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34 Pages • Four Sections

Volume 21 • Number 43

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Published in Scott City, Ks.

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Supt., principal resign from USD 466 The USD 466 (Scott County) board of education has begun the search for two administrators after accepting the resignations of Supt. Bill Wilson and Scott City Middle School Principal Jim Howard during a special meeting on Monday.

There has been some pressure in the community for the board to take action regarding

Wilson’s contract after it was revealed in mid-April that the district was facing a $1.1 million budget shortfall. The district drained its cash reserves to meet financial obligations for the remainder of the 2013-14 school year and enacted another $705,000 in budget cuts for the 2014-15 school year.

As part of next year’s budget

moves, teaching positions were cut, all employees took a two percent pay cut and health care benefits were reduced.

Wilson still had two years remaining on his contract with the district, but has been interviewing for other administrative positions.

“I have three options that I’m looking at,” Wilson said.

His final day will be June 30.

Board President Mark Davis says the search for replacement administrators will be handled in-house. Scott Community High School Principal Shelly Turner and Scott City Elementary School Principal Shawn Roberts were directed to post the job openings.

“Our goal is to find an inter-

im superintendent for a year due to the fact that we’re starting this process so late in the year,” says Davis. “Starting in December we’ll decide our plans going forward - whether we want to stay with the superintendent we have for a longer period of time or whether we’ll begin a (See RESIGN on page two)

Council gives ok to clean-up effort . . . almost

mad science fun

While acknowledging that a local property owner has made significant progress in cleaning up his sites, the Scott City Council wasn’t quite ready to say he was in full compliance with the city’s nuisance ordinance.

Noel Turley appeared before the council again on Monday - two weeks after being granted an extension on cleaning up lots at 1524 College and 1513 Myrtle.

Turley said he had about 300 feet of fencing to install and had completed other clean-up around the two sites. He had also (See CLEAN-UP on page 10)

Music, BBQ to kickoff weekend

Youngsters attending the Scott County Library’s kickoff to the summer reading program react with excitement to one of the experiments conducted by a “mad scientist” on Tuesday evening. Among those enjoying the program were (from left) Haileigh Hickert, Sofia Kasselman, Aliyah Venegas and Amelia Ramsey.

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Great tasting barbeque and entertainment by recording artist Carter Sampson will kickoff a weekend of June Jaunt activities in Scott City on Friday.

The annual three-day event will include a full slate of activities in Scott City, along with seven other communities along K96 Highway from June 6-8.

The Scott County Arts Council is sponsoring a barbeque starting at 6:30 p.m. in Patton Park. Cost of the meal is $10 per plate. Sampson will begin her performance in the park at 7:00 p.m.

(See JAUNT on page two)

Drought, stunted growth taking a toll on area’s wheat

It’s a story that area farmers are becoming all too familiar with midway into the fourth year of a severe drought.

Wheat yields will be down. That’s no surprise.

An added probWe’re seeing lem for farmers - at wheat at all levels least those with a crop of bad. You have worth cutting - as they bad and you have prepare to enter wheat very, very bad. fields is the stunted Jim Shroyer growth that will make K-State harvest an added chalagronomist lenge.

“You need to make preparations for cutting short wheat,” advised Dr. Lucas Haag, northwest area agronomist for Kansas State University during the Wet Walnut Creek wheat tour on May 29. “We don’t have a lot of material to deal with this year.”

Given the short, thin stands in those fields which will be cut, there will be added emphasis on cutting height, machine adjustments and operator control.

“In short, getting the heads into the combine with less straw will be a challenge,” Haag told those during the final tour stop at the Vance Ehmke farm.

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In the past, where a farmer may have been able to get by with slightly more dull sickles on their header that won’t be an option this year. The sickles will need to be very sharp since there won’t be near as much wheat straw being forced into the “V” to assist with the cutting, explains Haag.

With less material going through the machines, settings will be a lot more sensitive, said Haag.

‘Bad to Very Bad’ Of course, that’s only a problem for those farmers with wheat that’s worth cutting. And those are getting fewer by the day.

“We’re seeing wheat at all levels of bad,” long-time Extension agronomy specialist Jim Shroyer wryly offered. “You have bad and you have very, very bad. Unfortunately, that’s the conditions you are dealing with when you aren’t getting any rain.

“It’s amazing that, with the limited amount of rain, the wheat looks this good.”

Shroyer noted that wheat got off to a good start shortly after planting because of some moisture last fall. In fact, he said the early (See WHEAT on page 10)

K-State Extension wheat specialist Jim Shroyer discusses wheat varieties during a stop on the Walnut Creek tour in Lane County last week.

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406 Main, St. Scott City • 620-872-2090 (See WATER on page 10) www.scottcountyrecord.com Opinion • Pages 4-6 Calendar • Page 7 Youth/Education • Pages 8, 11 LEC report • Page 13 Garage sales • Page 13 Health • Pages 14-15

Deaths • Page 16 Church services • Page 17 Sports • Pages 19-26 Farm section • Pages 28-29 Classified ads • Pages 31-33 June Jaunt calendar • Page 34

SCHS relays have a great weekend in 4A state track meet Page 19

Intern begins summer duties for Extension

Tayla Cannella will be the summer intern for the Scott County Extension office.

A native of Calhan, Colo., in southwest Colorado, she is a senior at Ft. Tayla Hays State Cannella University where she is majoring in animal science.

Cannella, 21, has hopes of working with a county 4-H program and livestock upon graduation from FHSU in December.

“Scott County is exactly the kind of rural program where I’d like to become an agent,” says Cannella, whose family has a ranching operation.

She was involved in 4-H for 13 years.

While in Scott County, Cannella will accompany 4-Hers to Rock Springs Ranch and on their annual rafting trip.

The 4-Hers will also be taking their annual Blue Award trip to a water park in Great Bend or Hays.

Cannella will be organizing the 4-H day camp at Lake Scott State Park on June 24.

“I’m really impressed with the 4-H program in Kansas,” she noted.

“There’s a lot of community involvement and a lot more opportunities for the youth.”

Resign full-fledged search for someone else.”

Davis doesn’t feel the district’s financial situation will be a major hurdle in attracting candidates.

“We’ve already done the heavy lifting for next year,” he said, referring to budget cuts. “The bigger issue is a general lack of administrators. From what we’ve been told there are still a lot of unfilled (administrative) positions around the state.

“We have a strong administrative staff in place

Jaunt

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and we have a reputation as a quality school district that I feel will be assets in bringing potential candidates to Scott City,” Davis added.

Several Resignations The district has a slight head start in filling the vacancy created by Howard, who had been SCMS principal for the past two years. Howard has been hired as a middle school principal in the Fort Scott school district.

“Ever since it hit the

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rumor mill that Jim was leaving we’ve had inquiries about the middle school position,” noted Davis.

Other resignations accepted by the board on Monday included: •Samantha Chacon resigned as an English as a Second Language (ESL) para at SCHS to begin student teaching in SCES. •Jennifer Eitel resigned as a second grade teacher.

•Jodi Reese resigned as SCHS assistant crosscountry coach.

•Chuck Ellis retired as SCHS art teacher.

Hired by the District New staff members for the 2014-15 school year include: •Deneen Wolfe will be the district treasurer starting July 1.

•Elise Neri is the wrestling cheerleading sponsor.

•Alex Hermosillo will be the assistant crosscountry coach.

•Heather Holstein will be head coach for SCMS volleyball.

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City-Wide Garage Sale If you’re looking for a chance to do some final spring cleaning - or searching for bargains - there will be garage sales throughout Scott City on Sat., June 7.

A list of participants will be available at the Chamber office.

Shoppers can also find savings during the sidewalk sale sponsored by local merchants from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

There will be another fund-raising meal in Patton Park to benefit Relay for Life on Saturday starting at 6:30 p.m.

Museum Programs The El Quartelejo Museum and Jerry Thomas Gallery will give a program, “Famous Folks of Scott County” on June 7-8, at 2:00 p.m.

The popular history tour of Battle Canyon and the Duff buffalo ranch will be held on Sun., June 8, starting at 1:00 p.m.

We need volunteer bus drivers

to provide transportation for noon meals at the VIP Center.

You pick the days you can help. Get a free meal.

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Breakfast specials every night.

Community Living

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Know your flours for best baking results With so many folks being diagnosed with celiac disease, many of us are learning to bake with different types of flours made from grains other than wheat.

Different flour has different purposes. Flour used in baking comes mainly from wheat, although it can be milled from corn, rice, nuts, legumes, and some fruits and vegetables.

You can sometimes interchange different types of flour, but you must use the correct flour to get an optimal end product.

All-Purpose Flour All-purpose flour

a blend of hard and soft wheat; it may be bleached or unbleached. It has 8-11% protein (gluten). It is one of the most commonly used and readily accessible flours in the U.S. Unbleached flour is bleached naturally as it ages; bleached flour is chemically treated.

If the flour is bleached it will have less protein, is so it is good for dense

products such as cookies, quick bread, pie crust, pancakes and waffles.

Use unbleached flour for yeast breads, Danish pastries, strudels, éclairs, cream puffs and popovers.

The protein is what will cause the air pockets in these products to give the light and fluffy texture.

Flour should be used within eight months and kept in a sealed container to prevent bugs. I often purchase extra flour when it is on sale and put it in my freezer. Just be sure to bring to room temperature before using.

flour made from hard, high-protein wheat. It has more gluten strength and protein content than all-purpose flour. It is unbleached and sometimes conditioned with ascorbic acid, which increases volume and creates better texture.

Bread flour has 1214% protein. This is the best choice for yeast products. The packaging will tell the protein content so you can decide which flour will work best for you. Because of the high protein content, this flour should be used within several month of purchasing.

Buckwheat flour is gluBread Flour Bread flour is white ten-free which makes it a

Micala Woltje and Nathan Edgar

sity where he is pursuing a degree in political science and will graduate in May 2015. He is a cadet of the University of Kansas Army ROTC battalion and will be commissioned as an officer in the United States Army upon graduation.

An August 9 wedding is planned at the United Methodist Church, Washington.

Micala is the granddaughter of Linda Schleman, Scott City, and the late Don Schleman.

When you’re making baked goods with a high ratio of sugar to flour, this flour will be better able to hold its rise and will be less liable to collapse.

This flour is excellent for baking fine-textured cakes with greater volume and is used in some quick breads, muffins and cookies.

If you cannot find cake flour, substitute bleached all-purpose flour, but subtract two tablespoons of flour for each cup used in the recipe (if using volume measuring). Cake flour is more costly than other flours, but for a special occasion, it is well worth it.

(See FLOUR on page seven)

Elizabeth Huck and Corbin Janssen

Couple plans Aug. 9 wedding

John and Andrea Woltje, Greenleaf, announce the engagement of their daughter, Micala Dawn, to Nathan James Allen Edgar, son of Cam and Rachel McVean, Greenleaf, and Gary and Celeste Edgar, Washington.

The future bride is pursuing a bachelor of science degree in nursing from Washburn University and will graduate in December.

The future groom also attends Washburn Univer-

good choice for anybody with gluten sensitivities or celiac disease. It is packed with nutrients, readily available, easy to work with and has a nice nutty flavor. This works where you would use all-purpose flour although the end product will not be as airy.

Cake flour is fine-textured, soft-wheat flour with a high starch content.

It has the lowest protein content of any wheat flour with 8-10% protein. It is chlorinated (a bleaching process) which leaves the flour slightly acidic, sets a cake faster and distributes fat more evenly through the batter to improve texture.

Huck-Janssen to wed July 12

Mr. and Mrs. Don Zook

June 14 reception to honor Zooks on 60th anniversary

Mr. and Mrs. Don Zook will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on June 14.

Don Zook and Natalie Zink were married June 5, 1954, at the United Methodist Church, Scott City.

The couple has two childern: Tamara, Los

Angeles, Calif., and Dana Bob, Middle East.

The couple will be honored with a come-and-go recepion on Sat., June 14, 2:00-4:00 p.m., at the Larksfield Place Retirement Community Auditorium, 7373 E. 29th St., Wichita, Ks. 67226.

Lance and Irene Huck along with Troy and Julie Janssen, all of Scott City, announce the engagement of their children, Elizabeth Huck and Corbin Janssen.

The bride-to-be is a 2014 graduate of Kansas State University with a degree in music education.

She is employed as the director of bands for USD No. 327 in Ellsworth.

The prospective groom will graduate in December

from Kansas State University with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education.

Grandparents of the bride include Larry and Gwen Huck, Scott City, and the late Loyde and Anne Gerber. Grandparents of the groom include Gary and Laylene Janssen and Maxine Binns, all of Scott City.

The couple is planning a July 12 wedding in Cuchara, Colo.

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Editorial/Opinion

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editorially speaking

Coal regs:

As with water, the focus is on short-term economics

It should come as no surprise that the Brownback Administration and Congressman Tim Huelskamp, among others, are condemning the EPA for enacting tighter regulations on the release of carbon emissions into the atmosphere.

Obviously, this targets the coal industry at the same time that Brownback has given the green light for construction of a coal plant at Holcomb.

Brownback claims that the EPA mandate “disrupts the balance that must be achieved between protecting the environment and growing the economy.”

Let’s make one thing clear. The Brownback Administration is far less concerned about the environment than it is with creating economic development . . . at any cost. But it’s not just Brownback who favors short-term economic gain over long-term environmental and economic losses.

Kansas water policy has been no different than our approach to coal.

For decades we mined a limited natural resource without any regard to the long-term implications. We over-appropriated water rights and adopted a “pump to your heart’s delight” policy because it was good for the economy.

We’ll let someone else deal with the consequences.

Well, we are that someone else and we’re facing the consequences when our state’s leadership and our lawmakers lack the willpower to do what’s right. Now we’ve reached the point where delay isn’t an option and even the actions we do take are seen by many as too little, too late.

One would hope that we’ve learned from our mismanagement of our water resources and could apply those lessons to the environment. Instead, we are making the same old, tired arguments that we need to put the economy ahead of everything else.

This has ignored the fact that as the Ogallala Aquifer is depleted it will have a huge, detrimental impact on our economy. Likewise, as much as Brownback and other Republicans want to deny that climate change exists, the vast majority of scientists disagree. The impact on agriculture will be significant and unavoidable.

We’ll let someone else deal with the consequences of our own desire for short-term gain.

Political low:

GOP determining which POWs deserve to return

Just when one thinks that partisan politics can’t sink any lower we see this week that it has reached a new depth with the controversy surrounding the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the last remaining American prisoner in Afghanistan.

Yes, the return of an American prisoner is now reason for politicians and pundits on the right to condemn the Obama Administration.

This leaped past amazing and into incredulous when it comes to politics.

The U.S. military has long lived by the pledge that no man or woman in uniform will be left behind. Now the Republican right has added a new qualifier . . . “unless they deserve it.”

The right wing has claimed that Bergdahl is a deserter, that his father is now sympathetic to the Taliban and that he was a loner who grew disenchanted with army life. Maybe those things are true but, as Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, remarked, “The questions about this particular soldier’s conduct are separate from our effort to recover ANY U.S. service member in enemy captivity.”

Apparently, the right wing now believes that we must do a background check on any POW. Were they incompetent? Did they make a wrong turn?

Is their father a Muslim? Did they write some antigovernment paper while in high school?

If Bergdahl is guilty of desertion or some other military misconduct, then let the military make that determination. The right wing has no place in our justice system to insert itself as judge, jury and executioner.

No one is claiming that Bergdahl has to be declared a “hero.” An American soldier had been held captive for five years and we had an opportunity to bring him home. It’s that simple.

On the flip side of this, what would be the narrative a year or two from now as the last American soldier leaves Afghanistan and if Bergdahl has been left behind? How loud would the right wing be howling if it was known that we had an opportunity to gain his release and had refused to do so?

We already know the answer to that question.

Confronting our ADD epidemic

We have a short attention span.

Combine that with a desire to find simple answers to complicated problems and it’s little wonder that we simply move from one crisis to the next while real solutions continue to elude us.

Now that Eric Shinseki is gone as the Veterans Affairs secretary, how focused are Congress and other critics of the VA in fixing a problem that has been decades in the making? How intent are they in repairing an institution that is being overwhelmed by the impact of two wars and an influx of veterans from the Vietnam era.

With Shinseki’s departure, the politics of the VA has played out. What more is there to gain? You can’t continue to do fundraising with the promise of giving someone the boot who is already gone.

This week, the GOP is in an uproar over the release of American POW Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. Next week it will be bellowing about Michelle Obama’s efforts to get our kids to eat healthier meals. Who

knows where it will go from there.

We are experiencing a severe case of Attention Deficit Disorder.

But it’s not just a problem in Washington, D.C. It’s happening in Topeka and even in our own communities.

While some people may want to imagine otherwise, the resignation of USD 466 Supt. Bill Wilson solves nothing with respect to Scott County’s school budget.

A major reason we find ourselves in a financial hole is because the superintendent believed we’d have the money to reward our staff with pay increases and provide greater health care benefits. The money, as it turned out, wasn’t there . . . and not because of declining enrollment.

The fact is . . . and remains . . . that the state doesn’t have the money either. But they have one big

advantage. They can steal money from other sources in order to make up for the shortfall caused by misguided tax policies.

That’s why the legislature has continued to underfund public education, which has had a direct impact on schools across the state. We challenge you to find any administrator in Kansas who hasn’t had to deal with staff or program cuts in response to less money from the state.

This isn’t a Bill Wilson problem or a Scott City problem. This is a Kansas problem.

Before ADD really starts to set in, we want to warn you. It’s about to get worse.

Kansas fell $217 million short of its revenue projections for the month of May. That’s on top of a $93 million shortfall in April.

At least the Scott County board of education and its superintendent were honest about their revenue predicament and took immediate steps to deal with the situation. Gov. Sam Brownback and his administration are still living

in a fantasy world where the more you cut taxes the more revenue will flow into state coffers.

If lower taxes could be translated into instant and unimpeded growth, cities and counties would be slashing mill levies and local sales taxes. That’s not happening for good reason. They can’t do without the tax revenue - and that’s even more true as the state continues to cut the flow of tax dollars to cities, counties and school districts in response to its own selfinflicted shortfall of cash.

Unfortunately, we have too many legislators who have been drinking the taxcut kool-aid. And if you aren’t sitting at the koolaid bowl, then the rightwing political machine will make every attempt to send you packing.

Just ask former State Sen. Steve Morris (R-Hugoton) who was among 17 out of 22 moderate Republican Senate candidates defeated by Koch-funded right-wing puppets during the 2010 primary election in Kansas.

(See EPIDEMIC on page six)

Now it’s your move Congress

If you want a prime example of what’s wrong with our politics, study the response to the veterans’ health-care scandal. You would think from the coverage that the only issue that mattered to politicians was whether Gen. Eric Shinseki should be fired.

Shinseki is a true patriot, and his resignation as Veterans Affairs secretary calls Congress’s bluff.

He played his part in a Washington sacrificial ritual.

Will the politicians now be honorable enough to account for their own mistakes?

Thanks to Shinseki’s latest selfless act for his country, you can at least hope that we will move on to the underlying questions here, to wit: Why was the shortage of primary care doctors in the VA system not highlighted much earlier?

Where to Write

another view by E.J. Dionne, Jr.

Why did it take a scandal to make us face up to the vast increase in the number of veterans who need medical attention?

And why don’t we think enough about how abstract budget numbers connect to the missions we’re asking government agencies to carry out?

It’s an election year, so it’s not surprising that the Republicans are using the scandal against President Obama and the Democrats, though there is a certain shamelessness about the ads they’ve been running, given the failures of the previous administration.

Shinseki and Obama might have averted this by pushing Congress much harder, much earlier to

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give the agency the tools it needed to do right by vets.

And as a general matter, I wish Obama spent more time than he has on fixing government and improving administration.

Progressives rightly assert that active, competent government can make things better - which means they need to place a high priority on making it work better. This would include a serious engagement with civil service reform.

It’s also fair to ask why Shinseki did not move faster elsewhere, notably on what the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America called the department’s “egregious failure to process the claims of our veterans” in a timely and effective way. (For what it’s worth, I raised this concern in a column in November 2012.)

But this is where the

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story gets more complicated. Shinseki eventually made real progress on the claims issue and other inherited messes. He got little public credit, though many friends of veterans saw him as a reformer and refused to join the resignation chorus.

Both House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi deserve praise for insisting to the end that Shinseki’s departure wouldn’t solve the system’s problems.

The most important of these is not that VA employees falsified data about the excessive waiting times for veterans seeking appointments with doctors, as outrageous as this was. It is, as the New York Times reported last week, “an acute shortage of doctors, particularly primary care ones, to (See CONGRESS on page six)

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Coal plant proposal is the right step

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Even for people who don’t believe in it, climate change just got real. It’s about time.

The Obama administration’s proposed new rule for existing power plants - reducing heat-trapping carbon emissions by up to 30 percent by 2030 - is ambitious enough to get anyone’s attention.

No, this one measure will not halt or reverse human-induced warming of the atmosphere. But the rule is necessary in the context of seeking international consensus on solutions - and also significant in its own right.

Before Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy could announce the new rule Monday, critics were already bellowing about higher energy rates and lost jobs. They pretended not to see that President Obama - as with health-care reform - is taking what ought to be seen as a Republican-friendly approach.

The rule, which will not become final until next year, gives states great flexibility in how they reach the target.

They are not forced to immediately begin shutting down the aging coal-fired power plants that constitute one of the

behind the headlines

by Eugene Robinson

biggest sources of carbon pollution.

Rather, each state can take the path that best fits its circumstances - ramping up the generation of energy from renewable sources such as wind and solar, for example, or entering regional cap-andtrade agreements.

Ultimately, however, hundreds of those aging, dirty, coal-fired plants will have to close. If the planet could speak, it would say good riddance.

Many of those who do not believe in climate change also reject the idea that carbon dioxide can be called a pollutant, since it is a natural and necessary component of the air we breathe.

But direct measurement shows that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased by an astounding 40 percent since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, when humankind began burning fossil fuels in earnest.

As with any poison - or pollutant it’s the dose that counts.

This thickening pall of human-generated carbon dioxide - which traps heat, according to universally accepted principles of physics and chemistry has coincided with a long-term rise in average temperatures that agrees with climate scientists’ predictions.

The big unanswered question isn’t scientific, it’s political: Will we continue to turn up the thermostat?

The question that some skeptics like to pose - “Why should the United States take such a big step on its own?” - is meaningless when you think about it.

China is the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide. Emissions are rising sharply in India and other rapidly industrializing countries. Nothing the United States does unilaterally, or even in concert with Europe and Japan, can solve the problem. What we really need is a global solution.

All this is true, but one less ton of carbon makes a difference, however slight. Obama’s major energy initiatives - higher fuel economy standards for vehicles, plus the new power plant emissions rule - will mean billions of tons less of carbon dioxide in the air.

(See COAL on page six)

We must take on the Wall Street barons

by Jim Hightower

As we know, the barons of Wall Street have not hesitated to raid our public treasury and haul off trillions of dollars worth of government bailouts and special tax breaks to subsidize their “free market” ventures.

So guess who has been the major force pushing policymakers to slash federal spending and kill programs that improve opportunities for regular people?

Bingo - the barons! Through their lobbyists, front groups, and the politicians they’ve purchased, these highfinance royals have gained a stranglehold on policy, choking off the public investment that lifts up the poor and

middle class.

As a result, these millionaires and billionaires are shortchanging America itself, reducing our can-do spirit to their won’t-do minginess.

Think of the progress we could be making. The USA ought to have the TOP public education system, not one of the worst among wealthy nations.

Improve Obamacare to Medicare-forAll. Let’s re-establish our technological supremacy, from building the green economy of the future to reaching again into outer space.

Rather than succumbing to a bleak future of low-wage, part-time, temporary, no-security jobs, let’s publicly invest in full employment, world-class skills, and technology that works for

workers. Restore democratic power with public financing of all election campaigns, enact labor law reforms so workers themselves can democratize the workplace, and encourage the development of co-ops as an alternative to corporate control of the economy.

That’s an America that is worthy of us, an America we can build. But to do it, we must first create a new political movement that directly confronts the narcissistic nabobs who’re knocking down our people and our country. With such a movement, we can rally the increasingly-restive workaday majority to come together in a populist effort to cut off Wall Street and Re-fund America.

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

Big banks are too big to prosecute

The range of abuses and crimes committed by banks seems to grow without end. As soon as one predatory practice fades from the headlines, another appears moments later.

Remember bank payday loans, a kind of short-term lending with annual interest rates of up to 365 percent? Or how banks have steered customers into higher-cost subprime loans when they actually qualified for a regular loan?

Or how banks have changed the order of customers’ debit card transactions in order to drain their accounts and make it seem like overdraft fees have been legitimately applied?

How about mortgage fraud - falsifying mortgage applications, typically to obtain a larger loan than the borrower could handle? That practice contributed mightily to the housing crash that began seven years ago.

Even if banking misconduct no longer shocks you, a recent report on how the institutions charged with investigating and prosecuting these crimes are es-

other voices

by Fran Teplitz

sentially protecting the banks ought to rekindle the outrage.

The Justice Department’s Inspector General’s Office issued a report in March documenting the failure of government authorities to make prosecuting those responsible for the massive mortgage fraud a major priority.

Given that the housing crisis helped tank the U.S. economy and sent shockwaves around the world, the American people need to expect more from the Justice Department in general and the FBI in particular. Millions of us continue to suffer the consequences of greeddriven and illegal banking practices that contributed to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression while the bankers who started it all are getting off scot-free.

According to the report, the Justice Department “did not uniformly ensure

that mortgage fraud was prioritized at a level commensurate with its public statements.

For example, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Criminal Investigative Division ranked mortgage fraud as the lowest ranked criminal threat in its lowest crime category.”

The belief that large banks are too big and too complex to sue helps explain why senior banking executives from a range of financial institutions aren’t being prosecuted. Clearly, this is an ominous sign for both our financial system and our justice system.

There are two justice systems in our nation - one for average people, who can go to prison, and a separate one for bank executives. With extremely rare exceptions, they never go to prison.

In fact, just one banking executive is serving time - Kareem Serageldin. As The New York Times and ProPublica reported, prosecutors convicted Serageldin of hiding losses related to mortgage(See BIG BANKS on page six)

Kids should decide what’s best for a school lunch?

by Catherine Rampell

No taste for whole-grain bread? Let them eat cake.

Also pizza, french fries, doughnuts, chicken nuggets and whatever else American children’s prematurely cholesterol-clogged hearts desire.

I’m referring, of course, to the battle over school meals. In 2010, alarmed by the growing girth of children around the country, Congress directed the Agriculture Department to make school meals healthier. The USDA soon issued expert-recommended standards that require, for example, more vegetables and whole grains and less sodium and fat.

These changes toward less-processed foods impose costs, as you might imagine. But the new standards came with additional federal funds. They were also implemented with strong support from the School Nutrition Association, a lobbying group that represents school food professionals.

Now, four years later, the association has changed its tune and is lobbying Congress to gut the new nutritional requirements by letting districts effectively opt out of them altogether.

Judging from a House Appropriations Committee vote last week, Republicans look eager to push through the lobby’s demands.

Rest assured, the School Nutrition Association says this alimentary about-face has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that half its revenue now comes from industry sources. Or that the biggest sponsors of the organization’s most recent annual convention included PepsiCo, Domino’s Pizza, Sara Lee and Schwan Food, which reportedly sells pizzas to more than three-quarters of America’s 96,000 K-12 schools. (Pizza, remember, counts as a vegetable serving for school-meal purposes, thanks to the last time Congress decided to improve school nutritional standards.)

Or that corporate members comprise a third of participants in the association’s annual legislative conference.

No, no, no. This is not about special interests. It’s about the children and their sophisticated, freedom-loving, nanny-state-detesting palates.

Children, it seems, are unhappy about the healthier foods, leaving carrots unconsumed, applesauce uneaten, whole-grain tortillas untouched. Or at least they are in some schools; more than 90 percent of schools “report that they are successfully meeting the updated nutrition standards,” the USDA says, and the School Nutrition Association could not provide me with a comprehensive list of exactly which or even how many districts want to roll back the standards.

The lobby group has, however, trotted out a few of its members to argue that schools are better off buying the cheaper foods that students prefer (and that the association’s most munificent sponsors just happen to manufacture).

“We can’t force students to eat something they don’t want,” said Lyman Graham, food service director for school districts in and near Roswell, N.M., in a statement released by the School Nutrition Association.

Likewise: “The older students, especially, know what they want, and some days they simply don’t want a fruit or vegetable with their meals,” said Dolores Sutterfield, child nutrition director of the school district in Harrisburg, Ark., in the same news release. “At about 25 cents a serving, the mandate to serve a fruit or vegetable has us throwing away money and making kids angry with us.”

And finally: “The problem is that not all students’ taste buds are quite ready or receptive to the new meal standards,” said Lynn Harvey, chief of child nutrition services for North Carolina’s Department of Public Instruction, in a conference call last week.

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Kansas teachers are still fighting for respect

by John Schrock

“I get no respect!” was the catchphrase of comedian and actor Rodney Dangerfield. The phrase lives on for Kansas teachers.

The Kansas school funding bill ended the mandatory due-process required before experienced teachers could be fired. No respect.

When a rookie teacher just out of college begins teaching their first several years, a school could always say goodbye and not renew the contract. No reason given.

But after three or more years in a district, the school has had plenty of time to assess a teacher’s

professional skills. Thereafter, a teacher had some job security as a professional, and due process was required, a status often called “tenure.” But it never guaranteed a job forever.

Competent administrators could always get rid of an incompetent teacher.

When No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was mandated over a decade ago, some Kansas schools threw all of their resources into teaching-to-thetests. Many art and music classes were discontinued.

Those veteran “tenured” teachers lost their jobs. No respect.

And it can be worse. In eight other states, if stu-

dents’ scores on external assessment tests decline for two years in a row, a veteran teacher can be fired. No respect.

It is not just legislators and administrators who lack respect for our profession. Disrespect has been growing in American culture for decades.

In 1962, in “Anti-intellectualism in American Life,” author Richard Hofstadter described our growing public disdain for intellect and our shallow preference for mundane job training. In 2000, in “An Elusive Science,” Ellen Condliffe Lagemann detailed our growing disrespect for teachers, and how “antieducationism

Congress Epidemic

has helped to undermine the effectiveness of all aspects of education.”

This was made clear in our Kansas bill that has also relaxed licensing requirements, allowing districts to hire folks without any teacher training to teach math, engineering, science, technology, finance and accounting.

Again, no respect.

“What if you can bring a retired heart doctor into the classroom to teach biology now, which you couldn’t before? And what can that teacher do and inspire and instruct that you couldn’t do before?” said Gov. Sam Brownback.

Well, a heart doctor would not know botany and molecular biology

and microbiology and ecology for starters.

Kansas needs over 700 fully-educated biology teachers in our classrooms. But you can count the number of “retired heart doctors” who would want to work a year in a Kansas public school classroom on one hand and have five fingers left over. Our governor’s example is unreal, but the attitude is clear. Trained teachers get no respect.

My colleagues in China, where I am teaching again this summer, are aghast at this Kansas action. Whenever I walk into a classroom to lecture in China, everyone stands up. If I sit with the headmaster at the back of

a class, both of us stand along with the students when the teacher enters the room.

It makes the hair stand on the back of your neck to feel this respect. Respect that teachers deserve.

There is no way I can explain to them the disgraceful way Kansas is treating our teachers today.

Our legislators will probably get the teachers they deserve. But our children deserve better.

Rodney Dangerfield lives on for every Kansas teacher. We get no respect!

lawmakers will continue to sell their fantasy tax plan during the campaign season. But once the elections are over, reality will be impossible to ignore.

If state revenue continues to lag behind projections in November, as it’s done through May, the state will have to find money somewhere. Just in case you’re wondering where that might be, pub-

lic schools will be at the top of the hit list.

We won’t be able to blame Bill Wilson. And this pending disaster is far more important than whether our kids are being “forced” to eat more fruit or whole wheat bread.

Are you still paying attention?

John Schrock trains biology teachers and lives in Emporia

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to handle a patient population swelled both by aging veterans from the Vietnam War and younger ones who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

Dealing with this isn’t sexy, just essential.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee who wanted Shinseki to stay, is trying to push the discussion in the right direction.

A Sanders bill to expand VA funding across a wide range of areas went down in a Republican filibuster in February. The new bill he hopes will come up for a vote this week focuses specifically on the health system.

It would authorize private care for veterans facing emergencies, which is similar to a House Republican idea.

But Sanders would also broaden veterans’ access to other forms of government health care, fund 27 new VA facilities, and use scholarships or loan forgiveness to entice medical students to serve in the VA program.

Shinseki himself proposed other reforms in a speech he gave just before he quit, among them an end to incentives that have encouraged agency supervisors to produce fake information on waiting times.

If there is any cause that should be bipartisan, it’s care for our veterans.

But too often, what passes for bipartisanship is the cheap and easy stuff. It tells you how political this process has been so far that so many of the Democrats who joined Republicans in asking for Shinseki to go are in tough election races this fall.

Now that Shinseki is gone, there are no excuses for avoiding the administrative challenges that Obama needs to confront and the policy errors for which Congress must also take responsibility.

Gov. Brownback got the legislature he wanted in order to bring about what Morris described as an “ultraconservative utopia.”

While this fiscal fantasy affects everyone in Kansas, it’s our school districts who will continue to feel the greatest impact because of their limited revenue generating capacity. Cities and counties have greater flexibility in raising their

mill levies to compensate for cuts in state funding.

School districts are completely at the mercy of enrollment numbers, a convoluted student weighting formula and the legislature’s willingness to increase basic state aid (which hasn’t kept pace with the cost of living).

Within limits, school districts can raise revenue through local property tax-

Scientists consider new name for climate change

by Andy Borowitz

NEW HAVEN (The Borowitz Report) - After a report from the Yale Center on Climate Change Communication showed that the term “climate change” elicits relatively little concern from the American public, leading scientists are recommending replacing it with a new term: “You will be burnt to a crisp and die.”

Other terms under consideration by the scientists include “your cities will be ravaged by tsunamis and floods” and “earth will be a fiery hellhole incapable of supporting human life.”

Scientists were generally supportive of the suggestions, with many favoring the term “your future will involve rowing a boat down a river of rotting corpses.”

“Any of these terms would do a better job conveying the urgency of the problem,” said Tracy Klugian, a spokesperson for the newly renamed Yale Center for Oh My God Wake Up You Idiots.

Andy Borowitz is a comedian and author

Lunch

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Children, as everyone knows, are the best stewards of their own diets. Especially children in the school districts that have been vocal about wanting exemptions from the new nutritional requirements.

Just take a look at the childhood obesity rates in the areas where the three officials I quoted above work: Across North Carolina, 1-in-6 children ages 10 to 17 is obese, according to the National Survey of Children’s Health.

In one of the New Mexico counties whose schools Graham oversees, more than 20 percent of adolescents are obese, according to the state’s health department.

At campuses in Arkansas’s Harrisburg school district, obesity rates range from 26-36 percent, according to the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement.

So yes, by all means, let these kids’ delicate taste buds dictate what schools serve them and what taxpayers should subsidize - because, after all, education is all about indulging children’s whims and cravings.

Give the children what they want: cheap, processed E.J. Dionne, Jr., is a politifood.

And while we’re at it, I’m pretty sure I’ve heard cal commentator and longtime op-ed columnist for the that kids don’t like homework, either.

Washington Post Ending the nanny state can sound pretty enticing.

Especially when you’re 12.

Catherine Rampell is an opinion columnist at The Washington Post

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es - but most have reached tax limits established by the state. They also have the ability to raise a limited amount of revenue through the capital outlay fund.

These options, however, fall well short of giving districts the ability to fill the gap left by cuts in state funding. And it’s about to get worse.

You can bet that Brownback and conservative

Big Banks backed securities. The incarceration of the Egyptborn banker, formerly with Credit Suisse, doesn’t constitute justice for the 4.9 million Americans who have lost their homes to foreclosure since 2007.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), joined by Reps. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) are seeking a meeting with the Justice Department to discuss the steps it will take to prose-

Coal It is true that we cannot save the planet on our own. But it is also true that if warming-induced disaster is inevitable, it will arrive sooner if we fail to act.

Meanwhile, Chinese and Indian universities are full of scientists who are warning their own governments about the negative impacts of carbon emissions. China has already signaled its intention to move away from coal, and while this is easier said than done, Chinese officials have an added incentive: The noxious smog that shrouds major cities, most of it from coal-fired power plants, has stoked real anger among the

Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com

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cute those responsible for mortgage fraud and the need to ensure those steps reflect the seriousness of the losses faced by their constituents.

Today, banks are much more likely to pay fines than face prosecution for wrongdoing. This arrangement undercuts accountability and any incentive to change policy and behavior. The initial sting of a penalty payment, even when hefty, eventually subsides.

Given their vast profits, most fines are manageable for U.S. megabanks.

Our justice system must stop tolerating banking crimes out of fear of what prosecuting banks and bankers could do to our economy. The nation’s true, long-term interests will be served best when white-collar crime stops paying.

Fran Teplitz serves as the director of social investing and policy for Green America

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country’s burgeoning urban middle class.

In other industrializing countries as well, as people get richer they will demand a cleaner environment.

Obama hopes that action by the United States, the richest country in the world, will make it possible for the other big carbon emitters to act. Some of the domestic critics who scoff at this notion also complain that Obama, in their view, does not sufficiently assert U.S. leadership around the globe.

What do these people think leadership means, if not actually leading?

The bonus is that closing coal-fired power

plants will encourage the development of cleaner energy sources. The power generation industry was already moving toward cheap, plentiful natural gas, which releases much less carbon.

Gas should be seen as a bridge toward clean, renewable energy sources - an industry that will be huge in the 21st century.

It’s our choice. We can try our best to ensure that the next Industrial Revolution - the one that ends dependence on fossil fuels - happens here. Or we can watch it happen in China.

Eugene Robinson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and former assistant managing editor for The Washington Post

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Flour

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•Gluten flour is usually milled from spring wheat and has 12-14% protein.

It is used primarily for diabetic breads, or mixed with other non-wheat or low-protein wheat flours to produce a stronger dough structure.

•Instant flour (Wondra from Gold Medal) is granular and formulated to dissolve quickly in hot or cold liquids. It will not work as a substitute for all-purpose flour, although there are recipes on the container for popovers and other baked goods. It is used primarily in sauces and gravies.

•Organic flour is used in the same way as regular flour. It must follow USDA regulations to be labeled “organic.” Using this flour is a matter of personal preference.

•Pastry flour (cookie flour) is made with soft wheat and falls between all-purpose and cake flour in terms of protein content and baking properties.

•Rice flour (also called Mochiko on Japanese and Pirinç Unu in Turkish) is made from finely milled white or brown rice. People with certain allergies might use rice flour for cooking.

•Self-rising flour,

sometimes referred to as phosphated flour, is a lowprotein flour with salt and leavening (baking powder) already added. It’s most often recommended for biscuits and some quick breads, but never for yeast breads. Recipes that call for self-rising flour do not call for the addition of salt or leavening agents.

Because of the added salt and leavening agents, this flour needs to be used in a timely manner.

•Spelt flour is one of the most popular and widely available nonwheat flours. Spelt flour has a nutty and slightly sweet flavor, similar to that of whole wheat flour.

It does contain gluten and is a popular substitute for wheat in baked goods.

•Teff flour is an ancient and intriguing grain, tiny in size yet packed with nutrition. It is simple to prepare and similar to millet or quinoa in cooking. Teff is a great addition to your diet for nutrition, taste and variety.

It is higher in protein than wheat and has a high concentration of a wide variety of nutrients, including calcium, thiamin and iron. The iron from teff is easily absorbed by the body.

It is very high in fiber and is thought to benefit people with diabetes as it helps control blood sugar levels.

Teff contains no gluten which makes it a suitable grain for celiacs or people with wheat sensitivities.

Due to its nutritional content and energy enhancing properties, it has also gained favor with athletes.

•Whole-wheat flour is higher in dietary fiber and overall nutrient content than white flours. It does not have as high a gluten level, so often it’s mixed with all-purpose or bread flour when making yeast breads. It’s best to store whole wheat flour in the refrigerator or freezer or it will spoil in just a few months.

There are many more types of flour out there.

If you have any questions call me.

Proper Storage It is recommended that flours be stored for no more than six months. The main change that occurs is the oxidation of oils when flour is exposed to air. The result of this is rancid offflavors.

During hot weather, store flour in the refrigerator. Flour should be

stored, covered, in a cool and dry area. This prevents it from absorbing moisture and odors and from attracting insects and rodents. Freezing flour for 48 hours before it is stored will kill any weevil or insect eggs already in the flour.

Do not store flour near soap powder, onions or other foods and products with strong odors.

Flour repackaged in airtight, moisture-proof containers and stored in a freezer at zero degrees can keep for several years.

Flour labeled “presifted” was sifted before packaging, but it compacts during shipping and therefore is no longer sifted by the time you get it home. So if your recipe calls for sifted flour make sure you sift it again.

If your recipe calls for one cup sifted flour this means you sift the flour before measuring. Too much flour will result in a tough and/or heavy baked good.

In general, the longer flour is stored the more moisture it loses. This is why on a dry day using old flour your pastry will require more water than on a wet day using new flour.

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Meditation Moments @ Bryan Conference Center, 7:00 p.m.

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LEMA voting @ Wm. Carp. Bldg., 9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

RFL dinner/ceremony @ Area 96, 5:30 p.m.

SCHS Boy’s BB camp, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

SCHS Boy’s BB camp, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

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St. Joseph Parish Center 7:00 p.m.

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$171,000 in scholarships to SCHS grads Seniors at Scott Community High School were awarded more than $171,000 in scholarships and awards for the 201415 academic year.

Honors include: State of Kansas Awards Kansas State Scholars Curriculum Completers: Jordann Becker, Cole Birney, Andrew Brown, Taylor George, Cassidy Hornbostel, Brayden Strine, Mariah York.

Kansas State Scholars: Jordann Becker, Taylor George, Brayden Strine, Mariah York.

Exceptional Academic Performance Awards: Taylor George, Brayden Strine.

Local Scholarships Alpha Omega Sorority Scholarship: $1,000 each to Paco Banda, Alex Burnett, Holly Wilcoxson, Jordann Becker, Chloe Kuffler, Matt Tuttle, Austin Beaver, Cole Birney, Alex Snyder and Marissa Morris.

American Legion Lester Reid Post #183: $1,000 each to MariKate Crouch, Ellie Irwin and Lane Turner.

Doornbos Family Scholarship: Mariah York, $1,000.

FFA of Scott City Scholarships: $500 each to Austin Beaver and Aubrey Davis.

First National Bank of Scott City Scholarships: $250 each to Brayden Strine, Kelly Wycoff, Jordann Becker, Chloe Kuffler and Taylor George.

Phyllis Kamp Memorial Scholarship: Kelly Wycoff, $1,000.

Masonic Lodge Scholarship: Brayden Strine, $350.

Avis Murphy Memorial Farm Bureau Scholar-

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ships: $250 each to Bailey Nickel and Marissa Morris.

PEO Chapter AW of Scott City Scholarships: $500 each to Jordann Becker and Chloe Kuffler.

Scott City Quilt Guild Scholarships: $250 and a quilt each to Diana Rodriguez, Paco Banda, Kelly Wycoff, Steven Fisher, MariKate Crouch, Alex Snyder, Ellie Irwin and Zach Steffens.

VFW post #7773 Scholarship: Ellie Irwin, $1,600 ($400/year).

XI Delta Kappa Sorority Scholarship: Alex Snyder, $250.

Scott Community Foundation Scholarships Brett K. Todd Memorial Scholarship: Joshua Yeager, $400.

Animal Health International Scholarship: Aubrey Davis, $500.

William L. Dryer Memorial Scholarship: Andrew Brown, $500.

SC College Fund Scholarship: Calvin Jarmer, $500.

Security State Bank Scholarships: $500 each to Kelly Wycoff and Christopher Green.

Ruby Wilkens Music Scholarships: $600 each to Jordann Becker and Lane Turner.

Albert and Dee Hoeme Memorial Scholarship: $1,000 each to Warren Kropp and Krissa Dearden.

Glenn J. Novak Memorial Scholarship: $1,000 each to Aubrey Davis and Rachel Anliker.

Hildred and Raymond Armantrout Scholarships: $4,000 each to Taylor George and Kelly Wycoff.

Everett Hueftle Scholarships: $1,000 each to

MariKate Crouch, Marissa Morris, Rachel Anliker, Jordann Becker, Ellie Irwin and Alex Burnett. $1,500 each to Taylor George and Steven Fisher.

Woodrow and Loyal Hoffman Scholarships: $5,000 each to Aubrey Davis and Brayden Strine.

Special Awards “Wall of Fame” Awards: Warren Kropp (football); Kelly Wycoff (Track).

State Football Champions (Class 3A): Calvin Jarmer and Austin Beaver.

Boy’s State Basketball Champions 2012: Calvin Jarmer.

2013: Chris Pounds, Brayden Strine and Calvin Jarmer.

KSHSAA Citizenship Awards: Marissa Morris and Warren Kropp.

Dale Dennis Excellence in Education Award: Taylor George.

KSU Outstanding Senior in Math and Science Award: Taylor George, $100.

Community Service Award: Taylor George, $100.

Kansas 4-H Foundation “Winter Family Grant”: MariKate Crouch, $750.

Kansas High School Rodeo association “L and P Enterprises Effort and Reward Scholarship: MariKate Crouch, $500.

Kansas High School Rodeo Scholarship: MariKate Crouch, (amount announced in June).

Frontier Farm Credit Association “Academic Rodeo Team” Scholarship: MariKate Crouch (amount announced in June).

National FFA Scholarship “Dan Brenner Ford Scholarship”: Au-

brey Davis, $1,000.

St. Joseph’s Knights of Columbus Scholarship: $500 each to Jordann Becker, Alex Burnett, Taylor George, Diana Rodriguez and Aubrey Davis.

United Methodist Church “Dollar’s for Scholars” Scholarship: Krissa Dearden, $3,000.

Western Kansas Manufacturing Association Award: Steven Fisher, $500.

Institutional Awards Butler Community College, El Dorado: Paco Banda, Presidential academic scholarship, (books and tuition); Riley Hawker, Deans academic scholarship, ($500/semester); Calvin Jarmer, Academic scholarship, ($500/semester).

Colby Community College, Colby: Marissa Morris, Music scholarship, (Chorus) ($1,000), Music scholarship (Band) ($750).

Concordia University, Seward, Nebr: Warren Kropp, Regents scholarship, ($14,000/year), Athletic award (Wrestling) ($3,000/year).

Dodge City Community College, Dodge City: MariKate Crouch, Athletic award (Rodeo) (books and $500), Academic athletic award ($500); Matthew Tuttle, Athletic award (Football walk-on).

Emporia State University, Emporia: Zach Steffens, ACT scholarship ($1,200).

Fort Hays State University, Hays: Zach Glass, Fort Hays Copper award ($500), Academic opportunity award (Computer Science) ($1,000); Ellie Irwin, Fort Hays Copper award ($500), Academic

opportunity award (Allied Health) ($250); Chloe Kuffler, Miller Black and Gold award ($600/semester); Megan Thornburg, Fort Hays Copper award ($500), Academic opportunity award (Allied Health) ($250), Athletic award (Cross Country/ Track) ($500); Kelly Wycoff, Fort Hays Merit award ($800), Academic opportunity award (Health and Human Performance) ($500), Athletic award (Track) (amount unknown at this time).

Garden City Community College, Garden City: Leah Artz, Music award (Band) (tuition); Abigail Hernandez, Student activities committee scholarship (books and tuition); Anahi Olivas, College and Career day scholarship drawing ($400); Ana Retamoza, Commerce Bank scholarship ($500); Alex Snyder, Athletic award (Yell leading) (books and tuition), Music award (Choir) ($500).

Hutchinson Community College, Hutchinson: Andrew Brown, Athletic award (Yell leading) (books and tuition), Presidential scholarship ($1,500); Bailey Nickel, Athletic award (Volleyball) (books and tuition); Diana Rodriguez, Ambassador’s scholarship (books and $420).

Kansas State University, Manhattan: Rachel Anliker, Leadership scholarship ($4,000), KSU legacy award ($1,000); Jordann Becker, Foundation scholarship ($4,750), Music scholarship (Marching Band) ($500), Music scholarship (Outstanding Musician award) ($250); Evan Cardenas, Leadership scholarship ($1,500),

KSU Army ROTC or Army Reserves; Aubrery Davis, Achievement award ($2,500), KSU legacy award ($1,000), KSU College of Agriculture award ($250); Cassidy Hornbostel, KSU Medallion scholarship ($2,000), Proud to be a Wildcat award ($500); Brayden Strine, Henry J. Putnam scholarship ($8,000), Future Chemist award ($1,250); Lane Turner, Music scholarship (Vocal) ($2,000); Mariah York, Foundation scholarship ($3,250), First in Class scholarship ($750).

Kansas Wesleyan University, Salina: Krissa Dearden, Pioneer scholar/activity scholarship($10,000), Athletic award (Volleyball).

Northwest Kansas Technical College, Goodland: Steven Fisher, From Scott City scholarship ($500).

Sterling College, Sterling: Christopher Green, Presidential scholarship ($10,000), Music scholarship (Choir) ($1,000), Ministry team scholarship ($1,000), Alumni award ($500).

University of Kansas, Lawrence: Taylor George, KU Chancellor’s scholarship ($5,000), KU Dean’s scholarship ($2,500), KU Aerospace Engineering scholarship ($1,000).

Wichita State University, Wichita: Cole Birney, Merit scholarship ($8,000), Emory Lindquist honors scholarship ($2,000).

United States Military United States Marine Corps: Mel Turley, Scout Sniper.

United States Navy: Jamie Dyer, Machinist Mate.

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Privatization initiative offers look into Gov. Brownback’s inner circle A blend of politics, policy and procurement Dave Ranney Mike Shields KHI News Service

Soon after Gov. Sam Brownback’s inauguration, his then-chief of staff David Kensinger sat down for a private meeting with his recent lobbying firm partner, Matt Hickam; a Cabinet secretary, Rob Siedlecki; and a Brownback campaign contributor seeking to expand his company’s business in Kansas.

The brief meeting of political insiders was held in a refurbished Kansas Statehouse vault where state bonds once were safeguarded..

The two-story vault now serves as a small conference room for the Capitol’s second-floor governor’s suites in the west wing.

Purpose of the meeting, held soon after Brownback was inaugurated in 2011, was to introduce the players and give the government contractor an opportunity to talk about his multi-state operations and the virtues of privatization as applied to child support enforcement.

Rob Wells, the contractor, is - according to some who know him - a smart, personable Mississippi lawyer and shrewd businessman who said he met Brownback and Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer before they took office at an out-ofstate fundraising event for Republican governors and gubernatorial candidates that included then-Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour.

Wells said he happened to sit at the same dining table with Brownback and Colyer at the fundraising event. Child support enforcement was among the topics discussed that night. He said the governor impressed him with his apparent grasp of the subject.

“I’ve made it a habit of meeting governors in states where I was in business,” Wells said in a recent interview. “I think it’s currently in 12 states, though I’ve done business in four or five others, and really - when you get down to it - we either do business or are seeking to do business in every state.

So, we deal with people at various levels all over the country.”

Knowing the Lobbyists At the time, Barbour was chairman of the Republican Governor’s Association, a so-called 527 or SuperPAC. It spent more than $113 million in states across the country in 2010, helping GOP gubernatorial candidates.

Barbour had a successful career as a Washington, D.C., “megalobbyist” before and after serving two terms as Mississippi’s chief executive and is still sometimes described as the “godfather” of Mississippi politics.

Editor’s Note: This account of how child support enforcement came to be fully privatized in Kansas does not allege scandal or malfeasance; nor does it confirm none occurred. But it provides details of the sort rarely reported about the operations of Kansas government and the links among campaigns, politics, lobbyists and policy. For some, it may raise questions about the fairness and openness of the process and what it takes to influence it.

This story also explains how Kansas became the “first state in the nation” to implement “full-service” privatization of its child support enforcement functions border to border.

The initiative required major policy and operational changes, but they happened with no meaningful public discussion of their potential drawbacks or benefits.

In Mississippi, the other state where a similar, largescale child support initiative recently was approved, the Legislature was involved and the public debate was substantial.

At one point during arguments in the Mississippi House - where the measure passed 59-57 - Rep. Steve Holland, a Democratic funeral director from Planterville, said: “Somebody on high knows who’s going to get this business. In the funeral business, we’d call this a prearranged funeral. That stinks. I don’t care who the governor is, it stinks.”

That public debate did not happen in Kansas. The process here occurred behind the scenes and didn’t draw any significant public attention until the contracts were inked and the system realignment was in motion.

Part One Another person at the meeting in the Statehouse vault was lobbyist Austin Barbour, Haley Barbour’s nephew, who is prominent in GOP circles as a former adviser to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign.

Austin Barbour came to the meeting with Wells, a fellow Mississippian and lobbying client.

Wells said that after meeting Brownback at the Republican governors’ event, and seeing his apparent interest in child support enforcement, “I came back to Mississippi and talked to Austin . . . and said I think there’s a possibility that Kansas might be interested in doing something to advance its child support system, which, frankly, was awful. Austin said he knew a guy (in Kansas) named Matt Hickam.”

According to filings with the Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office, Wells paid Austin Barbour a $67,500 retaining fee to represent him in 2011.

Hickam said he arranged the meeting so that Wells could meet key members of the new administration even though the businessman hadn’t yet hired him to be Kansas lobbyist for his company, YoungWilliams Child Support Services.

According to disclosure filings, Hickam’s representation of the firm began Feb. 24, 2011.

Hickam said he arranged the gathering so that Wells could meet members of the new administration, but he didn’t remember much else about it.

“I remember that it happened,” he said.

“As a native Kansan, I was hired to provide information about the state and I guess that was helpful to the client,” Hickam said of his subsequent work for YoungWilliams, a company he continues to represent.

Unlike Mississippi, Kansas does not require lobbying clients to report the fees and costs they pay for the services.

Wells said he remembered his presentation in the vault as being moreor-less routine, in that it was similar to others he had given to officials in states across the country.

“Basically, what I was explaining was several ways of going about addressing the problem (of a poor performing child support system), one of which is privatization, which has had some wonderful results in various places,” he said.

But at least one person in the meeting recalled feeling uncomfortable about it all.

“It appeared to be a meeting for the contractor to sell himself to the governor’s staff. No other contractor was sitting at the table.

“Was that the point?

It was uncomfortable in that one contractor had the ear of the governor’s top staff, made the sales pitch, and no other contractors were invited or in attendance,” said the person, who requested to be unnamed, citing fear of possible retribution for speaking about it.

Wells said the meeting was his first opportunity to meet Siedlecki - then secretary of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services (SRS) - and that his recollection of Kensinger from it was vague.

“I only met him once,” he said.

Kensinger, who has long been Brownback’s top political adviser, and Hickam had worked together as lobbying partners for almost seven years until Brownback was elected in November 2010 and Kensinger joined the governor’s staff as his top aide.

In a brief email, Kensinger told KHI News Service that he could not remember the meeting in the vault.

According to some sources who say they have been questioned, Kensinger and members of the new lobbying firm that he partnered in after leaving the Governor’s Office in 2012 that does not include Hickam, figure in an FBI inquiry into possible influence peddling, though the FBI will not confirm that.

Influence peddling is commonly defined as the illegal act of using one’s influence in government or connections with people in authority to obtain favors or preferential treatment, usually in exchange for payment.

Legal experts say the difference between influence peddling and lobbying sometimes is difficult to distinguish. When criminal charges are filed in connection with influence peddling cases, they often include counts of bribery.

Neither Kensinger nor any of his current or former lobbying partners have been charged with a crime to date.

Next week: Privitization moves forward

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RFL to honor caregivers

Cancer survivors and their caregivers will be recognized during an American Cancer Society dinner and ceremony on Wed., June 11, 5:30 p.m., at Area 96 (308 W. 5th St.), Scott City.

The event is being coordinated by the Scott County Relay for Life.

All persons planning to attend are asked to RSVP to Jamie Parkinson (874-5866), or e-mail jamie.parkinson@cancer.org; or Roni Heili (8748427), or e-mail heiliveronica@icloud.com.

The annual Relay for Life will be held in Scott City on Fri., June 20.

RFL bake sale is Friday

The Scott County Relay for Life will be sponsoring a bake sale on Fri., June 6, 8:00 a.m. to noon, in the park next to Networktronic in downtown Scott City.

Summer hours for museum

Summer hours have begun at the El Quartelejo Museum and Jerry Thomas Gallery and Collection in Scott City.

Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. through the Labor Day weekend. Special tours can be arranged if staff is available by calling the museum (872-5912) or Dennie Siegrist (874-1559).

Dance at VIP Center June 13

“The Craig Stevens Band” will be performing at the Scott County VIP Center on Fri., June 13, 7:30-10:00 p.m.

Anyone needing more information can contact Todd Steele (872-2884) or Lavera King (8723564).

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moved two trailers into an appropriate area.

“Except for (the fence) to my knowledge it’s all done,” Turley told the council.

Looking over photos of the sites taken earlier that day, Mayor Dan Goodman noted Turley still needed to do something with an old van and a trailer home frame which hadn’t been moved.

“The frame will become a flatbed trailer,” Turley said. “I’ll move it inside the fence so I can finish building it.”

It was acknowledged that the frame had been moved out of the front yard on Myrtle Street and was now behind the trailer which has been skirted by Turley.

“You’ve made great strides,” Goodman said, “but it’s still not done.”

The mayor said he would like to see some paperwork from public service officer Richard Ford that says the clean-up has been completed to the city’s satisfaction.

“It’s a heckuva improvement,” Councilman Fred Kuntzsch agreed. “I appreciate the effort. I think the matter is ready to be closed if Richard gives the okay.

It looks a lot better than a lot of yards around town. To me, it’s done.”

Wheat

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stands “were better than we’ve seen in recent years.”

But that moisture was limited to the surface and there was little, if any, subsoil moisture to sustain the wheat when it emerged from dormancy this spring.

“We’re seeing higher abandonment rates than we’ve seen in a long time,” said Shroyer. “A lot of farmers are baling (the wheat) for hay.”

Not all of the news is gloomy, however. Shroyer came across a Wichita County farmer who felt he had some dryland fields that might reach 40 bushels per acre.

“I’m guessing those were fallow fields,” Shroyer noted. “Any field that’s continuous wheat which is west of Great Bend is in dire straights.”

Rains Offer Hope It’s not that farmers have completely given up hope.

There have been numerous rainfall reports across the region over the past week, including Scott, Lane and Wichita counties.

“These rains could be enough to save some of the wheat,” says Wet Walnut Creek Extension Agent Chris Long, though he’s quick to add they may not add significantly to yields.

“Some fields may gain a couple of bushels (per acre) because the heads will fill out a little better.”

The rain came too late for a number of producers who already had their

wheat released by insurance adjusters because the stands were so thin it wasn’t worth harvesting.

Some of these producers are planting corn or beans in those same fields and hoping for a fall crop.

“I was surprised in some instances that there was enough soil moisture. We’re seeing crops emerge, but that’s because of the recent rains,” Long says. “The big question is whether there will be enough moisture to carry these crops through July and August.

“Some guys are holding off planting milo because of the lack of moisture.”

In a growing number of fields where yields will be pretty dismal, farmers will leave the wheat in order to provide ground cover.

Long expects to see more of that occurring over the next few weeks.

“We’ve seen so much soil blowing in the last couple of months that you definitely want some cover,” he adds.

Regardless of the recent rain, Long feels this will be the area’s poorest wheat crop he’s seen over the past five years. That’s no surprise given the continuing drought that has taken its toll on subsoil moisture.

“The grain is filling out now,” he noted. “Most of the wheat is in the milk stage and, this week, is moving more toward the dough stage. By this time you’ve probably got all that you’re going to get, no matter how much rain we get.”

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Award Davis $1,000 FFA scholarship

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Aubrey Davis, a spring graduate of Scott Community High School, was among 83 FFA members awarded $1,000 scholarships during the 86th annual Kansas FFA state convention on May 29.

She is the daughter of Kevin and Brenda Davis, Scott City.

The Built Ford Tough FFA Scholarship Program recognizes FFA members’ talents and accomplishments while encouraging their future academic achievements.

“We’re proud to recognize these student leaders for their growth in the FFA and passion for the agriculture industry,” said Daryl Simmons, Kansas FFA Association reporter.

Four area students are NCKTC grads

Youngsters anxiously wait for ping pong balls to be jettisoned through a tube that is being heated as one of the many experiments offered by the “mad scientist” during the opening night of the summer reading program at the Scott County Library. Assisting the scientist is Ashliegh Hickert. About 60 youngsters were on hand for the program that kicks off a number of science-based activities throughout the summer which will be sponsored by the library.

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Four students from Scott and Lane counties have earned degrees or certification from North Central Kansas Technical College.

NCKTS has its main campus in Beloit with a satellite campus in Hays.

Area graduates include: Scott City: Tadd Gertschitz, general business (AAS degree) and business management (certificate), Hays campus; Matt Gamble, electronic engineering technology (AAS degree), Beloit campus Dighton: Zach Birney, residential electricity (certificate), Hays campus; Dylan Larsen, residential electricity (certificate), Hays campus.

138 earn second semester honors at SCMS

There were 138 students earning year-end academic honors at Scott City Middle School.

The list of honor students included 71 who were on the Platinum list for maintaining a 4.0 grade point average.

Other honor lists are Gold (3.75-3.99), Silver (3.5-3.74) and Bronze (3.0-3.49).

Honor roll students include: Platinum Honor List Eighth: Brenda Aguirre, Kayla Appel, Trella Davis, Emily Glenn, Dexter Gooden, Jynessa Hor-

ney, Conner LeBeau, Abbigail Prochnow, Emily Smith, Makaela Stevens.

Seventh: Cindy Araiza Catano, Karina Ayala, Dulce Ayala Chanez, Jera Drohman, Marshall Faurot, Wyatt Hayes, Irit Sanchez, Jack Thomas, Jose Trejo, Parker Vulgamore, Hallie Wiechman, Kaitlyn Wolkensdorfer.

Sixth: William Cupp, Cynthia Gonzalez, Cale Goodman, Lanae Haupt, Morgan Irwin, Blake Koehn, Abbigail LeBeau, Kylee Logan, Diego Lopez, Gabrielle Martinez, Andrew Prochnow, Jacy

Rose Madison Shapland, Rosa Trejo, Piper Wasinger, Emily Weathers, Kaden Wren.

Fifth: Gisselle Aguirre-Apodaca, Lizette Bejarano Anchondo, Allison Brunswig, Kaely Capps, Joshua Culp, Connor Cupp, Ryan Cure, Justin Davis, Adam Elder, Loren Faurot, Isaac Fernandez, Sophia Garrison, Kevin Gonzalez, Brooke Hoeme, Harrison King, Paige Prewit Joshua Rosin, Claire Rumford, Sawyer Stevens, Landon Trout, James Turner, Megan Vance, Paige Vulgamore.

Gold Honor List Eighth: Dexter Gooden, Jalynn Habiger, Ashley Prewit.

Seventh: Dakota Briggs, Stacy Dominguez-Peregrino, Katelyn Forred, Aubriana Gutierrez, Miles Haire, Kally Kough, Aspyn Nix, Aly Tarango-Fernandez.

Sixth: Adon’dre Allen, MaKenna Ashmore, Madelyn Forred, Brian Galaviz, Parker Gooden, Braylin Heim, Kevin Herman, Amanda Lara, Jackson Lewis, Shelby Patton, Lillian Pepper, Isidro Ponce, Brandon Winderlin.

Fifth: Roberto Apodaca-Armendariz, Samantha Castillo, Alyssa Chorak, Colton Cupp, Daniela Garcia, Taylor Heili, Lorelei Johnson, Easton Lorg, Manuel Loya-Varela, Ashlynne Oswald, Peyton Samms, Aamyiah Unger.

Silver Honor List Eighth: Trenedy Beaton, Tasha Dearden, Jade Heim, Porter Irwin, Zoey Majors, Katie McGonagle, Dallie Metheney, Olivia Prieto, Kaitlyn Roberts, Adrian Ruelas, Austen Turner.

Seventh: Tatyana Castillo, Dale Donecker,

Molly Eikenberry, Emily Parkinson, Vicky Ruiz Velasco, Ashley Serrano Gonzalez, Allison Smith, Alyssa Storm, Theron Tucker, Jasmine Zapata.

Sixth: Samantha Aguilar, Aleczander Berry, Samuel Irwin, Connor Jameson, LiliAnn Johnson, Alonso Martinez, Delia Martinez, Victor Martinez, Fox Morris, Jessica West, Hunter Yager, Maricio Zarate.

Fifth: Brady Barnes, Kalacia Carter, Gustavo Rivero, Anastasia Rojas, Brooke Sherwood, Olivia Wagner, Taia Waldrop.

Anliker performs with Kansas State choir in tour of France Rebekah Anliker, senior in elementary education, Scott City, joined choir members from Kansas State University for a week in France, performing at such noted

venues as Normandy and the Notre Dame Cathedral.

On May 20, the choir sang at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer,

which overlooks Omaha Beach, one of the June 6, 1944, D-Day landing sites.

Two members of the group placed a wreath

at the memorial to help commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day. On May 23, the choir was featured at Eglise La Madeleine in Paris, and on May 24, the group

participated in the evening mass at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

The group also enjoyed sightseeing at the Peace Memorial Museum in Caen, at various sites in

Paris, including the Eiffel Tower, Trocadero, Arc de Triomphe, Place de la Concorde, the Latin Quarter and the Louvre, and at Versailles Palace outside of Paris.

For the Record Financial advice for new (and old) fathers The Scott County Record

Jason Alderman

Each year when Father’s Day rolls around, I’m reminded that I wouldn’t trade the experience of raising my two kids for the world. But when I think back to how naïve my wife and I once were about the costs of raising children, I can’t help wishing we’d been better prepared.

If you’re a new dad, or about to become one, you’d better sit down.

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According to the USDA, a typical middle-income family can expect to spend over $241,000 to raise a newborn child until age 18 - and that doesn’t even include prenatal care or college costs.

Right now, you’re probably more worried about getting enough sleep than funding your retirement. But at some point, you’ll need to plot out a financial roadmap to ensure your family’s future financial security.

As one dad to another, here are a few strategies I’ve learned that can help: •Start saving ASAP. It’s hard to save for the future when your present expenses are so daunting, but it’s important to start making regular contributions to several savings vehicles, even if only a few dollars at a time: •Establish an emergency fund with enough cash to cover at least six months of living expenses.

Start small by having $25 or $50 a month deducted from your paycheck and automatically deposited into a separate savings account.

•Even if retirement is decades away, the sooner you start saving and compounding your interest, the faster your savings will grow.

If your employer offers 401(k) matching contributions, contribute at least enough to take full advantage of the match.

T-WORKS ramping up for busy season As the state’s T-WORKS transportation program moves into its middle years, this will be one of the busiest construction seasons of the 10-year program By late fall, when most work winds down for winter, crews will have worked on hundreds of projects this season that have a combined cost of nearly a billion dollars. That includes work on T-WORKS’ two largest projects - the Johnson County Gateway and the South Lawrence Trafficway.

Total cost of the Gateway is $298 million and cost of the South

2014 construction season by the numbers 218 Projects 1,790 Miles being improved 166 Bridges being improved $973 million Total costs of projects T-WORKS completed through March 2014 Projects 968 Lettings $2.2 billion Miles of work 7,567 Bridges 475 Modal (Rail, aviation and transit) $59 million

Lawrence Trafficway is $186 million.

“This is one of the biggest years of T-WORKS, which means hundreds of construction workers on the job, a lot of work for businesses that supply and service the construction industry, and tens of millions of dollars

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thur., May 29, 2014; last published Thur., June 12, 2014.)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF H. EDWIN CHENEY A/K/A HOWARD EDWIN CHENEY AND HOWARD CHENEY, deceased No. 13-PR-05 NOTICE OF HEARING THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are notified that a petition has been filed in this Court by Lauretta P. Cheney, duly appointed, qualified and acting Executrix of the Estate of H. Edwin Cheney, deceased, requesting that Petitioner’s acts be approved; account be settled and allowed; the heirs be determined; the Will be construed and the Estate be assigned to the person entitled thereto; the Court find the allowances requested for attorney’s fees and expenses

are reasonable and should be allowed; the costs be determined and ordered paid; the administration of the Estate be closed; upon the filing of receipts the Petitioner be finally discharged as the Executrix of the Estate of H. Edwin Cheney, deceased, and the Petitioner be released from further liability.

You are required to file your written defenses to the petition on or before June 19, 2014, at 4:00 p.m. in the District Court, in Scott City, Scott County, Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard. Should you fail to file your written defenses, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the petition.

Lauretta P. Cheney, Executor Jake W. Brooks Attorney for Petitioner 101 E. 6th PO Box 664 Scott City, Ks. 67871 620-872-7204

29, 2014; last published Thur., June 12, 2014.)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ALTA JEANNINE SCHMIDT, deceased Case No. 2014-PR-14 NOTICE OF HEARING AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS You are hereby notified that on the 21st day of May, 2014, a Petition was filed in this Court by Gary G. Schmidt, an heir of Alta Jeannine Schmidt, deceased, praying: That descent be determined of the following described personal property owned by the decedent: Pioneer Fund A, Account

Kansas real estate owned by decedent at the time of her death.

You are required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 21st day of June, 2014, at 3:30 o’clock p.m., in said Court, in the City of Scott City, in Scott County, Kansas, at which time and place said cause will be heard. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

Gary G. Schmidt, Petitioner WALLACE, BRANTLEY & SHIRLEY 325 Main Street - P.O. Box 605 Scott City, Kansas, 67871 Attorneys for Petitioner

pumped into local economies,” said Gov. Sam Brownback.

T-WORKS is an $8 billion program that was passed by the 2010 Legislature.

The heavy work schedule will mean a lot of orange barrels and a lot of

Add cell phone to no-call list

Kansans with their land line telephones on the No Call list have enjoyed improved privacy for more than a decade.

Last year, the Kansas Attorney General’s office obtained judgments against 16 telemarketers who violated the No-Call Act with total penalties of $3.4 million.

The Act now covers cell phones in Kansas.

Starting July 1, if a telemarketer calls a cell phone number on the No Call list, the AG’s office can take action (unless, of course, one of the exceptions in the law applies).

To register your cell phone on the no-call list visit the Kansas AG’s website at www.

InYourCornerKansas.org and click on the “Register Public Notice for the Do Not Call List” (First published in The Scott #902088057 and all real and button or call (888) 382County Record, Thur., May personal property and any 1222.

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men and women working very close to traffic.

“I know road construction is frustrating for drivers, but please focus first on the people doing the work, respect their space and understand that they want to go home to their families at the end of the day just like you do,” said Transportation Secretary Mike King.

“It might be hard to appreciate this when you’re stopped in a line of traffic, but we are fortunate to live in a state where citizens and leaders understand the value of a world-class transportation system,” Secretary King said.

•Once those two accounts are well established, open a 529 Qualified State Tuition Plan to start saving for your children’s education.

•If funding these accounts seems impossible, look for a few luxuries you could cut from your budget for six months lattes, eating out, premium cable, etc. After six months, evaluate whether they were actual “needs” or simply “wants” you can live without.

Get Insured •If your family depends on your income, you must be prepared for life’s unexpected events, whether an accident, illness, unemployment or death. Get adequate coverage for: •Health insurance.

Everyone needs medical insurance, no matter how young or healthy.

•Homeowner/renter’s insurance. Don’t let theft, (See FATHERS on page 13)

Scott Co. LEC Report

Public Notice (Published in The Scott County Record Thurs., June 5, 2014)1t

TREASURER’S QUARTERLY STATEMENT SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS • AS OF APRIL 30, 2014

Scott City Total cash in the Scott County Treasury as of the above date Police Department $11,903,451.45 May 26: Hector Morales Sanchez was arrest- FUND FUND BALANCES ed for DUI, TOC and violating restrictions on his General .................................................................. $ 2,632,706.20 0.00 driver’s license. He was Community Development Block Grant Loan ........

Micro-Loan Revolving Loan Fund .........................

86,709.82 transported to the LEC. Alcohol Program ....................................................

1,425.05 May 30: A hit-and-run Indoor Arena Fund ................................................

2,189.65 accident was reported in Special Cemetery Equipment .................................

7,989.49 County Employee Benefits .....................................

933,125.45 the 1400 block of Myrtle County Health - M. Koehn Memorial .....................

122.67 Street.

County Health - J. Binns Memorial ........................

391.99 June 2: Benjamin County Health .........................................................

267,439.67 Wagner, driving a 1991 County Health - Bio-Terrorism ................................

22,386.06 Ford, was turning south- County Health - Special Assistance ........................

8,723.06 2,446.60 bound into the Shopko Home Health ...........................................................

8,748.99 parking lot when he struck Hospital Maintenance ..............................................

Library Maintenance ................................................

133,432.42 a stopped 2001 Dodge Library Building ........................................................

35,561.48 driven by Vivian Voth.

Noxious Weed ..........................................................

64,452.16 June 2: Jamie Marti- Special Noxious Weed Equipment ........................... 110,022.32 398.32 nez, driving a 1990 Ford, Landfill Special Equipment Sales ............................

Road and Bridge ...................................................... 1,174,534.93 backed into a 2012 Chev- Fire District ............................................................... 108,862.10 rolet owned by Emily County Public Buildings ........................................... 821,810.95 Special Highway Improvement ................................

215,517.73 Wright.

Special Road Machinery ..........................................

173,737.58 May 19: Keeon RobEquipment Reserve ..................................................

444,721.50 erts was served two war- County Bond and Interest ........................................ 1,493,294.24 rants from another county Hospital Bond and Interest ...................................... 163,581.88 294.64 while in the Scott County Sheriff Equipment Fund ...........................................

Special Law Enforcement ..........................................

8,180.83 jail.

Prosecutor Training and Assistance ...........................

5,982.39 Scott County Attorney Worthless Check Fees .................................

471.25 Sheriff’s Department Register of Deeds Technology Fund .......................... 53,692.08 May 28: 3:45 a.m. A Motor Vehicle Operating Fund ................................... 10,788.19 Zella O. Carpenter (S.A.) ............................................ 258,202.36 rollover occurred at the Zella O. Carpenter .................................................... 508,740.00 west edge of Omaha Road Oil and Gas Valuation Depletion ............................... 480,364.14 13.07 and K96 Highway involv- Keystone General .....................................................

Keystone Hall ..............................................................

13.03 ing Thomas Westerman, Scott Township General ...........................................

537.72 driving a 2012 Dodge Current Tax ............................................................... 1,183,499.17 truck, and three occupants Current Tax Interest ...................................................

917.35 in the vehicle. All were Tax Escrow Accounting ............................................. 29,799.81 transported to the Scott Delinquent Personal Property Tax ............................. 20,457.40 Redemptions .............................................................

14,820.55 County Hospital.

Commercial Motor Vehicle ........................................

32,839.56

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fire or another catastrophe leave your family without a home or possessions.

To reduce premiums, consider choosing a higher deductible.

•Life insurance. You’ll probably want coverage worth at least five to 10 times your annual pay - more, if you want to cover college costs. And don’t forget to insure your spouse’s life so you’ll be protected as well.

•Disability insurance.

Millions of Americans suffer disabilities serious enough to miss work for months or years, yet many forego disability insurance, potentially leaving them without an income after a serious accident or illness.

Ask about your employer’s sick leave and short-term disability benefits and if long-term disability is offered, consider buying it.

•Car insurance. Almost every state requires insurance if you own or drive a car, and for good reason: It protects you financially should you cause an accident or be hit by an uninsured driver. Make sure you have sufficient liability coverage to protect your net worth and income - it only takes one serious accident to wipe out your savings.

And finally, spend responsibly. If you buy things you don’t really need or can’t afford, you’ll just end up having to work longer hours to pay for them - time you could have spent watching your kids growing up.

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Motor Vehicle Registration Tax .................................. 181,173.43 Recreation Vehicle Tax ...............................................

3,928.86 Rental and Excise Tax ................................................

0.00 911 Tariff .....................................................................

16,048.44 911 Tariff - Wireless .................................................... 129,201.09 Wildlife and Parks .......................................................

5,235.95 Federal Withholding ....................................................

0.00 Judgment Fees ...........................................................

0.00 Driver’s Licenses ..........................................................

645.50 Motor Vehicle ................................................................

4,191.75 Vehicle Registration Tax Interest ...................................

1,158.58 Motor Sales Tax ............................................................. 37,922.00 State Withholding ..........................................................

0.00 Total All Funds $ 11,903,451.45 State of Kansas County of Scott

I do solemnly swear that the above statement is complete, true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief, so help me God. Lark Speer County Treasurer Subscribed to and sworn to before me this 19th day of February 2014 Alice Brokofsky Notary Public

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Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thur., May 29, 2014; last published Thur., June 12, 2014.)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MELVIN LEON KIRK aka MELVIN L. KIRK, deceased NO. 14-PR-13 NOTICE OF HEARING THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are notified that on the 22nd day of May, 2014, a Petition was filed in this Court by Thomasiana Brown, an heir of Melvin Leon Kirk aka Melvin L. Kirk, deceased, requesting Informal Administration.

You are required to file your written defenses to the Petition on or before the 19th day of June, 2014, at 4:00 p.m. in this Court, in the City of Scott City, in Scott County, Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard. Should you fail to file your written defenses, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

Thomasiana Brown, Petitioner Jake W. Brooks Attorney for Petitioner 101 E. 6th PO Box 664 Scott City, Ks. 67871 620-872-7167

ACCEPTING SEALED BIDS SCOTT CITY MUNICIPAL AIRPORT CONSTRUCT COMMUNITY HANGAR AIP Project No. 3-20-0073-15 Sealed bids subject to the conditions and provisions presented herein will be received until 11:00 am (CDT), Wednesday, July 2, 2014 and then publicly opened and read at Office of the City Clerk, for furnishing all labor, materials and equipment and performing all work necessary to: Construct Community Hangar.

Copies of the bid documents including project drawings and technical specifications are on file and may be inspected at: Evans-Bierly-Hutchison & Associates, P.A., 596 Airport Road Goodland, KS 67735 785-899-7019 Plans and specifications and wage rate decision may be obtained from the Consulting Engineer. Upon request an electronic set will be electronically delivered to the bidder.

Each proposal must be accompanied by a bid guaranty in the amount of five (5) percent of the total amount of the bid. The bid guaranty may be by certified check or bid bond made payable to City of Scott City.

Bids may be held by the City of Scott City for a period not to exceed 30 calendar days from the date of the bid opening for the purpose of evaluating bids prior to award of contract.

The right is reserved, as the City of Scott City may require, to reject any and all bids and to waive any informality in the bids received.

This project is subject to the requirements of the Davis-Bacon Act, as amended.

The Contractor is required to comply with wage and labor provisions and to pay minimum wages in accordance with the schedule of wage rates established by the United States Department of Labor.

This project is subject to the requirements of 49 CFR Part 26 Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Participation. The owner has established a contract goal of 0% percent participation for small business concerns owned and controlled by qualified disadvantaged business enterprises (DBE). The bidder shall make and document good faith efforts, as defined in Appendix A of 49 CFR Part 26, to meet the established goal.

Award of contract is also subject to the following Federal provisions: Executive Order 11246 and DOL Regulation 41 CFR PART 60 - Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Employment Opportunity DOL Regulation 29 CFR Part 5 – Davis Bacon Act DOT Regulation 49 CFR PART 29 - Government wide Debarment and Suspension and Governmentwide Requirements for Drug-free Workplace DOT Regulation 49 CFR PART 30 - Denial of Public Works Contracts to Suppliers of Goods and Services of Countries that Deny Contracts to Suppliers of Goods and Services of Countries that Deny Procurement Market Access to U.S. Contractors (Foreign Trade Restriction).

TITLE 49 United States Code, CHAPTER 501 – Buy American Preferences

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Robot links Syracuse hospital with specialists Mike Shields KHI News Service

Some small, rural Kansas hospitals are using highly sophisticated medical robots in ways that are helping ease the shortage of specialists in their areas and - in at least one instance - boosting the bottom line.

Hamilton County Hospital here was on the brink of closing little more than a year ago because of financial and staffing problems, but use of a robot has been a key factor in the facility’s dramatic turnaround, according to chief executive Bryan Coffey.

“The reports of our demise are greatly exag-

Telemedicine boosts patient volume by 40% gerated,” he said.

First order of business for Coffey when he became the administrator in June 2013 was hiring doctors for a hospital that had none. He recruited a primary care physician and a cardiologist.

Then “we brought in a telemedicine robot and started seeing a 180 (degree change). There’s been a 40 percent increase in (patient) volume and we’re consistently, month over month, 15 percent in growth,” Coffey said.

Coffey since has written a “white paper” on how small hospitals like Hamilton County’s can

Assigning chores to kids is a good thing by the American Counseling Association

Should children be assigned tasks to do around the house - their family “chores”?

While most parents would say yes, it often becomes such a hassle to get kids to do what’s asked of them that parents just let it slip. They shouldn’t.

Getting your kids to do assigned chores can be an important factor in helping them develop in positive ways. Chores are a way for a child to feel part of the family, and to gain a sense of contributing toward the family good. They provide early life lessons that make it easier for a person to feel like an active, contributing member of society later in life.

Chores are also a means for learning about responsibility and meeting expectations, skills necessary for success in school and, eventually, the workplace. Household chores may involve simple activities, like making a bed daily or helping with the family pet, but the lessons derived from successfully completing family chores carry over into later life.

Getting chores completed successfully, however, does require planning and work on the part of parents. It’s especially important to assign chores that are appropriate for a child’s age and abilities.

You want to create the opportunity for successful completion and a positive experience.

You also want to keep your expectations realistic. Act the perfectionist and find reason to criticize how every chore is completed and you’re setting your child up for failure, unable to meet your expectations. At the same time, letting your child get away with little or no effort only teaches him or her to have low expectations about his or her ability to perform.

Talk with your child about setting up a chore system. Make it clear what the child’s responsibilities are and what will be a measure of successful completion. Then develop a system of rewards for work well done that has met the agreed upon expectations. Take the time to monitor chore activities and to offer honest praise when work is done well. Don’t make the mistake of only offering criticism for efforts that fall short.

When a child can successfully complete chores and receive positive re-enforcement for doing the work well, it helps to build self-esteem and selfconfidence.

Start your child early in life to accept chores and do them well, and the result will be a confident, responsible child with stronger life skills.

“Counseling Corner” is provided by the American Counseling Association. Visit the ACA website at counseling.org

make the machines, which can easily cost $50,000 or more, a workable investment.

Hamilton County borders Colorado in southwest Kansas and has a population of about 2,700 people. The nearest major regional medical centers are in Denver and Wichita.

The robot now is being used at Hamilton County Hospital for a variety of purposes, including emergency room stroke treatment, dermatology and specialty pediatrics.

Coffey said the latter, done in partnership with Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City,

Mo., is “starting to grow and local medical providhand over fist.” ers in real time via a highdefinition mobile visual ‘Same page, same time’ display that includes variThe hospital now ous monitoring and imagworks with nine remote ing attachments such as specialists, “and we’ve a digital stethoscope. The really just scratched the hospital now is able to surface,” he said, noting “beam in big-city care in that the machines make a rural health care envithe sort of collaborative ronment, all while savmedicine that has been ing the federal governthe hallmark of the Mayo ment money and lowering and Cleveland clinics a overall health care costs,” possibility at all sorts of Coffey said, noting that medical facilities, includ- many of the hospital’s ing small, rural hospitals. patients are on Medicare.

The machine that “It puts everybody on the same page at the same makes it possible, he said, time,” he said. reminds him of the robot The robot connects dis- in the 2008 animated film tant doctors with patients “WALL-E” “but without

the googley eyes.”

Tony Nunn at the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Ks., also is familiar with the robots thanks to a project he is working on with Hays Medical Center and Liberty Hospital, which is northeast of Kansas City, Mo. KU Hospital stroke doctors will connect with patients via the robots in each of those hospitals, he said, once the new system goes live within a couple of weeks.

‘Jetsons’ on Steroids The doctors will be available around the clock for remote consultations, he said, and able to link (See ROBOT on page 15)

Supporters of Kansas Medicaid expansion rally at Statehouse Jim McLean KHI News Service

Supporters of expanding Kansas Medicaid eligibility to more lowincome adults rallied last Friday at the Statehouse to call attention to the issue as legislators formally ended the 2014 session.

The federal health reform law initially required states to expand Medicaid eligibility.

But the U.S. Supreme Court decision in June 2012 that upheld the law made expansion optional for states. Twenty-six states and the District of Columbia have or are in

the process of expanding their programs, according to the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation.

Kansas is among 19 states that have rejected expansion.

Sean Gatewood, director of the Medicaid Access Coalition and a former Democratic legislator from Topeka, said the rally was staged to signal to lawmakers that coalition members would be back at the Capitol demanding action when the 2015 session convenes in January.

“I know it takes a while to pass legislation,” he said. “This isn’t my first rodeo.”

A crowd of between 40 and 50 turned out for the event held on the south steps of the Statehouse to hear Gatewood, Rep. Jim Ward, a Wichita Democrat, and Joshua Longbottom, pastor of the Central Congregational Church in Topeka.

Longbottom said elected officials take God’s name in vain when they stress their strong religious beliefs while campaigning and then oppose programs to help the poor.

“You can’t pass policies that rob the poor at the same time as you pad your poll numbers by claiming to be a follower of Christ,” Longbottom said. “You can’t sit idly by

for partisan commitments while the most vulnerable suffer illness and disease and have no recourse for proper medical attention.”

Currently, most of the approximately 380,000 Kansans enrolled in Medicaid called KanCare - are children, new mothers, the disabled and seniors in nursing homes. Able-bodied adults with children are eligible only if they earn less than 33 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL), which for a family of four is $7,770.

No matter their income, Kansas adults without children aren’t eligible unless they are disabled.

(See RALLY on page 15)

Health reform likely to increase demand on mental health system Recently released federal data show the Kansas mental health system could expect up to 7,700 new patients due to expansion of insurance coverage under ObamaCare. This influx of patients could create strain on the mental health system in some Kansas communities.

The Kansas Health Institute has issued a new brief that looks at how many Kansans experience mental illness, how many receive treatment, and how federal and state

policies may affect the mental health system.

Survey data from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (2010 and 2011) show: More than 371,000 Kansas adults (21.6 percent) reported they experienced mental illness of some type in the past year (age 18 to 64).

Less than half (47.6 percent) of those with mental illness reported receiving treatment. Reasons varied, but national data

showed that most adults reported that cost and a lack of insurance were the biggest barriers to receiving services.

All but the five most populous Kansas counties do not have enough mental health providers, and are designated as Mental Health - Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs).

The implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) allows for improved insurance coverage for people with

mental illness, who can no longer be turned away or charged higher premiums due to pre-existing conditions. The law also makes insurance more affordable for some lower-income individuals by allowing them to use federal tax credits to purchase private insurance in the health insurance marketplaces.

These factors will likely contribute to more patients who may choose to utilize mental health services in the state.

(See MENTAL on page 15)

Grieving, cancer support groups meeting in GC “My Hope” and “Breast Friends” support groups will be meeting next week in Garden City.

St. Catherine Hospice chaplains Terry Major and Gerry Dupuis co-facilitate My Hope, a support group for adults who are grieving the death of a loved. Major and Dupuis hold certifications in Death and Grief Studies through the Center for Loss and Life Transition.

My Hope support group meets the second Tuesday of each month in Classroom 3 at St. Catherine Hospital, 401 E. Spruce, Garden City, from noon to 1:00 p.m. There is no cost to attend.

These sessions are opportunities to share one’s story and learn from others. Call (620) 272-2519 for more information.

The Breast Friends cancer support group connects breast cancer patients with a network of resources as well as others in the community going through the same experience.

Breast Friends meets the second Wednesday of each month from 6:00-7:00 p.m at the Legacy House, 309 E. Walnut.

The English speaking group is led by St. Catherine Hospital breast center navigator and survivor Heather Wright-Renick, RN. The Spanish speaking group is led by United Methodist Mexican American Ministries community health worker for Cancer Health Disparities, Irma Robbins. There is no cost to attend.

Educational materials, local resources, speakers and various activities ensure each participant gain the support, knowledge and perspective that are crucial for survivors.

For more information on Breast Friends call (620) 272-2360.

Robot to the robot via iPads or laptop computers.

“It’s like ‘The Jetsons’ on steroids,” he said.

The robots at Hamilton County, Hays and Liberty are made by Californiabased InTouch Health.

Tim Hulen, the company’s sales representative for the Midwest, said the machines have been used by the military in Iraq and Afghanistan and were used at the Olympics, especially by “smaller countries whose specialists couldn’t make the trip but were still able to confer with their athletes” via the robots.

He said installing the machines and getting staff trained to use them is relatively easy.

“The thing that slows things down is licensing

Mental

Kansas has decided not to expand its Medicaid program to all adults with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level ($32,913 per year for a family of four), as (continued from page 14) originally designed by the ACA. If Kansas does expand, however, even Expansion would leaders refused to allow a more Kansans could be extend Medicaid cover- hearing on it. age to all those earning “That is wrong,” he less than 138 percent of said. “This is the place FPL - about $32,500 for a where we have those discussions. This is the place family of four.

In addition, nearly where you get to hold us 80,000 uninsured Kansans accountable . . . and to are expected to fall into deny that is wrong.”

The Medicaid Access what is being called the “Medicaid gap,” because Coalition launched a webin addition to being ineli- site that shows how much gible for Medicaid they Kansas is losing in federal earn too little to qualify aid dollars by refusing to for federal subsidies to expand its Medicaid prohelp them purchase pri- gram in keeping with the Affordable Care Act. As vate health insurance.

Ward introduced a of Friday afternoon, the Medicaid expansion bill, figure stood at more than but he said Republican $160 million.

Rally

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

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(continued from page 14)

InTouch or similar devices being used in small, critical access Kansas hospitals such as Hamilton County is thought to be low.

Hamilton County Hospital CEO Bryan Coffey and the robot.

and credentialing,” he said. “We try to help the facility to see that they get everything done for billing and compensation.

The device part is not that difficult.”

He said about 20 facilities in Kansas are using the company’s machines and about 10 more are expected to by early July.

But the number of

Lag in the Laws Telemedicine experts say federal and state laws and regulations haven’t kept pace with the rapid changes in technology that now allow doctors to provide a variety of care to distant patients.

“I think eventually we won’t call it telemedicine.

It will be just the way we deliver care,” said Morgan Waller of Children’s Mercy Hospital.

Meanwhile, policymakers lag behind the new realities.

“The laws are outdated,” Waller said. “The

industry is developing so much faster than our state and federal legislatures can keep up with.”

The improvements at Hamilton County Hospital have not been lost on its board of volunteer trustees or others living in the close-knit community, according to Kent Schwieterman, the board chair.

“Without this hospital (which is a major employer) it would be really hard to see any future” for Hamilton County, he said.

“It’s pretty amazing from where we were a year ago or even around January.

I was pretty fearful and wasn’t sure which direction we would go. We can see a lot of daylight now. I have a pretty good feeling about it.”

(continued from page 14)

covered for mental health services.

With the expectation that more patients will enter the mental health system, there is concern that there may not be enough providers in some communities to meet the increased demand. All Kansas counties except

Johnson, Wyandotte, Sedgwick, Douglas and Shawnee are designated by the federal government as having a shortage of mental health professionals, and 47 percent of the population lives in a county with this problem.

“Demand for mental health services could increase due to changes

in federal- and statelevel policy,” said Scott Brunner, KHI senior analyst and strategy team leader.

“It will be important to monitor the capacity of the Kansas mental health system to make sure mental health services are available for Kansans in need.”

Pastime at Park Lane The Community Christian Church led Sunday afternoon services.

Pastor Bob Artz led Bible study on Tuesday morning. Doris Riner played the piano for the hymns.

Residents played trivia on Tuesday evening.

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

Residents played cards on Wednesday evening.

Everyone enjoyed vanilla ice cream cones on Thursday afternoon.

Russell and Mary Webster led Bible study on Thursday evening.

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

Chet Quance sang a variety of songs on Friday afternoon.

Moomaw and Company perform

Max Moomaw and Company performed on Tuesday afternoon. Max and Ed Gough played guitars and sang. Maxine Wilson played the piano and Jo Fouse sang.

Wanda Wright furnished cookies.

Residents play bingo Wednesday

Residents played bingo on Wednesday afternoon. Barbara Dickhut and Mandy Barnett were the helpers.

Residents watched, “The Adventures of Ma and Pa Kettle” on Saturday afternoon.

Joyce Bohnert was visited by Nancy Holt.

Judy Redburn was visited by Wendy Derstine and Mary Torson.

Verna Willman was visited by Nancy Johnson from Bossier City, La. Richard Kirk was visited by Emily Wright.

Albert Dean was visited by Karen Harms and Mary Lou Oeser.

Deaths

Primus Suppes was visited by Wayne and Nancy Gerstner, Karen and Jace Gibbs, Ron and Shirley Suppes, Harold and Willodean Plymell, and Mike and Debbie Reystead.

Lorena Turley was visited by LuJauna Turley, Neta Wheeler, Rex Turley, Tracy Hess, Julie Klein, Mary Lou Oeser and Karen Harms.

Darlene Richman was visited by Phebe Unruh.

Visiting Boots Haxton was five-year-old Draevynn Ullom who told about her new, all white kitty named Popcorn.

Other visitors during the week were Rod and Kathy Haxton, Melissa Jasnoch, and Debra Carlson, Norfolk, Nebr.

Jim and Yvonne Spangler were visited by Greg and Yvette Mills, Les and MaryAnn Spangler, Jerica VanCampen and Adalei Zeller.

Sr. Citizen Lunch Menu

Louis Daniel Pfanenstiel Louis Daniel Pfanenstiel, 91, died June 2, 2014, at the Scott County Hospital, Scott City.

H e was born on April 26, 1923, in Sterl i n g , Colo., the son Louis Pfanenstiel of Fred and Anna (Pfiefer) Pfanenstiel.

On Feb. 1, 1945, he married L. Mae Hughes in Ordway, Colo. She passed away on May 18, 2010, in Scott City.

In 1961, they moved to Leoti from Crowley County, Colo. In 1998, they moved to Palisade, Colo., and then to Scott City in 2005. He was a farmer.

Louis was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Scott City.

Survivors include: one daughter, Linda Eddy, and husband, Terry, Aztec,

Edith Norman was visited by Ron and Sue Riner, Lorena Turley, Sara Shane and Kambra Dearden.

Bonnie Pickett was visited by Gloria Wright, Treva McCandless, and Larry and Philene Pickett.

Harold and Ruth White were visited by Travis Jones.

Vivian Kreiser was visited by Larry and Sharon Lock, Mason and Abby Jackson, Kai Wilkerson; and Josh, Grace, Kaleb and Spencer Beaton.

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N.M.; three sons, Phil and wife, Sharon, Elk City, Okla., Dave Pfanenstiel and Stewart Fabrega, Naples, Fla., and Jerry and wife, Dana, Scott City; 10 grandchildren, 14 greatgrandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

He was preceded in death by his parents; one grandson, Perry Pfanenstiel; one granddaughter, Sheila Pfanenstiel; one great-grandson, Koltin Hurtt; four brothers and four sisters.

Memorial service will be Mon., June 9, 2:00 p.m., at St. Joseph Catholic Church with Fr. Bernard Felix officiating.

Inurnment will be at the Scott County Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to St. Joseph Catholic Church or Park Lane Nursing Home in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 401 S. Washington St., Scott City, Ks. 67871.

Week of June 9-13 Monday: Pepper steak on rice, oriental vegetables, whole wheat roll, peaches.

Tuesday: Barbeque pork, au gratin potatoes, broccoli, whole wheat roll, applesauce gelatin salad.

Wednesday: Roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, cauliflower and peas, whole wheat roll, poke cake.

Thursday: Chicken tetrazzini, creamy peas, Italian blend, whole wheat bread, apple wedges.

Friday: Pork cutlet, copper penny salad, tossed salad, whole wheat roll, fruit mix with mandarin oranges and marshmallows. meals are $3.25 • call 872-3501

by Jason Storm

Lucille Dirks was visited by Dale and Vicki Dirks, David Dirks, Willetta Payne, and Floyd and Vivian Dirks.

Earl Gorman was visited by Loretta Gorman, Kim Smith, Charlene Becht, John Perry and Connie Gruver.

Phyllis Trembley was visited by Monica Miller, Carol Schwartz and Pauline Fishel, all from Colby; Greg and Andie Strong, and Kat the dog.

Loyd Eitel was visited

by Vick and Sandy Eitel and Veronica Mayer.

Ann Tedford was visited by Mary Plum, Arlene Cauthon, Mary Lou Oeser and Karen Harms.

Harriet Jones was visited by Travis Jones and Rev. Don Martin from St. Luke’s Church.

Herb Graves was visited by Emily Wright, Tina Turley and Ron Hess.

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

Cecile Billings was visited by Delinda Dunagan.

Corine Dean was visited by Mandy Kropp, Dianna Howard, Ila Head, Jo Jones, Aaron Kropp, Jeanette Taylor, Lisa Emick, Nancy Holt, Lee and Linda Martindale, Marlyn Ohnick, Connie Gruver and Ron Hess.

Dona Dee Carpenter was visited by Marvel Keyse; Charlotte Utley, Duncan, Okla.; and Pastor Dennis Carter.

Jim Jeffery was visited

by Pastor Dennis Carter.

Dottie Fouquet was visited by Lil Francisco, Jon and Anne Crane, Mark Fouquet, Dean Fouquet, Cayte Winter, Claire and Monica Fouquet, Terri Fouquet; and Geri Rupp and Jorge Vazquez, Hays.

There is no income penalty after hitting full retirement age One of the most common myths about Social Security is that all individual are penalized for working after retirement.

That’s not the case in all instances.

Once you reach your full retirement age, there is no penalty and no limit on the amount you can earn. You can determine your full retirement age by visiting www.socialsecurity.gov/retirecharted. htm.

The earnings limit for workers who are younger than “full” retirement age (age 66 for people born in 1943 through 1954) is $15,480. (We deduct $1 from benefits for each $2 earned over $15,120.)

The earnings limit

Social Security Brandon Werth District Manager

for people turning 66 is $40,080. (We deduct $1 from benefits for each $3 earned over $41,400 until the month the worker turns age 66.)

Keep in mind that if we withhold some of your benefits due to work, we will re-compute your monthly benefit amount when you reach full retirement age to account for those months that we withheld your benefit.

There is no limit on earnings for workers who are full retirement age or older for the entire year. * * *

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We need volunteer bus drivers

to provide transportation for noon meals at the VIP Center.

You pick the days you can help. Get a free meal.

Contact 872-3501 for more information.

Another common myth is that a person won’t need to worry about income after retirement because they’ll be able to rely fully on their Social Security benefits.

Social Security was never intended to be a person’s sole income in retirement; it should be combined with pension income and personal savings and investments.

Your Social Security Statement, available at www.socialsecurity.gov. mystatement, is a great place to get an idea of what to expect during retirement.

You can also visit our Retirement Estimator at www.socialsecurity.gov/ estimator.

Friendship ‘Meals to Go’ available from the Scott County VIP Center

Individual frozen/sealed trays • Good for special diets • only $3.25/meal • Call 872-3501

Attend the Church of Your Choice

The Silversmith

Malachi 3:3 says: “He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.” This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God. One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver and get back to the group at their next Bible study. That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work. She didn’t mention anything about the reason for her interest beyond her curiosity about the process of refining silver. As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest as to burn away all the impurities.

The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot. Then she thought again about the verse that says: “He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver.” She asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time the silver was being refined. The man answered that yes, he not only had to sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed.

The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith, “How do you know when the silver is fully refined?” He smiled at her and answered, “Oh, that’s easy, when I see my image in it.”

If today you are feeling the heat of the fire, remember that God has his eye on you and will keep watching you until He sees His image in you. As gold is heated, impurities float to the top and can be skimmed off. Steel is tempered or strengthened by heating in fire. Likewise, our trials and struggles refine and strengthen our faith, making us useful to God. This year, I challenge you to rejoice and allow your faith to grow when you are faced with the “Refiner’s Fire.”

(Phil. 4:4-9)

Partnering To Bring Medical Specialists To Scott City Scott City Outreach Clinic Schedule Scott County Hospital 201 Albert Avenue - Scott City

Cardiology Dr. Mohammed Janif Twice Monthly

Dr. Jose Dimen Monthly

Scott City Assembly of God

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

St. Joseph Catholic Church

Dr. Alex DeCarvalho Three Times Monthly

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

Kyle Evans, Senior Pastor Bob Artz, Associate Pastor Sunday morning worship: 8:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.

Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.

Gospel Fellowship Church

1st United Methodist Church

Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.

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

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

Sunday casual 6:30 p.m.: “The Way” contemporary gathering 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

Dr. Darrell Werth

Larry Taylor, pastor

Monthly

Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

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 Franklin Koehn: 872-2048

In partnership with Scott County Hospital haysmed.com

Robert Nuckolls, pastor - 872-5041 Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. • Worship: 11:00 a.m.

120 S. Lovers Lane - Shallow Water

Monthly

1398 S. US83 - Scott City - 872-2264

Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.

Urology

Dr. Kevin McDonald

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.

803 College - Scott City - 872-2339

Orthopedic

Prairie View Church of the Brethren

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 • Wednesday mornings Breakfast at 6:30 a.m.

Held at Precision Ag Bldg. west of Shallow Water

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

Sunday Evening Service: 7:00 p.m.

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.

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4-H continues to make the best, even better

As this summer’s intern, I find it important to reach out to all of my fellow 4-Hers and give them my own experiences of when I was a 4-Her. Everyone should know that I came from Colorado 4-H and have already seen a tremendous difference between the two states while being here in Kansas for the past few years as I pursue my dreams of a higher education in the field of animal science at FHSU. Regardless of the state lines, 4-H teaches the same values no matter where you come from.

You could say that I

Tayla Cannella

Scott County Extension summer intern

was raised in a barn, but not just the red ones that have more memories and history than meets the eye, but rather a show barn. That was the start of my love of showing and 4-H. I was always up before the sun and I can still remember the way that the show barn smelled, and the way that it sounded with the fans going and the greetings that I would

get as I walked in to see my critters awaiting their feed, baths and attention for the morning.

To this very day, I still love being in the show barn and the smell of fresh shavings at the fair and the feeling of excitement and nerves as I entered the show ring yet again to prove what I had done.

None of this would have ever happened without my involvement in 4-H. It truly does become a part of you, even when you age out and have to retire and let the dust cover the memories even though they will never be forgotten.

I still have my buckles, banners, plaques, and ribbons, but nothing as important as everything that I gained in the program and how it prepared me for high school, college, and even taught me skills that I will use for life: Dedication: I would not have been as dedicated had I not been responsible for all of my projects on a day-to-day basis.

Patience: Nothing teaches patience more than 4-H projects.

Pride: Pride of winning and accepting defeat.

I always had pride in my projects and what I had accomplished regardless

of the outcome. On show day, it is one person’s opinion and no matter what, it stands superior to all.

There are so many more skills that I can put at the top of my list, but those are the few that I feel helped me out the most. I have made lifelong connections to people and have a sense of knowledge and found my calling in agriculture at a young age.

I always had plans, goals and can only hope that 4-H stays strong and continues to engage youth to their own success as young leaders through adulthood.

SCES summer lunch menu Week of June 9-13 Lunch Monday: Grilled chicken on bun, lettuce and tomatoes, fresh veggies, strawberries.

Tuesday: Chicken nuggets, tossed salad, dinner roll, mandarin oranges.

Wednesday: Pizza quesadilla, choice of hot veggies, pears.

Thursday: Sub sandwich, pork-n-beans, garden salad, banana.

Friday: Mighty rib on a bun, tator tots, fresh fruit.

Free lunches for anyone 18-years and under served at Scott City Elementary School from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

summer lunches

Three-year-old Jaxson Wright checks over a tray of french fries as he goes through the lunch line at Scott City Elementary School on Tuesday. Free lunches are being served to all youth who are 18-years and younger on Monday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The program continues through June 27.

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Nature Conservancy open house Saturday This year marks the 25th anniversary of The Nature Conservancy in Kansas.

The Conservancy welcomes the public to a special celebration at Smoky Valley Ranch in Logan County on Sat., June 7, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Kansas office opened in 1989, but the Conservancy has engaged in projects in Kansas dating back to 1965. The Conservancy has protected over 95,000 acres of land across the state including tallgrass prairies, wetlands, mixedgrass prairies and shortgrass prairies.

Smoky Valley Ranch

encompasses 17,000 acres of diverse wildlife and a rich cache of natural and human history.

The event will showcase Smoky Valley Ranch as the vehicle for delivering the Conservancy’s mission in Western Kansas. The ranch demonstrates a place where short and mixed grass prairies have converged and where the balance of a healthy prairie ecosystem and a profitable ranching operation has taken place.

During the event, visitors can take a driving tour of the ranch and hope to catch a glimpse of a pronghorn, golden eagle or jackrabbit. Visitors will hear about long-

term goals for the ranch, including collaborative educational efforts and research projects on ranch management.

Other activities include a hike that will take visitors to scenic and diverse sites on the ranch; and presentations about the history of the ranch, including the role of Native Americans and bison.

Lunch will be provided.

Location: From US-83, turn west on Seneca Road, proceed approximately seven miles to the curve (370th road), turn south, and proceed approximately six miles until you dead end at the TNC Ranch Headquarters.

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Sports The Scott County Record

School record Wichita County’s 4x800m relay sets a school record at state • Page 20

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Scott City senior Kelly Wycoff crosses the finish line in the 200m finals of the Class 4A state track meet a step behind CoffeyvilleField Kindley’s Andre’a Newton on Saturday afternoon in Wichita.

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Wycoff is runner-up in 200m, 400m in final state meet Even when you’ve collected 10 state track medals over the past three years - including three golds - there are no guarantees.

Kelly Wycoff knew that entering the Class 4A Kansas Track and Field Championships last weekend.

The Scott Community High School senior added four more state medals to her total. That would be a great day for most athletes, but it fell short of Wycoff’s expectations.

In one of the premier races of the weekend, Wycoff was outdueled in the 400m and had to

settle for a silver medal.

She closed out her career with another silver in the 200m, to go along with a fifth place finish earlier in the day in the 100m.

Even though gold medals eluded Wycoff in her final high school track meet, she did break her own school record in the 400m and provided the huge crowd in WSU’s Cessna Stadium with two of the top races over the two days of state track competition.

Heading into the state meet, Wycoff and head coach Jim Turner had discussed her strategy for what was shaping up

to be a very competitive 400m. The game plan on Saturday was to finish second in her heat and third overall.

“I didn’t want her to overthink it,” says Turner.

“Of course, if she had a chance to win (the prelim) I wanted Kelly to do it. I didn’t want her to hold back with the idea of having the third fastest time.

“But by finishing third it would put her in lane three which is where I felt she had the best chance.”

That allowed Wycoff to have the two fastest runners - Morgan Lober (Baldwin) and Courtney Griffiths (Winfield) in

front of her in lanes four and five. Turner’s instructions were to “get on (Morgan) Lober’s hip and stay there.”

“I got on Lober’s hip and that’s what kept me in it,” said Wycoff afterwards.

However, it appeared she might be out of contention when she dropped back into seventh place with about 250 meters remaining.

But, from lane three, Wycoff was able to make up the stagger on the final curve. Griffiths became a non-factor and with Wycoff’s sprint speed she was able to challenge

Lober as they were greeted on the home stretch by a loud roar from the stadium crowd.

It looked as though Wycoff might be able to overtake the Baldwin runner as they ran shoulderto-shoulder for about 60 meters before Lober was finally able to edge ahead with about 20 meters remaining and hold on for the win.

Lober claimed the gold medal in 56.82 while Wycoff’s 56.98 was good for a silver and a new school record.

Those were the two fastest times of the day in all classifications.

“Kelly ran the 400 exactly the way we’d talked about. She got the lane she wanted and I told her to stay on the Baldwin girl’s shoulder in the first 200 meters. Maybe if she would have waited a little on her kick she might have had a little more at the end. You never know,” says Turner.

“I thought when Kelly kicked it in and pulled up with her on the front stretch she had it won.”

“I was so close,” said Wycoff afterwards. “I thought I was going to get it with about 50 meters left. She had a little more (See SC GIRLS on page 21)

Rod Haxton, sports editor

Reflecting on the what ifs of 4A state

Scott City junior Brett Meyer anchors the 4x400m relay to a fourth place finish in the state finals on Saturday.

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Meyer, relays have big day in 4A Brett Meyer knew that just breaking two minutes wouldn’t be good enough in the Class 4A division of the Kansas Track and Field Championships.

And even though he hadn’t run a sub-two minute open 800m this season, the Scott Community High School junior was confident that he could turn in that kind of time if the conditions were right.

The conditions on Saturday were right.

Against an extremely competitive Class 4A field, Meyer turned in the fastest time of his career with a 1:57.47 to earn a fourth place medal.

Afterwards, Meyer was thinking about what might have been if he’d been able to avoid getting boxed in midway into the race.

“I got a great start and I tried to stay more to the outside, but I got cutoff in lane three and I had nowhere to go but lane one.”

“When Brett drifted to the inside he got into trouble,” noted head coach Jim Turner.

“He had to spend a lot of energy working his way back to the outside toward the end of the first lap and again on the

second lap.”

Meyer knew that when he got pinned along the inside with no where to escape “I was pretty much screwed.”

“I was boxed in, but I finally found a way to get out there,” he said.

Meyer was in sixth place after 400 meters and was still in seventh with just under 200 (See MEYER on page 21)

Sports is filled with “what ifs.”

What if K-State quarterback Michael Bishop doesn’t fumble the ball against Texas A&M in the 1998 Big 12 title game?

What if Bo Jackson had never been injured?

What if Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao fought?

What if the Red Sox had not been able to come back from a 3-0 series deficit against the Yankees in the 2004 American League Championship Series?

And what if Scott Community High School had been competing in Class 3A instead of Class 4A in this year’s state track meet?

The great thing about the Kansas Track and Field Championships is that all classes compete in the same venue under the same condi(See WHAT IF on page 23)

record-setting

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Outdoors in Kansas

by Steve Gilliland

WCHS boy’s This fishin’ 4x800m relay stuff can be peaks at the catching right time For some years now we’ve tried to make an annual trip to Waconda Lake (Glen Elder) to fish with Jeff Rader, owner of Rader’s Lodge.

This year we booked May 12-13.

As those days drew near, all weathermen in the state were predicting nasty storms and cold weather pretty much statewide. We went anyway, hoping things would clear out overnight and return to normal by noon or so the next morning.

Monday morning dawned overcast, rainy and cold with the temperature hovering in the upper 40s.

Our party consisted of our guide, Joyce and I, a family from Colorado with two young kids and a father and his two grown sons who all climbed aboard one of Jeff’s four pontoon boats and ventured out.

After a couple hours of cold wind and sideways rain with one fish to show for it, the kids were nearly frozen so we called it a wrap. Because of the weather, Jeff gave Joyce and I the opportunity to fish with him later in the month and we went home early.

Memorial Day afternoon we headed back to Waconda Lake for two new days of fishing. Tuesday morning was clear and warm with ZERO wind - that’s right, I said ZERO wind! We had the boat (and Jeff) to ourselves so we were able to pick his brain about fishing the lake.

He was mildly optimistic, which is part of his job, but the lack of even a breeze concerned him. I’ve always heard walleye fishing (and fishing an open lake in general) to be better with a good stiff wind, but was never sure why that was. He explained that wind pushes the bait fish up against structures like brush (See FISHIN’ on page 22)

If confidence was the measure of a gold medal performance, than Saturday’s 4x800m relay was over before it began.

The Wichita County High School boys may not have had the fastest qualifying time entering the Class 2A Kansas Track and Field Championships, but they more than made up for that with a belief that they could win.

Then they went out and proved it with a school record time of 8:09.8 to come away with a gold medal.

The Indians erased a record of 8:12.72 which had stood since 1991. Members of that relay team were Bill Biermann, Shad Case, Scott Hahn and Shane Fogo.

“We knew that if we ran our best race we’d have a pretty good shot at winning it,” said senior Josh Mehl who did his part with a 1:57.8 anchor split that made it impossible for anyone to catch the Indians.

Freshman Jorge Gallegos proved he was up for the moment with a 2:04.8 opening split that put WCHS in front when he handed the baton to sophomore Layton Tankersley.

“I had a lot of confidence,” said Gallegos, who noted that competing in the 4x400m relay on Friday had helped to calm his nerves and given him confidence for Saturday’s long-distance relay.

Tankersley may have been the key to Leoti’s success with his career best 2:03.7 split.

“I made up my mind to push it hard and see if I couldn’t get us somewhere to the front,” Tankersley said.

Senior Thomas Ridder followed with a 2:03.4 split and held the lead for most of his leg until being overtaken near the handoff zone. The Indians trailed Wakefield by about four meters when Mehl took the baton for the final 800 meters.

“My dad always says it’s a two-lap race, so I wasn’t worried about making it up all at once,” says Mehl.

The senior took the lead with 400 meters remaining and never al-

WCHS senior Thomas Ridder is on the heels of a Wakefield runner as they begin the second lap in their split of the 4x800m relay during Saturday’s state finals in Wichita.

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lowed Wakefield a chance to get back into the race.

The Indians won the race by nearly a five second margin.

Mehl Adds 2 Medals Mehl was unable to match his outstanding anchor leg in the relay in either the 800m or 1600m races that followed later in the day.

In the 1600m, he was

in 16th place after the first lap and eventually climbed into eighth place with a time of 4:43.53.

In the 800m, he was in 11th place at the midway mark and finished eighth (2:03.3).

Sophomore Jacob Schumacher earned a spot in the finals of the 200m after finishing seventh in Friday’s prelims with a time of 23.78

He followed with a 24.07 time in the finals on Saturday for a seventh place medal.

Scott Beecher (Medicine Lodge, 22.89) was the gold medalist.

4x400m Fourth The Indians added a fourth place finish in the 4x400m relay (3:37.0).

The relay consisted of Jantz Budde, Gallegos,

Schumacher and Mehl.

WCHS ran a 3:34.28 during Friday’s prelims which was good enough for sixth place - only a second ahead of ninth place.

Shawnee-Maranatha Academy won the gold medal in 3:31.72.

Freshman Juan Alvarado finished 11th in the high jump with a height of 5-8.

WCHS sophomore Jacob Schumacher (right) competes in the finals of the 200m at the state track meet on Saturday, finishing seventh.

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Meyer (continued from page 19)

meters remaining when Meyer was finally able to work his way out of the inside lane.

However, he had to bounce all the way out to lane four in order to make a run at the leaders in the final 200 meters.

That’s been a familiar position for him throughout the season.

“It seems that all year I’ve had to go to the outside and run farther than everyone else,” he says.

“I felt I had enough kick to make a run at the leaders, but I had to dig deep to do it.”

Even though he had a career mark, Turner feels that Meyer is capable of running even faster.

“If he doesn’t get pinned inside, he may have run a 1:55,” says Turner. “I think Brett showed that he has that kind of race in him.”

At the same time, Turner noted that this race was one of the toughest in any classification.

“There were 10 boys in that race who broke two minutes,” noted the head coach. “That’s pretty impressive when a boy can run under two minutes and not get a state medal.”

4x400m Relay Fourth The quality of competition in Class 4A was also evident in the 4x400m relay where the Beavers ran their two fastest times of the season to finish fourth.

In Friday’s prelims, the Beavers ran a season-best 3:27.93 and qualified as the No. 2 team for the finals. The relay splits included Brayden Strine (51.21), Drake McRae (52.62), Wyatt Kropp (52.79) and Meyer (50.76).

Strine followed that with a season best leadoff split of

SC Girls endurance than me.

“I’m glad that I was able to run a 56 (seconds) in my last 400 in high school,” she added.

Second in 200m The 200m, which has typically been Wycoff’s strongest race also figured to be a tough battle with Andre’a Newton (Coffeyville-Field Kindley). The race lived up to expectations with Newton hanging on for the gold in a time of 25.16 - just 22/100 of a second ahead of Wycoff.

Wycoff knew that if she was going to beat Newton

SCHS sophomore Wyatt Kropp takes the baton from Drake McRae in the 4x400m finals at the Class 4A state track meet in Wichita last Saturday.

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50.43 on Saturday as the Beavers posted a time of 3:28.03.

“We had a great day. There were just a couple of teams who had ridiculous times,” said sophomore Wyatt Kropp.

Perry LeCompton (3:23.7) and KC-Piper (3:26.79) finished first and second.

It was a similar story in the 4x800m relay where the Beavers had their fastest time of the season, but had to settle for fourth place in 8:13.51. Meyer (1:56.38) gave SCHS the lead at the first exchange and that was followed by Irvin Lozano (2:03.94), Miguel Chavez

(2:06.74) and Strine (2:06.63).

Baldwin (7:59) and Desoto (8:03.21) were the top two finishers in Class 4A and also had the two fastest times in the state.

Strine narrowly missed advancing to the finals in the 400m, finishing ninth in the prelims with 52.01.

“When we finished the meet that was probably the best feeling I’ve ever had coming away from state,” said Turner. “I’ve never been on a bus before where every kid who competed, except the alternates, came away with a (state) medal. Everyone performed very well.”

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she had to make it happen on the curve, which she feels is her strength.

“I can usually make up the stagger on the curve and then relax when I’m coming down the straightaway,” says Wycoff. “But when I saw that she was still right there with me I knew it was going to be a tough race. I thought I was going to take the lead at one point, but I couldn’t quite pull it off.”

Fourth in Relay Wycoff still had one more great finish in her as she anchored the 4x400m relay to a bronze medal

in 4:08.6. The Lady Beavers were in sixth place when Megan Thornburg passed the baton off to Wycoff who put together a 58.57 split and brought her team all the way into third place.

“I had confidence that I could make up the ground.

When there are three or four girls in front of me it motivates me to start picking them off,” she said.

Senior Bailey Nickel got the relay off to a great start with a career best split of 61.64.

“I didn’t have anything left at the end,” says Nickel, “but I wanted to do ev-

erything I could to keep us near the front.”

Aubrey Davis (64.06) and Thornburg (63.55) also followed with solid splits. Both girls had their season best splits in the previous day’s prelims with a 63.88 and a 63.05, respectively.

“I knew this was my last race and I wasn’t going to leave anything out there. I made up my mind that this would be my best race,” said Davis.

Just like in regional, there was a lot of confusion in the exchange zone with Thornburg battling through some bodies.

“The handoff zone was pretty cluttered,” she said.

“I had to push someone out of the way to get the baton to Kelly.”

Nickel is Fifth Nickel added a fifth place finish in the 100m high hurdles, earning a spot on the awards stand for the second straight year. She qualified in fifth place during Friday’s prelims in 16.39 and improved on that with a 16.26 in the finals.

“I kept telling myself trail leg, trail leg, but I couldn’t make myself do

what I wanted in the finals,” said Nickel, referring to the reminder from her coaches to bring her trail leg over the hurdle quicker.

“I still felt good about my time. “I got higher on the award stand this year so I felt good about that.”

Wycoff added a fifth place finish in the 100m finals (12.55) “I was pleased with my start, but I didn’t finish it off the way I wanted,” says Wycoff.

The Lady Beavers finished in fifth place with 30 points.

Attend the annual OK Kids Day at Lake Scott State Park • Sat., June 14 • 10:00 a.m.

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Klein hopes to find pro career with Alouettes Many college football stars see their dreams of playing in the NFL shattered before they get a fair chance. Collin Klein was a great quarterback and Heisman Trophy candidate while playing for Kansas State. by Klein reMac ceived a Stevenson tryout with the Houston Texans in the spring of 2013, but didn’t make their team, so has been out of football for the past year. However, he’s getting another chance at a professional career, this time north of the border with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League.

The ex-K-State great signed a two-year contract with Montreal on May 16, but that doesn’t mean that Klein’s all set for two years.

“They can pretty much, from what I understand, get rid of me at any time . . . it is a contract, so it’s not a tryout. But every day is a tryout in professional football.”

Klein will be competing with Troy Smith (Ohio State) and Alex Brink (Washington State) for the starting job.

“With me, it’s one of the things where I’m just trying to compete, do the very best I can, and contribute to the team. Whether that lands me as the starter, or working toward that . . . it’s about being the best that I can be for the Alouettes,” says Klein.

In the CFL, running quarterbacks are far more common than the NFL which gives Klein a better chance to excel at Montreal.

Klein has thousands of fans in Kansas who will be rooting for him to be successful with Montreal.

Numerous CFL games are televised in the states, so KState followers will have a chance to watch Klein perform.

No Hitting Prospects If you’re laboring under the assumption that the Kansas City Royals’ minor league baseball system is loaded with first-class prospects, you are in for a rude awakening. KC’s hitting has been abysmal and there’s no help on the way from their minor league clubs.

(See KLEIN on page 23)

Dighton senior Ben Speer releases the discus during Class 1A state competition on Friday in Wichita.

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Speers are discus, shot state medalists

Consistency wasn’t a problem for Ben Speer during the Class 1A Kansas Track and Field Championships.

The Dighton High School senior had four throws in the discus of more than 140 feet.

He just couldn’t find a way to launch that toss of more than 150 feet that he knew it would take to win a gold medal.

Speer’s top throw of 149-9 earned him fourth place.

“Overall, I’m satisfied,” says Speer about his first trip to the state meet. “I worked hard this year, listened to my coaches, watched film and everything seemed to come together.”

That was particularly true at

Fishin’ and humps in the lake bottom as they seek shelter from the rough water.

The sport fish, like walleye and crappie, then congregate around and over these structures as they feed on the bait fish, making them easier to find in large numbers. The more fish in one spot the better the chances of catching some.

Joyce and I wanted walleye, if possible, so Jeff tried all his honey holes with little success. The fish finder showed fish everywhere we went, but few would bite. After a couple hours of fishing over groups of fish with few bites we tied on some crankbaits and began

the regional meet where he had a career best of 158-3 which instantly made him a gold medal favorite. The senior admitted that throw was a bit of a surprise.

“I’d been doing it in practice, but I hadn’t been able to get it done in a meet,” he says.

“It felt great. I finally met the expectation that I’d set for myself.”

Had he been able to repeat that effort, Speer would have walked away with a gold ahead of Coffey County’s Walker Harred who had a championship throw of 155-10.

“It wasn’t my best day. I wish it would have been, but fourth place . . . I’ll take it,”

said Speer.

His sister, Jordan, was also making her first appearance in state and came away with a bronze medal in the shot put (37-7).

That came on the heels of a career best of 39-10 1/2 in the regional meet a week earlier, breaking her own school record.

“Last week I had a great throw at regional. I was hoping to do the same thing this weekend or even better, but it didn’t happen,” says the freshman.

“A different time, a different day, maybe I’d have done better, but I’m happy with third place.”

Winning the gold medal was

Baileyville B&B’s Laura Sudbeck with a toss of 40-9 1/2.

“Once (Sudbeck) had that 40-foot throw and I was battling to get 37-feet, I knew it wasn’t going to be my day.

“But (Sudbeck) is a great competitor and I have a chance to come back here again.”

Next year she hopes to qualify with the discus and javelin as well. This was Speer’s first year to throw the javelin and she had a season best of 106feet.

Other state qualifiers for the Hornets were junior Wyatt Habiger in the javelin (11th, 152-3) and sophomore Payden Shapland in the 3200m (10th, 13:08.52.

and disappear into the lake.

He turned back around with a bewildered look on his face, processing what had just happened. After an awkward period of silence he said, “I really liked that rod!”

I continued reeling to claim my catch and after a few seconds my fish came to the surface just a ways behind the boat - and sticking up out of the depths beside the fish was the tip a fishing rod! Evidently the fish had crossed Jeff’s line and yanked his rod into the drink.

I’m sure now the fish was trying to barter its release by rescuing the fallen rod. It was

nice of it to recover the rod, but the fish was so small it needn’t have worried; it was going to be tossed back anyway.

We had a short ceremony, said a few words (stopping short of kissing the fish) and flung the flopping fish back into the deep.

There are numerous ways to show thanks and gratitude to someone, but I’m pretty sure that retrieving your fishing guide’s favorite rod and reel from a certain watery grave ranks among the top 10.

Continue to Explore Kansas Outdoors!

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trolling over a portion of the lake that hid the remains of an old road bed.

After a couple passes I hooked a fish, so Jeff stopped the boat until the fish was retrieved. He stood at the back of the boat in one corner next to the boat’s controls. Joyce stood in the opposite back corner and I stood in the middle of the boat with my line straight out the back. He laid his own rod down along the side of the boat while he prepared to net my fish.

A clattering noise caught him and Joyce’s attention and they both turned just in time to see his rod flip over the side

Steve can be contacted by email at stevegilliland@idkcom.net

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Kenfield is 5th in 200m

Leoti junior Vallie Kenfield (center) nears the finish line in the 200m finals at the Class 2A state track meet in Saturday.

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What If tions, so when you compare times and distances they actually mean something. If those comparisons mean anything, it established that Class 4A is one brutal classification.

The SCHS boys and girls were denied any gold medals last weekend. But, had they been competing in Class 3A - where they were last year - they would have had the fastest

Klein Omaha (Class AAA) has Matt Fields hitting .270 with five home runs in 48 games. The problem is that Fields plays first base and KC’s Eric Hosmer has that position well covered.

Two familiar names at Omaha are second baseman Johnny Giavotella who was hitting .328 with two homers. He’s had numerous abbreviated chances with the Royals and hasn’t gotten it done.

And recently demoted third baseman Mike Moustakas is hitting .355 with one home run in eight games. Moustakas is a key player who will have to perform up to his potential if KC is going to make the playoffs.

Northwest Arkansas (AA) has just one player worth mentioning - shortstop Orlando Calixte was hitting .311 with four homers in 16 games. Alcides Escobar owns that position with KC. At Wilmington (A), no

In a very competitive field, Wichita County’s Vallie Kenfield finished fifth in the 200m at the Class 2A Kansas Track and Field Championships in Wichita.

Kenfield, a junior, crossed the finish line in 26.81 during Saturday’s finals - just 52/100 of a second behind gold medalist Emma Adberg (26.29, Inman).

Kenfield was clocked in an identical 26.81 during Friday’s prelims to earn a fourth seed and advance to the finals.

WCHS sophomore Hannah Martin narrowly missed earning a place on the awards stand with a ninth place finish in the high jump. Only the top eight earn medals.

Martin cleared 4-10 to tie for eighth, but had more missed attempts so was bumped down another spot.

In her final state track meet, senior Katie Bailey ran the 800m in 2:42.51 and finished 16th.

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times in the boy’s 4x400m and boy’s 4x800m relays.

Kelly Wycoff would have been a gold medalist in the 100m, 200m and 400m.

Not only would they have had five gold medals, but Brett Meyer could have possibly been a gold medalist in the 800m where his time of 1:57.47 was just 30/100 of a second behind the 3A champion.

“But when you con-

sider that he would have been at the front and could have avoided getting boxed in like he did (in 4A), Brett would have run a different race,” says SCHS head coach Jim Turner. “He certainly would have had a good chance of winning.”

Yes, it’s easy to look across the different classifications and imagine what might have been different, but with the Beavers it’s

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player is hitting over .300.

One of KC’s highestranked prospects, Bubba Starling, has been a flop.

Starling is hitting .196 with just two homers. He has fanned 56 times in 179 at-bats.

Lexington (A) doesn’t offer much hope either.

Third baseman Michael Antonio is hitting .313 with four home runs in 32 games. Dominique Taylor has played all the outfield positions and is hitting .303 with four homers in 40 games. And second baseman Ramon Torres is hitting .308 with four home runs in 45 games.

When Dayton Moore became KC’s general manager in 2006, his plan was to rebuild through a first-class farm system and it looked promising for a long time. Moore’s strategy has worked well, so far as the pitching is concerned. Many of the promising youngsters are beginning to pitch well; it’s the everyday players

that are a cause for concern.

Left fielder Alex Gordon, first baseman Eric Hosmer and catcher Salvy Perez have come close to living up to expectations.

DH Billy Butler is starting to show some signs of life.

Offensively, no one is close to super star status and it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen.

The “moment of truth” is drawing near for Moore and his strategy to make the Royals competitive.

Moore really has no other option because owner David Glass isn’t going to spend big bucks to bring a winner to Kansas City.

Considering the sad plight of KC’s minor league hitters, Moore’s scheme is going to sink or swim with players like Butler, Moustakas and Lorenzo Cain. All three are thought to have great promise, but so far that promise has been unfulfilled.

The next four months will tell the tale.

a little different. If you are a school whose enrollment puts you squarely in the middle of a classification every year, you don’t think about what might have been in those years when one or two additional students in your district suddenly move you into a different class.

In the case of Kelly Wycoff, she went from being a two-time defending 200m champion in

Class 3A to an athlete who would have to battle to finish in the top three in 4A. Once she got over the disappiontment of knowing that she would have to compete in a different classification, she set about doing everything that she could to make herself physically and mentally tougher in order to become a top track athlete in 4A.

She’s not alone. None of the Beavers were making excuses last weekend or dwelling on “what if.” They competed hard and they proved they are among the state’s best regardless of classification.

If the Beavers remain in Class 4A next year, so be it. SCHS is ready to show they can compete with the best at any classification.

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Scott City Stars Swim Team Western Ks. Swim Club Intra-Squad Meet May 31, 2014 • at Great Bend Girl’s Division 25 yd. Freestyle 8-years and under: Kennedy Wasinger, 1st, 19.25; Malorie Cupp, 7th, 25.82.

50 yd. Freestyle 8-years and under: Bret Lyons, 8th, 1:11.89.

9-10 years: Alli Patton, 2nd, 36.90; Kennedy Holstein, 6th, 38.98; Hope Wiechman, 7th, 40.66.

11-12 years: Piper Wasinger, 2nd, 32.16; Allison Brunswig, 7th, 37.22.

13-14 years: Shelby Patton, 3rd, 31.36; Emily Parkinson, 4th, 32.62; Alexis Hoeme, 6th, 33.13; Hallie Wiechman, 7th, 33.17.

15-years and over: Reagan Smyth, 4th, 29.07.

100 yd. Freestyle 8-years and under: Kennedy Wasinger, 1st, 1:47.24.

9-10 years: Kennedy Holstein, 6th, 1:32.81; Kiley Wren, 7th, 1:39.31.

11-12 years: Piper Wasinger, 2nd, 1:14.65; Allison Brunswig, 5th, 1:31.32; Brooke Hoeme, 6th, 1:34.05; Lanae Haupt, 7th, 1:34.93.

13-14 years: Shelby Patton, 2nd, 1:09.98; Emily Parkinson, 3rd, 1:14.87; Alexis Hoeme, 5th, 1:17.79; Ashley Prewit, 7th, 1:19.67.

15-years and over: Reagan Smyth, 6th, 1:10.82.

200 yd. Freestyle 11-12 years: Brooke Hoeme, 2nd, 3:30.87.

13-14 years: Shelby Patton, 2nd, 2:42.27; Emily Parkinson, 3rd, 2:52.73; Alexis Hoeme, 4th, 2:54.80; Alyssa Storm, 8th, 3:10.83.

500 yd. Freestyle 13-14 years: Hallie Wiechman, 2nd, 7:39.10; Shelby Patton, 3rd, 7:48.26.

25 yd. Backstroke 8-years and under: Kennedy Wasinger, 1st, 24.63; Kinleigh Wren, 8th, 30.09.

50 yd. Backstroke 9-10 years: Alli Patton, 4th, 46.80; Kennedy Holstien, 8th, 49.46.

11-12 years: Allison Brunswig, 8th, 47.21.

100 yd. Backstroke 11-14 years: Emily Parkinson, 6th, 1:33.30.

25 yd. Breaststroke 8-years and under: Kennedy Wasinger,1st, 29.15; Kinleigh Wren, 3rd, 44.65.

50 yd. Breaststroke 9-10 years: Alli Patton, 5th, 53.50; Hope Wiechman, 6th, 57.77; Lana Rodriguez, 7th, 58.61; Kiley Wren, 8th, 59.45.

11-12 years: Piper Wasinger, 4th, 44.40; Lanae Haupt, 6th, 52.32; Allison Brunswig, 8th, 53.21.

100 yd. Breaststroke 11-14 years: Shelby Patton, 1st, 1:34.66; Alexis Hoeme, 6th, 1:41.32.

15-years and over: Reagan Smyth, 6th, 1:39.92; Makayla Amerine, 7th, 1:59.53.

25 yd. Butterfly 8-years and under: Kennedy Wasinger, 1st, 30.41; Kinleigh Wren, 2nd, 34.82.

50 yd. Butterfly 9-10 years: Hope Wiechman, 3rd, 52.22; Kennedy Holstein, 4th, 52.94; Claire Rumford, 5th, 58.55; Lana Rodriguez, 6th, 1:01.50; Kiley Wren, 7th, 1:05.96.

11-12 years: Piper Wasinger, 4th, 40.40; Allison Brunswig, 8th, 47.40.

100 yd. Butterfly 11-14 years: Hallie Wiechman, 1st, 1:31.21; Ashley Prewit, 2nd, 1:38.58.

15-years and over: Reagan Smyth, 1st, 1:15.94.

100 yd. Individual Medley 9-10 years: Allie Patton, 3rd, 1:41.28; Kennedy Holstein, 7th, 1:49.30; Hope Wiechman, 8th, 1:50.12.

200 yd. Individual Medley 11-12 years: Piper Wasinger, 2nd, 3:16.20.

13-14 years: Ashley Prewit, 2nd, 3:23.41; Alyssa Storm, 3rd, 3:38.85.

15-years and over: Reagan Smyth, 2nd, 2:58.07.

100 yd. Freestyle Relay 8-years and under: Kinleigh Wren, Bret Lyon, Amelia Ramsey, Malorie Cupp, 2nd, 2:00.76.

200 yd. Freestyle Relay 9-10 years: Hope Wiechman, Claire Rumford, Kennedy Holstein, Alli Patton, 1st, 2:34.71; Kennedy Wasinger, Bethany Prochnow, Lana Rodriguez, Kiley Wren, 2nd, 3:09.22.

11-12 years: Allison Brunswig, Lanae Haupt, Brooke Hoeme, Piper Wasinger, 2nd, 2:27.05.

13-14 years: Alexis Hoeme, Alyssa Storm, Ashley Prewit, Hallie Wiechman, 3rd, 2:17.99.

15-years and over: Shelby Patton, Krissa Dearden, Emily Parkinson, Reagan Smyth, 2nd, 2:03.98.

200 yd. Medley Relay 9-10 years: Kennedy Holstein, Alli Patton, Hope Wiechman, Claire Rumford, 1st, 3:26.10; Lana Rodriguez, Kennedy Wasinger, Kiley Wren, Bethany Prochnow, 4th, 3:56.82.

11-12 years: Allison Brunswig, Piper Wasinger, Brooke Hoeme, Paige Prewit, 2nd, 3:11.14.

13-14 years: Alyssa Storm, Alexis Hoeme, Hallie Wiechman, Ashley Prewit, 2nd, 2:52.09.

15-years and over: Emily Parkinson, Krissa Dearden, Reagan Smyth, Shelby Patton, 2nd, 2:32.44.

Boy’s Division 25 yd. Freestyle 8-years and under: Alex Rodriguez, 4th, 25.95; Brodie Holstein, 7th, 31.77.

50 yd. Freestyle 8-years and under: Alex Rodriguez, 3rd, 1:00.79.

9-10 years: Brandon Smyth, 4th, 52.25.

11-12 years: Kaden Wren, 2nd, 29.29.

15-years and over: Kyle Cure, 4th, 27.11; Chase Rumford, 5th, 27.97.

100 yd. Freestyle 9-10 years: Brandon Smyth, 3rd, 2:19.78.

11-12 years: Kaden Wren, 1st, 1:10.09; Conner Cupp, 3rd, 1:14.28.

15-years and over: Kyle Cure,4th, 1:04.23; Chase Rumford, 5th, 1:05.03.

200 yd. Freestyle 15-years and over: Chase Rumford, 3rd, 2:36.64; Kyle Cure, 4th, 2:38.45.

25 yd. Backstroke 8-years and under: Alex Rodriguez, 6th, 30.19.

50 yd. Backstroke 9-10 years: Brandon Smyth, 4th, 1:09.70.

11-12 years: Conner Cupp, 2nd, 37.41; Ryan Cure, 7th, 53.94.

50 yd. Breaststroke 11-12 year: Kaden Wren, 1st, 40.87; Conner Cupp, 5th, 46.14; Ryan Cure, 8th, 1:05.57.

100 yd. Breaststroke 15-years and over: Chase Rumford, 6th, 1:40.59; Kyle Cure, 7th, 1:52.43.

50 yd. Butterfly 11-12 years: Conner Cupp, 1st, 34.77; Kaden Wren, 4th, 41.44.

200 yd. Individual Medley 11-12 years: Conner Cupp, 2nd, 3:02.52; Kaden Wren, 3rd, 3:05.78.

15-years and over: Chase Rumford, 4th, 2:55.94.

200 yd. Freestyle Relay 15-years and over: Chase Rumford, Conner Cupp, Kaden Wren, Kyle Cure, 2nd, 1:55.63.

200 yd. Medley Relay 15-years and over: Kyle Cure, Kaden Wren, Conner Cupp, Chase Rumford, 3rd, 2:27.28.

SCHS Track

SRC softball/ baseball

Class 4A State Track May 30-31, 2014 • at Wichita Girl’s Division Team scores: Baldwin 71, Andale 57, Paola 42, CofScott Recreation Commission feyville-Field Kindley 42, Scott City 30, Independence 30, Standings as of June 2 Topeka-Hayden 26, Chanute 26, KC-Piper 25, Fort Scott 24, Junior Babe Ruth Ulysses 24, McPherson 22, Andover-Central 21, Wellington Scott City 12, Cimarron 2 21, Winfield 20, El Dorado 19, Atchison 19, Pratt 18, Girard 17, Buhler 14, Wamego 14, DeSoto 12, Colby 12, ChapMen’s Softball man 10, Towanda-Circle 10, Concordia 8, Smoky Valley 8, W L Basehor-Linwood 7, Perry-LeCompton 7, Goodland 6, HoytThe Rec 1 0 Royal Valley 6, Abilene 5, Tonganoxie 4, Holton 4, Louisburg Trophy Wine/Spirits 1 0 4, Clay Center 4, KC-Bishop Ward 3, Parsons 3, Russell 2, LaPlant Carpet/Tile 1 0 Eudora 2, Iola 1, Spring Hill 1, Larned 1 Wheatland Electric 0 1 Triple jump: Bailey Nickel, 12th, 32-3.

100m: Kelly Wycoff, 5th, 12.55.

Healy 0 2 200m: Wycoff, 2nd, 25.38.

400m: Wycoff, 2nd, 56.98.

Last Week’s Games 100m high hurdles: Nickel, 5th, 16.26.

The Rec 17, Wheatland 12 4x400m: 3rd, 4:08.6. Nickel, Aubrey Davis, Megan ThornTrophy Wine 22, Healy 7 burg, Wycoff.

LaPlant Carpet 17, Healy 16 Boy’s Division Team scores: Andale 69, Winfield 58, Baldwin 38, CofWomen’s Softball W L feyville-Field Kindley 33, Osawatomie 32, Ottawa 28, WichDairy Queen 1 0 ita-Trinity 28, KC-Piper 27, Perry-LeCompton 27, Paola 25, Plain Ice 1 1 McPherson 22, Shawnee Mission-Miege 20, Girard 18, TonFairleigh Feedyard 0 1 ganoxie 16, Louisburg 16, Scott City 15, Andover-Central 15, El Dorado 15, DeSoto 15, Wellington 14, Ulysses 14, Labette County 14, Santa Fe Trail 13, Augusta 13, Hugoton 12, Last Week’s Games Topeka-Hayden 11, Bonner Springs 11, Mulvane 10, ParDairy Queen 12, Plain Ice 10 sons 8, Goodland 8, Hoyt-Royal Valley 8, KC-Bishop Ward Plain Ice 14, Fairleigh Feedyard 9 6, Colby 5, Russell 5, Chapman 4, Rose Hill 4, Nickerson 4, Spring Hill 3, Fort Scott 3, KC-Sumner Academy 2, ConcorMajor League Boys dia 2, Holton 2, Clearwater 2, Buhler 2, Atchison 2, Wamego W L 1, Smoky Valley 1, Abilene 1 Platinum H Insurance 1 0 400m: Brayden Strine, 9th, 52.01.

Fairleigh Feedyard 1 0 800m: Brett Meyer, 4th, 1:57.47.

Security State Bank 1 1 4x400m: 4th, 3:28.03. Strine, Drake McRae, Wyatt Kropp, Scott County Shriners 1 1 Meyer.

Midwest Mixer 0 2 4x800m: 4th, 8:13.51. Meyer, Irvin Lozano, Miguel Chavez, Strine.

Last Week’s Games Platinum H 8, Security State 5 Shriners 13, Midwest Mixer 10 Security 10, Midwest Mixer 8 Fairleigh Feedyard 13, Shriners 9 Farm League Farm Credit Kelly Funk Agency Scott Pro Zoetis Wheatland Electric Dairy Queen

W 2 1 1 1 0 0

L 0 0 1 1 1 2

Last Week’s Games Kelly Funk Agency 14, Zoetis 4 Farm Credit 12, Wheatland 8 Scott Pro 10, Dairy Queen 9 Farm Credit 18, Scott Pro 8 Zoetis 9, Dairy Queen 7 Comet League State Farm Insurance RT’s Sporting Goods Faurot Electric First National Bank Bruce’s Carpet and Tile Smoky Hill Ag

W 2 2 1 1 0 0

L 0 0 1 1 2 2

Last Week’s Games Faurot Electric 12, Smoky Hill Ag 10 State Farm 20, 1st National 7 RT’s 21, Bruce’s Carpet 3 1st National 11, Smoky Hill Ag 5 State Farm 21, Bruce’s Carpet 2 RT’s 15, Faurot Electric 1

Fishing Report Scott State Lake Updated May 18 Channel cats: good, up to 6.5 lbs. Cutbait, shrimp, nightcrawlers and prepared baits still fished off the bottom in shallow water on flats and in coves has been good for all sizes of fish up to 5 lbs.

Crappie: fair/good; most up to 9 inches. Warm weather over the past week caused fish to move back shallow to finish up spawning activities. Fishing jigs in shallow water along rip-rapped shorelines, around laydown trees, and along the edges of the cattails should be good for spawning fish. Look for post-spawn fish to move back to the fish attractors where they can be caught vertically fishing jigs or minnows or try drifting minnows in the main body of the lake for fish suspending in open water.

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Final scenes from state track

(Above) Megan Thornburg (left) grins as fellow senior Aubrey Davis wipes away a tear at the conclusion of the 4x400m relay.

(Left) Senior Brayden Strine is unable to hold off a Winfield runner near the finish line in the 4x800m relay.

(Bottom left) Thornburg begins her leg in the 4x800m relay.

(Below) Miguel Chavez takes the baton from Irvin Lozano in the 4x800m relay where the Beavers finished fourth.

(Record Photos)

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joining Scott City’s elite 14 state medals, 3 records put Wycoff among SC’s best

Suggest to Kelly Wycoff that she’s an elite athlete and she’ll glance away and say nothing.

She’s too modest to think of herself in that way.

She prefers to think of herself as an athlete who hates to lose . . . at anything.

As she walked off the track for the final time at the conclusion of the Kansas Track and Field Championships on Saturday, Wycoff’s numbers are impressive: •14 state medals.

•3 individual gold medals.

•4 individual silver medals.

•School records in the 100m, 200m and 400m.

Not bad for the thin, somewhat scrawny girl who entered Scott Community High School with high hopes, but the realization that she was far from being an elite athlete.

“I did pretty good in junior high and I had some success my freshman year, but I wasn’t anywhere close to being among the fastest girls in (Class) 3A,” Wycoff says of her first season with the Lady Beavers.

She did qualify for state in the 200m and 400m, finishing seventh and sixth, respectively. It was hardly the kind of start that attracted attention - or

raised concern - among other sprinters around the state.

But that was about to change.

What they didn’t know about Wycoff was her determination to succeed - a competitive drive that won’t accept anything short of winning.

“I’m definitely a very competitive person. It doesn’t matter what it is. It doesn’t have to be sports,” she says.

Hitting the Weights That desire to succeed became evident in the weight room during the summer following Wycoff’s freshman year.

“I can say without a doubt that weightlifting made all the difference,” says Wycoff, who didn’t take strength training during her freshman year.

Head coach Jim Turner emphasized that in order to run faster she had to get stronger and the SCHS speedster followed his advice. She hit the weights hard during the summer and enrolled in the strength and conditioning class her sophomore year.

It also helps that Wycoff is an athlete who is “very coachable,” says Turner.

“It wasn’t as though Kelly was slow when she came into high school. As

coaches, we didn’t suddenly turn her into a great athlete,” says Turner. “She listened to us, she watches her diet, she believed in the weight program and she’s mentally tough.”

Turner says it’s typical that freshmen have a difficult time making the transition from junior high sports to the workout expectations of high school.

“After my freshman year I made a lot of progress,” Wycoff notes.

“That’s when I realized track could be my thing.”

Wycoff left no doubt that track was her thing during the state championships her sophomore year when she claimed the first of her state titles in the 200m, along with runner-up finishes in the 100m and 400m.

However, there was another moment during that meet which left a lasting impression on Wycoff.

Both of her runner-up finishes had come against Rossville standout and senior Mandy Wilson. Following the third race between the two competitors in the 200m - the final race of Wilson’s high school career - she turned to Wycoff and congratulated the upstart sophomore.

“I was so caught up in the moment about winning and I thought to myself that was pretty cool of

(Top) Kelly Wycoff competes in the finals of the 100m at this year’s Class 4A state track meet. (Above) The SCHS senior with her collection of 14 state medals.

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her,” says Wycoff. “She showed me that . . . even when you’re the best you don’t always come out on top. Your character is really shown by how you react in that situation.”

Kelly Wycoff sprints for the finish line in the 4x400m relay during Saturday’s Class 4A state finals.

(Record Photo)

2 Golds as a Junior Wycoff’s accomplishments as a sophomore established her as one of the top sprinters in Kansas and she reaffirmed that position the following year by defending her title in the 200m and adding a gold medal in the 100m to go along with another sil-

ver in the 400m.

By now, Wycoff had erased school records in all three sprints and had earned a spot among the top female athletes at SCHS. “Starting as early as my freshman year, my dad (Terry) would mention Jennifer Gruver and Deandra Doubrava. He’s big into stats and the records they had set, so I knew they were pretty special,” says Wycoff.

Gruver (1992 SCHS grad) claimed 16 state medals - 12 golds and

four silvers - while Doubrava (1994 SCHS grad) was a standout sprinter and triple jumper on the 1994 squad that claimed the Class 4A title. Doubrava went on to become a 14-time All-American and two time national champion in track and field at Emporia State University.

By the end of her junior year, Wycoff already had the distinction of topping Doubrava in 200m on the all-time SCHS list and had pushed Doubrava (57.98) out of the top spot (See WYCOFF on page 34)

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Business

Page 27 - Thursday, June 5, 2014

Self-regulation gets okay from Wheatland membership

Karen Pounds, SCHS physical education teacher, accepts a grant check from (left to right) Alli Conine, SCF community development manager; Ryan Roberts, SCF executive director, and Kent Hill, Healthcare Committee chair.

Darci Berry (second from left) and Nancy Goodman, representing Russell Child Development Center, accept a grant check from Alli Conine, SCF community development manager; Ryan Roberts, SCF executive director, and Kent Hill, Healthcare Committee chair.

Elmer Snyder (second from left), director of the Scott County VIP Center, accepts a the grant from Conine, Roberts and Hill.

Landon Frank of the Scott City Lions Club accepts a grant check from Roberts and Hill.

Brenda Birney (center), of the Scott County EMS and county EMS Director Larry Turpin accept the grant donation from Conine, Roberts and Hill.

Staff members with the Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center accepting a Foundation grant are (from left) Candice Cooper, Chris Smull, Mandie Lutz, Kelly Robbins and Connie Jackson. Foundation representatives are Conine (far left), Roberts and Hill.

$10,000 in Scott Foundation grants to promote healthier living The Scott Community Foundation awarded $10,000 in grant funding to assist with the healthcare needs and concerns in Scott County. The SCF maintains the Healthcare Fund that provides grants and funding for local healthcare initiatives.

Healthcare Grant Applications are available each year in the spring.

Grant recipients include: Operation Save Lives Scott Community High School’s Operation Save Lives project was awarded $535. The funding will help educate SCHS students and staff on how to administer CPR and First Aid to adults/children/ infants.

Funding will also be used to purchase manikins, disposable lungs, and triple-action airways to help accomplish the goal of teaching CPR skills.

Exercise for Health Scott County VIP’s Exercise for Health project was awarded $2,700.

The funding will be used to help purchase a new Recumbent Cross Trainer to be used by seniors who frequent the VIP Center.

Pedia-Vision Screener Scott City Lion’s Club was awarded $625 for a SPOT Pedia-Vision Screener. Funds will be used to help purchase the screener which is primarily used to determine

if pre-K children have often finds that many families lack basic play vision problems. tools that can support overall development in Emergency Cots Scott County Local infants and toddlers.

RCDC will use the Emergency Planning Committee was awarded funds to purchase basic, $275 to help purchase inexpensive tools that emergency cots. families can use to The LEPC is respon- enhance development.

The Health Care sible for emergency management and coordination Committee has awardof response to a disaster. ed an additional $365 One military style bar- to RCDC to be used as iatric cot and one over- needed. sized special needs cot “The committee believes that RCDC is a will be purchased. valuable resource and Early Childhood Needs fully supports the proRussell Child and gramming that they proDevelopment Center’s vide,” says Kent Hill, early development en- Healthcare Committee hancement grant was chairman. awarded $1,000.

RCDC services are SANE Training home-based. The staff Western Kansas Child

Advocacy Center was awarded $4,500 to help with SANE training and medical exams.

To enhance and continue the training that WKCAC provides for their nurses, a one-day SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner) training will be provided by Karen Groot, RN, who is the SANE/SART Unit Coordinator with Salina Regional Health Center.

This continuing education is a requirement for WKCAC’s accreditation by the National Children’s Association.

Funding will also be used to pay for medical exams of abused children who have a need for specialized care in Scott County.

The membership of Wheatland Electric Cooperative have approved a proposal to allow the electric utility to determine its own rates without oversight by the Kansas Corporation Commission.

Of the ballots returned by the members, 78% were in favor of self-regulation.

The vote gives Wheatland’s memberelected board of trustees the authority to establish electric rates for its members.

Since 1992, the State of Kansas has allowed electric cooperatives the option to self-regulate.

Additional legislation was passed in 2009 allowing cooperatives with more than 15,000 members to vote for self-regulation.

“As a cooperative, our goal is to provide our members with reliable power at a competitive price,” said Wes Campbell, board chairman.

“Eliminating unnecessary regulatory expenses will help us better serve our members and position Wheatland for future opportunities.”

PlainJans wins Business Excellence in SW region PlainJans was named a Southwest Regional Business Excellence Award winner by the Kansas Department of Commerce.

Included under the PlainJans umbrella are PlainJans, Inc., PlainJans Rentals, Inc. and Plain Ice, all in Scott City.

The business was nominated by the Scott County Development Committee.

The KDC announced 24 regional winners and 76 merit award winners in recognition of Business Appreciation Month.

Each year the department recognizes Kansas businesses and their contributions to their communities and the state economy.

The 100 businesses were nominated in one of four categories: manufacturing/distribution, service, retail and hospital/ non-profit.

EPA proposes carbon reduction for power plants The Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to reduce carbon emissions from existing power plants nationwide. The agency’s proposal leaves it up to the states to decide how best to meet the goals set by the plan.

The EPA wants Kansas to reduce carbon emissions over the next 15 years by 23 percent from the levels measured in 2012, but officials with utilities serving Kansas

Impact on Kansas utilities is still unclear don’t know yet what that might mean for them.

Katie McDonald, spokeswoman for Kansas City Power and Light, said it’s too early to know how much the company might be expected to reduce its release of carbon.

“We are still reviewing the details of the proposed rule . . . but we are pleased with the state flexibility that’s provided in the rule,” McDonald said.

KCP&L uses coal to generate more than 80 percent of the electricity it produces. The company is starting to focus more on renewable energy and reducing the demand for electricity.

According to the EPA, 63 percent of the electricity generated in Kansas comes from coal. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback issued a statement denouncing the proposed

regulations.

“Today’s news that the EPA will be imposing even more expensive regulations on Kansas utilities, and doing so without approval from Congress, is very troubling as it further disrupts the balance that must be achieved between protecting the environment and growing the economy,” Brownback said.

Sen. Pat Roberts vowed

to try to prevent the rule from being finalized.

Meanwhile, Congressman Tim Huelskamp, whose district includes the Sunflower Electric generating station near Holcomb, said the proposal would cause electric rates to skyrocket.

In her remarks outlining the new plan, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy anticipated the criticism.

“Any small, shortterm change in electricity prices would be within normal fluctuations the power sector already deals with. And any small price increase - think about the price of a gallon of milk a month - is dwarfed by huge benefits,” she said “This is an investment in better health and a better future for our kids.”

The proposal calls for states to submit their carbon reduction plans to the EPA by June 2016.

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Farm

Page 28 - Thursday, June 5, 2014

Wheat pests putting a dent in ag income

As producers across Kansas gear up for wheat harvest, two pesky insects are throttling up their efforts to put a dent in this year’s crop - along with farmers’ wallets.

Producers should start scouting crops for the wheat head armyworm and the wheat stem maggot, said Jeff Whitworth, crop entomologist for K-State Extension.

A common pest each

ag briefs

Must report acreage

by July 15 Scott County producers are reminded that the deadline for reporting planted crops to the Farm Service Agency is July 15.

Farm operators, or their land owners, are required to annually certify their acreage of all cropland uses.

Not filing a report could result in the loss of eligibility for a variety of USDA programs.

Acreage reports on crops covered by NAP are due in the FSA county office by the earlier of July 15 for spring-seeded crops, or 15 calendar days before the onset of grazing or harvest of the specific crop acreage being reported.

It is important to certify the correct crop, variety, crop shares and land use for each field on the acreage report.

Farm operators can call the Scott County FSA (872-3230) for an appointment to certify the acreage report, or to request aerial photos (maps) to expedite the reporting process.

Consumers happy with food labels

Today’s food labels have enough information for 74% of consumers, according to a survey conducted by the International Food Information Council (IFIC).

The survey evaluated what consumers knew and desired in the government-mandated food labels.

The percentage of consumers opposed to the FDA policy of labeling foods grown with biotechnology has grown to 19%, up from 14% in 2012.

However, 63% of consumers say they support the policy.

While 72% would buy biotech-modified foods with healthy fats and omega-3 fatty acids, 67% would buy bread crackers, cookies, cereal or pasta with biotech nutrient enhancers.

Two pests catch attention of state entomologists year, the wheat head armyworm’s infestation rates are up slightly this year compared to past years.

“Every year this causes some concern,” says Whitworth.

“They’re mostly a nuisance, but this year in the south central and the north central parts of the state, we’ve seen

a few more than normal.

It’s still not up to one percent, but it’s bordering on one percent infestation levels.”

Whitworth said the problem with the insect is that it can be hard to spot. Producers might not notice the armyworm’s presence this time of year.

“They’re well-camou-

flaged,” he said. “They’re slender, and they stretch out on the head. If you’re out looking at your crop as it just starts to turn golden, you may notice bumps on the heads. Those are the worms stretched out.”

The worm dives in and gorges on the wheat kernel. The pest sometimes feeds on the awn of the

wheat plant, but it most often feeds on and damages the wheat seed.

The wheat head armyworm’s larger and longer mandibles allow it to “feed a little more on the seed” than most other caterpillars, Whitworth said.

And though the pest certainly leaves its mark on the kernel, damage from

the armyworm does not typically lead to yield losses in the field.

Instead, it causes aesthetic loss to the wheat that could translate to financial loss at the buyer or co-op level, Whitworth said. Producers might get “Insect Damaged Kernel” or “IDK” dockage, just because armyworm damage is evident.

(See PESTS on page 29)

Ag lenders growing less optimistic See decline in land values, spike in interest rates Lower expected land values, increased anticipated interest rates and an expected increase in non-performing loans has agricultural lenders less optimistic than they were last fall according to the Spring 2014 Agricultural Lender Survey conducted by the Kansas State University Department of Agricultural Economics.

The semi-annual, nationwide survey of lending institutions specialized in agriculture gauges short- and long-term

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Mary Soukup, editor Drovers CattleNetwork

expectations of various aspects of the future lending environment.

The most recent survey focused on the following areas: farm loan interest rates; spread over cost of funds; farm loan volumes; non-performing loan volumes; and farm land values. Within each area, different loan types were assessed and responses were categorized by agricultural sector (corn and soybeans, wheat, beef, dairy, etc.).

Total agricultural loan vol-

ume of all respondents was estimated at $144 billion.

Survey respondents indicated that loan interest rates increased slightly for farm real estate loans but decreased slightly for farm operating loans. Looking ahead, in the short- and long-term it is anticipated that interest rates for all agricultural loans will increase.

As expected, farm loan volume increased over the past three months, and survey respondents said they expect all farm loan categories to increase in volume in the shortand long-term. Operating loan volume, according to the survey, has remained steady in

the last quarter but is expected to increase in the future. One respondent said, “The shortterm prospects for new loans and non-performing loans are being influenced by the drop in corn prices. However, this has been good for livestock and ethanol production…”

With regard to non-performing loans, all categories of non-performing loans have decreased in the past three months, but survey respondents said they expect these will begin to increase in the next year.

In fact, over 40 percent more of survey respondents said they think non-performing (See LENDERS on page 29)

Oregon county forbids GMO crops Voters in Jackson County, Ore., have passed a ballot initiative mandating what crops farmers can or cannot grow on their land.

The initiative, which passed by nearly a two-toone margin, bans county farmers from growing any genetically engineered plants.

“Regrettably ideol-

Farm Bureau objects to EPA decision The American Farm Bureau has added its voice to those objecting to the EPA’s latest proposal to limit greenhouse gases.

The EPA’s attempt to impose a 30-percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions on the nation’s power plants will lead to higher energy prices, AFBF contends.

Farmers will face not just higher prices for electricity, but any energy-related input such as fertilizer, says AFBF President Bob Stallman.

He said that rural electric cooperatives which rely on old coal plants for cheap electricity will be especially hard hit.

The AFBF is only one of many dissenters to the EPA rule change plan.

ogy defeated sound science and common sense in Jackson County,” said Oregon Farm Bureau president Barry Bushue.

Oregon’s state legislature passed a pre-emption law last session, intended to prevent counties from enacting individual bans, but Jackson County was exempted in the bill because the ballot initia-

tive was already underway when the law went into effect.

Another Oregon county passed a similar initiative that the state likely will challenge under the preemption law, and three other counties are planning similar voter initiatives.

The issue remains contentious in Oregon

Market Report Closing prices on June 3, 2014 Winona Feed and Grain Bartlett Grain Wheat..................

White Wheat .......

$ 6.85 $

NA

Milo ....................

$ 4.25

Soybeans ...........

$ 14.31

Corn ...................

$ 4.63

Wheat..................

$ 6.85

Milo (bu.).............

$ 4.26

White Wheat .......

Corn....................

$ 6.85

N/A

$ 4.65

Weather

Scott City Cooperative Wheat..................

$

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L

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$ 6.85

May 27

88

51

May 28

92

54

Corn....................

$ 4.63

May 29

94

56

Sunflowers..........

$ 16.10

May 30

90 64

May 31

88

June 1

93 67 .02

June 2

87 60

White Wheat .......

Milo (bu.).............

Soybeans ...........

ADM Grain

$ 4.25

$ 14.19

Wheat..................

$ 6.88

Corn....................

$ 4.68

Sunflowers..........

$ NA

Milo (bu.).............

Soybeans............

$ 4.30 $ 14.31

65

Moisture Totals May

.02

2014 Total

1.97

and elsewhere, and even among the “organic,” non-GMO community, some see the legislation as a bad idea.

In a commentary in Agri Marketing, Mischa Popoff, a former organic farmer and USDAcontract organic inspector, stresses that organic growers should be able to market their products

on their own merit, rather than using legislation to stifle the competition. Let consumers decide.

“For years we argued that the farming community should respect our right to be organic,” he says. “(But with this vote) we’ve gone yet one more step down the road to denying our neighbors their rights.”

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Kansas takes on fight against new LPC regulations

Rather than mandating conservation regulations on Kansas farmers, ranchers and energy producers, Gov. Sam Brownback is urging the federal government to take a different approach in its efforts to stop the population decline of the Lesser Prairie Chicken.

In March, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)

Pests The pest is not a picky eater, Whitworth said, so farmers can expect to see damage from the armyworm field-wide. They’ve been feeding now for the last two to three weeks, and they’re just starting to become mature worms or mature larvae.

Now is the time to scout for the wheat head armyworm, he said, as the insect is currently actively feeding in fields. Unless producers have their eyes peeled, they might not notice the damage.

“The damage is not pronounced, so you don’t notice it unless you’re out actually looking for it,” he said. “Take a sweep net out, and sweep sample your wheat.”

Whitworth said he has already noticed several fields where larvae are starting to cause feeding damage on the kernel.

Producers should look for small holes leading into the kernel. “(Larvae) will feed right on the kernel itself, and they can actually go through a whole head,” he said. “Generally, they’ll feed on a few kernels on one head and move to another head, so they’re doing more damage than you suspect.”

If producers seek to treat their crops for the insect, Whitworth said they should be mindful of pesticide labels. The wheat head armyworm is a common pest, but producers don’t normally spray for it. Therefore, it lacks presence on many labels.

“Even if you have a 10 percent or 20 percent infestation and decide you want to treat your

announced plans to list the Lesser Prairie Chicken as a “Threatened Species.”

The listing will affect the LPC’s range, which includes land in Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.

Brownback sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewel and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack requesting the agencies suspend all current regu-

latory actions until all proposed plans are reviewed and considered, take into consideration the role precipitation, or lack thereof, plays in the shifting population patterns of the LPC, and consider opportunities available through existing conservation programs, including the CRP and the Environmental Quality Incentives Program.

“Currently, USDA is taking acres out of CRP in

Kansas, and at the same time the Department of the Interior is trying to put more land in longterm conservation easements by regulating the Lesser Prairie Chicken and putting it as a listed threatened species,” Gov. Brownback said. “This is working at cross purpose.”

Brownback said the state was also expanding its participation in

Wheat Stem Maggot Another pest Kansas farmers should have on their radar is the wheat stem maggot. Though the maggot causes less direct damage than the wheat head armyworm, it takes a toll on the producer’s final product.

The wheat stem maggot is a fly larva that causes the wheat heads to turn noticeably white in fields across Kansas. Whitworth said that like the wheat head armyworm, infestation rates are likely less than one percent currently.

Against the green or golden of the wheat, the damaged white heads caused by the insect are easy to spot.

“As you look out there, they’re very distinctive,” Whitworth said. “Because the wheat stem maggot is in the stem, you don’t notice it until it has killed the head, and the head turns white.”

The pest burrows up through the stem and kills the head. Whitworth said producers can confirm the insect’s presence if they can easily remove the head from the plant.

The maggot’s damage is likely done, he said, as by now it has crawled down to the base of the plant and is in the soil pupating. Unfortunately, efforts to stop the wheat stem maggot now will likely be unsuccessful.

Whitworth said the maggot generally causes far less than one percent killed heads in the field.

However, the practice of double cropping corn or sorghum into wheat stubble after harvest can produce a feeding ground for the wheat stem maggot.

A few years ago, he said this practice caused some producers a real headache when the eggs from the previous crop of flies hatched and began munching away at the germinating corn and sorghum plants.

“This year, nearly all the corn has an insecticide seed treatment, so that’s probably not going to be a problem,” Whitworth said. “The insecticides seem to work pretty well on the maggots themselves. However, that’s not always the case with sorghum.”

If sorghum lacks insecticide treatment, he said producers could be at risk if they notice white heads in their wheat crop. White heads mean flies, and flies mean maggots in subsequent crops.

“If it’s not treated with insecticide, (maggots) can do a number on the germi-

studies in the state showing “erratic shifts” in population numbers during the 1950s due to precipitation levels.

According to the USFWS, in 2013, the LPC population was estimated to be 17,616, almost 50 percent less than the 2012 population estimate, a year of significant drought throughout the range states.

Lenders

(continued from page 28)

field, you need to read the label,” Whitworth said.

“Make sure that particular insect is on the label.”

Producers should also make sure the pre-harvest interval is such that they’re going to be able to spray, and the spray will dissipate and won’t still be around at the time of harvest. Failure to follow the pre-harvest interval on a pest control label is a violation of federal law.

“Some of the products have a 24-hour interval, and some of them have 14 days,” Whitworth said. “We’re probably far enough out yet that it’s not a problem, but those worms are going to continue to be out there for another week or two.”

the Oklahoma lawsuit by asking for more time for people to be able to assess various plans, not just the federal plan but other plans, for species preservation and expansion.

While the agency determined a listing was necessary due to ongoing population declines, Brownback said the LPC population has fluctuated through the years in Kansas. He pointed to

nating crop following the wheat,” Whitworth said.

Wheat seed treatments utilized in the fall will not carry over into the spring for either the wheat head armyworm or the wheat stem maggot, he said.

“The maggots will be successfully controlled by a seed treatment in corn or sorghum, but not by wheat that was planted last fall,” Whitworth said.

“The insecticide just does not carry over through vernalization into the spring at sufficient levels to actually control the flies. That’s why you’ll see those white heads scattered throughout your wheat crop.”

(continued from page 28)

loans will increase in the long-term than those who think they will go down. Specifically, an increase in non-performing loans for corn and soybeans and wheat are expected in the short-term, and in the longterm, respondents expect an increase in non-performing cotton loans.

It is expected that non-performing loans in the beef, dairy and poultry sectors will continue to decrease over the next year.

Respondents said land prices increased in the past three months, but expectations for the short- and longterm are for prices to decrease. Nearly 60 percent of respondents said they anticipate land values to decrease in the next two to five years.

Farm Equipment Wednesday, June 11 • 10:00 a.m.

Sunday, February Location: 2 • 11:00 a.m. From Scott City, on Hwy 83, south 14 miles, and 5.5 east miles on Scott-Finney County line

Greg Skibbe - Owner

Harvesting Equipment 1988 IHC 1680 combine, 30 ft. header, bin extension, 5,418 hrs.

JD 853A row head IHC 8-row corn head IHC 4-row corn head J & M grain cart, 875 bushel Tractors and Sprayer 2007 Ag Chem Rogator SS1074 self-propelled sprayer, 2,847 hrs.

1080 gal. tank, 90 ft. booms, Viper monitor (good shape) 1990 Case IH 7140 tractor, MFW, 3 pt., pto, quick hitch, duals, 8,628 hrs.

1974 Versatile 850 tractor, 4-wheel drive, 3 pt., 8,476 hrs.

Trucks 1988 White Volvo semi-truck, 11-spd. trans., Cummins 444 motor 1982 Merritt grain trailer, 40 ft. with tarp

1975 IHC Fleet Star truck, 13-spd. trans., diesel motor, twin screw, 18 ft. bed and hoist, Westfield hydraulic drill fill auger Farm Equipment Richardson 9x5 sweep plow with pickers Flex King 60 ft. rod weeder 1984 Caulkins chisel with harrows, 44 ft.

Buffalo 8-row close row cultivator 4-Case IH 7100 hoe drills 10” x 10’ with transports Rhino SE 15-4A bat wing mower Big Ox 13 shank ripper IHC 800 cyclo planter, 8-row, pull type, with fertilizer attach.

Crustbuster 30 ft. springtooth Carry ALL dirt mover, Model 23, 18 yard Rhino 1500 hydraulic rear blade, 3 pt.

Krause 30 ft. tandem disk

Other Farm Items Hutchinson 50’ x 8” auger, pto Pickup bed trailer Mac Ray chemical injector 8 inch surge valves Irrigation motors Milo, corn and sunflower seed Shop Items Hydraulic press Welding table Small electric hand tools Lots of parts, repairs, bolts, etc.

Porta Power Ram 1 inch socket set Lincoln cordless grease gun Ideal Arc 250 amp welder Victor cutting torch and gauges Millermatic 252 wire welder Lincoln 150 amp AC/DC portable welder Sun 12 spd. drill press Parts washer Hand tools Shop fan 1 inch air impact gun Jacks Lots of other items

Boat and Camper 1993 Ranger bass boat, 18 ft. with trailer, Evenrude 150 hp. motor, trolling motor, depth finder 1969 Holiday Rambler camper trailer, 28 ft.

Vehicles 2000 Dodge Ram 2500 pickup, V-10 motor, automatic 1997 Dodge Ram 2500 pickup, ext. cab, automatic, 12valve Cummins 1990 Buick Park Ave. car, 4-door 1986 Chevy pickup, 6.2 liter diesel motor, automatic 1982 Chevy Camaro car, wrecked, recent rebuilt 305 motor Willys Jeep, 230 Jeep motor, non-running 1950? Chevy Pickup VIN 50P19850 non-running 1956? Lincoln car, 4-door, non-running 1930s IHC truck chassis, non-running

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Card of Thanks A big thank you to our friends and family for the cards and notes for our 60th wedding anniversary. Our day was brightened all the more by your outpouring of good wishes.

Larry and Bette Haverfield The Kathy Dirks family would like to say a sincere thank you to all those who showered us with kindness before and after her passing.

First of all, we would like to thank hospice for the great care they gave Kathy. Everyone we worked with was very compassionate and really made things easier for us.

Thank you to the Pence Community Church members who brought food, came to visit and for your prayers.

We would also like to thank Don and Tara Williams for all their visits and their help in the last few days that we had with Kathy. The service that you put together was a great tribute to the great lady she was. To those who helped mow and clean up the cemetery, a big thank you.

It looked great for the service.

Carol, Rachel and Don thank you for the beautiful music before and during the service. We appreciate you playing the songs Kathy requested for her service. Thank you also to everyone who helped with the funeral including those who sat up/cleaned up for it and those that helped park cars. We would also like to thank Sheri Scott and all the others who helped with wonderful meal you prepared the day of the funeral. You had a large crowd to work with and everything was perfect.

Also, thanks to everyone who provided meals after Kathy passed. The food was delicious and very much appreciated. A big thanks to John and Teresa Biermann and the Mennonites who brought food for Thursday and Friday night when we had lots of family to feed. A big thank you to Armin and Vicki Sowers, for all the visits and help with many different tasks during Kathy’s illness and after. Words cannot express our gratitude for all you have done and continue to do.

Also a big thank you goes to Darel Dirks. We appreciate you checking in on our family before and after Kathy’s passing. It means more to us than you know. Lastly, we would like to thank the community of friends around us.

Thank you for the cards, food, prayers and visits. It all has meant so much to all of us.

Oren Dirks and Family

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––––––––––––––––––––– BERRY LAWN MOWING now accepting new customers. Evenings and weekends. Call for estimate 214-1135. Leave a 30tfc message.

––––––––––––––––––––– GRAND CHOICE RENOVATIONS Now Serving Scott City and all surrounding areas! FREE walk thru and Quote!

817-629-0221 • Cell: 620214-2502 Interior and Exterior Home Renovating/ Remodeling. The RIGHT way, the Grand Choice 39t4p way!

OFFICE MANAGER for Royal Beef. Experience with turn key computer system. Call Richard or Mark at 620-872-5371.

FAMILY HOME

With over 3,100 sq. ft. there’s room for everybody. 3 + 1(or 2) bedrooms, 1 3/4 + 3/4 baths, family room and rec room, indoor sauna, Pella windows up(except 3 rooms). Plus DA garage, sprinkler, nice covered patio, wood fence with footing-steel posts, corner lot, brick. GREAT AREA! Call for details!

Lawrence and Associates

PRICE REDUCED! 5 bedrooms, 1 3/4 baths, S/A garage, full basement, newer windows, paint, and flooring! Located in a nice neighborhood with low traffic! $134,000.

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

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––––––––––––––––––––– ATTENDANT CARE GIVER to provide parttime in home care for elderly women. For more information contact Carolyn West 620-872-3583 or 43t2p 620-872-2506.

––––––––––––––––––––– WELDER/FABRICATOR wanted. Some experience preferred. Contact Jerry’s Welding Service, 620-872-7248 for more in43tfc formation.

––––––––––––––––––––– TRUCK DRIVER. The John E. Jones Oil CO., Inc., is looking for experienced local CDL truck driver to join our dedicated company driver team, hauling refined fuel for our customers in the Scott City, area. Successful candidate for the CDL truck driver role must have tractor trailer experience and is committed to providing safe and reliable transportation of hazardous materials. Additional requirements include: Valid Class A CDL license, verifiable experience driving Class A tractor trailers (recent), Hazmat and Tanker Endorsements required, tanker experience preferred, exceptional driving record, ability to pass DOT physical, drug screen, driving evaluation, work history verification, and safety record review.

43t2c 800-323-9821.

For Sale 1986 HOLIDAY MOTOR HOME sleeps 4, AC works. See at 104 Church or call 620-33843tfc 6436.

BEAUTIFULLY REMODELED

Agriculture

Rentals HIDE AND SEEK STORAGE SYSTEMS. Various sizes available.

Virgil and LeAnn Kuntz, (620)874-2120.

41tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– 1 BEDROOM APARTMENT $475 a month. Includes all utilities except electricity. Call 620-5210039.

42t4c ––––––––––––––––––––– 2 BEDROOM/1 BATH, all bills paid including cable and internet. Available June 15. Stop by PlainJan’s to fill out an application 620-8725777.

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WANTED TO BUY. Stored corn. Call for basis and contract information.

1-800-579-3645.

Lane County Feeders, Inc. 32tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– WANTED TO BUY. Wheat straw delivered.

Call for contracting information. Lane County Feeders. 397-5341. 44tfc

Real Estate 2 STORY HOME, 3 bedroom, 2 baths, 2,050 sq. ft., move in ready, all appliances, lots of storage, carport, covered deck, garden shed, large corner lot, $82,000. Call Major 620-874-0482.

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GARAGE SALES Fri. and Sat., June 6-7 Moving Sale

1102 Prairie Ave., Scott City Friday: 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Saturday: 8:00-noon

Clothing, books, bedding items, funiture, and lots of misc.

Moving Sale

Behind 104 Church, Scott City Friday: 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

Saturday: 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

Sunday: 2:00-6:00 p.m.

By garage in alley.

Garage Sale

504 York, Scott City

Saturday: 8:00 a.m.-noon Furniture, mattress set, microwave shelf, smoker, tools, Kindle, Acer laptop, file cabinets and much more.

Yard Sale

1006 Cedar Dr., Scott City

Saturday: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Lots of miscellaneous marked very low and lots of FREE stuff in good condition.

Moving Sale

111 W. 7th, Scott City

Friday: 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Saturday: 8:00-11:00 a.m.

25¢ clothing, home decor, small furniture, dishes, bedding and much more.

Yard Sale

1311 Glenn St., Scott City

2009 home in central location, can be 3 bedrooms, 1 3/4 baths, large double garage with additional 876 sq. ft. of living space

EASTRIDGE

Buy lots in the Eastridge addition for your new home location.

5 Lots in NW Webster 3rd addition.

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 42tfc

Saturday: 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.

Surround sound system, lawn and garden equipment, mag rims, table and chairs, desk, Garmin, dance costumes, tools and much more!

Garage Sale

1307 Glenn St., Scott City Friday: 1:00-8:00 p.m.

Saturday: 8:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.

Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, sandblaster, drills, drill bit sharpener, GM rebuilt alternators, wheel pullers, various HP electric motors, router, various tools, repaired bicycles, lots of misc. and some household items.

Garage Sale

1107 Court St., Scott City

Saturday: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Antique pot belly stove, silver tea set, XM radio with boombox and accessories gazelle, Nordic Track, exercise equipment, large motorcycle helmet, small tv, 2 strollers, furniture, books, toys, men’s, women’s and children’s clothes, kitchen, household items, lots and lots of misc.

Estate Sale

1203 Elizabeth, Scott City

Friday, June 13: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Saturday, June 14: 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Household items, clothing, tools, lawn and garden, fishing, and misc.

Yard Sale

1011 Cedar Dr., Scott City Friday: 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Saturday: 8:00 a.m.-noon Baby items, microwave, electric pencil sharpener, trap set ???, car ramps, teacher materials and more.

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Employment Opportunities SEEKING BIDS

HOUSEKEEPING

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

Emergency Management is currently seeking bids for a New or PRE-OWNED pickup. Pre-Owned pickup must have 15,000 miles or less. For bid specifications contact the County Clerk’s office at 620-872-2420.

Bids must be returned no later than June 16, 2014 to the: Scott County Clerk 303 Court Street Scott City, KS 67871 Mark envelopes “pickup bids”.

Unified School District No. 466 is looking for a qualified applicant for a full-time housekeeping position at Scott City Middle School.

McCarty Farms Scott City is accepting applications for a full-time Administrative Assistant.

Good verbal, written, and organizational skills are required. Computer knowledge of Microsoft required.

To apply, submit an application and resume to: McCarty Dairy, P.O. Box 968, Colby, Ks. 67701; or call 785-460-0596.

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Want to Work? Check Us Out! Competitive wages, advancement opportunities, hourly bonus pay, flexible schedules and friendly environment.

Pick up your application now: 1502 S. Main, Scott City.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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WAREHOUSE SUPERVISOR MICRO, a division of MWI Veterinary Supply Co. has an opening for a warehouse supervisor in Scott City.

Responsible for supervising and coordinating product movement through the warehouse within specified productivity, cost and quality standards. High School diploma or equivalent required. Previous warehouse/distribution experience is preferred.

Stable Monday-Friday shift.

To apply, complete application at www.mwivet.com Career Tab.

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For applications and additional information please contact: Rusty Lindsay Board of Education Building 704 College, Scott City, Ks. 67871 (620)-872-7655 USD #466 is an EOE Employer.

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Unified School District No. 466 is looking for a qualified applicant for a full-time (August 1-May 31) school nurse position.

Application deadline is June 6, 2014.

For applications and additional information please contact: Susan Carter Board of Education Building 704 College, Scott City, Ks. 67871 (620) 872-7600 USD #466 is an EOE Employer.

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SEEKING PROPOSALS Scott County Commission is seeking proposals for the demolition of the vacant Scott County Hospital building located at 310 East 3rd St., Scott City, Ks. This facility is 23,100 sq. ft. on the ground level and 5,625 ft. of basement.

Bid should include demolition and removal of all debris. There will be no charge for debris hauled to the Scott County Landfill.

Bids should be submitted to the Scott County Clerk 303 Court St., Scott City, Ks. 67871 before noon on June 30, 2014.

The Commission reserves the right to accept or reject all bids.

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PARK LANE NURSING HOME Has openings for the following positions: Full-time CNA/CMA (evening shift) PRN-LPN/RN Full-time LPN/RN Full-time Restorative Aide/CNA Housekeeping 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”

PHYSICIAN CLINIC PRN RN/LPN PHYSICIAN CLINIC PRN RN/LPN NEEDED. Scott County Hospital is seeking a PRN RN/LPN to work directly with the providers.

Responsiblities would be to fill in when full-time staff is taking vacation, or would be called in on short notice if someone is ill, and other times as necessary. Responsible for triage calls, working with patients and doing medication refills per protocol.

Applicant must be neat, organized, have strong communication skills and be computer literate.

Confidentiality is mandatory.

Take advantage of this opportunity to be part of a progressive professional practice and to make a difference in people’s lives!

Applications are available through Human Resources at Scott County Hospital 201 Albert Ave. Scott City, Ks. 67871 620-872-7772 or online at www.scotthospital.net

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Serving Southwest Kansas Since 1961 EOE – Drug Free Workplace

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

PRN DIETARY AIDE/COOK POSITION PRN DIETARY AIDE/COOK POSITION. Scott County Hospital is seeking a dependable, motivated person for the nutritional services department PRN Dietary Aide/Cook.

Responsibilies would be on an as needed basis.

Job duties include food preparation and other departmental tasks.

Applicants must have a high standard of cleanliness and be able to read, speak and understand English. Experience preferred but will train the right person. Pre-employment physical, drug screen and TB skin test required. Scott County Hospital is a tobacco free facility.

Applications are available through Human Resources at Scott County Hospital 201 Albert Ave. Scott City, Ks. 67871 620-872-7772 or online at www.scotthospital.net

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Compass Health Connection: The Health Home is a system of care that facilitates access to and coordination of the full array of primary and acute physical health services, behavioral health care, and community-based services and support.

Health Home Nurse Case Manager Will identify Manage Care Organization Health Home members with high risk environmental, medical and/or complex health care. Ensures completion of a Health Action Plan, assessing members’ physical, behavioral and social needs. Collaborates with all those involved regarding the Health Action Plan for members. Minimum Qualifications: RN, APRN, BSN or LPN actively licensed to practice in Kansas. Minimum of three years of experience in a position of similar scope in a health-related business; five or more years preferred. Ability to work independently and in cooperation with others; Strong organizational skills.

Health Home Care Coordinator Coordinate wellness services for Compass Behavioral Health clients in order to ensure a holistic, whole-person approach is taken towards providing a health home for all eligible patients. The self motivated individuals will identify and engage clients in home health care coordination. Collaborates with clients, family members and all others regarding issues related to the health care system, financial and social barriers. Minimum Qualifications: BSW or BS/BA in a related field or Mental Health Targeted Case Manager or an I/DD Targeted Case Manager or Person-Centered Case Manager.

Candidates must pass KBI, SRS, motor vehicle screens, and have a valid driver’s license.

Benefits Include: Retirement: fully vested at time of employment Health/Dental Insurance: portion of premium paid by agency Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability: premium paid by agency Holiday, Bereavement and Vacation/Sick days.

Applications are available at www.compassbh.com Applications/Resumes can be sent to: Compass Behavioral Health Attn: HR PO Box 1905 Garden City, KS 67846; E-mail hr@compassbh.org or faxed to 620-272-0171 43t4c

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in the 400m with a season Wycoff’s State Placings by Year best of 57.96.

100m 200m 400m 4x400 Entering her senior year, the big question was Freshman 7th 6th whether Wycoff could sweep all three sprints in Sophomore 2nd 1st 2nd 6th state track.

Change of Classification There was one other factor that got in the way of that dream - a change in classification for SCHS. In September, it was announced that the school had gained just enough enrollment to make the jump into Class 4A. The landscape had suddenly shifted for Wycoff.

“At first I was really frustrated, along with a lot of other kids in school. I was probably that way for too long,” she says.

It took another conversation with her dad to reshape her thinking.

“We talked about how I will just need to work even harder. I kept reminding myself that if I could do well in (Class) 4A that would say more about me as an athlete than winning at 3A,” she said. “4A is so much harder. No one could say that I got by easy because I was competing in 3A.” “It took awhile to get into that mindset,” admits Wycoff.

The senior had an outstanding season, winning every 100m, 200m and 400m race entering the state track meet.

Ironically, it was a race in which she didn’t win gold which may have done the most to build her confidence heading into her final state championship.

During the 4x400m relay at regional, a lot of confusion and a couple of near collisions in the exchange zone saw the favored Lady Beavers in dead last when Wycoff took the baton to begin her anchor leg.

Wycoff met the challenge by running a 56.5 split that moved her relay into third place and qualified them for state.

“After it was done I felt fortunate to be put into that situation. Until then, I don’t know that I could have been ready mentally to run a 57 (second) 400 at state, which is what I figured it might take to win,” she says.

A 400m Dual After a somewhat disappointing fifth place finish in the 100m during Saturday’s state finals - which was more than 3/10 of a second off her season best - Wycoff had to regroup for what many felt would be one of the premier races in the state meet. Wycoff, Morgan Lober (Baldwin) and Courtney Griffiths (Winfield) were the class of the field with sub-58 second 400m times in their respective regional meets.

“When they were an-

Junior

1st

1st

2nd

2nd

Senior

5th

2nd

2nd

3rd

Wycoff’s Career Bests

100m 200m 400m * school record

12.21* 25.02* 56.98*

nouncing us for the finals they said I was a two-time runner-up and that Lober had the fastest time in the state and Griffiths had the second fastest. It made me feel like I was being overlooked, but that was a good thing,” Wycoff says.

“I figured they’d be more worried about each other and no one would be worried about a girl who barely broke 58 seconds. I felt like the pressure was more on them.”

Wycoff ran a career best 56.98 that took nearly a full second off her school record. However, it was 16/100 of a second behind Lober as the duo turned in the two fastest times of all classes in the state meet.

In her final race, Wycoff again had to settle for a silver medal in the 200m in a time of 25.38 - just 22/100 of a second behind Andre’a Newton (Coffeyville-Kindley).

“The 200 (meter) is still my favorite race, but the 400 has found a new spot in my heart,” Wycoff says. “In the past, I’ve been kind of scared about the 400. It’s been kind of intimidating. Now, after being that close to a girl who was praised as being the fastest 400 girl in the state, that’s given me a new perspective.”

Despite all the individual success, Wycoff remains the consummate team member. When it comes to identifying the highlight of her track career, she doesn’t point to what would seem an obvious answer, such as the gold medal performances in the 100m or 200m.

Instead, it was a second place finish by the 4x400m relay team during her junior year which earned the Lady Beavers a third place team trophy that Wycoff remembers most.

“That was pretty special,” says Wycoff. “The three girls on that relay team are my closest friends and it was amazing to share a team trophy with them.”

Her track career has also given Wycoff a better perspective on what it takes to be a leader.

“Before regional and state, Coach Turner invited some eighth grade girls to practice with us. He

said I invited them so they could see our work ethic.

It makes you realize how what you’re doing can influence others and, hopefully, make them want to do even better,” she says.

She also recalls one day of particularly hard workouts during the week before state.

“We had girls who were struggling that day, and I remember when (Turner) decided to cut the workout a little short. I was still ready to do more,” she notes. “I wouldn’t have felt that way a year ago.

That’s how far I’d come in my desire to improve and compete at 4A. “I knew I had to work hard every day. I couldn’t afford to take any shortcuts.”

The next stop for Wycoff will be Ft. Hays State University where she expects to focus on the 200m, 400m and compete on the 4x400m relay.

She’ll also be joined by Wilson who is transferring from Highland Community College where she has been competing in track for the last two seasons.

“It’s another chance to compete at a higher level and see just how good I can become,” says Wycoff.