in six events - five of those as regional champions.

Overcast skies and a steady drizzle throughout the day had no impact on the Beavers who enjoyed a huge day once they got to the track. Then again, their performances weren’t a surprise given that they were ranked No. 1 among regional competitors in four events.

If there was any surprise it was Drake McRae’s championship sweep of the hurdles - winning the 110m highs (15.8) and the 300m intermediates (41.22).

The Scott City junior admitted to being a little surprised at his performance in the high hurdles.

“I wasn’t thinking about a gold medal. I was just wanting to compete well,” he says.

McRae narrowly won his heat with what was then a career best of 15.91. He needed a late surge over the final three hurdles to get the win. In the finals, McRae was in fourth (See SC BOYS on page 21)

Freshman Adrian Ruelas takes the baton from sophomore Irvin Lozano under rainy conditions in the 4x800m relay at the Beloit regional track meet.

(Record Photo)

SC girls dig deep for 4x800m gold

With a strong kick in the final 120 meters, SCHS sophomore Paige Winderlin was able to take the lead and give the Lady Beavers a win in the 4x800m relay by 75/100 of a second ahead of Marysville.

(Record Photo)

The Scott City girls didn’t enter the Class 3A regional track meet as a favorite in the 4x800m relay.

They were just hoping to slip into the top four and qualify for the state track meet this weekend.

SCHS exceeded those expectations with their fastest time of the season which was just good enough to earn them a regional title. Not bad for a young relay squad that includes two sophomores and two freshmen.

So what contributed to their unexpected success?

“They competed,” says head coach Jim Turner. “They showed a will to win that we haven’t seen from them all season.”

Three of the four girls had their fastest relay splits of the season, including leadoff runner Makaela Stevens (2:29.83), Cami Patton (2:34.56) and Paige Winderlin (2:35.05). Rounding out the squad was freshman Olivia Prieto (2:41.45).

Following strong splits from Stevens and Patton, the Lady Beavers were in first place, but

had slipped into second place and were about 15 meters behind the leader when Winderlin took the baton to begin the final 800 meters.

Winderlin looked like she might slip into fourth place with less than 200 meters remaining, but she found a strong kick that she hadn’t displayed during most of the season. Winderlin was able to overtake two anchor runners during the final 110 meters and give SCHS a gold medal in a time of 10:21.27 - just ahead of Marysville (10:22.02) and Minneapolis (10:22.62).

Scott City sliced more than 17 seconds off their previous best.

“All week in practice (Coach Turner) had been telling us to stay with the person in front of us or to go with someone if they try to pass us. We need to push ourselves to go as hard as we can go,” said Winderlin. “That really motivated me to finish strong.”

That, along with some encouragement from Turner on the back stretch.

(See SC GIRLS on page 24)

Indians qualify 10 events for 2A state

It’s been a frustrating senior season for Vallie Kenfield.

The Wichita County High School thinclad had high hopes of being among the area’s best in the sprints and possibly in the long jump, but a hip injury has kept her from competing for most of the season.

However, Kenfield still found a way to earn another trip

to the Class 2A state track meet with a season best of 124-5 in the javelin.

In most regional meets, that might have been good enough for a gold medal - at least a silver. But Kenfield had to settle for a fourth place finish in the rugged Smith Center regional.

Nonetheless, it was a solid performance and, most impor-

tantly, it gives her another opportunity to get on the award stand at a state track meet.

“The throwing events were extremely tough. We knew going in it would take a great throw,” says head coach Janae Porter.

She wasn’t surprised at Kenfield’s career throw.

“Even with the hip injury

we’ve had her throwing in practice. The javelin was one event she was able to work on most of the time. She has real good speed, so it’s been a matter of improving her technique,” Porter says. “She’s been throwing well, so it was just a matter of doing it at regional.”

Kenfield enters state with the sixth best throw in regional

- with three of the marks ahead of her competitors she saw in regional.

Hannah Martin earned a trip to state in the 800m (2:32.84) and the 1600m (5:44.16).

“The 800 (meters) is probably Hannah’s stronger race, but I think she can improve on her regional times. She has to (See INDIANS on page 22)

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Outdoors in Kansas by Steve Gilliland

Creating your own toad abode

There’s just something about a toad that “conjures” up visions of a witch in a huge, black hat with a big hairy wart on her nose stirring a bubbling pot of potion and mumbling spells as she stirs.

Toads just look creepy and then, of course, there is that propensity they possess to pee on anyone picking them up.

Despite having a face only a mother could love, toads are extremely important to our planet. It is reported that a toad can eat 10,000 insects in one summer and are part of nature’s pest patrol (the person who did the counting for that study really needs a life!)

Toads begin their lives as tiny swimming tadpoles and eventually crawl onto land and begin breathing air. Toads, like other amphibians, actually absorb air through their skin as well as getting it from their lungs with occasional breaths. They also absorb water though their skin.

Because of toxins in their environment, toad populations are said to be declining nearly to the point of crisis, although I certainly see no evidence of that at my house.

Raccoons, skunks and snakes are natural predators of toads. Besides protection from them, and pets which are usually mere annoyances, toads also need cool, dark places to get away from the bright sun and weather.

Joyce has several large flower gardens and scattered throughout each garden she has created what she calls “toad abodes.”

She takes broken clay or ornamental flower pots and turns them into cool, dark, secret hideaways for the resident toads.

(See TOAD on page 23)

Big 12 not ready for title game just yet Currie: Kansas State still hasn’t peaked Despite a controversial move that left the Big 12 Conference on the outside looking in for the firstever Final Four college football playoff, don’t look for the conference to make any changes in the near future in how it decides its champion.

Instead, Kansas State University Athletic Director John Currie says league officials have chosen to take a “balanced approach” after TCU and Baylor were leapfrogged

by Ohio State in the selection committee’s final rankings - a move which left many Big 12 fans feeling snubbed.

What the conference should do to better position itself for the postseason has been a topic of discussion among Big 12 officials. Currie says there was even discussion at Big 12 meetings held just a couple of weeks ago.

Rather than over-react, Currie says athletic directors in the Big 12 have opted to take a “pretty balanced approach.”

“One year does not predict the trend. During that final Saturday, with a couple of bounces of the ball, TCU and Baylor could have both been in the four team playoff and K-State would have been in the top 11 and been in one of the access bowls,” he points out.

“Even though it was very disappointing, and it’s been a topic of discussion among ADs in the Big 12, there’s consensus that our model has great promise.

It’s too soon to give up on that model.”

Currie says Big 12 fans should also remember how a championship game has also cost the conference opportunities to have a team playing in

a bowl game for the national title. One of those instances hits close to home with K-State fans who are still stinging from their 1998 loss to Texas A&M in the Big 12 championship game which cost the Wildcats a trip to the Fiesta Bowl and an opportunity to be crowned national champions.

“It can hurt you just as easy as it can help you.

If times goes by and it becomes evident there’s more advantage than disadvantage to having a championship game we’ll explore it,” he added.

First-Class Facilities Of course, one of the monumental achievements that’s currently taking place at K-State are continuing additions and improvements to the Vanier Football Complex.

It is being replaced with a brand new facility at a cost of $65 million.

Construction began at the end of the 2014 football season and is scheduled to be completed prior to the 2015 season.

It will more than double the amount of space for student-athletes and coaches, providing access to world-class resources, equipment and facilities and creating a more cohesive and efficient experience to train, study and compete.

In addition to Bill Snyder Family Stadium, Kansas State’s practice facilities include the 94,000 square foot Indoor Practice Facility, which recently received a complete upgrade with the installation of new FieldTurf.

And there’s the $75 million, 250,00 square foot West Stadium Center which opened in fall of 2013.

Kansas State University Athletic Director John Currie speaks to those attending the K-State Catbacker Fry held in Scott City. (Record Photo)

“The two most important things about the Vanier Complex is, number one, the student-athlete experience and, number two, the fan experience,” Currie said while attending the Catbacker Fry in Scott County on May 20.

“And when I say fan, this is not a building with a lot of luxury suites and club seats, though those are important to have. This building is about all of our fans.

“It will be an awesome building. Our student-athletes will use that building 24/7, 365 days a year,” Currie emphasizes. “All of our teams will use it, all of our teams will benefit from it. It’s very nice, but it’s not ostentatious, because that’s not who we are.

It doubles our strength and conditioning space and it doubles our academic learning space. One thing that Coach Snyder

taught us - Goal No. 12 - no self-limitations. It’s okay for us to aspire to be world class in every aspect of our programs just like we aspire to be world class in every aspect of our university with a new business school under construction and a huge College of Engineering expansion, etc.

TV Exposure Currie also feels the conference has made the right moves when it comes to television contracts and how it gets national exposure.

“When you look back five years ago to where we are now, from a television standpoint, the Big 12 has incredible exposure on ESPN and Fox,” he says.

“Our games are not buried on a conference network like the Pac-12 Network that very few people see.”

Naturally, it helps that the Wildcats have also

enjoyed a lot of sports success during this time.

The result is heightened awareness of Kansas State nationally.

The best news, Currie proudly says, is that KState hasn’t peaked.

“There are a lot of places, a lot of schools, they’ve peaked. They try to say they haven’t, but they have. We haven’t,” he says. “It’s exciting to still be on the climb with the entire K-State Nation that continues to grow.”

He says the median class year for K-State alumni is 1991, “so we’re talking about a relatively young alumni base. The best is yet to come at Kansas State University.”

And Currie doesn’t hestitate to give recognition where it’s due for the large fan - and donor base.

“Thank Bill Snyder for everything he’s done and continues to do for Kansas State,” Currie added.

Speer, Habiger win regional titles Dighton High School owned the javelin competition in the Class 1A regional track meet, claiming gold medals in the girl’s and boy’s divisions.

Jordan Speer, who qualified for state in three events, claimed one of her two regional titles with a toss of 119-1 in the javelin.

The sophomore easily

won the shot put (40-1 1/2) and added a silver in the discus (101-7 1/2).

Speer trailed in the javelin competition briefly when Kelsi Mueller (Moscow) opened with a toss of 116-2 which held up for the silver medal.

Speer’s final throw in the prelims was 118-10 and she added her best throw of the day in the finals.

Habiger wasted no time establishing his mark as the one to beat with an opening distance of 1555. The senior was consistent throughout the day with three more throws of more than 143-feet, including a mark of 151-3 to close out the finals.

Habiger narrowly missed qualifying in the discus with a toss of 124-0 1/4. He was four

feet behind the fourth Also finishing fourth and earning a trip to state place medalist. is sophomore Nathaniel Dominguez in the 400m Cramer Wins Silver Sara Cramer was a sil- (53.16).

Isaac Torson was fifth ver medalist in the 400m in the triple jump (37-6).

(62.85), finishing just Cunningham (81) won 7/100 of a second behind the girl’s division, folFairfield’s Raelee Ibarra lowed by Rolla (51) and (62.78).

Pratt-Skyline (46).

Payden Shapland Winning the boy’s divi(13:01.62) qualified for sion was Ashland (61), state as a fourth place followed by Macksville medalist in the 3200m.

(57) and Satanta (56).

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SC Boys (continued from page 19)

place after just three hurdles in the championship finals before once again overtaking the field in the final 20 meters.

“It would be scary to think what Drake could do if he was able to get a quicker start,” says head coach Jim Turner.

“I seem to get off to a slower start than everyone else, but I build up a lot of speed after about the third hurdle,” says McRae who enters state with the fifth fastest regional qualifying time.

The 300m hurdles has been McRae’s stronger event throughout the season and he proved that again on Friday despite not running one of his cleaner races. He clipped the third to last hurdle which allowed Beloit’s Jace Adams to inch ahead for just a moment.

McRae, however, was able to regain his stride and, despite slamming into the final hurdle hard with his lead foot McRae was able to get the win by 20/100 of a second.

He enters state with the third fastest time coming out of regional. The early favorite at state will be Riverside’s Andrae McGaughy who’s 39.85 gold medal time in regional leads the field.

McRae has been impressive this season, shaving more than five seconds off his time since the opening track meet.

“Coach Turner keeps telling me that it’s not how well you get over them, but how fast you can run in between them,” says McRae with a grin. “I’ve still got work to do on my technique, but I’ve got enough speed to help make up for it.”

Meyer Wins 800m It was a deja vu moment for Brett Meyer and Russell’s Noah Gfeller in the 800m.

Both runners ran a nearly identical race to the one they ran at the Russell Invitational three weeks earlier with the identical result. Meyer was in third place after 400 meters, but began his kick with 300 meters remaining and quickly began erasing the 15 meter deficit. He was able to overtake Gfeller in the final 200 meters to win a gold medal.

Under cool conditions, Gfell-

SCHS senior Trey O’Neil was able to hold off challengers down the stretch and keep the Beavers in first place during the 4x400m relay at the Class 3A regional held in Beloit last Friday.

(Record Photo)

er completed the first lap in 54 seconds with Meyer about a second behind.

“I feel real comfortable when (Gfeller) takes off like that. I asked him what his coach wants him to run the first lap in and he told me 55 (seconds),” says Meyer, who finished in 1:57.09.

“I like that. If someone wants to run that kind of a first lap I figure I can outkick them in the end.

“I felt real comfortable with my first lap time and how strong I felt when I finished,” he said.

Gfeller finished in 1:59.61.

Both runners are the only ones in the state field with sub-two minute times in regional. Meyer has been one of the state leaders throughout the season and will

be favored during Saturday’s finals.

“The important thing will be for Brett to plan his race strategy so he doesn’t get boxed in like he did last year. He has to stay clear of the pack,” says Turner. “If he can avoid trouble, he’s going to be pretty tough to beat.”

2 Relay Golds The Beavers entered the regional meet with the fastest times in the 4x400m and 4x800m relays and they left with a pair of gold medals.

Even though Jess Drohman (2:05.95) and Irvin Lozano (2:07.81) didn’t run their fastest splits of the season, they still had the Beavers in first place at the midway mark. Adrian Ruelas

(2:09.8) was able to keep Scott City in second place, about 12 meters behind the leaders when the baton was passed to Meyer.

Meyer was able to take the lead with 300 meters remaining and finished with a 1:57.5 split.

Scott City shaved a halfsecond off their previous season best, posting a winning time of 8:21.32. That puts them just behind Hesston (8:20.03) in the state field.

SCHS not only has their sights set on a gold medal, but they are also within reach of the school record of 8:09.

“If we can all run our best times I think we can get the record,” Meyer says. “Everybody’s running real well.”

The 4x400m was a much more competitive race with

Scott City (3:30.12) able to hold off a strong challenge from Beloit (3:30.94).

The relay consisted of McRae (52.77), Kropp (52.87), Trey O’Neil (53.35) and Meyer (50.79). O’Neil was able to get the baton to Meyer with a three meter lead and Meyer was able to keep Beloit in his rear view mirror with his fastest relay split of the season.

“My role on the team is to keep it close for Brett or, hopefully, give him the lead,” O’Neil says. “I’m not used to being in a supportive role during my sports career, but I’ll accept that role and do what I can to give this team a chance to win.

“We ran a slow time today, but still won. There’s a lot we can improve on for state.”

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Major conferences finally see some stability For the time being the realignment of Division I, the conference shuffle between college football and basketball teams has come to a halt. It’s been a wild ride.

The changes have been so widespread that it’s hard to keep up with each conference. by How does Mac the Big 12 Stevenson stack up against the rest of the nation since the turn of the century?

One thing is certain: KU and K-State came very close to being left out in the cold during all the relocations.

The Big 12, you might recall, almost collapsed.

Last season was the first test of the football championship playoff and the Big 12 didn’t make the Final Four. But TCU and Baylor were ever so close.

Since 2000, the Big 12 has won two national championships in football: Oklahoma in 2000 and Texas in 2005. The SEC has dominated the period by winning eight titles, the Big Ten won two, the ACC two, and the Pac-12 one.

The Big 12 is now the smallest major conference with just 10 teams and that affects rankings. In football, the league has held its own against all but the SEC. The 2015 season is sure to be exciting, but most of the Big 12 teams have unproven quarterbacks. Unless one or two QBs emerge as exceptional players, Big 12 teams might have a tough time cracking the Final Four.

Big 12 basketball is another matter. Since 2000, the ACC has seven national championships, the former Big East won four titles, SEC teams have three titles, the Big Ten has one and Kansas won it all in 2008.

It’s noteworthy that KU finished second to Kentucky in 2012.

Without Kansas, the Big 12 would appear to be woefully weak in basketball.

That’s about to change. KU will have another solid team this coming season, Texas will improve quickly with a new coach and Iowa State will have one of their best teams ever.

(See STABILITY on page 25)

Indians (continued from page 19)

push it hard early (in the 800m) and not get caught in the back of the pack,” says Porter. “If she’s willing to do that, she can give herself a chance at a state medal.”

The only other Lady Indian to earn a state trip is Kinzie Bangerter who cleared eightfeet in the pole vault.

Schumacher in 2 Events As expected, Jacob Schumacher was a medalist in the 200m and 400m, in addition to being part of the 4x400m and 4x800m relays which qualified for state. He claimed a gold in the 200m (23.41) and a bronze in the 400m (51.62).

Schumacher enters the state meet with the second fastest qualifying time in the 200m and fifth fastest in the 400m.

The only competitor with a faster 200m qualifying time is Taten Skinner (South Gray, 23.15).

“The 200 is the perfect event for Jacob. He’s strong and his speed is ideal for that distance,” says Porter. “I think he can cut his time even more in the 200 and in the 400.”

Gallegos in 800m Dealing with a hip injury through most of the season, Jorge Gallegos missed three meets and, upon his return was limited to competing on the relays.

However, Porter figured all along that if he could get healthy she would enter him in the open 800m. The sophomore is healthy and he’ll be competing in the 800m at state after posting a time of 2:03.93 in regional.

“He could surprise some people this weekend,” Porter says. “He just needs to go out and run his race and run with confidence.”

The only other individual state qualifier for the Indians is junior pole vaulter Brett Binns who cleared 12-feet. He’s cleared 12-foot-6 in practice and will likely need to do so in the state meet to get on the awards stand.

2 Relays to State The Indians expected to get

Wichita County High School junior Zeke Castillo competes in the triple jump.

(Record Photo)

their 4x400m (3:32.87) and the 4x800m (8:23.93) relays to state and they didn’t disappoint. Leoti is the defending state champion in the 4x800m and they enter state with the third fastest regional qualifying time.

Teams with faster 4x800m times are Smith Center (8:12.83) and Bennington (8:23.05) They have the fifth fastest time in the 4x400m.

The only two returning members from last year’s 4x800m are Layton Tankersley and Gallegos. Newcomers are Kyler Long and Schumacher.

“We’ve been changing the lineup during the season because Jorge hasn’t been healthy. We just need to put it together for one race at state,” says Porter. “That’s what we did last year and we won it all.”

They also set a school record at last year’s state meet.

Leoti’s 4x400m time at regional was a season best for the squad that includes Long, Gallegos and Schumacher from last year, along with sophomore newcomer Juan Alvarado.

“All four of them have run in the 51 to 52 (second) range this season, so they’re capable of putting up a pretty good time if they all get it together at the same time,” Porter notes.

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Toad (continued from page 20)

She finds an already shady spot beneath a big perennial plant, then simply lays the broken pot on its side to form a little round-top enclosure into which the toads can easily crawl and hide themselves away from predators, pets and the heat of the day.

One such hideaway is even made from the bleached white pelvic bone of a cow drug home from the woods by our grandson. Laid beneath a big plant with long slender leaves that hang down over it, the arched shape makes a perfect secret hideout for a toad or two.

Any object that has room for a toad to crawl inside will work, and

One creative idea for a toad abode.

besides protecting the toads, they look very decorative and rustic in the flower bed too.

So the next time you buy your pet a new toy or treat, think about your insect removal friends too. Find a broken clay

pot or bowl and place it in a new spot in the garden for yet another toad abode.

And next year, when you ask yourself what in the world that broken pot is doing in your flower bed and pick it up to

remove it, don’t be surprised to see a pair of dark eyes looking back at you from beneath it.

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Steve can be contacted by email at stevegilliland@idkcom.net

Enroll land in walk-in hunting program PRATT - Landowners interested in sharing the joys of hunting with others, and receiving additional income, are encouraged to enroll in the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism’s Walk-In Hunting Access (WIHA) program.

Enrollment for the fall season is currently open

and will close July 15.

Land enrolled in WIHA still remains in private ownership and payment rates are often negotiable based on the number of acres, quality of habitat, and length of the lease access period.

Landowners interested in enrolling can learn more by visiting ksoutdoors.com, or by calling

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Land used for the WIHA program is typically Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres, but land with similar qualities and hunting opportunities, such as native rangeland, weedy wheat stubble, milo stubble, riparian areas, and wetland areas are also considered for enrollment.

Registration open for Sunflower State Games Registration is now open for the 2015 Sunflower State Games.

The 26th annual Olympicstyle sports festival will take place July 10-26 in Topeka at approximately 35 different venues.

The 2015 games will feature over 45 different sports for all ages and skill levels. Event details and registration procedures can be found on the organization website (sunflowergames.com).

In an effort to provide more opportunities for Kansans to lead a healthy

and active lifestyle, the Sunflower State Games has added to its lineup of sports in 2015. New events to be showcased this summer include, FootGolf, high school baseball, a cycling gravel ride, and a slow-pitch softball homerun derby.

In 2014, the event hosted 9,059 participants from 347 communities.

“We are hopeful of approaching the 10,000 participant mark for the first time ever,” says Executive Director, Mitch Gross.

The Cauldron Fest will kick-off the Sunflower State Games on Sat., July 11, at Heartland Park Topeka. The annual lighting of the cauldron will take place at 7:45 a.m., with a complimentary breakfast for all registered athletes and volunteers from 7:00-10:00 a.m.

Approximately 800 volunteers will be utilized to aid in providing a quality experience for all registered athletes. Additional information can be found at sunflowergames.com.

join the fun with the Scott City junior golf program sign-up has begun for summer golf camp Practices are every Tuesday July 7 thru August 4 • 6:00 p.m. at the Scott Community Golf Course June 1 deadline to assure a t-shirt

entry fee is $50 Make checks payable to: Kirby Garrison c/o Junior Golf Camp.

Drop off registration form at 1005 Santa Fe or the Scott Rec Commission by June 1.

for more information contact Kirby Garrison at scottcommunityjuniorgolf@hotmail.com

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Pre-Registration $35 Race Day $45 Scott City’s LIzzy Eikenberry had a career best of 110-2 in the javelin to finish fifth at the Class 3A regional track meet.

(Record Photo)

SC Girls “I could hear him yelling at me,” she said with a grin.

“I told her to toughen up,” said Turner. “She needed to quit worrying about how much she was hurting and find something extra. She ran like we knew she was capable of running. We saw that from all of the girls.”

“It feels good to run as well as we did and to get to state,” says Winderlin.

“To be a regional champion gives us a lot of confidence going into next weekend.”

The late-season surge by the team comes down to conditioning and each girl understanding their role on the relay.

“As long as we each do our role we do pretty well,” says Winderlin.

Davis Wins Bronze Perhaps one of the surprises was the steady performance by freshman Trella Davis (12:38.66) who improved on her season best by 25 seconds to finish third in the 3200m.

“She looked a lot more comfortable than we’ve seen her and I think that allowed her to maintain her pace over the last three laps and finish pretty strong,” says Turner.

“If she can bring that time down to 12:10 or 12:00, she might be able to get on the medal stand this weekend.”

Stevens Qualifies After running a 2:29

Fun Run

ing so I knew I could pass her.

I wasn’t worried about getting boxed in. The (Minneapolis) girl was far enough into her lane that I knew I could get to the inside of her. I dug deeper than I thought I would have to.”

Stevens says she is trying to follow the advice of Coach Turner who has told her to go out with the leaders.

“And my dad’s always telling me to start my kick at the 300 (meter) mark, just like Brett (Meyer) always does and that’s what I tried to do today,” she added. “It’s more a mental thing than a physical thing.”

Eikenberry is 5th Narrowly missing out on a trip to state was sophomore Lizzy Eikenberry who’s career best of 110-2 in the javelin earned her a fifth place finish.

“She was throwing 114 and 115 (feet) in warmups,” noted Turner.

Freshman Emily Smith ran a career best of 50 seconds in the 300m low hurdles to finish sixth.

Clarissa Ratzlaff’s toss of 29-11 1/2 in the shot put was also a career best.

Also competing in the javelin were Madison Braun (98-6) and Kiana Yager (93-10).

Cayleigh Ramsey cleared 8-feet in the pole vault.

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split in the 4x800m relay, Makaela Stevens came back with a career best of 2:30.38 in the open 800m to earn a fourth place medal and a trip to the state track meet.

It’s been a long and sometimes tough season for the freshman who had to deal with a hip injury to start the season and, consequently, hasn’t been able to compete at the level she was hoping.

“The hip injury kept me from being in the condition I hoped to be in to start the season. I’m finally getting my times down to where they should be,” she says.

The state trip didn’t come easy for Stevens who was in third place after the first lap and with about 110 meters remaining had slipped back into fourth place. It looked like she might even drop into fifth place.

It also appeared that Stevens might get boxed in and be forced to step into an outside lane to overtake the fourth place girl, but the Minneapolis runner moved slightly to the outside of lane one and that allowed Stevens to pass her on the inside with about 60 meters remaining.

“I was definitely worried because I don’t usually have a kick,” says Stevens. “When the one girl passed me I knew I had to kick it in and the girl ahead of me was dy-

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Skills and Drills Camp Monday-Thursday, June 8-11 Scott City Elementary School 410 E. 8th St., Scott City

3rd and 4th graders (2015-2016 school year)

1:00-2:30 p.m.

5th and 6th graders (2015-2016 school year)

2:45-4:15 p.m.

$

25

includes camp t-shirt

(Make checks payable to Glenn O’Neil)

Camp Director: Glenn O’Neil Camp Coaches: Brett O’Neil

(Dodge City Community College 2-year starter)

Trey O’Neil

(Fort Hays State University Signee)

Shirt Size:

Youth

Youth Medium

Youth Large

Adult Small Adult Medium

Adult Large

(Please circle the size you wish to order)

To sign your child up, please sign the parental release waiver form below and mail it to: Coach O’Neil (703 E. 8th St., Scott City).

If you have questions, please contact Coach O’Neil, 620-214-3825, goneil@usd466.com.

------------------------------------------------------------------Child’s Name:_______________________________________________ I understand there is a risk of injury playing basketball and will not hold any coaches responsible for any injury that may occur during the camp.

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Have questions about the Scott Community Foundation? call 872-3790

For anything from the purchase of your first home to financing your farm operation, stop in and see the Loan Officer team at Western State Bank for all your banking needs!

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Stability In fact, at least eight teams will be competitive in league play. The league is on an upswing and will become more of a factor on the national stage.

Best Start Ever Through their first 40 games, the Kansas City Royals were 26-14 - their best start through that stretch in team history.

KC’s fast start is no fluke. The Royals lead the major leagues with a .288 team batting average and the 3.24 ERA for their pitching staff is the best in the American League.

At the same time, Kansas City’s young players are excelling. Left fielder Alex Gordon and shortstop Alcides Escobar are already established professionals. But third baseman Mike Moustakas, first baseman Eric Hosmer, catcher Salvy Perez,

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and center fielder Lorenzo Cain have matured into exceptional major league players.

If all of that isn’t enough, KC’s defense is the best in the American League.

And, of course, the bullpen has been stellar.

Add in team speed and quality depth at every position, with the exception of catcher, and you have a team that again has a great chance to get to the World Series.

The starting pitching has had some worrisome stretches, but recent performances by Jeremy Guthrie, Yordano Ventura, Edinson Volquez and Chris Young have been encouraging.

Manager Ned Yost describes the team atmosphere by saying, “There is a real strong feeling when they walk through

SCHS Track Class 3A Regional at Beloit May 22, 2015 Girl’s Division Javelin: Lizzy Eikenberry, 5th, 110-2.

800m: Makaela Stevens, 4th, 2:30.38.

3200m: Trella Davis, 3rd, 12:38.66.

300m low hurdles: Emily Smith, 6th, 50.00.

4x800m relay: Stevens, Cami Patton, Olivia Prieto, Paige Winderlin, 1st, 10:21.27.

Boy’s Division Discus: Cooper Griffith, 4th, 134-4.

Pole vault: Chantz Yager, 5th, 12.0.

800m: Brett Meyer, 1st, 1:57.09.

110m high hurdles: Drake McRae, 1st, 15.80.

300m int. hurdles: McRae, 1st, 41.22.

4x400m: McRae, Wyatt Kropp, Trey O’Neil, Meyer, 1st, 3:30.12.

4x800m relay: Jess Drohman, Irvin Lozano, Adrian Ruelas, Meyer, 1st, 8:21.32.

Fishing Report Scott State Lake Updated May 28 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: slow; most up to 9 inches. Cool weather abruptly ended the spawn and backed the fish out into deeper water. Anglers have caught a few crappie drifting near the bottom out on the main lake. Overall the bite has been slow and warmer weather will be needed to see improvement.

Fish may move back shallow and complete spawning activities once the weather straightens out.

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 less success this past week due to weather, but there were some nice fish in the 24 inch range caught. All saugeye and walleye must be 18 inches or larger to be legal for harvest.

Largemouth bass: fair/good; up to 5.5 lbs. Casting soft plastic baits, suspending jerkbaits, and swimbaits around fish attractors, rocky shorelines, or laydown trees has produced fish. Fish should start spawning with the return of warmer weather, and should be one of the best times of the year to catch a trophy bass as we sampled good numbers of 4 to 7 lb. fish the week before last.

Sunfish: fair/good; up to 8 inches. Fishing small jig heads tipped with small pieces of nightcrawler or whole mealworms around laydown trees and other shoreline structure.

General comments: Release all walleye/saugeye and largemouth bass less than 15 inches.

Please discard all leftover bait in a trash can, even baitfish. Remember it is illegal to release any fish into public water unless it was taken from that water.

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those clubhouse doors that they are going to win the baseball game that day.” That feeling permeates through the manager and coaches as well as the players.

Improbable as it may seem, Kansas City has four players who have to be considered in the running for the AL Most Valuable Player: Moustakas, Hosmer, Perez and Cain. The season is still young and perhaps none of them will finish with a great season, but don’t bet against all four.

The American League Central has other contending teams - Detroit in particular - but none of them has the overall balance and talent that KC has. However, injuries or slippage in the starting pitching could change that scenario.

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Good Luck . . .

The doubles team of Dylan Hutchins (left) and Bo Hess finished 9th in the Class 3A state tennis tournament.

Senior Marshal Hutchins finished 25th in the Class 3A state golf tournament.

Event 100m High Hurdles

Qualifiers Drake McRae (1st)

300m Int. Hurdles

Drake McRae (1st)

800m

Brett Meyer (1st) Makaela Stevens (4th)

3200m

Trella Davis (3rd)

4x400m Relay 1st place

Drake McRae Wyatt Kropp Trey O’Neil Brett Meyer Jess Drohman (alt.)

4x800m Relay 1st place

Makaela Stevens Cami Patton Olivia Prieto Paige Winderlin Emily Smith (alt.)

4x800m Relay 1st place

Jess Drohman Irvin Lozano Adrian Ruelas Brett Meyer Kevin Lozano (alt.)

Discus

Cooper Griffith (4th)

and congratulations to the Class 3A state qualifiers at Scott Community High School

SCHS state track qualifiers and alternates are (front row, from left) Emily Smith, Paige Winderlin, Trella Davis, Makaela Stevens, Cami Patton and Olivia Prieto. (Middle row) Dutch Turner, head coach Jim Turner, assistant coach Kevin Reese, Adrian Ruelas, Trey O’Neil, Drake McRae, Wyatt Kropp, Brett Meyer, Cooper Griffith, assistant coach Jenny Rose, Jace Rose, and assistant coach Aaron Dirks. (Back row) Jess Drohman, Kevin Lozano, Irvin Lozano and Jarret Jurgens.

These SCHS boosters congratulate you on a successful season and wish the track qualifiers good luck at the Class 3A state meet in Wichita!

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Page 27 - Thursday, May 28, 2015

Visitors enjoy the weekend at Lake Scott despite the weather Nor rain, nor wind, nor hail, nor the threat of tornadoes could keep visitors from making Lake Scott their destination over the Memorial weekend.

Despite holiday activity getting off to a slow start with overcast skies and rainfall throughout Friday, attendance still surpassed 5,500 over the three-day weekend. While all of the electrical hookups had been reserved by Thursday and were filled throughout the weekend, lake activity didn’t begin to pick up until Saturday.

“We didn’t start renting canoes until Saturday,” said Beach House manager Larry Eberle.

However, sales of wood for campfires was brisk with 70 bundles sold by Sunday afternoon.

Park attendance was down about 600 from last year’s Memorial weekend visitation of 6,156.

“If the weather had been nicer on Friday, I think we might have set an all-time record,” says Park Manager Greg Mills, who noted they didn’t even have an employee working the gate house on Friday.

weekend - up from last year’s $5,773.

The reason for the increase?

“We had more people camping and fewer day-users,” observed Mills. “More people were staying three days rather than just one.”

In fact, he says visitors were showing up on Monday at 6:00 p.m. and purchasing camping permits.

More Campers Bringing his family to the While attendance was down, park for a one-day outing was gate revenue was $7,205 for the Mike Reppart, Ulysses

“We decided to come up when it looked like the weather would break,” he said. “About 10 of us decided to come up and spend the day.”

Reppart says he visits the park three or four times a year “just to relax and do a little bank fishing.”

“It’s a chance to get the kids outdoors and enjoy Mother Nature,” he says.

Off to Strong Start The slight dip

in

Memorial weekend attendance did little to slow down what has been a great start to park attendance so far this year.

Mills says that visitation through the first four months of this year is 32,913, which compares to 25,982 for the same time frame in 2014.

“There have been people swimming out here every weekend since Easter,” observed Millie Dearden who works at the the Beach House. “The water

temperature has only been about 61 degrees, but it hasn’t kept them from swimming.”

Mills feels the park continues to grow in popularity because of improvements that are being made to camping sites along with a “family atmosphere.”

“We hardly had any problems over the (Memorial) weekend. People notice that and they appreciate that this is a safe and enjoyable place to bring the family,” Mills says.

(Top photo) Jared Faurot and his seven-yearold son, Ethan, took a canoe out on Lake Scott on Monday afternoon.

(Middle) Four fishermen try their luck in the west cove.

(Left) Mike Reppart and his five-year-old daughter, Taylor, relax while bank fishing.

(Record Photos)

Farm

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Page 28 - Thursday, May 28, 2015

Walmart joins the battle against antibiotics Walmart is “pressing meat, seafood, dairy and egg suppliers to reduce the use of antibiotics,” according to a story late last week from Reuters.

Only that’s not the way some of the media viewed the news.

“Walmart takes stand against animal cruelty and overuse of antibiotics on farms” was the way The Verge website headlined

it.

“Walmart openly opposes excessive use of antibiotics in livestock,” was the NYC Today headline, Even the Los Angeles Times chimed in with, “Walmart urges suppliers to curb antibiotics, treat animals better.”

The mega-chain’s voluntary guideline, which were released May 22 -

ag briefs

Spring field day at GC June 5 The focus is on wheat and triticale at the Spring Field Day planned for Fri., June 5, at Kansas State University’s Southwest Research-Extension 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.

Dryland wheat tour at Tribune

The Kansas State University Southwest ResearchExtension Center will host its Tribune dryland wheat tour on Fri., June 5, at the university’s Tribune Unit one mile west of Tribune on K96 Highway.

Extension specialists will give updates on the latest research linked to dryland wheat varieties, as well as disease and insect management.

Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. (CDT), with the tour and presentations starting at 9:45 a.m.

More information is available by calling 620-376-4761.

Kansas cattle on feed up 2%

Kansas feedlots, with capacities of 1,000 or more head, contained 2.06 million cattle on feed on May 1, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.

This inventory was up two percent from last year.

Placements during April totaled 315,000 head, down three percent from 2014.

Fed cattle marketings for the month of April totaled 355,000 head, down eight percent from last year.

Other disappearance during April totaled 10,000 head, down 10,000 from last year.

ease is never mentioned.

Instead, the connection of animal antibiotics to “drug-resistant superbugs, endangering human health,” is always front and center.

Walmart, which operates approximately 5,200 Walmart and Sam’s Club stores in the United States - who can maintain an exact count with that many stores? - is also urg-

the Friday before the holiday weekend, a favorite trick of politicians who need to take a stand but don’t want to broadcast their position - would limit suppliers to using antibiotics only for disease prevention and treatment, not for promoting growth.

Of course, the fact that low-level antibiotics usage also prevents dis-

ing its meat suppliers “not to raise livestock in gestation crates or in other conditions considered inhumane,” requesting that suppliers publicly disclose their antibiotics usage and animal handling standards on an annual basis.

“As the nation’s largest grocer, Walmart is committed to using our strengths to drive transparency and improve-

ment across the supply chain,” said Kathleen McLaughlin, senior vice president of Walmart sustainability.

Walmart accounts for nearly 25 percent of the total U.S. grocery market, so its “request” will affect everyone in the entire processing and distribution chain.

(See WALMART on page 29)

Settling dispute with meat labels After months of wrangling over whether mechanically tenderized beef posed a foodsafety problem, and more months fighting over labeling rules, its’ all done and everyone’s happy.

USDA official announced this week that labeling will be required on packages of mechanically tenderized beef, beginning in May 2016. The rationale is that mechanical tenderization, either with needles or blades, can transfer pathogens such as E. coli O57:H7 or salmonella from the surface of whole-muscle cuts to the inside Of course, since most consumers don’t typically cook steaks and roasts to a well-

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done state, the center of those cuts often isn’t fully cooked and when consumed, can pose a food-safety threat.

The labels will state that the meat has been “Mechanically Tenderized,” “Blade Tenderized” or “Needle Tenderized.” The packages will also include cooking instructions to ensure that consumers cook the products long enough to destroy any bacteria.

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention indicate that there have been six outbreaks of food-borne illness linked to mechanically tenderized beef over the last 15 years, and USDA predicted that the new labels and cooking instructions could prevent hundreds of illnesses annually.

“This common-sense change will lead to safer meals and fewer foodborne illnesses,” Al Almanza, the administrator of USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, said in a statement.

Okay, that’s what any USDA official has to say: This is a prudent adoption of a tactic that will add yet another layer of safety to an already safe product.

We’ve heard variation on that theme literally dozens of times over the past few decades. It’s both government and industry’s go-to tune.

Fact is, the meat industry has invested an enormous amount of time, effort and research funds to develop beef carcass interventions. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent to develop, test and commercialize antimicrobial technologies.

The improvement in USDA’s baseline data on the prevalence of potential pathogens on raw meat and poultry products confirms that the investment is paying dividends.

(See LABELS on page 29)

Iraq: a complicated, competitive market

For the world of wheat, the country of Iraq conveys many lessons for Kansas wheat farmers from the origin of the crop they grow to one of the most price competitive markets in the world.

All factors combined, Iraq ranks as the sixth largest hard red winter (HRW) customer based on a ten-year average, but U.S. imports swing wildly from 79.6 million bushels in 2007-08 to 1.95 million bushels in 2013-14.

One reason for this wide variation is that Iraqi farmers do grow wheat, primarily in the same region where the wheat plant itself origi-

Scott City Cooperative Wheat.................. $ 4.83 White Wheat ....... $ 4.88 Milo (bu.)............. $ 3.55 Corn.................... $ 3.67 Soybeans ........... $ 8.48 Sunflowers.......... $ 16.05 ADM Grain Wheat..................

Milo (bu.).............

Corn....................

Soybeans............

Sunflowers..........

$ 4.85 $ 3.55 $ 3.70 $ 8.43 $ 16.60

Julia Debes Kansas Wheat Commission

nated. This land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is referred to as the Fertile Crescent and wheat was first grown here more than 10,000 years ago.

Today, Iraqi farmers grow up to one third of the estimated 235 million bushels of wheat consumption, according to U.S. Wheat Associates (USW). This wheat is blended with imported wheat and the resulting flour is used to make the Iraqi staple flatbread.

Weather

Market Report Closing prices on May 26, 2015 Bartlett Grain Wheat.................. $ 4.82 White Wheat ....... $ 4.97 Milo .................... $ 3.55 Corn ................... $ 3.67 Soybeans (new crop) $ 8.47

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Ag Facts Pepperoni is America’s favorite topping (36 percent of all pizza orders).

Americans eat approximately 251.7 million pounds a year!

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Ian Flagg, USW Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, explained that Iraqi families need higher protein to produce their flat bread than those in neighboring countries, primarily because of how they bake it.

“Most other Middle Eastern countries can use soft red winter (SRW) or soft white (SW) since they cook in a traditional bake oven,” Flagg explained.

“Bakers in Iraq need strong wheat, hence the HRW, because they cook in a round tandoor oven and the gluten content must be strong enough to adhere to the sides of the cooking vessel.”

While Kansas farmers are the best in the world at growing the medium protein hard wheat needed for this type of flat bread, Flagg explained that they are not the only ones. European countries like Germany, Poland and Romania, as well as the Black Sea region, all produce wheat in the 11.5 to 12 percent protein range. These other suppliers are often closer geographically and lower quality may also cost less than U.S. HRW. “So the competition is fierce,” Flagg said. “However, there will always be a place for HRW in Iraq. I expect them to (See IRAQ on page 29)

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Feeding sorghum crops as alternative to corn

The combination of poor margins for row crops and the threat of continued dry conditions are prompting many producers to re-evaluate cropping plans. Crops like sorghum that require fewer inputs and use water more efficiently become much more attractive under those conditions.

How well do these crops fit for livestock production?

The exact answer depends on the class of livestock fed and feed-

stuff. There are two general options for sorghum crops for feed usage: grain and forage.

Grain Sorghum Grain sorghum or milo produces a crop that can substitute well for corn.

The energy content of milo is usually about 85% of that for corn grain, which is usually reflected in price.

Milo is more variable in starch and protein content than corn, so periodic feed testing is warranted if milo will be the base

April rainfall in Scott County is 32% above normal Week of May 16-22 County precipitation averages for April show a mixed bag for target area counties.

Precipitation reports WKWMP from the Community Update Collaborative Rain, Walt Geiger Hail and Snow Network meteorologist (CoCoRaHS), www. cocorahs.org, indicate the highest 2015 April county precipitation average was in Scott County with 2.57 inches or 32% above normal for Scott while Kearny County reported 1.30 inches or 17% below normal. The report for Lane was 0.67 inches or 68% below normal.

Numerous episodes of widespread rains are quickly chipping away at the drought across western Kansas. Although moisture has been plentiful, the precipitation deficit was so large going into this wet period that our area still has a ways to go before returning to a normal moisture profile.

However, if these rains continue into early June, the area may be close to erasing this drought which started back in August of 2010.

Radar precipitation estimates across the region for the period May 18-24 show around two inches across all of Western Kansas with perhaps as much as three inches across western Kearny, southern Scott, eastern Finney, Grant and Greeley counties.

Small areas of four inches were estimated over southwestern Kearny and southwestern Greeley counties. For the month-to-date, the location with the highest total precipitation within the target area is small area about 10-miles north of Deerfield in northeastern Kearny County where radar estimates show about 6.00 inches.

Walmart Mixed Reaction Of course, the company’s message is phrased in the form of a request, not a demand, which didn’t please some in the activist community.

“Walmart wants to present its announcement as a step forward on responsible antibiotics use,” the National Resources Defense Council wrote in response to the news release titled, “Walmart’s antibiotic use announcement: Less than meets the eye.”

“Unfortunately, the steps Walmart put forward won’t deliver on responsible use of antibiotics.”

Other activists noted that McDonald’s, Chikfil-A, Chipotle and even Perdue and Tyson have all recently committed to no longer sourcing from growers using antibiotics with important human clinical value. Costco, one of Wal-Mart’s biggest rivals, also announced that the company was working with its suppliers to phase out sourcing from suppliers of livestock and poultry raised with antibiotics used to combat human infections.

Even the Food and Drug Administration in 2013 released guidelines for pharmaceutical suppli-

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ers and agricultural and food companies calling for a voluntary phase-out of antibiotics as growth promoters in livestock.

The tide is definitely turning.

Of course, the largest retail and foodservice operators have the leverage to demand all sorts of compliance measures from its suppliers. When they do, the new policy rolled out at a splashy mediafest touting what outstanding corporate citizens they are.

and has been produced successfully by a number of producers. The crop can produce silage yields similar to corn but with 40% less water.

Reduced cash input costs per acre represent another advantage.

Sorghum silage is lower in energy content compared to corn silage.

Of course, actual composition can vary depending on hybrids, harvest maturity, and storage lossForage Sorghum es, so producers should Forage sorghum works sample their own feedvery well as a silage crop stuffs for analysis. of a finishing diet. The seed coat of milo is essentially indigestible, so the crop needs to be ground or rolled for feeding.

In general, grinding milo finer results in improved feed efficiency compared to coarser particle sizes. Grain sorghum residue is very similar to corn stalks and makes an excellent resource for fall grazing cows.

Labels Alongside of that industry-wide initiative, however, leading trade groups argued that labeling for whole-muscle products wasn’t necessary, that the threat was minimal, even as a number of consumer groups and their congressional allies loudly demanded that the health of the American public was in jeopardy.

Harmony All Around Here’s what’s amazing about this entire situation: It all worked out to the satisfaction of all concerned. Like a gradeschool karate tournament, everyone’s a winner.

For the industry, an out-

Iraq

ing cattle because of the small amount of roughage included in those diets.

Another factor to consider is the effect crop choice has on the entire operation. One advantage of corn over forage sorghum is that producers have the option of harvesting as either silage or grain, depending on weather and market conditions.

Once farmers decide to plant forage sorghum, they have also decided to devote those acres to forage production.

(continued from page 28)

reach to USDA resulted in a collaborative effort to craft realistic rules, and as the North American Meat Institute President and CEO Barry Carpenter said USDA “worked with the industry” on rulemaking for nearly two years, and that the beef industry will work with USDA officials to put the rules in place.

“We are confident in the safety of products that are mechanically tenderized to increase tenderness, a trait that consumers desire in meat products,” Carpenter said.

(See what I mean about singing the same song?)

Even the very consumer groups that had

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continue purchasing between 3.67 million and 18.37 million bushels (100,000 and 500,000 MT) annually.”

Iraq’s grain purchases are controlled by a government body - the Grain Board of Iraq. Nada Obaid, USW administrative assistant, previously worked for the Grain Board of Iraq.

She explained that the Grain Board of Iraq, under the guidance of the Ministry of Trade, organizes the receipt of grain and supplies the State Company for Grain Processing with both imported and domestic wheat. The State Company for Grain Processing, another government entity, delivers the wheat to millers.

From there, the majority of flour in Iraq is dispensed according to the Public Distribution System (PDS), the world’s largest food distribution system through which the government provides a monthly basket of goods

The impact of using sorghum silage depends on the class of livestock.

Sorghum silage works well in gestating cow diets.

Growing and backgrounding cattle would most likely gain more slowly because of the lower energy content compared to corn silage unless cattle feeders add additional amounts of energy dense feeds such as grains or distillers. There likely would be only small differences for finish-

to qualifying citizens.

That basket includes flour as well as rice, sugar, vegetable oil and baby milk formula. According to USW, 95 percent of the Iraq population qualifies for the PDS. Flagg explained that this program accounts for the majority of Iraq’s wheat consumption.

Kansas farmers play their part in ensuring those families have access to the high quality wheat grown in the state.

vilified the industry for not launching a voluntary labeling program for mechanically tenderized cuts actually praised the new USDA regulation, but in doing so talked less about the “dangers” to consumers and more about the reality that people can’t tell whether the meat was tenderized or not.

(Hint: If the menu you’re reading says “Ponderosa,” “Sizzler” or “Golden Corral,” your steak’s been tenderized).

Even congressional critics such as Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), a longtime agitator for tougher food-safety rules, “applauded the rule.”

It’s all so cheery and upbeat, I can hear the strains of “Kumbaya” echoing between the paragraphs.

Isn’t it nice when everyone can find some good in the regulations?

For once.

Dan Murphy is a food-industry journalist and commentator

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Walker Plumbing, Inc.

Agriculture

Preconditioning and Growing

Backhoe & Trenching services • Irrigation & gas leak repairs • Full-line irrigation parts T-L center pivot dealer Floor heat systems Pump & install septic systems Boring equipment

• 45 Years Experience • Managed and owned by full-time DVM • 2,000 Head capacity Office - 872-5150 • Scott City Stuart Doornbos Home - 872-2775 Cell - 874-0951

423 S. Mesquite Rd. • Scott City • 872-2130

Construction/Home Repair

Sager’s Pump Service • Irrigation • Domestic • Windmills • Submersibles

Cell: 874-4486 • Office 872-2101

ELLIS AG SERVICES • Custom Manure Conditioning • Hauling and Spreading • Custom Swathing and Baling • Rounds-Net or Twine • Gyp and Sand Sales • Custom Harvesting

Custom Steel Buildings, LLC All steel and metal building system 26 GA R-Panel and 4" R 14 insulation standard

We can build your building to meet whatever specs you may have. Call today for your free quote.

Brandon Dirks • 620-874-5083 Justin Koehn • 620-214-3550

RTRex Turley, Plumbing Master Plumber Residental and Commercial Plumbing

Water Systems, water lines, sewer cleaning faucets and fixtures, garbage diposals and more

Marienthal, Ks.

620-909-5014 (H) • 620-874-4128 (C)

SPENCER PEST CONTROL

CHAMBLESS ROOFING Residential

All Types of Roofing

Commercial

Call Brittan Ellis • 620-874-5160

Cedar Shake and Shingle Specialists Return to Craftsmanship Attention to Detail and Quality Guaranteed 620-872-2679 • 1-800-401-2683

Automotive

Dirks Earthmoving Co.

RESIDENTIAL – COMMERCIAL Termite Baiting Systems • Rodents Weed Control • Structural Insects Termite Control Box 258, Scott City • (620) 872-2870

Precision Land Forming of terraces and waterways; feed lot pens and ponds; building site preparation; lazer equipped

Richard Dirks • Scott City, Ks. (Home) 872-3057 • 877-872-3057 (Cell) 872-1793

Gary Miller

Millrod’s

Rental Equipment Pre-owned Cars and Trucks Windshield Repair/Replacement

201 Main, Scott City millrods@wbsnet.org

Phone: 620-872-5655 Cell: 620-874-1057 Fax: 620-872-7210

Medical

Landscaping • Lawn/Trees

Berning Tree Service David Berning • Marienthal

620-379-4430

Tree Trimming and Removal Hedge and Evergreen Trimming Stump Removal

Fully Insured

Contact:

SCOT AYTES • 874-1646

Red

Specializing in

all coatings t Paint i or any other color

Paint inside and out residential, commercial, and industrial.

Free estimates and 16 plus years of experience.

PC Painting, Inc. Paul Cramer 620-290-2410 620-872-8910 www.pcpaintinginc.com

Pro Ex II

Over 20 Years Experience

Professional Extermination Commercial & Residential

• Termites • Rodents • Soil Sterilization • Pre Treats • Lawn Care • Fly Parasites

John Kropp, Owner • Scott City 874-2023 (cell) • 872-3400 (office) • prox2@live.com

Charles Purma II D.D.S. P.A. General Dentistry, Cosmetics, and Insurance Accepted

We welcome new patients.

324 N. Main • Scott City • 872-2389 Residence 872-5933

Pro Health Chiropractic Wellness Center (Scott City Chiropractic) “TLC”...

Technology Lead Chiropractic

Dr. James Yager 110 W. 4th St. • Scott City • 872-2310 Toll Free: 800-203-9606

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Horizon Health For your home medical supply and equipment needs!

Services

Berning Auction “Don’t Trust Your Auction to Just Anyone”

We service and repair all that we sell.

1602 S. Main • Scott City • 872-2232 Toll Free : 1-866-672-2232

For all your auction needs call:

(620) 375-4130

Russell Berning Box Q • Leoti

Dr. Jeffrey A. Heyd 20/20 Optometry

Treatment of Ocular Disease • Glaucoma Detection Children’s Vision • Glasses • Contact Lenses

Complete family eye center!

106 W. 4th • Scott City • 872-2020 • Emergencies: 214-1462

Bolen Enterprises Prairie Dog Control •34 years experience •Bonded/Licensed

Sandy Cauthon RN

1101 S. Main, Scott City 620-874-1813

Call me to schedule your Myofascial Release

Help Wanted

Truck Driving

FT POLICE officer for City of Anthony (Ks.).

Must be 21. Salary $15$20/hr. Law Enforcement Certification preferred. Excellent benefits. Information: www. anthonykansas.org/jobs.

Open until filled. EOE. ––––––––––––––––––––– C O N T R A C T SALESPERSON selling aerial photography of farms on commission basis. $4,225 first month guarantee. $1,500-$3,000 weekly proven earnings.

Travel required. More info at msphotosd.com or 877/882-3566.

WE SUPPORT every driver, every day, every mile. No experience? Some or lots of experience? Let’s talk!

Call Central Refrigerated Home (888) 670-0392. www.

CentralTruckDrivingJobs. com.

––––––––––––––––––––– DRIVER TRAINEES needed. Paid CDL training. Become a new driver for Stevens Transport. No experience needed. Earn $800 per week. Stevens will cover all costs. 1-888528-8864. drive4stevens. com.

––––––––––––––––––––– BUTLER TRANSPORT. Your partner in excellence. Drivers needed.

Great hometime. $650 sign-on bonus. All miles paid. 1-800-528-7825. www.butlertransport.com.

––––––––––––––––––––– GREAT PLAINS Trucking of Salina is looking for experienced OTR tractor-trailer flatbed drivers or recent driving school graduates. Our drivers travel 48 U.S. states as well as the lower Canadian provinces. We offer excellent compensation, benefits, home time and equipment. Please contact Brett or Randy at 785-823-2261 or brettw@ gptrucking.com, randyl@ gptrucking.com.

Education

Optometrist

Scott City Myofascial Release

Kansas Classifieds Ad Network

The classified ads below are appearing in 147 Kansas newspapers with a total circulation of 500,000 the classified display ads appear in 142 Kansas newspapers with a total circulation of 457,000. KCAN line ad is $300 for up to 25 words and $12 each additional word. A 2x2 display ad is $800 per insertion and a 2x4 display ad is $1,650 per insertion. To find out more, contact The Scott County Record at 872-2090.

Bob Bolen 785-821-0042 • Fax 785-852-4275

ES N JO UB S CL B Driving M LA

for the PURPLE!

Jeremy • 620-397-1638 Stefanie • 620-397-8075

MEDICAL BILLING trainees needed. Become a medical office assistant.

No experience needed.

Online training can get you job ready. HS diploma/GED and PC/Internet needed. 1-888-589-9683.

––––––––––––––––––––– WANT A CAREER operating heavy equipment? Bulldozers, backhoes, excavators. Handson training. Certifications offered. National average $18-22 hr. Lifetime job placement. VA benefits eligible. 1-866-362-6497.

Homes CLAYTON HOMES. National open house. Your first year utilities are on us up to $3,000. Down payments reduced for limited time. Lenders offering $0 down for land owners.

Special gov’t programs for modular homes. 866-8586862.

Sports/Outdoors KANSAS HUNTING land wanted. Earn thousands on your land by leasing the hunting rights.

Free evaluation and info packet. Liability coverage included. The experts at Base Camp Leasing have been bringing landowners and hunters together since 1999. Email: info@basecampleasing. com. Call 866-309-1507.

BaseCampLeasing.com.

Retail

Gene’s Appliance Over 200 appliances in stock!

COMPARE OUR PRICES!

We have Reverse Osmosis units in stock.

Remember us for parts in stock for all brands of all appliances.

Sales and Service Days • Mon. - Sat. Deliveries • Mon.-Sat.

Is your subscription paid?

Largest Frigidaire appliance dealer in Western Ks. 508 Madison • Scott City • 872-3686

Networktronic, Inc.

Computer Sales, Service and Repair Custom computers!

Networking solutions!

Northend Disposal A garbologist company.

Mon. - Fri. 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

402 S. Main, Scott City • 872-1300

Scott City • 872-1223 • 1-800-303-3371

Brent Rogers

Sales Consultant b.rogers@officesolutionsinc.biz

Office (620) 276-3131 Toll Free 1-800-794-9052 Cell (620) 874-0014 Fax (620) 276-8876 1007 N. 8th, Garden City, KS 67846 www.officesolutionsinc.biz

All Under One Roof

Revcom Electronics

Your RadioShack Dealer Two-way Radio Sales & Service Locally owned and operated since 1990

1104 Main • Scott City • 872-2625

Dining Tuesday-Saturday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

www.reganjewelers.com

412 N. Main • Garden City • 620-275-5142 Support your hometown merchants who back your school and community activities throughout the year!

Classifieds

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Buy, sell, trade, one call does it all 872-2090 ot fax 872-0009

Classified Ad Deadline: Monday at 5:00 p.m.

FOR SALE

Classified Ad Rate: 20¢ per word. Minimum charge, $5.

Blind ad: $2.50 per week extra. Card of thanks: 10¢ per word. Minimum charge, $3. Classified Display Ad rate: $6.00 per column inch.

Classified advertising must be paid in advance unless business account is established.

Scott

Logan

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Wichita

Gove

Wallace

Lane

Greeley

Finney

Kearney

Call: 620-872-2576 or 620-874-1009 38tfc

Pine Village Apartments 300 E. Nonnamaker

406 Main • Scott City 620 872-2090 FAMILY...

NEW LISTINGS

Agriculture

Rentals

NEW COUPLE MOVING to town. Looking for a house in the country to buy or rent.

Call or text 785-569-1127.

WANTED TO BUY. Stored corn. Call for basis and contract information.

1-800-579-3645.

Lane County Feeders, Inc. 32tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– WANTED TO BUY. Wheat straw delivered.

Call for contracting information. Lane County Feeders. 397-5341. 44tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– 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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HIDE AND SEEK STORAGE SYSTEMS. Various sizes available. Virgil and LeAnn Kuntz, (620)874-2120.

41tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– 1-2 BEDROOM houses/ apartments for rent. Please call 620-872-5777 or stop

by PlainJan’s to pick up an 40tfc application.

––––––––––––––––––––– STORAGE UNITS in various sizes available at The Storehouse, Don and Trudy Eikenberry 620872-2914.

07tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– PLAINJAN’S WILL HAVE 30 X 50 metal insulated shop for rent, building will include electricity $350 per month.

Reserve yours today, call 620-872-5777.

39tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– 1 AND 2 BEDROOM apartments for rent. Please call 620-874-8353. 39tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– STORAGE UNITS 22’X40’ with 10’x14’ door for campers, boats, tractor, car or what ever.

Call 620-214-2978. 41t4p

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If not paid in advance, there will be a $1 billing charge.

Tear sheet for classified ad will be $1 extra.

County Plat Maps

Notice

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.

––––––––––––––––––––– PUBLIC AUCTION notice of sale of abandoned motor vehicle by owner of tow service, Long’s Towing, Richard D. Long, 1 mile west of 83-96 stop light. 1-2001 Dodge Neon, vin number1B3ES46C31D246576.

Auction will begin 10:00 a.m., Monday, the 8th of Ju ne.

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Real Estate 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.

USD 466 NEEDS substitute route bus drivers. For applications and additional information contact Lance Carter at 620-872-7655.

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2-bedroom, 1 1/4 story, with 2 bedrooms in

basement and detached garage.

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Wanted! Full basement, 2+1 bedrooms, 2 full

baths, nice family room, newer FA/CA and roof.

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

Plus, fenced yard,

sprinkler, carport and

24’ x 30’ garage! Only $123,5000.

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

Help Wanted

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS If you want to drink, that’s your business.

If you want to stop, that’s ours.

Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

Tuesday nights at 8:30 p.m. at the United Methodist Church basement (use west door).

412 College, Scott City.

Al-Anon at same time and location.

Contact: 874-0472 or 872-3137. 30t52

––––––––––––––––––––– POSITION AVAILABLE in swine finish facility in Scott County. Good schedule and benefits. Call 620-874-1017 or 620-21428tfc 1864.

––––––––––––––––––––– P A R T - T I M E C H I L D C A R E position (6-9 hours/ week).

Applications may be picked up at the First Baptist Church 803 S. College St., Scott City, Monday Thursday 9:00 a.m. 41t3c 5:00 p.m.

YOUR GARAGE

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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ADVERTISE

SALE HERE!

COUNTRY LIVING

5 bedrooms, 1 3/4 baths, S/A garage, full basement, newer windows, paint, and flooring! Located in a nice neighborhood with low traffic!

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 hangar, 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

Make sure you get your garage sale advertised.

Call or drop-off, by Monday at 5:00 p.m.

406 Main•Box 377 Scott City, Ks. 67871 620-872-2090

AUCTION

FRIDAY “EVENING” 5:30 PM 507 COURT ST., SCOTT CITY, KS ITEMS from CORINE KREBS ESTATE Other items ‘consigned’ from Garden City & Dighton Sellers.

Inside PlainJan’s, 511 Monroe, Scott City

Lg. Oval table – 2 lvs, 6 ‘Cane-back’ chairs; Gold sofa; Box matt set; Headboard, Dresser, pr. Chairs (yellow floral); Pr recliners; TV; Chair & Rocker (Burg. Stripe) Low cabinet; Christmas tree; Lamp tables (2-sq, 1 octagn); pr Antique Victorian Velvet chairs; Brass hdbd; sm. Dining Table w/3 Ch. (nice set!); 2-pr.

Iron Patio Chairs; pr. Bar Stools; 2 Exercise Machines (Gazelle ‘Like New’) Lighted GLOBE on Stand; Fiber-Optic Lamp (COOL); Bean Bag; Planters (Brass & Woven); 6-PLANT PEDESTALS-1 Marble!); Wurlitzer Organ (45”x23”) w/ bench (nice size); Hair Cutting System; Bissell ProHeat ‘Deep Cleaner’ - 12 amp‘ Home - Med. Back Massager; pr. sm. Speakers; 3 sm. Car/Shop Vacs; STATUARY & Ornamental Items; Yard Decor Items (seasonal & concrete); Many Strings lights (holiday) - good cond.; ICE CREAM Maker; Bean Pot; Footstool; 2-Decorative Pine Trees; Décor floral/seasonal; Throw rugs & Floor rug; Ant. Desk lamp; Glass stemware; Amberina glass canisters (3); Kitchen Utensils; Misc. figurines; Hand blown glass pieces; Nuwave Induction cooktop – new in box; Agatha Christie book set; Misc. pots & pans; Glss luncheon plates; Misc. Christmas items – Santa’s, ornaments, lights, etc; Bedding; Misc. Lamps – floor/table/hanging; Electrolux canister vac...& MORE, Not Yet Listed!!!

Mon.-Fri., June 1-5, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

BRITTAN AUCTION

GARAGE SALES Saturday, May 30 Three-party Garage Sale 1201 Church, Scott City Sat., May 30, 9:00 a.m.-Noon Baby - adult clothes, strollers, toys, purses, kitchen items, daycare/preschool learning stuff, holiday items, lots of misc.

Garage Sale

Sat., June 6, 9:00 a.m.-noon Girl’s clothes (newborn to 4T), boy’s clothes (newborn to 3T), shoes for boys and girls.

Items will continually be added.

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Scott City, Ks. paragons@wbsnet.org brittanauction.net auctionzip.com/brittan 620.872.2957

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Employment Opportunities LEGAL ASSISTANT

MULTIPLE POSTIONS

PARK LANE NURSING HOME

Looking for a full-time Legal Assistant.

County benefits pending commissioner approval.

Submit Resume to: Rebecca Faurot 211 S. Main, Suite 118, Scott City, KS 67871

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”

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GRAIN OPERATOR Now Hiring!!

Bartlett Grain, has an immediate opening for a hard working operator. This is a year-round position with opportunity for overtime. You will be involved in grain operations at both our Scott City and Healy elevators.

Bartlett offers competitive wages along with great benefits: health and life insurance premiums paid 100% for employee, dental, vision, 401k with company match, profit sharing and paid vacation.

Apply in person or send resume: Bartlett Grain Company, L.P. 305 W. Bellevue, Scott City, Ks. 67871 Fax: 816-753-1775 jobs@bartlett-grain.com or call Matt in HR 800-860-7290

EOE/AA/D/V/Drug Screen/Background Checks

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Want to Work Check Us Out Competitive Wages Advancement Opportunities Hourly Bonus Pay Flexible Schedules Friendly Environment Equal Employment Opportunity

Apply Now at Wendy’s 1502 S. Main, Scott City

Tate’s Restaurant is looking for experienced kitchen help. Fry Cooks, Dishwashers and Prep.

Experience a must.

Has openings for the following positions: Part-time CNA/CMA Full-time Dietary Aide (evening shift)

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SCOTT COUNTY HOSPITAL HAS OPENINGS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS PATIENT CARE Acute Care RNs Physical Therapist Respiratory Therapist Operating Room RN C.N.A.s - FT and PT Director of Nursing Emergency Department RN Float RN CLERICAL Ward Clerk SERVICE Cook PRN Nutritional Service Aide Dietary/Housekeeping Shared Position 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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NIGHT STAFF PERSON

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SEEKING BIDS The City of Scott City is accepting bids for chip sealing. Bid by the ton and include the cost of oil.

There will be approximately 1,500 tons of CMA sand used, furnished by the City.

All bids must be sealed in an envelope marked 2015 Scott City Chip Sealing Project.

Bids will be accepted until 5:00 p.m., Monday, June 15.

The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

Apply in person at: Tate’s Restaurant, 405 Main St., Scott City.

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SPECIAL EDUCATION PARA-PROFESSIONAL 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

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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ROUTE SALES PERSON 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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The Scott County Record • Page 34 • Thursday, May 28, 2015

SCES play day

Scott City Elementary School students finished up their year with the annual play day at the football complex. The event is coordinated by Glenn O’Neil with assistance from high school National Honor Society members.

(Top) Youngsters raise a colorful parachute and then prepare to run under it.

(Above) Competing in the sack race are Kameron Winderlin (left) and Ruby Oronia.

(Above right) Showing his skill with the hula hoop is Alexander Phillips.

(Right) Sprinting for the finish line in the 50 meter dash are (from left) Lucas Willette, Michel Smith and Lyrik Farr.

(Below) Trying to gain the advantage in the tug-of-war are (from left) Ernesto Rodriguez, Kevin Wiebe and Cesar Garcia.

(Record Photos)