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30 Pages • Four Sections

Volume 21 • Number 44

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Published in Scott City, Ks.

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Wheat sees little benefit from recent rain

After watching major storms dump several inches of rain all around Scott County during the past week, local residents were wondering if . . . or when . . . they would get some drought relief.

The wait ended with a long, soaking rain of 1.65 inches in Scott City that began Sunday evening and continued throughout most of Monday.

Between June 5-9, Scott City received 2.35 inches of rain -

more than double the 1.97 inches of moisture recorded through the first five months of the year.

However, there were also reports from local residents of up to 2-1/2 inches of rain on Sunday night and Monday.

Given the late stage of wheat development, the rains will likely have a minimal impact on the crop that could be harvested within the next two weeks.

“This could help the irrigated wheat that’s a little later in de-

veloping. Those (wheat) heads could fill out a little more,” says Richard Randall who farms north of Scott City.

It’s possible that it could help improve the quality of some dryland wheat.

Farmers who visited the Scott County wheat test plot on the Randall farm on the morning of June 5 - several hours after a late evening shower of 55/100 was reported in Scott City - may have been surprised

at the overall appearance of the 21 wheat varieties.

“We’d had a little rain in April, so the test plot looked pretty decent,” says Randall.

As with test plots throughout Western Kansas, because of the drought there was very little evidence of insect or fungal diseases.

Just as in recent years, yields are projected to be all over the place depending on who benefitted from spotty rains and

when they arrived. Dryland yields could range anywhere between 5-40 bushels, according to Randall, while irrigated could average 50-60 bushels.

Some Areas Still Dry While a wider area covering Lane, Scott and Wichita counties seemed to be getting rain during the past week, some fields were still being bypassed.

“We’ve had several nice rains (See WHEAT on page two)

Fall timetable for city-owned airport hangar Specifications have been approved and the big-letting process has begun for a new community hangar at the Scott City Airport, though some details of the project were still to be worked out.

The city has been assured of receiving $300,000 in funds through the Federal Aviation Administration with another $30,000 to be funded locally.

According to Darin Neufeld, an engineer with EBH and Associates, Great Bend, the city will receive no additional federal funding, but the council has the option of adding to the project provided those costs are picked up by the city.

Neufeld said it’s possible that FAA funding could arrive in time to begin construction this fall.

The council has discussed the possibility of doors at the east and west ends of the hangar which would allow for easier access to aircraft. A current problem with the main hangar is that several aircraft have to be moved in order to get to a plane which may be in the back. That creates more risk of damage.

However, it was estimated the additional door will cost between $20,000 and $30,000.

(See AIRPORT on page two)

RFL coming to SC on June 20

Scott County’s annual Relay for Life will be held on Friday and Saturday, June 20-21, at the Scott Community High School football field.

Survivors will begin registering on the south side of the football stadium at 6:00 p.m.

RFL activities will get underway at 7:00 p.m. Featured speaker for the opening ceremony will be Shelly Wagner, a Hero of Hope caregiver from Satanta.

Throughout the evening there will be carnival games and concession booths.

Luminarias can be purchased throughout the early evening for $10 each. The luminaria ceremony will take place at 9:00 p.m.

Guest speaker for this part of the program will be cancer survivor Meghan Urwin.

(See RFL on page two)

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final farewell

Thoughts and memories shared during Dole’s stop in Scott City Few people have had a more significant role in Kansas politics than former Sen. Bob Dole.

The World War II veteran, Congressman and one-time Republican presidential nominee has long held a special place among Kansans. That was evident during a stop in Scott City on Tuesday afternoon - part of a 105-county farewell tour by the 90-year-old native of Russell.

Nearly 70 people heard comments from Dole at the Scott County Library conference room, many staying around afterwards to have their photo taken with him. Among them was Scott City resident Steve Compton who brought with him a letter that Dole had sent during a particularly difficult time in his life. The letter arrived in May of 1988 and Compton, then a senior at Scott Community High School, had been involved in a vehicle accident that left him paralyzed.

“It meant a lot that someone who was that busy and that important had taken time out of their schedule to send a letter of encouragement,” says Compton.

“After I got the letter from him, it was right before our high school graduation, so I submitted a graduation announcement to him and also enclosed one for President Reagan. I didn’t expect them

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(Top) Former Sen. Bob Dole allows himself a smile after giving a one-liner during Tuesday’s stop in Scott City. (Above) Former World War II veterans Dole and Ralph Payne share a few thoughts. (Photos by Larry Caldwell)

to attend, but I figured why not send an invitation.”

In response, Compton did get a letter and photo from President Reagan. Upon graduation from Kansas State University, Compton received a congratulatory letter from then Sen. Dole.

“Apparently I was still on his radar,” says Compton with a grin.

However, the Scott City native had

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even more reason to be appreciative of Dole’s time in Congress. Dole proudly points to passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, which he helped to author, as one of his proudest achievements. The ADA required the retrofitting of buildings and sidewalks for the handicapped and provided an array of other rights for the disabled.

(See DOLE on page eight)

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Committee report: no change in water rates

After reviewing water rates, a committee of Scott City Council members has recommended to the governing body that current rates remain unchanged.

The committee was appointed in response to some community members who felt the new rate structure was too high.

“The public needs to understand that improvements to the water infrastructure have to

RFL

come from water rates,” noted Councilman Everett Green.

The city cannot use general fund tax dollars within the water department. It is required to be self-supporting.

“We need to reinvest in the system,” said Green. “When we have one of the lowest rates in the state it’s hard to do that.”

It was also pointed out that the city’s wells are pump-

Wheat

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This will be followed by more games that include a tug-of-war, cape contests, lap contests, hoola hoop contests, a scavenger hunt and a sing-along.

A “fight back ceremony” will begin at about 11:00 p.m., challenging everyone to “find a way to personally fight back against cancer in their lives,” says Jamie Parkinson, a RFL specialist for Western Kansas.

The closing program will begin at about 2:30 a.m. with the RFL concluding at 3:00 a.m.

Dance Friday at VIP Center

“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 (872-3564).

over the past week,” said Lane County farmer Vance Ehmke. On his farm seven miles west of Dighton he had received about 2-1/2 inches during the past 10 days which provided a nice break from the severe drought. However, he also had fields in the southcentral part of the county where the “seedbed is like a rock.”

“Where it’s rained they’ve been getting more rain. Where it’s dry it’s

Airport Retiring Debt Projected rent would be $175 for a single-engine aircraft and $200 for a twin-engine.

As part of the FAA funding plan, the city is also required to have space available for transient aircraft.

Whether the hangar would be under the city’s

ing less and demand for water continues to be high, inspite of a 20 percent reduction in water consumption this past year.

Reserves from within the water fund will be needed if the city is able to acquire additional water rights.

Councilman Josh Gooden suggested the city needs to gather more data about its wells in order to establish a baseline for

water usage and to determine exactly how much pumping capacity remains at each well site.

“We need a long-range plan,” said Gooden.

He said the city needs to be setting aside money for the acquisition of more water rights.

Green was in agreement, saying that, “It seems that we’re often in reaction mode.”

Councilman Perry Nowak, who was also on the committee,

said the city needed to maintain a rate structure that’s “high enough so we can budget for future expenses.”

Mayor Dan Goodman said he didn’t feel water rates were the biggest issue facing the council.

“We need to know where we are in terms of (water) availability and plan for the future,” he said. “I think the committee has it right.”

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stayed dry,” Ehmke says.

A custom cutter from Minnesota recently told Ehmke they weren’t even going into Texas and Oklahoma this year because of bleak harvest prospects. They planned to start cutting in Kiowa, where they were seeing a lot of 15-20 bushel wheat before harvest came to a halt because of rain.

“This year’s becoming a real nightmare for the cutters,” Ehmke says.

Hoping for a Fall Crop In hopes of salvaging some kind of harvest this year, a number of farmers have planted - or are planning to plant - corn or milo into their abandoned wheat fields. The recent rainfall couldn’t have come at a better time. But this strategy also comes with a risk.

“Those who are doing this are hoping that because we were so short on

rain in the front side of the growing season that maybe they can get it on the back side,” says Randall.

Farmers who are continuous cropping into a wheat field that didn’t have enough moisture to produce a crop are pinning all their hopes on Mother Nature over the next three months.

“The subsoil moisture is gone,” notes Ehmke.

“You’re living from rain to rain.”

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control, or be leased to Scott City Aviation, is also under discussion by the council.

Some council members want to retain control of the hangar as a revenue source.

“I voted for this so it could produce revenue to retire the (approx. $30,000) note,”

said Councilman Fred Kuntzsch.

Mayor Dan Goodman said he would like to retain the revenue so it could be used for future maintenance and building projects at the airport. Neufeld said the city would need to generate about $850 per month in rental or lease fees to retire their share

of the cost in about three years.

Councilman Gary Eitel, who is on the Airport Commission, pointed out the big hangar is in need of major repairs. He said that it’s easy to overlook those expenses when Scott City Aviation gets the income from hangar fees, but he noted “it is our building.”

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Community Living

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Summer time means kids are home alone The summer months represent fun in the sun for school-aged children, but they also signal a shift in the family’s daily routine.

Are you leaving your child home alone during the summer instead of taking him/her to a sitter?

Safe Kids Kansas and the Department for Children and Families (DCF) have some tips on how to decide if your child is ready to be home alone. “ D e v e l o p m e n t a l l y, children are generally ready to be home alone around the age of 12 or 13,” says Cherie Sage, State Director of Safe Kids Kansas. “However,

children develop at different rates, so use your own discretion to determine your child’s maturity level and capabilities.”

For example, if you have an impulsive 13-yearold who is a big risk-taker, you might be hesitant to leave him or her alone. On the other hand, a thoughtful 11-year-old who has a good track record of following household rules might be ready.”

Most states, including Kansas, don’t have regulations or laws about when a child is considered old enough to stay at home alone or babysit another child.

DCF has some gen-

eral guidelines to help you make the decision when your child is ready to be home alone: Age: Young children from 0-6, should never be left alone for even a short period of time. Kids 6-9 can be left alone for only short periods of time.

Children 10 and older can be left alone, depending on other factors.

Length of time alone: Consider whether your child is ready to spend the whole day alone or if only a couple of hours is more appropriate.

Maturity: Consider your child’s ability to fend for himself/herself and your child’s level of

Cooking camp begins June 23

The Scott Recreation Commission will sponsor a Cooking Camp from June 23-27, 1:00-2:00 p.m., at the Busy Beavers Pre-School, Scott City.

It’s for all youth who will be in third through fifth grades. Cost is $20.

Deadline to register is Thurs., June 19.

4-H day camp at Lake Scott

Scott County Extension will be sponsoring its annual 4-H day camp on Tues., June 24, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., at Lake Scott State Park.

It’s open to all youth - 4-Hers and non-4Hers - ages 7-10 years.

Registration is limited to the first 30 youngsters.

There will be hiking, rafting and swimming, among other activities.

Deadline to register is June 18 by calling 872-2930 or e-mailing ccrouch@ksu.edu.

be home alone. The more fearful he/she is, the less likely he/she will be able to respond appropriately to emergency situations.

Behavior: children who misbehave, vandalize, steal, intimidate neighbors, set fires or are a danger to themselves need close supervision.

“It’s important that parents consider all of the possible risks involved when determining if their child is ready to stay home alone,” DCF Secretary Phyllis Gilmore said.

“Never assume your child is ready because he/she seems old enough.”

Each year, more than three million kids ages

14 and under get hurt at home - and more than 2,000 children die from unintentional injuries in the home.

Fire, drowning, choking, suffocation, firearms and poisoning are among the top leading causes of unintentional home injury death for this age group.

“Teach your children about hazards around the home, and make sure they know what to do in an emergency,” says Sage.

“The first time your kids stay home alone, it should be for a short time and you should be nearby.”

(See SUMMER on page seven)

Label emphasis on calories, servings

Registration begins for Walk-Run-Roll

The annual Dylan Spencer Family Memorial “Walk•Run•Roll” will be held on Sat., June 28, at Lake Scott State Park.

The 10k run begins at 7:00 a.m., followed by the 5k at 7:10 a.m. and the fun run at 7:20 a.m.

Advance registration for the 5k and 10k races is $35 ($45 on race day).

The one-mile fun run preregistration is $20 ($30 on race day).

Participants can register at www.walkrunrollscottcity.com. Anyone with questions can contact Alli Conine at the Scott Community Foundation (872-3790 or alli@scottcf. org).

common sense. Certainly, children with developmental disabilities and emotion issues should be monitored closely.

Knowledge of emergency preparedness: Ask your child if he/she knows what to do in the event of a fire, tornado, stranger at the door, etc. Ask “what ifs.”

Availability of adults: Children must know how to reach a responsible adult at any point in the day for any reason, even if it’s just to provide reassurance if the child becomes fearful.

Insecurity: Children should feel comfortable with the idea that they will

It’s increasingly commonplace - grocery shoppers browsing the aisles and checking food labels for all manner of information - fat, calories, carbs and more.

And proposed changes to those labels will give shoppers even better, clearer information, according to a Kansas State University human nutrition specialist.

Earlier this year, the Food and Drug Administration proposed the first significant changes in 20 years to the nutri-

Tina Ardery and Tyson Francis

Couple plans September wedding

Ross and Dottie Ardery, Copeland, and Cliff and Sheri Francis, Oklahoma City, Okla., announce the engagement of their children, Tina Nicole Ardery and Tyson Dugan Francis.

Grandparents of the bride-to-be are Darlene Hammer, Sublette, and the late Jay Hammer, and the late Russell and Irene Ardery.

Tina is a 2000 graduate of South Gray High School, Montezuma, a graduate of Oklahoma State University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, and a graduate of the University of Kansas with a master’s degree in social work.

She is a therapist for NorthCare in Oklahoma City.

Grandparents of the prospective groom are Nell Francis, Edmond, Okla., and the late Walter Francis, and the late Jesse and Carol Skipton.

Tyson is a 1997 graduate of Scott Community High School and a 2001 graduate of Washburn University, Topeka, with a bachelor of arts degree in music. He is currently working as an independent landman for Continental Land Resources.

A Sept. 13 wedding is planned at Dream Catcher Point on Grand Lake in Oklahoma.

tion facts label found on food packages.

“Quite frankly, we shouldn’t have to have reading glasses to be able to see the number of calories in food we’re considering buying in the grocery store,” said Sandy Procter with KSU Extension.

“The familiar design of the label is proposed to stay as is, but certain parts could be revised to help us better use the information.”

Proposed changes include: •Updating serving size

requirements and new labeling requirements for certain size packages.

•Requiring declaration of “Added Sugars” under “Sugars.”

•Removing “Calories from fat.”

•Revising the nutrients of public health significance. Currently, calcium and iron are required; vitamin D and potassium also would be required.

•Revising Daily Values for certain nutrients that are mandatory or voluntary. This includes calcium, sodium, dietary fiber and vitamin D.

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Editorial/Opinion

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editorially speaking

Cause and effect:

Kansas seeing impact of budget cuts for families

Some recent statistics offer insight into the “cause and effect” of budget cuts by the Brownback Administration and the state legislature.

The number of children in foster care in Kansas is at a record high, though the reasons vary depending on whom you are talking to.

Administration officials claim the increase is due to greater public awareness of child abuse and neglect. Maybe. But it would seem the public has always been aware of abuse and neglect. Can the Kansas Department of Children and Families (DCF) honestly say it has done something to increase that awareness?

Critics of the Administration offer another explanation.

In 2012, the DCF spent $2.8 million on grants, which was cut to $2.6 million the following year. In the current fiscal year, the DCF expects to spend $1.3 million. Consequently, over the past four years, the number of children in households receiving public assistance plummeted from 24,567 in April 2011 to 11,867 in April 2014.

Dona Booe, chief executive of the Kansas Childrens’ Service League, points out that as community support (i.e., funding) has diminished, it adds to the stress that families are under.

“It increases the risk factors that lead to kids entering the system,” she says.

Funding cuts mean there are fewer workers available to help families at risk of having their children taken from them.

It’s called cause and effect.

But it gets even worse.

If parents have been cited for violence or substance abuse, for example, they are required to take parenting classes, drug and alcohol testing and probably a psychological evaluation before their children are returned. If they can’t afford to do this (and many can’t) their rights will eventually be terminated.

That puts children into the foster care program which means more cost to Kansas taxpayers.

More cause. More effect.

The Brownback Administration is opposed to abortions. It advocates programs that promote marriage and family. Yet it undercuts funding for those programs and services trying to preserve the family unit (when it’s best for children).

The Brownback Administration can deny that budget cuts have anything to do with the foster care explosion. The statistics seem to indicate otherwise.

No accountability: Appointee is unqualified to be inspector general

Gov. Sam Brownback has joined the chorus of voices calling for accountability within the Veterans Administration while ignoring similar concerns within his own administration.

At a time when the FBI is already looking into allegations of a pay-to-play lobbying environment in Topeka regarding the awarding of KanCare contracts, one would expect the governor to pay special attention to the perception of any wrong-doing within the state’s privatized Medicaid system.

However, when given the opportunity to appoint an inspector general of KanCare - which serves 400,000 poor and disabled Kansans - the governor instead settled on Phil Hermanson.

Hermanson brings with him a lot of excess baggage that includes a DUI conviction, business bankruptcy and campaign finance violations.

What he doesn’t bring is a college degree, any experience in the insurance, accounting, health care or law enforcement fields. These would all seem to be applicable skills for someone assigned the task of working with insurance companies awarded Medicaid contracts and being able to identify potential fraud.

It’s difficult to find what qualifications Hermanson brings to a position responsible for knowing the intricacies of a health delivery system that involves more than $50 million each week.

Well, there is one important trait that Hermanson apparently brings to the job. He’s particularly beholden to Brownback. It’s hard to imagine Hermanson being hired by anyone for a job above that of a dishwasher given his troubled background, let alone landing a job with a salary of $77,000.

Hermanson brings special qualifications that Brownback is looking for - a “yes man” who will do whatever is asked of him, without question.

That’s great for Brownback as he sells the virtues of KanCare. That’s not so great for Kansans who would like some assurance that KanCare is doing all it’s expected to do and that our tax dollars are being accounted for.

Apparently, that’s not high on Brownback’s priority list.

Bob Dole and the passage of time

Time is one of those strange anomalies in life that, simultaneously, can be both cruel and kind. We are reminded of that during former Sen. Bob Dole’s ongoing tour of each Kansas county.

Time has taken its physical toll on the political icon. After 90 years and wearing the scars of World War II, that’s to be expected.

But time (and perhaps the Viagra commercials) have also helped soften Dole’s political image over the years. Today, he’s admired as a statesman who could work across the aisle and get things accomplished. He points with pride to his ability to hammer out a legislative compromise in 1983 with the late Sen. Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) and protect the solvency of the Social Security system.

A compromise? In Washington, D.C.? That truly does make him seem like a political relic.

But this is strictly a nostalgia tour - a chance for people to share their personal memories of Dole.

It’s an opportunity for

constituents to remember when Dole served them a coke while he worked as a soda jerk at Dawson’s Drug Store in Russell, or to bring out the letter he sent to a family member, or for an honor flight veteran to thank Dole for his role in making possible the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. Those memories are an important part of what wove Dole into the political fabric of Kansas for 35 years.

If this tour was strictly for the purpose of sharing memories and handshakes, that would be fine. Dole, however, is still willing to offer his opinion on political issues . . . as he should.

His mind is still sharp and what Dole says should still matter.

One can quickly tell that the former senator isn’t pleased with the current political tone in the U.S. and, in particular,

within the Republican Party. What he sees today is a GOP that puts ideology ahead of their commitment to do what’s best for the American people. In the aforementioned compromise with Sen. Moynihan, Dole recalls making the comment that, “We can’t let this fail because 30 million Americans rely on it.”

He related another conversation with President Ronald Reagan in which the late president said he wanted to get 100 percent of the votes for an issue.

“But if you can’t get 100, I’ll settle for 70,” Dole recalled Reagan saying. “I’ll get the rest next year.”

Reagan understood that “you can’t always get 100 percent of what you want” which is at odds with the thinking of too many within today’s GOP. One can only assume that Dole was referring to the Tea Party when he noted there is a “certain group” that would rather do nothing than work toward solutions “even within their own party.”

The result is a Republican Party that throws the

equivalent of a temper tantrum and shuts down the government if it doesn’t get its way.

Having been part of another era in politics, and witnessing the current fiasco, one would hope that Dole could offer some insight into what changed and what we can do to restore a sense of civility to politics - in Topeka and in Washington.

Unfortunately, this is where time can play another cruel trick. It can alter reality.

“I don’t know what happened. Both parties seemed to sort of turn one to the left and one to the right. I mean the people within those parties. I can’t even pinpoint the date it happened,” says Dole.

That’s a very generic response to a complicated, but very important, question.

The problem with Dole’s response is that it puts equal responsibility on both major political parties by declaring that each chose to take sharp ideological turns in opposite (See TIME on page six)

Pleading ignorance on climate

It is irreversible now.

And there’s a word that should get everybody’s attention. Last month, two groups of scientists, publishing separately in the journals Science and Geophysical Research Letters, issued reports that came to alarmingly similar conclusions: The melting of the West Antarctic ice sheet has reached a point of no return.

If greenhouse gases stopped spewing forth tomorrow, we’d still face the grim prospect of steadily rising seas from this unstoppable melt.

So it would be a good idea to save what ice we still can. Or else condemn our grandchildren to vie for beach-front property in St. Louis on a planet of shrinking land, diminishing resources and growing population.

This past week, thankfully, the Obama adminis-

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another view by Leonard Pitts, Jr.

tration - once noteworthy chiefly for its disinterested torpor where climate change is concerned - proposed politically risky new Environmental Protection Agency standards requiring deep cuts in carbon pollution levels at U.S. power plants by 2030.

And the opposition party? Their attitude is summed up by the headline of a recent story on Politico: “Republicans on climate science: don’t ask us.”

Writer Darren Goode reports the GOP has adopted a new global warming “talking point.”

Which is, they are not equipped to talk about it.

As in Speaker John Boehner telling reporters, “Listen, I’m not quali-

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fied to debate the science over climate change.”

And Florida Gov. Rick Scott demurring, “I am not a scientist.” And a spokeswoman for the billionaire Koch brothers, the deep pockets of the right wing, saying, “We are not experts on climate change.”

The gutlessness, disingenuousness and sheer cynicism of this new tack are difficult to overstate.

For the record, most of us are not experts on climate science. But most of us have the good sense to listen to those who are.

The right, however, prefers to pretend there is some sort of “debate” in the scientific community about whether human activity is raising the temperature of our one and only planet.

There isn’t. Indeed, that finding is accepted by 97 percent of climate scien-

Sen. Pat Roberts 109 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

Washington, D.C. 20510 (202) 224-4774 roberts.senate.gov/email.htm

tists. This, according to the American Association for the Advancement of Science that, with 121,000 members, is the world’s largest general science group.

So the GOP’s “debate” is three scientists out of a hundred. Heck, you probably could find three scientists out of a hundred who think smoking is good for you.

Our planet is at a point of crisis. The ice is melting, the sea levels are rising, the oceans are acidifying, drought patterns are changing, precipitation is increasing, extreme weather is growing ever more common.

Yet for Boehner, the issue is “every proposal that has come out of this administration to deal with climate change involves hurting our economy and killing American jobs.”

(See CLIMATE on page six)

Sen. Jerry Moran 141 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

Washington, D.C. 20510 (202) 224-6521 www.house.gov/moranks01/

Walmart’s top-to-bottom taxpayer subsidies

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by Frank Clemente and Sarah Anderson

Low-income families weren’t the only ones hurt by cuts to food stamps last fall. Top Walmart executives also took a hit.

The cutbacks ate into the discount giant’s sales because so many of its low-income customers rely on this public assistance program to help pay for their groceries. And that made it tough for the company’s top brass to meet their bonus targets.

But that wave of anxiety didn’t last long. Walmart’s board simply rejiggered bonus criteria so that executives could still reap “performance” payouts, The New York Times reported.

Why are most corporate boards determined to maintain sky-high pay for executives even when they perform poor-

ly? The most common explanation is that board members are often overpaid corporate leaders themselves. The last thing they want to do is provoke scrutiny of their own fat paychecks.

Another, lesser-known reason is that corporations actually have a perverse incentive for overpaying top-level executives.

This is due to a tax loophole that allows corporations to deduct unlimited amounts from their federal income taxes for the cost of so-called “performance pay” for executives. The more corporations pay top officers, the less they pay Uncle Sam. Guess who makes up the difference? Taxpayers.

A new report we co-authored for the Institute for Policy Studies and Americans for Tax Fairness calculates just how much this bonus loophole benefits Walmart. For example, we found that Mike Duke, the big

Near-poverty wages and part-time schedules have forced (Walmart’s) own employees to rely on $6.2 billion worth of food stamps and other taxpayer-funded benefits per year.

box retailer’s recently retired CEO, pocketed nearly $116 million in exercised stock options and other “performance pay” between 2009 and 2014.

That translates into a taxpayer subsidy for Walmart of more than $40 million.

By lowering the performance bar for Walmart’s executives, the company’s board has kept the bosses happy and secured a nice big tax break. Consider the tradeoff here: This $40 million subsidy could have covered the average cost of food stamps for 4,200 people over that six-year period.

Congress should end this

subsidy for bonuses at the top of Walmart and other publicly held U.S. corporations, which costs $50 billion over 10 years, by simply eliminating the “performance pay” loophole.

Meanwhile, the government is continuing to gut food stamp benefits. As part of a Farm Bill compromise this year, lawmakers agreed to reduce the program’s benefits by an average of $90 a month for 850,000 families.

Walmart’s low-wage workers are likely to be among those affected. Near-poverty wages and part-time schedules have forced the company’s own employees to rely on $6.2 billion worth of food stamps and other taxpayer-funded benefits per year, Americans for Tax Fairness estimates.

For a company that hauled in $16 billion in profits last year, this is shameful.

Walmart’s workers are speaking out more than ever before.

In the past two years, about 1,000 Walmart stores have faced strikes or rallies for better pay and working conditions.

In January 2014, the National Labor Relations Board charged the corporation with illegally disciplining and firing workers who participated in these actions.

Barbara Collins, a single mother from Placerville, Calif., wrote in Salon about her decision to join strike actions after struggling for years to make ends meet while earning $12.05 an hour as a Walmart stocker.

For years, she was never guaranteed a 40-hour workweek. During some weeks she worked as few as eight hours.

Following a confrontation with a Walmart board member about the company’s poor pay and (See WALMART on page six)

Putting a priority on protecting women on college campuses

by Chris Shillig

According to new statistics, women have a 1-in-5 Prospective female students chance of being the victim of may have a new question for an attempted or completed admissions counselors as part sexual assault at college.

More ‘connectivity’ in our lives

by Jim Hightower

In my unstinting effort to keep you up-to-the-moment in the digital world of “what’s happening next?”, allow me to introduce you to two terms you might not have encountered in your own busy world.

First comes the “Internet of Things.” This refers to the bundle of smart phones, smart cars, smart watches, smart homes, smart clothes, and smart everythings that supposedly are smarter than you and are supposed to make your life easier.

Next is “connectivity,” which refers to the brave new world in which we humanoids connect to our products and they connect to each other.

Both terms were buzzing

around a recent conference at which Apple, the giant of gizmos, announced a new software package called “Home Kit” that puts your iPhone in charge of your house.

For example, when you’re headed home from work, this phone will unlock your door, open the garage, turn on the lights, adjust the thermostat, start the oven, fire up the barbecue, and get the daiquiri blender going. How handy is that?

However, aside from the fact that none of these tasks seem burdensome enough to warrant internet intervention, my question is, “handy” for whom?

Thieves would surely appreciate the convenience of hacking into your Home Kit system to have it unlock your doors for

them.

And NSA, the FBI, and other snoops will gladly rig your toaster to spy on you.

Perhaps the worst perversion of smart technology, however, is one already being contemplated by Google: Using the connectivity of thermostats, ovens, light fixtures, etc. to transmit digital ads directly into our homes. Oh, the horror!

Before we connect the privacy of our homes to the Internet of Things, let’s ponder what other “things” come with this “gee whiz” technology. To learn more, connect with the Electronic Privacy Information Center: www.epic.org.

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

of the college decision-making process: How likely am I to be raped on your campus?

This is no idle inquiry.

According to new statistics, women have a 1-in-5 chance of being the victim of an attempted or completed sexual assault at college.

For the first time ever, high schoolers are able to identify many of the most dangerous campuses before they decide where to go to college. The federal government recently released a list of 55 colleges and universities with open “sexual violence investigations.”

The schools making this list of shame span the academic gamut, from Harvard to Oklahoma State.

The culprit here is most often “date rape.” Maybe that conjures up a stereotypical vision of easy girls with smeared mascara getting exactly what they deserve. Think again.

It’s not true. According to a recent Time magazine cover story on rape in higher education, many young ladies who find themselves in danger of rape have been manipulated into these situations by a small percentage of predatory males on campus.

One alarming study found that 6.4 percent of the male population at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2002 reported committing acts that

met the legal definition of rape, Time reporter Eliza Gray noted.

But half of those men averaged nearly six assaults each.

That’s disturbing, but it also makes sense. Most men aren’t rapists or would-be rapists. It’s a small minority of males on any campus that view themselves as hunters, with females their prey and alcohol and drugs their weapons.

The solution isn’t a boycott of the 55 schools on the list.

We face a systemic problem.

Ironically, the answer to the war on women being waged on campuses is education.

Parents need to educate their children. Guys need to be taught that no really does mean no, and that finding a drunk or stoned woman, or getting a woman in such a condition, still means no.

An impaired person cannot give sexual consent.

Young women need to be reminded that not all guys are good, and that alcohol and drugs lower inhibitions and invite disaster.

And all students need to be taught that there are no innocent bystanders who observe the telltale signs of date rape without speaking up or intervening.

If they see someone in danger, they need to step in and do what they can to help separate (See PRIORITY on page six)

Common core is an excuse, not the problem I was determined to make Mrs. Hall’s list. Our tough fourth-grade math teacher was infamous for her sharp comments - “You look like a lost ball in high weeds” - as well as her annual prize to the few students she deemed worthy of A’s: a trip to the movies. The previous year, my older sister had gone to see “Godzilla,” which frightened her to tears, thereby giving her a taste of what the rest of Mrs. Hall’s students endured over the course of the year.

Born with a fiercely competitive streak and accustomed to doing well in school, I knew that I would make Mrs. Hall’s A list.

That is, until we started long division. I struggled through the page of problems Mrs. Hall

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assigned for homework, erasing again and again as I tried to figure out the difference between a dividend and a divisor. Able to complete only five problems over the course of an excruciating evening, I begged my mother the next morning to let me stay home from school, believing that I could never show my face in math class with incomplete homework.

My mother would have none of it. No, she did not think the assignment was unfair. No, she would not write a note to Mrs. Hall. And no, I absolutely could not stay home from school.

Thus began her long-standing policy for schoolwork: If my sisters or I didn’t understand something, it was our job, not hers, to talk to the teacher.

Never once did my mother say, “Long division? How developmentally inappropriate. We should change the Maryland state math standards!“ I wonder what would have happened if my mother had taken the approach of the comedian Louis C.K., whose tweets about his children’s homework recently went viral: “Yet again I must tell my kid ‘don’t answer it. It’s a bad question.’ ” “Who is writing these? And why?” “My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core!”

My mother could have said

some version of those things in response to my meltdown, but she didn’t. She chose not to blame the question, or the teacher, or the test, or the standards.

And because of her steady insistence that if I took ownership of my learning, I could master any subject, I recovered from long division and went on to take AP calculus, multivariable calculus and linear algebra in high school.

I sympathize with Louis C.K.’s kids. I know firsthand the intense anxiety that math assignments can provoke. But I’m certainly not sorry that they are being taught Common Core State Standards.

As a math teacher, I have embraced these standards. I have seen kids solve problems I never would have thought to

ask, then explain their thinking and justify their answers with pride. I have seen kids who used to hate the subject scribble, “I love math!” all over their tests.

That joy is rooted in their persistence.

So while I disagree with Louis C.K.’s analysis of the content of his children’s homework, that’s not what bothers me about his tweets. It’s the implicit message that kids should find something to blame when school is hard.

They will face challenging assignments for the next dozen years in school, in all subjects, regardless of what standards are driving the instruction. Rather than a way out, the best thing children can learn is how to help themselves.

(See COMMON on page six)

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Giving intellectuals the status they deserve

by John Schrock

Call yourself an “intellectual” in America and be prepared to sit alone in the corner of the library. Of all of the subgroups in public schools, from “jocks” to “drama queens,” any student labeled as an intellectual is definitely at the bottom of the social heap.

It does not quite equate with “nerd” because those kids can often de-bug your cell phone or computer problem.

No, intellectuals actually enjoy reading literature and philosophy and science. Sometimes called “eggheads” in the past, they would just rather go unnoticed, aside from a fleeting 15 minutes of

fame when they win the school chess championship.

Not so over here in China. The term for “intellectual” - pronounced jursure-fun-dze - is revered, and has been from earliest history. Of China’s social classes, uneducated peasants were always at the bottom (except rhetorically during Mao).

But if a family had a bright youngster (a boy, of course) and could gather enough money to hire a tutor, that educated young man could sit for a sequence of three exams. If he scored high enough, he would receive a government post at a local, provincial or national level.

Therefore, China re-

GOP declares the Obama honeymoon officially over

by Andy Borowitz

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) - The morning after Tuesday’s stunning Tea Party victory in Virginia, House Republicans unveiled a sweeping new legislative agenda, proposing an end to Social Security, a return to child labor, and unprecedented gun rights for pets.

“The Republican Party is the party of common sense,” said House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). “And such common-sense proposals as electronic ankle bracelets for immigrant babies and a barbed-wire fence with Canada are long overdue.”

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) echoed Speaker Boehner’s sentiments as he touted his signature legislation, “to put Americans under the age of twelve back to work.”

“Instead of spending all day playing with Xboxes, our kids should be in factories assembling them,” he said.

As for what is perhaps the most controversial G.O.P. proposal, guaranteeing gun rights for pets, Boehner said, “It’s clear that the authors of the Second Amendment meant it to apply to all mammals. All our new law says is, if you have four legs and a tail, you get a gun.”

When asked about future relations between House Republicans and President Obama, Boehner did not mince words. “If the President thinks he’s going to get the kind of cooperation and flexibility he’s gotten out of us for the past six years, he’s kidding himself,” he said. “The honeymoon is over.”

Andy Borowitz is a comedian and author

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working conditions, she got fired.

Despite the intimidation, Walmart workers and their allies are organizing a new round of strikes that began before the corporation’s June 6 annual shareholder meeting Taxpayers should support these workers by demanding an end to subsidies for Walmart’s inexcusable pay practices - at both the bottom and the top.

Sarah Anderson directs the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, and Frank Clemente is the executive director of Americans for Tax Fairness. They wrote “Taxpayers Subsidize Walmart Execs”

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cruited only the highesteducated men into their government. And that meant wealth for his family and relatives. China was the origin of meritocracy and the “civil service exam.”

If he didn’t quite make the cut-off score he could still be a teacher. Over many dynasties, a blue robe was the attire of the scholar, and he was recognized and respected.

As a teacher, he would be relatively poor, but he was respected.

As the merchant class developed, some amassed fortunes. Yet the social status of a rich merchant could never equal that of the poor scholar-teacher.

Rich merchants would

Time directions which leaves a huge chasm in the middle.

That’s simply not true.

Take the national health care bill, which Dole referred to as the “Unaffordable Care Act,” as an example. Obamacare is a less progressive bill than that which was proposed by former Republican President Richard Nixon, but which he couldn’t get through the Congress. It’s modeled after a similar bill proposed by former Republican Gov. Mitt Romney and enacted in Massachusetts.

It’s not that the Democratic Party suddenly veered to the left, but that

Priority their classmates from campus predators.

Just as importantly, women who have been assaulted need to do an end run around campus security and dial 911 to get in touch with real police officers. Many schools are all too happy to handle such matters internally because it keeps them out of the public eye and avoids any embarrassing publicity.

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even attempt to buy a scholar’s credentials to gain this status of respect.

When this became commonplace, it usually was an indication that the dynasty was in its last days.

(Perhaps like getting an online degree?)

When Chinese look back at their history, it is the names of artists, poets, historians, philosophers and great writers that they admire. Westerners tend to define their past “greats” as generals, political leaders and captains of industry.

Those who would mention Shakespeare or Bentham or Handel can expect eyes to roll as the social crowd shuffles elsewhere in the room.

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specting scholarship.

Meanwhile, back in the United States, there remains no respect for the scholar as “intellectual.”

Politicians see schooling as mere “job training” - a private rather than “common good.” Where can you find one public university with a mission statement that includes the word “intellectual.”

Maybe if America had our own Cultural Revolution and shut down our schools for ten years we would wake up and realize that we should value and respect our young scholars, the intellectuals among us.

John Schrock trains biology teachers and lives in Emporia

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the Republican Party has stampeded so far to the right it has shifted the entire political landscape.

What was “middle of the road” 20 or 30 years ago is now seen as the far liberal left-wing.

Want another example?

Dole proudly takes credit for passage in 1990 of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as he should. It created opportunities and has protected the rights of millions of disabled Americans. Dole also wanted to see passage of an international treaty that would spur other nations to pass their version of the law, making the United States a role model

to help tens of millions of people around the world.

A slam dunk, right?

Even though Sen. Dole was rolled in a wheelchair onto the U.S. Senate floor when the vote was being taken in March of 2013 it failed to pass. The measure didn’t even get the support of Kansas Sens. Jerry Moran or Pat Roberts who put their fear of the right ahead of doing what’s right.

Such is the status . . . and shame . . . of Republican politics today.

If all we want is nostalgia, then the Dole tour is accomplishing it’s intended mission.

As part of his lasting legacy, Dole emphasizes

that politics is the art of compromise. That’s how Congress, during his tenure, reached a solution on Social Security and crafted the ADA. That’s only possible when politicians actually serve the greater good of their constituency.

In a fairly subtle way, Dole was pointing a finger at a “certain group” more concerned with saying no to everything rather than finding solutions.

Dole is a reminder to Kansans of what was once possible in government.

Time, however, is running out.

Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com

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People who have been assaulted have zero loyalty to these institutions and every right to file a report with non-campus authorities.

Education extends, too, to troglodytes in society who still believe that women ask to be assaulted by the way they dress, the things they say or do, and the places they go. There’s a term for the environment (continued from page four)

Not to be glib about unemployment and recession, but if asked to choose between dinging the U.S. economy and killing the planet on which that economy depends - assuming that were even a real choice - it’s hard to imagine most of us would prioritize the former.

And if the Democrats’ ideas are so bad, fine. Where are the Republican proposals?

As was the case with health care, why are they once again late in their discovery of a critical problem and bereft of serious solutions therefor?

Here is an idea. The two parties should work together as if they were composed of adults to find a way to save our planet. Instead, the GOP is buck-passing with an eye on the midterms. Ninety-seven percent of experts say we don’t have time for these shenanigans, yet Boehner and company pretend there’s still some kind of “debate” going on.

Ninety-seven percent.

Maybe the GOP isn’t good at science, but surely they understand basic math.

In my college freshman economics class, the final exam asked us to determine whether the statement “In the long run, we are all dead” was true, false or uncertain.

I did not choose to leave it blank. I did not choose to tweet @myprofessor that his question was ridiculous. Rather, I chose to grapple with it as best I could and justify my answer - and to review the test with my instructor afterward. (Like most of life’s great questions, the correct answer was “uncertain.”)

Leonard Pitts, Jr., is a columnist for the Miami Herald I hope my students have parents who react to their frustrations as my mother did, and as most parents did before Common Core became a convenient scapegoat for any academic difficulty. Teach your children that struggle is a part of learning and that, sooner or later, everyone will be the lost ball. But don’t teach them to blame the weeds.

Austen Kassinger teaches second grade in Denver

I must admit one exception. For 10 years, the Chinese word for intellectual became a negative.

From roughly 1965-75, Mao unleashed the Red Guards and the Cultural Revolution that closed down schools.

Intellectuals were portrayed as feeling they were superior to others and were sent to the countryside. Youngsters were encouraged to harangue and harass the educated “class.”

Those dark days are long gone now. China learned a lesson. That will never happen again.

If anything, China has a lingering guilt complex about it. They renewed their commitment to re-

created when people think this way: rape culture.

College campuses are for learning and growth, not coercion and violence.

If your own child is starting a college-search process, ensure on-campus violent crime makes his or her list of concerns.

Take the time to ask schools about rape. Don’t stop asking until you get a straight answer. And if

you never get one, you should discourage your teen from applying.

When Americans start to demand not only a quality education, but a higher level of on-campus safety, for our tuition dollars, we’ll see how quickly college campuses make the eradication of rape culture a top priority.

Chris Schillig is an English teacher in Alliance, Ohio

Council not satisfied with fireworks offer

The Scott City Council has been informed that the Fourth of July fireworks display will cost $3,250 an increase of $250 from last year - with 27 fewer shells.

For this price, Wald and Company in Ellinwood will provide 215 shells as part of the regular show, 61 shells in the finale and another 55 shells in the grand finale.

Councilman Everett Green, who is in charge of making arrangements for the show, was instructed to negotiate with the company and see if they couldn’t get the same number of shells as last year for the $250 added cost.

The county has agreed to provide $1,500 toward the show with the remaining cost to be picked up by the city.

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Safe Kids Kansas also recommends parents take the following precautions to ensure your child’s safety: •Carry a cell phone and keep it turned on. Make sure your children know where you will be and what time you will return.

Teach your child their home address so they can tell emergency personnel where to dispatch assistance, if necessary.

•Prepare a snack or meal in advance - preferably one that does not need to be heated. If your children will need to cook, remind them never to leave an oven or stove unattended while cooking and to turn it off when they are finished.

•Make sure potentially poisonous or hazardous household items are locked up out of reach - especially medications, weapons and cleaning products.

•Review your family’s emergency plans and make sure your children know what to do if the smoke alarm or carbon monoxide detector goes off.

•Show your children where you keep your first aid kit and how to use basic first aid supplies.

Have questions about the Scott Community Foundation? call 872-3790 or e-mail: alli@scottcf.org

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“I was the first quadriplegic to graduate from KState,” Compton told Dole at the conclusion of Tuesday’s gathering. “Without the ADA I couldn’t have graduated from K-State.”

It’s stories such as this, and other memories from more than three decades in public life, that were shared with Dole during his 1-1/2 hour stop.

Donna Eitel, Scott City, recalled stepping into Dawson’s Drug Store in Russell and being served a coke by a young Bob Dole who was working behind the counter.

Tava See, who has baked cakes for countless occasions over the years, showed Bob Dole her photo album which had the former senator cutting a slice from a sheet cake that she had made during a campaign stop in Scott City in August of 1991.

“I didn’t get a chance to meet you then,” she reminded him. “But you did call me on your way to Ness City and thanked me for the cake.”

“It was good,” added Dole with a grin.

Dole remembered a campaign stop in Colby where he was greeted by four “mean looking farmers” who were wearing caps imprinted with “Dump Dole.”

In his characteristic wit, he says, “I put them down as undecided.”

Doing Our Job Dole also used the opportunity to share some of the highlights of his legislative career and also to offer some introspective into today’s political climate.

“You paid us to work hard for Kansas. We were there because we were elected to do a job,” says Dole, who served as the GOP minority leader for 10 years and as the Senate Majority Leader for four years.

Dole feels his “biggest achievement was helping to rescue Social Security” in 1983. The program was experiencing a projected funding shortfall, so a select committee of six Republicans and six Democrats were assigned the role of reaching a solution that would keep the program solvent.

“It wasn’t politics, but we couldn’t put anything together,” he remembers.

Finally, Dole and the late Sen. Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) met on the floor of the Senate one morning and, “almost at the same time we said to

each other, ‘We can’t let this fail because 30 million Americans rely on it,’” said Dole. “In some cases, it’s their sole source of income.”

The two hammered out a compromise that was eventually approved by the committee and passed

by Congress “though it was very controversial.”

Even at that time, says Dole, conservative Republicans were opposed to the deal that had been worked out.

“I never quite figured out why they were opposed to it,” he says. “The bill we passed, nobody liked. Democrats didn’t like it. Republicans didn’t like it. The only ones who liked it were the beneficiaries because it saved Social Security from bankruptcy.

“I consider that something to be proud of. My mother used to remind me that was the only income she had,” says Dole, adding that, “I didn’t want to disappoint her.”

Dole also takes pride in the role he had writing and passing the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990. At the time, he says it was a “very contentious piece of legislation” with opponents claiming that small businesses would close their doors because of the added regulations.

The signing ceremony

by President George H.W. Bush on the White House lawn was particularly memorable because of the number of disabled people who were in attendance people in wheelchairs, with seeing eye dogs and on gurneys - according to Dole.

His biggest disappointment was not getting a balanced budget amendment out of the Senate while he was the majority leader in 1985.

All or Nothing Recalling his days of working with President Ronald Reagan, Dole noted the contrast with politics then and now.

“I remember one time after a White House meeting that President Reagan asked to meet with me. He said there’s a bill before the Senate and he wants to get all 100 votes. Then he added that. ‘If I can’t get it all, get me 70 (votes). I’ll get the rest next year.’

“The point I make there is that he’s a conservative icon. Everybody quotes Ronald Reagan. But even he believed that sometimes you can’t get everything you want.”

(Top) Karen and Steve Compton share letters that former Sen. Bob Dole sent to Steve in 1988 following a vehicle accident that left him paralyzed, and following his graduation from K-State. (Above) Audience members show their support for comments made by Dole. (Below) Tava See shows a photo to Dole from a 1991 campaign stop in Scott City.

(Photos by Larry Caldwell)

That’s where Dole was critical of the “so-called far right where the only answer is no.” President Reagan said you can’t get anywhere just by saying no. Sometimes you have to give a little to get a little. That doesn’t mean you aren’t conservative.

“There’s a certain group in the Senate and the House who’d rather not do anything than try to work something out even within their own party, let alone with the other party,” Dole said.

The rescue of Social Security was another example of legislative compromise that seemed commonplace during Dole’s time in Washington, D.C. As to what has changed over the years, Dole was unable to offer an answer.

“I don’t know what happened. Both parties seemed to sort of turn one to the left and one to the right. I mean the

people within those parties. I can’t even pinpoint the date it happened,” he replied.

Dole not only emphasized the need for more cooperation in Washington, D.C., but offered a

warning to the Republican Party.

“Our party has pulled to the right,” he said. “My fear is that if a real, far out conservative (gets the presidential nomination) we can take a beating as a

party. Most people are in the middle, as Eisenhower used to say.”

Moving more to the political center, and reaching out to Hispanic voters are necessary to the future of the party, noted Dole.

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Mr. Wheat K-State crops specialist Jim Shroyer talks to producers during the wheat plot tour recently in Lane County.

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Shroyer has had huge impact on Kansas producers As Jim Shroyer walks down the rows of wheat varieties in the test plot, the Kansas State University agronomist offers his observations on the strengths and weaknesses of each.

“And the main characteristic we’ve seen with this one is its resistance to yield,” he said.

After a short pause, he adds, “This is where you’re supposed to laugh.”

That’s typical Shroyer.

For more than three decades he’s been bringing his immense knowledge of wheat - and his dry wit - to wheat producers across Kansas. His visit to the Walnut Creek Extension wheat plot tour that concluded at the Vance Ehmke farm in western Lane County was among the last ones that Shroyer planned to make before his retirement after 34 years as a wheat breeder with KSU Extension.

His expertise over that time has been invaluable and greatly appreciated by producers.

“He’s been very good about helping producers figure out what varieties will work best in different parts of the state,” says Richard Randall, a Scott County farmer who is on the board of the Kansas Wheat Commission.

“He loves to connect with the producers and he could always explain things in layman’s terms. That’s worth a lot to producers,” Randall notes.

Shroyer enjoys getting into the fields and hearing from farmers what works for them and what their concerns are.

And he also likes sharing the latest developments in wheat with those same producers.

“I’m happy being able to work with so many county agents, colleagues off-campus and producers across Kansas.

I’m proud that I could work within that group and get some things done . . . and help the State of Kansas,” Shroyer says.

So it should be no surprise

that the wheat tours have been Shroyer’s favorite part about being a crop production specialist.

“This is my opportunity to see wheat that represents years of testing and development coming to the finish line. I share my thoughts with farmers but, to be honest, I feel I learn more from them than they do from me.”

Nothing Stays the Same That learning never ends thanks to the ever-changing landscape of wheat diseases, pests and, of course, drought.

The tough growing conditions over the past 3-4 years across Kansas - particularly in Western Kansas - have given Shroyer added appreciation for the ability of producers to adapt.

“The last few years have been very comparable to the Dirty ‘30s. If we farmed just like we did back then we’d be experiencing the same thing they did,” he points out. “It’s a tribute to the farmers in Western Kansas and their ability to farm out here and do it well.

“Between farming practices and the newer, drought-tolerant varieties, I’m pretty impressed with what I’ve seen, though it’s still well below what producers expect.”

As a wheat breeder, Shroyer sees good and bad when it comes to analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of wheat varieties.

“You can pick out those varieties which show the most drought-resistant characteristics,” he says. “But you have to be cognizant that what looks good now may only be that way because of where it’s at in terms of maturity. It may not look that good in another five days.”

Looking across the droughtstressed wheat during plot tours in the area, Shroyer says the late-season wheat varieties may look better at the time, but

they may not actually be more drought tolerant.

“They just haven’t reached that point in development where they demand as much water as the variety that’s not looking as well because it matured earlier,” he says. “That’s why selecting the right variety can be somewhat confounding.”

Nonetheless, Extension specialists are able to gain a better understanding of which varieties do or do not tiller well under these difficult conditions.

Disease resistance is another matter.

“To determine disease resistance you need high pressure years. You need those diseases to select against,” he explains.

“When you don’t have diseases running from Texas, through Oklahoma and into Kansas, it’s hard for breeders to select varieties that have resistance to some of the major disease problems that we have.”

In essence, this could be considered a “lost year” when it comes to wheat research. Because the diseases aren’t there, breeders can’t determine how varieties will react to a particular disease.

“You might say this variety looks pretty good, it’s drought tolerant, it’s hanging in there, but the next year we have a little more moisture that variety may get hammered by a disease that hasn’t been around for the last 2-3 years. Then it lowers the boom and lays waste to it,” Shroyer says.

“So this isn’t just a lost year to producers because of lower yields and income, it’s problematic for the breeders and agronomists as well.”

Difficult to Replace With Shroyer’s last day on July 3, there are many within the wheat industry concerned about who will be named to replace him and when it will occur, es-

Shroyer’s contributions have gone beyond wheat

Shroyer has been the Extension specialist for more crops than just wheat during his tenure at K-State. He has also worked extensively with corn, soybeans, alfalfa, and grain sorghum. Some of his significant contributions, in conjunction with others, have been: •Introducing no-till alfalfa; •Pioneering work in the system of planting short-season corn early in the season; •Developing and testing of wheat blends as a viable practice; •Developing management practices for planting wheat after row crops; •Developing pre-plant wheat schools in the summer; •The “Diagnosing Wheat Production Problems” publication; •The Adopt-a-Wheat-Field website; •Promoting and strengthening the system of wheat tours at the county level; and •Teaching the Agronomy 360 course on crop production.

pecially with KSU feeling the impact of state budget cuts.

“As the state wheat specialist, Jim has been very important to the state and to our industry,” says Ehmke. “Because the state is really clamping down on funding for the Board of Regents, K-State has had to cut, or put into effect a hiring freeze, a huge number of positions over the past few years. Jim’s is one of those positions on hold and it’s very crucial to wheat growers.”

Finding a replacement for someone who has been such a part of the wheat industry for more than three decades won’t be easy.

“Jim’s got the personality and he’s sewn into the fabric of our industry. He knows everybody,” Ehmke says. “And he knows everything there is to know about wheat. I hope we can find a replacement for him.”

“The knowledge that he’s gained over the years was very valuable,” says Ron Suppes, a Lane and Scott county farmer

who is chairman of the Kansas Wheat Commission. “We have new varieties every year and he stays on top of that. He was able to bring that information to us so we could make better decisions.

Suppes is concerned about K-State’s delay in announcing when, or if, a replacement for Shroyer will be announced. The KWC and producers have been in contact with the university, urging officials to make a decision regarding the next state wheat specialist.

“He’s been the doctor of the wheat plant,” adds Suppes. “If you had a problem, you could call him and if he didn’t have an answer he’d find out . . . or crack a joke.”

When asked what producers will miss more - his knowledge about wheat or his humor - Shroyer just laughs.

“I’m not sure how much they’ll miss my jokes, but I always figured that as long as I found them funny that was good enough for me,” he says.

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For the Record Keeping a lid on summer vacation costs The Scott County Record

Jason Alderman

Summer vacation time is here. I’m not a big believer in pre-planning every single detail.

Sometimes the best vacation moments are spontaneous.

But unless your rich uncle is paying for the trip, you’ll need to do a certain amount of preparation or your budget will fly out the window.

You do have a vacation budget, right? If not,

here are a few suggestions for creating one and some cost-saving ideas to help keep expenses down: First, be realistic about what you can afford. If your vacation will take more than a month or two to pay off, you may want to scale back on this year’s trip and start setting aside money now for next year.

When building a trip budget, try to anticipate all potential expenses.

Consider things like:

Scott City Council Agenda Mon., June 16 • 7:30 p.m.

City Hall • 221 W. 5th

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•Airfare-related expenses. Include taxes and fees for items like changing flights, extra leg room, priority boarding, Wi-Fi access, meals, and checked, oversized or overweight baggage.

• K a y a k . c o m , Airfarewatchdog.com and Travelnerd.com provide handy charts that compare various fees for popular airlines. However, always double-check the airline’s own posted rules before booking your flight.

USD 466 Board of Education Agenda Mon., June 16 • 7:00 p.m.

Administration Building • 704 College

•Call to Order

•Awards and recognition

•Approve minutes of June 2 regular meeting

•Comments from public 1) Honoring of retirees

•Open public hearing on proposed assessments for street improvements in Eastridge and Prairie Meadows additions •Take action on Ordinance No. 1152 (Eastridge Subdivision street improvements) •Take action on Ordinance No. 1153 (Prairie Meadows Addition street improvements) •Scott County Development Committee update •Fire Chief Ken Hoover: update on fire truck •Update on 4th of July fireworks display proposal •Open agenda: audience is invited to voice ideas or concerns. A time limit may be requested Pool Department 1) Misc. business Police Department 1) Accept resignation of officer 2) Request to advertise for full-time officer 3) Request to attend “Racial and Other Biased Based Policing” in Dodge City 4) Request to attend “Finding Words Updates” in Colby on July 17 Parks Department 1) Misc. business Public Works Department 1) Request to write specifications for a paint striper 2) Request to advertise for chip seal bids Clerk’s Department 1) Budget workshop on Wed., June 18, 6:00 p.m., at city hall 2) Sick leave policy 3) Corporate membership info for Scott County Fitness Center •Financial and investment reports •Mayor’s comments

Scott Co. LEC Report Scott City Police Department May 27: A report was taken for criminal damage to property in the 1700 block of South Main.

June 2: Traci Brown was arrested for domestic battery and transported to the LEC. June 4: Jonas Ullom was arrested for disorderly conduct and transported to the LEC. June 4: Zacharia Starnes was arrested for driving on a suspended license and transported to the LEC. June 5: Balentin Luna was arrested on a Scott County warrant and transported to the LEC. June 5: Donald Duvall was arrested for battery and transported to the LEC. June 6: Matthew Scheferkort was arrested on an out-of-county warrant and transported to the LEC. He later bonded out.

June 7: A theft report was taken in the 500 block of West 5th Street.

June 9: Joseph Hall was arrested for assault of a law enforcement officer, interference with the duties of a law enforcement officer and disorderly conduct. He was transported to the LEC.

•Transportation to and from the airport - at home and all travel locations.

•Car rentals. Factor in taxes, gas, fill-up penalties and insurance (check your auto insurance and credit card policies to ensure you don’t pay for duplicate coverage).

•Hotel/lodging. Don’t forget taxes and other local fees, charges for phone/Internet, room service, early check-in or departure, gratuities, etc.

•Hotel room rates often

•Executive session •Recognition of persons/delegations present 1) NW Ks. Tech. College - Mark Davis 2) High Plains Co-op - Eric Erven 3) Treasurer’s report 4) Administrative reports •Financials 1) Bills payable 2) Transfers •Consent agenda 1) Approve previous minutes 2) Resignations 3) Recommendations for hire 4) Approval of 2014-15 BOE meeting calendar 5) Building level handbook approval 6) Food service agreement/meal price proposal 7) Authorization to pay bills and close 2013-14 school year 8) Acceptance of alternate care site request from Scott County Hospital 9) Scott Recreation Commission board recommendations •Consider items pulled from consent agenda New business 1) Utility cost reduction contract proposal 2) Surplus of unneeded items 3) Contingency reserve resolution •Adjournment

are based on double occupancy. Although kids usually can stay for free, many hotels charge extra for additional adults.

•Entertainment. Include meals and snacks, event admission and ticketordering charges, transit passes or taxis, sporting equipment rental, babysitters, and special clothing or accessory requirements (sunscreen, hiking boots, etc.)

•Throw in an extra 10-15 percent for unan-

ticipated expenses - lost luggage, flat tire, etc.

Search for deals on flights, hotels and rental cars at comparison sites like Orbitz.com, Kayak. com, Priceline.com, Hotwire.com, Hotels.com and Travelzoo.com. But beware: Before clicking “confirm,” make sure the final price matches the initial quote. I’ve seen fares jump $50 or more in just minutes or had the seat (See VACATION on page 11)

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

Public Notice

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

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 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

#902088057 and all real and personal property and any 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

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

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(First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., June 12, 2014; last published Thurs., June 19, 2014)2t REQUEST FOR ZONING RECLASSIFICATION Notice is hereby given that the Scott City Planning Commission will hold a special meeting on July 10, 2014, at 7:00 p.m., in the Scott City Council Meeting Room at City Hall, 221 West 5th Street, Scott City, Kansas, to discuss the following agenda items: 1) Consideration of amendment of the official zoning map to change the zoning classification from R-1-Single Family Residential District to C-2-General Commercial District for the following described property to wit: The South half of Block Thirteen (13), Cases 2nd Addition to the City. (North side of 500 Block of E. 6th Street).

2) Application for amendment of the official zoning map

by Virginia L. Robbins to change the zoning from C-3-Central Business District to R-1-Single Family Residential District for the following described property to wit: The East 50’ of Lots Two (2) and Three (3), Block Forty five (45), Original Town. (105 E. 6th Street).

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

Dated: June 10, 2014 /s/ Rodney Hogg, chairman Scott City Planning Commission

Public Notice (Published in The Scott County Record Thurs., June 12, 2014)1t BEFORE THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS NOTICE OF FILING APPLICATION RE: Lario Oil & Gas Company – Application for a permit to authorize the commingling of zones in the Abernathie Unit #1-3, located in Scott County, Kansas.

TO: All Oil and Gas Producers, Unleased Minerals Interest Owners, Landowners and all persons whomever concerned.

You, and each of you, are hereby notified that Lario Oil & Gas Company has filed an application to commingle Cherokee and Pawnee zones in the Abernathie Unit #1-3, located approximately NW NW NE SE Sec. 3-19S-34W, in Scott County, Kansas.

Any persons who object to or protest this application shall be required to file

County Plat Maps Scott

Logan

Ness

Wichita

Gove

Wallace

Lane

Greeley

Finney

Kearney

406 Main • Scott City 620 872-2090

110 W. 8th Street, Scott City http://scottcounty.mykansaslibrary.org

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rule, not the exception. Through examples found

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in God’s word, Joyce teaches us how to get

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unstuck, ways to get past your past, that quitting isn’t an option and much more. Take the first steps in allowing God to help you begin again.

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their objections or protests with the Conservation Division of the State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas within (15) days from the date of this publication.

These protests shall be filed pursuant to Commission regulations and must state specific reasons why the grant of the application may cause waste, violate correlative rights or pollute the natural resources of the State of Kansas. If no protests are received, this application may be granted through a summary proceeding. If valid protests are received, this matter will be set for hearing.

All persons interested or concerned shall take notice of the foregoing and shall govern themselves accordingly.

Lario Oil & Gas Company 301 S. Market Wichita, KS 67202 (316) 265-5611 ATTN: Jay Schweikert

Council to hold hearing on special assessments

The Scott City Council have a hearing on special assessments during its regular meeting on Mon., June 16, 7:30 p.m., for the two new housing subdivisions.

At that time, the city will have a breakdown of special assessments for each lot in the Prairie Meadows and Eastridge housing projects. Property owners will have an opportunity to protest the assessments or ask questions of the council.

The assessment for each lost in the Prairie Meadows addition is about $10,000 and will be slightly less than that in the Eastridge addition.

The assessments vary by size of the lot.

Vacation

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I was booking suddenly become unavailable.

A few additional tips: Follow and “like” airlines and ticketing sites on Facebook and Twitter. They’ll often share sales, discounts and promotional codes with their followers.

If the airfare goes down after you’ve purchased your ticket, ask the airline or ticketing site to refund the difference - it couldn’t hurt to ask.

Print and carry a copy of your airline’s Contract of Carriage, which outlines your rights and the airline’s obligations should your flight be cancelled or delayed for reasons besides weather or other “acts of God.” Consider vacation rentals listed on sites like Airbnb. com, VRBO.com and HomeAway.com. You can often find cheaper accommodations with more space and amenities than hotels offer.

Before booking a hotel room online, call the individual property to see if they can beat the company’s posted rate. Also ask for member discounts for organizations you belong to like AAA or AARP. Practical Money Skills for Life, a free personal financial management program run by Visa Inc., has a handy web-based travel calculator that can help you estimate travel costs and rejigger them to meet your budget needs (www.practicalmoneyskills.com/calculators). It’s also available as a free iPhone app, which you can download from iTunes.

A little preplanning now can ensure you don’t blow your whole budget on unexpected vacation expenses.

KDHE confirms two cases of measles in Johnson County

State health officials have confirmed two cases of measles in Johnson County.

KDHE spokeswoman Aimee Rosenow says everyone at risk of exposure is being contacted, and the investigation into the two Johnson County cases is ongoing.

“One case of a child that is unvaccinated, and another case of an adult, and we’re not certain of the vaccination status of the adult, but they are connected,” she said.

According to Rosenow, it appears that some of the four Clay County, Mo., patients confirmed to have measles in midMay may have had contact with the patients in Johnson County.

Measles is a respiratory disease caused by a virus. With the creation of the MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) vaccine, measles cases are rare in the United States; however, it still sickens approximately 20 million and kills 164,000 people worldwide each year.

“The best way to keep from getting the disease is by being vaccinated. Protect children by making sure they have the MMR vaccine when they are 12 to 15 months old, and again before they enter kindergarten,” said Dr. Robert Moser, KDHE secretary.

Measles is highly contagious and is spread through the air by breathing, coughing or sneezing. The signs and symptoms of measles typically begin one to two weeks after someone is exposed to an infected person.

Symptoms include fever, blotchy skin rash that spreads from the head to the trunk then to the lower extremities, cough, runny nose, red, watery eyes (conjunctivitis), feeling run down or achy, and tiny white spots with bluish-white centers found inside the mouth.

Those at high risk for severe illness and complications from measles include infants and children aged younger than age five, adults older than 20, pregnant women and people with compromised immune systems.

A 2012 measles outbreak in Garden City involved six confirmed cases at a cost of an estimated more than $100,000 per case. Between 500 and 600 people in Finney County were suspected of having contact with the six people known to be infected before they were quarantined, and health officials worked to contact and evaluate them.

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Brownback: expansion of Medicaid is harmful to states Jim McLean KHI News Service

The inaugural edition of a Heritage Foundation news site features an interview with Gov. Sam Brownback explaining “how Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion hurts states.”

The interview is featured in the Daily Signal, a new online publication “supported by the resources and intellectual firepower” of the foundation, which describes its mission as promoting “conservative public policies based on the prin-

ciples of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values and a strong national defense.”

Just last week Brownback told reporters in Topeka that he remains “open to Medicaid expansion,” adding that he was monitoring attempts by Republican governors in other states to take a more privatesector approach to expanding coverage.

But that openness wasn’t apparent in the Heritage interview. Asked why Republican governors in Iowa, Indiana,

Pennsylvania and other states were moving forward, Brownback said: “There is a lot of pressure to do it. And there is this presentation that this is free money from the federal government.”

Brownback said he believes his “wait and watch” strategy remains the best course of action because he isn’t convinced that the federal government will live up to its obligation to pay 100 percent of expansion costs for the first three years and not less than 90 percent thereafter. Mounting federal debt will

make it impossible, he said.

“Do you think that a fiscally solid, prudent state like the state of Kansas is going to end up with a 90/10 ratio on Medicaid when the federal government is staring at that much cost? They’re going to up our percentage,” Brownback said.

Watching the interview Tuesday on a laptop in his Topeka office, Sean Gatewood, director of the Kansas Medicaid Access Coalition, hit the pause button.

(See MEDICAID on page 15)

Kansas plummets in health rankings From 8th to 27th since 1991 Jim McLean KHI News Service

Kansas Health Foundation President Steve Coen was blunt and to the point.

“Kansas is sick,” Coen said in opening remarks at the foundation’s 2014 Health Symposium on June 5.

“Something has gone seri-

ously wrong in the state of Kansas, and we’ve got to do something to get it back on track.”

Coen’s diagnosis was based on the 2013 health rankings compiled by the United Health Foundation, which listed Kansas as the 27th healthiest state in the nation.

At first glance, that ranking may not seem like a cause for alarm. The concern, Coen said, stems from the fact that as recently as 1991, Kansas

ranked eighth.

“That is a huge drop in 23 years,” he said.

Several factors are driving the decline. Kansans are getting heavier. Fewer Kansas children are being fully immunized against childhood diseases. And efforts to reduce smoking have lost momentum. The number of Kansans who smoke is going down, but at a much slower rate than many other states.

“There are eight anchors

Women were smokers in 1-of-8 Kansas pregnancies In Kansas last year, more than 4,800 women smoked cigarettes during their pregnancies, according to a preliminary summary of birth statistics released Tuesday by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.

The finding means that in 2013, about one in every eight births - 12.5 percent - involved mothers who smoked for at least three months shortly before or during their pregnancies.

“We can’t ignore that,” said Dr. Dennis Cooley, chair of the state’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Infant Mortality. “It’s an improvement over where we were the year before, but it’s still way too high.”

Nearly 5,500 women smoked during their pregnancies in 2012.

Smoking during pregnancy is known to increase the risk of stillbirths, premature births and underweight babies.

KDHE officials and child health advocates have set a goal of lowering the rate of mothers who smoke during pregnancy to no more than 1.4 percent by 2020.

“We need to focus more of our efforts on smoking mothers,” said Cooley, a practicing pediatrician who’s also a past president of the

Kansas Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. “And we need to focus those efforts on the areas where the data tells us we have the highest rates.”

Other findings in the report: •KDHE’s Office of Vital Statistics recorded 38,802 births in 2013. That’s 1,502 fewer births - a 3.7 percent reduction - than in 2012.

•Kansas’ birth rate in 2013 was 13.4 births per 1,000 population.

That’s the lowest it’s been since the state centralized its recordkeeping system in 1912.

•Kansas’ birth rate has not increased since 2007.

•Seven counties - Douglas, Geary, Johnson, Riley, Sedgwick, Shawnee and Wyandotte - accounted for almost 60 percent of the state’s births last year.

•The number of out-of-wedlock births, teen births (mothers between age 15 and 19), low birthweight babies and premature births (less than 37 weeks gestation) all decreased slightly.

•Thirty babies were born to mothers between age 10 and 14 last year; 41 were born to mothers ages 45 or older.

(See SMOKERS on page 13)

pulling us down. Four of those are directly related to smoking,” said Jeff Willett, vice president for programs at the foundation, referring to a subset of the measures used to compile the health rankings.

“Smoking causes one-fifth of all premature deaths (in Kansas),” Willett said.

A renewed and sufficiently funded effort to reduce tobacco use in Kansas could (See RANKINGS on page 13)

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Specialty Clinics at Scott County Hospital Oncology/Hematology Dr. Tibayan, MD 4th Tuesday of the month

Pulmonologist Dr. Ballard, MD Monthly on Mondays

Gynecology Dr. David Prendergast, MD 1st Thursday of the month

Nephrology Dr. Girish Mohr, MD 3rd Friday of the month

Dermatology Dr. Theo Alkousakis, MD 3rd Wednesday of the month

Orthopedics Dr. Titus Plomaritis, MD 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month

Dr. Alex DeCarvalho, MD 1st, 2nd and 3rd Tuesday of the month

Urology Dr. Darrell Werth, MD 2nd Wednesday of the month

Dr. Kevin McDonald, MD 4th Wednesday of the Month

Neurology Dr. Christopher Fanale, MD Monthly on Mondays

Dr. Jeffrey Wagner, MD Every other month

Cardiology Dr. Janif, MD 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month

Dr. Dimen, MD

1st Wednesday of the month

Dr. John Ferrell, MD

3rd Wednesday of the month

Vascular Disease Dr. Stephen Annest, MD Monthly on Mondays

Diabetes Specialist Kirsten Angell, RD, LD, CDE 4th Tuesday of the month

Dietitian Courtney McCarty, RD, LD 1st Wednesday of the month Specialty clinics are scheduled monthly. Most of the clinics are conducted one time per month, however, some are scheduled two or three times per month.

To obtain a referral: Contact your physician at Scott City Clinic to discuss your concern and interest in a referral to a particular specialty clinic.

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Rankings reverse the state’s “steady and continuous decline” in the rankings, he said.

“I believe it’s the most winnable (public health) battle,” he said, noting that surveys show that most smokers want to quit.

Reducing obesity will be harder, said Dr. David Kessler, a former head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

As FDA commissioner under presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Kessler laid the groundwork for the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which gave the agency authority to

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regulate the manufacture, distribution and marketing of tobacco products to protect public health.

Obesity Addiction Unfortunately, Kessler said, the same regulatory opportunities don’t exist in the battle against obesity even though there is evidence that Americans are addicted to processed foods high in sugar, fat and salt.

Sugar is the biggest culprit, Kessler said. It triggers “thoughts of wanting” in the emotional center of the brain, causing people to eat even when they aren’t hungry.

“I wanted to understand

wanting. Not liking, wanting,” he said, explaining what motivated him to dig into the research and write the book, “The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite.”

Kessler said the food industry has spent the last several decades perfecting ways to create products that have the taste and texture that Americans crave. It’s no wonder, he said, that Americans now enter their 20s an average of 18 pounds heavier than they did in 1970.

“We’re living in a food carnival. What did we expect would happen?” he said.

With almost 30 percent

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0

5

10

6

6

3

0

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123

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17

35

39

24

8

0

0

Greeley

26

0

0

5

9

9

2

1

0

Kearny

63

0

4

19

24

11

4

1

0

Lane

23

0

1

6

9

1

6

0

0

Logan

33

0

2

11

7

7

5

1

0

Ness

33

0

1

7

13

8

3

1

0

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63

0

6

20

22

12

3

0

0

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80

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27

22

17

3

3

0

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1

11

30

31

19

5

2

0

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98

0

10

20

38

22

4

4

0

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25

0

1

6

9

6

1

2

0

Finney

656

0

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Smokers •The percentage of pregnant women who received prenatal care during their first trimester increased from 78.9 percent in 2012 to 79.4 percent in 2013.

“It’s encouraging to see that teen pregnancies are down, premature births are down, low birth-weight (babies) are down and prenatal care is up,” said Dan Partridge, director at the LawrenceDouglas County Health Department.

20-24 193

25-29 199

30-34 132

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“These may seem like modest gains, but I think they show we’re moving in the right direction,” Partridge said. “We’re seeing improvements, but we still have a lot of work to do. We have to keep at it and, yes, the mothers’ smoking rate is far too high.”

The statistics will be included in the Kansas Annual Summary of Vital Statistics, which KDHE officials expect to release in September.

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of the population considered obese, Kansas has one of the highest rates in the nation, according to the United Health Foundation rankings.

Using the regulatory power of government to restrict food choices isn’t the way to address soaring obesity rates, Kessler said. Instead, people need

to be encouraged and empowered to overcome their cravings and make healthier choices.

One way to do that, he said, is to push back against the notion that we are powerless to control our food addiction.

“Just because it’s not your fault doesn’t mean you can’t take steps to

protect yourself,” he said.

One of the most important steps we could take, he said, is to intervene early with children so that they don’t develop insatiable appetites for sweet, calorie-laden foods.

Restoring some old social norms - like eating only at mealtime - also could help, he said.

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Pastime at Park Lane Park Lane welcomes Emogene Harp as a new resident this week.

Church services last Sunday were led by the First Christian Church.

On Monday evening some of the residents played Wii bowling.

Tuesday morning Bible study was led by Bob Artz from the First Baptist Church, Doris Riner played the piano and Elsie Nagle sang.

Tuesday evening’s entertainment was trivia.

Lutheran services on Wednesday morning were led by Rev. Warren Prochnow.

Wednesday afternoon bingo helpers were Madeline Murphy, Mary Ann Spangler and Mandy Barnett.

Elsie Nagle did manicures for some of the ladies on Thursday morning.

On Thursday afternoon residents watched a Mitch Miller sing-along video.

Thursday evening Bible study was led by Russell and Mary Webster.

Fr. Bernard Felix led Catholic mass on Friday morning. In the afternoon

Residents help with cookie baking

Residents showed their baking skills on Tuesday afternoon when they helped bake chocolate chip, sugar and confettie cookies.

Pitch, dominoes played on Monday

Residents played pitch and dominoes on Monday afternoon.

Helpers were Dorothy King, Joy Barnett, Madeline Murphy, Wanda Kirk, Hugh McDaniel and Mandy Barnett.

Rev. Warren Prochnow led Lutheran services.

On Saturday afternoon the movie “Horse Whisperer” was shown.

Thanks to the family of Lou Pfanenstiel for the wheelchair donated to Park Lane.

Dottie Fouquet was visited by Mark Fouquet, Jon and Anne Crane, Fritzie Rauch and Donna Gashler.

Joyce Bohnert was visited by Alan and Glenda Graham and Janet Gallardo.

Emogene Harp was visited by Otto Harp, Marilyn Dryer, Kay Davis, Marvel Hopkins, Tina Turley, Alicia Harp, Alan and Glenda Graham, Janet Gallardo and Sharilyn Wilken.

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Jim and Yvonne Spangler were visited by Greg and Yvette Mills, Les and MaryAnn Spangler, and Sharilyn Wilken.

Harold and Ruth White were visited by Sharon Strecker.

Primus Suppes was visited by Wayne and Nancy Gerstner; Mike, Karen and Jace Gibbs; Ron and Shirley Suppes, Riley Suppes; Kyle, Jennifer, Joshua and Harper Simmons; Kim Simons, Jami Reever, Benjamin Simmons, Jacob Simmons, Kelsie and Christian Bryand, and Mike and Debbie Reystead.

Lorena Turley was visited by LaCinda Griffin, Loveland, Colo.; Teagan Brooks, Lometa Tex.; Autumn and Tracy, Rylee Brooks; Wendy McCoy, Windsor, Colo.; Neta Wheeler, Phyllis See; Tawni and Connor Griffey, Norton; and Bo Hess.

Vivian Kreiser was visited by Sharon Lock.

Darlene Richman was visited by Janelle Caspar, Janell Teter, Mary Webster and Maranda Dawn Barnett.

Clifford Dearden was visited by Janet Ottaway.

Jake Leatherman was visited by Ike Unruh, Jim and Mary Ann Unruh, Floyd Dirks, Renee Leatherman and Vonnie Chambers.

Geraldine Graves was visited by Marilyn Waters and Susie Geist.

Harriet Jones was visited by Rozann Rodenberg, Rev. Don Martin from St. Luke’s Church, Terry and Emily Jones, and Sharilyn Wilken.

Herb Graves was visited by Tina Turley.

Mike Leach was visited

by Linda Dunagan, Hannah Tucker, Hailee Amerine, and Rev. Don Martin from St. Luke’s Church.

Cecile Billings was visited by Ann Beaton, Linda Dunagan, Hannah Tucker, Hailee Amerine, Larry and Donita Billings, and Travis and Stephanie Hammond.

Corine Dean was visited by Dianna Howard, MaryAnn Unruh; John, Kyle, Wyatt and Warren Kropp; Aaron and Mandy Kropp, Mary Plum, Madeline Murphy and Caleb Powers.

Judy Redburn was visited by April Williams and Misti Russell from Missouri, Janie Lara, Amanda Lara, Tina Turley, Debbie Holland Bush; Amy and Madison Williams, Watonga, Okla.; Mary Torson, Wendy Derstine, Allen Russell, and Rhonda Redburn, Wichita.

Melva Rose was visited by Tina Turley, April Williams, Amy Williams, Allen Russell and Misti Russell.

Delores Brooks was visited by Fritzi Rauch, Charles Brooks and Cheryl Perry.

Lucille Dirks was visited by Dale Dirks, Mary Ann Unruh, Vicki Dirks, and Floyd and Vivian Dirks.

Dona Dee Carpenter was visited by Kandi John, Marvel Keyse, Mary Ann Unruh, Roger and Jackie John, Fritzie Rauch, Pastor Dennis Carter, Maranda Dawn Barnett, Gloria O’Bleness, and Larry LaPlant.

Jim Jeffery was visited

by Nathella Humburg, Ness City, and Pastor Dennis Carter.

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Lloyd Henry Hutchison Lloyd Henry Hutchison, 87, died June 6, 2014, at Someren Glen Assisted Care, Centennial, Colo.

He was born Sept. 5, 1926, in Wichita, the son of Lloyd M. and Wilma B. (Wright) Hutchison.

He was a former Leoti resident where he served as vice president of Leoti State Bank, had farming interests and was owner/ operator of the Montgomery Ward store.

He moved to Northglenn, Colo., in 1986 where he worked at several retail stores until his retirement.

Lloyd served his country during World War II as a Seaman First Class in the United States Navy.

On Dec. 26, 1949, he

Verna Willman was visited by Nancy Johnson and D’Ann Markel.

Richard Kirk was visited by Karla Sharpe.

Edith Norman was visited by Sue Riner, Doris Riner, Kambra Dearden and Sharilyn Wilken.

Bonnie Pickett was visited by Arlene Cauthon, Gloria Wright, Mary Ann Unruh and Treva McCandless.

Boots Haxton was visited by Rod and Kathy Haxton.

Albert Dean was visited by Susan Geist.

Earl Gorman was visited by Connie Gruver, Lyle Gillispie, Jay and Phylis Petersen, Loretta Gorman, and Jay, Madyson and Rae Gorman.

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married Doris Jean Gilman at Fairway.

Survivors include: his wife of Centennial, Colo.; and numerous extended family and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one son, Lloyd G. Hutchison (Matthew G. O’Brian).

Graveside service was held June 11 at the Scott County Cemetery with Pastor Kyle Evans officiating.

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

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

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William F. ‘Willy’ Grubb William F. “Willy” Grubb, 38, died June 9, 2014, at Via Christi/St. Francis, Wichita.

H e was born April 2, 1 9 7 6 , in Scott City, the son of Wi l l i a m Willy Grubb and Patricia (Dizmang) Lorg. A lifetime resident of Tribune, he was a farmer and co-owner/ operator of Grubb Custom Harvesting.

Survivors include: his wife, Skyler TorresGrubb; two sons, Sebastian Torres and Luke Grubb; and father, Bryon Grubb, all of Tribune; mother, Patricia Harrison, and husband, Donald, Thornton, Colo.; two brothers, Shannon Dizmang and wife, Kara, Thornton, and Dustin Grubb, Tribune; and grandparents, John and Edna Grubb, Tribune.

He was preceded in death by his birth father, William Lorg; one brother, Jeremy Grubb; grandparents, Virgil Lorg, Chuck and Patricia Dizmang; one uncle, Gary Grubb; and one aunt, Cathy Dirks.

Visitation will be Fri., June 13, noon-8:00 p.m., at Price and Sons Funeral Home, Tribune.

Funeral service will be held Saturday at 2:00 p.m. (MST) at the United Methodist Church, Tribune, with Rev. Rick Kingham officiating.

Burial will be at the Greeley County Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to the Sebastian Torres/Luke Grubb education fund in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 322 2nd St., Tribune, Ks. 67879.

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

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Park Place People

by Doris Riner

Farewell to the ‘king’

I know I haven’t written for a couple weeks or so, but I have someone special I want to write about.

I know his obituary will be in the papers but I want to write about the person. This last week, we at Park Place lost our beloved resident Louis Pfanenstiel. To people who knew him, it is a great personal loss.

Lou was a resident here when I moved in next door to him. Mae, his wife, was a resident in the nursing home. He had an organ (which caught my attention right away).

Every afternoon he brought Mae over to the apartment and played the organ for her. After she passed away he moved to another apartment and the organ music was beginning to be heard less and less.

However, Lou didn’t let his sorrow take him too and he started getting acquainted with more residents at morning coffees. It wasn’t long until Lou was the most loved and respected resident there, and outsiders began coming more and more often.

Over the years, Lou has truly become “King of the Road!” Now any king will be greatly missed, good or bad, but Park Place’s special king will be missed so much I don’t even want to think or write about it.

It would take a book to tell all the good things about Lou. Those who knew Lou know what I’m saying. He was a great guy and had a great family!

Need I say more?

The Scott County Record • Page 15 • Thursday, June 12, 2014

Medicaid “I keep hearing this and I don’t understand,” said Gatewood, a former Democratic legislator from Topeka. “That 90 percent match is federal law.”

Every state budget that the governor has signed contains federal money for highways, education and public health programs among other things, Gatewood said. Brownback and Republican leaders also have aggressively lobbied for billions of federal dollars to construct the National Bio and AgroDefense Facility on the Kansas State University campus.

“So, why is this one (Medicaid expansion) singled out? That’s the question,” Gatewood said.

The concerns about federal funding could be addressed in legislation

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authorizing expansion by including a trigger that would automatically roll back Medicaid eligibility to current levels if federal funding ever fell below the promised 90 percent threshold, Gatewood said.

But, Gatewood said, whenever he proposes the fix to expansion opponents, they come up with other objections.

Other expansion supporters reacted negatively to Brownback’s explanation of why he decided to focus on extending Medicaid services to Kansans with physical and developmental disabilities over expanding eligibility for the program.

In the interview, Brownback differentiated between “needy” disabled Kansans waiting for services and “able-bodied, single” adults whose best path to coverage is a job.

“We’re trying to push people who are able-bodied right now to get a job,” he said. “That is a far more likely route out of poverty than having a bunch of government programs giving handouts to able-bodied individuals.”

Krista Postai, who runs one of the largest safety net clinics in the state, Community Health Centers of Southeast Kansas, said the governor is perpetuating divisive stereotypes to deny Medicaid to poor, working Kansans who can’t afford private coverage.

“He appears to be building on the stigma of there being some ablebodied people out there who don’t want to work and who lie around at the expense of those who do work,” Postai said. “I don’t understand the logic of somehow going after

those people by not letting people who are working have access to Medicaid.

It makes no sense to me.”

A December 2013 report published by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation said that nationally 54 percent of people in the socalled Medicaid coverage gap have jobs. They earn too much to qualify for Medicaid in Kansas and the other 18 states not implementing expansion but too little for federal subsidies to help them buy private coverage on the Obamacare exchange.

Approximately 80,000 uninsured Kansans are in the Medicaid gap.

Expansion would extend Medicaid coverage to all those earning less than 138 percent of FPL - about $32,500 annually for a family of four.

Attend the Church of Your Choice

It Begins With Prayer

“Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.” Matthew 26:41 Dear friend, never go out into the danger of the world without praying first. There is always a temptation to shorten your time in prayer. After a difficult day of work, when you kneel at night to pray with tired eyes, do not use your drowsiness as an excuse to resign yourself to early rest. Then when the morning breaks and you realize you have overslept, resist the temptation to skip your early devotion or hurry through it.

Once again, you have not taken the time to “watch and pray.” Your alertness has been sacrificed, and I believe there will be irreparable damage. You have failed to pray and will suffer for it.

Temptations are waiting to confront you, and you are not prepared to withstand them. Within your soul you have a sense of guilt, and you seem to be lingering some distance from God. It is certainly no coincidence that you tend to fall short of your responsibilities on those days when you have allowed your weariness to interfere with your prayer life.

Jesus, the omnipotent son of God, felt it necessary to rise each morning before dawn to pour out His heart to His Father in prayer. Should we not feel even more compelled to pray to Him who is the giver of “every good and perfect gift” (James 1:17) and has promised to provide whatever we need?

We do not know all that Jesus gained from His time in prayer, but we do know this, a life without prayer is a powerless life. It may be a life filled with a great deal of activity and noise, but it will be far removed from Him who day and night prayed to God. (From “Streams in the Desert” by L.B. Cowman) Pastor Jon Tuttle Prairie View Church of the Brethren, Friend 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

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.

Pence Community Church

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

Holy Cross Lutheran Church

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.

Community Christian Church

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

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

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

Sunday Morning Worship, 10:45 a.m.

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

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

First Baptist Church

Immanuel Southern Baptist Church

803 College - Scott City - 872-2339 Kyle Evans, Senior Pastor Bob Artz, Associate Pastor

1398 S. US83 - Scott City - 872-2264 Robert Nuckolls, pastor - 872-5041

Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.

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

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

Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.

Gospel Fellowship Church

1st United Methodist Church

Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.

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

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

Sunday 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

120 S. Lovers Lane - Shallow Water Larry Taylor, pastor 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 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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Youngsters who have reached 100 to 700 book milestones in the Scott County Library’s “1,000 Books Before Kindergarten” reading program are:

Lilly Wycoff 100

Nora Wycoff 100

Meika Dirks 200

Abigail Colbary 100

Abigail Wiechman 500

Brant Powelson 700

Jordan Rufenacht 700

Emme Wishon 700

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There’s a SIMPLER WAY. AUTO | HOME | LIFE Tayler Koehn (left) and Arlette Herrera check out their nano bug creation at the Scott County Library on Saturday. Science is the theme for this year’s summer reading program which has special programs and activities for participating youth every Tuesday and Wednesday.

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You go to extremes to protect what matters most and I go to extremes to make insurance simple.

All youth can experience the fun of 4-H On behalf of K-State Extension in Scott County I would like to invite all youth between the ages of 7-10 to our Scott County 4-H Day Camp on Tues., June 24.

Camp will be held at Lake Scott from 9:00 a.m. and will wrap up at 2:00 p.m. This FREE day camp will have tons of fun activities such as hiking, rafting, swimming, eating, and a lot of other

Tayla Cannella

Scott County Extension summer intern

“super fun” stuff to go along with our “super heroes” theme.

It will be a great opportunity for youth to see what 4-H is about and all of the reasons why 4-H

is super fun. It will be a great chance to meet other kids your age, make new friends, take part in activities and enjoy a summer day by the lake.

We are only taking the first 30 kids who call, so please let us know as soon as you can if you would like your child to attend.

RSVP to the Extension office (872-2930) by Wed., June 18.

If you have any ques-

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tions contact me at tlcannella@ksu.edu, or Carol Ann Crouch at ccrouch@ksu.edu.

A youth participation form is required to attend and can be found at http:// www.kansas4-h.org/p. aspx?tabid=470, or come by the Extension office and fill one out.

So grab a friend, or two, or three and I will see you there!

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Week of June 16-20 Monday: Pizza, salad blend, rosy applesauce.

Tuesday: Hamburger, lettuce and tomatoes, baby carrots, mandarin oranges.

Wednesday: Oven fried chicken, corn on the cob, potato salad, peaches.

Thursday: Mini corndogs, green beans, dinner roll, strawberries.

Friday: Sub sandwich, 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.

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Sports The Scott County Record

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Tara Rose of the Scott City Stars swim team competes in the 50m butterfly during Saturday’s meet in the home pool.

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Stars make a big splash in home meet Stevens wins four individual titles; Trout adds three The Scott City Stars needed a Brinks armored truck to haul away their gold medals from their own invitational swim meet last Saturday.

The Stars collected 46

gold medals as they easily floated away with the team title.

Scott City’s huge gold medal haul helped them to amass 968 team points - well ahead of runnerup Dodge City (245), followed by Holcomb (150) and Ulysses (145) in the seven team field.

The gold medal count was evenly divided between the Scott City boys and girls at 23 each.

Rod Haxton, sports editor

Brinlie Stevens (8-years and under) claimed four first place finishes on the day. She was locked in a dual with teammate Kennedy Wasinger throughout the day as the duo finished 1-2 in four events with Stevens holding a slight edge in each.

Stevens (19.66) won the 25m freestyle, less than a second ahead of Wasinger (20.55) and

followed with a win in the 50m freestyle (44.88) while Wasinger (46.88) was close behind.

Stevens picked up another first place finish in the 25m backstroke (25.15), ahead of Wasinger (26.35). The 25m butterfly saw yet another top finish by Stevens (27.68) and Wasinger (28.94).

Wasinger did claim an individual championship

in the 25m breaststroke in freestyle (63.78), just a time of 29.94. ahead of teammate Cami Patton (65.87). She was Trout Wins 3 Titles also a winner in the 100m Kylee Trout (13-14 butterfly (1:11.28). years) won the first of her Tara Rose (9-10 years) three championships in won the 50m breastthe 50m freestyle (28.89) stroke (53.51) to lead a and added another in the 1-2-3 finish in the event 100m freestyle (63.76). that also included Alli She also won the 100m Patton (54.31) and Clare breaststroke (1:27.74).

Hawkins (54.47).

Reagan Smyth (15Piper Wasinger (11-12 years and over) claimed years) picked up a gold first place in the 100m (See SPLASH on page 18)

stunning

State track prep is a unique challenge

Before we let go of the 2013-14 school year, we couldn’t help but make one final observation of the Kansas Track and Field Championship and, in particular, how well the Scott Community High School athletes performed.

As anyone who has ever competed in the state track meet can tell you, it’s one of the most difficult events you can prepare for.

In every other sport, coaches and athletes can establish a routine that they follow throughout the season and even into the post-season.

SCHS Basketball and football players have a pre-game routine that they follow closely - down to the minute. When making a long road trip to a playoff game, head coach Glenn O’Neil still keeps to a familiar routine so that players are ready physically and mentally.

Throughout the course of a season, wrestlers establish a routine at tournaments. Very little changes when they get to state.

Track, however, is a different beast.

(See TRACK on page 20)

With the bluffs as a backdrop, a sailboater enjoys an afternoon outing at Lake Scott State Park over the Memorial Day weekend.

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Lake Scott ranks among top 36 in U.S. The “best kept secret” in Kansas is getting a little harder to keep with yet another honor coming to Lake Scott State Park.

The park came in at No. 23 on a list of the “36 Stunning U.S. State Parks” according to “The Active Times,” an outdoors adventures website. In fact, Kansas had three state parks make the list out of

more than 7,500 nationwide.

This is the latest recognition for the park, which also includes being ranked in National Geographic Traveler as one of the top 50 state parks in the U.S. More recently, it was tagged by “USA Today” as having the “best” beach in Kansas.

The most recent honor came as a surprise to state

park personnel.

“No one had contacted us.

We didn’t hear anything about it until we started getting e-mails,” says Park Manager Greg Mills.

“I don’t know who was responsible for making the decision or the criteria they used. We’re honored that we are on the list.”

The most recent publicity

gives people another reason to see what Lake Scott has to offer and possibly include a weekend trip for those only a short distance away. It might also encourage cross-country travelers to make a side trip to the park.

“We’re just soaking up the attention,” says Mills, who says the park is off to a busy (See STUNNING on page 20)

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Outdoors in Kansas

by Steve Gilliland

Golfing through the eyes of a hunter

A couple of weeks ago the news was all abuzz with the NCAA golf tournament being played at the worldacclaimed Prairie Dunes Golf Course near Hutchinson. It all took me back to my one and only brush with golf.

In 2006, as a valiant attempt to add a little culture to my otherwise mundane existence and to further stretch the boundaries of my comfort zone, (also known as free tickets) I attended the 2006 Senior Open Golf Tournament at Prairie Dunes.

Now understand, I don’t know a fairway from a freeway, or a bogey from a back nine. To me, a driver is the person at the wheel of a vehicle and putter is something we men do in lieu of something constructive.

Yet there I was, reduced to being part of something called “the gallery.” Even though I tried my best to fit in, I’m pretty sure I looked at that entire experience slightly different than most other people there.

Allow me to explain.

Every golf course is littered with various sized pits of sand known as sand traps.

When I looked at the sand traps all around us, all I could think was what swell little ponds they would be.

Large mouth bass and those big hybrid bluegills would love nice sandy bottom pools like those.

Much of the hilly terrain between holes was thick with sand hill plum bushes. I imagine the refined eye of any golf connoisseur sees this as garnish; part of the overall presentation. I saw them as a neverending supply of plum jelly.

The miles of neatly groomed footpaths amidst the roughs (See GOLFING on page 20)

Kaden Wren of the Scott City Stars claimed a first place finish in the 50m freestyle during their home swim meet on Saturday.

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Wren wins four gold medals for SC boys Kaden Wren led a dominating performance by the Scott City Stars in their second swim meet of the season last Saturday.

Competing in the 11-12-year division, Wren claimed four individual titles which were among 23 earned by the Scott City boys.

Wren’s toughest competition throughout the day came from his own teammates who finished second to him in each event that he won.

In winning the 50m freestyle, Wren (29.98) was part of a 1-2-3 finish that included Parker Gooden (31.48) and Conner Cupp (32.0).

In the 100m freestyle it was Wren (68.85), finishing just ahead of Gooden (72.38) and Sawyer Stevens (79.94).

Splash medal in the 200m individual medley (3:07.6), followed by teammate Mattie Brandl (3:42.38).

Hannah Brandl (1314 years) claimed a win in the 100m backstroke (75.8).

The Lady Stars were dominating in the relays where they added 10 more first place finishes. Those events included: 8-years and under: 100m freestyle: 1:38.13. Stevens, Trout,

Gooden, Noll are triple winners under) enjoyed a big day in the pool with wins in the 25m freestyle (19.26), 50m freestyle (42.94) and 25m backstroke (25.46).

In each event, Noll faced tough competition from his own teammates.

Houston Frank (20.0) finished just 74/100 of a second behind Noll to settle for second in the 25m freestyle while Jaxson Brandl (20.76) was a bronze medalist.

Brandl (44.51) and Frank (47.94) flip-flopped finishing spots in the 50m freestyle. Both finished 2-3 in the 25m backstroke with Brandl (27.83) nudging Frank (28.52).

Frank did get his gold Noll Wins Three Avry Noll (8-years and medal in the 25m butterWren posted a time of 42.67 in the 50m breaststroke to win by a comfortable margin over runner-up Cupp (48.34).

However, less than a second separated the two swimmers in the 200m individual medley with Wren (3:04.83) barely hitting the timing pad ahead of Cupp (3:05.38).

P. Gooden was the 200m freestyle champion in 2:50.48, followed by runner-up Stevens (2:58.19).

Stevens’ gold medals came in the 50m butterfly (41.76), followed by Gooden (44.52).

he won the 100m individual medley (1:49.48).

fly (27.76), finishing just over one second ahead of Noll (28.83).

Carter Gooden was also a triple winner on the day in the 100m freestyle (1:31.1), the 50m backstroke (50.17) and the 50m butterfly (53.12).

Zach Rohrbough (1:31.46) finished just 36/100 of a second behind Gooden in the 100m freestyle while Eric Shapland (1:34.02) finished third. Rohrbough (38.56), Shapland (38.84) and Gooden (42.47) led a 1-2-3 finish for Scott City in the 50m freestyle.

Shapland’s gold medals came in the 50m breaststroke (53.62), followed

by Gooden (57.49), and

5 Relay Golds The Scott City boys claimed another five top finishes in the relays.

They included: 8-years and under: 100m freestyle: 1:28.64. Noll, Waylon Ricker, Frank and J. Brandl.

100m medley: 2:00.32.

Noll, Griffin Edwards, Alex Rodriguez and Frank.

9-10 years: freestyle: 200m 2:54.66. Shapland, Rohrbough, Brandon Smyth, C. Gooden.

11-12 years: 200m freestyle: 2:18.5.

C. Cupp,, Ryan Cure, P. Gooden, Wren.

200m medley: 2:37.7.

Landon Trout, Wren, C. Cupp, Stevens.

Hutton, Lanae Haupt and Allison Brunswig.

200m medley: 2:42.61.

M. Brandl, P. Wasinger, Shapland, Jacy Rose. Less than two seconds behind in a time of 2:44.55 were Gabby Martinez, Haupt, Hoeme and Brunswig.

13-14 years: 200m freestyle: 1:59.19. H. Brandl, Shelby Patton, M. Stevens and Trout.

200m medley: 2:32.06. Trout, Patton, H.

Wiechman and Stevens.

Finishing less than 1-1/2 seconds behind as the runner-up in 2:33.45 were Emily Parkinson, Alexis Hoeme, H. Brandl and Rachel Fisher.

15-years and over: 200m freestyle: 2:03.34.

C. Patton, Elaine Parkinson, Krissa Dearden and Smyth.

200m medley: 2:25.77.

E. Parkinson, Delaney Kitch, Smyth, Patton.

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Malorie Cupp, K. Wasinger. The runner-up in 1:58.03 was Hailey Shapland, Madison Roberts, Amelia Ramsey and Kinleigh Wren.

100m medley: 2:01.5. Megan Trout, K. Wasinger, Kinleigh Wren and Stevens.

9-10 years: 200m freestyle: 2:41.67.

Kennedy Holstein, Hope Wiechman, Alivia Noll, Alli Patton. Finishing second in a time of 2:55.98

were Claire Rumford, Tara Rose, Lana Rodriguez and Kiley Wren.

200m medley: 3:22.6.

Patton, Noll, Wiechman and Holstein. Finishing second in 3:35.34 were Rodriguez, Wren, Rumford and Tara Rose.

11-12 years: 200m freestyle: 2:13.88.

Madison Shapland, Jacy Rose, M. Brandl and P. Wasinger.

The runner-up in 2:29.19 was Brooke Hoeme, Grace

Attend the annual OK Kids Day at Lake Scott State Park Sat., June 14 • 10:00 a.m. • Hiking • Fishing • Burgers and more

OK Kids Day at Lake Scott Sat.

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Youngsters from throughout the area are invited to learn about the outdoors during the annual OK Kids’ Day on Sat., June 14, at Lake Scott State Park.

Everyone is to meet near the handicap fishing dock at 10:00 a.m.

There will be a presentation by law enforcement, fishing and hiking.

The first 100 who register with the state park office (8722061) can also enjoy free hamburgers and hot dogs.

There will also be free vehicle admission all day on Saturday at Lake Scott State Park.

New app makes it possible to track swim action If you are unable to attend a Western Kansas Swim Club meet, or even if you are in attendance and would like to know the results as they occur, Sophomore Kiana Yager drives to the basket as part of a drill during last week’s camp for Scott Community High School there is an app for your iphone girls.

(Record Photo) or mobile device that can help.

Interested persons can down load the app “meetmobile” for up-to-the-minute results.

Once on the Western Kansas Swim Club site, an individual will need to enter the location of the meet and “star” their favorite swimmer(s). They will be notified of the time and place For the second straight year If camp was any indication, Crawford praised the effort ers every Monday, Wednesday as results are posted. the Scott Community High numbers will once again be an of sophomores Kiana Yager, and Friday mornings for an hour These are unofficial, howevSchool girls are coming off a issue for the squad. The larg- Taylor Goodman and Paige before they begin their session er, until the meet is completed. three win season. est turnout during the five camp Winderlin. of summer weights. This week Results from previous swim And for the second time they days was 12 players.

“All three girls want to get he’s been averaging about 12 meets are also available. have the added challenge of reAlong with the numbers, ex- better and are willing to put in girls for each workout. building a program after losing perience will be in very short the time,” says the head coach.

He had hopes of taking the more than 90 percent of their of- supply.

“Taylor has really stepped up girls to a team camp in Garden fense.

Of the four juniors expected her desire and ability. When- City next week, but because of That makes summer camp to be on the roster, only Jade ever I need someone to show the poor turnout at camp “we even more valuable for the Wren was in camp. One bit of how a drill is supposed to be aren’t ready,” he said. “I can’t The Scott City Stars swim Lady Beavers and head coach good news for Crawford was the done she’s the one I usually take three sophomores and put team will travel to Leoti on Sat., Shelby Crawford. The second- return of junior Mariah Camp- use as an example. Those three them with six freshmen who June 14. year coach of the SCHS girls bell who saw varsity action last girls could be the cornerstone of don’t know the offense.”

Swimmers who are 10-years knows that he faces a major year as a sophomore, but who our team for the next couple of “Quite honestly, the camp and younger will compete in the rebuilding project, but that task expected to move outside the years.” turnout messed up what I had morning session starting at 9:00 looms even larger with a lineup district. She returned this week As a team, however, basket- scheduled for the girls this suma.m. Those who are ages 11-18 that includes no seniors with and plans to be in school this ball fundamentals are in short mer,” he says. will be in the afternoon session varsity experience. fall. supply.

Crawford is hopeful the team which starts at 1:00 p.m.

Add in the fact that several “These girls have a long way can make enough progress durOther teams competing in expected starters weren’t in Mixed Results to go in terms of their skill lev- ing the summer to schedule the Western Kansas Swim Club camp last week and that only While they didn’t accomplish el,” says Crawford. “We barely some games with Colby, Dighdivisional meet will be Hays, adds to the frustration. all that he hoped during camp, scratched the surface last week. ton and possibly Leoti.

Lakin, Garden City, Holcomb “A couple of the girls had oth- Crawford said it was helpful in “What’s going to be far more “The bottom line is we need and Leoti. er commitments. I understand some ways. important than camp is what to build a program and that that,” says Crawford. “But there “I saw girls who proved to these girls do to improve their takes time,” adds Crawford. were a couple of other girls who me they wanted to be there and fundamentals during the rest of “When we lose a crop of seniors we expect to be leaders on this worked hard,” he says. “The de- the summer. They have to put in we want to replace them with team, and who say they want sire to work and get better, es- the time to get better.” capable players. We aren’t there to be leaders, but they weren’t pecially among our young girls, Crawford has open gym with yet, but that’s our goal over the The annual MASH golf tourthere. That was disappointing.” was evident.” his prospective basketball play- next few years.” nament will be played at the Scott Community Golf Course on Sat., June 14, with a shotgun start at 10:00 a.m.

This year’s top prize is $10,000 for a hole in one.

Sponsored by the Scott Community Foundation, proceeds benefit the Caring Hearts/ Caring Hands program at the Scott County Hospital.

Experience, numbers in short supply during girls’ hoops camp

Swim team to Leoti Saturday

MASH tourney in SC Saturday

Auburn a big early-season obstacle for the Wildcats Kansas State and Kansas both have an intimidating game on their nonconference football schedules this fall. by Kansas Mac State has the Stevenson most daunting challenge when they face Auburn on September 18.

K-State will have a week and a half off before the Auburn game and Snyder will need the extra time. K-State fans who are rubbing their hands in anticipation of an upset had better fasten their seat belts. Auburn is loaded.

Coach Gus Malzahn led last year’s squad to the national title game against Florida State, losing 34-31.

National football prognosticator Phil Steele says, “Auburn is a better team this year than they were last year . . . overall this year’s team would be favored over last year’s team, easily.”

Steele predicts that Auburn will compete for the national championship and be ranked in the top five to start off the season.

One of 17 returning starters is quarterback Nick Marshall who was voted MVP at their spring game.

Coach Bill Snyder is renowned for having his teams ready for big games in Manhattan - the Auburn game won’t be an exception. Regardless, Auburn could well be the best team K-State faces all season.

Duke a Tough Test Duke, the second game on KU’s schedule, will be an unexpected test.

When the schedule was made, Duke looked like a game the Jayhawks would win. That’s not the case in 2014.

Duke’s David Cutcliffe was named National Coach of the Year in 2013. They were 10-4 last year, including a loss to Florida State in the ACC title game and to Texas A&M (48-52) in the Chick-Fil-A Bowl.

Coach Cutcliffe returns 44 lettermen from last year’s team. He has 17 starters back - eight on offense, six on defense, and three special-team players.

This will be an important game for both teams.

Duke’s status has risen considerably in the ACC while (See AUBURN on page 21)

Track Instead of competing in three or four events as they’ve likely done in most track meets during the season, athletes may be competing in just one or two events. Their only event may not be until late afternoon, so they have to find a way to stay focused, stay loose and be prepared physically and mentally.

It’s not easy. Some athletes, particularly in their first year at state, fail to make the adjustment.

Coaches try to come up with ways to make sure athletes are prepared for their event. It’s not uncommon for head coach Jim Turner to send kids down to the track once or twice during the course of a day in order to stretch with someone else who’s going to compete.

“I think the best thing is the experience of being there,”

Stunning start this summer.

“It seems that we’re seeing more first-time visitors. I don’t know if they’re just responding to the publicity we’ve been getting or if they know that even in a drought we still have a good supply of water here.

“Either way, we’re glad to have them and we hope they keep coming back.”

At the same time, there’s little doubt that visitors do find the rugged landscape and huge bluffs stunning for Western Kansas.

Golfing looked to me like great spots for coyote traps. The trees bordering the course screamed deer hunting to me, and I had a few good tree-stand locations picked out before we’d left. And I hadn’t even thought about the turkey hunting yet!

As out-of-place as I felt, I began to see that this game called golf has a lot of similarities to deer and turkey hunting.

For example, we’d been advised to find choice seats and wait for the players to come to us.

So there we sat awaiting our “quarry,” on hunter green colored bleachers at the 17th hole, a spot where we could see ac-

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says Turner. “You try to prepare them the best you can, but kids don’t always believe what you’re telling them and why you want them to do things a certain way. Sometimes they have to find out for themselves.”

That wasn’t the case this year.

The 4x400m girl’s relay ran their season best during Friday’s prelims and improved on that by another 31/100 of a second in the finals on Saturday for a 4:08.6. Bailey Nickel, Aubrey Davis and Megan Thornburg ran PRs on Friday and Nickel’s 61.64 split on Saturday was yet another personal best.

The boys were equally impressive.

The 4x400m relay broke 3:29 on each day, including a season best of 3:27.93 on

Friday. Brayden Strine, Drake McRae (52.62) and Brett Meyer (50.76) each ran personal bests on Friday and in the finals on Saturday, Strine (50.43) lowered his career best by nearly 80/100 of a second. Sophomore Wyatt Kropp, who was competing in his first state meet with McRae, ran a 52.68 on Saturday which was only 5/100 of a second off his career best.

The 4x800m relay ran their best time of the season by nearly 6-1/2 seconds and Meyer (1:56.38) and Irvin Lozano (2:03.94) each had the fastest splits of their career.

If that wasn’t enough, Kelly Wycoff ran a career best in the 400m (56.98) and Meyer in the 800m (1:57.47).

That kind of a weekend is nothing short of impressive.

That wasn’t lost on Meyer.

“I’m shocked about some of the performances. We did great,” he said afterwards. “As a team everyone kept running faster. Everyone was having PRs. That’s awesome for a state meet for everyone to PR like that.”

So what is the secret?

Experience? Diet? Heart?

Well, there could be one other factor. Wiffle ball.

On Friday evening, after returning to their motel, the SCHS thinclads played wiffle ball.

“Normally, I would just as soon they relaxed, but they were having a good time so I figured what the heck,” says Turner. “After the way they performed on Saturday, it may become part of our regular routine.”

If it works, why not?

Quartelejo ruins.

ery.

Kanapolis: No. 14 Kanapolis State Park is situated amidst the striking Smoky Hills region of Kansas and is treasured for its many miles of hiking trails that meander through canyons, prairies and wooded creek bottoms.

The sublime Dakota sandstone bluffs and craggy Horsethief Canyon decorate the park and its surrounding area presenting pristine views of what’s considered some of Kansas’ most stunning scen-

Wilson: No. 34 Wilson State Park is tucked away in the center of the Smoky Hills and is well attended for the scenery its location affords. Hiking trails offer unrivaled views of native Kansas prairie and the Wilson Reservoir.

Camping accommodations and cabins are available throughout the 945-acre park and land is dedicated to mountain biking, fishing and hunting (in season only).

both benefit from that when we hunt together!)

I must say though that their marksmanship left a lot to be desired. Those guys all shot 64 or 65 times each day, and I didn’t see one of them carrying any game to show for it!

Yes, my playing golf at Prairie Dunes (now there’s a mental picture) would probably be worthy of a movie. We could call it something like “The Clampetts Join the Country Club.” I’d have to have a special custom-made golf bag with an extra pouch on each side; one to hold a deer rifle with a scope, and the other to hold a shotgun.

I’m pretty sure I could get a fishing rod and traps in there

somewhere amongst the clubs.

I seriously doubt they would allow me into the clubhouse or proshop though dressed in full camo.

All foolishness aside, I’m sincerely glad we had that experience. The golf course was immaculate and beautiful; television did not do it justice. I’m proud to say I’m part of a community that can pull off such an event.

I can see myself and my wife learning the game of golf someday. Even though it’s not exactly my cup of tea right now, it would be yet another way to Explore Kansas Outdoors.

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Aptly named a “stunning oasis,” Lake Scott is everything one could want in a fishing lake.

Spanning 1,020 acres, the natural features include wooded canyons, rugged bluffs and fresh springs. Lake Scott is large enough to accommodate boating and fishing and the extensive trail system allows horseback riding, hiking and mountain biking.

In addition, there are more than 26 archeological sites in the area, including the El

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tion all around us. Not much different I’d say than puttin’ up our camouflaged hunting blind near a “hot” deer trail or a known turkey roost and marking time in anticipation of a good shot.

Speaking of shots, when one of us makes a nice shot and harvests a deer or turkey for the freezer, there are high-fives and handshakes all around. Those guys too!

When one of them made an exceptional “shot” he’d dance a jig, shake everyone’s hand and even tip his hat to the crowd. They even had guys who raised their hands to keep everyone quiet while they shoot. (My wife and I would

Steve can be contacted by email at stevegilliland@idkcom.net

SRC mat ball is every Wednesday, noon-1:00, at the SCES gym. It’s free.

Open to all kids who will be in grades 5-8 next fall.

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Scott City Stars Swim Team WKSC Intra-Squad Meet June 7, 2014 • Scott City Girl’s Division 25 yd. Freestyle 8-years and under: Brinlie Stevens, 1st, 19.66; Kennedy Wasinger, 2nd, 20.55; Hailey Shapland, 3rd, 23.92; Megan Trout, 6th, 26.00; Kinleigh Wren, 7th, 27.10; Malorie Cupp, 8th, 27.19; Bret Lyon, 16th, 30.50; Savannah Lewis, 18th, 30.61; Kate Rogers, 19th, 31.89; Amelia Ramsey, 21st, 31.53; Madison Roberts, 25th, 36.85; Ella Frank, 26th, 37.58; Lily Lightner, 29th, 43.61; Libbie Beaton, 30th, 45.60; Kendall Gentry, 31st, 46.71; Livi Ford, 33rd, 52.94.

50 yd. Freestyle 8-years and under: Brinlie Stevens, 1st, 44.88; Kennedy Wasinger, 2nd, 46.48; Hailey Shapland, 3rd, 55.87; Megan Trout, 4th, 56.54; Malorie Cupp, 7th, 61.23; Bret Lyon, 11th, 68.69; Kinleigh Wren, 13th, 70.56; Kate Rogers, 15th, 1:14.43; Madison Roberts, 16th, 1:18.00.

9-10 years: Alli Patton, 2nd, 38.34; Hope Wiechman, 3rd, 39.72; Clare Hawkins, 4th, 41.97; Kennedy Holstein, 5th, 42.03; Tara Rose, 6th, 42.06; Claire Rumford, 7th, 42.44; Tori Ford, 9th, 43.79; Kiley Wren, 10th, 44.18; Lana Rodriguez, 14th, 48.50; Alivia Noll, 17th, 50.88; Bethany Prochnow, 19th, 53.28; Callie Hutton, 22nd, 56.15; Bella Myers, 25th, 60.45; Brynna Burnett, 27th, 67.82.

11-12 years: Piper Wasinger, 2nd, 31.07; Mattie Brandl, 4th, 35.26; Jacy Rose, 6th, 35.53; Gabby Martinez, 7th, 36.01; Allison Brunswig, 8th, 36.69; Grace Hutton, 9th, 37.29; Lanae Haupt, 11th, 37.57; Paige Vulgamore, 12th, 38.37; Kalacia Carter, 13th, 41.71; Brooke Hoeme, 14th, 42.03; Paige Prewit, 15th, 42.84.

13-14 years: Kylee Trout, 1st, 28.89; Makaela Stevens, 2nd, 29.37; Hannah Brandl, 4th, 30.45; Shelby Patton, 7th, 31.40; Jordan Miller, 8th, 31.45; Rachel Fisher, 9th, 31.78; Emily Parkinson, 10th, 32.48; Hallie Wiechman, 13th, 33.21; Ashley Prewit, 14th, 33.71; Alexis Hoeme, 17th, 34.26; Alyssa Storm, 18th, 34.59; Kodi Rogers, 23rd, 40.82; Abby Ford, 24th, 41.93.

15-years and over: Reagan Smyth, 1st, 28.46; Camryn Patton, 2nd, 28.73; Krissa Dearden, 5th, 31.94; Kelaney Kitch, 10th, 33.00; Elaine Parkinson, 12th, 35.59; Makayla Amerine, 13th, 37.98.

100 yd. Freestyle 9-10 years: Alli Patton, 2nd, 1:29.59; Kennedy Holstein, 3rd, 1:31.94; Clare Hawkins, 4th, 1:37.03; Hope Wiechman, 5th, 1:37.06; Kiley Wren, 6th, 1:37.86; Claire Rumford, 7th, 1:41.15; Alivia Noll, 8th, 1:41.25; Bethany Prochnow, 15th, 2:01.26.

11-12 years: Piper Wasinger, 2nd, 1:11.85; Madison Shapland, 4th, 1:16.68; Jacy Rose, 7th, 1:23.13; Gabby Martinez, 8th, 1:23.86; Grace Hutton, 9th, 1:24.17; Mattie Brandl, 10th, 1:27.91; Allison Brunswig, 11th, 1:28.48; Paige Vulgamore, 12th, 1:31.04; Brooke Hoeme, 13th, 1:31.99; Paige Prewit, 14th, 1:40.58; Kalacia Carter, 15th, 1:51.59.

13-14 years: Kylee Trout, 1st, 63.76; Makaela Stevens, 3rd, 68.30; Shelby Patton, 4th, 69.90; Emily Parkinson,

5th, 1:12; Hannah Brandl, 6th, 1:13.20; Jordan Miller, 9th, 1:15.32; Alexis Hoeme, 12th, 1:19.27; Rachel Fisher, 13th, 1:19.58; Ashley Prewit, 14th, 1:20.24; Alyssa Storm, 15th, 1:23.71; Abby Ford, 20th, 1:30.47; Kodi Rogers, 22nd, 1:43.29.

15-years and over: Reagan Smyth, 1st, 1:03.78; Camryn Patton, 2nd, 1:05.87; Delaney Kich, 7th, 1:16.26; Elaine Parkinson, 10th, 1:20.76; Makayla Amerine, 11th, 1:28.09.

200 yd. Freestyle 11-12 years: Brooke Hoeme, 2nd, 3:22.64; Lanae Haupt, 3rd, 3:23.57; Paige Vulgamore, 4th, 3:36.56.

13-14 years: Makaela Stevens, 3rd, 2:35.55; Shelby Patton, 4th, 2:35.97; Alexis Hoeme, 6th, 2:54.94; Jordan Miller, 7th, 3:03.14; Rachel Fisher, 8th, 3:03.21; Alyssa Storm, 10th, 3:06.03; Abby Ford, 13th, 3:47.46.

15-years and over: Delaney Kitch, 2nd, 2:47.47; Elaine Parkinson 3rd, 2:55.71; Makayla Amerine, 6th, 3:23.07.

500 yd. Freestyle 13-14 years: Shelby Patton, 2nd, 7:11.12; Hallie Wiechman, 3rd, 7:37; Alexis Hoeme, 4th, 8:05.26.

15-years and over: Reagan Smyth, 2nd, 6:59.68; Camryn Patton, 3rd, 7:17.77.

25 yd. Backstroke 8-years and under: Brinlie Stevens, 1st, 25.15; Kennedy Wasinger, 2nd, 26.35; Kinleigh Wren, 3rd, 27.66; Megan Trout, 6th, 31.30; Hailey Shapland, 12th, 36.25; Madison Roberts, 13th, 36.68; Ella Frank, 14th, 36.81; Kate Rogers, 18th, 38.92; Malorie Cupp, 19th, 40.66; Bret Lyon, 20th, 41.66; Savannah Lewis, 23rd, 43.02; Amelia Ramsey, 27st, 50.37; Libbie Beaton, 29th, 50.79; Lily Lightner, 30th, 62.05; Livi Ford, 31st, 68.50.

50 yd. Backstroke 9-10 years: Alli Patton, 2nd, 48.36; Kennedy Holstein, 3rd, 51.17; Lana Rodriguez, 5th, 53.35; Tori Ford, 6th, 56.01; Hope Wiechman, 8th, 56.97; Kiley Wren, 11th, 62.69; Alivia Noll, 13th, 68.07; Clare Hawkins, 14th, 70.63; Callie Hutton, 16th, 72.55; Brynna Burnett, 21st, 1:26.45; Bella Myers, 22nd, 1:29.83.

11-12 years: Jacy Rose, 4th, 42.16; Madison Shapland, 5th, 43.17; Gabby Martinez, 7th, 44.74; Allison Brunswig, 8th, 45.37; Grace Hutton, 9th, 49.15; Lanae Haupt, 12th, 55.14; Kalacia Carter, 13th, 55.26; Paige Prewit, 15th, 59.53.

100 yd. Backstroke 11-14 years: Hannah Brandl, 1st, 1:15.80; Emily Parkinson, 7th, 1:33.43; Rachel Fisher, 10th, 1:38.33.

15-years and over: Camryn Patton, 2nd, 1:26.12; Elaine Parkinson, 3rd, 1:30.36.

25 yd. Breaststroke 8-years and under: Kennedy Wasinger, 1st, 29.94.

50 yd. Breaststroke 9-10 years: Tara Rose, 1st, 53.51; Alli Patton, 2nd, 54.31; Clare Hawkins, 3rd, 54.47; Kennedy Holstein, 4th, 55.95; Alivia Noll, 5th, 56.71; Hope Wiechman, 6th, 57.18; Lana Rodriguez, 7th, 58.91; Kiley Wren, 8th, 1:00.43; Claire Rumford, 9th, 1:01.11; Tori Ford, 10th, 67.6; Brynna Burnett, 13th, 72.98; Bethany Prochnow, 15th, 78.92.

Auburn KU is still mired at the bottom of the Big 12. If Coach Charlie Weis’s third Kansas team is going to make a move, it will have to win on the road at Duke and that will be far from easy.

Kansas fans are becoming disenchanted with Weis and AD Sheahon Zenger, who hired him. If KU loses to Duke it will be the harbinger of another dismal football season for the Jayhawks.

Hitting is Royals’ Downfall In Major League Baseball, four major categories - in the order of their importance - determine whether a team is

11-12 years: Mattie Brandl, 2nd, 43.54; Madison Shapland, 3rd, 46.53, Jacy Rose, 5th, 47.11; Lanae Haupt, 6th, 49.04; Gabby Martinez, 7th, 52.35; Brooke Hoeme, 8th, 52.65; Allison Brunswig, 10th, 54.33; Paige Vulgamore, 11th, 54.50; Paige Prewit, 13th, 60.17.

100 yd. Breaststroke 11-14 years: Kylee Trout, 1st, 1:27.74; Hannah Brandl, 3rd, 1:33.94; Piper Wasinger, 4th, 1:34.17; Shelby Patton, 5th, 1:35.82; Alexis Hoeme, 6th, 1:38.84; Makaela Stevens, 8th, 1:39.40; Rachel Fisher, 12th, 1:42.48; Alyssa Storm, 13th, 1:43.80; Hallie Wiechman, 14th, 1:46.40; Jordan Miller, 15th, 1:46.57; Ashley Prewit, 16th, 1:52.48; Abby Ford, 19th, 2:02.72.

15-years and over: Camryn Patton, 2nd, 1:31.87; Reagan Smyth, 3rd, 1:35.44; Krissa Dearden, 4th, 1:38; Delaney Kitch, 5th, 1:38.99; Elaine Parkinson, 6th, 1:43.77; Makayla Amerine, 7th, 1:52.74.

25 yd. Butterfly 8-years and under: Brinlie Stevens, 1st, 27.68; Kennedy Wasinger, 2nd, 28.94.

50 yd. Butterfly 9-10 years: Hope Wiechman, 2nd, 55.46; Tori Ford, 3rd, 56.53; Claire Rumford, 4th, 57.85; Alivia Noll, 5th, 64.04; Lana Rodriguez, 6th, 67.24.

11-12 years: Piper Wasinger, 3rd, 39.48; Jacy Rose, 5th, 43.02; Allison Brunswig, 6th, 45.10; Paige Vulgamore, 7th, 46.40; Gabby Martinez, 9th, 47.47; Madison Shapland, 10th, 48.38; Brooke Hoeme, 11th, 49.61; Paige Prewit, 12th, 54.85; Grace Hutton, 13th, 55.92; Lanae Haupt, 14th, 57.91.

100 yd. Butterfly 11-14 years: Hallie Wiechman, 2nd, 1:32.34; Ashley Prewit, 3rd, 1:34.13.

15-years and over: Reagan Smyth, 1st, 1:11.28.

100 yd. Individual Medley 9-10 years: Alli Patton, 2nd, 1:40.34; Kennedy Holstein, 3rd, 1:48.46; Tara Rose, 4th, 1:55.08; Tori Ford, 5th, 1:59.61; Lana Rodriguez, 6th, 1:59.96; Claire Rumford, 8th, 2:01.94; Kiley Wren, 9th, 2:02.69.

200 yd. Individual Medley 11-12 years: Piper Wasinger, 1st, 3:07.60; Mattie Brandl, 2nd, 3:42.38.

13-14 years: Kylee Trout, 2nd, 2:50.78; Makaela Stevens, 3rd, 3:03.70; Hannah Brandl, 4th, 3:04.86; Hallie Wiechman, 5th, 3:12.40; Ashley Prewit, 7th, 3:25.80; Alyssa Storm, 9th, 3:28.81.

100 yd. Freestyle Relay 8-years and under: Brinlie Stevens, Megan Trout, Malorie Cupp, Kennedy Wasinger, 1st, 1:38.13; Hailey Shapland, Madison Roberts, Amelia Ramsey, Kinleigh Wren, 2nd, 1:58.03; Ella Frank, Kate Rogers, Livi Ford, Bret Lyon, 5th, 2:27.40; Libbie Beaton, Lily Lightner, Kendall Gentry, Savannah Lewis, 7th, 2:46.22.

200 yd. Freestyle Relay 9-10 years: Kennedy Holstein, Hope Wiechman, Alivia Noll, Alli Patton, 1st, 2:41.67; Claire Rumford, Tara Rose, Lana Rodriguez, Kiley Wren, 2nd, 2:55.98; Tori Ford, Callie Hutton, Clare Hawkins, Bethany Prochnow, 3rd, 3:10.16.

11-12 years: Madison Shapland, Jacy Rose, Mattie Brandl, Piper Wasinger, 1st, 2:13.88; Brooke Hoeme, Grace Hutton, Lanae Haupt,

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successful or not: (l) starting pitching, (2) hitting, (3) relief pitching and (4) defense.

The Kansas City Royals are proficient in three of the four. Their big weakness so far has been hitting.

The Royals don’t have any hot-hitting youngsters on their minor league teams who are ready to play in the majors. KC is going to succeed or fail with the players on their roster.

Kansas City will either surge forward or fall back into mediocrity in the next 3-1/2 months.

Allison Brunswig, 2nd, 2:29.19; Paige Vulgamore, Paige Prewit, Abbie LeBeau, Gabby Martinez, 3rd, 3:07.13.

13-14 years: Hannah Brandl, Shelby Patton, Makaela Stevens, Kylee Trout, 1st, 1:59.19; Rachel Fisher, Alexis Hoeme, Hallie Wiechman, Emily Parkinson, 4th, 2:13.88; Ashley Prewit, Abby Ford, Alyssa Storm, Jordan Miller, 5th, 2:19.34.

15-years and over: Camryn Patton, Elaine Parkinson, Krissa Dearden, Reagan Smyth, 1st, 2:03.34.

100 yd. Medley Relay 8-years and under: Megan Trout, Kennedy Wasinger, Kinleigh Wren, Brinlie Stevens, 1st, 2:01.50.

200 yd. Medley Relay 9-10 years: Alli Patton, Alivia Noll, Hope Wiechman, Kennedy Holstein, 1st, 3:22.60; Lana Rodriguez, Kiley Wren, Claire Rumford, Tara Rose, 2nd, 3:35.34.

11-12 years: Mattie Brandl, Piper Wasinger, Madison Shapland, Jacy Rose, 1st, 2:42.61; Gabby Martinez, Lanae Haupt, Brooke Hoeme, Allison Brunswig, 2nd, 2:44.55; Grace Hutton, Paige Prewit, Paige Vulgamore, Kalacia Carter, 3rd, 3:31.08.

13-14 years: Kylee Trout, Shelby Patton, Hallie Wiechman, Makaela Stevens, 1st, 2:32.06; Emily Parkinson, Alexis Hoeme, Hannah Brandl, Rachel Fisher, 2nd, 2:33.45; Abby Ford, Alyssa Storm, Jordan Miller, Ashley Prewit, 5th, 2:53.38.

15-years and over: Elaine Parkinson, Delaney Kitch, Reagan Smyth, Camryn Patton, 1st, 2:25.77.

Boy’s Division 25 yd. Freestyle 8-years and under: Avry Noll, 1st, 19.26; Houston Frank, 2nd, 20.00; Jaxson Brandl, 3rd, 20.76; Tanner Gooden, 5th, 23.18; Griffin Edwards, 8th, 24.99; Breven Vulgamore, 9th, 27.97; Alex Rodriguez, 10th, 28.45; Camden Vulgamore, 11th, 28.48; Waylon Ricker, 12th, 29.83; Jack Lightner, 17th, 34..45; Brodey Rohrbough, 19th, 35.29; Kasten Wren, 20th, 36.66; Brodie Holstein, 22nd, 38.17; Kalo Hineman, 23rd, 38.93.

50 yd. Freestyle 8-years and under: Avry Noll, 1st, 42.94; Jaxson Brandl, 2nd, 44.51; Houston Frank, 3rd, 47.94; Waylon Ricker, 5th, 56.88; Tanner Gooden, 6th, 58.24; Alex Rodriguez, 7th, 63.33; Breven Vulgamore, 8th, 67.36; Camden Vulgamore, 9th, 72.0; Kasten Wren, 14th, 1:25.23.

9-10 years: Zach Rohrbough, 1st, 38.56; Eric Shapland, 2nd, 38.84; Carter Gooden, 3rd, 42.47; Wyatt Ricker, 4th, 43.91; Joe McCleary, 9th, 48.25; Aiden Lewis, 10th, 51.98; Gus Hawkins, 12th, 56.60; Brandon Smyth, 13th, 58.05; Joshua Kasselman, 14th, 59.23.

11-12 years: Kaden Wren, 1st, 29.98; Parker Gooden, 2nd, 31.48; Conner Cupp, 3rd, 32.00; Sawyer Stevens, 4th, 32.27; Landon Trout, 4th, 35.80; Ryan Cure, 14th, 44.88.

100 yd. Freestyle 9-10 years: Carter Gooden, 1st, 1:31.10; Zach Rohrbough, 2nd, 1:31.46; Eric Shapland, 3rd, 1:34.02; Wyatt Ricker, 6th, 1:49.79; Joe McCleary, 7th, 1:52.15; Aiden Lewis, 8th, 1:56.18;

Gus Hawkins, 10th, 2:14.32; Joshua Kasselman, 11th, 2:16.44; Brandon Smyth, 12th, 2:24.98.

11-12 years: Kaden Wren, 1st, 1:08.85; Parker Gooden, 2nd, 1:12.38; Sawyer Stevens, 3rd, 1:19.94; Landon Trout, 4th, 1:26.17; Ryan Cure, 8th, 1:41.06.

200 yd. Freestyle 11-12 years: Parker Gooden, 1st, 2:50.48; Sawyer Stevens, 2nd, 2:58.19.

25 yd. Backstroke 8-years and under: Avry Noll, 1st, 25.46; Jaxson Brandl, 2nd, 27.83; Houston Frank, 3rd, 28.52; Alex Rodriguez, 7th, 34.42; Tanner Gooden, 8th, 35.36; Breven Vulgamore, 9th, 37.47; Brodie Holstein, 11th, 39.64; Waylon Ricker, 12th, 39.73; Griffin Edwards, 13th, 40.19; Kalo Hineman, 18th, 51.04.

50 yd. Backstroke 9-10 years: Carter Gooden, 1st, 50.17; Eric Shapland, 2nd, 52.08; Zach Rohrbough, 3rd, 53.57; Wyatt Ricker, 8th, 68.37; Joe McCleary, 9th, 75.62; Brandon Smyth, 10th, 76.41; Aiden Lewis, 11th, 1:20.39; Gus Hawkins, 12th, 1:20.83.

11-12 years: Conner Cupp, 1st, 37.10; Parker Gooden, 2nd, 39.99; Kaden Wren, 3rd, 41.14; Sawyer Stevens, 4th, 42.13; Landon Trout, 5th, 44.34; Ryan Cure, 10th, 5972.

50 yd. Breaststroke 9-10 years: Eric Shapland, 1st, 53.62; Carter Gooden, 2nd, 57.49; Zach Rohrbough, 4th, 1:08.40; Brandon Smyth, 6th, 1:19.65.

11-12 years: Kaden Wren, 1st, 42.67; Conner Cupp, 2nd, 48.34; Landon Trout, 5th, 63.12; Ryan Cure, 9th, 68.36.

25 yd. Butterfly 8-years and under: Houston Frank, 1st, 27.76; Avry Noll, 2nd, 28.83; Waylon Ricker, 3rd, 40.44.

50 yd. Butterfly 9-10 years: Carter Gooden, 1st, 53.12; Zach Rohrbough, 3rd, 56.86.

11-12 years: Sawyer Stevens, 1st, 41.76; Parker Gooden, 2nd, 44.52; Landon Trout, 5th, 55.78; Ryan Cure, 6th, 66.72.

100 yd. Butterfly 11-14 years: Conner Cupp, 1st, 1:23.24.

100 yd. Individual Medley 9-10 years: Eric Shapland, 1st, 1:49.48.

200 yd. Individual Medley 11-12 years: Kaden Wren, 1st, 3:04.83; Conner Cupp, 2nd, 3:05.38.

100 yd. Freestyle Relay 8-years and under: Avry Noll, Waylon Ricker, Houston Frank, Jaxson Brandl, 1st, 1:28.64; Tanner Gooden, Breven Vulgamore, Griffin Edwards, Alex Rodriguez, 2nd, 1:43.34; Camden Vulgamore, Brodey Rohrbough, Kasten Wren, Brodie Holstein, 3rd, 2:19.06.

200 yd. Freestyle Relay 9-10 years: Eric Shapland, Zach Rohrbough, Brandon Smyth, Carter Gooden, 1st, 2:54.66.

11-12 years: Conner Cupp, Ryan Cure, Parker Gooden, Kaden Wren, 1st, 2:18.50.

100 yd. Medley Relay 8-years and under: Avry Noll, Griffin Edwards, Alex Rodriguez, Houston Frank, 1st, 2:00.32.

200 yd. Medley Relay 11-12 years: Landon Trout, Kaden Wren, Conner Cupp, Sawyer Stevens, 1st, 2:37.70.

Fishing Report Scott State Lake Updated June 5 Channel cats: good, up to 6.5 lbs. The catfish bite continues to be good and with spawning right around the corner the bite should maintain to improve. Cut or live fish and prepared baits fished along deeper weedbed edges or along the dam has been productive. Quite a few fish up to four pounds have been reported.

Crappie: fair/good; most up to 9 inches. Fishing jigs or minnows along weedbed edges, rip-rapped shorelines, along the dam face, and around the fish attractors has been good. Boat fishers drifting minnows and jigs in open water on the main lake has been good from time to time.

Walleye/saugeye: fair/ good; saugeye, up to 3.6 lbs.; walleye, up to 6.1 lbs. Jig and nightcrawler or minnow combos drifted or slow retrieved over well defined points or over gravelly shelves. Anglers report catching bunches of short fish and a few keepers here and there.

Largemouth bass: good; up to 5.5 lbs. Casting spinnerbaits, swimbaits, and other fish imitating baits around the fish attractors, laydown trees, overhanging bushes, and cattails adjacent to deeper water has been good for fish of all sizes up to 6 lbs.

Sunfish: good; up to 8 inches. Vertically fishing small jig heads tipped with small pieces of nightcrawler or whole mealworms around the fish attractors and along rip-rapped shorelines and edges of the cattails.

General comments: Release all walleye/saugeye and largemouth bass less than 15 inches.

Please discard all leftover bait in a trash can, even baitfish. Remember it is illegal to release any fish into public water unless it was taken from that water.

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Scott City Stars competing in their home swim meet last Saturday were (clockwise, starting above) Ryan Cure in the 50m breast stroke; Emily Parkinson in the 50m freestyle; Griffin Edwards in the 25m butterfly; Bethany Prochnow in the 50m breaststroke; and Alivia Noll in the 50m backstroke.

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Youth/Education

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School finance law faces legal challenge Officials from the largest teachers union in Kansas plan to file a legal challenge to part of a controversial new school finance law.

The education funding bill passed earlier this year

included changes making it easier to fire teachers.

The legislation stripped teachers of some due process protections.

Officials with the union, KNEA, said that provision was added to the bill and passed in an

improper manner. KNEA attorney David Schauner said the law would allow teachers to be fired for unfair reasons.

“Instead of money being spent in classrooms, money will now be spent

in courtrooms by teachers and school districts challenging unfair dismissals,” Schauner predicted.

But supporters of the legislation, including Gov. Sam Brownback, said the changes could help im-

prove schools by making it easier to remove bad teachers.

“The education bill provided $129 million in funding to classrooms and for property tax relief, it provided additional pay for ‘master teachers,’ and

it returned local control to school districts,” Brownback said.

“This is a good bill that benefits Kansas children. I hope KNEA will take no action that threatens funding for our schools and the welfare of our students.”

3 named to spring honor rolls at NCKTC

Three Scott City students were named to spring semester honor rolls at NorthCentral Kansas Technical College with campuses in Beloit and Hays.

Named to the Dean’s Honor Roll (3.5-4.0 gpa) were Tadd Gertschitz, general business; and Matthew Gamble, electronic engineering technology.

Making the honor roll (3.0-3.49 gpa) was Alex Kough in automotive collision technology.

120 youth attend aviation camp Aviation is much more than flying an airplane and getting it back on the ground safely.

And there’s more to flying than what happens in the cockpit.

Youngsters, some of whom hope to become pilots, learned those lessons during the annual Youth Aviation Camp held last Friday at the Spencer Flight and Education Center at the Scott City Airport.

Individuals involved with the SFEC, along with other area pilots, offered programs and provided instruction to 120 area youth.

There were sessions for all youth ages 18 and under. The younger participants attended the morning session with the older pilots attending in the afternoon.

A new feature at this year’s camp was a replica of the Spirit of St. Louis Airport which was flagged off with taxiways and landing strips.

Leoti pilot Mark Budde would communicate with the pilots in their aircraft (golf carts) as they would taxi for takeoff and plan approaches to the airport. Each pilot would have to listen for instructions from the control tower, repeat the instructions and then follow the directions.

(Top) Abe Wiebe, Scott City, prepares for a landing in the flight simulator with assistance from Steve Neely.

(Middle) Blake Koehn communicates with the air traffic controller while Dr. Daniel Dunn is his co-pilot.

(Right) Airport Manager Weston Thompson explains the mechanical side of operating an aircraft.

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4 earn spring honors at CCC

Four area students were named to spring honor rolls at Colby Community College.

To be named to the President’s Honor Roll, fulltime students (15 or more credit hours) must maintain a grade point average of 4.0.

Those on the Dean’s Honor Roll must have a 3.75-3.99 gpa.

Honor students include: President’s Roll: Kassandra Baker, Leoti.

Dean’s Roll: Loretta Harmison, Dighton; Jacob Fairchild, Leoti; and Joey Meyer, Scott City.

County 4-H Club News

Pioneer 4-Hers meet on May 3

“I learned that being a pilot is pretty complicated,” said Sterling Wright, 12, Scott City.

Even from a golf cart, the young pilots experienced how difficult it is to follow flight instructions and make sure they were on the right runways.

“I think I did a pretty good job of learning to taxi on and off the runways,” said David Cramer, 14, Dighton, who was

attending his first aviation camp. “I came here so I could see what it was like.”

Cramer was also pretty pleased with his first time to be in the flight simulator.

“I didn’t crash, so I did pretty well,” he noted.

Erik Prieto, 12, Healy, admitted that he “really didn’t do that well” with his two flights in the simulator.

His main goal was to actu-

ally fly for the first time and, after flights were delayed for awhile because of the threat of bad weather, he got his chance late in the afternoon.

Flying, however, wasn’t a new experience for Wright who said he had been in an airplane three times and hopes to become a pilot someday.

“I think the camp is a good idea,” he added. “I learned a lot.”

The monthly meeting of the Pioneer 4-H Club was called to order on May 3 by President Megan Thornburg.

Roll-call was answered by 10 members and two community leaders.

The Pioneer 4-H Club welcomed a new member Jaxson Kough.

The Herman family was our host. Natilie Herman gave a presentation on all the deserts she has been practicing to prepare for the County Fair. They also brought mini cheesecakes for refreshments.

Dallie Metheney, reporter

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Farm

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Rains are welcome, but drought persists across state Wheat in northern counties may still see benefit Take one long drought that settled over Kansas for years. Add several inches of rain over a few short weeks.

The result is the farmer’s version of feast or famine.

Recent rain across Kansas may have come in time to help some of the drought-stressed wheat in northern counties, but too late in southern counties that are about to harvest, said Jim Shroyer, agronomy professor with Kansas State University.

“I never thought I’d see this - in a drought year, and we’re approaching too much rain,” said Shroyer, a wheat specialist with K-State Research and Extension, in describing the most recent weather system that dumped three inches or more in some areas.

“If there are green leaves left on wheat plants, the moisture helps. In other parts of the state it could delay harvest, and sprouting is even possible.”

“An optimistic pessimist would say, ‘it will rain, but it will rain during harvest.’

The irony here has not been lost on producers,” he said.

Much of Kansas and other Plains states have been locked in a drought for three years or more, but late-spring rains have eased conditions somewhat.

Still, the U.S. Drought Monitor www.droughtmonitor.unl.edu on June 3 showed virtually the entire state experiencing abnormally dry to extreme drought conditions, with some areas in exceptional drought.

“It’s been one tough year.

The wheat is stressed,” said Shroyer, adding that the drought had taken a toll on wheat that also was hit by spring freeze damage in some areas. “Producers

have said this is the worst the wheat has ever looked.”

Shroyer, who traveled through north-central Kansas on June 10, said he’d even seen scab - a disease that favors wet conditions - on some wheat in Cloud and Clay counties - not so unusual in rainy years but highly unusual in drought years.

“I don’t think it will be widespread, but it shows you even in dry years, if moisture hits at the right time, you can have a problem. What’s good for wheat is also good for disease and vice versa,” he said.

DOT okays exemption for livestock hauling

The U.S. Department of Transportation has announced a one-year exemption for the Hours-of-Service 30-minute break rule for individuals hauling livestock.

The rule, which went into effect July 1, 2013, required drivers to take a 30-minute break during an eight-hour shift in an effort to prevent fatigue-related accidents.

Last summer, DOT granted a 90-day exemption to the 30-minute break requirement after the livestock industry raised concerns holding animals longer than necessary in trailers during hot summer weather. DOT noted the short-term exemption in 2013 had “no adverse effects to safety.”

Bob McCan, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association president, welcomed the announcement but said NCBA will continue pushing to make the exemption permanent.

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Blue is on verge of being the new black As water rights, supplies and availability become even larger priorities for industry, the provision of the resource itself is endangered by local funding constraints but that’s about to change.

A looming challenge facing all of agriculture is expressed neatly by the line, “Blue (as in H2O) is

ag commentary Dan Murphy

contributing columnist

Drovers CattleNetwork

the new black (as in black gold, Texas tea).”

In fact, some analysts feel that by mid-century, wars will be fought over water, not oil.

The meat and poul-

try production sector is a huge consumer of water of both water resources and wastewater services.

Indeed, one of (many) reasons that meatpacking deserted its traditional urban locations in the early postwar era was the escalating costs associated with water consumption and wastewater disposal.

Globally, everyone from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization to the World Bank to the Rand Corporation is also predicting a coming crisis with water resources.

Not only will the resource itself be in danger of falling seriously behind worldwide demand, but the necessary infrastruc-

TPP with Japanese trade barriers angers U.S. farmers U.S. farmers are in an uproar over signs Japan will maintain some barriers to agricultural exports under a Pacific trade pact, which threatens to unravel a deal that is central to U.S. efforts to retain economic and security influence in the region.

Four years into TransPacific Partnership (TPP) talks, U.S. negotiators are fighting to balance the goal of total tariff elimination with the sensitivities of Japanese and American farmers and the needs of

Dairy farmers have threatened to withhold their support for the deal if the markets are not opened in a meaningful way, and other farm groups have called for Japan to be excluded from the trade deal.

other trading partners.

Central to President Barack Obama’s strategic shift toward Asia, the TPP would connect a dozen economies by cutting trade barriers and harmonizing standards in a deal covering two-fifths of the world economy and

a third of global trade.

After an April summit between Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a compromise seems likely to allow Tokyo to keep some protection for goods like beef, sugar, dairy or wheat, judging by a change in tone from U.S. officials in recent weeks to talk about tariff elimination “to the maximum extent possible.”

This contrasts with the original goal, upsetting American farmers. Dairy

farmers have threatened to withhold their support for the deal if the markets are not opened in a meaningful way, and other farm groups have called for Japan to be excluded from the trade deal.

“We are not going to allow a bad deal with Japan to go forward,” said Nick Giordano, vice president of the National Pork Producers Council.

“It’s going to invite other countries in the TPP to scale back what they are (See BARRIERS on page 25)

Kansas remains the ag leader

Kansas might be derided by many, but it’s a big player in U.S. agriculture.

The Sunflower State actually topped the nation in 2013 in terms of both wheat and grain sorghum production.

Kansas, in fact, produced nearly half of all the grain sorghum in the nation, according to Kansas Agricultural Statistics.

Wheat production stood

at 319.2 million bushels last year, while sorghum amounted to 165.2 million bushels.

If that wasn’t enough, Kansas is second in production of sorghum for silage, with 1.5 million tons, approximately a third of the nation’s total production.

And it all comes from 28.5 million acres of crop land, the second highest in the nation.

But the list goes on.

Kansas can lay claim to six third-place rankings, in cattle and calves with 5.8 million head, cattle on feed at 2.1 million, the 46.1 million acres of land in farms, the one billion bushes of off-farm grain storage capacity, the almost 22 million acres of principal crops harvested, and the five billion pounds of commercial red-meat production.

The list goes on, with Kansas containing the sixth-largest number of irrigated cropland acres.

Or the eighth largest bison inventory with 6,638 head.

It’s also the eighth largest producer of corn for grain.

But it’s in 12th place as far as number of farms, with 61,800, and 16th place as far as the 136,000 milk cows in inventory.

ture needed to collect, treat and deliver water needed for food and industrial production is also failing to keep pace with the requirements of even the world’s most prosperous, developed countries.

The meat and poultry industries are squarely at the intersection of both agricultural and industrial

water demand. The live side of the industry needs significant access to water for its animal herds and flocks, while the production of feed crops also requires massive amounts of irrigation.

And on the processing side, the anti-animal agriculture forces are having (See BLUE on page 25)

Market Report Closing prices on June 10, 2014 Winona Feed and Grain Bartlett Grain Wheat.................. $ 7.03 Wheat.................. $ 7.03 White Wheat ...... $ 7.08 White Wheat ...... $ NA Milo .................... $ 4.12 Milo (bu.)............. $ 4.14 Corn ................... $ 4.50 Corn.................... $ 4.53 Soybeans ........... $ 13.82 Scott City Cooperative Wheat.................. $ 7.03 White Wheat ....... $ 7.03 Milo (bu.)............. $ 4.13 Corn.................... $ 4.51 Soybeans ........... $ 13.82 Sunflowers.......... $ 16.25 ADM Grain Wheat..................

White Wheat .......

Milo (bu.).............

Corn....................

Soybeans............

Sunflowers..........

$ 7.06 $ NA $ 4.18 $ 4.56 $ 14.13 $ 16.80

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Blue a field day disseminating data - though much of it is wildly exaggerated - purporting to show that each pound of beef, pork or poultry represents hundreds of gallons of water to bring to market.

An Intriguing Solution Domestically, the crisis in this country is twofold: Depletion of vital aquifers, for which there are no easy answers, and deterioration of waterrelated infrastructure, for which at least one promising solution has surfaced.

The challenge with maintaining, expanding and eventually rebuilding the reservoirs, pipelines, treatment facilities and industrial distribution architecture is straightforward: Money - specifically, the lack thereof.

Most water systems are municipally or regionally owned, and those jurisdictions almost universally are facing severe funding shortfalls, with no dramatic turnaround in sight.

Until now.

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In the past several years, the emergence of what is collectively known by its P3s shorthand - publicprivate partnerships - has been recognized as having the potential to effectively deal with the massive funding needed to upgrade and expand the nation’s rapidly aging water systems.

And “rapidly aging” might qualify as a generous interpretation of the state of virtually every publicly-owned water system in the U.S. In a scathing report published in the Governing online magazine, “essential improvements, replacements and general maintenance” on tap (no pun intended) for municipal water infrastructure has officially reached a price tag of more than $1 trillion through 2035, according to estimates from the American Water Works Association.

That’s on top of the “D” grade on its 2013 Report Card for America’s drinking water and wastewater

Rains Kansas Agricultural Statistics (KAS) rated the Kansas wheat crop as of June 8 at 28 percent very poor, 35 poor, 26 fair, 10 good and one excellent.

Based on June 1 conditions, Kansas’ 2014 winter wheat crop was forecast at 244 million bushels, down 24 percent from last year and the smallest since 1989, according to the USDA. The average yield was forecast at 29 bushels per acre, down nine from last year and the lowest since 1996.

Deficits Persist “While some isolated locations saw significant rain in May, division and state-wide totals were well below average coming into June,” said Mary Knapp, assistant climatologist for Kansas. “The southeast fared best, with a divisional average of 3.25 inches, but that was only 57 percent of normal for the month.”

“West-central and southwest Kansas fared the worst,” Knapp said.

“Both divisions averaged less than an inch for May - 0.93 inch to be exact.”

For west-central counties that translates to 29 percent of normal and for southwest counties it’s 35

Private Financing The new types of partnerships being proposed sidestep the debate over whether governmental entities should sell off publicly owned assets, according to a panel of experts participating in a “Transforming Water Management” symposium last year. The private financing and operational parties, in essence, lease municipal facilities for a set number of years, in return for cash upfront to finance needed construction.

These innovative P3s

have emerged as viable options because the “landscape (of financing) has shifted,” said Bradford Gentry, director of the research program on Private Investment and the Environment at Yale University, noting that the interest rate differential favoring tax-exempt bonds - the traditional funding vehicle for public infrastructure projects - versus taxable financing has been reduced considerably. That creates an opportunity for private investors, Gentry suggested.

The Bayonne (New Jersey) Municipal Authority received an initial upfront payment of $150 million, which will be used to eliminate the authority’s existing debt and half of the city’s debt.

The private partner is committed to investing another $157 million over the life of the 40-year contract.

Allentown, Pa., leased its water system to a partner, gives control of the

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percent of normal.

Year-to-date state average precipitation is just 56 percent of normal.

As of June 8, KAS rated topsoil moisture statewide at 17 percent very short, 25 short, 52 adequate and 6 surplus. Subsoil moisture was rated 29 percent very short, 37 short, 34 adequate and zero surplus.

Boost Row Crops “The rain in the last couple of days will alleviate the drought conditions around the state and will provide a good starting point for all of the row crops,” said Ignacio Ciampitti, crop production specialist with K-State Extension.

Reports from Kansas Mesonet (http:// mesonet.k-state.edu) weather stations across the state show St. Francis in Cheyenne County received 3.40 inches of rainfrom May 1-June 8, while Tribune received 2.16 inches and Hugoton received 1.93 inches.

As of June 8, KAS rated the newly emerged corn crop at two percent very poor, six percent poor, 45 fair, 42 good and 5 percent excellent.

“One of the most critical factors for corn dur-

Barriers willing to give the United States.”

Past U.S. trade deals have also fallen short of total tariff elimination.

But the extent of the concessions is crucial, especially in winning support of the influential U.S. farm lobby.

A deal that expands U.S. farm exports and is

infrastructure issued by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Obviously, to expect cities, counties and states to pony up a trillion dollars is beyond even the wildest bureaucratic fantasies. Not for water systems, certainly. But a solution may be possible, although it involves overcoming the often acrimonious fight over privatization of public assets.

ing emergence is the uniformity of the seedlings. Uneven corn stands cause yield losses,” said Ciampitti, noting that the main factors affecting uniformity are soil moisture, soil temperature, seeding depth and good seed-soil contact. Planting dates are also a factor.

The state’s sorghum crop was 50 percent planted as of June 8.

Emergence, at 17 percent, lagged behind the 30 percent average.

Sorghum is one of those plants that can compensate and adjust to diverse environments, including moisture conditions, Ciampitti said. The compensation process is governed by changes in the number of tillers, head size and final seed weight.

He encourages producers to determine their desired plant population based on average rainfall and expected growing conditions: “There is no need to go overboard.”

In addition, producers should plant enough seed for their desired plant population, he said. About 65-70 percent field germination is a good general rule to use.

“Think about using narrower row spac-

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backed by farmers could help Obama win over skeptical Democratic lawmakers who associate trade deals with lost jobs.

Farm lobby support is also crucial for Republicans, who are generally protrade but would likely reject a deal opposed by farmers.

A deal with broad agri-

cultural exemptions would be “dead on arrival in the House,” said Republican Aaron Schock, a member of the congressional trade panel which has called a hearing on agriculture trade.

He noted that 60 seats in the House represent agriculture-dominated districts.

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ing to close the canopy sooner and potentially capture greater yields in yield environments of 70-90 bushels per acre or more,” Ciampitti added.

“Planting date and hybrid selection are tied together and are related to the conditions experienced by sorghum plants during the late summer. Think about this before deciding your planting time and selecting a hybrid.”

system to the partner for 50 years in exchange for $220 million upfront, which the city plans to use to eliminate its unfunded pension liability of $160 million.

Of course, these P3 deals come with locked-in rate increases for consumers, in some cases annual rates. Much like cable and telecom franchises awarded by cities, there needs to be regulatory oversight in place so that water users don’t get soaked.

In Bayonne’s case, though, the citizens were facing a 30 percent onetime increase in residential water rates, with commercial users not far behind.

That sudden and substantial jump was avoided when private financing allowed the city to spread out the increases over a much longer period.

These public-private partnerships are impor-

tant, if for no other reason than to fill the gap in funding needed to keep the water flowing for livestock production and meat and poultry processing. It’s critical that such a vital sector of the food industry have the energy and water it needs to remain competitive.

Equally important, success with these P3s as they affect water and wastewater infrastructure might provide the proverbial crack in the wall that currently separates the political partisans on almost every issue related to taxes, revenues and spending.

Unless and until such a détente can be engaged, the gridlock that has curtailed effective governance will only worsen.

And that’s not good for the rest of the country that’s not engaged in animal agriculture.

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There’s no better way to reach your potential customers in Scott County and the surrounding areas.

Agriculture

SPENCER PEST CONTROL

Preconditioning and Growing

RESIDENTIAL – COMMERCIAL

• 45 Years Experience • Managed and owned by full-time DVM • 2,000 Head capacity Office - 872-5150 • Scott City

Termite Baiting Systems • Rodents Weed Control • Structural Insects Termite Control

Stuart Doornbos Home - 872-2775 Cell - 874-0951

Box 258, Scott City • (620) 872-2870

Construction/Home Repair

Sager’s Pump Service CHAMBLESS • Irrigation • Domestic • Windmills • Submersibles

Cell: 874-4486 • Office 872-2101

ELLIS AG SERVICES • Custom Manure Conditioning • Hauling and Spreading • Custom Swathing and Baling • Rounds-Net or Twine • Gyp and Sand Sales • Pickup or Delivery Call Brittan Ellis • 620-874-5160

ROOFING Residential

All Types of Roofing

Commercial

Cedar Shake and Shingle Specialists Return to Craftsmanship

Attention to Detail and Quality Guaranteed 620-872-2679 • 1-800-401-2683

Dirks Earthmoving Co. Precision Land Forming of terraces and waterways; feed lot pens and ponds; building site preparation; lazer equipped

Richard Dirks • Scott City, Ks. (Home) 872-3057 • 877-872-3057 (Cell) 872-1793

Automotive

Walker Plumbing, Inc. Backhoe & Trenching services • Irrigation & gas leak repairs • Full-line irrigation parts T-L center pivot dealer Floor heat systems Pump & install septic systems Boring equipment

Willie’s Auto A/C Repair Willie Augerot Complete A/C Service Mechanic Work and Diagnostics Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

423 S. Mesquite Rd. • Scott City • 872-2130

Medical

404 Kingsley • Scott City • 874-1379

Charles Purma II D.D.S. P.A. General Dentistry, Cosmetics, and Insurance Accepted

We welcome new patients.

324 N. Main • Scott City • 872-2389 Residence 872-5933

Horizon Health For your home medical supply and equipment needs!

We service and repair all that we sell.

Landscaping • Lawn/Trees

Berning Tree Service David Berning • Marienthal

620-379-4430

Tree Trimming and Removal Hedge and Evergreen Trimming Stump Removal

Fully Insured

1602 S. Main • Scott City • 872-2232 Toll Free : 1-866-672-2232

Red

Specializing in

all coatings t Paint i or any other color

Paint inside and out residential, commercial, and industrial.

Free estimates and 16 plus years of experience.

PC Painting, Inc. Paul Cramer 620-290-2410 620-872-8910 www.pcpaintinginc.com

Pro Ex II

Over 20 Years Experience

Professional Extermination Commercial & Residential

• Termites • Rodents • Soil Sterilization • Pre Treats • Lawn Care • Fly Parasites

John Kropp, Owner • Scott City 874-2023 (cell) • 872-3400 (office) • prox2@live.com

Call today for a Greener Healthier Lawn

Owner, Chris Lebbin • 620-214-4469

Dr. Jeffrey A. Heyd Optometrist 20/20 Optometry

Treatment of Ocular Disease • Glaucoma Detection Children’s Vision • Glasses • Contact Lenses

Complete family eye center!

106 W. 4th • Scott City • 872-2020 • Emergencies: 872-2736

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Scott City Clinic Daniel R. Dunn, MD Family Practice

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872-2187

Fur-Fection

Matthew Lightner, MD Family Practice

Christian E. Cupp, MD William Slater, MD Family Practice

Libby Hineman, MD Family Practice

Josiah Brinkley, MD Family Practice

General Surgeon

Megan Dirks, AP, RN-BC Ryan Michels, PA Mindy Schrader, PA

Scott City Myofascial Release RN

Call me to schedule your Myofascial Release

Northend Disposal

COMPARE OUR PRICES!

Sales and Service Days • Mon. - Sat. Deliveries • Mon.-Sat.

Largest Frigidaire appliance dealer in Western Ks. 508 Madison • Scott City • 872-3686

Networktronic, Inc.

Computer Sales, Service and Repair Custom computers!

Networking solutions!

WANT A CAREER operating heavy equipment?

Bulldozers, backhoes and excavators.

Hands-on training and certifications offered. National average $18-$22 hourly. Lifetime job placement assistance.

VA benefits eligible.

1-866-362-6497.

DRIVERS WANTED NOW. Multiple locations throughout Oklahoma.

Haul railroad crews. 21+, valid driver’s license, clean MVR, drug/background checks. Apply online. www.RCXhires.com ––––––––––––––––––––– EXPERIENCED DRIVER or recent grad?

With Swift, you can grow to be an award-winning Class A CDL driver.

We help you achieve Diamond Driver status with the best support there is. As a Diamond Driver, you earn additional pay on top of all the competitive incentives we offer.

The very best, choose Swift. • Great Miles = Great Pay • Late-Model Equipment Available • Regional Opportunities • Great Career Path • Paid Vacation • Excellent Benefits Please Call: (602) 714-9455.

––––––––––––––––––––– TRAIN AND WORK for us. Class A-CDL. Professional and focused CDL training available. Choose between company driver, owner/operator, lease operator or lease trainer.

(877) 369-7885. www. centraltruckdrivingjobs. com.

––––––––––––––––––––– PARTNERS IN EXCELLENCE. OTR drivers. APU equipped PrePass EZ-pass passenger policy. 2012 and newer equipment. 100% notouch. Butler Transport, 1-800-528-7825. www. butlertransport.com ––––––––––––––––––––– COMPANY DRIVERS and independent contractors for refrigerated, tankers and flatbeds needed.

Plenty of freight and great pay. Start with Prime, Inc., today. Call 877-736-3019 or apply online at driveforprime.com

Legal Aid

Over 200 appliances in stock!

We have Reverse Osmosis units in stock.

Remember us for parts in stock for all brands of all appliances.

Truck Driving

HAPPY JACK SKIN BALM. Stops scratching and gnawing. Promotes healing and hair growth on dogs and cats suffering from grass and flea allergies without steroids.

Orscheln Farm and Home. www.happyjackinc.com.

––––––––––––––––––––– CANADA DRUG CENTER. Safe and affordable medications.

Save up to 90% on your medication needs. Call 1-800-908-4082 ($25 off your first prescription and free shipping).

105 1/2 W. 11th St. Scott City 620-874-1813

Gene’s Appliance

Education

For Sale

Sandy Cauthon

Retail

Kansas Classifieds Ad Network

The classified ads below are appearing in 147 Kansas newspapers with a total circulation of 500,000 the classified display ads appear in 142 Kansas newspapers with a total circulation of 457,000. KCAN line ad is $300 for up to 25 words and $12 each additional word. A 2x2 display ad is $800 per insertion and a 2x4 display ad is $1,650 per insertion. To find out more, contact The Scott County Record at 872-2090.

A garbologist company.

Scott City • 872-1223 • 1-800-303-3371

PC Cleaning Services, Inc. We'll clean your home, business or do remodeling clean-up Available seven days a week!

Paul Cramer, Owner

620-290-2410

Mon. - Fri. 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

402 S. Main, Scott City • 872-1300

Brent Rogers

Sales Consultant b.rogers@officesolutionsinc.biz

WERE YOU IMPLANTED with a St. Jude riata defibrillator lead wire between June 2001 and December 2010? Have you had a this lead replaced, capped or did you receive shocks from the lead? You may be entitled to compensation.

Contact Attorney Charles Johnson, 1-800-535-5727.

Help Wanted COORDINATOR P/T. Provide support and activities for high school exchange students. Volunteer hosts also needed. Apply online: www. aspectfoundation.org Get an on-line subscription for your college student

Office (620) 276-3131 Toll Free 1-800-794-9052 Cell (620) 874-0014 Fax (620) 276-8876 1007 N. 8th, Garden City, KS 67846 www.officesolutionsinc.biz

Tuesday-Saturday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

www.reganjewelers.com

412 N. Main • Garden City • 620-275-5142 All Under One Roof

Revcom Electronics

Your RadioShack Dealer Two-way Radio Sales & Service Locally owned and operated since 1990

1104 Main • Scott City • 872-2625

District 11 AA Meetings

Dining

Scott City

Unity and Hope Mon., Wed. and Fri. • 8:00 p.m.

Services

Berning Auction “Don’t Trust Your Auction to Just Anyone”

C-Mor-Butz BBQ

Barbecue, the only sport where a fat bald man is a GOD...

& Catering

Kyle Lausch 620-872-4209

For all your auction needs call:

(620) 375-4130

Russell Berning Box Q • Leoti

Bryan Mulligan & Chris Price 620-874-8301 & 620-874-1285

www.cmorbutzbbq.com • cmorbutzbbq@gmail.com

807 Kingsley Last Sat., Birthday Night, 6:30 p.m.

All open meetings, 874-8207 • 874-8118

Dighton

Thursday • 8:30 p.m.

535 Wichita St. All open meetings, 397-5679 • 397-2647

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Classifieds Buy, sell, trade, one call does it all 872-2090 ot fax 872-0009

Classified Ad Deadline: Monday at 5:00 p.m.

Classified Ad Rate: 20¢ per word. Minimum charge, $5.

Blind ad: $2.50 per week extra. Card of thanks: 10¢ per word. Minimum charge, $3. Classified Display Ad rate: $5.50 per column inch.

Classified advertising must be paid in advance unless business account is established.

If not paid in advance, there will be a $1 billing charge.

Tear sheet for classified ad will be $1 extra.

Card of Thanks I would like to thank friends and relatives for sharing in my 90th birthday celebration.

Mae Hillery

BEAUTIFULLY REMODELED

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

FAMILY HOME

Pine Village Apartments 300 E. Nonnamaker

Apartments available for qualifying tenants 62+ or disabled with rental assistance available.

Hours: Tuesday, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. by appointment Call Steve 872-2535 or (620) 255-4824.

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Agriculture

Services

Help Wanted

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 ––––––––––––––––––––– FARMER WANTING to rent farmland and grassland in Logan County.

Contact Jim Porter 78544t4 672-0393.

1986 HOLIDAY MOTOR HOME sleeps 4, AC works. See at 104 Church or call 620-33843tfc 6436.

WANTED: Yards to mow and clean up, etc. Trim smaller trees and bushes too. Call Dean Riedl, (620) 872-5112 or 87434tfc 4135.

––––––––––––––––––––– FURNITURE REPAIR and refinishing. Lawn mower tune-up and blade sharpening. Call Vern Soodsma, 872-2277 or 36tfc 874-1412.

––––––––––––––––––––– MOWER REPAIR, tuneup and blade sharpening.

Call Rob Vsetecka at 62036tfc 214-1730.

––––––––––––––––––––– METAL ROOFING, SIDING and TRIMS at direct-to-the-public prices. Call Metal King Mfg., 620-872-5464. Our prices 37tfc will not be beat!

––––––––––––––––––––– “JEN’S GROOMING” Jennifer Milner grooming at 503 E. 5th St., (formally Cowboy Cabins). Please call for an appointment 620-214-0097.

Hours are Monday-Friday 8:00 44tfc a.m.- noon.

––––––––––––––––––––– BERRY LAWN MOWING now accepting new customers. Evenings and weekends. Call for estimate 214-1135. Leave a 30tfc message.

––––––––––––––––––––– RELIABLE, DEPENDABLE lawn mowing service. Part-time or fulltime. Contact Paul Binford at 620-874-8209 any44t2c time.

Notice

Real Estate

IF YOU ARE considering satelite tv give me a call, I can save you some money.

Paul Binford 620-87444t2c 8209.

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 43t4p 620-874-0482.

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.

––––––––––––––––––––– LOOKING FOR DRIVER. CDL, tanker endorsment, home nightly, local area. If interested call 620-214-2833 or 62044t3p 874-0971.

––––––––––––––––––––– DIRECT SUPPORT WORKERS are needed in Leoti to work for an individual with a disability in their home. Starting wage is $9.64 an hour. Duties may include personal care, household chores, meal preparation, etc. For an application, please contact Carol at LINK, Inc. at 1-800-569-5926 and leave your name and mailing 44t2c address.

––––––––––––––––––––– OFFICE HELP needed for wheat harvest. Call Winona Feed and Grain, Pence, 872-5541 or 1-80044tfc 203-8157.

––––––––––––––––––––– SCHS SEEKING dance team sponsor for the 201415 school year. If interested please contact Scott Community High School 44tfc at 620-872-7620.

––––––––––––––––––––– LEOTI AG SUPPLY has a job opening for a self-motivatied individual to help in the wheat seed cleaning plant and help with the sale of farm supplies to our customers.

Ability to drive trucks helpful but not required.

Must speak English. For more information see or contact Russell Berning at Leoti Ag Supply 620-37544t1c 2301.

Rentals 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

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

HIDE AND SEEK STORAGE SYSTEMS. Various sizes available.

Virgil and LeAnn Kuntz, (620)874-2120.

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––––––––––––––––––––– 1 BEDROOM APARTMENT $475 a month. Includes all utilities except electricity. Call 620-52142t4c 0039.

––––––––––––––––––––– 2 BEDROOM/1 BATH, all bills paid including cable and internet. Available June 15. Stop by PlainJan’s to fill out an application 620-87243tfc 5777.

For Sale

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

DOCTORS/PROCESSORS Come and grow with us and be part of an innovative team. We are looking for experienced doctors and processors. Our next team member must be energetic, goal-oriented, and have a desire to grow and take on more responsibility.

Bilingual-English/Spanish preferred.

Competitive wages are offered with a full benefits package including, 401(k) with company match, profit sharing plan, 100% paid medical and dental insurance for employee, 100% paid short/long term disability insurance, life insurance, paid vacation, sick leave, and career advancement opportunities.

Apply for this outstanding opportunity in person or send your letter of interest to: Royal Beef, ATTN: Richard Winter, 11060 N. Falcon Rd., Scott City, KS 67871.

Irsik and Doll is an EOE.

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.

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Al-Anon at same time and location.

Contact: 874-0472 or 872-3137. 30t52

GARAGE SALES Fri. and Sat., June 13-14 Garage Sale 706 and 708 Ora, Scott City Friday: 5:00-8:00 p.m.

Saturday: 8:00 a.m.-noon Ceramics, lawn furniture, toys, lots of misc.

Bring in your garage sales by The Record office no later than Monday at 5:00 p.m.

(No rainy day refunds)

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Employment Opportunities STORAGE SHED FOR RENT

HOUSEKEEPING Unified School District No. 466 is looking for a qualified applicant for a full-time housekeeping position at Scott City Middle School.

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.

30’X50’. Call (620) 872-2576 home, 874-1009 cell.

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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.

SEEKING BIDS 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”.

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DIRECTOR OF NURSING/ CHIEF NURSING OFFICER

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SCOTT COUNTY HOSPITAL HAS OPENINGS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS

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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PARK LANE NURSING HOME Has openings for the following positions: Full-time LPN/RN (evening shift) Full-time CNA/CMA (evening shift and night shifts) Part-time/PRN LPN/RN Full-time 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”

PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL STAFF Director of Nursing/Chief Nursing Officer PATIENT CARE Emergency Room RN PRN Clinic LPN/RN SERVICE PRN Dietary Aide/Cook Applicants for these positions are required to be able to read, speak and understand English.

Pre-employment physical, drug/alcohol screening, immunization titer, physical assessment and TB skin test required. We are a tobacco free campus.

We offer competitive pay and great benefits.

Due to our recent expansion of services and rapid growth, we are in need of Acute Care RNs and are offering financial incentives.

Applications are available 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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Scott County Hospital is seeking this salaried role that will provide direct supervisory leadership for all nursing and other designated patient care services and functions within the organization.

Responsible for: assessing, planning, coordinating, implementing and evaluating nursing practice on a facility level. The role assumes 24/7 responsibility and has accountability to ensure high quality, safe and appropriate nursing care, competency of clinical staff, and appropriate resource management as related to patient care. You will represent nursing concerns at both the Medical Staff and Governing Board meetings.

Applicants should possess: Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills. Proven leadership and operational expertise.

Ability to recruit, retain and develop staff. Promote optimal outcomes of patient safety and care, and enhance patient, physician and staff satisfaction.

Maintain and comply with all regulatory standards, rules and laws. An academic degree in nursing is required. A Masters degree will have preference. At least 3 years of nursing experience including roles of demonstrated management are required. An active and current registered Nurse license in the state of Kansas is required.

Excellent benefit package is offered with this position. Pre-employment physical, drug and alcohol screen, immunization titer, physical assessment and TB skin test required.

We are a tobacco free campus.

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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WORD SEARCH Serving Southwest Kansas Since 1961 EOE – Drug Free Workplace

Basis Blowing Boots Breathe Bumps Butterflies Circumference Curved Dating Eaten Entertainment Fifth

Flaming Flaps Guide Healed Ideals Invest Lasted Leave Loaded Magnet Manage Marsh Meets Models

Month Nicer Ocean Plate Really Responsibility Result Savage Shape Shone Smiled Solar Solve

Stamps Stared Striped Tempo T-shirt Uneasy Unions

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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Midwest’s How$mart awarded $2M loan Midwest Energy has been awarded a $2 million loan from the USDA to increase energy efficiency in the homes of the cooperative’s customer-owners through its award-winning How$mart Program.

The loan was one of 24 loans and grants totaling $22.5 million announced this week to support job creation efforts, business development and strengthen economic growth in rural communities in nine states.

Midwest Energy’s How$mart Program is unique in that it saves energy, is environmentally friendly, promotes business growth in small communities and saves customers money over several years.

How$mart provides low-interest loans to eligible customers for energy efficiency improvements such as insulation, air sealing and new heating and cooling systems.

Participating customers repay the funds through energy savings on their monthly Midwest Energy bills, typically over a term of 10 to 15 years.

“This REDLG loan enables more of our 92,000 members to participate in the How$mart Program,” stated Earnie Lehman, President and General Manager at Midwest Energy. “This loan represents an affordable way for our customer-owners to save energy, while bringing work to plumbing, heating and general contractors in our area.”

Since How$mart’s launch in 2008, Midwest Energy has invested more than $6.5 million to help 1,129 customers make improvements to their homes or businesses through the program. The average How$mart participant saves roughly $53 per month on their utility bill while reducing their carbon footprint.

The How$mart Program was recognized with a Community Service Award for Energy Efficiency in 2012 by the National Rural Electric Cooperatives Association.

El Quartelejo Inn general manager Avie Barmann (fourth from left) and her staff show their Certificate of Excellence from TripAdvisor.

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Customer reviews earn El Quartlejo Inn top award The El Quartelejo Inn earned top honors from the people who matter most - their customers - when they received a Certificate of Excellence from TripAdvisor.

The travel site give the award based on feedback from customers at motels and hotels around the world.

On a five-point rating system, recipients must average four or higher.

The award is also based on the volume of reviews.

According to TripAdvisor, establishments must “consistently achieve outstanding traveler reviews.”

“This is a review that probably means more

sonally ask for opinions and hand out cards that can be sent to the travel site.

“We want them to offer their candid reviews,” Barmann says. “A lot of travelers are familiar with the travel site and are glad to submit their review.”

Barmann says she also

makes it a point to respond to those who have turned in reviews - particularly the few who didn’t have a quality experience.

“It’s our goal to make sure everyone enjoys their stay here and if, for some reason they didn’t, we want to know why so we can do better the next time,” she adds.

Jan Huck (second from left), owner of PlainJan’s in Scott City, is presented a “Business Excellence” award for the southwest region by Aaron Cannon, regional project manager for business development with the Kansas Department of Commerce. PlainJan’s was one of 24 regional winners recognized across the state. She is pictured with her daughter, Ali Cline (left) and Scott County Development Director Katie Eisenhour.

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Brown completes portrait course

Pam Brown, owner of Pam’s Portrait Place in Scott City, has completed a course, “Relevant Senior Portraiture,” at the Kansas Professional Photographers School (KPPS).

The week-long school is held annually on the campus of Bethany College, Newton. It is affiliated with the Winona International School of Professional Photography and the Professional Photographers of America.

KPPS provides a center for continuing education for professional photographers. Students are able to experience hands-on courses covering specialized techniques taught by internationally recognized instructors.

Sharing Success benefits humane society

Wheatland Electric has awarded a $1,000 grant to the Golden Belt Humane and Animal Welfare Society, Great Bend, through its Sharing Success Fund.

Golden Belt requested funds to help with the completion of a fence around its property as well as the construction of a recreational cat room.

The fence project was for the purpose of creating an outdoor play space for dogs.

In addition to the construction of the physical

than any in our industry,” says Avie Barmann, general manager of the El Quartelejo Inn in Scott City. “A lot of people who stay here are looking for that seal of approval.”

Barmann says they encourage people who stay at the Inn to submit their review to TripAdvisor. They per-

space of the cat room, the humane society plans to purchase towers, beds and window perches for their feline residents.

The Golden Belt Humane Society is a nonprofit organization whose function is to provide care for abandoned, neglected and abused animals. The humane society provides adoption services in hopes that no rescued animals will have to be euthanized.

The society relies primarily on donations and volunteers to maintain its

operations.

The Sharing Success Fund is managed by the Scott Community Foundation.

To date, the program has made 18 grants totaling nearly $16,000 to qualifying non-profits throughout Wheatland’s service territory. Nonprofit groups interested in receiving funding from the Wheatland Electric Sharing Success Fund should contact the Scott Community Foundation at 620-872-3790 for further details.

OK Kids’ Day at Lake Scott State Park Sat., June 14 • 10:00 a.m. • free vehicle admission all day

J&R Car and Truck Center

208 W. 5th St., Scott City 620-872-2103 800-886-2103

Come Grow With Us!

www.JRCARandTRUCK.com 4414 Cars 2003 Chrysler 300M Sedan, FWD, V6.......................Gray/Black Leather.. 138K mi.....(1721A) ....... CALL 2007 Ford Mustang, V6 ................................................. Gray/Black Cloth.. 101K mi.... (1452B) ..... $9,900 2008 Saturn Aura XR Sedan, V6 ............................. Silver/Black Leather.... 60K mi.....(1491A) ....... CALL 2013 Buick Lacrosse CXS Premium II, 3.6L V6 .... Silver/Black Leather.... 21K mi.......(1671) ... $29,500 2013 Ford Mustang Coupe Premium, 3.7L V6....... White/Black Leather.... 31K mi.......(1712) ... $22,900 2013 Chevy Cruze 2-LT ................................... Silver/Black Leather.... 36K mi.......(1742) ....... CALL 2013 Chevy Malibu LT ...................................................White/Gray Cloth.... 26K mi.......(1741) ....... CALL 2014 Chevy Impala 2LT, 3.6L ......................... Ashen Gray/Black Leather.... 12K mi.......(1670) ... $28,600 SUVs 2006 Jeep Liberty, 4x4 Limited, V6, 3.7L ..................... Black/ Gray Cloth.. 107K mi.... (1321B) ..... $7,900 2008 Suzuki XL-7, AWD, Hard Top, V6, Sunroof........Black/Gray Leather.... 50K mi.....(1702A) ... $12,900 2008 Jeep Liberty Sport, FWD, 3.7L V6 ......................... Silver/Tan Cloth.... 69K mi.....(1698A) ....... CALL 2010 Ford Edge Limited, AWD, NAV, Sunroof ... Pearl White/Tan Leather.... 41K mi.....(1713A) ... $23,500 2011 Infiniti FX35, AWD, NAV, Sunroof ....... Plat. Graphite/Black Leather.... 28K mi.... (1641B) ....... CALL 2012 Chevy Tahoe LTZ, 4x4, 20” wheels, NAV, DVD, Snrf. , Blk/Gray Lthr.. ..27K mi.....(1700A) ... $47,500 2012 Chevy Equinox 2 LT, AWD, V6, R. Cam, Heated seat, Silver/Blk Cloth 41K mi.......(1464) ... $21,900 2012 GMC Terrain SLT-2, AWD, V6, Sunroof .............Silver/Gray Leather.... 39K mi.......(1709) ... $27,890 2012 GMC Terrain SLT-2, AWD, V6, Sunroof .....Red Jewel/Gray Leather.... 45K mi.......(1710) ... $27,300 2013 Ford Escape SEL, 4x4, 2.0L Ecoboost ............... White/Tan Leather.... 41K mi.......(1686) ... $23,500 2013 Ford Explorer, Limited, 4x4, 3.5L V6 ............... White/Black Leather.... 39K mi.......(1685) ... $33,200 2013 GMC Yukon XL, SLT, DVD, Sunroof ................. Silver/Black Leather.....22K mi.......(1697).....$41,900 2013 Buick Enclave, AWD, V6 ........................ White Opal/Black Leather.... 36K mi.......(1708).....$34,600 2013 Ford Escape SEL, FWD, 2.0L Ecoboost ..............Silver/Tan Leather.... 32K mi.... (1616B) ... $22,500 2013 GMC Yukon XL Denali, AWD, NAV, DVDChampagne Silver/Tan Lthr .. 43K mi.....(1727A) ... $47,800 Pickups 1999 Dodge Dakota Sports Reg. Cab, 2wd, 5-spd. man,Blk/Gray Cloth ... 95K mi.... (1683B) ..... $4,200 2007 Chevy 1500 Crew LT, 4x4, 4.8L...........................White/Black Cloth.... 94K mi.....(1717A) ....... CALL 2011 GMC 2500HD, Ext. Cab, SLE, 4x4, 5th Whl Hitch, White/Black Cloth.. 81K mi.....(1731A) ....... CALL 2012 Ford F150, Crew, Lariat, 4x4, 3.5L Ecoboost .............. Blue/Tan Lthr.... 14K mi.......(0000) ... $37,800 2013 Chevy Silverado Crew 2500HD, 4x4, LT, 6.0L Gas, White/Black Clth..13K mi .....(1603) ... $35,900 2013 GMC Sierra 1500 LTZ, Crew, 4x4, 6.2L, Z71, Loaded, Red/Tan Lthr ... 13K mi.....(1556A) ... $37,900 2013 Chevy Silverado Ext. Cab 1500, LTZ, 4x4, Z71, Navigation, Power Running Boards, Rear Camera...Silver/Black Leather.......9K mi..... (1608A)....$35,800

2013 GMC 2500HD Crew Denali, DVD, NAV, Diesel, 4x4...Gray/Tan Lthr.... 33K mi.....(1724A) ... $51,400 2013 Chevy 1500 Crew LTZ, 4x4, Z71, 5.3L ..............Black/Gray Leather.... 30K mi.......(1740) ....... CALL 2014 GMC 1500 Crew SLT, 4x4, Z71, NAV, Snrf, Demo, Sonoma Red/Tan Lthr, 1K mi ...(1728) ... $42,900