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32 Pages • Four Sections
Volume 21 • Number 47
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Published in Scott City, Ks.
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Valuation bump a big help to county, USD
A huge jump in valuation numbers will be welcome news to Scott County and USD 466 officials as they begin work on budgets for the upcoming year. Assessed valuations in Scott County have climbed to an alltime high of $101.8 million, based on figures released this week by the county clerk’s office.
This is an increase of more than $11.8 million from last year and even tops the previous high of $98.27 million in 2012. Oil and gas valuations, which took a plunge last year, climbed by more than $6.6 million to $26.7 million. The county also benefitted from a $5.8 million increase in real estate values. These two increases were
only partially offset by a nearly $800,000 reduction in personal property valuations. If the county were to maintain its mill levy at 64.331 mills again in the upcoming year, it would generate an additional $757,131 in revenue because of the higher tax base.
see a similar increase in its tax base. While the school district and county share the same local tax valuations, the district also receives a small boost in property tax revenue because it also includes a small portion of Lane and Logan counties. County Clerk Alice Brokofsky says she Boost to USD Capital Outlay hasn’t received valuation figUSD 466 (Scott County) will ures from those two counties.
inching along
Rains are taking a toll on wheat in some fields. Harvest was able to resume over the weekend in Wichita County and continue until heavy rain returned again on Tuesday. Wichita County Extension Agent Allen Baker says rainfall has varied widely across the area. He’s recorded 4-1/2 inches in Leoti, but has seen that diminish to about 1.5 inches as he goes to the county line east and west. “We’ve lost some wheat to hail and guys who didn’t spray are starting to have some weed issues,” says Baker. Yield and quality have varied just as much. “I had one farmer report 61 bushels on irrigated ground, but his test weight barely hit 56,” Baker says. “Another guy had poor yields but had a 62-pound test weight. On average, I’d say most of the wheat has been in the 15-20 bushel range. Quality Takes a Hit The situation was very similar in Lane
(See VALUATION on page two)
USD avoids capital outlay protest petition
A cloud of wheat dust nearly engulfs a combine as it resumed harvesting in a field north of Scott City on Monday evening. (Record Photo)
After four years of serious drought conditions, no one is about to complain about rainfall. “I don’t want to chase it away,” remarked Chad Griffith who was unable to cut wheat south of Lake Scott State Park following 1.24 inches of rain on Friday evening. At the same time, he also saw hail strip down a young corn crop. “Sometimes it takes a little hail to bring the rain,” reasoned Griffith. “I think there’s a good chance the corn will have enough time to recover.” Nonetheless, the timing of some unusually heavy rain couldn’t have come at a worse time for area farmers hoping to salvage what wheat was able to survive a very difficult winter and spring. And with each day that harvest is delayed, the quality of that crop diminishes even further. Unexpectedly high test weights are going to take a hit and weeds are already becoming a problem
The district’s eight-mill capital outlay level will generate an estimated $814,000 in the upcoming year. That compares with about $540,000 with the current six-mill levy. The district authorized a two-mill increase in the levy for the 201415 budget year. In addition, the local option budget (local property tax
The deadline quietly came and went for anyone to submit a petition to force a vote on a proposed increase in the capital outlay mill levy for USD 466 (Scott County). No petition was turned into the Scott County Clerk’s office by the deadline on July 1, allowing the board of education to increase the levy to eight mills - a two mill hike - for the next two years. Last year, the six mill capital outlay levy generated just over $540,000. Based on preliminary valuation figures that will be used with the 2014-15 budget, the eight mill levy will raise more than $814,000. The Kansas Legislature gave school districts the green light to expand ways in which they are able to use capital outlay funds that go beyond typical infrastructure, maintenance, computer upgrades, etc. But in order to take advantage of the added flexibility school boards had to renew their (See PETITION on page eight)
County accepts $85,000 bid to demo old SCH
County where Chris Long, Wet Walnut Creek Extension Agent, felt that recent rains would cause more harm to quality than yields. “I think yields are pretty much where they’re going to be,” he says. “But the more it rains and the more farmers are delayed the kernels will shrink and test weights will keep dropping. The only thing that’s helped us so far is that we haven’t had 100-degree heat.” The stunted growth of the wheat has only provided more opportunity for weed growth - along with recent rains. “You could see a mat of weeds on the ground that have been fed by this rain. They’ve sprouted and, with no canopy height (from the wheat) they’re going to take off,” Long says. Wheat harvest is well behind recent years with only about one-third to onehalf of the acreage cut in Long’s three-
Faced with holding property that was declining in value and at risk of becoming an eyesore, the Scott County Commission has accepted a bid to demolish the former Scott County Hospital. G&G Dozer, Cheney, submitted a bid of $85,000 to raze the hospital. It was one of six bids opened by the commission during Tuesday’s meeting. Bids ranged from a low of $52,250 to a high of $425,000. “This one provided the most detail of what they planned to do,” noted Commissioner Gary Skibbe.
(See WHEAT on page eight)
(See DEMO on page two)
Council trying to keep SRC above water
Faced with higher water rates, higher usage due to drought and a sprinkler system that is continually springing leaks, the Scott Recreation Commission is becoming inundated with water-related expenses it can’t afford. The SRC budgeted $31,000 for utilities in its current budget
(July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014) with approximately $25,000 for water. Water expenses during the past fiscal year have been $31,070. The SRC received a $9,000 subsidy from the city to help defray those expenses. While the SRC has yet to finalize its 2014-15 budget, it
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will have to increase water costs substantially. The first water bill of the new budget year will be $12,798, which represents usage from May 12 to June 10. During a special meeting with the city council on Monday evening, SRC Director Lauren Robinson said her department hasn’t changed its watering pat-
terns at the Complex since turning on the irrigation system in March. However, that didn’t prevent a $7,097 jump in water costs on the Complex ball fields from June to the July bill which arrived this week. “We’ve had leaks that keep occurring and we’ve addressed them as quickly as we’re aware
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of the situation,” says Robinson. “But I don’t see how leaks alone can account for a one million gallon increase from one month to the next.” Robinson was referring to the 2.38 million gallons of usage for the latest billing cycle (See WATER on page two)
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Water
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compared to 1.08 million gallons the previous month. And this was for the ball fields alone - not the soccer fields. She says the board felt that running sprinklers on each zone for an hour wasn’t as effective as breaking up the watering into two 30-minute periods. The clay soil at the Complex doesn’t allow for water to filter as it should, leading to more runoff. “But we’re still running the system the same length of time. It’s very frustrating to see our usage jump by a million gallons from one month to the next,” she says. Robinson pointed out that applying one inch of water on the 10-acre Sports Complex requires 27,000 gallons per acre - or 270,000 gallons per week. That averages just over one million gallons a month. “That sounds high, but there’s that much grass,” said Robinson. Rate Break In order to avoid breaking their budget, Robinson and her board are asking the council to consider providing them a break in rates. The SRC is currently paying for usage on the same scale as residential
Valuation (continued from page one)
Water Use at Sports Complex Baseball Fields
Month 2013 July August September October November December 2014 January February March April May June July
Cost
Gallons
$ 3,283.04 4,243.20 3,179.95 4,673.51 4,145.55 1,280.03
1,201,100 1,554,100 1,163,200 1,712,300 1,518,200 464,700
61.10 61.10 61.10 61.10 4,319.57 5,701.27 12,798.83
0 0 0 0 866,300 1,081,400 2,386,100
The month represents when the bill was issued by the city to the SRC. The July bill, for example, represents usage that typically runs from May 15 to June 15.
customers, which puts the cost at $5.44 per thousand gallons once usage tops 80,000 gallons in a month. “We have a lot of grass and a lot of activities that we’re providing from March to August,” noted Robinson. “We hope you share the same goal as us in that we want to keep (the Complex) looking nice.” The council debated how it could provide a rate break that would be specific to the SRC and the school district. There was also discussion about increasing the annual $9,000 subsidy to the SRC to help offset water costs.
Demo
“We don’t like asking tax-supported entities to pay more for water, but we also want to encourage water conservation,” emphasized Mayor Dan Goodman. The council acknowledged that cutting rates didn’t meet their ultimate goal of water conservation. The SRC representatives in attendance and council members were in agreement that the only way to cut water usage and the SRC’s irrigation costs was to upgrade the system. Public Works Director Mike Todd said that leaks in the system are causing
a water loss that ranges between 170 and 210 gallons per hour. That’s more than 144,000 gallons per month. “When the whole system is shut down there is still a leak,” said Todd. “That indicates a leak in the main line.” As the SRC has replaced sprinkler heads to provide better water coverage of the fields, and with the installation of a new pump to increase water pressure, problems with the existing lines have increased. “The lines can’t handle the pressure,” Robinson said. Todd agreed that even with the increased water usage the ball fields were showing drought stress up until rains of the last couple of weeks. “If my parks were looking like the ball fields I’d have been dumping water on them,” he said. Given the clay soil and irrigation system that keeps springing leaks, Councilman Everett Green noted there are “a lot of issues at the Complex beyond (the SRC’s) control.” Goodman suggested that perhaps the council needs to consider providing the money to begin changing out the sprinkler
systems on each of the four ball fields, spreading the cost over the next 3-4 years. It was noted that since the school district put in a new sprinkler system at the SCHS football field its water usage has dropped significantly. At Monday’s meeting, the council will consider an additional subsidy to help cover the SRC’s water costs and will also look at a long-range plan to cut water use. Overseeding of Fields Lance Carter, representing USD 466, asked the council to consider a waiver of the day-time watering ban while the school district overseeds the football fields. Carter said the district needs to apply water during the afternoon for 3045 days after the playing field and practice fields have been overseeded. The district had been granted a 30-day waiver for the football field, but that has elapsed. Carter was asking for an extension of two weeks. “I don’t feel the water restriction should be a problem with overseeding,” noted Councilman Fred Kuntzsch. The council will consider the request at its next meeting.
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“A couple of the low bids didn’t cover the scope revenue that stays in the of the project,” added Commission Chairman Jim district) will generate an estimated $253,000 more Minnix. G&G Dozer was the only firm which also included for the district in the upcoming budget than what asbestos removal in its proposal. The county has to make arrangements with it did in the past year. Wheatland Electric to disconnect electricity from the building. Once that process is completed, demolition Small Hike for City The valuation increase is expected to begin in the next 3-4 weeks. This ends a long dilemma for the county since was a much more modest acquiring responsibility of the building after it was $661,000 for the City of vacated in April of 2012. Commissioners had tried to Scott City. sell the hospital and clinic by auction, but never could The city doesn’t see the reach agreement with potential buyers. City on a Hill big fluctuations in valua- also expressed interest in the site, but the county and tions since it doesn’t ben- some surrounding property owners were lukewarm to efit from oil and natural the proposal. gas wells. With vandalism becoming an issue, and with no Real estate values in other potential buyers stepping forward, the commisthe city climbed by nearly sion decided to proceed with demolition. $1.2 million, but that was The commission said that once demolition is comoffset by declines in state- pleted it plans to deed land to the city on which the assessed holdings and a former hospital was located. They are hopeful it will $162,000 loss in personal become a park. Minnix said they are interested handing property valuations. the former clinic building over to the school district.
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Community Living
Page 3 - Thursday, July 3, 2014
Holding the line on fruit, vegetable waste It seems as if every time I hit the grocery store, the cost of fresh fruits and vegetables increases. And because of the cost involved in having the nutritious snacks available, nobody likes to find rotten fruits or vegetables in their refrigerator. Enjoy the tastes of the season by keeping your purchases fresh. Buy the amount of fresh fruits and vegetables that you and your family can eat within the storage limits shown below. Fresh foods from a garden generally will keep longer than items pur-
To honor McGuire on 95th birthday
Leland McGuire, Hays, will be honored with a 95th birthday celebration on Sat., July 12, at the Sternberg Museum Expeditions Room, Hays. The reception will be hosted by his wife and children. He was born July 16, 1919, near Mingo, the son of John and Mabel McGuire. Leland and his first wife, Ruby, were married on May 5, 1940, in Colby. She died Feb. 20, 2001. He married Faye on March 8, 2004, in Phillipsburg. He has three sons, Larry, and wife, Linda, Republican City, Nebr., Jim and wife Carol, Chapman, and Ed and wife, Jen, Phillipsburg; four daughters, Judy Hopson, Holcomb, Jody Bay, and husband, Jack, Kansas City, Mo., Jacque Asmus, and hudand, John, McKinney, Tex., and Christine Hunziker and husband, Curt, Hays.
Births PARENTS OF DAUGHTER Scott and Lindsey Andrews, Scott City, announce the birth of their daughter, Natalie Sue, born May 8, 2014, at the Scott County Hospital. She weighed 7 lbs., 1 oz. and was 20 inches long. Maternal grandparents are Bob and Liz Miller, Scott City. Paternal grandparents are Richard and Sue Andrews, Shawnee.
chased at a grocery store. Here are some tips for getting the longest storage life for your fresh fruits and vegetables. Keep Them Cool, Dry •Don’t wash vegetables until just before using them. If they are not completely dried or you damage the skin of the fruit when you place it in
the refrigerator, they will spoil faster. •Some foods (including onions, oranges and potatoes) should be left out of the refrigerator completely. Store these items in mesh bags in dry, cool, dark spaces for up to one or two weeks. •Some fruits and vegetables (such as apples, bananas, melons and tomatoes) do best if left to ripen on a counter before being refrigerated. Once ripe, these foods should be stored in the refrigerator for optimal freshness. (Ripen fruit in a paper sack).
Ice cream social Saturday
A free ice cream social and concert will be held at Patton Park, Scott City, on Sat., July 5, starting at 7:00 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Pence Community Church.
Closed for the holiday
The Scott County Courthouse and City Hall in Scott City will be closed Fri., July 4, for the holiday.
Advance voting for primary
Advance voting for the August primary election will begin on Wed., July 16, at the Scott County Clerk’s office. Last day for advance voting is noon on Aug. 4.
‘Blue Notes’ at VIP Center
“The Blue Notes” will provide dance music at the Scott County VIP Center on Fri., July 11, 7:3010:00 p.m. Anyone needing more information can contact Todd Steele (872-2884) or Lavera King (8723564).
•Crisper drawers are the coldest and the most moist section of the refrigerator. Store berries, broccoli, carrots, corn, grapes, lettuce heads, and pre-cut fruits and vegetables in crisper drawers. Just don’t freeze them. •Most refrigerated vegetables last longest when they are stored in a resealable plastic bag that has 6-8 small holes poked in it. The plastic holds in moisture, and the holes let in some oxygen so the vegetables can “breathe.” Line the inside of the plastic bag with dry paper
Fruit/ Vegetable Apples Asparagus Bananas Beets Berries Broccoli Carrots Cauliflower Corn Grapes Greens Green beans
Storage Time 1 month 2-3 days 2-3 days 2 weeks 2-3 days 3-5 days 1-2 weeks 1 week 1-2 days 3-5 days 3-5 days 3-5 days
towels to keep excess moisture from spoiling the vegetables. Use the guide above to purchase only the fruits that your family can eat within a specific time for
Fruit/ Vegetable Green onions Herbs Kiwi Lettuce Melons Nectarines Peaches Pears Plums Radishes
Storage Time 3-5 days 2-3 days up to 3 weeks 5-7 days 1 week 1 week once ripe 5 days 5 days 3 days once ripe 2 weeks
optimal freshness. For more information on storage time for fresh produce as well as staple items, please give me a call at the Extension office (872-2930).
Backyard BBQ costs are climbing
This Fourth of July, Americans will pay more for their backyard barbecues than ever before. The Rabobank BBQ Index examines the composition of a 10-person barbecue and how rising commodity prices have impacted the cost over the years, showing an overall price increase from $51.90 in 2004 to $55.62 during the financial crisis in 2007, to a total of $66.82 in 2014.
The index tracks the price of typical barbecue ingredients, from main dishes of grilled chicken or a cheeseburger on a bun topped with lettuce, tomato and pickles, to chips and ice cream on the side and soda and beer to wash it down. “While commodity price fluctuations are not always passed on to retail prices, American consumers will feel some significant market changes
this Fourth of July,” said Bill Cordingley, Head of Food and Agribusiness Research at Rabobank. “The beef market has exploded this year and retail ground beef prices, the heart and soul of the American barbecue, are up an astonishing 71% over the last five years. We think there will be more pluck than chuck this year as some consumers lean to chicken sandwiches over burgers.”
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Editorial/Opinion
Page 4 - Thursday, July 3, 2014
editorially speaking
Upgrade system:
Council is right to look at long-term fix for Complex
During a special Scott City Council meeting on Monday, the comment was made, “We have more money than we do water.” The statement didn’t even draw a protest from those seated around the council table. Twenty or 30 years ago . . . maybe even 10 years ago . . . that same statement would have been considered ridiculous. Cheap water has been a way of life in most of Western Kansas. This change in attitude says a great deal about where we’ve come in the past decade in recognizing the value of water and the acknowledgement that our bottomless ocean isn’t near as bottomless as it was once believed. That’s why it was encouraging that the tenor of the meeting, which started out as “How can the city do more to subsidize or underwrite the SRC’s water costs?” gradually shifted to, “What more can we do to reduce consumption?” It’s become apparent over the past couple of years that the irrigation system at the Sports Complex is inadequate and inefficient. Despite the SRC board’s best efforts it can’t stay ahead of a system that seemingly springs a new leak every time another is fixed. Even when the system is shut down water is going somewhere. No matter how much the city subsidizes the SRC for its water usage, there will be continuing debate and frustration with water disappearing at the rate of several hundred thousand gallons per month. Of course, no one around the council table is taking water availability for granted. The reason for the meeting was to work out a short-term fix and a long-term solution. In the short term, the city may have to absorb a greater share of the SRC’s water costs. We all want the SRC to be a viable organization. We don’t want the SRC to be forced to increase its fees substantially, thereby limiting participation, in order to pay its water bill. In the long term, Mayor Dan Goodman’s suggestion that the city begin replacing the underground sprinkler system, perhaps one ball field at a time, makes sense. The reduction in water consumption should eventually pay for itself. A more efficient irrigation system that reduces water usage will benefit both the city and SRC. As we’ve already seen with the new irrigation system installed at Scott Community High School, water consumption has been reduced significantly. It’s time to take that same approach with the SRC and preserve what we have less of . . . water.
Moving forward:
Taxpayers chose to put emphasis on our students
The deadline passed on Tuesday for a petition to be filed that would have forced a vote on an increase in the capital outlay mill levy for the Scott County school district. The additional two mills will mean approximately $202,000 in added funding for the 201415 school year, which is critical given the district’s very tight financial situation. Combined with the increase in property valuation in the district, the capital outlay levy will generate about $274,000 more than it did during the past school year. Those, however, are just numbers in a budget. The fact that a protest petition wasn’t filed by local voters says a lot more about the community and our desire to maintain a strong education foundation. Credit the board of education with making some difficult budget-cutting moves. Not all the moves were popular. But decisions had to be made in hopes of minimizing the impact on our students. Increasing the capital outlay levy was an important component of this long-range plan. Without this money, the next couple of years could have been even more difficult. In that respect, we also credit the community and the district’s taxpayers. Given the anger that followed the announcement that the district was facing a $1.1 million shortfall, a petition seemed inevitable. In the weeks that have followed, cooler heads have prevailed. People realized who stood to suffer most - our students. A protest petition and a vote would have accomplished only two things. It would have risked more cuts to programs and staffing and further delayed the district’s ability to climb out of its financial dilemma. Now we can move forward with the task of providing the best education possible. That should always be our number one objective.
A modern Independence Day tale
It’s July 1, 1776, and members of the Continental Congress are standing around a table staring at a blank sheet of parchment. “Well, what do you think?” asks Eric Cantor. “Think about what?” wonders John Boehner. “What do you think we should write?” Cantor replies. “You’ve been asking me that for more than a week,” says Boehner. “I have no idea. And I want that made clear in case we are arrested by the British for treason. I have no idea.” “How about we start out with something like, ‘When in the course of human events . . . .” says Thomas Jefferson before he’s interrupted. “Hold it right there,” interrupted Tim Huelskamp. “Do you realize that you said seven words and not one of them was about God? What’s the problem? Are you an atheist? You can’t accept that God is the only reason we’re here today talking about a new nation?” “What I started to say is that . . . .” says Jefferson
again before he’s interrupted. “Are you going to try to shove that line down our throats again about ‘holding these truths to be self-evident’?” wonders Cantor. “Tom, we’ve been through this time and again. It’s simply not the message we want to be sending.” A voice from the back of the room says, “We need to put in that all men are created equal.” “Who said that?” Boehner angrily asks as he pulls at his collar. “It’s John Adams,” said Paul Ryan as he leaned closer to Boehner. “He’s got some pretty crazy ideas. I think he’s been drinking again.” “Well, tell him to shut up before people start taking that stuff seriously,” Boehner says. “We don’t need to stir people up with this talk about everyone being equal.”
“At least we don’t have to worry about that kind of crazy talk when it comes to women,” said Magistrate Alito. “But, just to be on the safe side, it would probably be a good idea if we made it clear that women can’t vote, can’t speak in public unless spoken to and can never hold political office.” “Great idea,” says Cantor. “If we don’t limit the rights of women, how can we expect the rest of the world to take us seriously.” “And what about my blacksmith shop?” says another delegate to the Continental Congress. “Is there any way that we can call that a person which is entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?” “That’s a terrific idea,” says Boehner. “You mean life, liberty and pursuit of happiness?” wonders Jefferson. “No, you fool,” Boehner says. “I’m talking about the idea of a blacksmith shop or any other business being considered a person. I’ll bet no one else within the British Empire has thought of
that. It’s that kind of thinking which will make this a great country someday.” “There’s a good reason no one else has thought of it,” Adams says. “Quiet,” says Cantor, “can’t you tell when the mind of a genius is at work?” “Just imagine,” says Boehner. “We could also give businesses the power to dictate the religious beliefs of their employees.” “It’s common knowledge among the people that I drink ale with that businesses are people,” says delegate Romney. “If we can’t include that in the preamble of this document than I don’t even know why we’re bothering to declare our independence from Britain.” Jefferson sits down at the table, dips a quill it into the ink well and begins to write . . . “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the (See TALE on page six)
Lessons from Lawrence of Arabia
As fears grow of a widening war across the Middle East, fed by reports that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) envisions a regionwide, all controlling theocracy, we found ourselves talking about another war. The Great War - or World War I, as it would come to be called - was triggered 100 years ago this month when an assassin shot and killed Austria’s Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Through a series of tangled alliances and a cascade of misunderstandings and blunders, that single act of violence brought on a bloody catastrophe. More than 37 million people were killed or wounded. In America, if we reflect on the First World War at all, we think mostly about the battlefields
Where to Write
another view by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
and trenches of Europe and tend to forget another front in that war - against the Ottoman Empire of the Turks that dominated the Middle East. A British Army officer named T.E. Lawrence became a hero in the Arab world when he led nomadic Bedouin tribes in battle against Turkish rule. Peter O’Toole immortalized him in the epic movie, “Lawrence of Arabia.” You may remember the scene when, after dynamiting the Hijaz railway and looting a Turkish supply train, Lawrence is asked by an American reporter, “What, in your opinion, do these people hope to gain from this war?” “They hope to gain
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their freedom,” Lawrence replies, and when the journalist scoffs, insists, “They’re going to get it. I’m going to give it to them.” At war’s end, Lawrence’s vision of Arab independence was shattered when the Versailles peace conference confirmed the carving of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine into British and French spheres of influence; arbitrary boundaries drawn in the sand to satisfy the appetites of empire - Britain’s Foreign Office even called the former Ottoman lands “The Great Loot.” The hopeful Lawrence drew his own “peace map” of the region, one that paid closer heed to tribal allegiances and rivalries. The map could have saved the world a lot of time, trouble and treasure, one historian said, providing
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the region “with a far better starting point than the crude imperial carve up.” Lawrence wrote to a British major in Cairo: “I’m afraid you will be delayed a long time, cleaning up all the messes and oddments we have left behind us.” Since 2003, as the reckless invasion of Iraq unfolded, demand for Lawrence’s book, “Seven Pillars of Wisdom” increased eightfold. It was taught at the Pentagon and Sandhurst - Britain’s West Point - for its insights into fighting war in the Middle East. In 2010, Major Niel Smith, who had served as operations officer for the US Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Center, told The Christian Science Monitor, “T.E. Lawrence has in some ways become the patron (See ARABIA on page six)
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The enduring power of bad ideas
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Two years ago Kansas embarked on a remarkable fiscal experiment: It sharply slashed income taxes without any clear idea of what would replace the lost revenue. Gov. Sam Brownback proposed the legislation - in percentage terms, the largest tax cut in one year any state has ever enacted - in close consultation with the economist Arthur Laffer. And Brownback predicted that the cuts would jump-start an economic boom. “Look out, Texas,” he proclaimed. But Kansas isn’t booming. In fact, its economy is lagging both neighboring states and America as a whole. Meanwhile, the state’s budget is plunging into deficits, provoking a Moody’s downgrade of its debt. There’s an important lesson here - but it’s not what you think. Yes, the Kansas debacle shows that tax cuts don’t have magical powers, but we already knew that. The real lesson from Kansas is the enduring power of bad ideas, as long as those ideas serve the interests of the right people. Why, after all, should anyone believe at this late date in supply-side economics, which claims that tax cuts boost the
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economy so much that they largely, if not entirely, pay for themselves? The doctrine crashed and burned two decades ago, when just about everyone on the right - after claiming, speciously, that the economy’s performance under Ronald Reagan validated their doctrine - went on to predict that Bill Clinton’s tax hike on the wealthy would cause a recession if not an outright depression. What actually happened was a spectacular economic expansion. So how did the charlatans and cranks end up dictating policy in Kansas, and to a more limited extent in other states? Follow the money. For the Brownback tax cuts didn’t emerge out of thin air. They closely followed a blueprint laid out by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) which has also supported a series of economic studies purporting to show that tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy will promote rapid eco-
nomic growth. The studies are embarrassingly bad. And what is ALEC? It’s a secretive group, financed by major corporations, that drafts model legislation for conservative state-level politicians. Ed Pilkington of the Guardian newspaper, who acquired a number of leaked ALEC documents, describes it as “almost a dating service between politicians at the state level, local elected politicians and many of America’s biggest companies.” And most of ALEC’s efforts are directed, not surprisingly, at privatization, deregulation, and tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy. And I do mean for the wealthy. While ALEC supports big income-tax cuts, it calls for increases in the sales tax - which fall most heavily on lowerincome households - and reductions in tax-based support for working households. So its agenda involves cutting taxes at the top while actually increasing taxes at the bottom, as well as cutting social services. But how can you justify enriching the already wealthy while making life harder for those struggling to get by? (See IDEAS on page six)
Cheney takes a swing and hits himself by Jim Hightower
President Obama has been hit with a firestorm of vitriolic criticism from Republican opportunists hoping to score political points by blaming him for the latest upheaval in Iraq. So I was pleased when, finally, one Republican spoke out loudly to deflect those partisan attacks. Thank you, Dick Cheney. Yes, he’s back! The snarling, self-righteous, shameless old hypocrite wrote a nasty op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that was meant to skewer Obama on the Iraq issue, but it backfired! One, Cheney’s attack was so vitriolic and personal - even accusing Obama of betrayal and being “a fool” - that it re-
vealed just how mean and malignantlypartisan Cheney is. More significantly, though, his venomous rant reminded everyone that - wait a minute - it wasn’t Obama who made a ghastly mess of Iraq - it was Cheney and his imperious regime of neo-con chicken-hawks! The punch line in his op-ed was a haymaker intended to floor Obama: “Rarely has a US president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.” But - whammo! - it was such a wild swing that instead of socking Obama, Cheney’s roundhouse punch went full-circle and smashed into his own glass jaw. Even Fox News, which had been a wildly enthusiastic backer of Cheney’s
war, roasted him over that line. Fox interviewer Megyn Kelly put it to him like this: “Time and time again, history has proven that you got it wrong as well in Iraq, sir. You said there was no doubt Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. You said we would be greeted as liberators. You said the Iraq insurgency was in the last throes back in 2005 . . . . What do you say to those who say you were so wrong about so much at the expense of so many?” Precisely, right. So thank you again, Dick Cheney, for taking the heat off of Obama and putting right were it belongs. Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator, writer, public speaker and author
Snyder could learn from the Wizards
Dan Snyder has dug himself into a deep hole on the Washington Redskins’ name. It may be, as Snyder claims, that there are many Native Americans who do not consider the term “redskin” a racist slur. But large numbers of them do, and they are almost certainly a substantial majority. The longer Snyder resists giving respect to these people, the more damage he will inflict on his football team. I speak as a Redskins fan from before Snyder was born. Few Redskins supporters of any generation can match my credentials. When my brother was born in 1957, my parents, Abe and Irene Pollin, asked me to suggest names for the baby. Without hesitation, I proposed James Edward, in honor of then-Redskins halfback Jim Podoley and quarterback Eddie LeBaron. The amazing thing was that my father was also such a huge Redskins guy that - with my mother’s assent, of course - James Edward Pollin was
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launched into the world 57 years ago. Admittedly, my family’s Redskins obsession diminished somewhat in 1964, when my father bought the Baltimore Bullets basketball team, later to become the Washington Bullets. My brother Jim and I grew up with Bullets banners, T-shirts, sweatshirts, baby bibs, team photos and signed basketballs all over the house. The Bullets were easy to love in the 1960s and 1970s, since they were consistently wonderful. Gus Johnson, Earl Monroe, Wes Unseld and Elvin Hayes were all Bullets of that era, and they are all now in the Basketball Hall of Fame. My father wore his 1978 Bullets championship ring every day until his passing in 2009. But as most people in the D.C. area know, my father also had a strong social conscience. The severe problem of
gun violence in the region concerned him deeply. That is why, over time, he became increasingly uncomfortable with the name of his beloved basketball team. He recognized full well that changing the name of his team was not about to end gun violence anywhere. But he felt that he could at least stop contributing to making gun violence seem cool through an association with Monroe, Unseld and other Bullets’ greats. My father’s thinking on this matter became settled after the assassination in 1995 of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was also my father’s close friend. Rabin had risked his entire political career in an effort to build a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians. For his efforts, he was murdered at a peace rally in Tel Aviv by a fellow Israeli Jew. After that terrible day, my father told me, “That’s it. Yitzhak was killed by an assassin’s bullet. I can’t have my team (See WIZARDS on page six)
Our deluded approach to reforming U.S. education by Paul Buchheit
Free-market capitalists view education in terms of products and profits. The products, to them, are our children. The profits go to savvy businesspeople who use a “freedom to choose” rallying cry to convince parents that they’re somehow being cheated by an equal-opportunity public school system. Education reformers focus on privatization, public program cutbacks, and plenty of revenue-producing testing. There are at least five truths about education reform that suggest ignorance or delusion among its adherents. 1) Privatized Education Steals from the Poor, Gives to the Rich Eva Moskowitz makes $72 per student as CEO of the private Success Academy in New York City. Carmen Farina makes 19 cents per student as Chancellor of New York City Public Schools. More salary shock: The salaries of eight executives of the K12 chain, which gets over 86 percent of its profits from the taxpayers, went from $10 million to over $21 million in one year. A McKinsey report estimates that education can be a $1.1 trillion business in the United States. Forbes notes: “The charter school movement is quickly becoming a back door for corporate profit.” The big-money people are ready to pounce, like Rupert Murdoch, who called K-12 “a $500 billion sector in the U.S. alone that is waiting desperately to be transformed.” Meanwhile, Head Start was recently hit with the worst cutbacks in its history. Arts funding overall is lower than ever, with a National Endowment for the Arts budget barely accounting for two percent of the National Science Foundation budget. Spending on K-12 public school students fell in 2011 for the first time since the Census Bureau began keeping records over three decades ago. 2) Testing Doesn’t Work In 2013 the Silicon Valley Business Journal reported that “K-12 schools across the United States will begin implementing Common Core State Standards, an education initiative that will drive schools to adopt technology in the classroom as never before... Apple, Google, Cisco and a swarm of startups are elbowing in to secure market share.” The state of Texas cut over $5 billion from the public school fund while awarding testing giant Pearson a contract for almost $500 million. Los Angeles spent $1 billion for iPads to facilitate testing, using money from a 25-year bond for school construction. But testing doesn’t work. The National Research Council concluded that, “The tests that are typically used to measure performance in education fall short of providing a complete measure of desired educational outcomes in many ways.” The test-based Common Core standards, as noted by Diane Ravitch, were developed by a Gates-funded organization with almost no public input. 3) The Arts Make Better Scientists A comprehensive study at Michigan State University found that “success in science is accompanied by developed ability in other fields such as the fine arts.” According to a 2007 report in the Journal for Research in Music Education, students in high quality music programs scored 19% higher in English and 17% higher in mathematics than those without a music program. Both the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Association of Music Education found that music programs improved SAT scores later on. (See EDUCATION on page six)
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National testing when time stands still in China by John Schrock
Police cars blocked the street, parked front bumper to back bumper, forming a barricade to traffic. Five blocks ahead, a similar barricade prevented any oncoming traffic. I had told my taxi driver “Yangling High School” and we had arrived. This was an annual event. It is the most critical time in the life of any Chinese youth. This was the second day of the two-day national high school leaving exam (or college entrance exam), the gao kao. About nine million
graduating seniors across China were taking this test today. A little over seven million will have scores high enough to enter college. And the higher the score, the higher rank the college. Those that fail? Their life will be harder; their pay far, far lower. And it is not just the student that fails, but parents and grandparents too. China has not yet achieved a social security system and for many, their child remains the “social security” for two parents and four grandparents. That is why parents and
Plans on track to replace U.S. football with soccer by Andy Borowitz
BRUSSELS (The Borowitz Report) - A 10-year European plan to gradually phase out American football in the United States and replace it with soccer is “very much on track,” a spokesman for the European Union confirmed today. The E.U. spokesman, Alf-Jergen Holmboe, said the replacement of American football with soccer was the third in a three-step plan to transform the U.S. into a European country. “The first two steps were electing a socialist President and instituting national health care,” he said. “Once soccer replaces football, our work will be done.” Holmboe said that the E.U. could take no credit for the legalization of gay marriage in the United States, but called it “a very welcome development.” He added, “Once a country has socialism, national health care, and gay marriage, soccer is usually next.” The spokesman offered no timetable for eliminating baseball, but indicated that it was “in the works.” Andy Borowitz is a comedian and author
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saint of the US Army advisory effort in Afghanistan and Iraq.” But then and now, Lawrence’s understanding of the ancient and potent jealousies of the people among whom he had lived and fought generally was ignored. In 1920, he wrote for the Times of London an unsettling and prophetic article about Iraq - then under the thumb of the British. He decried the money spent, the number of troops and loss of life, and warned that his countrymen had been led “into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. . . . Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient than the public knows. It . . . may soon be too inflamed for any ordinary cure. We are today not far from a disaster.” Not for the last time in the Middle East would disaster come from the blundering ignorance and blinding arrogance of foreign intruders convinced by magical thinking of their own omnipotence and righteousness. How soon we forget. How often we repeat. Bill Moyers is the host of Moyers and Company on PBS. Michael Winship is president of the Writers Guild of AmericaEast
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The answer is, you need an economic theory claiming that such a policy is the key to prosperity for all. So supply-side economics fills a need backed by lots of money, and the fact that it keeps failing doesn’t matter. And the Kansas debacle won’t matter either. Oh, it will briefly give states considering similar policies pause. But the effect won’t last long, because faith in tax cut magic isn’t about evidence; it’s about finding reasons to give powerful interests what they want. Paul Krugman is a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University and recipient of the Nobel Prize for economics
grandparents crowded this street outside the school fence. As I walked among them, the quietness was eerie. China is a country of constant chatter. But the little being said was in low and somber voices. You did not have to speak Chinese to detect the fretting and the anxiety. Everyone’s minds were on their student who had now come to this decisive moment in their lives. If he or she failed, they all failed. My boss here is a vice president at the university and has oversight of this high school. He explained
how his team had tested out the cameras the week before. In every one of the test classrooms, cameras were mounted that could scan every corner of the room. And they were all linked to Beijing. In some cities, parents can even watch their child on camera during these two days of testing, but not here. Tests were delivered in armored cars by armed police (normal police in China are not armed). Students filed in for the test through security scanners, similar to our airport security, and are patted down
Tale separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” “Hold it right there,” says Boehner. “Never have so many words said
so little. Do you want people to think we’re a bunch of elitist snobs. You need to start cutting out some of this wording.” “I have no idea what you’re saying, but I can clearly see you don’t even mention God until the 48th word,” says Huelskamp. “That’s unacceptable. You’re opening the
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door for heathens to run this nation. And put in something that says when you turn 15-years-old you have to get married.” “Can I still put in something about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?” asks Jefferson with a sigh. After some hesitation, Boehner says, “Yes, go
ahead. But don’t get too specific. If everyone believes they’re entitled to those things then there’s going to be chaos.” “A real revolution,” adds Cantor. “I don’t think any of us are foolish enough to want something like that on our hands.” Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com
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who loved and supported the Bullets continued to love and support the Wizards. The Wizards today of John Wall, Bradley Beal and Nene are an exciting, rising team. They would not be one iota better, nor would they have one more fan, if they were called the Bullets. To date, Snyder appears out of touch. But this gives him a great op-
Education 4) Privatization Means Unequal Opportunity for All David F. Welch founded Students Matter “to defend children’s fundamental right to have an equal opportunity to access quality public education.” His NewSchools Venture Fund is heavily involved with charter schools and data collection in schools. But with rare exception charter schools don’t provide equal opportunity. Stanford’s updated CREDO study found that fewer special education students and fewer English language learners are served in charters than in traditional public schools. The National Education Policy Center notes that “Charter schools...can
papers, plus the sub-tests. That process is also under high security. A professor colleague in Nanjing regularly graded exams, and he was incommunicado for a solid week, locked on a floor of a hotel. Scores will be posted when finished. The names will be there for all to see, from top score to bottom, with the cut-off clearly marked. We fret about privacy and have our FERPA laws to hide our students’ failures. But in China, this total transparency is absolutely essential so that all
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Wizards connected in any way with people killing other people with bullets.” Most Bullets fans at the time objected strongly to my father’s decision, as did many players who wore the Bullets uniform, including members of the 1978 championship team. But my father would not budge. Over the years, it became clear that the people
and wanded. During these two days, police also man full-frequency scanners to detect any transmissions from inside the classrooms. Last year over 60 such cases were detected nationwide. Not only the student, but the parents, the equipment salesmen and anyone remotely involved received the harshest of sentences. This is one issue for which China has “zero tolerance.” These students and parents will not learn their scores today. It will take weeks to grade the Chinese, math and English
tive Americans consider a racist slur. Through making such a courageous decision, Snyder would earn the respect of his community and create a massive new wave of support for his football team. Robert Pollin is distinguished professor of economics and co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst
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Primarily Business people, Not Educators Billionaires like Bill Gates and Eli Broad and Michael Bloomberg and Rupert Murdoch and the Walton family, who have little educational experience among them, and who have little accountability to the public, are promoting education reform with lots of standardized testing. As already noted, the writers of the Common Core standards included no early childhood educators or experienced classroom teachers. More than 500 early childhood educators signed a joint statement rejecting the standards as inappropriate for children in the early grades. So far-fetched are Are ideas based on testing that
shape their student enrollment in surprising ways,” through practices that often exclude “students with special needs, those with low test scores, English learners, or students in poverty.” According to a Center on Education Policy report, 98 percent of disabled students are educated in public schools, while only 1% are educated in private schools. As might be expected, the “right to choose” a better school has racial and class overtones. A National Education Policy Center study found that charter schools, in comparison to nearby public schools, were substantially more segregated by race, wealth, disabling condition, and language. 5)
portunity to surprise us and demonstrate his true grit. He can reiterate his own position: that he had been resisting the name change out of respect for generations of Redskins fans and his own love of the team’s traditions. But he then simply has to admit that he has been wrong. He needs to recognize that the most ethical thing he can do is to stop upholding a name that Na-
Reformers
even the originators are backing off. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced their support for a two-year moratorium on teacher or student evaluations based on Common Core testing standards. The 1966 Coleman Report, widely considered the most important education study of the 20th century, concluded that academic achievement was primarily related to the student’s family background and the social composition of the classroom. But free-market reformers would rather believe in a solution that makes money. Paul Buchheit is a college teacher and the editor and main author of “American Wars: Illusions and Realities.” He can be reached at paul@UsAgainstGreed.org
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can see that admission to college did not give preference to the wealthy and powerful. This test has always been a one-time event, with students all across China beginning and ending at the same time. But today, television is making a big deal over two students who cannot take the test. They were victims of a knife attack on a train the day before the test and are in the hospital. The news media has focused heavily on their plight. Security camera footage of the stabbing is on all the channels. The Ministry of Education will administer a special test to them when they recover. But how about those who had less dramatic medical events or became sick with normal, but debilitating illnesses on these days? With nearly seven million students, those cases would run into the thousands, and the opportunity for cheating would rapidly get out of control. They get no dispensation. It has to be that way - for the good of all.
City OKs purchase of new fire truck
The Scott City Council has authorized Fire Chief Ken Hoover to purchase a new fire truck. Hoover is seeking bids for a truck with an eightman cab. It will also have top-mount water controls and LED lighting. Bids will be opened on July 21. Hoover says delivery will take 9-12 months.
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Estimated cost will be in the “$450,000 range,” says Hoover. That will include optional equipment which the department plans to add to the truck. Hoover says the department has $537,000 in its reserve fund. The department’s last purchase of a new truck was 21 years ago.
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A mist hung over Lake Scott early Saturday morning following 1.24 inches of rain at the state park on Friday night. The lake was perfectly still as anglers tried their luck from the shore and boats. (Record Photo)
Wheat county area which includes Lane, Ness and Rush. “Some guys are finishing up and others are lagging way behind, especially those who got a late start while planting milo and corn,” he says. Abandoned Acreage Abandoned wheat fields are a fairly common sight throughout the area due to drought. “I didn’t see a lot of
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wheat abandoned until after May 15. Until then, a lot of guys were looking at other alternatives,” says Baker. Some farmers planted fall crops and are gambling on enough moisture to carry them through the rest of the summer. Others will leave the ground fallow and plant wheat again in the fall. Some farmers will plant a short-season corn after irrigated wheat has been cut.
“They’ll grow it until a freeze and take it off for silage,” Baker says. “I don’t think we’ll see a lot of dryland corn where wheat failed.” But at least farmers have options, which is something that wouldn’t have seemed possible little more than a month ago. “People are a lot more optimistic about what the fall will bring,” says Long. “The corn seems
to have grown a foot in a week’s time. If temperatures cooperate the rest of the summer that sets the stage for a very good corn and milo harvest.” And with more rain forecast in the upcoming week, the good news keeps coming. “We’ve had more rain in the last 30 days than we had all of last year,” notes Baker. “That’s a pretty nice position to be in for a change.”
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all of its cash reserves amounting to about $477,000. In addition, the district cut $705,000 in costs for the 2014-15 school year. The board has indicated it plans to use the additional capital levy money for the following:
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Scheuerman on Dean’s honor list
Andrea Scheuerman, Scott City, has been named to the spring semester Dean’s List at Logan University, Chesterfield, Mo. Students named to the list must maintain a grade point average of 3.5 or higher. Scheuerman is enrolled in a curriculum that includes basic and clinical (diagnostic) sciences, chiropractic science, research and patient care. To receive the Doctor of Chiropractic degree, a student must complete 10 trimesters (the equivalent of five, two-semester academic years) of study.
Dearden on President’s list
Tatum Wells stirs meatballs in a skillet in preparation for a spaghetti dinner that youngsters in the SRC cooking school enjoyed on Friday. (Record Photo)
Cooking school a tasty success with young chefs There’s no doubt what Carter Gooden enjoyed making during the week-long cooking school sponsored by the Scott Recreation Commission. No-bake cookies. Of the food he baked or cooked during the week, what was his favorite? No-bake cookies. What would he like to bake at home? No-bake cookies. Even though the 10-year-old had a one-track mind when it comes to cooking, the menu for the 15 young chefs had more diversity than no-bake cookies. During their hour-long cooking classes last week, the participants learned how to make caramel corn, pancakes and waffles, homemade ice cream, pizza and spaghetti and meatballs. With the help of cooking instructors Jana Irvin and Stephanie Thomas the participants, who were in grades 3-5, learned how to prepare food items from
scratch. That meant following recipe directions, and cooking meatballs (Friday’s meal) or preparing real pizza (not the frozen kind). “Breaking eggs was easy. I do it all the time,” said nineyear-old Natalie Herman, who added that her pancakes “tasted pretty good.” Homemade ice cream was made in a bag instead of an ice cream churn with mixed results. “My ice cream turned out like soup,” said a disappointed Herman. Caramel corn was a big hit with Hannah Faurot, 8, who said that was her favorite recipe of the week. Hannah Tucker, 9, said she took part in the program because she thought it would be fun. But she also says the class has given her more confidence to prepare meals for the family. “I made supper for Mom and Dad last night,” said Hannah, adding that she had prepared
jambalaya pasta. She said it was a dish she had cooked before. Tucker and Faurot said they would participate in the school again next year, adding they hope that cake baking will be a new addition. SRC Director Lauren Robinson said the school will be offered again and because there was so much interest she
might add another session. The 15 kids who took part was the maximum enrollment and a couple of youngsters who tried to sign up late had to be turned away. “We want to be able to offer a bigger variety of activities beyond sports,” Robinson says. “It’s encouraging when we can offer something new like this and it goes over so well.”
Kayla Dearden, Scott City, has been named to the spring semester President’s Honor Roll at Kansas Wesleyan University, Salina. The President’s Roll includes full-time students who have maintained a 3.75 or higher grade point average.
Augerot earns degrees at OPSU Andrew Augerot, Scott City, graduated cum laude from Oklahoma Panhandle State University on May 17 with a Bachelor of Technology degree in technology and a Bachelor of Business Administration in computer information systems. He is the son of Willie and Jayne Augerot, Scott City.
Schumacher, Barnett on SC spring honor list
Alicia Barnett, Healy, and Lindsay Schumacher, Leoti, were named to the spring semester Dean’s Honor Roll at Southwestern College, Winfield. Full-time students who maintained a minimum grade point average of 3.7 were eligible for the academic honor.
8 area students earn degrees from K-State
(Middle photo) Gissele Aguilar breaks an egg that was blended with the hamburger for meatballs while Tanner Gooden looks on. (Above) Hannah Faurot (far right), Hannah Tucker and Brandon Smyth prepare meatballs for the skillet. (Record Photos)
Eight graduates from Scott and Wichita counties have earned degrees this spring from Kansas State University. They were among nearly 3,000 students who were eligible to participate in commencement ceremonies. Area graduates and their degrees include: Scott City: Allison Gouldie, Bachelor of Science in food science and industry; Elizabeth Huck, Bachelor of Music Education; Alex Hutchins, Bachelor of Science in Education; and Miriam Peregrino, Bachelor of Science in Education. Leoti: Meghan Burch, Bachelor of Science in business administration; Breck Fletcher, Bachelor of Science in agriculture; Watson McKinney, Bachelor of Science in milling science and management; and Lauren Wedel, Bachelor of Science in agribusiness.
For the Record Fighting insurance fraud a major job for KID The Scott County Record
The Anti-Fraud Division of the Kansas Insurance Department (KID) worked nearly 850 cases of suspected insurance fraud in Kansas during 2013. That’s a pretty hefty number for our fourperson division, but that figure is an average one for us, unfortunately. On a national level, if insurance fraud was a business, it would be a Fortune 500 company, according to nation-
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al reports. It is, by all accounts, the second largest economic crime in America; only tax evasion exceeds it. This type of fraud is the intentional misrepresentation of facts and circumstances to an insurance company in order to obtain payment that
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would not otherwise be made. Insurance fraud costs upwards of $80-120 billion annually, but most importantly, it adds hundreds of dollars to your annual insurance premiums, as companies have to include that cost of doing business in the premiums you pay. The fraudulent activity comes in all shapes and sizes, from accident insurance and annuities through health insurance
and homeowners claims to renters insurance and travel insurance. It also includes application or policy fraud, where the applicant - or an unscrupulous agent - provides false information or forged documents. The reasons for committing fraud are as numerous as the people who commit it - the need for money for some legitimate (in their minds) or illegitimate activity, or maybe just plain old greed.
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•Awards and recognition
•Call to Order
•Comments from public
•Approve minutes of June 16 regular meeting and June 18 special meeting
•Executive session 1) Non-elected personnel •Recognition of persons/delegations present 1) High Plains Co-op - Eric Erven 2) NW Ks. Tech. College - Mark Davis 3) Additional •Board reorganization 1) Election of president and vice-president 2) Designation of HPEC representatives 3) Designation of Northwest Tech board reps 4) Designation of official newspaper •Financials 1) Bills payable 2) Transfers •Consent agenda 1) Approve previous minutes 2) Designate Susan Carter as board clerk 3) Designate Deneen Wolfe as treasurer 4) Designate Keen Brantley as board attorney 5) Approve school fees 6) Designate snow days for 2014-15 7) Appoint Amanda Koehn deputy board clerk 8) Approve KASB membership 9) Resignations 10) New hires 11) Approve Parents as Teachers program 12) Approve classified staff 13) Approve supplemental contracts •Consider items pulled from consent agenda New business 1) Approve SCMS principal contract 2) Milk prices and coolers 3) Ipad 101 4) Contribution to Scott County Development Committee for Public Square project 5) Select negotiating team members 6) Superintendent spending authority •Executive session for negotiations •Additions, if any •Adjournment
Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., July 3, 2014; last published Thurs., July 10, 2014)2t STATE OF KANSAS ORDER FOR CLOSING OF REGISTRATION BOOKS BEFORE PRIMARY ELECTION AUGUST 5, 2014 Pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A. 25-2311(c), notice is hereby given that on the 15th day of July, 2014, all voter registration books for the general election will close at the end of regular business hours. Registration books will remain closed until the 6th day of August 2014. WITNESS MY HAND and the seal of my office this 6th day of June, A.D. 2014. Kris W. Kobach Secretary of State
•Approve ordinance to vacate alley between Lots 1-2, Block 14 - C.A. Steele and Sons Addition •EBH Engineer Darin Neufeld 1) Approve community hangar bid •Scott Recreation Commission 1) Discuss separate water line for restroom and concession stand at Sports Complex 2) Discuss SRC water credits •Open agenda: audience is invited to voice ideas or concerns. A time limit may be requested Pool Department 1) Pool update 2) Council/city employee pool party Aug. 10 Police Department 1) Misc. business Parks Department 1) Misc. business Public Works Department 1) Accept paint striper bid 2) Accept chip seal bid 3) Accept resignation of maintenance employee 4) Advertise for full-time maintenance employee Clerk’s Department 1) Review changes from budget workshop 2) Review sick leave policy changes •Mayor’s comments
Scott Co. LEC Report Scott City Police Department May 28: Kelly Conine reported the theft of property. June 24: Catherine Gordon reported a hit-and-run accident in the 1300 block of South Main. June 28: Anna Kasselman, driving a 2001 Dodge, backed out of a parking stall at 712 S. Main and struck a 1990 Chevrolet owned by USD 466. June 28: Kristopher Richey was arrested for driving on a suspended license and transported to the LEC.
But whatever the motivation, when our anti-fraud division receives a report of suspected fraud, our investigators first make a determination about the alleged activity in terms of who should actually follow up. Some reports are clearly not insurance fraud and are placed with an appropriate outside investigative agency. Others are not insurance fraud but are consumer issues or market conduct issues that
other divisions in KID would investigate. For example, if our anti-fraud investigators determine the activity is not criminal insurance fraud but a problem with agent conduct, then KID’s Producer Licensing Division will receive the report. Information from consumers is often forwarded to an insurance company’s special investigative unit for followup, and some (See FRAUD on page 11)
Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., July 3, 2014; last published Thurs., July 17, 2014)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY J. DOORNBOS, deceased, Case No. 2014-PR NOTICE OF HEARING AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS You are hereby notified that on the 27th day of June, 2014, a Petition was filed in this Court by Stuart A. Doornbos, an heir of Mary J. Doornbos, deceased, praying: That descent be determined of the following described real property owned by the decedent: The Northeast Quarter (NE/4) of Section Six (6), Township Nineteen (19)
South, Range Thirty-two (32) West of the 6th P.M. and all real or 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 31st day of July, 2014, at 10:30 o’clock a.m., in said Court, in the City of Scott City, in Scott County, Kansas, at which time and place said cause will be heard. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition. s/s Stuart A. Doornbos, Petitioner WALLACE, BRANTLEY & SHIRLEY 325 Main Street - P.O. Box 605 Scott City, Kansas, 67871 Attorneys for Petitioner
Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., July 3, 2014; last published Thurs., July 24, 2014)4t BEFORE THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS NOTICE OF FILING APPLICATION RE: H&B Petroleum Corporation - Application for a permit to authorize the disposal of saltwater into the Stucky A #1, located in Scott County, Kansas. TO: All Oil & Gas Producers, Unleased Mineral Interest Owners, Landowners, and all persons whomever concerned. You, and each of you, are hereby notified that H&B Petroleum Corporation has filed an application to commence the disposal of saltwater into the Mississippi Spergen, Osage, Viola and Arbuckle formations with the depth of 5191 at the Stucky A#1, located in the SE SW SW of Sec 23-19S31W, Scott County, Kansas,
with a maximum operating pressure of zero and a maximum injection rate of 3000 bbls per day. Any persons who object to or protest this application shall be required to file their objections or protest with the Conservation Division of the State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas within thirty (30) days from the date of this publication. These protests shall be filed pursuant to Commission regulations and must state specific reasons why granting the application may cause waste, violate correlative rights or pollute the natural resources of the State of Kansas. All persons interested or concerned shall take notice of the foregoing and shall govern themselves accordingly. H&B Petroleum Corporation PO Box 277 Ellinwood, Kansas 67526 620-564-3002
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Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., June 26, 2014; last published Thurs., July 10, 2014)3t NOTICE OF PRIMARY ELECTION CANDIDATES TO BE VOTED FOR AT THE PRIMARY ELECTION, STATE OF KANSAS, SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS To whom it may concern: I, the undersigned county election officer of the above named county, have received a certified listing of candidates for the various nominations to be made by each of the political parties of this state and, in accordance with the provisions of law, I hereby publish so much thereof as is applicable to this county, and I have added thereto the names and addresses of the candidates for nomination of the Republican and Democratic parties:
Republican
Democrat
NATIONAL OFFICE UNITED STATES SENATE Alvin E. Zahnter Russell, Ks. Milton Wolf Leawood, Ks. D.J. Smith Osawatomie, Ks. Pat Roberts Dodge City, Ks. Patrick Wiesner Chad Taylor
Lawrence, Ks. Topeka, Ks.
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - DISTRICT 1 Republican Tim Huelskamp Fowler, Ks. Alan LaPolice Clyde, Ks. Democrat
Republican
Democrat
James Sherow Bryan R. Whitney
Manhattan, Ks. Wichita, Ks.
STATE OFFICES GOVERNOR/LT. GOVERNOR Sam Brownback Topeka, Ks. Jeff Colyer Overland Park, Ks. Jennifer Winn Robin R. Lais
Wichita, Ks. Wichita, Ks.
Paul Davis Jill Docking
Lawrence, Ks. Wichita, Ks.
Republican
SECRETARY OF STATE Scott Morgan Lawrence, Ks. Kris Kobach Piper, Ks.
Democrat
Jean Kurtis Schodorf Wichita, Ks.
Republican
ATTORNEY GENERAL Derek Schmidt Independence, Ks.
Democrat
A.J. Kotich
Republican
STATE TREASURER Ron Estes Wichita, Ks.
Democrat
Carmen Alldritt
Republican
Democrat
Topeka, Ks.
Topeka, Ks.
COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE David J. Powell El Dorado, Ks. Beverly Gossage Eudora, Ks. Ken Selzer Leawood, Ks. Clark Shultz Lindsborg, Ks. John M. Toplikar Olathe, Ks. Dennis Anderson
Overland Park, Ks.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE - 118TH DISTRICT Republican Don Hineman Dighton, Ks. Democrat Republican
None STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION Sally Cauble Dodge City, Ks. Meg Wilson Great Bend, Ks.
COUNTY AND TOWNSHIP OFFICES SCOTT COUNTY COMMISSIONER - DISTRICT 1 Republican James M. Minnix Scott City, Ks. Democrat
None
SCOTT COUNTY CLERK (UNEXPIRED TERM) Republican Alice Brokofsky Scott City, Ks. Republican
ISBEL TOWNSHIP CLERK Kathi Shearmire Modoc, Ks.
Democrat
None
Republican
LAKE TOWNSHIP CLERK Larry Vulgamore
Democrat
None
Pursuant to the foregoing, I hereby give notice that a primary election will be held on the 5th day of August, 2014, at which time the candidates from the above list may be voted on at the William Carpenter 4-H Building at the Scott County Fairgrounds. This polling place will be open from 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. on August 5, 2014. Advanced voting will begin on Monday, July 16, 2014, at the Scott County Clerk’s office, 303 Court Street, Scott City, Ks. Advanced voting will end on Monday, August 4, 2014, at 12:00 noon. Done at my office in the City of Scott City, County of Scott and State of Kansas this 20th day of June, 2014. Seal Alice Brokofsky Scott County Election Officer
Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., June 26, 2014; last published Thurs., July 3, 2014)2t REQUEST FOR ZONING VARIANCE Notice is hereby given that the Scott City Planning Commission will hold a special meeting on July 10, 2014, at 7:00 p.m., at the Scott City Council Meeting Room at City Hall, 221 West 5th Street, Scott City, Kansas, to consider the following agenda items: Application for variance by Diana Brandt to allow for less clearance between the eaves of a residence and an accessory building (garage) than allowed by ordinance on: West Sixty feet (60’) of Lots One (1) and Four (4), Block Forty Two (42), Original Town (305 W. 6th Street) All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard at such hearing. Dated: June 24, 2014 Rodney Hogg, chairman Scott City Planning Commission
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KHP to crackdown on texting while driving
Starting with the Fourth of July weekend and continuing through July 10, the Kansas Highway Patrol will be conducting a texting enforcement initiative. Troopers will be looking for drivers who are violating Kansas’ texting law, and will be citing those in violation. According to state law, the operator of a vehicle
may not use a wireless device to manually type, send, or read a written communication, including, but not limited to, a text message, instant message, or electronic mail. According to statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), texting while driving creates a crash risk 23 times
Public Notice (Published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., July 3, 2014)1t ORDINANCE NO. 1151 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AND CHANGING THE BOUNDARIES OF A ZONING DISTRICT PURSUANT TO THE CITY CODE, ORDINANCE NO. 1011, TITLE 10, CHAPTER 3. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF SCOTT CITY, KANSAS: SECTION 1. The boundaries of the District Zoning Map, as amended or changed, is further amended and changed insofar as it relates to the following described property, to wit: A tract of land beginning at a point 1830 feet South of the Northeast corner of Section Twenty-five (25), Township Eighteen (18) South, Range Thirtythree (33) West of the 6th PM, thence South along the East section line 280 feet; thence West parallel with the North section line a distance of 600 feet; thence North parallel with the East section line a distance of 280 feet, thence East parallel with the North section line a distance of 600 feet to the point of beginning. By changing the classification of said property from Ag-agricultural to C-2 General Commercial District. SECTION 2. The boundaries of the District Zoning Map, as amended or changed, is further amended and changed insofar as it relates to the following described property, to wit: Lots Nineteen (19), Twenty (20), Twenty-one (21), Twenty-two (22), Twentythree (23), Twenty-four (24), Twenty-five (25), Twenty-six (26) Twentyseven (27), Twenty-eight (28), Twenty-nine (29), Thirty (30), Thirty-one (31), Thirty-two (32), Thirty-three (33), Thirtyfour (34), Thirty-five (35), Thirty-six (36) in Harper Tract in Scott County, all located in the Northeast Quarter (NE/4) of Section Twenty-five (25), Township Eighteen (18) South, Range Thirty-three (33) West of the 6th PM. By changing the classification of said property from Ag-agricultural to C-2 General Commercial District. SECTION 3. The boundaries of the District Zoning Map, as amended or changed, is further amended and changed insofar as it relates to the following described property, to wit: Lots Seven (7), Eight (8), Nine (9), and Ten (10) in Harper Tract located in the Northeast Quarter (NE/4) of Section Twentyfive (25) Township Eighteen (18) South, Range
Thirty-three (33) West of the 6th PM, Scott County, Kansas. By changing the classification of said property from Ag-agricultural to C-2 General Commercial District. SECTION 4. The boundaries of the District Zoning Map, as amended or changed, is further amended and changed insofar as it relates to the following described property, to wit: Lots Eleven (11), Twelve (12), Thirteen (13), Fourteen (14), Fifteen (15), Sixteen (16), Seventeen (17) and Eighteen (18) in Harper Tract in Scott County, all located in the Northeast Quarter (NE/4) of Section Twenty-five (25), Township Eighteen (18) South, Range Thirtythree (33) West of the 6th PM. By changing the classification of said property from Ag-agricultural to C-2 General Commercial District. SECTION 5. The boundaries of the District Zoning Map, as amended or changed, is further amended and changed insofar as it relates to the following described property, to wit: Lot Two (2), Block One (1), and Lot One (1), Block Two (2), Hoeme Addition to the City of Scott City, Scott County, Kansas. By changing the classification of said property from Ag-agricultural to C-2 General Commercial District. SECTION 6. The boundaries of the District Zoning Map, as amended or changed, is further amended and changed insofar as it relates to the following described property, to wit: Starting at the Southeast corner of said Section 18 and thence going West along the section line for a distance of 1022.67 feet, thence turning 90º00’ and going north for a distance of 1180.00 feet, thence turning 90º00’ and going west for a distance of 443.33 feet, thence turning 90º00’ and going south for a distance of 1180.00 feet, thence turning 90º00’ and going east for a distance of 443.33 feet to the true point of beginning of the described tract, containing 12 acres more of less. By changing the classification of said property from Ag-agricultural to I-1 General Industrial District. SECTION 7. This ordinance shall be effective upon its passage and publication in the official city paper. Passed by the Council this 20th day of January, 2014 Dan Goodman, Mayor City of Scott City, Ks. ATTEST: Brenda Davis, MMC City Clerk
greater than driving while not distracted. In 2012, an estimated 421,000 people were injured in motor vehicle crashes involving a distracted driver. This reflects a nine percent increase from the estimated 387,000 people injured in 2011. The KHP and local law enforcement enforce the
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texting law throughout the year, but this holiday period, the Patrol will place a special emphasis focused on locating those texting while driving. The Patrol will be out actively looking for impaired drivers. With many celebrations across the state, drivers should make sure they are designating a sober driver.
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cases that are clearly violations of federal law are referred to a federal investigative agency such as the FBI. If our anti-fraud investigators determine that suspected fraud falls within the insurance law in our Kansas Statutes, then our investigators interview witnesses, take statements and collect and analyze evidence. Once everything is complete, we make a decision on the merit of the case by asking two simple questions: Was it really insurance fraud? Did the facts warrant a prosecution? If the answers are Yes, then we submit an affidavit to our In-House Special Assistant Attorney General to determine who prosecutes the case and where the case will be filed. This process involves our Legal Division and the Attorney General’s office. The process can be lengthy, but it is thorough, and I would put our investigators up against any agency’s in terms of making sure no stone is unturned. If you suspect any type of fraudulent Kansas insurance activity, contact the KID Anti-Fraud Division by calling 1-800-432-2484. You will be doing your insurance premium dollars a favor.
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Over 750 hospitals face Medicare crackdown Mike Shields KHI News Service
During a hernia operation, Dorothea Handron’s surgeon unknowingly pierced her bowel. It took five days for doctors to determine she had an infection. By the time they operated on her again, she was so weakened that she was placed in a medically induced coma at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, N.C. Comatose and on a respirator for six weeks, she contracted pneumonia. “When they stopped the sedation and I woke up, I had no idea what had happened to me,” said Handron, 60. “I kind of
5 in Kansas likely to be penalized for injuries felt like Rip Van Winkle.” Because of complications like Handron’s, Vidant, an academic medical center in eastern North Carolina, is likely to have its Medicare payments docked this fall through the government’s toughest effort yet to crack down on infections and other patient injuries, federal records show. A quarter of the nation’s hospitals - those with the worst rates - will lose one percent of every Medicare payment for a year starting in October. In April, federal officials released a preliminary analysis of which hospitals would be
Making the move to a new home less stressful for kids by the American Counseling Association
Americans have a well-deserved reputation for not staying in any one place too long and summer is a prime time for household moves to take place. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, about 12% of us, or some 36.5 million people, moved from one home to another last year. But whether it’s just a move across a town or county, or a big move across the entire country, it’s almost always going to bring high levels of anxiety for your children. While moving is certainly stressful for all family members, adults can more easily understand the reasons behind a move. It might be to a new job, to be closer to family members, or just a chance to move up to something new, different and better. Adults see most moves as positive opportunities. But for children, moving almost never appears, at least at first, to be anything positive. What they see and feel is a real sense of loss. They’re also anxious about all the unknowns related to the new home and surroundings. A starting point in helping children feel more comfortable about a move is explaining the reasons why the move is taking place. Clear explanations can help them better understand and accept why this is a good or necessary thing happening. It’s also important to acknowledge that sense of loss your children are experiencing. Most kids will feel they are losing “best friends,” as well as activities they’ve grown familiar with in their current neighborhood. For teens, it may mean the end of a romantic relationship. Let them know that you understand what they’re feeling. Counter the inevitable tears and complaints with reassurances of the good things to come in the new home. Be liberal with your hugs and love, too. If possible, try to introduce your children to their new home prior to the actual move. Maybe you can travel to see the new place with them. If not, gather info from the local chamber of commerce and Internet to share. Get a map of the new town, pictures of the new house and their rooms, and share information about things that will interest them, such as their new school, sports teams, movie theaters or a town mall. Moving to a new home is never easy, but with a little effort, understanding and a lot of support, you can make it much less stressful for your children. “Counseling Corner” is provided by the American Counseling Association. Visit the ACA website at counseling.org
assessed, identifying 761. The sanctions, estimated to total $330 million over a year, kick in at a time when most infections measured in hospitals are on the decline, but still too common. In 2012, one out of every eight patients nationally suffered a potentially avoidable complication during a hospital stay, the government estimates. Even infections that are waning are not decreasing fast enough to meet targets set by the government. Meanwhile new strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria are making infections much harder to
Kansas Hospitals Facing Potential Penalties
Pratt Regional Medical Center Premier Surgical Institute South Central Kansas Med Center Southwest Medical Center Sumner Regional Medical Center
cure. Dr. Clifford McDonald, a senior adviser at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the worst performers “still have a lot of room to move in a positive direction.” Penalties Will Vary Medicare’s penalties are going to hit some types of hospitals harder than others, according to
Pratt Galena Arkansas City Liberal Wellington
were assigned to more than a third of the hospitals in Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Wisconsin and Wyoming. “We want hospitals focused on patient safety and we want them laserfocused on eliminating patient harm,” said Dr. Patrick Conway, chief medical officer of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The biggest impact may be on the nation’s major teaching hospitals: 54 percent were marked for preliminary penalties. The reasons for such high rates of complications in these elite hospitals are
an analysis of the preliminary penalties conducted for Kaiser Health News by Dr. Ashish Jha, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health. Publicly owned hospitals and those that treat large portions of low-income patients are more likely to be assessed penalties. So are large hospitals, hospitals in cities and those in the West and Northeast. Preliminary penalties (See CRACKDOWN on page 13)
Alcohol accounts for 1-in-10 deaths of working-age adults Dave Ranney KHI News Service
Excessive alcohol use accounts for almost one in 10 deaths among working-age adults in the United States, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study, released late last week, found that from 2006-10 excessive use of alcohol killed nearly 88,000 Americans each year. In 2001, the last time CDC researchers reviewed the data, alcohol was blamed for almost 75,800 deaths. Almost 70 percent of the deaths in 2006-10 involved people ages 20
to 64; five percent were younger. The remainder were 65 or older. Binge drinking - five or more drinks in a twohour span for men; four or more drinks for women - accounted for more than half of these deaths. The five states with the highest percentages of working-age deaths were New Mexico (16.4 percent), Alaska (15.9 percent), Colorado (14.2 percent), Wisconsin (13.4 percent) and Arizona (13.4 percent). “Excessive alcohol use is a leading cause of preventable death that kills many Americans in the prime of their lives,”
. . . roughly 5,450 working-age Kansans died in each of the five years. Of these deaths, 9.5 percent (almost 520 people) were due to excessive alcohol use . . .
Ursula Bauer, director of CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, said in a prepared statement that accompanied release of the study. “We need to redouble our efforts to implement scientifically proven public health approaches to reduce this tragic loss of life and the huge economic costs that result.” According to the study, roughly 5,450 workingage Kansans died in each
of the five years. Of these deaths, 9.5 percent (almost 520 people) were due to excessive alcohol use, resulting in either chronic conditions - liver disease, primarily - or “acute causes” such as car crashes, drownings, suicides, falls and homicides. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s latest vital statistics report shows that 163 Kansans died of chronic liver disease and cirrhosis in 2012. (See ALCOHOL on page 13)
Premiums for many in individual market may increase next year Julie Appleby Kaiser Health News
Health insurance premiums for people with subsidies could increase substantially in some markets - but consumers who shop around may not end up paying more, according to a new report. Shopping around may not be as likely, however, under proposed rules released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that will automatically re-enroll
the vast majority of those who are signed up for plans through the online marketplaces. Automatic re-enrollments might ease the experience, but it also will make it less likely consumers will check out other options. Consumers have the option of shopping around, the administration said. And the Avalere study shows they should. In Kansas, Katrina McGivern, a spokesperson for an initiative led by Kansas Association for the
Medically Underserved that helps people navigate the marketplace, said its members are encouraging newly insured consumers to explore their options again in the fall. “Some people will be happy with what they have already, and that’s great,” she said. “But it’s important that they go get back in and update their information, because we’re anticipating that more plans are going to be available and there will be more options to choose
from. They may be eligible for a better tax credit, too.” Enrollment in the marketplace reopens Nov. 15 and will close Jan. 15, 2015. The HHS analysis of rates filed in nine states found that as insurers battle for a share of the individual market, some plans that were the lowpriced leaders this year are not the least expensive options next year. (See PREMIUMS on page 13)
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Groups call for tobacco ban at baseball parks
Nine major public health advocacy groups have sent a letter to Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig and the players’ association calling again for a “complete prohibition” on tobacco use at ballparks and by players on camera.
The letter comes after the death of Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn, 54, who attributed his cancer to use of chewing tobacco. The letter said a ban would “honor the memory” of Gwynn, a longtime right fielder for the San Diego Padres. “Use of smokeless
Crackdown being intensely debated. Leah Binder, CEO of The Leapfrog Group, a patient safety organization, said academic medical centers have such a diverse mix of specialists and competing priorities of research and training residents that safety is not always at the forefront. Nearly half of the teaching hospitals - 123 out of 266 in Jha’s analysis - had low enough rates to avoid penalties. The government takes into account the size of hospital, the location where the patient was treated and whether it is affiliated with a medical school when calculating infection rates. But the Association of American Medical Colleges and some experts question
Subsidies through the Affordable Care Act are tied to “benchmark” plans, which are the second lowest-cost silver-tier plans in each market. Even those with subsidies could see premiums change. “If you are a savvy buyer, you could pick a low-cost plan and probably avoid a significant rate increase,” said Caroline Pearson, vice president at Avalere. But those who do nothing may end up paying more. Here’s how it works: Subsidy-eligible indi-
Alcohol
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Dulcinea Rakestraw, vice president of treatment service at Preferred Family Healthcare, Wichita, and chair of the Kansas Association of Addiction Professionals, said she wasn’t surprised by the CDC’s findings. One of the “strange” things about alcohol abuse, Rakestraw said, is that some people are able to “compartmentalize it” in ways that allow them to hold jobs and have families. “It’s why we have such a hard time treating multiple DUI offenders,” she said. “Their alcohol abuse doesn’t seem to get into the other parts of their lives, so they don’t see themselves having a problem with alcohol because they still have their job and they still have their family. The problem, they say, is with their driving.” The percentage of alcohol-caused deaths in Kansas was the 22nd highest in the nation. Nationally, the study found that excessive alcohol use killed males (71 percent) more often than females (29 percent).
ing for a tobacco ban at ballparks in 2010. MLB officials said they had no immediate plans to respond to the letter, which was signed by these organizations: •Tobacco Free Kids •The American Cancer Society
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whether those measures are precise enough. “Do we really believe that large academic medical centers are providing such drastically worse care, or is it that we just haven’t gotten our metrics right?” Jha said. “I suspect it’s the latter.” Nationally, rates of some infections are decreasing. Catheterrelated infections, for instance, dropped 44 percent between 2008 and 2012. Still, the CDC estimates that in 2011, about 648,000 patients - 1 in 25 - picked up an infection while in the hospital, and 75,000 died. Rates of urinary tract infections have not dropped despite efforts. These infections are more likely the longer a line is
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tobacco endangers the health of Major League ballplayers. It also sets a terrible example for the millions of young people who watch baseball at the ballpark or on TV and often see players and managers using tobacco,” the letter stated. The groups began call-
left in, but sometimes they are not removed promptly out of convenience for the nurse or patient or simply institutional lethargy. Medicare has been pressuring hospitals for several years to lower rates of injuries to patients. In 2008 Medicare started refusing to reimburse hospitals for the extra cost of treating patients for avoidable complications. A subsequent study by Harvard researchers found no evidence that the change led to lower infection rates. Advocates Praise Move Patient advocates say the financial penalties are long overdue, given how little accountability there has been. Gerald Guske discovered that in 2012 when he went into Martha
Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville, Va., for an artificial hip implant. Doctors later had to reopen the incision and wash out Guske’s implant. Guske, a retired electronic technician, was laid up for a month in a rehabilitation facility while strong antibiotics were pumped directly into a vein. Martha Jefferson told Guske it had followed proper protocols. “Unfortunately, infection is a known risk of any surgery, and even when everything is performed correctly and conditions are ideal, they can occur,” the hospital wrote him afterward. “Infection does not necessarily indicate that something went wrong.”
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viduals - those who earn between about $11,480 and $45,960 - can enroll in any plan they like. But those who choose plans other than the benchmark silver plans would pay the difference in monthly premium cost, dollar for dollar. In a hypothetical example cited by Avalere, a 40-year-old consumer who enrolled this year in a $214-a-month benchmark plan paid $58 of her own money toward the premium after the subsidy. But now her insurer plans to
raise rates next year to $267 a month. Because other plans have come in lower, her plan is no longer the benchmark. That benchmark plan is now a different one, whose price is $231 a month. Unless she switches plans, the consumer must now pay the difference. Her income has stayed the same, so her subsidy of $173 a month remains unchanged. But, because her plan is now $36 more than the benchmark plan, her monthly payment rises to $94 for the premium -
unless she switches to the lower-cost plan. Instead of narrowing the range in premium prices widened from 2014 to 2015, Pearson said. Reasons varied. In some markets, new insurers are entering with low rates, possibly to try to wrest market share. At the same time, the low-priced plans in some markets are raising rates because they won significant market share the first year - and are hoping to keep their new customers even with a price increase.
•The American Lung Association •American Heart Association •American Medical Association •American Dental Association •Oral Health America •Legacy, an anti-tobacco group formed in 1999
as part of the Master Settlement Agreement that settled a lawsuit filed by dozens of states, including Kansas, against the major tobacco companies seeking to recover the costs of treating sick smokers; and •The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Nathalie Aytes Nathalie Aytes, 81, died June 30, 2014, at the Scott County Hospital, Scott City. S h e was born Jan. 2, 1933, in Vi c h y, Mo., the daughter Nathalie Aytes of Oren George and Eunice Lucille (Feldkirchner) Wagner. She married James “Jimmy” Wayne Aytes on Dec. 30, 1949, in Salem, Ark. He died Sept. 8, 2007. They moved to Scott City in 1951. Nathalie was a member of the First Baptist Church, Scott City, and an active participant in the Senior Adult Ministry. She went to work at Ideal Foods in the early 1960s and remained for 27 years, starting as a checker and ending as a bookkeeper and front-end manager. After a year of retirement she began working parttime in the food service department for USD 466 (Scott County) and continued for 10 years.
Howard Langley Spitzer She retired again at the age of 71. Survivors include: her step-father, Waldo Ehlers, Union, Mo.; two sistersin-law, Rae Jean Nelson, St. James, Mo., and Bonnie Hengstenberg, and husband, August, Owensville, Mo.; three sons, Mike Aytes, and wife, Lindsay, Richmond, Mo., Scot Aytes, Scott City, and Greg Aytes, and wife, Anne, Linwood; one daughter, Pam Wheeler, and husband, Rod, Scott City; seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents and one infant granddaughter, Jessica Leigh Aytes. Graveside service will be Thurs., July 3, 10:00 a.m., at the Scott County Cemetery. The family requests memorials to the Scott County Library in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 401 S. Washington St., Scott City, Ks. 67871. There will be no calling times.
Howard Langley Spitz- Church and a member er, died June 28, 2014, at of the United Methodist Park Lane Nursing Home, Church Finance CommitScott City. tee. H e He was an Army Rewas born servist for six years and on Dec. was a sergeant when he 7, 1934, was honorably discharged. the son Survivors include: his of Isaac wife, of Scott City; one J a c o b daughter, Eleanor Streckand Pearl Howard Spitzer er, and husband, Larry, Estalene (Owen) Spitzer Topeka: one son, Phil, on the family farm in Dallas, Tex.; one sister, Scott County. He grew Virginia Sharpe, and husup on the family farm and band, Harry, Scott City; spent most of his life in one sister-in-law, Mary Scott County. Ellen Meyer, and husHe graduated from band, Warren, ChesterScott Community High field, Mo.; and two grandSchool in 1952 and at- children. tended Kansas State UniHe was preceded in versity, graduating with a death by his parents; one Bachelor of Science de- sister, Carol Heckendorn; gree in 1957. and one brother-in-law, Howard married Dor- Jack Heckendorn. othy Jane Lodholz on Memorial service was Aug. 6, 1955, at St. Peheld July 1 at the First ter’s Evangelical and ReUnited Methodist Church, formed Church in Kansas Scott City, with Pastor City, Mo. Howard had a success- Dennis Carter officiating. Burial was at the Scott ful career farming and County Cemetery. cattle ranching. The family suggests He was a member of memorials to the First the Wet Walnut Creek United Methodist Church, Steering Committee, a member of the board of Scott City, or Camp Lakethe American Shorthorn side in care of Price and Association, community Sons Funeral Home, 401 Isaac Cristoval Holguin leader of the Town and S. Washington St., Scott Isaac Cristoval HolHe was preceded in County 4-H Club, Camp City, Ks. 67871. guin, 5, died June 29, death by his grandfather, Condolences may be Lakeside trustee, long2014, near Leoti. Ramon Holguin-Gonzatime member of the Scott sent to www.priceandH e lez. City United Methodist sons.com. was born Vigil service will be July 23, held Sat., July 5, 10:00 2008, at a.m., at St. Anthony of Duane Albert Donecker Tribune, Duane Albert Doneck- his father, of Healy; one Padua Catholic Church, the son er, 48, died May 22, 2014, son, Jesiah, Oak Harbor, Leoti, with Fr. Benjamin of Evanat his home in Oak Har- Wash.; four sisters, TeMartin officiating. gelina resa Washburn, GreenFuneral mass will im- bor, Wash. Holguin. Isaac Holguin H e field, Ind., Terria Ashby, mediately follow. He was a lifetime resident was born Ulysses, Stacy Kenoyer, Burial will be at the of Leoti. Feb. 10, Vista, Calif., and Tricia Leoti Cemetery. Isaac was a member 1 9 6 6 , Donecker, Scott City; two Memorials may be of St. Anthony of Padua in Scott bothers, Darin Donecker, given to the Isaac Holguin City, the Catholic Church, Leoti. Scott City, and Jeffery Survivors include: the Memorial Fund in care of son of Hamilton, Arvada, Colo.; mother; grandmother, Elo- Price and Sons Funeral Terry Do- Duane Donecker and numerous nieces and dia Holguin; aunts and un- Home, 202 N. 4th, Leoti, necker and Sandra Ham- nephews. cles, Julyssiana and Hugo Ks. 67861. He was preceded in ilton. Condolences may be Sillas, Jesus Holguin and He graduated from death by his mother and Jose Holguin; cousins, sent to the family through Scott Community High wife. AnIyssa Sillas and Eleny the funeral home website School in 1984. He retired Memorial service will Sillas, all of Leoti. at priceandsons.com. from the U.S. Navy on be Sat., July 5, 10:30 a.m., Dec. 31, 2005, as an Avia- at the Masonic Hall, 600 tion Support Equipment Ceder St., Scott City. Ramon Holguin-Gonzalez In lieu of flowers, meTechnician First Class Ramon Holguin-Gon- Elsa, Rancho El Molino, AS1. morials can be given to zalez, 55, died June 29, Chih. Mexico, Luis HolOn Jan. 22, 2000, he the Duane Donecker Me2014, near Leoti. guin, and wife, Angela, married Sandy Rogers. morial at the First NationH e Garden City and FranSurvivors include: al Bank, Scott City. was born cisco Holguin, and wife, Feb. 9, Adela, Rancho El Molino, 1959, in Chih., Mexico; and two San Frangrandchildren, AmIyssa cisco de Sillas and Eleny Sillas, Conchos, both of Leoti. C h i - Ramon HolguinHis was preceded in Gonzalez huahua, death by his parents; two Mexico, the son of Con- sisters, Evangelina Holrado and Perfecta (Gonza- guin-Gonzalez and Berta lez) Holguin. A resident of Holguin-Gonzalez; two Leoti since 1989, moving brothers, Natalio Holguinfrom Colorado, he was a Gonzalez and Zeferino farmer and stockman. Holguin-Gonzalez; one Ramon was a member grandson, Isaac Holguin; of St. Anthony of Padua and one nephew, Luis, Catholic Church, Leoti. Holguin-Gonzalez, Jr,. On June 3, 1985, he Vigil service will be married Elodia Carrasco held Sat., July 5, 10:00 at Lamar, Colo., she sur- a.m., at St. Anthony of vives. Padua Catholic Church, Other survivors in- Leoti, with Fr. Benjamin clude: four children, Evan- Martin officiating. gelina Holguin, JulyssiFuneral mass will be ana Sillas, and husband, held immediately followHugo, Jesus Holguin and ing. Jose Holguin, all of LeoBurial will be at a later ti; eight siblings, Marcos date in Cemeterio de San Holguin, and wife, Maria Francisco de Conchos, Lydia, Rancho El Mo- Camargo Chih. Mexico. lino, Chih. Mexico, Maria Memorials may be givHolguin-Brown, and hus- en to the Ramon Holguinband, Jerry, Ala., Antonio Gonzalez memorial fund Holguin, and wife, Gloria, in care of Price and Sons Cd. Juarez, Chih, Mexico, Funeral Home, 202 N. Andrew Holguin, and 4th, Leoti, Ks. 67861. wife, Santos, Little Rock, Condolences may be Ark., Manuel Holguin, sent to the family through and wife, Cristina, Leoti, the funeral home website Javier Holguin, and wife, at priceandsons.com.
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‘Falling Short of the Grace of God’ That’s what Hebrews 12:15 is talking about when it says, “Looking diligently, lest any man fail of the grace of God...” A few years back, a man began attending our church who had suffered many rejections during his lifetime. I spent time with him in counsel and prayer and I believed God had sent him to our church for full restoration. God’s grace was upon him in a powerful way to bring him to a place of personal change and forgiveness toward those who had offended him through the years. Time would pass and he’d come closer and closer to forgiveness. Then something would happen that would trigger his old feelings of bitterness. God’s grace was there to help this man overcome those bitter feelings, but time after time he rejected that grace and each time he would grab hold of that bitterness again. God’s grace was available but he rejected it over and over again. I have seen that man occasionally around town and it is evident he is not faithfully attending any church. But it is also evident that he is not a free person. He still carries those same old scars he has always carried. God’s grace was mightily available to help him, but he didn’t allow it to work in his life. Therefore, he failed the grace of God. Don’t let that be your story! We all are personal caretaker’s of our own hearts, and God holds us responsible for the attitudes that linger inside us. His grace is available to help you change. As a Christian and a pastor I have had many opportunities to become bound to rejection. Those who try you to that end are often people you first had confidence and faith toward. I believe it is evident that a strong spirit of rejection is coming against the church of Jesus Christ in this nation. We must keep check on our hearts. You don’t have to be imprisoned in bitterness, unforgivingness, or resentment. If these destructive inward feelings have established a stronghold in your life, make the choice to reach out and take hold of God’s grace. His grace will break those chains of feeling off your soul and set you free from the prison of offense that can hold you captive. Stay sensitive to the Holy Spirit and allow His grace to have its full effect in your life. Do what God is telling you, obey that inner prompting and you will be spared from the devastating effects of bitterness, resentment and unforgivingness. AND you will not fail “the grace of God.” Pastor Ed Sanderson, Assembly of God Church, Scott City
Scott City Assembly of God
406 Main • Scott City • 620 872-2090
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
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
A Catholic Christian Community 1002 S. Main Street - Scott City Fr. Bernard Felix, pastor • 872-7388 Secretary • 872-3644 Masses: 1st Sunday of month - 8:30 and 11:00 a.m. Other weekends: Sat., 6:00 p.m.; Sun., 11:00 a.m. Spanish Mass - 2nd and 4th Sundays, 1:30 p.m.
1102 Court • Box 283 • Scott City 620-872-2294 • 620-872-3796 Pastor Warren Prochnow holycross-scott@sbcglobal.net Sunday School/Bible Class, 9:00 a.m. Worship every Sunday, 10:15 a.m. Wed.: Mid-Week School, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Pence Community Church
Community Christian Church
8911 W. Road 270 10 miles north on US83; 2 miles north on K95; 9 miles west on Rd. 270 Don Williams, pastor • 874-2031 Wednesdays: supper (6:30 p.m.) • Kid’s Group and Adult Bible Study (7:00 p.m.) • Youth Group (8:00 p.m.) Sunday School: 9:30 • Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.
12th & Jackson • Scott City • 872-3219 Shelby Crawford, pastor Sunday School, 9:30 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship, 10:45 a.m. Wednesday Night Bible Study, 7:00 p.m. Wednesday: God’s High School Cru, 7:30 p.m.
First Baptist Church
Immanuel Southern Baptist Church
803 College - Scott City - 872-2339 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 120 S. Lovers Lane - Shallow Water Larry Taylor, pastor Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.
First Christian Church
1st United Methodist Church
5th Street and College - Scott City - 872-2401 Dennis Carter, pastor 1st Sunday: Communion and Fellowship Sunday Services at 9:00 a.m. • Sunday School, 10:30 a.m. All Other Sundays • Worship: 8:30 and 10:45 a.m. Sunday 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.
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
701 Main - Scott City - 872-2937 Scotty Wagner, pastor Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.; Worship, 10:45 a.m. Wednesday is Family Night Meal: 5:45 p.m. • Study: 6:15 p.m. Website: www.fccscottcity.org
Elizabeth/Epperson Drives • Scott City • 872-3666 Father Don Martin Holy Eucharist - 11:45 a.m. St. Luke’s - 872-5734 (recorded message) Senior Warden Bill Lewis • 872-3347 or Father Don Martin - (785) 462-3041
Scott Mennonite Church
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
12021 N. Eagle Rd. • Scott City 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.
Moving? Contact The Scott County Record to update your address, so you don’t miss your paper. P.O. Box 377, Scott City, Ks. 67871 • 620-872-2090 • www.scottcountyrecord.com
The Scott County Record • Page 16 • Thursday, July 3, 2014 Youngsters who have reached 100 to 1,000 book milestones in the Scott County Library’s “1,000 Books Before Kindergarten” reading program are:
Ava Hughes 700
Sebastian Nelson 500
Jayden Nelson 500
Meika Dirks 400
Stella Shirley 300
Klaire Heberlee 200
Collier Livingstone 1,000
Karli Jones 100
Samantha Lebbin 100
State brings surprise halt to health homes start-up Kansas Medicaid providers with expansion plans ready to go after spending months and thousands of dollars preparing for the state’s new health homes initiative said they were “shocked” and “disappointed” that state officials abruptly chose to indefinitely delay much of the program’s implementation while giving the providers less than 24 hours’ notice of the state’s decision to hit the pause button. “We’ll just have to dismantle everything. I’m not sure it’s feasible to do it twice,” said Krista Postai, chief executive of the Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas, a safety net clinic based in Pittsburg but with satellites in nearby towns. “That final-hour thing is really quite shocking. This was a first for us.” The clinic, after months of discussion, was planning a partnership with its counterpart in Johnson County. Together they would provide health home services in 18 eastern counties with the expectation they would serve thousands of chronically ill poor people with the wraparound services and close case management that are the hallmarks of health homes. But that plan as of Monday afternoon began unraveling. Postai and other providers received a short email alerting them that officials at the Kansas Department of
Health and Environment had decided that the part of the initiative dealing with Medicaid enrollees who are chronically ill with asthma or diabetes was being indefinitely delayed and would be re-evaluated as an option after Jan. 1, 2015, because there wasn’t an adequate network of providers to begin today as previously scheduled. More than half the 72,000 people estimated to be eligible for the health homes program, which is paid for 90 percent by the federal government, are estimated to fall in that chronically ill category. As late as last week, KDHE officials were still saying publicly that they planned to mail letters this week to eligible, chronically ill Medicaid enrollees telling them they were going to be included in the initiative unless they opted out. But apparently at the last minute, top officials at KDHE concluded there weren’t enough providers of the right types to launch the program statewide as initially planned. The portion of the program targeting Medicaid enrollees with serious mental illness, about 36,000 people, so far is proceeding on schedule with their notice letters sent this week and services beginning Aug. 1. The announcement marked the second major delay in the program, which administration officials originally had said
would start Jan. 1 this year. “The secretary along with everyone at KDHE is conducting readiness reviews on a regular basis to make sure our network was thorough. We concluded we really needed to do a better job on educating providers and to get more providers in the fold on this,” said Sara Belfry, an agency spokesperson. “We did communicate to (providers) that it was going to be delayed. We communicated as quickly as we could.” But that turned out to be less than 24 hours’ notice. “We were shocked to find out one day in advance that we weren’t going to have a program,” said Jason Wesco, chief executive of the Health Partnership Clinic in Olathe, the planned health homes partner with the Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas. “I don’t know what the magic of January (the re-evaluation date) is. I don’t know that any more providers will be willing to jump in now. The fact they pulled the plug on it makes me think it’s never coming back.” Wesco said he had hired a project director for the health homes initiative and was interviewing people for five new care coordinator positions. Now, he said, he’ll cancel the new hires and try to figure out how he can afford to keep the new project director.
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SC avenges early loss to win tourney It was no surprise that Scott City and McPherson were facing each other in Sunday’s championship game of the Great Bend MAYB tournament. After all, they are two of the top boy’s basketball programs in Class 4A - Scott City in Division II and the Bullpups in Division I. What may have been a surprise was the manner in which Scott City was able to rally against an experienced McPherson team, turning an early 14 point deficit into a 14 point win. “We raised our intensity level,” says SCHS head coach Glenn O’Neil. That intensity level was absent during Saturday’s 66-49 loss to McPherson in pool play. It was even missing early in the championship game when Scott City found itself trailing 26-12 after seven minutes of play. But that’s when the Scott City squad turned to a familiar trademark of an O’Neil-coached team defense. They stepped up their intensity level on the defensive side of the ball which spilled over to the offense. By halftime, the deficit had been cut to 2927 and Scott City had the momentum on their way to a convincing 64-50 win. Scott City opened up a
six point lead early in the second half when Heath Tucker, a spring graduate of Holcomb, drilled three treys to extend the lead and McPherson was unable to make a serious scoring run. The Beavers recruited Tucker to fill in on Sunday in the absence of Scott City senior Chantz Yager who was unavailable. “Heath was a nice addition, but when he had the hot hand in the second half we had already taken the lead and were pretty much in control of the game,” says Coach O’Neil. “His threes gave us a little more cushion.” Making perhaps a bigger impact on Sunday was senior pivot Sloan Baker who didn’t play on Saturday because he had committed to play in a baseball tournament. “Sloan brought toughness and maturity in the paint. He didn’t do a lot of scoring, but he was able to give us a lot of little things that we were lacking in our first game against McPherson,” says O’Neil. “He gave us more of a rebounding presence and the ability to get secondshot opportunities.” Baker and Tucker also gave Scott City more experience against McPherson than what the Beavers
Scott City senior Trey O’Neil drives into the paint for a basket during Saturday’s pool play action against Otis-Bison at the Great Bend tournament. (Record Photo)
were able to put on the floor Saturday. “Sloan doesn’t have a lot of height, but he gives us a physical presence,” O’Neil says. “Heath
knows our boys and this was a chance for him to play with our guys that he’s played against in the past. It was a way for him to wrap up his high school
career. At the same time, it was a chance for our kids to play with an all-state caliber kid and see what he does that makes him special.”
(See AVENGE on page 20)
Rumors not expected to hurt weekend attendance
McDaniel, Stevens top field in 5k memorial runs
Scott City’s past and its future ran away with championship honors in the Dylan Spencer Family Memorial Walk•Run•Roll on Saturday morning at Lake Scott State Park. Representing the past was former Scott Community High School graduate Sam McDaniel who won the 5k event in 20:30.9 - just over two seconds ahead of Kael Ecord of Wichita (20:33.2). The future was represented by Makaela Stevens, 14, a freshman this fall at SCHS, who won the women’s 5k race in 25:20.9 well ahead of runner-up Paula Vulgamore (25.54, Scott City). There were 112 participants in the 10k and 5k events who competed under perfect conditions at Lake Scott. Jonny Bernasky, Garden City, was overall winner in the men’s 10k (33:59) followed by Chase Thompson (38:38, Scott City). Winning the women’s 10k division was Elisabeth Friesen (57:01, Copeland) followed by Calista Miller (59:12, Scott City).
While Scott City had its sights set on a tournament win, O’Neil was more focused on seeing how the team would respond
Chase Thompson, Scott City, finished second overall in the 10k run at Lake Scott on Saturday morning. (Record Photo)
Rumors of blue-green algae or some other problem that would affect fishing or boating at the lake over the Fourth of July weekend are just that - rumors. Word was being spread around the Garden City area that there were issues with the lake which would affect fishing. Park officials want to clear the air of any bad information. “It seems that when notice of bluegreen algae goes out that people automatically think every lake is affected,” says Patsi Lisenby at the Lake Scott office. “Everything’s okay here.” Rumors certainly don’t seem to be having an impact on camp site reservations. Only two utility sites remained at Lakeview and Circle Drive campgrounds as of Wednesday afternoon and those were expected to be gone by Wednesday night. Primitive camping sites still remain, but those are also expected to start disappearing. “It will probably be on Thursday that we get hit with requests for the primitive sites,” says Lisenby. “I’d be surprised if we have any left by Friday night.” The Memorial Day weekend was a record-setter for the park and officials are anticipating similar attendance over the Fourth. “If the weather turns out as nice as is being predicted, it should be a very busy weekend,” adds Lisenby.
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Outdoors in Kansas
by Steve Gilliland
Larry and the muskrat These days when someone asks me what outdoor adventure I’ve found to write about this week, I just glare at them. Joyce and I are both cool-weather fans, and when it’s much over 80 we turn to vegetables, so this heat drives me inside where I sit at my computer and ponder cooler days and stories from years gone by. One such story I often think about happened about this time of the year where I grew up. It involves a high school classmate of mine, his older brother and a muskrat. John and I graduated together and were just a few years out of high school. He and older brother, Larry, both had bass boats and liked to spend Sunday mornings on a nice local reservoir named Clear Fork. Larry said he enjoyed the quiet time and all the wildlife he saw as much as the fishing. This particular morning he was fishing with a spinner-bait, a large odd-shaped contraption full of hooks and shiny blades that makes the whole rig spin and chatter as it’s retrieved through the water. He was close to shore and had stopped casting to watch a muskrat putter about along the bank. A few feet of line hung from his rod with the spinner bait dangling from the end. After several minutes of being amused by the muskrat, he decided it was time to fish again so he slapped the water with the spinner bait just to scare the muskrat. However, the line carried the lure farther than expected, mistakenly hooking the unexpecting muskrat, and the fight was on! (See MUSKRAT on page 21)
Brandon Smyth of the Scott City Stars competes in the 50m breaststroke. (Record Photo)
Winderlin sweeps four golds in freestyle events Brandon Winderlin proved that distance is not a problem when it comes to winning gold medals. Competing in the 11-12-year division, the Scott City swimmer claimed wins at the Lakin meet on Saturday in freestyle distances of 50m (28.17), 100m (65.69), 200m (2:30.5) and 500m (6:41.57). Not only did he dominate the field, but Winderlin also had his fastest times of the summer in the 50m (an improvement of 2.12 seconds), the 100m (4.18 seconds) and 200m (22.19 seconds). Conner Cupp (1112 years) also had a big day at Lakin with three gold medals in the 50m backstroke (35.53), 50m butterfly (34.99) and the 200m individual medley (3:01.1). Cupp’s winning time in the medley improved on his season best by 1.42 seconds. In the same age division, Parker Gooden was a silver medalist in the 100m freestyle (1:12.84), 200m freestyle (2:50) and 50m backstroke (50.25). Kaden Wren added a silver in the 50m freestyle (29.84) and the 50m
breaststroke (40.85). The Stars were runnersup in the 200m freestyle (2:21.55) and the 200m medley (2:21.55) relays. Competing on both relays were Sawyer Stevens, Ryan Cure, Landon Trout and Gooden. Noll Wins 2 Golds Avry Noll (8-years and under) was a double winner in the 25m freestyle (17.62) and the 25m backstroke (21.66). Noll had his fastest times of the season in the freestyle by 1.64 seconds and by 2.68 seconds in the backstroke. The young swimmer was also a runner-up in the 50m freestyle (42.55). Griffin Edwards claimed a meet championship in the 25m breaststroke (30.69) while Jaxson Brandl won the 25m butterfly (25.94), finishing ahead of teammate Houston Frank (27.43). Frank was also a runnerup in the 100m individual medley (2:17.13). The Stars picked up championships in the 100m freestyle (1:18.42) and the 100m medley (1:41.99) relays. Freestyle relay members were Brandl, Tanner Gooden, Frank and Noll.
Members of the medley relay were Noll, Edwards, Frank and Brandl. Gooden Wins 4 Silvers Carter Gooden (9-10 years) was a four-time runner-up in the 50m freestyle (38.9), 50m backstroke (50.25), 50m butterfly (51.94) and the 100m individual medley (1:41.42). He finally broke through for a gold medal in the 50m breaststroke (53.53). Zach Rohrbough was a silver medalist in the 100m freestyle (1:33.27). Scott City claimed first place in the 200m freestyle relay (2:50.91) and was second in the 200m medley relay (3:56.82). Members of both relays were Wyatt Ricker, Brandon Smyth, Gooden and Rohrbough. The Stars added a pair of silver medals in the 15-years and over 200m freestyle (1:56.69) and 200m medley (2:21.12) relays. Chase Rumford was the only member of both relays who is at least 15-years-old. Moving up from younger age divisions to participate in the relays were Winderlin, Conner Cupp and Kaden Wren.
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SCHS football camp July 14-18
Scott Community High School will have its summer football camp from July 14-18. Sessions are from 6:00-8:30 p.m. each night. Camp fee is $30 which will provide each athlete a t-shirt and shorts.
SCMS football camp July 7-11
Scott City Middle School seventh and eighth graders will have their football camp from July 7-11 at the SCMS practice field. Camp sessions each day begin at 6:00 p.m. There is no camp fee.
2 camps for high school spikers next week
Kiley Wren, 9, of the Scott City Stars swim team competes in the 100m individual medley.
Girls who will be competing on the Scott Community High School volleyball team this fall will have an opportunity to attend two camps in Scott City next week. Ft. Hays State University will sponsor a camp on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 8-9, from (Record Photo) 8:00 a.m. to noon, for girls in grades 9-12. There will be another session for girls entering grades 5-8 from 1:00-4:00 p.m. each day. Camp fee is $45 which includes a t-shirt. SCHS will follow with a team camp on Thursday and Friday, July 10-11, also from 9:00 a.m. to noon. There is a (2:46.1). Members of the free- $10 registration. style relay were Mattie Brandl, Gabrielle Martinez, Jacy Rose and Wasinger. On the medley relay were Rose, Brandl, Wasinger and Alli Brunswig.
Relays have a big day for the Lady Stars with 9 meet titles Shelby Patton collected three individual gold medals and the Scott City Stars swim team finished with 19 in a huge day at the Lakin meet on Saturday. Even that kind of a performance in the pool wasn’t quite enough in Scott City’s rivalry with the Golden Belt Swim Club out of Great Bend. Golden Belt (889) held off Scott City which had 848 points in the boy’s and girl’s divisions. Patton (13-14 years) had her fastest times of the season in winning the 200m freestyle (2:33.74), 500m freestyle (6:55.05) and the 100m breaststroke (1:29.73). She sliced 16.07 seconds off her previous best in the 500m freestyle. Teammate Makaela Stevens was a runner-up in the 50m freestyle (28.74), which was her fastest time this season by 63/100 of a second, and she was also a silver medalist in the 100m butterfly (1:25.27), finishing just ahead of Scott City’s Hannah Brandl (1:26.39). The Lady Stars claimed two of their relay wins in the 13-14year division in the 200m freestyle (1:55.45) and the 200m medley (2:25.18). Members of the freestyle relay were Brandl,
Shelby Patton, Emily Parkinson finishes. Patton claimed championand Stevens. Competing on the medley were Brandl, Patton, ships in the 50m breaststroke Hallie Wiechman and Stevens. (51.03) - just 86/100 of a second ahead of teammate Hope Wiechman. She was also a Wasinger Wins 2 Kennedy Wasinger (8-years winner in the 100m individual and under) was a double winner medley (1:36.54). Patton was in the 100m freestyle (1:38.9) second in the 50m freestyle and the 100m individual medley (35.68) and the 50m backstroke (2:02.78). Wasinger’s winning (46.33). Kennedy Holstein finished time in the freestyle improved on her season best by 8.34 sec- as runner-up in the 50m butterfly (49.8). onds. Scott City again swept She also added a runner-up finish in the 25m breaststroke the 200m freestyle (2:34.99) and 200m medley (3:30.31) (28.47). Freestyle memBrinlie Stevens (8-years and relays. under) had her fastest time of bers were Holstein, Kiley the season in winning the 25m Wren, Wiechman and Patton. freestyle (19.4) and was also Competing on the medley relay a silver medalist in the 100m were Lana Rodriguez, Clare freestyle (1:50.63) and the 25m Hawkins, Hannah Eikenberry backstroke (24.87). and Wren. Scott City swept the 100m Piper Wasinger (11-12 years) freestyle (1:27.74) and the 100m was an individual gold medalist medley (1:53.27) relays in the in the 200m individual medley same age division. Competing (3:03.61) and a runner-up in the on both relays were Stevens, 500m freestyle (7:49.68). She Malorie Cupp, Kinleigh Wren improved on her season best in and Wasinger. the freestyle by 24.22 seconds and by 3.99 seconds in the individual medley. Patton is Double Winner Alli Patton (9-10 years) had Scott City picked up relay a big day in the meet with a golds in the 200m freestyle pair of wins and two runner-up (2:12.09) and the 200m medley
Deadline nears for soccer camp
Trout Wins Gold Kylee Trout (15-years and over) was the only individual winner for Scott City in the oldest age division. She won the 200m individual medley in 2:42.63 - improving on her best time of the season by 7.83 seconds. She was also a runner-up in the 50m freestyle (28.64), 200m freestyle (2:25.5) and the 100m breaststroke (1:23.25). Reagan Smyth was a silver medalist in the 100m freestyle (64.39) - just 14/100 of a second ahead of Trout - and in the 100m butterfly (1:14.12). The Lady Stars added a win in the 200m medley relay (2:16.41). Relay members were Elaine Parkinson, Kylee Trout, Smyth and Cami Patton. The Stars will not be competing this weekend, but will return to the pool for the Western Kansas Swim Club combined meet on July 12-13 at Guymon, Okla.
The Scott Recreation Commission and Garden City Community College will be sponsoring a Samba soccer camp from July 14-18 at the Scott City Sports Complex. The camp is open to all boys and girls from ages 4-15. Camp sessions will be held each day from 9:00-11:00 a.m. Cost is $50 with each camper getting a t-shirt and a soccer ball. Deadline to sign-up is Mon., July 7. Anyone with questions can contact the SRC at 872-2372.
KC linemen make effort in off-season to excel A major concern for the Kansas City Chiefs when they begin training camp on July 24 will be replacing three starters from the offensive line who were lost to free agency. Two of by KC’s offenMac sive line- Stevenson men - who are expected to start this season - took an extraordinary path to improve their skills. Jeff Allen (6-4, 307) is slated to start at one guard and Donald Stephenson (6-6, 312) is set at either left- or right tackle. Allen started 15 games last season and Stephenson played extensively. Both had some terrific games and both played poorly in a few outings. LeCharles Bentley is a former All-American center who played college football at Ohio State. Bentley played offensive guard and center with the New Orleans Saints and Cleveland Browns during his NFL career. He was selected for two Pro Bowls while playing with the Saints. After a six-year career in the NFL, Bentley retired because of injuries. In 2009, he started the L. Bentley OL Academy in Avon, Ohio; after five years in Ohio, Bentley moved his academy to Scottsdale, Ariz., where it is today. Allen and Stephenson spent their own money to attend Bentley’s camp for six weeks this spring, prior to KC’s offseason training program. That’s dedication. Coach Andy Reid appreciated his players’ sacrifice. Reid recognizes the value of Bentley’s training and said, “LeCharles does a good job. He knows what it takes to play in the NFL, so whatever we can’t do in the offseason, from a coaching standpoint, these guys can go to these different places and - as long as they are in good hands - they can learn something and get better at their profession.” Bentley’s camp attracted 50 professional offensive linemen this spring. With that kind of attitude and dedication to their jobs, Allen and Stephenson have positioned themselves to have a stellar 2014 season. (See EXCEL on page 23)
Avenge against good competition. McPherson was playing with their varsity lineup for the upcoming season and Scott City also saw Class 5A Great Bend in pool action on Saturday. “It was good to see McPherson twice. We were able to see our strengths and weaknesses,” O’Neil notes. “We gained a lot more from playing against this competition than what we did at Oakley. We were able to evaluate what our boys are doing right and wrong.” There’s no doubt that senior guards Trey O’Neil and Brett Meyer will be among the best in Class 3A or Class 4A wherever the Beavers happen to land next season. Yager and junior guard Dylan Hutchins will need to be major contributors. “Dylan has been up and down. He’s had some games when he’s shot well and others when he’s kind of disappeared. We need more consistency from him,” O’Neil says. “Chantz hasn’t been real consistent with his shooting, but he’s shown that he can shoot the three. We’re looking for him to be a little more aggressive on the catch-andshoot. We’re probably not going to run a ton of set plays for him on the kickouts, but he’s going to get some open shots. He needs confidence in his ability to take those shots.” Depth in the post is another concern for Scott City with sophomore Kyle Cure expected to make a big contribution on offense. He will be joined by junior Drake McRae who was unable to play this past weekend. “After we get past Sloan our depth has got to get better in the post. We’re young and inexperienced in the post and that’s what summer is for,”
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Scott City junior Draven McRae pulls down a rebound during Saturday’s tournament play against Otis-Bison. (Record Photo)
says the Scott City coach. “Our philosophy has been that if you have a lot of experience coming back you don’t need to play a lot of MAYB tournaments. When you have a lot of inexperience you need the extra playing time. By the time our younger kids get done
with the Lakin tournament (in July) they will have played 15 to 17 games, which is very important for them. “It’s also a chance for me to see them up close.” During Sunday’s semifinals, Scott City rolled over Ulysses, 50-31.
“We didn’t play with a lot of intensity against Ulysses, but the boys knew they didn’t have to against a young team that was missing some varsity players,” O’Neil says. “But we came back and played hard and pretty smart against McPherson.”
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 rolls to 3-1 mark in MAYB pool play Scott City put together a 3-1 mark in Saturday’s pool play at the Great Bend MAYB tournament, easily advancing into the championship semi-finals on Sunday. The Beavers played perhaps their most complete game of the opening day in the finale against Great Bend which assured them of a berth in the semis against Ulysses. Behind a 22-2 scoring blitz to close out the first half, Scott City was able to cruise to a 47-25 win. Senior guards Trey O’Neil and Brett Meyer led the way with 15 and 12 points, respectively, and scored their team’s first 21 points. With just under seven minutes gone in the game, Scott City held only a 10-9 lead, but seized control over the final 13:09 with their scoring surge and solid defense. Sophomore guard Justin Faurot’s basket just before halftime opened up a 32-11 cushion at the break. Fall to McPherson After opening the tournament with an easy win over Bazine-Ransom, Scott City faced their toughest game of the day against McPherson. Scott City didn’t help their cause when they missed their first six shots from the field, but they came back to knot the score at 7-7 on a basket by O’Neil with 14:26 left in the first half. The Beavers were unable to shut down McPherson’s perimeter
game, giving up eight treys. McPherson knocked down three treys immediately after Scott City had tied the game, building a 16-9 lead. Their final three-pointer of the half opened up a 29-14 advantage before Scott City began to chip away at the deficit. A basket by sophomore guard Bo Hess early in the second half cut the lead to 31-22, but that was as close as Scott City could get. A three-pointer by the Bullpups rebuilt their advantage to 20 points, 48-28. Scott City made one final run with some longrange shots of their own. O’Neil hit a three-pointer and Meyer followed with two baskets, including a trey, that cut the deficit to 52-40 with 7:12 to play. Meyer finished with a team high 20 points, followed by O’Neil (13) and senior guard Chantz Yager (9). Escape Otis-Bison Despite losing their first two games in pool play, Otis-Bison gave Scott City a tough challenge before fading down the stretch, 62-54. Once again, the Beavers didn’t have an answer for an opponent’s perimeter game as O-B drilled five treys in the first half. The lead changed hands seven times in the first half. Scott City’s largest lead of the first half was 23-18 following a three-point basket by junior guard Dylan Hutchins. They matched that lead again,
Muskrat John was fishing a ways off but the commotion caught his attention and Larry’s rod bent doubly into the water was the first thing he saw. Between chuckles, Larry quickly explained the situation and asked for his help. John got his boat as close as possible and after what must have been quite a tussle, he managed to dip the struggling muskrat from the water, but razor sharp teeth made quick work of the net and it was in the water again,
Scott City senior guard Brett Meyer drives past a McPherson defender during Saturday’s pool play at Great Bend. (Record Photo)
27-22, following a bucket by Hess. The Cougars put together a 7-0 scoring burst to take a 29-27 lead late in the half before a basket by O’Neil and a free throw from Meyer gave Scott City a narrow 30-29 halftime edge. Scott City’s defense took over with an 11-4
scoring run to start the second half. Meyer hit seven points during that stretch, including a threepointer and a putback. Yager’s fastbreak layup with 12:09 left in the game opened up a doubledigit 45-35 advantage. Otis-Bison was able to make another run at the
Beavers, cutting the lead to 46-44 with 8:12 on the clock. Back-to-back threepointers by Meyer, who finished with 29 points, gave the Beavers a little breathing room at 54-45. Scott City was still protecting a 56-51 lead with 3-1/2 minutes remaining when Hess broke free
along the baseline and was on the receiving end of assists from Meyer and Faurot for a pair of easy baskets. Hess finished with 10 points and O’Neil added eight. Otis-Bison’s senior guard Kyle Patrick finished with 28 points.
to the floor with the rim of the net across its neck. He held it down with his foot while Larry went to work with his pliers attempting to extract the hooks. A fish with a couple hooks in its mouth is one thing but a soaking wet rodent the size of a loaf of bread with who-knowshow-many hooks fastened securely to its fur-covered body is quite another matter. Larry worked feverishly, noticing that the muskrat’s eyeballs were bulging
slightly from the weight of John’s foot on the steel ring across its neck. Each embedded hook had to be wobbled and wiggled until the sharp barb on its tip pulled free from the muskrat’s tough hide. Finally success as the last of the hooks came free! But then there remained the problem of how to get one still tickedoff, but now absolutely free, muskrat out of the boat. With that quandary swirling in their minds, both guys simultane-
ously stepped backwards to suddenly release the muskrat, (in their minds somehow hoping it would just launch itself over the side). Instead, they looked at each other in disbelief as the poor luckless creature lay lifeless on the floor, strangled in the process, despite their best intentions. Problem solved! Continue to Explore Kansas Outdoors!
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this time with Larry’s line running through a dip net sporting a huge hole in its bottom. After another lengthy scuffle they once again managed to somehow hoist the combative muskrat into the boat and then the real rodeo began. Now John and Larry were both avid outdoorsmen and conservationists, and all they wanted to do was unhook poor muskrat Sam without harming him. Like I said before, a spinner-bait is full of
sharp treble hooks, and now they had one very ticked-off soaking wet muskrat in the boat with several sets of those hooks fastened securely to him and he evidently was not obeying their verbal commands very well. Remember Larry’s line was still running through a ruined dip net that I’m sure was very much in the way. Somehow he got the muskrat pulled back through the net and John was able to pounce on it, pinning the hapless critter
Steve can be contacted by email at stevegilliland@idkcom.net
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Scott City Stars Swim Team WKSC Intra-Squad Meet June 28, 2014 • at Lakin Team scores: Golden Belt 889, Scott City 848, Holcomb 124, Dodge City 109, Hays 99, Lakin 63, Leoti 48 Girl’s Division 25 yd. Freestyle 8-years and under: Brinlie Stevens, 1st, 19.40; Kennedy Wasinger, 3rd, 20.77. 50 yd. Freestyle 8-years and under: Kinleigh Wren, 5th, 56.86; Malorie Cupp, 6th, 57.84. 9-10 years: Alli Patton, 2nd, 35.68; Kennedy Holstein, 3rd, 37.18; Clare Hawkins, 4th, 37.93; Hope Wiechman, 6th, 38.48. 11-12 years: Piper Wasinger, 3rd, 31.58; Mattie Brandl, 5th, 33.02; Jacy Rose, 6th, 34.22. 13-14 years: Makaela Stevens, 2nd, 28.74; Shelby Patton, 5th, 30.42. 15-years and over: Kylee Trout, 2nd, 28.64; Cami Patton, 3rd, 29.28; Reagan Smyth, 4th, 29.65. 100 yd. Freestyle 8-years and under: Kennedy Wasinger, 1st, 1:38.90; Brinlie Stevens, 2nd, 1:50.63. 9-10 years: Alli Patton, 2nd, 1:21.75; Kiley Wren, 4th, 1:32.20. 11-12 years: Piper Wasinger, 3rd, 1:12.02; Gabby Martinez, 5th, 1:19.05. 13-14 years: Shelby Patton, 3rd, 67.96; Makaela Stevens, 4th, 69.27; Hannah Brandl, 5th, 1:11.45. 15-years and over: Reagan Smyth, 2nd, 64.39; Kylee Trout, 3rd, 64.53; Cami Patton, 4th, 66.23. 200 yd. Freestyle 11-12 years: Gabby Martinez, 3rd, 2:56.23; Jacy Rose, 4th, 2:59.71; Alli Brunswig, 6th, 3:09.85. 13-14 years: Shelby Patton, 1st, 2:33.74; Makaela Stevens, 2nd, 2:39.34; Ashley Prewit, 6th, 2:51.36. 15-years and over: Kylee Trout, 2nd, 2:25.50; Cami Patton, 5th, 2:32.02. 500 yd. Freestyle 11-12 years: Piper Wasinger, 2nd, 7:49.68. 13-14 years: Shelby Patton, 1st, 6:55.05; Hallie Wiechman, 3rd, 7:15.72; Ashley Prewit, 5th, 7:30.06; Alexis Hoeme, 6th, 7:42.37. 25 yd. Backstroke 8-years and under: Brinlie Stevens, 2nd, 24.87. 50 yd. Backstroke 9-10 years: Allie Patton, 2nd, 46.33; Kennedy Holstein, 3rd, 48.20. 11-12 years: Mattie Bandl, 5th, 41.61; Gabby Martinez, 6th, 42.93. 100 yd. Backstroke 11-14 years: Hannah Brandl, 3rd, 1:22.61; Emily Parkinson, 6th, 1:24.14. 15-years and over: Cami Patton, 4th, 1:24.41; Elaine Parkinson, 5th, 1:30.98. 25 yd. Breaststroke 8-years and under: Kennedy Wasinger, 2nd, 28.47.
50 yd. Breaststroke 9-10 years: Allie Patton, 1st, 51.03; Hope Wiechman, 2nd, 51.89; Clare Hawkins, 3rd, 53.40; Kennedy Holstein, 4th, 55.82; Tara Rose, 5th, 55.89. 11-12 years: Mattie Brandl, 3rd, 44.29; Lanae Haupt, 6th, 49.06. 100 yd. Breaststroke 11-14 years: Shelby Patton, 1st, 1:29.73; Piper Wasinger, 5th, 1:31.25; Alexis Hoeme, 6th, 1:31.73. 15-years and over: Kylee Trout, 2nd, 1:23.25; Cami Patton, 5th, 1:31.21. 25 yd. Butterfly 8-years and under: Kennedy Wasinger, 3rd, 37.37; Brinlie Stevens, 4th, 27.38; Kinleigh Wren, 6th, 35.45. 50 yd. Butterfly 9-10 years: Kennedy Holstein, 2nd, 49.80; Hope Wiechman, 3rd, 51.55; Tara Rose, 4th, 53.31; Tori Ford, 6th, 55.43. 11-12 years: Gabby Martinez, 4th, 43.70; Jacy Rose, 5th, 43.76. 100 yd. Butterfly 11-14 years: Makaela Stevens, 2nd, 1:25.27; Hannah Brandl, 3rd, 1:26.39. 15-years and over: Reagan Smyth, 2nd, 1:14.12. 100 yd. Individual Medley 8-years and under: Kennedy Wasinger, 1st, 2:02.78. 9-10 years: Allie Patton, 1st, 1:36.54; Kennedy Holstein, 3rd, 1:41.75; Hope Wiechman, 4th, 1:44.36; Clare Hawkins, 6th, 1:53.59. 200 yd. Individual Medley 11-12 years: Piper Wasinger, 1st, 3:03.61; Alli Brunswig, 3rd, 3:33.12. 13-14 years: Hallie Wiechman, 3rd, 3:08.45; Alyssa Storm, 5th, 3:27.76. 15-years and over: Kylee Trout, 1st, 2:42.63; Elaine Parkinson, 6th, 3:22.35. 100 yd. Freestyle Relay 8-years and under: Brinlie Stevens, Malorie Cupp, Kinleigh Wren, Kennedy Wasinger, 1st, 1:27.74; Bret Lyon, Kate Rogers, Savannah Lewis, Amelia Ramsey, 5th, 2:00.98 200 yd. Freestyle Relay 9-10 years: Kennedy Holstein, Kiley Wren, Hope Wiechman, Allison Patton, 1st, 2:34.99; Victoria Ford, Tara Rose Clare Hawkins, Alivia Noll, 3rd, 2:47.99. 11-12 years: Mattie Brandl, Gabrielle Martinez, Jacy Rose, Piper Wasinger, 1st, 2:12.09; Allison Brunswig, Lanae Haupt, Brooke Hoeme, Paige Vulgamore, 3rd, 2:27.93. 13-14 years: Hannah Brandl, Shelby Patton, Emily Parkinson, Makaela Stevens, 1st, 1:55.45; Jordan Miller, Molly Eikenberry, Ashley Prewit, Hallie Wiechman, 3rd, 2:04.35; Abbigale Ford, Kalacia Carter, Paige Prewit, Claire Rumford, 6th, 2:40.45. 15-years and over: Kylee Trout, Krissa Dearden, Camryn Patton, Reagan Smyth,
3rd, 2:00.22; Elaine Parkinson, Makayla Amerine, Alyssa Storm, Alexis Hoeme, 4th, 2:19.27. 100 yd. Medley Relay 8-years and under: Kinleigh Wren, Kennedy Wasinger, Brinlie Stevens, Malorie Cupp, 1st, 1:53.27. 200 yd. Medley Relay 9-10 years: Lana Rodriguez, Clare Hawkins, Hannah Eikenberry, Kiley Wren, 1st, 3:30.31; Bethany Prochnow, Alivia Noll, Victoria Ford, Megan Trout, 3rd, 4:03.22. 11-12 years: Jacy Rose, Mattie Brandl, Piper Wasinger, Allison Brunswig, 1st, 2:46.10; Gabby Martinez, Lanae Haupt, Paige Vulgamore, Brooke Hoeme, 3rd, 3:06.46. 13-14 years: Hannah Brandl, Shelby Patton, Hallie Wiechman, Makaela Stevens, 1st, 2:25.18; Emily Parkinson, Alexis Hoeme, Ashley Prewit, Jordan Miller, 3rd, 2:32.18; Paige Prewit, Abbigale Ford, Claire Rumford, Kalacia Carter, 6th, 3:34.50. 15-years and over: Elaine Parkinson, Kylee Trout, Reagan Smyth, Cami Patton, 1st, 2:16.51; Molly Eikenberry, Krissa Dearden, Alyssa Storm, Makayla Amerine, 4th, 3:03.33. Boy’s Division 25 yd. Freestyle 8-years and under: Avry Noll, 1st, 17.62; Jaxson Brandl, 3rd, 18.11; Houston Frank, 4th, 19.50; Tanner Gooden, 5th, 20.20. 50 yd. Freestyle 8-years and under: Avry Noll, 2nd, 42.55; Tanner Gooden, 4th, 48.87. 9-10 years: Carter Gooden, 2nd, 38.90; Zach Rohrbough, 3rd, 39.16. 11-12 years: Brandon Winderlin, 1st, 28.17; Kaden Wren, 2nd, 29.84; Parker Gooden, 4th, 29.94; Conner Cupp, 5th, 31.43; Sawyer Stevens, 6th, 32.21. 15-years and over: Chase Rumford, 3rd, 27.63. 100 yd. Freestyle 9-10 years: Zach Rohrbough, 2nd, 1:33.27. 11-12 years: Brandon Winderlin, 1st, 65.69; Parker Gooden, 2nd, 1:12.84; Sawyer Stevens, 5th, 1:22.75. 15-years and over: Chase Rumford, 4th, 63.31. 200 yd. Freestyle 11-12 years: Brandon Winderlin, 1st, 2:30.50; Parker Gooden, 2nd, 2:50.00; Landon Trout, 4th, 3:10.12. 15-years and over: Chase Rumford, 4th, 2:27.74. 500 yd. Freestyle 11-12 years: Brandon Winderlin, 1st, 6:41.57. 25 yd. Backstroke 8-years and under: Avry Noll, 1st, 21.66; Houston Frank, 5th, 26.91; Jaxson Brandl, 6th, 27.23. 50 yd. Backstroke 9-10 years: Carter
Gooden, 2nd, 50.25 11-12 years: Conner Cupp, 1st, 35.53; Parker Gooden, 2nd, 36.68; Kaden Wren, 4th, 41.27. 25 yd. Breaststroke 8-years and under: Griffin Edwards, 1st, 30.69; Houston Frank, 5th, 36.05; Jaxson Brandl, 6th, 40.30. 50 yd. Breaststroke 9-10 years: Carter Gooden, 1st, 53.53; Zach Rohrbough, 3rd, 65.88; Brandon Smyth, 4th, 1:11.89. 11-12 years: Kaden Wren, 2nd, 40.85; Conner Cupp, 3rd, 44.51; Brandon Winderlin, 4th, 45.95; Parker Gooden, 6th, 47.06. 25 yd. Butterfly 8-years and under: Jaxson Brandl, 1st, 25.94; Houston Frank, 2nd, 27.43; Tanner Gooden, 3rd, 31.13; Waylon Ricker, 4th, 34.30. 50 yd. Butterfly 9-10 years: Carter Gooden, 2nd, 51.94; Wyatt Ricker, 5th, 68.64. 11-12 years: Conner Cupp, 1st, 34.99; Landon Trout, 6th, 48.21. 100 yd. Butterfly 15-years and over: Chase Rumford, 5th, 1:13.69. 100 yd. Individual Medley 8-years and under: Houston Frank, 2nd, 2:17.13. 9-10 years: Carter Gooden, 2nd, 1:41.42 Zach Rohrbough, 3rd, 1:55.64. 200 yd. Individual Medley 11-12 years: Conner Cupp, 1st, 3:01.10; Sawyer Stevens, 2nd, 3:35.38. 100 yd. Freestyle Relay 8-years and under: Jaxson Brandl, Tanner Gooden, Houston Frank, Avry Noll, 1st, 1:18.42; Griffin Edwards, Waylon Ricker, Alexander Rodriguez, Breven Vulgamore, 3rd, 1:36.88. 200 yd. Freestyle Relay 9-10 years: Brandon Smyth, Carter Gooden, Wyatt Ricker, Zach Rohrbough, 1st, 2:50.91; Aiden Lewis, Joshua Kasselman, Augustus Hawkins, Joseph McCleary, 3rd, 3:19.86. 11-12 years: Sawyer Stevens, Ryan Cure, Landon Trout, Parker Gooden, 2nd, 2:21.55. 15-years and over: Brandon Winderlin, Conner Cupp, Kaden Wren, Chase Rumford, 2nd, 1:56.69. 100 yd. Medley Relay 8-years and under: Avry Noll, Giffin Edwards, Houston Frank, Jaxson Brandl, 1st, 1:41.99. 200 yd. Medley Relay 9-10 years: Wyatt Ricker, Brandon Smyth, Carter Gooden, Zach Rohrbough, 2nd, 3:56.82. 11-12 years: Parker Gooden, Ryan Cure, Sawyer Stevens, Landon Trout, 2nd, 3:06.67. 15-years and over: Conner Cupp, Kaden Wren, Brandon Winderlin, Chase Rumford, 2nd, 2:21.12.
SCMS cheer squad
Scott City Middle School cheerleaders and yell leaders took part in a three-day Universal Cheerleaders Association camp held in Scott City last week. Cheerleaders shown with their trophies and awards are (front row, from left) Amanda Lara, Kassy Troyer, Alexis Buxton, Morgan Irwin, Jacelynn Buffington and Grace Hutton. (Back row, from left) Andrew Prochnow (All-American), Jaiden Lane (All-American), Ashley Lightner, Hailey Leonard (All-American), Stacy Dominguez (All-American) and cheerleading sponsor Melissa Jasnoch. (Record Photo)
Excel Historic Night for KU If being chosen to represent the United States in the World University Games in 2015 wasn’t enough, Kansas University’s basketball program had a great night in last week’s NBA Draft. Andrew Wiggins was selected as the No. 1 pick by Cleveland and Joel Embiid - despite two serious injuries - was taken No. 3 by Philadelphia. Wiggins and Embiid were one-and-done players for KU. Wiggins will be paid a guaranteed $14,393,600 ($4.59 million first year) for his first three years in the NBA and Embiid’s salary for the same time period is $11,567,300 ($3.6 million first year). Bill Self became head coach at KU before the 2003-04 season and he’s had 18 players (including Wiggins and Embiid) drafted by NBA teams since then.
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Kansas received invaluable publicity by having two of the top three NBA picks. “If Jo hadn’t gotten hurt he wouldn’t have fallen to three, so it’s obviously a great night for KU,” said Self. Self also recognizes the recruiting value. Self says that other coaches, in an attempt to gain a recruiting edge, will make the claim that KU can’t attract the one-and-done stars. KU has had three oneand-dones in the last two years. “I don’t think anybody can say that anymore, not that that was a big deal. I think it does help recruiting when you have freshmen projected to be oneand-dones go as high as they have,” he said. In today’s college basketball, coaches have to recruit a blend of one-season superstars and talented players who will stay four years. It’s a delicate
balance. Coach Self has become a master at keeping his roster stable. Puzzling Decisions The Royals can’t seem to gain any ground on the AL Central on the red-hot Tigers. The latest dilemma for manager Ned Yost is whether to play Jarrod Dyson or Justin Maxwell in the outfield. On Saturday Yost started the righthanded hitting Maxwell because LA had a lefthander pitching. Maxwell was hitting .162 after the game and Dyson is second-best among everyday players at .301. After a rain delay, LA brought in a right-handed pitcher and Yost left Maxwell in right field, which makes no sense at all. Dyson is a far-superior fielder and obviously a better hitter than Maxwell. Ned Yost’s managing decisions are hurting KC’s chances to win.
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It was a beautiful morning at Lake Scott State Park last Saturday for the annual Dylan Spencer Family Memorial Walk•Run•Roll. (Top) Calista Miller, Scott City, and Kenneth York, Healy, compete in the 10k run. (Left) Jason Weimer, Hoxie, finishes a close second to his passenger in the 5k run. (Above) Aaron Ridder, Leoti, finishes third in the 13-19-year division. (Below) A large group of runners near the midway point of the 5k run. (Record Photos)
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‘Annie’
Scenes from the Scott Community Childrens’ Theatre musical “Annie” are (clockwise, from top): Alli Brunswig singing the reprise of “Tomorrow”; Lily Pepper, Jordan Wagner and Delaney France perform “Easy Street”; The “Stars-to-Be” sing “NYC” (from left) Paige Vulgamore, Malorie Cupp and Brinlie Stevens; Rooster Hannigan (Wagner) and his girlfriend, Lily St. Regis (France) try to scam Oliver Warbucks out of his $50,000 reward by pretending to be Annie’s long lost parents; (from left) Emily Kasselman, Malorie Cupp and Madison Roberts sing, “You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile”; singing “I Think I’m Going to Like it Here” are (from left) Alec Berry, Abby Ford, Brunswig, Landon Trout and the maids Bethany Prochnow, Melany Gerstner and Calli France. Molly (Kendall Gentry) and the orphans sing, “It’s the Hard Knock Life.” (Record Photos)
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Water Vision tour will be in Dighton Tues. Dighton and Colby are among 12 locations across the state included on Gov. Brownback’s Water Vision tour. Those attending will have an opportunity to provide input on the first draft of the “Vision for the Future of Water in Kansas.” To date, the Water Vision Team has attended more than 160 meetings with more than 9,000 Kansans to gather input. Dates and times of area meetings are: Tues., July 8: Dighton, 4:30-6:00 p.m, Lane County 4-H Buildling Wed., July 9: Colby, 7:00-8:30 am Colby Community Building, 285 E. 5th.
Acreage reports are due July 15
Farm operators, or their landowners, are required to certify their 2014 acreage of all cropland uses with the Farm Service Agency by Tues., July 15. Reports are required to avoid the loss of USDA program benefits. Reports on crops covered by NAP are due in the FSA county office by the earlier of July 15 for spring-seeded crops, or 15 calendar days before the onset of grazing or harvest of the specific crop acreage being reported. Farm operators can call the local FSA at (620) 8723230 for an appointment or to request aerial photos (maps) so they can prepare for the reporting process.
Kansas corn acres down 6%; beans up 18%
Kansas corn growers planted 4.1 million acres this year, down five percent from 2013, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Biotechnology varieties were used on 95 percent of the area planted, up four percentage points from 2013. Growers expect to harvest 3.75 million acres for grain, down six percent from last year. Winter wheat seeded in the fall of 2013 totaled 9.3 million acres, down two percent from the previous year. Acreage for harvest is forecasted to be 8.4 million acres, unchanged from last year. Soybean plantings are estimated at 4.25 million acres, up 18 percent from last year and second highest on record. Biotechnology varieties were used on 94 percent of the area planted, up one percent from 2013. Sorghum acreage planted, at 2.8 million acres, is down 10 percent from a year ago. Area expected to be harvested for grain is 2.6 million acres, down 7 percent from last year. Sunflower acreage planted, at 58,000 acres, is down 18 percent from last year. Oil-type varieties account for 40,000 of the acreage.
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Ag-gag laws are sending the wrong message to consumers
Salon magazine just published a story that should gag almost everyone who thinks ag gag laws are a great idea. Writer Lindsay Abrams led with a paragraph about that infamous 2008 Humane Society video that exposed Hallmark employees using chains and forklifts to drag sick cows across the ground. The video forced the USDA to order a recall of 143 million pounds of beef, the largest in U.S. history. It was scandal and it was brought to light by
ag outlook Chuck Jolley FarmGate blog
an undercover whistleblower. It wasn’t the first time and it certainly won’t be the last with the possible exception of nine states that have passed ag gag laws. Videos taken without the farmer’s permission in those states, even from across the road, can not be legally made public. Abrams said Idaho’s just-
passed law, similar in content to the others, makes it “illegal for anyone not employed on the farms - and undercover activists don’t count - to make recordings of what goes on there without the owner’s explicit consent.” Will the animal welfare/ rights folks figure out an end run around those laws? Of course they will. As proof, Abrams interviewed Will Potter, who calls himself an investigative journalist. He’s planning to do it with drones. He’s already
“crowdsourced” the concept and has the money to make it happen. Potter says he has everything he needs to do an “aerial exposé” - drones, travel expenses, production costs for a planned documentary and ebook, and legal counsel. Lots of legal counsel, I expect. He’s talking drones, unmanned aerial reconnaissance vehicles, an eye in the sky. And the best a farmer or rancher intent on maintaining (See AG-GAG on page 27)
Herbicide-resistant kochia is gaining a foothold in Western Ks. Known by the name tumbleweed, it’s been romanticized in story and song. And when it’s called summer-cypress, it sounds downright exotic. No matter what you call it, the weed kochia, cuts into crop yields and farmers’ profits. And it’s become harder to control. With roots that grow deep into the soil - as much as 16 feet during drought - the kochia plant can grow up to seven feet tall, with thousands of small, individual flowers. And it saps much-needed moisture from crop land across the High Plains. For 25 years, however, kochia along with other weeds was successfully controlled by glyphosate, a broad-spectrum herbicide, initially sold under the brand name Roundup and
now available under a variety of names. In 2007, however, Kansas State University weed scientists confirmed resistance to glyphosate in four separate kochia populations in Western Kansas, according to Phil Stahlman, a weed scientist, based at K-State’s Agricultural Research Center in Hays. “The problem really blew up and got out of control in 2010,” said Stahlman, who noted that testing of several populations by his graduate student, Amar Godar, “determined that resistance had become widespread in Western Kansas and colleagues in Colorado, Nebraska and South Dakota had found resistance in those states.” By 2013, the problem had
Looking at economics of tillage options for kochia In 2013, then K-State agricultural economist Troy Dumler recognized that the growing resistance of kochia to glyphosate led many producers to consider returning to tillage options for weed control in western Kansas dryland crop rotations. Long-term data from the K-State Research Center in Tribune, Kansas indicated there is a significant economic advantage to incorporating no-till practices in a wheat-sorghum-fallow (WSF) rotation, according to Dumler. From 2001-2011, no-till wheat and sorghum yields were approximately 8 bushels per acre and 43 bushels per acre higher, respectively, than when using conventional tillage. Similarly, no-till wheat and sorghum yields were 5 bushels an acre and 30 bushels an acre higher, respectively, than a reduced-till rotation (conventional tillage prior to wheat and no-till prior to sorghum). The higher yields associated with no-till resulted in a $63 per acre advantage for no-till over
(See KOCHIA on page 27)
Brazil suspends tariff on U.S. wheat
The Brazilian government announced on June 24 that it was suspending the 10 percent applied tariff again this year through August 15 for up to one million metric tons (MMT) of wheat from non-Mercosur sources “to ensure supply in the Brazilian market.” The measure was adopted because Mercosur member countries, which are Brazil’s main suppliers of wheat, suffered from reduced production over the past couple years and are currently off-season. Before the early 1990s, Brazil originated most of its wheat from the United States. However, the Mercosur free trade agreement allowed millers to import Argentine wheat duty free and established a 10 percent tariff on wheat from nonMercosur countries, like the United States. Brazil imports on average around 260 million bushels (7.1 MMT) of wheat, putting Brazil in the list of the world’s top wheat buyers. Their neighbor, Argentina, typically exports that amount or more. Argentina’s production has decreased in recent years because of internal price controls and poor weather conditions. This has led the
Wheat Scoop Bill Spiegel
communications director
Kansas Wheat
Brazilian millers to request the government to open quotas. Mercosur members, including Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Venezuela have a customs agreement where grain trade among them is tariff-free. Imports of wheat outside of Mercosur are primarily hard red winter wheat from the United States. In past years, the government has periodically expanded the quota and the window for imports as needed, most of it typically coming from the United States. The announcement comes only weeks after a group of five executives representing the largest flour mills in Brazil was in Kansas to learn more about the condition of the U.S. hard red winter wheat crop as well as the wheat supply system. “We were very pleased to bring these millers to the United States because we have a unique window of opportunity to build demand for U.S. wheat in this market,” said Osvaldo (See BRAZIL on page 27)
(See TILLAGE on page 27)
Market Report Closing prices on July 1, 2014 Winona Feed and Grain Bartlett Grain Wheat..................
$ 6.62
Wheat..................
$ 6.62
Milo ....................
$ 3.86
Milo (bu.).............
$ 3.86
White Wheat ....... Corn ...................
Soybeans ...........
$ 6.77 $ 4.53 $ 13.23
White Wheat ....... Corn....................
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June 24
83
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$ 3.86
June 25
88
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$ 4.46 $ 13.23
June 26
89
63
June 27
91
59 1.35
June 28
88 57 .20
June 29
92
June 30
94 70 .03
Wheat..................
$ 6.62
Milo (bu.).............
Corn....................
Soybeans ...........
Sunflowers.......... ADM Grain
$ 16.50
Wheat..................
$ 6.64
Corn....................
$ 4.51
Milo (bu.).............
Soybeans............
Sunflowers..........
$ 4.46
Weather
Scott City Cooperative White Wheat .......
$ 6.77
$ 3.91 $ 13.23
$ 17.05
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Moisture Totals June
7.29
2014 Total
9.05
Lots of hope, little result from slow moving storm front Week of June 7-13 There were three operational days this week. Seeding for hail suppression occurred each day. June 22: Operations Day No. 8 Two aircraft were WKWMP launched at 4:50 p.m. Update to investigate developWalt Geiger ing storms over Scott, meteorologist Lane and Wichita counties. Radar indicated these storms were forming along a stationary boundary over the area. A patrol of these storms was carried out for awhile as these clouds posed no hail threat. Meanwhile, rapid development occurred in Kearny around 7:15 p.m. Seeding for hail suppression began at 7:21 p.m. about five miles north of Lakin. Seeding tracks were extended to cover the southern end of Kearny County. The line was exiting the target area at 7:42 p.m. June 24: Operations Day No. 9 Two aircraft were launched at 12:45 p.m. to begin seeding a rapidly developing storm line stretching from Lane County northeast into northern Scott County. By 1:03 p.m., radar indicated the strongest storm area was located over northern Scott while the Lane storms became tampered due to being behind a surface boundary. Seeding for hail suppression began at 1:16 p.m. near Lake Scott. Seeding continued on strong and nearly stationary storms north and northwest of Scott City through 1:50 p.m. Seeding was extended into western Lane County. The storms were stacked along an east to west line running from Dighton to Scott City by 2:30 p.m. One plane exhausted seeding agent at 2:45 p.m. and returned to base to reload. Seeding for hail suppression was terminated at 3:00 p.m. over Scott County. June 25: Observation Day Two aircraft were launched at 5:20 p.m. to investigate rapidly developing storms over southwestern Hamilton. Due to the westward motion of these storms, there was no hail threat to the target area. June 27: Operations Day No. 10 Two aircraft were launched at 10:30 p.m. to investigate developing storms over Scott and Kearny counties. A brief period of hail suppression was carried out over western Scott County within very sporadic and brief updrafts within an otherwise choppy airmass. It was determined that updrafts below 9,000 feet were likely non-existent due to a stable low layer which effectively negates effective seeding.
Ag-Gag his privacy can do is mistake that hovering object for a bird and hope it’s duck season. You didn’t think that an ag gag law, probably unconstitutional anyway, would stop the attack of the animal rights groups did you? They are absolutely dedicated to what they do, convinced of the correctness and inevitability of their cause. Most of them would willingly spend a few months in jail if the trade off was the release of some surreptitiously gained inflammatory footage. The real damage done by ag gag laws is the sense that animal agriculture has something to hide. To people who want to
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believe that animal agriculture is best represented by Hallmark videos, the passing of those laws is proof that this business is inherently bad and must be banned immediately. It would be better to do what so many agvocates are advocating; open those barn doors and let everyone in. Show them that the norm is not what Mercy For Animals, The Humane Society of the United States, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the Animal Liberation Fund claim. Or you can hide behind ag gag laws and proclaim to an unbelieving world that you have nothing to hide.
Kochia
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developed from the Texas High Plains, all the way into the prairie provinces of Canada. Stahlman and Godar rated 1,500 wheat stubble fields throughout Western Kansas in the fall of 2010 and found that about 30 percent were tilled in an effort to control the weed. “That was higher than I expected,” he said, adding that there was evidence that the kochia in several fields had been sprayed first - unsuccessfully. “It was eye opening; they felt that they had to resort to tillage.” The practice is counter to the common practice of no-till or minimum tillage. Leaving the soil mostly undisturbed leaves a layer of residue from previous crops, which boosts soil fertility, helps conserve soil moisture and makes it less prone to erosion from wind and rain. Many studies have shown that crop yields from no-till fields are higher than when fields are tilled. In 2010, Stahlman and
researchers in other states launched a regional effort to investigate alternatives to glyphosate for kochia control. They found that if an herbicide with residual properties was applied before the weed emerged in early spring, it cut emergence by at least 70 to 80 percent, often more than 90 percent. Then, the kochia that did emerge during the growing season was more easily managed. In fall 2012, Stahlman and Godar asked crop consultants in Western Kansas several questions to determine the impact of glyphosate-resistant kochia, evaluate growers’ response to the problem and measure their success in managing it. Fifty-two crop consultants completed the survey, which covered 46 of Kansas’ 105 counties. “Several important points came out,” he said. “The percentage of fields infested with kochia increased from 47 percent in 2007 to 70 percent
Tillage
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reduced-till and an $83 per acre advantage for notill over conventional-till. “With the growing difficulty of controlling kochia with a glyphosateoriented herbicide program, the natural question becomes: How much can be spent on herbicides for kochia control to maintain the economic advantage of no-till?” said Dumler, who now works in private industry. With assistance from K-State’s weed scientists, he developed an example herbicide budget for
kochia control to compare the relative profitability of tillage systems in a WSF rotation to that of a herbicide program that used Round-Up as the primary herbicide option. The results indicate that while herbicide costs nearly doubled for the kochia control program, returns for the no-till rotation were nearly $50 per acre greater than reducedtill and $55 per acre greater than conventional-till. However, the profitability of the no-till rotation decreased by $30 per acre.
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Seco, USW Assistant Regional Director for South America, who traveled with the team. These millers have now had success milling U.S. wheat, so this trade team visit demonstrated why they should continue importing more U.S. wheat in the future. When Argentina severely restricted wheat export licenses in 2013, U.S. Wheat helped Brazilian millers successfully petition their government to temporarily suspend that tariff. That opened a big opportunity for USW to promote the value of U.S. wheat. USW has also been pushing hard for a permanent duty-free wheat quota in Brazil.
in 2012. Over the same period of time, the average use rate of glyphosate went up from 0.75 pound per acre to 1.25 pound per acre. That in itself indicates that producers were having trouble controlling kochia.” Many producers indicated that they had increased applications of glyphosate from two to three. Stahlman and other scientists have been spreading the word at field days and other ways that applying herbicide prior to kochia emergence early in the spring can make a difference. The good news, he said, was, in 2011-2012, the use of pre-emergent herbicide in addition to normal management began to be used effectively. Observations and reports from retailers indicate that many growers are now using a pre-emergent herbicide in early spring prior to kochia emergence and many more - perhaps
a majority - are using a pre-emergent herbicide in addition to glyphosate in Roundup Ready corn and soybeans. “If we till the soil to manage kochia, we’ve lost the conservation gains we made in the last decade or more of using no-till,” Stahlman said. The researcher is optimistic that kochia is manageable by applying pre-emergent herbicide and dealing with what still comes up later in the growing season. “Fortunately, the seed life of kochia is relatively short, not more than two to three years. But with uncontrolled kochia on roadsides and fence rows, and if we have one grower in an area who is not on board with how to manage it, it could be a problem.” Stahlman and other researchers are studying the kochia plant’s mechanism of resistance as they look for even better ways to manage the weed and protect crops.
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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
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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
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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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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 105 1/2 W. 11th St. Scott City 620-874-1813
Call me to schedule your Myofascial Release
Northend Disposal
Over 200 appliances in stock! COMPARE OUR PRICES!
We have Reverse Osmosis units in stock. Remember us for parts in stock for all brands of all appliances. Sales and Service Days • Mon. - Sat. Deliveries • Mon.-Sat.
Largest Frigidaire appliance dealer in Western Ks. 508 Madison • Scott City • 872-3686
Networktronic, Inc.
Computer Sales, Service and Repair Custom computers! Networking solutions!
Truck Driving
LAND AUCTION. Farm, pasture, hunting land. Thurs., July 17, 6:00 p.m. 148 acres in eastern Kingman County. visit www.BINAAUCTION. NET Byron Bina, 620338-6378, listing agent for Heerey Real Estate.
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. ––––––––––––––––––––– 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 ––––––––––––––––––––– 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.
DRIVERS WANTED now. Multiple locations throughout Oklahoma. Haul railroad crews. 21+, valid driver’s license, clean MVR, drug and background checks. Apply online: www.RCXhires. com. ––––––––––––––––––––– QUALITY DRIVEAWAY hiring drivers for South Hutchinson and Salina locations. $250 sign-on bonus. Deliver vehicles nationwide with plenty of reload opportunities. No CDL or truck required. Commercial experience preferred but not required. Apply online at QualityDriveAway.com or call 1-866-764-1601 today.
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Retail
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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
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Sales Consultant b.rogers@officesolutionsinc.biz
Education 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. ––––––––––––––––––––– MEDICAL BILLING trainees needed. Become a medical assistant. No experience needed. On-line training at SC Train gets you job ready. High school diploma/GED and PC/Internet needed. 1-888-926-7884.
For Sale ALL NEW. Happy Jack DuraSpot. Kills and repels fleas, ticks and larvae. Repels mites, lice and mosquitoes. Contains Nylar IGR. Orschlen Farm & Home. www.happyjackinc.com.
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
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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.
BEAUTIFULLY REMODELED
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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. 19tfc
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
It’s bigger than it looks, large livingroom, huge master bedroom! Almost 2,600 sq. ft., 1+2 bedrooms, family room down, plumbing for bath down, bath upstairs, FA/CA. Corner lot, over sized garage, and brick fireplace. ONLY $79,900.
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
Hiring for Tribune Airport Taxiway Project Work to begin July 7th. Labors, operators, concrete finishers and drivers. Top hourly wages paid. 5 day work week. Full-time or temporary positions available. Sporer Land Development, Inc. Oakley, KS 785/672-4319 www.sporerland.com Equal Opportunity Employer 47t2c
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS If you want to drink, that’s your business. If you want to stop, that’s ours. Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Tuesday nights at 8:30 p.m. at the United Methodist Church basement (use west door). 412 College, Scott City. Al-Anon at same time and location. Contact: 874-0472 or 872-3137. 30t52
Agriculture
Help Wanted
Services
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 785672-0393. 44t4
SCHS SEEKING dance team sponsor for the 201415 school year. If interested please contact Scott Community High School at 620-872-7620. 44tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– FILL-IN COOK wanted for Monday thru Friday. Meal preparations, unassisted baking, operate commercial ovens, mixer, dish machine and cleaning. Applications at Scott County VIP Center, 302 Church St., EOE 47t2c
WANTED: Yards to mow and clean up, etc. Trim smaller trees and bushes too. Call Dean Riedl, (620) 872-5112 or 8744135. 34tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– FURNITURE REPAIR and refinishing. Lawn mower tune-up and blade sharpening. Call Vern Soodsma, 872-2277 or 874-1412. 36tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– MOWER REPAIR, tuneup and blade sharpening. Call Rob Vsetecka at 620214-1730. 36tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– METAL ROOFING, SIDING and TRIMS at direct-to-the-public prices. Call Metal King Mfg., 620-872-5464. Our prices will not be beat! 37tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– “JEN’S GROOMING” 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 a.m.- noon. 44tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– BERRY LAWN MOWING now accepting new customers. Evenings and weekends. Call for estimate 214-1135. Leave a message. 30tfc
For Sale
Rentals HIDE AND SEEK STORAGE SYSTEMS. Various sizes available. Virgil and LeAnn Kuntz, 41tfc (620)874-2120.
BEAUTIFUL FLORAL CREAM, teal and plum sofa. Plum swivel rocker, coffee table with two drawers. All like new. Call ––––––––––––––––––––– 620-872-5514 or 620- MULTIPLE HOUSES 874-1748. 46t2p FOR RENT. 1, 2, 3 and 4 bedroom homes available. Also 8x10 storage units available. Stop by PlainJans to fill out an application or call 872-5777. 46tfc
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Employment Opportunities HOUSEKEEPING Unified School District No. 466 is looking for a qualified applicant for a full-time housekeeping position at Scott City Middle School.
SECRETARIAL/ACCOUNTING Must have: Good communication and phone skills. Bookkeeping experience and knowledge of accrual accounting with attention to detail. A working knowledge of computers, specifically MS Office – Word, Excel and Outlook. Experience with Quickbooks software.
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POLICE OFFICER The City of Scott City is accepting applications for the position of police officer. Applicant must possess a HS diploma or GED equivalent, a valid driver’s license, and must be 21 years of age. Graduates of KLETC are preferred, but not required. The City offers a full benefit package with KPERS, BCBS, vacation and sick leave. Applications may be obtained and returned at the: Law Enforcement Center, 602 W. 5th, Scott City. (620) 872-2133, applications accepted until position is filled. 47t2c EOE
SALE REPRESENTATIVE American Implement Inc., is currently seeking a qualified individual to fill the position of sales representative. Responsibilities are to promote and sell our agricultural line of products. Qualified candidates will have the ability to develop loyal customer relationships. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are necessary. Three to five years experience in sales and a background in agricultural or a related field is essential. We offer competitive wages and an excellent benefits package, which includes life, health and supplemental insurance and 401(k) plan. Send cover letter and resume to: Tyler Kough, Location Manager, American Implement, Inc., North Highway 83, Scott City, KS, 67871 or call (800) 779-7244.
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.
WELDER / MECHANIC / SHOP Scott City has immediate openings for welders, mechanics, and shop help. Experience is preferred, but will train the right individual. We offer health, dental, vacation, sick pay, 401K and uniforms. We are a drug free workplace. Pay will be based on experience. Required to have own shop tools. Contact: Galen Davis 620-872-7251 PO Box 572, Scott City, Ks. 67871 47t2c
HR BENEFITS SPECIALIST Scott County Hospital is seeking an HR Benefits Specialist. This is a full-time Monday-Friday position. No weekends or holidays. Applicants must have competent reasoning and deductive thinking skills, and excellent customer service skills. The successful candidate will have proficient computer skills and be competent with Excel and Microsoft Word. Applicants must be responsible, dependable and interested in long term employment. Associate degree in Business, Personnel Management, Human Resources or 3-5 years of experience required. Primary purpose of position is to direct the employee benefit programs, personnel record management, orientation and on-boarding of new staff. 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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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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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 Shift differential pay offered for evening and night shifts! Please apply in person at:
Park Lane Nursing Home
210 E. Parklane Scott City, KS 67871 Or visit us at our website: www.parklanenursinghome.org “Quality Care Because We Care”
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SCOTT COUNTY HOSPITAL HAS OPENINGS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL STAFF Director of Nursing/Chief Nursing Officer PATIENT CARE Outpatient Services Temporary/PRN RN Clinic RN CLERICAL Evening Ward Clerk Outpatient Scheduler 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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DIRECTOR OF NURSING/ CHIEF NURSING OFFICER 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.
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‘renewal’ for the body
Renovo offers a range of cosmetic procedures from varicose veins to tattoos There was a time when stripping varicose veins was such a painful process that those considering the procedure had to weigh whether living with the unsightly veins was better than the cure. Laser technology has eliminated that question and it’s also opened the door to many other cosmetic medical possibilities which are being offered at Renovo Medical Clinic in Scott City. Joel Erskin, who first brought laser cosmetic procedures to the Renovo site in Garden City in 2012, is also overseeing the Scott City clinic which is located at the Scott County Hospital’s satellite building (1602 S. Main). Erskin, 51, began offering laser treatments in Wichita, shortly before retiring from the U.S. Air Force in 2008. Three years later he began looking to relocate to Western Kansas. He had completed his physician’s assistant training in Garden City and, while still a student, had worked alongside Drs. Morris Hopkins and Daniel Dunn at the Scott County Hospital and clinic in 1986-87. Following his PA training, Erskin enlisted in the Air Force where he served for the next 21 years and honed his laser surgery
skills. After leaving the military and setting up practice in Wichita, Erskin still had a desire to return to Western Kansas. But he also knew that the procedures he had routinely performed while in the military, and even for patients in Wichita, probably weren’t going to be enough to sustain his practice in this area. He turned his practice into the direction of cosmetic surgery - varicose veins, tattoo removal, acne scars, acne facials, hair removal, skin tags, moles, warts, etc. Laser surgery has made these procedures more practical and less painful. What used to be commonly known as varicose vein stripping can now be done as a minimally invasive laser procedure. “I’ve harvested thousands of veins for cardiac surgery,” notes Erskin. “It’s advances in this technology which allowed me to think about bringing my practice to Western Kansas.” With laser technology, varicose vein removal is now covered by most insurance policies. It’s no longer seen as simply a cosmetic procedure, says Erskin, who emphasizes it’s no longer “vein stripping” which people may be more familiar with. “We’re capable of han-
Baker selected for leadership class
Kelsey Baker, Scott City, has been selected for the Leadership Sorghum Class II. The program, made possible through the Sorghum Checkoff, seeks to develop the next generation of leaders for the sorghum industry. The class includes 15 sorghum farmers from five states. “Developing new leaders who are prepared to handle the diverse issues impacting sorghum and agriculture is important for this industry,” said Sorghum Checkoff Chairman Stewart Weaver. “We have already seen many members of the first class get involved within state and national sorghum organizations and committees. This provides class members with a valuable educational experience.” Leadership Sorghum Class II will begin the 15-month program in the Texas Panhandle in September focusing on the sorghum seed industry and research. Throughout the program, participants will be exposed to various aspects of the sorghum industry from basic research to international marketing. Through both hands-on and classroom style education, participants will gain an understanding of how sorghum moves through the value chain, how checkoffs and interest organizations interact on behalf of the industry and what the future holds for the crop.
Members of the Renovo staff include (from left) receptionist Nora Burnett; Kara Stabel, medical esthetician/laser technician; Dr. Daniel Dunn, advisor; Kristi Schmitt, medical provider; and Joel Erskin, medical provider. (Record Photo)
dling 30 to 35 of these procedures a month,” he says. “This is the fourthfastest growing procedure in the United States.” Tattoo Removal One side of the business gaining in popularity is tattoo removal. This can be performed in two ways. A more time-consuming, and less painful procedure, calls for breaking up the ink over the course of about 12-14 visits. The process can last about a year with no scar left behind. The so-called quick fix requires the laser to penetrate deep within the skin - to the muscle area. “It’s like having a fifth degree burn for about six
to eight weeks,” says Erskin. “There’s little, if any, scar and the procedure is over in about six months. There are some people who want a tattoo removed immediately and this is the way to go. “A small tattoo we can remove more quickly. If it’s a good-sized tattoo, we recommend the slow process.” Erskin is hoping that by opening the clinic in Scott City they can draw from most of northwest Kansas while the Garden City office continues to serve the southwest Kansas region. Outside of a clinic in Hays, Renovo is the only other office providing these cosmetic pro-
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cedures between Wichita and Pueblo, Colo. This has given Erskin an opportunity to renew his working relationship with Dr. Dunn who, despite his recent retirement, agreed to serve in a supervisory/administrative role for Renovo. “Joel was the best PA student I ever had,” notes Dr. Dunn. “I always thought I’d like to have him come to Scott City.” Dr. Dunn says this is a unique opportunity to have medical procedures done locally that one would normally have to drive several hours to get. “Joel and I talked about doing this probably three years ago,” says Dr. Dunn. “When he made the deci-
sion to come to Western Kansas full-time, I was definitely interested in getting him to Scott City. I don’t see this as competition for our hospital, but as a way of complementing things that we are already doing.” “But just because people may see me over here once in awhile doesn’t mean I’m scheduling patients,” Dr. Dunn emphasizes. “I’m still retired.” Erskin also sees his clinic as a way of enhancing the community’s medical services. “Initially, I had hoped to be in the hospital, but I realize that real estate is in high demand,” he says. “This location is a great starting point for us.”
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