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Hangar project put on hold for another year Higher than expected bids have put plans for another community hangar at the Scott City Airport on hold for at least another year.

The low bid of $429,443 for a new hangar exceeded the engineer’s estimate by more than $23,000.

Only two bids were received with the low proposal from Miller Construction, Goodland.

The other bid of $455,727 came from JAG Construction, Dodge city.

Darin Neufeld, an engineer with EBH and Associates, wasn’t surprised at the disparity. He said their estimates were based on hangar construction costs from a year ago.

“Building and material costs have climbed,” he told the council. “I don’t think this bid is out of line.”

Even with cost-share funding from the Federal Aviation Administration, that still would have left the city responsible for nearly $130,000, which is more than the city council was prepared to spend at this time.

The city receives $150,000 annually from the FAA to be earmarked for airport improvements, but because of other improvements the council only had $150,000 available for its 2014 funding. In a one-time waiver, the city was able to get an advance on its 2015 allocation, providing the council with $300,000 for the project this year.

“If you accept this bid tonight you’ll spend about $135,000 out of your own pocket,” Neufeld noted.

(See HANGAR on page two)

Thursday, July 17, 2014

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Ten-year-old Payton Goodman, Scott City, gets a kiss from her Brittany Spaniel mix, Daisy, during the Scott County Fair dog show on Tuesday evening at the fairgrounds.

(Photo by Larry Caldwell)

EMS, home health are a drain on SC Hospital finances

Even with some recordsetting revenue numbers over the past decade, there are two health care services which have become a growing liability for the Scott County Hospital - home health and ambulance care.

Those two departments combined for net operating losses of $227,711 during the past year.

It was only because of nearly $239,000 in tax dollars that the red ink wasn’t flowing much deeper for the two departments.

With $149,000 in tax dollars

from the county, the EMS was able to finish in the black by $15,468 while home health still finished with a $4,493 deficit despite nearly $90,000 in tax dollars.

Those preliminary figures represent losses for the two departments at the end of the hospital’s fiscal year on June 30.

“If the county’s at all interested in taking over EMS (emergency medical services) we won’t stand in the way,” hospital CEO Mark Burnett

half-jokingly informed county commissioners on Tuesday when submitting a 2015 budget request.

Naturally, the county showed no interest in the offer.

The good news is that, even with EMS and home health delivering a blow to the bottom line, the SCH is going to have yet another record-setting year.

Barring anything unexpected, the hospital will have $23.6 million in gross patient revenue for the past year - $1.25 million more than the previous year.

The bad news is that EMS and home health are expected to continue being a drag on the hospital’s finances.

Even with a $68,000 reduction in salaries/benefits for 2015 - most of that the salary of retiring EMS director Larry Turpin - the EMS department is projected to lose $143,000.

At the same time, Burnett has cut the department’s request for tax dollars from $149,000 to $125,000 - which is in line with county tax support in past years.

(See EMS on page two)

celebrating 100 years Louise Parkinson still not ready to act or show her age Louise Parkinson isn’t your typical centenarian. And don’t expect her to start acting like one.

Her sharp mind and sense of humor defy her age.

And, if not for a fall four years ago in which she broke her hip, she would be equally stubborn about showing the physical side of her age as well.

Perhaps that toughness came about during her upbringing in Red Lion, in southeast Pennsylvania, near the Susquehanna River. Louise was born on July

18, 1914, the oldest of two natural brothers, an adopted brother and a sister.

“We were river rats,” says Louise, who learned to become an avid swimmer as a result of frequent visits to the river with her three brothers (one adopted) and sister. “The river wasn’t very deep at that time because there wasn’t a dam like there is today.”

“I guess you could say we had a wild family,” she adds with a grin.

(See PARKINSON on page eight)

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Patience paid off for new Scott City Middle School principal Page 9

Celebrating her 100th birthday on July 18 is Louise Parkinson. (Record Photo)

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City waives pound fee for adopted dogs

The Scott City Council has agreed to waive an adoption fee for a local resident who is finding homes for dogs that end up in the city pound.

Debbie Murphy ask the council to drop the fee for dogs that she is sending to new homes outside the city.

“Any dog we take out of town has to be fixed if it goes to another home or a shelter,” said Murphy, who estimates she has rescued about 150 dogs over the last couple of years.

She pointed out that by finding homes for dogs in the pound it’s saving the city about $30

EMS

for the fee they would normally have to spend in order to have a dog put to sleep.

Murphy had been paying the city $20 for each dog that she claimed from the pound if the animal had already been spayed or neutered. She was being required to pay an additional $80

if the dog hadn’t been fixed, but that money was returned once she was able to show the dog had been spayed/neutered.

“It’s become quite an expense,” she noted.

“If we waive your fee, then why not do the same for everyone?” wondered Councilman

Fred Kuntzsch.

“We should be doing everything we can to encourage adoption,” said Councilman Bo Parkinson.

Police Chief Chris Jurgens said he wasn’t opposed to waiving the fee, but he wanted to make sure the dogs were fixed.

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That will result in an overall estimated loss of $18,438.

The budget situation is even more serious in home health where expenses primarily salaries - are projected to climb by nearly $26,000. The net loss - before tax support - is projected at $121,430, which will put the net loss at $31,430 following the county’s $90,000 subsidy.

Burnett emphasizes that he is not considering the possibility of dropping either program, though most EMS services are county-financed and operated.

“That’s not what I’m pushing for,” said the administrator. “But you need to be aware of what we’re up against and why

Hangar

your continued (financial) then getting called in the support is important.” middle of the night for an ambulance run or to transRelying on Volunteers fer a patient. We’ve had The only thing that the people willing to do keeps the EMS picture that, but it’s a sacrifice.” from looking even more Finding a three-person bleak is the number of ambulance crew who will volunteers available for be on-call and respond the ambulance service. when needed isn’t the But those positions biggest worry. It’s becomare getting harder to fill, ing more difficult to fill Burnett points out. the second crew should “The baby-boomers are the first one be called out a volunteer-minded group or be required to make a and, thankfully, they’ve been the backbone of our transfer.

“Right now, even with operation for many years.

But they’re also getting what we have to budget, older and it’s harder to we’re getting by very find volunteers who are cheap,” Burnett says. willing to make that same “Just wait until we have commitment,” he says of to start paying for fulltime staff like they have the ambulance crew.

“I can’t blame them. to do in Lane County and It’s not easy putting in other rural counties. Then an eight-hour day and the taxpayers are going to

realize what a bargain this (home health) really need has been.” it. They are home-bound,” he points out. “And as Home Health people stay home longer Burnett says he and as they grow older this his staff are continuing to makes home health even look at options with home more important. But it’s health in order for it to becoming a bigger chalgenerate more revenue. lenge in figuring how we “Just like with the can minimize our lossEMS, I’m not looking to es, let alone make some make a profit, though that money offering this.” would be ideal. This is In the near term, a service and I’d at least Burnett says he can conlike to see it breaking tinue to operate the EMS even,” he says. and home health services While home health with the county’s current is a huge savings to the subsidy level. federal government and “We may have to ask its Medicare program the county for more supbecause it helps to keep port someday, but we’re people out of nursing going to delay that as long homes, federal reimburse- as possible,” he adds. “I ment rates for services don’t want the county to “are very weak,” Burnett be caught by surprise. I says. just want them to know “The people who need what we’re dealing with.”

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The council said it hadn’t prepared for that kind of expense when putting together the 2015 budget.

The bids were for a 90x100 ft. hangar capable of holding nine or 10 single-engine aircraft. There were additional features the council could consider which would add about $31,500 to the project.

The low bid for the building only (including one 80-ft. door) was $318,624. When asked about reducing the size of the hangar to an 80x80 ft. hangar, Neufeld said that might put the cost at about $300,000.

Council members were in general agreement they didn’t want to lose the space and the income potential from hangar rent.

However, the council was willing to consider building T-hangars rather than a large, open-air building. It was felt they could build hangar space capable of accommodating eight single-engine aircraft at less cost.

The city can “bank” the $300,000 that has already been pledged by the FAA, but it will have to wait another year before becoming eligible for another $150,000 in funds. That will provide $450,000 toward hangar construction in 2016.

The council will submit the project for bids again in 2015.

What’s for Lunch in Scott City?

Sun. - Sat., July 20-26

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Evenings • Thurs., Fri., Sat. 5:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m.

Tues. • Open faced prime rib sandwich with french fries.

Wed. • French dip sandwich with french fries.

Thurs. • Fried chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy.

Fri. • Taco dinner with rice and beans.

What’s for Supper?

The Broiler

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• Chili Cheese Dog • 1/4 lb Cheeseburger • 3 Piece Chicken Strips

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Buffet

Mon. • Sat. 5:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Sun. • 5:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Mon. • Chicken fry Tues. • Hamburger steak with mushrooms and onions Wed. • Fried chicken Thurs. • Mountain oysters Fri. • Seafood specials

11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Sat. • Prime rib

Breakfast specials every night.

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Community Living

Page 3 - Thursday, July 17, 2014

Be familiar with basic baking ingredients I’ve had the Fair and the 4-H foods project on my mind, so I thought I’d talk about basic baking ingredients like flour, sugar and eggs.

Every baker, regardless of your ability, needs to be familiar with these.

Flour is used to provide structure and body for baked goods. Flour is also used to coat baking pans to keep the yummys from sticking.

Flour contains protein and contributes structure and mass to baked goods.

Depending on the flour used, it can even contribute flavor.

There are many to choose from depending

upon how you want your product to turn out, so follow your recipe correctly to get the best results. * * * Sugar is perhaps the most recognized sweetener in the baking world.

Available in different varieties - white, brown, powdered and fancy bakers’ - all add sweetness to a recipe.

Beyond being a sweetener, sugar actually maintains a complex role in

baked goods. Sugar can contribute texture, including creaminess in frostings, crunchiness in cookies and tender, moistness in cakes. Sugar caramelizes when exposed to high heat, often creating the color for our baked goods.

Refined sugar is 99 percent pure sucrose, which is made up of equal parts glucose and fructose. This molecular structure provides an essential function when it comes to baked goods, so using a sugar alternative in recipes calling for sugar will often result in a different endproduct.

Never substitute sweeteners in a recipe that calls for sugar.

4-H bake sale Recipe favorites . . . is Monday Creamy Banana Bread

Scott County 4-Hers will be selling the baked goods that were judged during the Fair on Mon., July 21, at The Scott County Record.

The sale will begin at about 2:00 p.m. and continue until the food is gone.

USD board reorganizes

Annual reorganization of the USD 466 (Scott County) board of education took place during their first meeting of the new fiscal year which began July 1.

Mark Davis was reelected board president and Chris Price is vicepresident.

Advance voting for primary

Advance voting for the August primary election is now underway at the Scott County Clerk’s office.

Last day for advance voting is noon on Aug. 4.

The combination of bananas and cream cheese make this a very moist bread.

Ingredients 1/2 cup 1 (8 oz.) pkg.

1-1/4 cups 2 1 cup 1 teaspoon 2-1/4 cups 1-1/2 teaspoons 1/2 teaspoon 3/4 cup 2 tablespoons 2 teaspoons

margarine, softened cream cheese, softened white sugar eggs mashed bananas vanilla extract all-purpose flour baking powder baking soda chopped pecans brown sugar ground cinnamon

Directions Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour two 8x4-inch loaf pans.

Cream the margarine and cream cheese together.

Gradually add the white sugar, and continue beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in the mashed bananas and vanilla. Add flour, baking powder, and baking soda; mix until batter is just moist.

In a small bowl, mix together chopped pecans, 2 tablespoons brown sugar, and cinnamon.

Divide half the batter between the two prepared loaf pans. Sprinkle pecan mixture over the batter in the pans, and top with remaining batter.

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of each loaf comes out clean, about 45 minutes.

* * * As with flour, eggs provide a structural ingredient in baked foods. They are often considered leaveners, much like yeast or baking powder, and they assist in binding ingredients in a recipe together and providing structure for baked goods as they rise.

Eggs also add color to baked goods and are important thickeners in custards and other creamy foods.

Often, they are used as glazes for pastries and breads. Egg whites are the prime ingredient in meringues and other confections.

* * * Butter is an ingredient of prime importance when it comes to baking. Butter is the result of churning cream until the fat - butter - separates from the liquid - buttermilk. Butter adds flavor and texture to baked goods and can help keep foods fresher longer.

Recipes call for melted, softened, room temperature and even cold butter, depending on the end product. Choose salted or unsalted, or even a replacement if it’s suitable for your application.

Never melt your butter if it calls for softened butter as the recipe will not be the same.

Leaveners A leavener helps a baked item to rise, or “leaven.” The most common include baking soda, baking powder and yeast.

Baking soda and baking powder are vital in muffins, biscuits and pancakes.

Yeast is not a chemical leavener but a naturally occurring bacteria, a critical component to most breads, and absent from flatbreads.

Eggs also have leavening properties, and are essential in recipes like meringues and angel food cakes where a light, fluffy or airy texture is desired.

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Editorial/Opinion

Page 4 - Thursday, July 17, 2014

editorially speaking

GOP discontent:

Bi-partisan support for Davis should send message

Kansas, of all places, found itself at the epicenter of a bipartisan earthquake earlier this week when more than 100 staunch, died-in-the-wool Republicans said enough is enough.

They threw their support behind Democratic gubernatorial candidate Paul Davis.

There are undoubtedly those who will say this group of Republicans (and if polls are accurate, they are far from being alone) turned their back on the Republican Party. What happened is that the Republican Party they once knew turned its back on them.

No, it actually did more than that. It kicked them out the door. With the backing of the Koch brothers’ war chest, Gov. Sam Brownback and his ultraconservative allies made it a point to purge longtime Republicans who weren’t deemed worthy enough - or conservative enough - to continue serving in the legislature.

However, this is more than disgruntled politicians who are angry because they were defeated by fellow Republicans. These are Republicans who don’t like the fiscal and social policies being pushed by Brownback extremists. They see the impact these policies are having on education, the state’s infrastructure and on our economic standing with neighboring states.

Gov. Brownback can continue to declare that his policies have turned Kansas into an economic paradise, but fewer and fewer people are buying into that charade. The facts simply don’t back him up, leading more Kansans to demand that we shift direction before the hole we’re in gets any deeper.

The fact that more than 100 current Republican office holders, past legislators and business leaders threw their support behind Davis wasn’t just a political stunt. It was a warning to Kansans that Brownback’s policies are causing serious and perhaps irreparable harm to our state.

Kansans, regardless of political party, need to be paying attention.

It’s the law:

Gossage would put politics ahead of people

Beverly Gossage, a candidate for Kansas Insurance Commissioner, was campaigning in the area recently and made a point to stop by The Record office. The first thing she did was hand out a 5x12-inch glossy card that carried a promise on the front to “fight Obamacare.”

Gossage also made it clear during her discussion that it was her goal to repeal Obamacare and “start over again.”

All this from the insurance commissioner’s office?

There’s no doubt that Gossage, who proudly refers to herself as a “conservative Republican” is serious about her opposition to Obamacare. But it’s hard to take a candidate for insurance commissioner seriously when: 1) She has absolutely no say . . . not a single vote . . . in whether Obamacare is or isn’t the law of the land.

2) It is her duty to follow the law as it is passed by the Congress or the state legislature, whichever is appropriate, even if she doesn’t agree with the law. It’s not her duty to “fight” Obamacare, or reforms to workman’s compensation laws, or any other law.

When informed that Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger, also a Republican, was doing all within her power to enact Obamacare, because it is federal law, and to make Kansans more aware of how they can benefit from it, Gossage’s response was, “Well, she’s a Democrat.”

Of course, Gossage knows that Praeger isn’t a Democrat. That was meant as an insult. Apparently, if you fulfill your duties as you’ve taken an oath to do, enact laws that are passed by duly elected officials and try to make sure that constituents fully understand how these laws apply to them, then Gossage feels you’re supposed to be treated with disdain . . . or worse yet, she refers to you as a Democrat.

Gossage may know a lot about insurance, but it’s obvious that Gossage knows very little about what it takes to be an elected official.

Praeger knows that, whether enacting Obamacare made her popular or not, it was her duty to educate people about the law and to enact it as fairly and expeditiously as possible. Those are her duties - not as a Republican or a Democrat - but as an official elected by the people to do her job to the best of her ability. She understands it’s not her decision to determine which laws deserve to be followed and which don’t.

That’s something which Gossage clearly doesn’t understand.

State’s water vision is still blurry

Kansas is in the midst of determining the future of water over the next 50 years.

As the old saying goes, better 30 years late than never.

A Water Vision team, organized at the behest of Gov. Sam Brownback, has recently completed its statewide tour with the first draft of its water conservation plan. It was seeking additional input before offering what it hopes will be a final proposal later this year.

While the Water Vision plan is fairly specific in its goals, it’s purposely vague on how it wants to get there. The Water Vision Team made it clear that this plan is to be driven from the bottom up and that public input will be the driving force in how the state achieves its ultimate goals in preserving and conserving its water resources.

It would lend one to think that the state and its citizens have made tremendous progress in our view of water resources over the past three decades.

While living in Kinsley, we would ride with a friend on occasion while he would check irrigation wells on what was then known as Circle K Ranch.

It was a 7,000-acre corporate farming operation in the sandhills south of the Arkansas River.

The absentee owners, in their infinite wisdom, had the land broken out of native grass and they tried to plant corn. Either through gross mismanagement or poor soil conditions, they had an extremely difficult time getting corn to grow in the area. It was common to see sprinkler systems that were operating for the sole purpose of keeping the loose soil from blowing into Nebraska.

Today, that same land is owned by the City of Hays which is still trying to figure how it can transfer water 60 miles north over the legal objections of Edwards County.

What was happening to a valuable water resource on that Circle K operation some 35 years ago was unconscionable, but it wasn’t criminal - though it should have been.

At least we’re more conscientious about such behavior today. But, in reality, we may not have progressed as far as we’d like to think.

State Rep. Don Hineman, who also farms in Lane County, offered some insight into the issue during the Vision Team’s recent stop in Dighton. He pointed out that a farmer who elects to use less water by choice, rather than necessity, doesn’t directly benefit from that decision.

Maybe his children or grandchildren will. Perhaps even his neighbor will benefit from less drawdown in his irrigation well. But what benefit does that farmer realize in the short term by using less water, resulting in lower production and less profit?

That’s a legitimate question.

A 20 percent reduction

in water usage isn’t likely to reduce income by 20 percent, but it’s reasonable to assume it will have some impact. And still unaddressed are guidelines regarding limited irrigation’s impact on crop insurance.

Is the farmer who balks at taking that step voluntarily any less socially conscious than the person who won’t buy a Prius, even though it will help reduce our dependence on foreign oil, or the person who won’t purchase LED bulbs for the home because they’re more expensive?

Jay Garetson, a Sublette farmer and former member of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, has raised a similar question, but from a different perspective. While a strong advocate of the need to conserve water for future generations, he says that same moral conviction isn’t shared by all bankers and absentee landowners who are more interested in getting what you can while you can.

(See BLURRY on page six)

U.S. bordering on the heartless

Glenn Beck says he has come under fierce attack from some of his fellow conservatives for a grave transgression.

His crime?

He announced plans to bring food, water, teddy bears and soccer balls to at least some of the tens of thousands of Central American children who have crossed the border into the United States.

“Through no fault of their own, they are caught in political crossfire,” Beck said. “Anyone, left or right, seeking political gain at the expense of these desperate, vulnerable, poor and suffering people are reprehensible.”

Beck, not averse to a certain grandiosity, let us know that “I’ve never taken a position more deadly to my career than this.” But assume he’s right - and he may well be.

It’s one more sign of how

Where to Write

another view by E.J. Dionne, Jr.

the crisis at our border has brought out the very worst in our political system and a degree of plain nastiness that we should not be proud of as a nation.

Let’s stipulate: This is a difficult problem. Unless the United States is willing to open its borders to all comers - a goal of only the purest libertarians and a very few liberals - we will face agonizing choices about whom to let in and whom to turn away.

Moreover, it’s clearly true, as The Post editorialized, that “there is nothing humanitarian in tacitly encouraging tens of thousands of children to risk their lives, often at the hands of cutthroat smugglers, to enter this country illegally.”

Gov. Sam Brownback 2nd Floor - State Capitol Topeka, Ks. 66612-1501 (785) 296-3232

But instead of dealing with this problem in a thoughtful way reflecting shared responsibility across party lines, President Obama’s critics quickly turned to the business of - if I may quote Beck - seeking political gain.

Last week, the only issue that seemed to matter was whether Obama visited the border.

It’s not just partisan politics, either. It should bother religious people that politicians pay a lot of attention when conservative church leaders speak out against contraception and gay rights, but hardly any when religious voices suggest that these children deserve empathy and care.

There are those in our clergy who could usefully consider whether they speak a lot louder when they’re talking about sexuality than

Sen. Pat Roberts 109 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

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

when they’re preaching about love. Nonetheless, many religious leaders are condemning callousness toward these kids.

“The church cannot be silent,” the Rev. Gabriel Salguero, president of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition, wrote in Time magazine, “as angry groups of people stoking the flames of fear yell at buses filled with helpless immigrant children and women.”

And Sister Mary Ann Walsh, the media director for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, called for “a moral conscience moment” akin to the response during the civil rights era “in the welcoming of children and others escaping the violence in such countries as Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.”

(See HEARTLESS on page six)

Sen. Jerry Moran 141 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

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

GOP rants shortchanging but offers State, national no solutions parks are underfunded by Apparently there’s a contest among Republicans to see who can be more shameless and irretight budgets sponsible in criticizing President

national treasures

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by Eugene Robinson

Obama’s foreign policy.

So far, Chris Christie is winning.

The New Jersey governor alleged Saturday that “the unrest you see in the Middle East is caused in some measure - not completely, but in some measure - by the fact that this president has not acted in a decisive, consistent way.”

If you disregard the rantings of unserious provocateurs such as Sarah Palin, Christie’s attack represents a new low.

He accuses the president of the United States of actually being responsible “in some measure” for violence between Israelis and Palestinians, Sunnis and Shiites, dictators and rebels - conflicts and antagonisms that began, I seem to recall, well before Obama took office in January 2009.

One might assume that Christie offered specific ideas about what Obama should be doing differently. Nope.

The president should be “trying to bring stability to that region by having America be a forceful voice in favor of a democracy like Israel and be condemning, in the strongest terms and in actions, the things that are being done by Hamas against Israel.”

All of which Obama has already done.

Asked whether Obama should take some kind of military action in the region, Christie answered, “I’m not going to give opinions on that. I’m not the president.”

Very helpful, Governor. Please return to your intensive study of traffic patterns on the George Washington Bridge.

Other Republicans who, like Christie, are running for president offer equally vague and useless criticisms of Obama’s policies in the Middle East and around the world. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who’s going for the bookish intellectual look these days - he has started wearing glasses and stopped wearing cowboy boots - wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post accusing Obama of “confused leadership and passivity” that “enabled groups such as the Islamic State to grow.”

What exactly, in Perry’s view, did Obama do wrong? We’ll never know, I guess, because “the window to shape events for the better passed years ago.” It would have been helpful had Perry let us know at the time he saw that window passing, or perhaps closing, or something.

Perry does suggest there is still time for the United States to provide “meaningful assistance” in Iraq and Syria, including “intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sharing and airstrikes.” But he neglects to specify whom we should meaningfully assist: one of the alsoran rebel groups in Syria, the sectarian Shiite-dominated government in Iraq, the Islamic theocracy in Iran . . .

In fairness, Perry’s prime target wasn’t Obama. He was aiming at Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, whose “isolationist” policies Perry sees as a potentially grave threat to our national security. The fact that Paul also poses a potentially grave threat to Perry’s presidential ambitions - he leads most polls for the GOP nomination - is pure coincidence, I’m sure.

Paul responded Monday with an op-ed in Politico, saying of Perry that “apparently his new (See RANTS on page six)

by Jill Richardson

Fabulous vacations don’t come cheap.

Hotels often run at least $100 a night, if not higher. Add in airfare, a rental car, and restaurant meals, and a family vacation becomes a privilege for those with the cash to afford them.

What’s a more affordable option?

Heading to a national park, state park, or national forest.

America’s greatest vacation destinations are also our most egalitarian. You still need to get the time off work and transportation, but if you can do that, you can almost certainly afford the price tag of admission - even to the likes of the Statue of Liberty, Yellowstone, or the Grand Canyon.

I recently took a five-day trip to Yosemite National Park, backpacking through the backcountry in gorgeous pine forests. Total cost from my southern California home: $225 including transportation.

A few days later, I hiked Mt. Whitney, which straddles Inyo National Forest and Sequoia National Park in California’s Southern Sierras. That trip ran me $21 for my permit plus two tanks of gas to get there and back. And for that, I camped for two nights near a waterfall, watched the sun rise over the mountains, and explored a spectacular wildflower display that changed at each altitude.

More than 23 million people visited our national parks in 2013. And that figure doesn’t include the countless others who stopped by state parks and national forests.

What does it cost to maintain our more-than 400 national parks? The average household contributes about $2.56 in tax dollars. That’s quite a bargain.

Especially when you consider the priceless nature of the Everglades, Acadia National Park and other protected treasures.

Unfortunately, state and national parks alike are suffering due to the underfunding that has struck many priorities in this era of tight budgets. No amount of cutting will make a dent, however. Less than $1 in every $1,000 tax dollars support our parks.

Some folks love our parks because they conserve important habitats and species. Others rely on them for their livelihoods. The entire town of Lone Pine near Mt. Whitney is full of hostels, restaurants, and shops selling gear to hikers, climbers and mountaineers.

No doubt there are similar communities and businesses near every other park that draw thousands or millions of tourists per year: hotels, gear shops, gas stations, restaurants, and so on. Without the parks, the rural areas that border them lack such vibrant economies.

With the approximately $3 billion we spend on them, our national parks generate $27 billion in economic activity and

nearly a quarter million private sector jobs.

Thanks to the budget sequester, our national parks now get less of our tax dollars than before - and they were already underfunded.

The budget cuts mean different things to different people. As a hiker and backpacker, my thoughts go to safety first.

More rangers means better advice before I set out and more help if things go wrong. Budget shortfalls can also result in poor trail maintenance, potentially causing hikers to get lost if the trail isn’t clear.

For national park employees, budget cuts mean lost jobs. For most tourists, it means fewer services, older infrastructure, and lack of capacity to meet demand. And, for all of us, it can mean harm to precious ecosystems and endangered species. Low budgets are probably also why the websites for our parks are utterly lousy, making it harder to plan a trip than it ought to be.

Congress is now on its way to underfunding national parks yet again. Our lawmakers should use some of their copious time off this summer to take their families to a national park and reflect on the mistake they are making.

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

Impeachment is Tea Party over the cliff

by Jim Hightower

It’s hard not to ridicule Congress’ tea party Republicans as a group of mad-dog “aginners” who do nothing but run around in circles yapping “no way,” uh-uh,” “we’re agin it!”

But at last, they’ve come up with something they’re for: The impeachment of President Barack Obama. The mad dogs of the right yap that this president is flaunting the Constitution and bypassing Congress by issuing executive orders and making skads of recess appointments.

Two words: Bush-Cheney.

Their White House didn’t just (See CLIFF on page six)

Rise of the non-working wealthy

In a new Pew poll, more than three quarters of self-described conservatives believe “poor people have it easy because they can get government benefits without doing anything.”

In reality, most of America’s poor work hard, often in two or more jobs.

The real non-workers are the wealthy who inherit their fortunes. And their ranks are growing.

In fact, we’re on the cusp of the largest inter-generational wealth transfer in history.

The wealth is coming from those who over the last three decades earned huge amounts on Wall Street, in corporate boardrooms, or as high-tech entrepreneurs.

It’s going to their children, who did nothing except to be born into the right family.

The “self-made” man or woman, the symbol of American meritocracy, is disappearing. Six of today’s 10 wealthiest Americans are heirs to prominent fortunes. Just six Walmart heirs have more wealth than the bottom 42 percent of Americans combined (up from 30 percent in 2007).

The U.S. Trust bank just released a

behind the headlines by Robert Reich

poll of Americans with more than $3 million of investable assets. Nearly threequarters of those over age 69, and 61 percent of boomers (between the ages of 50 and 68), were the first in their generation to accumulate significant wealth.

But the bank found inherited wealth far more common among rich millennials under age 35.

This is the dynastic form of wealth French economist Thomas Piketty warns about. It’s been the major source of wealth in Europe for centuries. It’s about to become the major source in America unless, that is, we do something about it.

As income from work has become more concentrated in America, the super rich have invested in businesses, real estate, art and other assets. The income from these assets is now concentrating even faster than income from work.

In 1979, the richest one percent of households accounted for 17 percent of business income. By 2007, they were getting 43 percent. They were also taking in 75 percent of capital gains. Today, with

the stock market significantly higher than where it was before the crash, the top is raking even more from their investments.

Both political parties have encouraged this great wealth transfer, as beneficiaries provide a growing share of campaign contributions.

But Republicans have been even more ardent than Democrats.

For example, family trusts used to be limited to about 90 years. Legal changes implemented under Ronald Reagan extended them in perpetuity. So-called “dynasty trusts” now allow super-rich families to pass on to their heirs money and property largely free from taxes, and to do so for generations.

George W. Bush’s biggest tax breaks helped high earners but they provided even more help to people living off accumulated wealth. While the top tax rate on income from work dropped from 39.6% to 35 percent, the top rate on dividends went from 39.6% (taxed as ordinary income) to 15 percent, and the estate tax was completely eliminated.

(Conservatives called it the “death tax” even though it only applied to the richest two-tenths of one percent.)

(See WEALTHY on page seven)

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‘Ghostwriters’ are latest test concern in China

by John Schrock

China Central Television exposed an education scandal and Chinese education officials are scurrying to investigate. It started with a phrase that appeared written inside the bathroom stalls at some high schools in China’s central Henan Province.

Essentially, the message read: “To have a good test-taker take the gao kao test for you, call

(phone number)”. The gao kao is the life-determining test given at the end of high school the second weekend of June.

For students at the bottom of their class, this offer to have a “ghostwriter” take your test may be your only chance to get into college and maybe get a desk job.

But Chinese education authorities already have stringent safeguards in place to ensure the identity of test takers. The

Fleeing Iraqis relieved Cheney has no regrets

by Andy Borowitz

BAGHDAD (The Borowitz Report) - Just days after former Vice-President Dick Cheney said that he had no regrets about the invasion of Iraq, people fleeing their homes across that wartorn nation expressed tremendous relief that he was at peace with his decision.

As news spread that Cheney would not change a thing about the 2003 invasion, Iraqis driven out of their villages and towns by marauding terrorists called the former Vice-President’s words well-timed and soothing.

Sabah al-Alousi, who fled Mosul when ISIS militants overran it last month, said that Cheney’s confident pronouncement about the invasion of Iraq “is the first good news I’ve heard in a long time.”

“As I’ve fled from town to town, looking for a place where I might not be suddenly slain for no reason, the one thought that kept nagging me was, ‘How does Dick Cheney feel about all of this?’” he said. “I can’t tell you what a relief it is to know he isn’t losing any sleep.”

The Iraqi man said that he had been concerned that Cheney might harbor regrets about Iraq, such as the trillions of dollars spent, thousands of lives lost, WMDs not found, and international disgrace of Abu Ghraib, but thanks to the former Vice-President’s recent statements, “I now see that I was worried about nothing.”

“Iraq is a scary place right now,” al-Alousi said. “The country could be broken into pieces, or become a part of an Islamic caliphate, or be the scene of unspeakable sectarian violence for years to come. But somehow, knowing that Dick Cheney would do it all over again if he could makes everything a little better.”

residence card or “hukuo” determines where a student can take the test.

The government-issued universal identity card includes a photograph.

And all Chinese students have fingerprint records on file; fingerprints are taken and compared as students enter the testing hall. Henan Province officials had already pulled scores on 127 students where fingerprints did not match.

This was in addition

Blurry What happens 20 or 30 years from now is for someone else to worry about, right?

So what’s the answer?

That, of course, is the dilemma.

Rep. Hineman suggests financial incentives should be patterned after programs which have been successful in encouraging soil conservation.

But that would require a considerable amount of money which Kansas is notoriously lacking and financial aid isn’t likely to come from the federal government for a Western Kansas Ogallala Aquifer preservation effort.

Cliff

Rants

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

the channel of the note scribbled in the bathroom stalls. Reporters took photographs. The station then sent its own fake students - young-looking reporters - as potential customers for the cheating service.

They wore tiny cameras that recorded all of the arrangements.

For a steep fee, the ”ghostwriter” service would send in bright, young-looking college students who superficially resembled the student.

And there on camera, you could see how the surrogates used peel-off fingerprints from the actual student to fool the fingerprint scanner!

It was straight out of the latest spy novels. And it worked!

Following this exposé on the TV news, education officials and the public security bureau rapidly followed up. As I boarded my plane to return to the United States, the Air (See CHINA on page seven)

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And what’s the likelihood of something happening voluntarily given the recent LEMA vote in GWMD No. 1?

Even without the lopsided opposition in Wallace County, a 20 percent reduction in water usage only received little more than half the votes in the other four counties.

This is the same 20 percent reduction being proposed by the Vision Team in an area where we’re already seeing wells shut down because of a sharply declining aquifer. If there isn’t enough grassroots support under those circumstances, just how

Heartless

It is said, and it’s true, that the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act that swept through Congress and was signed by President George W. Bush in December 2008 has had the unintended consequence of encouraging the Andy Borowitz is a comedian and author Central American children to head north.

To protect victims of sex trafficking, the law guaranteed an immigra(continued from page five) tion hearing to unaccompanied minors, except for use executive orders to raise the pay of working fami- those from Canada and lies or extend health care to uninsured Americans, but Mexico. to send more than a million Americans into a war that was an ideological folly based on executive branch lies.

In fact, George W. issued more executive orders than Obama has. So did Daddy Bush. And so did Reagan, Ford, Nixon, Ike, Hoover, Coolidge, Harding glasses haven’t altered his and Teddy Roosevelt.

Oh, and about those recess appointments that’re perception of the world, causing the tea partiers to foam at the mouth? Obama or allowed him to see it has made only 32. But George W. Bush made 171 any more clearly.”

He notes that during - without a peep of protest from those who’re now thumping the Constitution and demanding impeach- the 2012 campaign, Perry ment. advocated sending troops The chief reason that Obama has had to use recess “back into Iraq” to counappointments is that Republican senators, prodded by ter the growing influence their extremist tea party partners, have routinely mis- of Iran - but now seems used the procedural device of filibuster obstructionism to advocate helping Iran to block the qualified people Obama has appointed. against the Islamic State Here’s a historical perspective the yappers won’t extremists. mention to you: In less than six years in office, 82 of In the Politico piece, Obama’s presidential nominees have been filibustered Paul refrains from gratuby the Republican/tea party; in the previous 220 years of US history, the other 43 presidents combined had itous criticism of Obama.

But in a National Review only 86 of their nominees blocked by filibuster.

The tea party, which started with such legitimate outrage, has become ridiculous.

to electronic wanding of students as they entered, total video surveillance of the test takers, closing off roads around the school, and continuous radio scanning to detect use of any electronic communication devices.

So how could cheaters succeed?

It was on the evening news. All of the channels were abuzz with the CCTV investigative reporting.

A student had notified

much support is there going to be across the entirety of Western Kansas and, in particular, Southwest Kansas where the aquifer runs deeper?

The Vision Team emphasizes that a conservation program won’t come as a directive from the top, given Brownback’s philosophy of less government. But if a clear majority of stakeholders around the state aren’t willing to buy into a plan is Brownback and the legislature simply going to throw their collective arms into the air and proclaim, “Well, at least we tried”?

A grassroots-driven ef-

fort sounds wonderful, but that may be easier said than done. And, quite frankly, it’s difficult to imagine such a plan gathering wide support when the Vision Team unveils a final proposal later this year.

It’s not a matter of whether we should do something. We were clearly past that point long ago.

How to get enough stakeholders to voluntarily buy into a plan without legal or financial incentives from the state well . . . that’s where things get a little blurry.

Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com

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As the bill was making its way through Congress, members of both parties could not stop congratulating themselves for their compassion. The bill, Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Nebr.) said, arose from “exemplary bipartisan cooperation” and showed how big-hearted we are.

“Together, let us end the nightmare of human trafficking,” he declared, “and lead the world to see, in the poignant words of Alexis de Tocqueville, that America is great because America is good.”

Suddenly, we are far less interested in being

“good” than in protecting our borders - even if those we are tring to “protect” ourselves from are the youngest of refugees.

All the pressure now is to change the Wilberforce Act so it would no longer apply to Central American children. There’s a strong logic to this. The law does create a powerful incentive for unaccompanied minors from Central America (which is not that much farther away than Mexico) to seek entry, en masse, to our country.

But there is another logic: that the anti-trafficking law really did

embody a “good” instinct by holding that we should, as much as we can, treat immigrant children with special concern. Do we rush to repeal that commitment the moment it becomes inconvenient? Or should we first seek other ways to solve the problem?

Yes, policymakers should be mindful of unintended consequences. But all of us should ponder the cost of politically convenient indifference.

E.J. Dionne, Jr., is a political commentator and longtime op-ed columnist for the Washington Post

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essay this month, Paul blasted the White House for urging Israel to show “restraint” in responding to the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers.

Paul called for a cutoff of U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority. He should be smart enough to understand that this would only strengthen the position of Hamas. But perhaps his real aim is to dispel the notion that he is insufficiently pro-Israel.

The Republican cri-

tique of Obama’s foreign policy that has achieved the most traction - undeservedly so, in my view - comes from a non-candidate: Mitt Romney. The basic thrust: “I told you so.”

But what was Romney so right about, except the blindingly obvious?

That a large, permanent U.S. residual force in Iraq could have prevented the gains by the Islamic State?

Of course, but the American public didn’t

support keeping troops there and the Iraqi government said no.

That it would be better if the “moderate” rebels were winning in Syria?

Certainly, but shaping the outcome of that multi-sided civil war would require a robust intervention.

People who see easy options really should have their eyes checked.

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

Wealthy Barack Obama rolled back some of these cuts, but many remain.

Before George W. Bush, the estate tax kicked in at $2 million of assets per couple, and then applied a 55 percent rate. Now it kicks in at $10 million per couple, with a 40 percent rate.

House Republicans want to go even further than Bush did.

Rep. Paul Ryan’s “road map,” which continues to be the Bible of Republican economic policy, elimi-

China China hostess politely handed me a copy of the June 20 China Daily.

They reported that 23 suspects had been detained, including students, parents, surrogate imposters and teachers who had, in some instances, bribed exam monitors.

More arrests were anticipated.

“Once confirmed, those students will have a score of zero for the exam,” reported an education officer. Another education official in Zhengzhou

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nates all taxes on interest, dividends, capital gains and estates.

Yet the specter of an entire generation who do nothing for their money other than speed-dial their wealth management advisors isn’t particularly attractive. It’s also dangerous to our democracy, as dynastic wealth inevitably accumulates political influence.

What to do? First, restore the estate tax in full.

Second, eliminate the “stepped-up-basis on

death” rule. This obscure tax provision allows heirs to avoid paying capital gains taxes on the increased value of assets accumulated during the life of the deceased. Such untaxed gains account for more than half of the value of estates worth more than $100 million, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Third, institute a wealth tax. We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It’s

called the property tax.

Why not a small annual tax on the value of stocks and bonds, the major assets of the wealthy?

We don’t have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth. We can and must take action - before it’s too late.

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

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stated that obviously the fingerprint system was not foolproof “. . . which means the supervision measure is not efficient.”

Testing in Imperial China goes back 2,000 years and cheating was a capital crime - for both the student and the test supervisor! No one will be executed today. But this is one of the most serious crimes that can be committed in China.

This episode was also a case that showed the expanding role of the

press in investigative reporting. Such reporting was also made easier and more respected under this last year of crackdown on corruption by China’s President Xi Jinping.

At many levels of activity, it has been obvious this last year that there is far more care being taken to document expenditures.

And there are far more cases of officials being punished for misbehavior, mismanagement and corruption.

This episode in China is no greater than the recent American cases where U.S. teachers cheated by changing test scores under pressure to making adequate yearly progress under No Child Left Behind.

But next June, I suspect that there will be education and security officers inspecting the walls of school bathroom stalls across China.

John Schrock trains biology teachers and lives in Emporia

Parkinson One memory, in particular, that stands out in Louise’s mind was a visit to a hospital where an aunt was a patient.

“I saw one of the nurses in uniform and I knew that’s what I wanted to be when I grew up,” she recalls. “I was so impressed by how professional the nurses looked.”

It was a decision that would influence events during the rest of her life.

Immediately following high school graduation, she applied for acceptance into Hahneman Hospital in Philadelphia that led to her becoming a Registered Nurse. However, this was preceded by a four-month probationary period in which the hospital was able to evaluate candidates.

“They didn’t accept you into nursing school right away because they had more nurses than they needed in 1932,” says Louise, who worked 12hour shifts for 50 cents an hour.

The pay, she says, was good for women at a time when there weren’t too many career options other than nursing and teaching “and nursing paid better.”

And the probation period was a chance for the hospital to only accept the “cream of the crop and I was the cream,” she points out.

Louise remained in the Philadelphia area where she continued working as a nurse until the U.S. entered World War II with

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the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

One day, while walking up the subway steps, Louise says she saw the poster of Uncle Sam saying “I Need You” and she decided it was time to join her brothers who had already enlisted.

“I asked for immediate foreign duty. I didn’t want to go to a hospital in Philadelphia where I was only looking after the officer’s wives,” Louise says firmly.

She wanted to be sent to Europe where two of her brothers were serving, but instead was assigned as an Army nurse to the Pacific Theater where her other brother was serving on the aircraft carrier Essex. She spent 29 months at military posts in Australia, New Guinea, the East Indies and the Philippines.

“There weren’t very many nurses,” notes Louise. “Every one of us had volunteered.”

While stationed in the Philippines, Louise and other nurses who were working in a hospital at Leyte were invited to a party that was being thrown by the local Sea Bees. That’s where she met Lou Parkinson who was an officer in the Navy stationed at nearby Samar.

“He was handsome. All the gals were crazy about him,” recalls Louise. “I knew right away he was going to be my husband, but he didn’t know it.”

She says it was difficult for the couple to get to-

gether since they were in different branches of the military serving in different locations. And when they were able to arrange a date, military regulations required that all couples had to be accompanied by another male and female.

They also had to be back on the base by midnight.

“It wasn’t very romantic,” Louise admits. “But Lou was a really wonderful person.”

After dating “for what seemed like forever,” the couple was married in a ceremony held at Tacloban, in the Philippines, in 1945. Louise was discharged from the Army before Lou, so she returned to Philadelphia where she lived briefly until she could be joined by her husband.

Rather than returning to Lou’s home in Boise, Idaho, the couple decided to accept an offer from a brother, Henry Parkinson, to manage his farming interests in Scott County.

The couple eventually leased some farm ground and began farming for themselves. Lou started Grain Sorghum Hogs, which was one of the first commercial hog feeding operations in the state and, at one time, was the third largest.

“Nobody was hog farming at the time. Lou was a very bright man and he saw that as a great opportunity,” says Louise.

She never returned to the nursing profession after leaving the military,

Louise Parkinson served as a U.S. Army nurse in the Philippines during World War II

instead keeping busy with raising six children and helping Lou on the farm.

After 67 years of marriage, Lou passed away on Jan. 3, 2013.

Louise doesn’t offer any secrets to a long, healthy life.

She used to swim regularly at The Athleticlub in Scott City and could be seen frequently taking brisk walks around town until a broken hip put an end to both activities at the age of 96.

“When she was 92, Mom could swim seven laps at the Athleticlub without stopping. It took 45 minutes,” says her daughter, Vicki Burr, who now lives with and looks after her mother at home.

Louise does admit to one minor vice. She will

drink half a beer every Saturday with her pizza.

“I used to smoke until I got bit by a mosquito and came down with encephalitis. I was so sick that I couldn’t smoke and I never started again,” she says.

She stays mentally sharp as an avid reader of National Geographic magazine and a regular viewer of “Jeopardy.”

“I can answer some of the questions, but I’m not as quick as I used to be,” she concedes.

As for the countless changes during her lifetime, Louise says it’s impossible to name just one that seems more remarkable than another.

“So many things have happened,” she says. “It’s been a good life.”

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Bennett earns academic honors at McPherson

Kylan Bennett, Healy, a junior at McPherson College, was named to the spring semester honor roll.

To qualify for academic honors, he maintained a 3.55 or higher grade point average in addition to being enrolled full-time.

4 area students earn WSU spring academic honors

The new principal at Scott City Middle School is Jana Irvin.

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Irvin’s patience rewarded as new SCMS principal It’s not as though Scott City was the only place that Jana Irvin was willing to be a school administrator.

Then again, it’s not as though she was looking for other options either. “(My husband) Chris and I love it in Scott City. This is where we want to raise our family,” says Irvin. “Even though I wasn’t hired the last time around, I wasn’t actively pursuing a position elsewhere.

I was happy with what I was doing and I was willing to be patient.”

That patience paid off when the Scott City resident was hired as the new principal at Scott City Middle School. At the last board of education meeting, she was offered a twoyear contract through the 201516 school year.

“I’m very excited about being here,” says the 32-year-old administrator. “This is such a good school district and I’m looking forward to doing whatever I can to help make it even better for our students and our staff.”

A native of Ness City, Irvin graduated from Kansas State University at mid-term in 2003 with a bachelor’s degree in sec-

ondary education with an emphasis on business and computers.

That was followed by seven years in the Garden City school district which included positions as an at-risk site coordinator, a curriculum coordinator between Garden City Community College and the high school, and for two years she was a teacher at the alternative high school.

In 2009, Irvin earned her master’s degree in education administration from Ft. Hays State University.

For the last three years she has been the owner and teacher at Busy Beaver Pre-School in Scott City.

“I feel my path through education is unique,” she says. “I enjoy working with kids of all ages. But I also knew that administration was in my future.

I’ve loved being in the classroom, but I also like working with teachers.”

Teachers Upbeat What has impressed Irvin most during early conversations and contacts with the middle school staff is how upbeat they are following budget cuts in the spring that “hit this build-

ing particularly hard.”

“They realize that some difficult decisions had to be made and they are looking forward to a fresh start,” Irvin says. “Even though some of them may be upset about things that were done, they’re also professionals who want to continue doing what’s best for their students and the district.

“I firmly believe that there are no more resourceful people than teachers. They can do a lot with a little and amazing things with more,” she says.

Student Responsibility Irvin believes in an approach to academics and discipline that is student-centered.

“I want them to be a decision-maker in their life’s path,” she emphasizes. “I want to empower them and make them realize they have a choice in what path they take.”

Students and staff in the building are still adapting to changes in classroom structure that began during the last school year and are continuing. In the past, fifth and sixth graders were in home rooms for most of their classes and didn’t move from classroom to classroom on a bell schedule until

seventh grade. That changed for sixth graders in the middle of last year as part of the building’s transition to having just two teachers for each core subject - math, English, science for grades 6-8.

In addition, SCMS has also added an “enrichment intervention” program that will be coordinated by former eighth grade English teacher Jenny O’Neil.

Part of the time she will be in classrooms with the regular teacher and assisting at-risk students. At other times, she will have at-risk students in her own classroom where they can get individual attention.

“This is a program that has been successful in other districts,” Irvin says.

The new SCMS principal emphasizes that input from staff is important in her decision-making process.

“I’ve been in contact with staff and encouraging their feedback,” she adds. “I want them to know their opinions are valued.”

Jana and her husband, who is a territory sales manager for Monsanto, have three children: Crissa, a first grader; Cooper, in kinder-prep; and Jaisa, who is three-years-old.

Four area students have been named to the spring semester Dean’s Honor roll at Wichita State University.

Honor students include: Dighton: Kay Buchanan.

Leoti: Nicole Huber and Paige Wells.

Scott City: Ron Baker.

To be included on the dean’s honor roll, a student must be enrolled full time (at least 12 credit hours) and earn at least a 3.5 grade point average.

Public school enrollment on pace for record The Kansas Association of School Boards is projecting statewide public school enrollment will continue an upward trend that began in 2008 and will reach a record of nearly 510,000 students in 2018-19.

The percent of students who are white will drop to 60 percent of the total, down from 85 percent in 1993, with virtually all of the increase coming from Hispanic, multi-racial or “other” enrollment.

These projections were relayed in KASB’s Kansas K-12 Headcount Enrollment Projections for 2014-15 through 2018-19. This report is produced by KASB every year. It utilizes a comparison of resident live birth rates to first grade enrollments and subsequent student cohort retention rates from grade to grade to predict the statewide student enrollment by grade for five years out.

This year’s projections also include predictions of the race/ethnic makeup of each year’s student population based on historical trends.

For the 2014-15 school year, KASB predicts statewide enrollment at approximately 489,300 students; an increase of 0.86 percent from the 2013-14 enrollment of 485,100. The projections indicate a small but steady annual increase for the Kansas student population overall throughout the 2018-19 school year; when the student population is expected to reach 509,800 students.

The number of white students is expected to decrease and the number of black students is expected to stay relatively the same. The number of Hispanic students is expected to continue to increase steadily.

For the Record Divorce? Protect your finances, personal data The Scott County Record

Jason Alderman

No doubt you’ve seen many warnings against sharing personal or financial information with strangers, but what about your spouse - or exspouse?

A recent study by McAfee uncovered some unsettling results: •Although 96 percent of adults surveyed trust their significant other with passwords, intimate photos and other person-

al content, only 32 percent have asked their ex to delete the information when ending the relationship.

•One in five people said they’re likely to log into their spouse’s Facebook account at least once a month.

•Some 30 percent admitted they’d “cyberstalked” their significant other’s ex on social media.

Given the high rate of divorce and how frequent-

Scott City Council Agenda Mon., July 21 • 7:30 p.m.

City Hall • 221 W. 5th •Call to Order •Approve minutes of June 30 special meeting and July 7 regular meeting •Approve water drought/emergency ordinance •Approve ordinance establishing water rates •Approve cereal malt beverage license •Open bids for fire truck •Approve transfer from general fund to special highway fund •2015 budget 1) Approval of publication and set hearing date •Open agenda: audience is invited to voice ideas or concerns. A time limit may be requested Pool Department 1) Misc. business Police Department 1) Misc. business Parks Department 1) Misc. business Public Works Department 1) Approve municipal water conservation plan Clerk’s Department 1) Request to attend municipal software demonstration in Garden City 2) Discuss sick leave policy Financial and investment reports •Mayor’s comments

Scott Co. LEC Report Scott City Police Department July 7: Nicholas George was arrested for domestic battery and transported to the LEC. July 10: Lily Smith was served a warrant while in the LEC. July 10: Patrisha Beaton reported a burglary and theft of property.

July 14: Rebecca Rebarchek backed into a parked vehicle.

July 14: Donald Graham was arrested for driving on a suspended license and operating a vehicle without liability insurance. He was transported to the LEC. July 14: Joseph Hall was arrested for public intoxication and transported to the LEC. July 14: Jack Glass was arrested for domestic battery and transported to the LEC. Scott County Sheriff’s Department July 10: Stampede Feeders reported criminal trespass and theft of property.

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ly marriages end acrimoniously, it’s not a big leap to think that a scorned lover could severely damage your credit and reputation. If you’re getting divorced, here are some important legal, financial and privacy considerations: •If you and your spouse are in complete agreement on how you wish to divide assets and settle debts, you may be able get by with a do-it-yourself divorce kit.

It’s still wise to have a

divorce attorney review the forms to make sure you haven’t overlooked anything.

•If your separation is more complicated but relatively amicable, you may also want to try collaborative divorce, mediation or arbitration: Collaborative divorce.

Both parties retain a lawyer and the four of you hash out an agreement outside the courtroom.

You each control the final agreement instead of hav-

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ing to abide by a judge’s decision.

Mediation. You each have lawyers but hire a third-party mediator to work through differences on critical issues.

Mediators don’t have the legal authority to impose final decisions.

Arbitration. Like mediation, except that the arbiter hands down a binding agreement by which you each must abide.

If you can’t settle out of court, be prepared to pos-

sibly pay many thousands of dollars in attorney and court fees. Ask around for referrals to lawyers who specialize in divorce.

You may also want to consult a financial planning professional for advice on how to fairly divide property, calculate child support and ensure you’re sufficiently insured, as well as explain Social Security and retirement plan implications.

(See DIVORCE on page 11)

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(First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., July 17, 2014; last published Thurs., July 24, 2014)2t Work has started on a less. The Kansas DOT BEFORE THE STATE resurfacing project on K-4 urges drivers to be alert, CORPORATION COMMISSION in Ness and Lane coun- pay attention to all work OF THE STATE OF KANSAS NOTICE OF ties. zone warning signs, slow FILING APPLICATION The contractor is work- down when approaching Re: Discovery Natural ing from the east end of a work zone and be pre- Resources, LLC-Application for a permit to authorize the the project at the junction pared to stop. injection of salt water into of K-4 and U.S. 283 in Bettis Asphalt and the Pfenninger 10D-30-1831 Ness County, west to the Construction Inc., Topeka, well, located in Scott County, junction of K-4 and K-23 Kansas. is the contractor on this To: All Oil and Gas Proin Lane County.

During construction, approximately $3.1 mil- ducers, Unleased Mineral Interest Owners, Landowners, traffic will be limited to lion preservation project. and all persons whosoever KDOT expects work one lane through the work concerned. zone, guided by a pilot to be completed by midYou, and each of you, car. Drivers can expect September, depending on are hereby notified that Discovery Natural Resources, delays of 15 minutes or weather.

LLC has filed an application to commence the injection of salt water into the LanPublic Notice sing formation at the Pfen(First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., July 10, ninger 10D-30-1831 well located SE/NW/SE 1950’FSL, 2014; last published Thurs., July 17, 2014)2t 1,790’FEL, Sec 30 T-18S, RREQUEST FOR ZONING VARIANCE Notice is hereby given that the Scott City Planning Com- 31W, Scott County, Kansas, mission will hold a special meeting on July 24, 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 Steve Shelton to allow an accessory building (shop) to be built larger than allowed by ordinance on: Lot 13, Block 4, McLain Swan & Sangster Addition to Scott City (913 Elizabeth) All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard at such hearing.

Dated: July 8, 2014 Rodney Hogg, chairman Scott City Planning Commission

with a maximum operating pressure of a 1800 psi and maximum injection rate of 1000 bbl per day.

Any persons who object to or protest this application shall be required to file their objections or protests with the Conservation Division of the State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas within fifteen (15) days from the date of this publication. These protests shall be filed pursuant to Commission regulations and must state specific reasons why the grant of the application may cause waste, violate correlative rights or pollute the natural resources of the state of Kansas.

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

Discovery Natural Resources, LLC 410 17th Street, Ste 900 Denver, Colo. 80202 Phone: 303-893-5090

Public Notice (Published in The Scott County Record on Thurs., July 17, 2014)1t TESTING OF VOTING EQUIPMENT A public test of the vote counting equipment to be used in the General Election to be held on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, will be demonstrated in the Scott County Clerk’s office, 303 Court Street, Scott City, Ks., on Friday, Nov. 2, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. in accordance with KSA 25-4610.

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., July 17, 2014; last published Thurs., July 31, 2014)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HOWARD L. SPITZER, deceased Case No. 2014-PRNOTICE TO CREDITORS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that on July 11, 2014, a Petition for Probate of Will and Issuance of Letters Testamentary was filed in this court by Dorothy L. Spitzer, an heir, devisee, legatee, and

Executor named in the Last Will and Testament of Howard L. Spitzer, deceased.

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

Dorothy L. Spitzer WALLACE, BRANTLEY & SHIRLEY 325 Main - P.O. Box 605 Scott City, Kansas 67871 Attorney for Petitioner

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., July 17, 2014; last published Thurs., July 31, 2014)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS (Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 59) IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MERLIN GARDNER, DECEASED Case No. 2014-PR-17 NOTICE OF HEARING AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are notified that on July 8, 2014, a Petition was filed in this Court by Diana F. Brandt, an heir, devisee and legatee, and Executor named in the Last Will and Testament of Merlin Gardner, deceased, dated July 30, 2013, requesting the Will filed with the Petition be admitted to probate and record; Petitioner be appointed as Executor, without bond; and Petitioner be granted Letters Testamentary.

You are required to file your written defenses to the Petition on or before August 13, 2014, at 1:15 p.m.,

in the District Court, Scott City, Scott County, Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard. Should you fail to file your written defenses, Judgment and Decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

All creditors are notified to exhibit their demands against the Estate within the latter of four (4) months from the date of first publication of notice under K.S.A. 59-2236 and amendments thereto, or if the identity of the creditor is known or reasonably ascertainable, 30 days after actual notice was given as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, they shall be forever barred.

Diana F. Brandt Petitioner MARTINDELL SWEARER SHAFFER RIDENOUR LLP 20 Compound Drive P.O. Box 1907 Hutchinson, KS 67504-1907 (620) 662-3331 arlyn.miller@martindell.com 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

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

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The Scott County Record • Page 11 • Thursday, July 17, 2014

State awards $207,805 to Kansas crime victims

The Kansas Crime Victims Compensation Board awarded financial assistance to 217 victims of crime at its July meeting.

Awards were made in 112 new cases. Additional expenses were paid in 105 previously submitted cases.

The awards totaled $207,805.

The Division of Crime Victims Compensation in the Kansas Attorney General’s office administers the Crime Victims Compensation program, which was established in 1978 to help victims of violent crime pay for their unexpected expenses such as medical treatment, mental health counseling, lost wages, dependent support and funeral costs.

The state’s three-member Crime Victims Compensation Board determines claims that are eligible for payment and decides how much money will be awarded to each claimant.

Awards are limited to a maximum total amount of $25,000.

Divorce (continued from page 10)

To protect your credit status, close joint bank and credit card accounts and open new ones in your own name; otherwise, an economically struggling or vindictive ex-spouse could amass debt in your name and ruin your credit. If your ex retains the house or car, make sure your name is taken off the loan so you’re not responsible if they flake on payments.

Be sure all closed accounts are paid off, even if you must transfer balances to your new account and pay them off yourself. That’s because late or unmade payments by either party on a joint account - open or closed will damage both of your credit scores.

Check your credit reports before, during and after the divorce to make sure you’re aware of all outstanding debts and to ensure that all joint accounts were properly closed. The three major credit bureaus, Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, don’t always list the same accounts, so to be safe, order credit reports from each.

Change all passwords, PINs, and other information your ex could use to access your electronic devices and financial, email and social media accounts. Also, don’t email or post malicious or revealing information that could be damaging if presented in court.

Bottom line: Divorce can be a painful experience to live through.

Don’t make it worse by not protecting your own financial interests.

(Published in The Scott County Record on Thurs., July 17, 2014)1t

NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING

The governing body of the Scott Recreation Commission will meet on July 28, 2014, at 5:30 p.m., at the Scott Recreation Commission office, 823 South Main, for the purpose of hearing and answering objections of taxpayers relating to the proposed use of funds.

Detailed budget information is available at the SRC office, 823 South Main, Scott City, and will be available at this hearing.

BUDGET SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURES The proposed budget expenditures (below) are the maximum expenditure limits for the budget year.

Prior Year Current Year Proposed Budget Actual 2013 Estimated 2014 Year 2015

Fund General Employee Benefit Totals

Lease Purchase:

Principal Balance @ beg. of FY

302,586

347,546

416,700

22,373

27,722

30,450

324,959

375,268

447,150

2012

2013

227,568

198,562

2014 212,513

Marci Patton, chairperson Recreation Commission

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The Scott County Record • Page 12 • Thursday, July 17, 2014

WIC program puts emphasis on health benefits of breastfeeding Dave Ranney KHI News Service

Nearly half the babies born in Kansas are enrolled in the Special Supplemental Nutritional Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), a long-standing federal initiative aimed at making sure low- and modest-income families have access to healthy foods.

“We serve about 49 percent of the babies born in the state,” said Martha Hagen, an administrator at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.

“But we also have pregnant women, women who

are six months postpartum and children under age 5.”

KDHE administers the WIC program on behalf of the U.S Department of Agriculture.

To qualify, enrollees have to be living in households with incomes at or below 185 percent of the federal poverty level, or about $3,000 a month for a single mother caring for a newborn baby and a young child. They would be eligible for about $240 in monthly food assistance.

Families on public assistance, food stamps (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) or Medicaid also are eligible

for WIC. Mothers are expected to attend WIC-sponsored classes that stress the importance of healthy foods and breastfeeding.

According to a recent USDA report, more than 19,000 women, 19,000 babies and 46,000 children ages 1-4 were enrolled in the Kansas WIC program in 2012.

Almost three-fourths of families in the WIC program have incomes below 100 percent of the federal poverty line.

Hagen oversees the WIC program’s efforts to encourage mothers to breastfeed their babies.

“For 2013, our WIC

(breastfeeding) initiation rate was 74.6 percent, which was good but wasn’t as good as the national average (77 percent),” she said. “But we’re catching up.”

State reports, she said, also show that about 16 percent of the WIC mothers were exclusively breastfeeding at six months.

“The goal is for us to be at 25.5 percent, so we have a ways to go,” Hagen said. “But Kansas is behind as well.”

The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, she said, is expected to update its (See BENEFITS on page 13)

Advocates, hospitals unite to raise Kansas breastfeeding rate Across Kansas, breastfeeding advocates are encouraging hospitals to revamp how they handle moms, babies and visitors after childbirth.

Dozens of studies have shown that breastfed babies grow up healthier than those reared on formula or cow’s milk. Breastfed babies’ immune systems are stronger. They have fewer allergies, fewer ear infections and less diarrhea. Their incidents of asthma, Type 2 diabetes, obesity and sudden infant death syndrome are significantly reduced.

“Human milk is best for human babies,” said Libby Rosen, an associate professor at the School of Nursing at Baker University. “It is speciesspecific. It has tremendous health benefits for both mom and baby and the family.”

Rosen has helped lead a Topeka-area coalition of breastfeeding advocates that’s spent the past 18 years looking for ways to encourage mothers to “exclusively” breastfeed their newborn babies - or resist using formula - for at least six months.

(See ADVOCATES on page 13)

Feds ask Kansas for plan to fix Medicaid delays Dave Ranney KHI News Service

Federal officials have asked six states, including Kansas, to submit plans for resolving issues that appear to be delaying the processes to determine Medicaid eligibility, primarily for pregnant women, children and people with disabilities.

Letters were sent to each state’s Medicaid director on June 27.

“CMS is asking several state Medicaid agencies to provide updated mitigation plans to address gaps that exist in their eligibility and enrollment systems to ensure timely processing of applications and access to coverage for eligible people,” said

Why is talking with your teen so difficult? by the American Counseling Association

Virtually every parent has found that trying to communicate meaningfully with their teenager can frequently be an impossible, frustrating task.

You want to help with problems and understand your child’s life and stresses, yet your best efforts at conversation may be met with stony silence, meaningless grunts or outright hostility over you daring to try and communicate.

Such an experience can have parents wondering what is wrong with them, or with their teenager.

The reality is that what they’re experiencing isn’t unique or unusual, but rather the result of issues almost all teens face.

A main factor is that it isn’t easy being a teenager in today’s world. Not only are there the variety of unsettling biological, psychological and emotional changes that come with normal teen development, but today’s teens face the added pressures of school grades, extracurricular activities, increased public visibility (thanks, Facebook), along with the anxiety of college or a career in the very near future.

Teens tend to feel that their parents just aren’t able to understand all the changes and pressures they’re facing, in part because they don’t understand much of it themselves.

Another major obstacle to parent-teen communication is the recognition that teens have of their growing maturity and ability to make decisions. They want more freedom and the trust of their parents, but when they start sharing feelings of insecurity or uncertainty they fear their parents will see them as still immature and unready for the freedoms they desire.

They also recognize they need their parents’ love and respect in order to gain their freedom and so are usually willing only to share their strengths and positive achievements.

While it’s helpful to understand what is limiting open communication, the only real solution to improving parent-teen talks is to keep on trying.

When you attempt to stay connected to your teen, even if you’re not always successful, it demonstrates your love and concern to him or her.

How you communicate matters, too. Being overly judgmental, saying “no” too quickly to requests for more freedom, or dismissing the teen’s concerns, quickly shuts down communication.

Instead, be understanding when mistakes are made, and offer positive responses when good things happen. Be supportive and let your teen know that you understand and sympathize with issues he or she is facing.

There is no miracle cure for parent-teen communication, but work at it sincerely and you will see improvement.

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

Aaron Albright, a spokesman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The six states - Kansas, Alaska, California, Michigan, Missouri and Tennessee - were asked to respond by July 14.

Sara Belfry, a spokesperson for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said “there

is currently no backlog processing Medicaid eligibility applications.”

In Kansas, she said, all of the state’s Medicaid applications are being processed within the 45-day period that’s allowed by CMS. The CMS concerns, Belfry said, have more to do with the state and federal government computer

systems not sharing information with each other.

“Kansas is preparing an updated processing plan,” she wrote in an email to KHI News Service. “This plan will include the ability to receive full electronic applications directly from the Federal Marketplace, which will improve the efficiency of the KanCare application process.”

KanCare refers to the Kansas’ now-privatized Medicaid and CHIP programs; the marketplace refers to the insurance exchanges that allowed people to enroll in health plans online and played a key role in implementation of the Affordable Care Act. (See DELAYS on page 15)

Study: assistance was essential during sign-up for Obamacare WASHINGTON, D.C. — Most working people in the United States sign up for health insurance in a very straightforward way: a few forms, a few questions for human resources, a few choices of plans.

Signing up for Affordable Care Act insurance was nothing like that. It involved questions about income, taxes, family size and immigration status. And in most places in the country, there were myriad choices of plans with subtle differences between them.

Guess what? People looked for help on the decision.

During the Affordable Care Act’s first open

enrollment period, about 10.6 million people received personal help from navigators and other enrollment assisters, according to an online survey of the programs released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

And the assistance was time consuming: 64 percent of the programs reported that they spent 1-2 hours with each consumer on average. The assisters and navigators included 28,000 full-timeequivalent workers across the country, funded by federal and state governments as well as outside sources, the survey found.

But those assisters were not distributed equally

across states.

The 16 states that elected to run their own state-based exchanges had about twice as many assisters per 10,000 uninsured compared to the 29 states, including Kansas, that defaulted to a federally facilitated exchange.

(The other five states set up a partnership with the federal exchange.)

People in states running their own exchange were twice as likely to receive help with enrollment.

The discrepancy is not terribly surprising: The states running their own exchanges had significantly more funding available for outreach and enrollment. The Centers for

Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded a much smaller $67 million in federal grants to fund navigator programs in the 34 states with federallyfacilitated or partnership exchanges.

The entire state of Ohio, for example, had gotten just $3 million in grants to do consumer outreach

by October 2013. That’s compared to $24 million in Maryland, which had half as many uninsured residents.

“It’s not just the money,” says Karen Pollitz, lead author of the KFF survey.

“The culture of coverage might also have been different. (States with their own exchanges) might not (See SIGN-UP on page 15)

The Scott County Record • Page 13 • Thursday, July 17, 2014

KU to partner with Western Kansas hospitals

A federal grant of more than $12 million will fund a new, threeyear partnership between the University of Kansas Hospital and medical providers in Western Kansas.

The Health Care Innovation Award is part of an Affordable Care Act program aimed at spurring innovation in health care.

The goal is to reduce deaths from heart disease and stroke in the target-

Participating critical access hospitals: Cheyenne County Hospital Citizens Medical Center Gove County Medical Center Ness County Hospital District 2 Norton County Hospital Pawnee Valley Community Hospital Phillips County Hospital Russell Regional Hospital Sheridan County Health Complex Trego County-Lemke Memorial Hospital

ed area by 20 percent.

The partnership involves the University of Kansas Hospital, Hays Medical Center, 10 critical access

hospitals and rural primary care providers serving Western Kansas. They’ll use telemedicine, screenings and care manage-

Advocates

Benefits

“According to the annual report card that’s put out by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), almost 38 percent of mothers, nationally, were exclusively breastfeeding at three months,” said Paul Cesare, coordinator with the Mother and Child Health Coalition, a Kansas City-based group that’s also active in the breastfeeding coalition.

“At six months, 16.4 percent were exclusively breastfeeding.”

Kansas’ numbers, he said, were below the national average in 2013: •30.5 percent were exclusively breastfeeding at three months.

•15.1 percent were exclusively breastfeeding at six months.

“Between three months and six months, the rate drops by half,” Cesare said. “That’s significant . . . and 15 percent is a pretty small number.”

Efforts to improve these percentages, he said, often are slowed by hospital policies that stress routine and operational efficiency over evidence-based practices that encourage mothers to breastfeed.

In Kansas, 98 percent of the 40,300 babies born in 2012 were delivered in hospital settings.

Three years ago, breastfeeding coalitions throughout the state joined the Kansas Hospital Association and the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund in launching High 5 for Mom and Baby, an ongoing campaign aimed at helping hospitals adopt five principles that have been found to increase breastfeeding rates.

“This is about having a best-practices conversation with hospitals and helping them implement those practices,” said Virginia Elliott, a UMHMF vice president in charge of programs. “It’s not about being punitive or saying, ‘You either do it this way or forget it.’ It’s about finding solutions to common challenges.”

breastfeeding rate data in early August.

Most of KDHE’s advocacy efforts, Hagen said, have focused on educating mothers about the benefits of breastfeeding.

“A lot of people go into this thinking, ‘Well, if it doesn’t work, I can always go to formula,’” she said.

“It’s just the way people think, and it’s the message that formula companies put out: ‘It’s just as good as breast milk, it’s got all the same ingredients,’ even though it couldn’t possibly be the case.”

Research has consistently found that breastfed babies grow up healthier than those reared on for-

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ment to help patients get the care they need closer to home.

Barbara MacArthur, vice president for cardiac services at KU Hospital, said the providers will offer standardized treatment for heart disease and stroke, with clear standards for when to transfer patients to a higher level of care at Hays Medical Center or KU Hospital.

“There’s a very strong community grassroots

education component that’s important so we can actually prevent heart attacks and strokes. Then, the monies also go into education for clinicians, transportation, use of technology and sharing of information through electronic records,” MacArthur said.

MacArthur said in 2011, heart disease killed 5,321 Kansans and cerebrovascular diseases such

as stroke killed 1,333 Kansans.

“The highest mortality rates were in rural communities,” she said.

“Many deaths and longterm disabilities of heart disease and stroke can be prevented if the right standards of medical care are accessed immediately.

Under this program, hospitals working together can provide a continuum of high-quality care with much better outcomes.”

ing school and come back to work for the health department.”

KDHE, she said, recently launched a training initiative called Kansas Baby Behavior Campaign that’s modeled after a University of California-Davis program that converted often-complex research to “basic messages” aimed at new mothers.

“A lot of it has to do with helping mothers understand their babies’ hunger and fullness cues, because one of the moms’ chief complaints is that they don’t have enough breast milk,” said Hagen, a breastfeeding advocate

for the past 35 years.

“But they do, and knowing about baby cues, sleep patterns and crying can prevent overfeeding and promote exclusive breastfeeding.”

Brenda Bandy of the Kansas Breastfeeding Coalition said the state’s WIC program needs more peer counselors.

“WIC has peer counselors in 44 clinics across the state,” she said. “We’d like to have them in all 105 counties, but so far that’s not happened. The money isn’t there.”

In 2012, the federal government spent almost $50 million on its WIC program in Kansas.

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mula and/or cow’s milk.

Though WIC encourages mothers to breastfeed, it also allows them to purchase formula with their payments.

“When WIC started back in 1974, breastfeeding rates were really low, and people were feeding their babies skim milk and some other strange concoctions,” Hagen said.

“So when WIC came along, it became known as a formula program.

“But over the last 40 years, there have been so many changes,” she said.

“We now say that WIC is a breastfeeding program first, and that yes, we do provide formula, but

Specialty Clinics at Scott County Hospital Oncology/Hematology Dr. Tibayan, MD

4th Tuesday of the month

Pulmonologist Dr. Ballard, MD

Monthly on Mondays

Obstetrics/Gynecology Dr. Heskett, MD

2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month

Dermatology

Dr. Theo Alkousakis, MD

3rd Wednesday of the month

Orthopedics

Dr. Titus Plomaritis, MD

2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month

Dr. Alex DeCarvalho, MD

1st, 2nd and 3rd Tuesday of the month

Urology

Dr. Darrell Werth, MD

2nd Wednesday of the month

Dr. Kevin McDonald, MD

4th Wednesday of the Month

Neurology

Dr. Christopher Fanale, MD Monthly on Mondays

Dr. Jeffrey Wagner, MD Every other month

Cardiology

Dr. Janif, MD

2nd and 4th Thursday of the month

Dr. Dimen, MD

1st Wednesday of the month

Dr. John Ferrell, MD

3rd Wednesday of the month

Dr. Freund, MD

2nd Wednesday of every month

Vascular Disease

Dr. Stephen Annest, MD Monthly on Mondays

Dietitian

Courtney McCarty, RD, LD 1st Wednesday of the month

Specialty clinics are scheduled monthly. Most of the clinics are conducted one time per month, however, some are scheduled two or three times per month.

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

that’s not what we want you to do first. We really want you to breastfeed, and we’re here to help you.’”

The Kansas program, Hagen said, has clinics in all but two of the state’s 105 counties. Most are housed in - or managed by - county health departments.

Roughly one-third of the clinics offer access to peer counselors, all of whom are either on or have been on WIC and have breastfed exclusively for six months.

“They’re a really dedicated group,” Hagen said. “We’ve had several of them go on to nurs-

Pastime at Park Lane Residents played pitch and dominoes on Monday afternoon. Game helpers were Dorothy King, Joy Barnett, Amanda Barnett, Hugh McDaniel and Madeline Murphy.

A couple of residents played Wii bowling on Monday evening.

Residents played trivia games on Tuesday evening.

Bingo was played on Wednesday afternoon.

Helpers were Madeline Murphy, Amanda Barnett, and Barb Dickhut.

Residents played pitch on Wednesday evening.

Bible study was held on Thursday evening.

Residents watched the video, “Hearst Castle at San Simeon” on Friday afternoon.

Wii bowling was played on Friday evening.

Albert Dean was visited by Carol Davey and Larry Wright.

Residents make bird houses

Park Lane residents decorated bird houses as a craft project on Tuesday afternoon.

Volunteers assisting from Immanuel Southern Baptist Church were Miranda Barnett, Jennifer Murphy, Joy Barnett, Bev Nuckolls, Jolie Pope, Jaiden Lane, Micha Steffens, Chelsie Rose and Eva Smith.

‘Over 50 Chorus’ performs Thurs.

The Over 50 Chorus performed on Thursday afternoon. Singers were Neva Jacobus, Dara Burwell, Nichole Hurt and Madeline Murphy.

Dottie Fouquet was visited by Jon and Anne Crane, Susan Amack, Kerri Ross; Amie and Holli Ross, Seattle, Wash.; Ronna Cunningham from Washington; and Mark and Terri Fouquet.

James Still was visited

by Tina Turley.

Emogene Harp was visited by Otto Harp, Alicia Harp, Lila Burnett, Josephine Jones and Kambra Dearden.

Judy Redburn was visited by Amy Williams, Madison Williams, Debbie Bush, Wendy Derstine and Mary Torson.

Thelma Branine was visited by Chandler Hornbostel.

Verna Willman was visited by Don King, D’Ann Markel, Bob Willman and Gary Johnson.

Cecile Billings was visited by Ann Beaton, Delinda Dunagan, Don and Judy Browning, Larry Billings and Linda Dunagan.

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

Bonnie Pickett was visited by Detta Hager, Gloria Wright, Arlene Cauthon, Larry and Philene Pickett, and Joel Wright.

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

by Jason Storm

Lorena Turley was visited by Neta Wheeler; Mike, Tracy and Bo Hess; and Phyllis See. Harold and Ruth White were visited by Pete Steffens.

Primus Suppes was visited by Debbie Reystead, Mike and Karen Gibbs, Wayne and Nancy Gerstner, Ron and Shirley Suppes, Payton Suppes, Riley, Mona Spangler, Pete Steffens, Julie Gibbs and Brayden Merrill, and Jace Gibbs.

Earl Gorman was visited by Marcine Gorman, Loretta Gorman, Charlene Becht and Pete Steffens.

Herb Graves was visited by Tina Turley and Kambra Dearden.

Jim and Yvonne Spangler were visited by Jagger, Will and Danica, Danny and Mona Spangler, Les and MaryAnn Spangler, and Pete Steffens.

Clifford Dearden was visited by Kirk Ottaway.

Jake Leatherman was visited by Nicole, Jacob, Cade and Gage Leatherman, McKinney, Tex.; Rod and MaryAnn Leatherman, Don and Judy Browning, and Otto Harp.

Lucille Dirks was visited by Susan Amack, David Dirks, Dale and Vicki Dirks, Don and Judy Browning, Willetta Payne and Darla Luebbers.

Geraldine Graves was visited by Charlene Becht.

Mike Leach was visited

by Rev. Don Martin from St. Luke’s Church and Linda Dunagan.

Corrine Dean was visited by Susan Amack, Tava See, Dianna Howard, Ron Hess, Linda Martindale, Aaron and Mandy Kropp, and Madeline Murphy.

Jim Jeffery was visited

by Pastor Dennis Carter and Hugh McDaniel.

Getting the facts about disability aid

Deaths Mac D. Newsom Mac D. Newsom, 95, died July 9, 2014, at Sunrise Creek Assisted Living Center, Montrose, Colo.

M a c was born Feb. 13, 1 9 1 9 , in Scott C i t y , the son of John and Faye Mac Newsom (Landrum) Newsom.

Following his high school graduation in 1937, Mac attended Kansas State University, Manhattan, graduating with a degree in civil engineering.

He served during World War II with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

In October 1943, he married Nettie A. Schump.

After leaving the military, Mac began his career with the Bureau of Reclamation, working as an engineer on several dams in Nebraska, New Mexico and Colorado. His more

Dona Dee Carpenter was visited by Emily Galyon, Phoenix, Ariz.; Dave and Alice Rinke, Wichita; and Pastor Dennis Carter.

Joyce Bohnert was visited by Glenda Graham.

Melva Rose was visited by Amy Williams and Wendy Derstine.

Edith Norman was visited by Kim Smith, Sue Riner, Doris Riner, Sara Shane and Mary Plum.

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recent project completions included Blue Mesa, Crystal and Silver Jack Reservoirs.

He was project engineer for the Silver Jack Reservoir.

Survivors include: two sons, Dean and wife, Pat, Sequim, Wash., and Gary, Montrose, Colo.; two daughters, Susan Godbey, and husband, Jonnie, and Janice Martinez and husband, Harvey, all of Montrose, Colo.; 10 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Nettie; one brother, Lew; and one granddaughter, Beth Godbey.

Funeral service was held July 15 at the Montrose Christian Church with Pastor Brian Goforth officiating.

Interment was at the Mountain View Cemetery, Longmont, Colo.

Sr. Citizen Lunch Menu Week of July 21-25 Monday: Smothered steak, mashed potatoes, California blend vegetables, cinnamon roll, peaches.

Tuesday: Chicken and rice casserole, carrot raisin salad, whole wheat bread, tropical fruit salad.

Wednesday: Hamburger, pasta salad, deli fixins, pineapple upsidedown cake.

Thursday: Sausage gravy and biscuit, hashbrown potatoes, mixed vegetables, angle food cake and strawberries.

Friday: Lasagna, peas, tossed salad, brownie. meals are $3.25 • call 872-3501

We need volunteer bus drivers

to provide transportation for noon meals at the VIP Center.

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

Contact 872-3501 for more information.

Perhaps the most misunderstood Social Security program is disability insurance, often referred to as SSDI. Some people mistakenly think that beneficiaries are “on the dole” and getting easy money for minor impairments.

That’s not the case.

There are two ways to understand the truth about disability. One is by looking at the facts. The other is by getting to know some of the people who make up the many faces of disability.

We have some of the

Social Security Brandon Werth District Manager

strictest requirements in the world for disability benefits. The Social Security Act sets out a very strict definition of disability.

To receive a disability benefit, a person must have an impairment expected to last at least one year or result in death.

The impairment must be so severe that it renders the person unable to perform any substantial work

in the national job market, not just their previous work.

SSDI does not include temporary or partial disability benefits. Because the eligibility requirements are so strict, Social Security disability beneficiaries are among the most severely impaired people in the country and tend to have high death rates.

In addition, Social Security conducts a periodic review of people who receive disability benefits to ensure they remain eligible for disability.

Social Security also aggressively works to prevent, detect, and prosecute fraud. Social Security often investigates suspicious disability claims before making a decision to award benefits - proactively stopping fraud before it happens.

These steps help to ensure that only those eligible have access to disability benefits.

Americans place a high premium on selfsufficiency, but Social Security disability insurance is there for those who need it the most.

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Delays

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In Kansas, the state’s Medicaid application processes are administered by KDHE, the Department for Children and Families, and an eligibility clearinghouse run by Policy Solutions Inc., a Denverbased company.

For much of five years, state officials have been working on a $137 million redesign of the computer systems used to calculate Medicaid eligibility, gather and share data, and let enrollees know if

they are eligible for other benefits.

Initially, the new system, called Kansas Eligibility and Enforcement System (KEES), was to be up and running by October 2013.

But KDHE officials earlier this year announced the rollout had been delayed.

Belfry said the KEES postponement “probably” instigated the CMS directive.

CMS Regional Director Cindy Mann said that while Kansas appeared

Sign-up have been working uphill against the barrage of bad noise against the ACA.” In addition, the mostly Republican states that defaulted to the federal exchange tend to have higher rates of individuals without insurance.

Some 33 percent of the nation’s uninsured population lives in states running their own exchanges, while 68 percent live in states that defaulted to the federal exchange or set up a partnership.

Almost 90 percent of assister programs surveyed reported that most or nearly all of the people they helped were uninsured. Most did not have Internet access.

In the end, it wasn’t the broken website that was the top reason people sought help from an assister - it was a lack of understanding of the law. Most had a limited understanding of the ACA and needed help understanding their plan choices. They also needed

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help understanding basic health insurance terms.

“How can you explain coverage options to someone who doesn’t know what a deductible is?” asks Pollitz. “It’s just a much longer conversation,” which might help explain why most of the programs reported that assistance required one to two hours per client.

The need for help selecting the right plan is not likely to disappear in the coming years.

“It’s a fundamental need people are probably going to have for the foreseeable future,” says Pollitz, especially as consumers experience a change in their family size or employment.

In the end, about eight million Americans signed up for a plan on the health insurance marketplaces in the first year. Others enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP plans, and some of those who received help from assisters did not enroll in coverage at all.

to be in compliance or near-compliance with six of the seven “critical success factors” for ensuring implementation of the Affordable Care Act, it “still does not have the ability to send or receive account transfers from the FFM (federally facilitated marketplace), which interferes with Kansas’ residents’ ability to apply and enroll in Medicaid.”

Mann asked that Kansas submit “an updated mitigation plan” to

resolve the current system’s shortcomings.

Kaiser Health News later noted that five of the six CMS-cited states - California being the exception - had declined to state-run insurance exchanges and instead relied on the federal government’s online marketplace.

California and Michigan have taken steps to expand Medicaid programs. The other four have not.

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

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The Soil in Which All Spiritual Virtues Grow Although Jesus never used the word, which is the soil in which all spiritual virtues grow, His teachings overflow with it! For example, Matthew 11:29, “Take my yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am meek and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest (relief, ease, refreshment, blessed quiet) for your souls.” Jesus became meek and lowly in heart; meaning His life was completely submissive and dependent upon the Father’s will.

John 5:19, 30; 6:38; 7:16, 28; 8:28, 42, 50, are scriptures showing how Jesus’ words were filled with surrender and dependency to His Father and His will. And those two seeds, dependency and surrender to the Spirit of God, produced a life of humility; “the soil in which all spiritual virtues grow”; in the heart of Jesus! As in the life of Jesus, the continual death of one’s own will and becoming completely dependent and submissive to the Spirit is summed up in one glorious word, “humility”!

To become “nothing” before God is the essence of humility. We must allow humility to take its rightful place of importance in our Christian lives. When we become empty of self then God becomes all.

Humility is the attitude that everything we are is dependent on Jesus in us. Humility allows the Holy Spirit to flow the life of Jesus in us and through us! Notice also in Matt 11 above, that those who submit themselves to Jesus are promised rest for their souls! Rest is the number one need in the lives of many! It comes from Jesus!

The complete opposite of humility is pride. When pride reigns in the heart of man humility has departed. The believer who will not submit himself with a meek and lowly heart to God, believing he is something when he is nothing, is allowing pride to rob him of the spirit of Christ-the spirit of humility. Often we find ourselves in two great struggles: will we succumb to the deceptive spirit of pride or will we submit to God in humility.

Should we not follow Jesus’ perfect example by submitting all that we are or ever will be to Him? He is the personification of humility! His life is the greatest of all instruction on humbling and yielding to the Father’s will.

The person that lifts himself up in pride ultimately is brought low, but he who humbles himself God will exalt, “and be clothed with humility: for God giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time.” I Peter 5:5-6.

Oh, how victorious is the believer, who has surrendered all to the spirit of humility; the soil in which all spiritual virtues grows!

Pastor Ed Sanderson, Assembly of God Church, Scott City

Scott City Assembly of God

1615 South Main - Scott City - 872-2200 Ed Sanderson, Senior Pastor 9:00 a.m. - Pre-Service Prayer 10:00 a.m. - Sunday Worship Service and Children’s Church Wednesday: 7:00 p.m. - Bible Study and Prayer

St. Joseph Catholic Church

A Catholic Christian Community 1002 S. Main Street - Scott City Fr. Bernard Felix, pastor • 872-7388 Secretary • 872-3644 Masses: 1st Sunday of month - 8:30 and 11:00 a.m.

Other weekends: Sat., 6:00 p.m.; Sun., 11:00 a.m.

Spanish Mass - 2nd and 4th Sundays, 1:30 p.m.

Pence Community Church

Prairie View Church of the Brethren

4855 Finney-Scott Rd. - Scott City - 276-6481 Pastor Jon Tuttle Sunday School: 10:00 a.m.

Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Men’s Fellowship • Wednesday mornings Breakfast at 6:30 a.m.

Held at Precision Ag Bldg. west of Shallow Water

Holy Cross Lutheran Church

1102 Court • Box 283 • Scott City 620-872-2294 • 620-872-3796 Pastor Warren Prochnow holycross-scott@sbcglobal.net Sunday School/Bible Class, 9:00 a.m.

Worship every Sunday, 10:15 a.m.

Wed.: Mid-Week School, 6:00-7:30 p.m.

Community Christian Church

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

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

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

Sunday Morning Worship, 10:45 a.m.

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

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

First Baptist Church

Immanuel Southern Baptist Church

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

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

Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.

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

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

Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.

Gospel Fellowship Church 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

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Reverse transfer policy now in effect at more Kansas universities Students at other Kansas Regent institutions can now do what transfer students at Ft. Hays State University have always been able to do.

A reverse transfer policy approved by the Kansas Board of Regents in March allows students to complete an associate degree from their previous community college with the courses they take at a university.

Before the reverse transfer policy was approved, FHSU had been “counseling students for years to work with their community college to finish their degree by having credits transfer back,” said

Grants to offer health programs in schools

The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation is seeking grant applications until Oct. 10 from school personnel - including nurses, teachers and administrators - interested in helping their students reduce their cardiovascular risk, increase their physical activity or learn healthy eating habits.

Healthy Habits for Life is a major grant program of the Foundation aimed at improving the overall health of Kansas youth while encouraging them to build life-long healthy habits.

During the past eight years, the BCBSKS Foundation has awarded 760 grants in excess of $718,000, including $149,650 distributed in December 2013.

Scott Community High School has been a past recipient of grant funding for its annual “Survivor Health Fair” held in the spring.

“Past grant recipients have done a tremendous job in developing programs that deliver results for their students, but our collective work in curbing childhood obesity in Kansas must continue,” said Marlou Wegener, chief operating officer of the Foundation.

Wegener said school personnel have used past grant dollars to purchase nutritional and wellness curriculum, healthy snacks, pedometers for walking programs and heart rate monitors for physical education classes.

Other schools have used funds for health fairs, playground equipment or to purchase game systems to keep children active when inclement weather keeps them inside for recess.

The maximum grant amount is $1,000 and grants are limited to one per school.

Applications must be postmarked or received electronically no later than Oct. 10 with the funds distributed in mid-December.

Additional information is available at www.bcbsks. com/foundation.

Dr. Joseph Linn, associate vice president for student affairs and registrar. “We tell students to do it for credentials. We do it to serve the students, not because we have to.”

After a student completes the necessary credit hours from one of the Kansas state universities or Washburn University, those hours can transfer back to the community or technical college they last attended. The student either obtains an associate degree or certificate while continuing on to a bachelor’s degree.

“Life happens, and students who transfer don’t always finish their bachelor’s,” said Linn.

Support Your Hometown Merchants

According to the Kansas Department of Commerce, Kansas has more jobs requiring postsecondary education than qualified Kansans to fill them and “over the next 10 years, Kansas will experience an increase of 99,000 jobs requiring postsecondary education.”

To keep up with the increase of jobs requiring a higher education, the Department of Commerce established the Keeping Kansas Competitive Plan.

The goal is to have an additional 1,500 credentials awarded per year.

Citing the state Department of Labor’s “Job Vacancy Survey 2010,” Commerce said that more than 96,000

Kansans are without jobs while more than 32,00 jobs are open, indicating “a skills shortage and mismatch.”

Linn said that having the reverse transfer policy will meet the goals of Keeping Kansas Competitive and help students get the degrees they have already earned.

Statewide reverse transfer policies are now in effect in 20 U.S. states as of June 2014. The other states are: Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.

Sports The Scott County Record

Summer ball Confidence is a common theme for Lady Beavers • Page 20

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Thursday, July 17, 2014

Beavers turn their thoughts to football

When the Scott Community High School football team turns its thoughts to football, it’s more than a phrase.

Football camp for the Beavers is an opportunity for the players to become more familiar with terminology, get some valuable repetitions and see where the team is at mentally, as well as physically.

“That’s the reason we have our camp so late in the summer is so the guys will hopefully retain more information,” says head coach Glenn O’Neil.

“The success of our camp will be measured by how much we retain when the two-a-days begin in August.”

The players who will be number one and number two on the depth chart are the ones who do the best job of retaining what they’ve learned during this four-day stretch and continuing to reinforce that knowledge in the month before two-a-days begin.

“We put a note by our depth chart to remind the boys it’s not so important where you start, but where you finish,” emphasizes O’Neil.

“That’s the emphasis of camp. Even if you’re third string, now’s a chance to move up into the number two spot.

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If you’re number one, then it’s up to you to do what it takes to hold onto that spot.”

The backs and receivers will begin 7-on-7 practices in early August “so their retention ought to be pretty good.”

Trying New Positions There are boys who come into camp with some idea of where they’d like to play, “but they have to be realistic,” says the head coach.

“We had guys who thought they wanted to play linebacker, but after we saw them move we told them they might be better off trying defensive end.

“We point out that their footwork isn’t where it needs to be and their ability to make reads is three years behind some who’s playing ahead of them.”

Some players, however, are making the adjustment to different positions.

Among the more surprising moves has been junior Hunter Braun to offensive center to replace two-year starter Keigun Wells who graduated.

“Hunter approached us about wanting to play the position. He wants to compete at the varsity level and knew this might be his best opportunity,” says O’Neil.

Junior runningback Wyatt Kropp prepares to catch a pass during drills at the SCHS football camp on Monday.

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Sloan Baker sometimes played inside linebacker last year against scout teams. Depending on the offensive formation, he may get some opportunities to play inside.

Because of an injury early last season, senior Marshal

Hutchins saw no varsity time on defense and was limited to his role as a punter.

“It’s nice to get him on the field and get some reps,” says O’Neil. “Even though we aren’t wearing pads, the boys can still gets reps by learning to read the

offense and knowing their assignment.

A couple of players are switching positions, so this is a good time for them to start becoming more familiar with their new assignments.

(See THOUGHTS on page 19)

stars shine

Winderlin claims 3 golds in WKSC meet

Brandon Winderlin collected three individual gold medals and added three silvers in the Western Kansas Swim Club combined meet held last weekend in Guymon, Okla.

The two-day meet brought together the top swimmers from throughout Western Kansas, and the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles with Winderlin turning in an outstanding meet against the field of 12 teams.

Winderlin (11-12 years) showed he belongs among the elite by sweeping the freestyle events with wins in the 50m (30.56), the 100m (68.78) and 200m (2:35.81).

In the 200m, Winderlin improved on his season best by an impressive 30.95 seconds. He also had season bests in the 50m by 4.03 seconds and by 10.99 seconds in the 100m.

In addition, Winderlin was a runner-up in the 400m (5:52.18) and in the 200m individual medley (3:12.27).

Winderlin’s five individual medals were matched by teammate

Carter Gooden of the Scott City Stars competes in the 50m butterfly.

Avry Noll (8-years and under) who had one gold and four silvers. Together, the two swimmers accounted for 10 of Scott City’s 17 medals in the boy’s division.

They also were a huge reason why the Stars were second in the team standings for their best finish in recent memory. Golden Belt (Great Bend) easily

won the team title with 1,091.5 points, followed

by Scott City (750) and Guymon, Okla. (706).

Noll’s only gold medal came in the 25m freestyle (18.47), which was a season best, followed closely by teammate Jaxson Brandl (19.54) in third place.

Though he was unable to grab any more gold

medals, Noll did swim away with second place finishes in the 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 200m freestyle and 25m backstroke for a solid swim meet.

Also earning an individual silver was Conner Cupp (11-12 years) in the 50m butterfly (38.18).

Cupp was also a third place finisher in the 50m

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backstroke (39.97) and the 200m individual medley (3:22.98).

Eric Shapland (9-10 years) was a triple bronze medalist in the 50m backstroke, 50m breaststroke and the 100m individual medley.

Kaden Wren was a third place finisher in the 50m freestyle (32.76) - just 2.2 seconds behind Winderlin

- and he was third in the 200m freestyle (2:51.68).

Bronze medals were also collected by Brandl in the 25m freestyle (19.54), who was only 1.07 seconds behind Noll’s winning time, and in the 50m freestyle (43.68).

Edwards was a third place medalist in the 25m breaststroke.

(See SHINE on page 19)

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Outdoors in Kansas

by Steve Gilliland

Stick to your guns Kansas has been what is known as “a right-to-carry state” for a long time. That means we have had the right to “openly” carry a firearm wherever firearms are legally allowed.

The keys phrases are “openly carry” and “wherever firearms are legally allowed.”

Open means carrying a firearm within plain sight of everyone. (Carrying a concealed weapon requires a special permit issued by the Attorney General.)

“Wherever firearms are legally allowed” means NOT in libraries, hospitals, etc. and wherever else firearms are prohibited.

I’ve been reading lately about a new Kansas law that took effect July 1.

I talked with Patricia Stoneking, president of the Kansas State Rifle Association (KSRA) and finally got an explanation.

It seems that years back numerous cities and counties in Kansas began urging lawmakers to somehow let them regulate the open carry of weapons in their respective space, so in 2007 Kansas law was modified allowing cities, counties and municipalities to do just that.

A plethora of different regulations followed, things such as specifying or outlawing certain types of holsters or designating where on your body a firearm must be carried, etc.

This made life confusing for people if they crossed into another county or went to town to eat and encountered different regulations along the way.

Under new Kansas law, individuals are allowed to OPENLY carry anywhere in Kansas. You can go online and readily find the PDF file of the bill, but it will do you little good to read it as (See GUNS on page 20)

SCHS junior Brooke Dillinger passes the ball during volleyball camp last week.

(Record Photo)

Camp provides opportunity to see team strengths, weaknesses If Megan Gentry had to put her team’s strengths and weaknesses on paper, she could walk away from last week’s volleyball camp feeling pretty good.

“I saw more strengths than I saw weaknesses, but there’s still an awful lot to work on,” says the first year Scott Community High School head coach.

With a very young team ready to take the floor this fall, Gentry knows that a lot of time will be spent on fundamentals.

“What’s encouraging is that the girls understand that. They know that a lot of time has to be spent going over the little things and we can’t just turn them loose playing matches against each other,” says Gentry.

It was also an ideal time for Gentry to begin evaluating her squad.

When the prospective Lady Beavers would play during open gym this

summer, Gentry was willing to let them choose the position they wanted to play.

“This past week was my first chance to see them in game-type situations and that gave me a chance to evaluate their strengths and weaknesses,” Gentry says.

“They may have one idea of where they think they can play. That may not be where they end up.

Until some of these girls develop their skills a lot more, they may be limited to playing only on the back line, or maybe just serving.

“This isn’t middle school or “C” team where you play all the way around. You may be in the game for one reason only.

You may be in there for one position, or just across the back row,” says Gentry. “We have a lot of girls who don’t have the skills to play a full rotation.”

Not only do the Lady Beavers lack experience,

but they also lack height.

Gentry is hoping that won’t be as big an issue as she first feared after visiting with Jim Turner who, along with Glenn O’Neil, oversee the summer weights program.

“Coach Turner tells me the girls have worked hard in the weight room,” Gentry says. “Madison Braun’s squat max is 245 and she can jump. She can hit it when she comes over the top of the ball. Madison Orr has worked hard and you can see a difference in her swing. I think the weight room is making a huge difference for these girls who have made the commitment.”

Now that camp is over Gentry knows that she’ll have to figure out who to pencil in as a middle hitter when fall practices begin.

“I have a lot of girls who want to be outside hitters. The middle is something we’ll focus on,” she says.

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JV boys in Lakin tourney Scott City boys will compete in the junior varsity division of the Lakin Summer Shootout on Friday and Saturday, July 18-19.

Scott City will be be in pool play on Friday with Syracuse, Liberal and Cimarron. Teams in the other pool include Lakin, Garden City, Sharon Springs and Leoti.

Tournament schedule on Friday is: 10:00: SC vs Cimarron Noon: SC vs Syracuse 3:00: SC vs Liberal Bracket play will be held on Saturday.

Lake Scott Triathlon is Sat.

The Scott Recreation Commission is sponsoring the sixth annual Lake Scott Triathlon on Sat., July 19.

Registration begins at 6:30 a.m.

Competition will begin at 6:45 a.m. Athletes will be assigned to heats with staggered starting times.

The event begins with a 300m swim in the Camp Lakeside pool, followed by a 5k run and a 12-mile cycling course that takes participants on two laps around the lake.

Participants can compete as individuals or as three-person teams. Registration fee is $40 per person or $60 per team.

Scott City’s Kennedy Wasinger competes in the 25m freestyle.

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Lady Stars win 5 relay golds

Just as they have all sea- less than seven seconds ahead son, the relays proved to be the of their teammates consisting strength for the Scott City Lady of Emily Parkinson, Alexis Stars in last weekend’s Western Hoeme, Piper Wasinger and Kansas Swim Club combined Madison Shapland. championship.

The Lady Stars added anothScott City collected five of er gold in the 200m freestyle their seven gold medals in the (2:14.06) with the team of Brandl, Piper Wasinger, Patton relays.

Showing the depth of the and Stevens.

Scott City narrowly missed Stars team, Scott City won three relay medals in the 13-14-year claiming a silver in the same division, including a gold and relay with a third place time of 2:24.81. Members of the bronze silver in the 200m medley. (continued from page 17) WKSC champions in the medal team were Wiechman, Prewit, Molly 200m medley (2:44.87) was the Ashley 4 Relay Golds team of Hannah Brandl, Shelby Eikenberry and Parkinson.

The Stars were denied any Scott City was first and secPatton, Hallie Wiechman and other individual first place medMakaela Stevens. They finished ond in the 11-12-year relays, als, but did add four wins in the relays.

Two of those golds came in (continued from page 17) the 8-years and under division in the 100m freestyle (1:21.91) and the 100m medley (1:45.56).

O’Neil is anxious this week he’s not going to get there beMembers of the WKSC to see how Hutchins looks be- cause he’s not very big. But if championship in the freestyle fore he puts on pads. When he can use his quickness and relay were Jaxson Brandl, Tanhealthy, he’s been a very tough speed and beat the blocker to ner Gooden, Houston Frank and linebacker to block against traps the point of attack then he can Noll. because he does a good job of be our inside backer. If not, then Winning the medley were making his reads. we’re going to need someone Noll, Griffin Edwards, Frank “A linebacker’s two main bigger. and Brandl. priorities are the trap and the “As a senior who has battled Scott City’s boys also swept iso. Marshal’s so quick that he through injuries and worked both relays in the 11-12-year di- gives our linemen fits. But he hard in the weight room, you vision. has to be quick. If he has to wait particularly want to see someThe 200m freestyle (2:17.21) and has to run through a blocker one like this be successful.” and 200m medley (2:48.64) included Kaden Wren, Landon Trout, Conner Cupp and WindBy Western Cartographers erlin.

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winning the 200m freestyle (2:32.31) and finishing second in the medley (3:06.74).

Members of both relays were Jacy Rose, Allison Brunswig, Gabrielle Martinez and Mattie Brandl.

Brandl was also a silver medalist in the 50m breaststroke (45.59).

The 9-10-year-old Stars were conference champions in the 200m freestyle (2:48.76).

Relay members were Kennedy Holstein, Tara Rose, Hope Wiechman and Mattie Brandl.

Holstein was a runner-up in the 100m freestyle (45.59).

2 Individual Golds The only individual gold medals for Scott City came in the 8-years and under division where Brinlie Stevens won the 25m freestyle (20.29) and Kennedy Wasinger was a gold medalist in the 200m freestyle (3:52.78).

Stevens also picked up a pair of silver medals in the 50m freestyle (48.32) and the 100m freestyle (1:45.36).

Wasinger was second in the 100m individual medley (2:14.9) and finished just behind Stevens in the 100m freestyle for a third place finish.

Offensively, O’Neil hopes to use Hutchins as a single back, along with junior Wyatt Kropp.

“Early in the year, neither of them is going to get 20 carries like Wyatt did last year, especially as we got into the playoffs. He should be a good alternate to Wyatt.”

With O’Neil and his coaching staff, however, it still comes down to the little details.

“We talk about the funda-

mentals and doing things correctly. We want to get enough repetitions so that when we are able to scrimmage they don’t have to think about the fundamentals - they come automatically.

“That’s true of every sport.

If you aren’t doing it naturally you’re a half a step behind.”

O’Neil is hoping that, after this week, most of his team will be half a step ahead.

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Confidence The clock is running on Court time Weis’s future falls short of with Hawks expectations KU football head coach Charlie Weis will be starting his third season with the Jayhawks. by His first Mac two seasons Stevenson have not gone well and if the Jayhawks don’t show significant improvement Weis will likely be on his way out.

Weis inherited a KU program in total disarray thanks to the mismanagement of former chancellor Robert Hemenway and AD Lew Perkins. When Perkins hired Turner Gill - after forcing out Mark Mangino because of a personality conflict - KU was guaranteed inept recruiting and two more horrible seasons.

KU is 1-11 and 3-9 in Weis’s first two seasons and have been crushed each year by K-State.

KU’s coaching staff has focused way too much on the junior colleges in their recruiting endeavors. That won’t work.

It was acceptible for Weis’s first season, when the Jayhawks were desperate for talent. The juco recruits have been fair, at best, while most haven’t worked out well at all.

KU has a history of attracting good skilled players, but struggling to bring in talent on the offensive and defensive lines. That has continued under Weis.

This season should be it for Weis if KU can’t move up the ladder in the Big 12.

AD Sheahon Zenger can’t afford another unsuccessful five-year coaching stint.

When Zenger hired Weis, he passed on Tommy Tuberville who wanted the KU job (or so the story goes). If true, that was a mistake.

Kansas cannot live on basketball alone. Football is the big money maker in college athletics and the Jayhawks are hurting, as usual.

Have Royals peaked?

In the eight years since Dayton Moore took over as general manager for the Kansas City Royals they’ve shown significant improvement.

The scary question is whether they’ve gone about as far as they can go.

Moore focused on developing a well-organized and talented farm system and he (See CLOCK on page 22)

It was a theme repeated often by Scott Community High School girl’s head coach Shelby Crawford during Monday night’s basketball scrimmage with Dighton High School.

“Pass with confidence,” Crawford would emphasize.

Moments later he would remind his squad, “Take the ball to the basket with confidence.”

Confidence doesn’t come easily for a team that hasn’t won more than three games during each of the past three seasons. It was an area the head coach was hoping to make more progress on during the summer, but that takes a lot of court time which hasn’t occurred at the level Crawford wanted.

“We were able to scrimmage twice against Dighton during the last couple of weeks, and we had a scrimmage against some of our alumni,” says Crawford. “I had plans for us to play in a tournament or two, but I couldn’t get enough girls to commit.

“The scrimmages against Dighton were real valuable,” he says. “It helps, but it’s not enough.”

Scott City was no match for a Dighton team that has made back-to-back appearances in the Class 1A state tournament and returns three starters. Sophomore center Jordan Speer is joined by guards Kiara Budd and Sara Cramer.

The trio has been playing this summer with a traveling team out of Pratt.

“We have three real solid starters and a couple of girls who are probably ahead of everyone else for the other two spots,” says Dighton head coach Amy Felker.

The head coach says that scrimmaging against Scott City the past couple of weeks has been a good experience.

“It was nice to play against Scott City because they forced

Guns it doesn’t say much about the open carry of firearms.

In talking with our local police chief, I was reminded of the federal law called the Gun Free School Zone Act that prohibits weapons from being carried on school grounds and sets a gun free zone around every school. It seems this law is interpreted a little differently

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is the main theme for SC girls

Scott City’s Mariah Campbell drives to the paint during Monday’s scrimmage against Dighton.

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us to work harder on defense.

We don’t see that against our JV,” she says. “During the last couple of weeks we’ve had some good court time to talk about things and work on them in situations where we also can stop play and visit about what we’re trying to do.

“I’d like to see us doing this more next summer.”

While the Scott City girls couldn’t keep pace with Dighton’s offense, Crawford did see some positive signs.

“We put in a play (Monday) morning and we got a couple good looks at the basket with a high post dive. We didn’t have much time to work on it and we still executed it fairly well,” he says. “It shows we can execute set plays.”

The girls were also able to switch from a matchup zone defense to a 1-3-1 in an effort to take away Speer’s ability to dominate in the paint.

“We had some success taking away Dighton’s inside game, but they were able to hit the outside shot,” says Crawford. “But we did force them to make some adjustments, which was a good thing.”

When the two teams scrimmaged a couple of weeks ago, Scott City did have some success with their perimeter shooting. Once again, Kiana Yager was able to knock down a couple of threes, which is a positive sign for an undersized team.

“Because we had some success hitting our outside shots,

Dighton played us a tighter man-to-man, which should have opened up the inside option. But we aren’t cutting hard to the basket,” says the head coach.

Another concern with lack of size is rebounding.

“We’re still so weak under the boards,” Crawford says.

“We don’t work hard enough.

We hope the ball comes to us.

Mariah Campbell was the best rebounder as a guard.

However, the biggest issue facing the Scott City girls is confidence - particularly on offense.

“We need to pass with more confidence - without hesitation - and have players who are willing to take the ball to the basket,” Crawford says.

ed to be unloaded during transportation. Our local conservation officer told me that they stress to hunter safety students that it is a better idea to carry your hunting weapon unloaded in the vehicle, but it has never been illegal in Kansas to transport a loaded hunting weapon in a vehicle.

So there you have it. You

know what I know.

Talk to your local law enforcement people to know how the Gun Free School Zone Act is interpreted in your area and try to gain a better understanding of Kansas gun laws so you can legally continue to Explore Kansas Outdoors.

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in every community, so please check with your local law enforcement authorities before picking up your kids at school with a Glock on your hip or a loaded coyote gun in the pickup.

I thought Wildlife and Parks law made it illegal to carry a loaded hunting weapon in a vehicle; that the weapon need-

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

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Scott City Stars Swim Team 50 yd. Breaststroke 11-12 years: Jacy Rose, Western Kansas 11-12 years: Mattie Mattie Brandl, Allison Swim Club Brunswig, Gabrielle MartiCombined Championship Brandl, 2nd, 45.59.

100 yd. Breaststroke July 12-13, 2014 nez, 2nd, 3:06.74.

11-14 years: Hannah Guymon, Okla.

13-14 years: Hannah Team scores: Golden Brandl, 6th, 1:39.75.

Brandl, Shelby Patton, 15-years and over: Kylee Hallie Wiechman, Makaela Belt 1,091.5, Scott City 750, Guymon 706, Spear- Trout, 6th, 1:32.93.

Stevens, 1st, 2:44.87; Em25 yd. Butterfly man 624.5, Moore Co. 593, ily Parkinson, Alexis Hoeme, 8-years and under: Brin- Piper Wasinger, Madison Hays 162, Garden City 153, Dodge City 88, Ulysses 73, lie Stevens, 3rd, 27.10.

Shapland, 2nd, 2:51.48; 50 yd. Butterfly Holcomb 56, Southwest 5, Grace Hutton, Alyssa Storm, 9-10 years: Kennedy Ashley Prewit, Molly EikenLeoti 2 Holstein, 3rd, 50.33; Hope berry, 6th, 3:08.02.

Girl’s Division Wiechman, 5th, 52.62.

25 yd. Freestyle 15-years and over: 100 yd. Butterfly 8-years and under: BrinElaine Parkinson, Kylee 11-14 years: Makaela Trout, Reagan Smyth, Cami lie Stevens, 1st, 20.29; KenStevens, 5th, 1:30.79. nedy Wasinger, 5th, 21.99.

Patton, 4th, 2:38.49.

15-years and over: Rea50 yd. Freestyle Boy’s Division 8-years and under: Brin- gan Smyth, 6th, 1:24.67.

25 yd. Freestyle lie Stevens, 2nd, 48.32; Ken- 100 yd. Individual Medley 8-years and under: Avry 8-years and under: Kennedy Wasinger, 5th, 51.51.

Noll, 1st, 18.47; Jaxson 9-10 years: Alli Patton, nedy Wasinger, 2nd, 2:14.90.

Brandl, 3rd, 19.54.

3rd, 40.77; Kennedy Hol- 200 yd. Individual Medley 50 yd. Freestyle 15-years and over: Kylee stein, 4th, 40.88.

8-years and under: Avry Trout, 5th, 3:04.58.

13-14 years: Makaela Noll. 2nd, 42.19; Jaxson 100 yd. Freestyle Relay Stevens, 4th, 32.80.

8-years and under: Brin- Brandl, 3rd, 43.68.

15-years and over: Kylee 9-10 years: Eric Shaplie Stevens, Megan Trout, Trout, 4th, 31.36; Reagan Hailey Shapland, Kennedy land, 5th, 41.43; Zach Smyth, 5th, 31.93.

Rohrbough, 6th, 41.55.

Wasinger, 1st, 1:34.88.

100 yd. Freestyle 11-12 years: Brandon 200 yd.

Freestyle Relay 8-years and under: Brin9-10 years: Kennedy Winderlin, 1st, 30.56; Kaden lie Stevens, 2nd, 1:45.36; Kennedy Wasinger, 3rd, Holstein, Tara Rose, Hope Wren, 3rd, 32.76; Conner Wiechman, Allison Patton, Cupp, 6th, 34.95.1.

1:50.38.

100 yd. Freestyle 9-10 years: Kennedy Hol- 1st, 2:48.76; Alivia Noll, 8-years and under: Avry stein, 2nd, 1:30.16; Alli Pat- Hannah Einkenberry, Lana Rodriguez, Kiley Wren, 6th, Noll, 2nd, 1:34.20; Jaxson ton, 4th, 1:32.37.

Brandl, 3rd, 1:37.57.

13-14 years: Makaela 3:05.36.

11-12 years: Jacy Rose, 9-10 years: Eric ShapStevens, 6th, 1:14.93.

Allison Brunswig, Gabrielle land, 6th, 1:33.60.

15-years and over: Kylee Martinez, Mattie Brandl, 1st, 11-12 years: Brandon Trout, 4th, 1:10.33.

2:32.31.

Winderlin, 1st, 68.78; Kaden 200 yd. Freestyle 13-14 years: Hannah Wren, 4th, 1:15.38; Conner 8-years and under: KenBrandl, Piper Wasinger, Shel- Cupp, 6th, 1:20.22. nedy Wasinger, 1st, 3:52.78;

by Patton, Makaela Stevens, 200 yd. Freestyle Brinlie Stevens, 4th, 4:08.20.

1st, 2:14.06; Hallie Wiech8-years and under: Avry 9-10 years: Kennedy Holman, Ashley Prewit, Molly Noll, 2nd, 3:31.66; Jaxson stein, 3rd, 3:23.68; Alli PatEikenberry, Emily Parkinson, Brandl, 3rd, 3:37.41. ton, 5th, 3:28.63.

3rd, 2:24.81; Madison Shap11-12 years: Brandon 11-12 years: Gabby Mar- land, Alyssa Storm, Brooke Winderlin, 1st, 2:35.81; tinez, 5th, 3:08.48.

Hoeme, Alexis Hoeme, 5th, Kaden Wren, 3rd, 2:51.68; 13-14 years: Shelby Pat- 2:33.77.

Conner Cupp, 5th, 5:59.13. ton, 6th, 2:47.29.

15-years and over: Rea400 yd. Freestyle 15-years and over: Rea- gan Smyth, Elaine Parkin11-12 years: Brandon gan Smyth, 4th, 2:38.31; son, Cami Patton, Kylee Winderlin, 2nd, 5:52.18.

Kylee Trout, 5th, 2:40.62.

Trout, 3rd, 2:14.44.

25 yd. Backstroke 400 yd. Freestyle 100 yd. Medley Relay 8-years and under: Avry 15-years and over: Kylee 8-years and under: KinNoll, 2nd, 23.05.

Trout, 5th, 5:51.52. leigh Wren, Kennedy Was50 yd. Backstroke 800 yd. Freestyle inger, Brinlie Stevens, Hailey 9-10 years: Eric Shap13-14 years: Shelby Pat- Shapland, 3rd, 1:58.91. land, 3rd, 51.52. ton, 6th, 12:53.79.

200 yd. Medley Relay 11-12 years: Conner 15-years and over: Kylee 9-10 years: Allison PatTrout, 4th, 12:25.26; Reagan ton, Tara Rose, Hope Wiech- Cupp, 3rd, 39.97; Brandon Smyth, 6th, 12:26.56, man, Kennedy Holstein, 4th, Winderlin, 6th, 42.72.

25 yd. Breaststroke 100 yd. Backstroke 3:31.81; Lana Rodriguez, 8-years and under: Grif11-14 years: Hannah Alivia Noll, Hannah Eikenberfin Edwards, 3rd, 28.93.

Brandl, 6th, 1:26.45. ry, Kiley Wren, 6th, 3:48.20.

Fishing Report 50 yd. Breaststroke 9-10 years: Eric Shapland, 3rd, 52.09.

11-12 years: Kaden Wren, 4th, 46.60; Conner Cupp, 6th, 47.43.

25 yd. Butterfly 8-years and under: Jaxson Brandl, 3rd, 26.99; Houston Frank, 6th, 29.87; Avry Noll, 6th, 29.87.

50 yd. Butterfly 9-10 years: Carter Gooden, 3rd, 53.37; Eric Shapland, 4th, 54.22; Zach Rohrbough, 6th, 57.10.

11-12 years: Conner Cupp, 2nd, 38.18; Brandon Winderlin, 5th, 39.66.

100 yd. Individual Medley 9-10 years: Eric Shapland, 3rd, 1:48.11; Carter Gooden, 6th, 1:52.62.

200 yd. Individual Medley 11-12 years: Brandon Winderlin, 2nd, 3:12.27; Conner Cupp, 3rd, 3:22.98; Kaden Wren, 4th, 3:28.31.

100 yd. Freestyle Relay 8-years and under: Jaxson Brandl, Tanner Gooden, Houston Frank, Avry Noll, 1st, 1:21.90; Alexander Rodriguez, Brodie Holstein, Waylon Ricker, Griffin Edwards, 6th, 1:53.73.

200 yd. Freestyle Relay 9-10 years: Zach Rohrbough, Wyatt Ricker, Carter Gooden, Eric Shapland, 2nd, 2:52.02.

11-12 years: Kaden Wren, Landon Trout, Conner Cupp, Brandon Winderlin, 1st, 2:17.21.

100 yd. Medley Relay 8-years and under: Avry Noll, Griffin Edwards, Houston Frank, Jaxson Brandl, 1st, 1:45.56.

200 yd. Medley Relay 9-10 years: Wyatt Ricker, Eric Shapland, Carter Gooden, Zach Rohrbough, 2nd, 3:37.14.

11-12 years: Landon Trout, Kaden Wren, Conner Cupp, Brandon Winderlin, 1st, 2:48.64.

Mixed Division 50 yd. Freestyle 9-10 years: Kennedy Wasinger, 1st, 47.97; Lana Rodriguez, 4th, 48.81.

11-12 years: Brooke Hoeme, 1st, 39.51.

50 yd. Breaststroke 9-10 years: Lana Rodriguez, 1st, 58.39.

Scott State Lake Updated July 10 Channel cats: good, up to 6.5 lbs. Fishing minnows, worms, cutbait, and prepared baits off the bottom along the dam and up in the creek. Anglers report catching a wide size range of fish.

Crappie: fair/good; most up to 9 inches. Fishing jigs or minnows along weedbed edges, rip-rapped shorelines, along the dam face, and around the fish attractors.

Walleye/saugeye: slow/fair; saugeye, up to 3.6 lbs.; walleye, up to 6.1 lbs. Fish imitating lures fished along points and drop-offs has produced fish here and there.

Largemouth bass: fair; up to 5.5 lbs. Casting spinnerbaits, swimbaits, and other fish imitating baits around the fish attractors, laydown trees, overhanging bushes, and cattails adjacent to deeper water has been good for fish of all sizes up to 6 lbs.

Sunfish: good; up to 8 inches. Vertically fishing small jig heads tipped with small pieces of nightcrawler or whole mealworms around the fish attractors and along rip-rapped shorelines and edges of the cattails.

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succeeded to a point. But it appears the farm system has leveled off, with no big-time prospects looming as future stars.

Owner David Glass is known for keeping a firm grip on the purse strings and that hasn’t helped.

The Royals biggest issue right now is the absence of at least one consistent power hitter who can lead the rest of the team on offense. Left fielder Alex Gordon, catcher Sal Perez, designated hitter Billy Butler, third baseman Mike Moustakas, and first baseman Eric Hosmer all came up through the Royals’ farm system and they were regarded as potentially great hitters.

One or two of the aforementioned players might still develop into superstar hitters who can carry the offense - they are still young. However, it certainly isn’t happening this season.

All five players have had some great moments, but they lack consistency and power.

Kansas City has a major issue with their hitting that must be resolved if the Royals are going to make it to the playoffs for the first time since 1985.

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Brazilian coach hoping to lay foundation for soccer in Western Ks.

When Charles Long observes the youngsters going through his soccer camp, he sees both the future and the challenge confronting the future of the sport in the United States.

“Youth soccer is the most developed of any nation in the world,” says Long, a native of Brazil who is the new women’s soccer head coach at Garden City Community College.

However, at about age 12, American youth begin turning their attention to baseball, basketball and football “because that’s where the scholarships are and the money is.”

While there are still opportunities for young people interested in soccer, Long says it becomes a “rich man’s sport” for the parents of those youngsters who choose to continue with club soccer programs.

“When you look at the cost of travel, motels, club fees and other things it pushes poorer kids out of the program and it limits the pool of athletes,” Long says.

Jackson Harris, Scott City, relaxes while listening to coach Charles Long during the Samba soccer camp in Scott City this week.

(Record Photo)

While the World Cup has demonstrated the potential for a huge following for the sport in the U.S., he also points out that until more opportunities exist for young people to pursue the sport into their teen years and beyond, he isn’t sure American soccer can compete with the best programs in the world.

“I have worked with players from youth through the professional level for over 25 years.

I know what it takes to be successful,” says Long, who is conducting the Samba soccer camp through the Scott Recreation Commission this week.

He has previously conducted a camp in Garden City and has hopes of developing more camps throughout Southwest Kansas. One of his objectives, naturally, is to get more youngsters into the sport and to broaden his potential recruiting base across the region.

Beyond that, he also wants to get more youngsters started in soccer and keep them in the sport longer.

“My goal is to teach some basic skills and a love for the game,” Long emphasizes. “If they love the game and play with passion they will stick with it.”

While he has a very young group of participants at his Scott City camp, Long says his focus at every camp is for youth to learn trapping, passing and shooting skills.

“It’s a matter of teaching kids to be more comfortable with a soccer ball,” he says. “In Brazil, or any other South American country, when you toss a kid a ball he instinctively begins dribbling it with his feet. When you toss a kid a ball in the United States his first reaction is to dribble it like a basketball or to shoot it.”

Looking around at his young campers, Long says this is an ideal age to begin teaching soccer skills.

“The important thing is for them to think more about ball work and learning the basic skills and not to be so focused on winning,” he points out.

“Most of all,” he adds, “ I want to keep it fun.”

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JP Harris (front) is able to prevent Kade Bonville from stealing the ball during camp drills on Monday morning. (Below) Lily Lightner (left), Chewie Harper and Odessa Cline try to get control of the ball during a scrimmage.

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building bonds Scott City artist Jerry Thomas with his latest painting, “Mystic Warrior,” along with gifts that were presented to him during a recent visit to the Northern Cheyenne in Lame Deer, Mont.

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More artifacts, events still to come with Northern Cheyenne To say that Jerry Thomas and the Northern Cheyenne have developed a deep bond would be an understatement.

To the Northern Cheyenne, Thomas is more than an artist.

To Thomas, the Northern Cheyenne are far more than subjects for his canvas.

“There’s a level of trust that doesn’t just happen overnight,” noted Thomas during a recent stop at his gallery in Scott City.

Trust is only one key ingredient. There’s also understanding that comes from knowing the people who will appear in his paintings. And there’s a deep sense of appreciation that comes from studying the history of the Northern Cheyenne and doing the research behind the Battle of Punished Woman’s Fork.

Thomas was honored by the Northern Cheyenne during

a recent trip to their reservation in Lame Deer, Mont., at which time he unveiled his latest painting, “Mystic Warrior.”

He donated the painting to the Northern Cheyenne with proceeds to be used for education scholarships.

“They are not a wealthy people. Farming and other opportunities aren’t very good where they live,” he noted.

Respect is felt both ways.

Tribal President Cowboy Fisher presented Thomas with several tokens of respect, such as a handmade drum, tobacco pipe bag and moccasins, among others. These gifts will be going on display in the Thomas Gallery, which is part of the El Quartelejo Museum.

Thomas also pointed out that the Northern Cheyenne had not forgotten the hospitality they received while in Scott City last

fall for the Battle Canyon Symposium.

That’s where trust has become an important element between them and Thomas.

“They had to see the gallery in person and how we’re telling the story of the battle,” says Thomas. “They were impressed with the gallery and this community.”

As a result, Thomas says the door has been opened for the gallery to receive more artifacts which will be on permanent display.

“What we have is an opportunity to create a gallery that’s one-of-a-kind,” Thomas says.

“We’re going to have historic pieces and artifacts that can’t be found anywhere else.”

involving the museum/gallery and the Northern Cheyenne.

“What we did last fall to honor the Northern Cheyenne and to recognize the events that took place at Battle Canyon was not a one-time event,” emphasizes Thomas. “They are very interested in maintaining a relationship.”

One of those events will be a trek from the Darlington reservation in Oklahoma to Punished Woman’s Fork which is tentatively planned for next spring or summer. That will be followed by the Northern Cheyenne resuming that walk the following year from Battle Canyon to Fort Robinson, Nebr., and in the third year they would finish the journey to Lame Deer.

“We would like to plan an Not a One-Time Event In addition, the artists says event when they arrive in Scott there will be additional events City,” says Thomas. “They’re

very interested in doing something special while they’re here.”

It’s not just the Northern Cheyenne who want to make sure that last fall’s symposium is not a one-time event.

“I’ve had a lot of people approach me in Scott City and tell me how much they enjoyed it and that they hope the Cheyenne return,” Thomas says.

“What we’re doing here is getting a lot of attention. I believe the history that occurred right here and the events surrounding the battle are starting to get the attention they deserve.”

Thomas, who was “Artist of the Year” for the Little Big Horn Associates, recently attended the national convention in Winchester, Va., where his painting, “Dodging the Storm,” was showcased.

I believe the history that occurred right here and the events surrounding the battle are starting to get the attention they deserve.

artist and historian Jerry Thomas

Over 100 state GOP officials endorse Davis More than 100 current and former Republican officials formally endorsed Democrat Paul Davis for governor on Tuesday in an event that organizers said was unprecedented in Kansas politics.

Speaking for the newly formed group, Republicans for Kansas Values, former Sen. Wint Winter, Lawrence, said the mass endorsement was prompted by growing concerns among mod-

erate Republicans about the effect of Brownback’s tax and budget policies on public schools, highways, universities, social services and the Kansas economy.

“Gov. Brownback’s radical style of leadership lacks Kansas common sense,” Winter said. “It hurts our schools, weakens our financial condition and it fails to create jobs at the rate of our neighboring states.”

Winter pointed out

The decision to endorse a Democratic candidate for governor is a big step for every one of us; a big departure from our Republican roots.

We do not make this decision lightly. former Senate President Dick Bond an Overland Park Republican

that, “Brownback and fellow conservative Republicans who control the Legislature cut state income taxes, believing that would help create record numbers of new jobs. However, the lower rates, which are still being

phased in, have so far not produced the promised results.”

Brownback has said that the more than 50,000 private-sector jobs created in Kansas since he took office in 2011 are evidence that the tax cuts

are starting to work. But his critics point to several recent reports that show Kansas lagging the nation and most of its neighboring states in job growth and several other measures of economic vitality.

Meanwhile, there is little dispute that the tax cuts have contributed to steep declines in state revenue collections. In the final three months of the budget year that ended June 30, collections totaled nearly $340

million less than expected even though projections already had been lowered to account for the tax cuts.

Official projections show the state spending through its reserves in the current budget year, possibly forcing legislators to cut spending to balance the budget.

Brownback has blamed recent changes in federal tax rates for the steepness of the decline. But Winter, a former vice chair of the (See DAVIS on page 32)

The Scott County Record

Farm

Farmers, ranchers should keep FSA records updated USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) recommends that farmers and ranchers who plan to participate in FSA programs ensure their farm records are accurate. They should report changes of land ownership or new farm operators for the 2015 crop year.

Updates or changes to report include: •New producers or producers who have not updated farm records at FSA. •Producers, who have recently bought, sold or rented land. Those producers need to ensure that changes have been reported and properly recorded by the FSA county personnel.

Reports of purchased or sold property should include a copy of the land deed, and if land has been leased, then documentation should be provided that indicates the producer had/has control of the acreage.

Producers who have changed business structures (e.g. created a living trust, or formed a partnership or LLC) need to ensure that these relationships and shares are properly recorded with FSA. Even family farms that have existing records on file may want to ensure that this is recorded accurately as it may impact payment limits.

Farm records can be updated at FSA Service Centers in the county where the farm or ranch is located. Producers can contact the local FSA Service Center in advance to find out what paperwork they may need.

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Risks are involved with ‘right to farm’ legislation Next month, voters in Missouri will be asked to add an amendment to the Show Me state’s constitution. It’s deceptively straightforward: That Missourians shall have “the right to engage in agricultural production and ranching practices.”

But the so-called “Right to Farm” amendment is anything but simple and straightforward.

Supporters insist that it

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would protect the state’s hugely important farming base, including significant pork and dairy operations.

Opponents - and it’s not too difficult to figure out who they might be - claim that approval could lead to wholesale abuse of ani-

mals by both producers and breeders.

The controversy began in 2010 when Missouri voters passed a ballot measure enacting strict regulations on dog breeders operating in the state. The campaign was funded in largely by the Humane Society of the United States, which later bragged that the new rules on cage sizes and numbers of breeding dogs per

facility put “hundreds of puppy mills out of business.”

The fear that hundreds of farmers might be similarly put out of business via restrictive regulations is ostensibly the rationale for this proposed constitutional amendment, which proponents claim would simply give farmers solid legal standing to challenge regulations (See RISKS on page 27)

Kansas idea has fed 3 billion people Kansans are, by nature, generous people. From holding soup supper fundraisers for community members to the “small town wave” you see while driving down Main Street, Kansans are always willing to lend a hand.

In that tradition of giving, 60 years ago a grassroots movement started

Wheat Scoop Jordan Hildebrand program assistant

Kansas Wheat

by a Kansas native was implemented on an international scale.

Peter O’Brien, a young farmer and rancher from Cheyenne County, in northwest Kansas, sug-

gested at his county Farm Bureau meeting in September 1953 that since the United States had an abundance of grain, maybe we could lend a hand to our global neighbors in need of food aid.

It was a Kansas common sense idea: giving some of our surplus grain to countries in dire need,

saving lives and building goodwill all in one simple gesture.

A resolution was drafted at the county level and was soon adopted by the Kansas Farm Bureau and the American Farm Bureau Federation.

In 1954, U.S. Senator Andy Schoeppel, also (See IDEA on page 27)

Water plan offers goals for extending the aquifer Mary Soukup Drovers CattleNetwork

Kansas is following through on a call-to-action to get serious about a long-term vision for water use and conservation.

Led by a team of officials from the Kansas Water Office and Kansas Department of

Nominations open for FSA committee

Deadline for farmers and ranchers to be nominated for the Scott County Farm Service Agency committee is Fri., Aug. 1.

The elected member will begin serving a threeyear term on Jan. 1.

This year’s electionis in local administrative area (LAA) No. 2 which includes producers in the northeastern part of the county, from US 83 Highway east to the Lane County line; and from the Logan/Gove County line extending down to three miles south of K96 Highway.

To be eligible to serve a person must participate in a program administered

by FSA and reside in the LAA. Waivers are considered for cases where an eligible voter lives in Scott County but their residence is not in the assigned LAA. Nomination forms, and other information about FSA county committee elections are also available at www.fsa.usda.gov/ elections.

Nomination forms must be postmarked or received in the local USDA Service Center by close of business on Aug. 1. Elections will take place this fall.

FSA county committees make decisions on disaster and conservation programs, emergency programs, commodity price support loan programs and other agricultural issues.

Agriculture, there have been more than 160 meetings held throughout the state to solicit input from Kansas citizens about strategies to conserve and better manage water.

According to the Water Vision Team, the outreach process reached more than 9,000 Kansans.

The initial “discus-

sion draft” document was released July 1, and the team is currently holding a series of 12 public meetings across the state begin fine-tuning the draft.

The draft contains more than 170 strategies focused on four main themes, including water conservation, water management, technology and

crop varieties, and new sources of supply.

While the draft includes general goals to conserve and extend the usable life of the Ogallala Aquifer and protecting reservoir supply storage, it also offers some more specific and measureable goals for consideration. Some of these goals include:

KDA offers cost-share for organic certification Kansas farmers who currently use organic production practices or would like to pursue organic certification can apply for cost-share funds from the Kansas Department of Agriculture (KDA).

The program, funded by the 2014 Farm Bill, is administered though the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS). The program is intended to assist in offsetting costs associated with organic certification or recertification.

Grant recipients are eligible for up to 75 percent of the cost of their organic certification, up to $750, for certification occurring between Octo-

ber 1, 2013, and Sept. 30, 2014, as long as funds remain.

To receive funds, organic farmers and handlers must submit their application and a copy of the organic certification document, an invoice showing the amount paid for that certification and a W-9 form.

KDA was allocated nearly $73,000 for the program. Reimbursements will be on a first-come, first-served basis until the limited program funds are exhausted.

The program application is posted on the KDA website, Organic Cost Share Program. The site is also a resource for program updates.

•Achieve a 20 percent per capita reduction in water consumption by 2035 while increasing Kansas’ ranking among Midwest states in economic growth per capita; •Reduce statewide water consumption by 20 percent by 2065 while maintaining a position as a leading Midwest state

contributor to the real U.S. economic growth; •Achieve a 20 percent reduction per capita in municipal water demand and a 20 percent reduction in total consumptive use in the Ogallala Aquifer by 2065 and rank as a top 20 state in Gross Domestic Products; (See AQUIFER on page 27)

Market Report Closing prices on July 15, 2014 Winona Feed and Grain Bartlett Grain Wheat..................

$ 6.05

Milo ....................

$ 3.44

White Wheat .......

Corn ...................

Soybeans ...........

$ 6.20 $ 4.04

$ 11.75

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$ 6.05

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$ 3.44

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Corn....................

$ 6.07

Milo (bu.).............

$ 3.44

White Wheat .......

Corn....................

Soybeans ...........

Sunflowers..........

ADM Grain

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$ 6.20

July 9

87 64

$ 4.04

July 10

93

July 11

98 66

July 12

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July 13

88 69 .04

July 14

86 62

$ 11.76

$ 15.80

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$ 4.09

Sunflowers..........

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$ 6.14

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$ 4.04

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$ 6.20

$ 3.49 $ 11.76

$ 16.35

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Risks on genetically modified crops or animal welfare issues.

“Agriculture all over the United States, not just in Missouri, is under attack from outside groups willing to spend millions to advance their agenda,” Blake Hurst, president of the Missouri Farm Bureau Federation, told the Kansas City Star.

“We need some protections from these attacks.”

Opponents insist the proposed amendment would negate environmental and animal-protection laws now on the books.

“People already have the right to farm in this state. Putting it in the constitution is sort of a silly thing,” said Bob Baker, executive director of the Missouri Alliance for Animal Legislation.

HSUS officials, for their part, argued that the

Idea from Kansas, sponsored the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act, a bill based on the grassroots resolution. The act was then signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

All of these efforts were fueled by a common goal.

With a secure food source, people from developing countries could not only just survive, but they could then build a thriving national economy and potentially become buyers of U.S. exports.

The Kansas connection is an integral part of the U.S. Food for Peace Program, but the global effects and need of the program are undeniable.

Research has concluded

Aquifer

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real aim of the proposal is to protect factory farms and corporations such as Monsanto, as well as potentially stifle litigation targeting polluters.

A Disturbing Parallel This aggressive approach by ag groups to protect farmers’ and producers’ rights, though justified, is worrisome.

That’s because agriculture is standing at a crossroads similar to what the nation’s major unions faced in the 1960s.

Back then, a perfect storm of techno-cultural developments was remaking the industrial landscape at the very point in time that union leadership decided to dig in its heels during collective bargaining on socalled “master contracts” that covered entire industries.

Even as automated technologies and computerized controls began allowing manufacturers to shed millions of bluecollar jobs, the hardline stance on job security led to abuses such as featherbedding of obsolete jobs and rigid seniority systems that robbed employers of the flexibility they needed to stay competitive.

All that, coupled with a civil rights movement that cast a damaging light on trade unions’ shabby record on minority hiring, stoked widespread public backlash and paved the way for many corporations to go all in on outsourcing and offshoring as ways to shed their union contracts.

But that revolution might never have happened - or at least it would have taken many more years to get underway -

had the public remained staunchly in favor of unions. In the end, however, unions were their own worst enemies, and an ill-advised battle to maintain a status quo that was no longer sustainable cost them dearly.

Likewise, producers and farmers are now confronted with a rapidly changing social landscape, with a citizenry unappreciative of the challenges of food production and increasingly reluctant to continue to support the agricultural support systems that have contributed to the abundance and affordability of our modern food supply.

People no longer grow up on a farm. They don’t know anybody who’s a farmer. An understanding of the skill required to nurture crops, tend to the soil or manage pasture and rangeland is no longer

(continued from page 26)

that food aid increases net farm income by 52% which leads to effective land and labor utilization and increases employment by 93%.

The rise in household income has an incredible effect on local diets.

Participants consume 42% more fat, 26% more calories and 16% more protein, all necessary components to a healthy diet.

A recipient of food aid in the Democratic Republic of the Congo said, “I feel relieved that at the end of each month I have food in my house, which gives me more strength to expand cultivation area. I would never have cultivated more than a half hectare (1.2 acres)

(continued from page 26)

•Kansans will use 10 percent less water per person by 2035 while increasing the state’s ranking economic growth indictors; and •Increase the estimated usable lifetime in all areas of the Ogallala Aquifer in Kansas by a minimum of 25 years.

A 2013 study conducted by Kansas State University found that under current irrigation trends, nearly 70 percent of the groundwater stored in the Ogallala Aquifer of Kansas would be depleted. The report estimated that reducing water use immediately could extend the aquifer’s usable life through the year 2110.

Researchers anticipate that corn and cattle production will increase in Western Kansas until 2040, with peak water usage anticipated in 2025. Beyond that, the researchers say it depends on what decisions are made about the future of water use in the state.

before, but now I just realized a hectare (2.4 acres) of maize and a half hectare (1.2 acres) of beans.”

The USDA Economic Research Service currently estimates that the most food insecure countries have a food gap of 15.4 million metric tons, and that the level of need is expected to increase to 19.7 million metric tons by 2023.

Last fiscal year, almost 14 million bushels of hard red winter wheat were exported for Food for Peace programs. India’s wheat farms have become a Food for Peace success story.

In 1971, five years after receiving funding from the program for high-yielding grain vari-

eties, irrigation and other modern tools necessary for profitable production, India boasted a 404 million bushel surplus.

More than 60 years after it was first drafted in St. Francis, Food for Peace has been credited with saving over three billion lives. The accomplishments of the program were recently celebrated at a dinner in Washington D.C., hosted by Sens.

Debbie Stabenow and Thad Cochran. Dalton Henry, director of government relations for Kansas Wheat, was in attendance.

“It was refreshing to see politics put to the side in order to celebrate a program that does so much good in the world,” he observed.

commonplace. Like the firsthand experience of working in a steel mill or a packing plant, the public’s connection to raising animals or growing crops has virtually disappeared.

And when public empathy for the struggles that accompanying food production begins to wane, policymakers no longer feel bound to continue the historic supports that in a previous generation were taken for granted, and that includes much more than just federal subsidies.

When agriculture slides down the list of national priorities, research funding is affected, irrigation projects get curtailed and land-use decisions increasingly favor development over farming.

In analyzing what happened to unions, it’s not fair to say they did it to themselves, because their decline was exacerbated

greatly by the aforementioned convergence of societal factors beyond their control. But certainly their greed, arrogance and short-sightedness became co-conspirators in furthering their downfall.

Likewise, automation and technology have so reduced participation in agriculture that it’s a wonder that the concept of catering to “farm states” still exists as a political dynamic. That’s not the fault of farmers or producers.

But those who still recognize the importance of a strong, vital foodproduction sector had best tread carefully in their public positioning.

These days, to be a successful in agriculture, you’ve got to understand not only how to cultivate the soil, but how to cultivate public opinion, as well.

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Also 8x10 storage units available. Stop by PlainJans to fill out an application or 46tfc call 872-5777.

––––––––––––––––––––– 3 BEDROOM HOUSE for rent with garage. $800 plus deposit. No pets. Call 48t2c 874-2281.

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 37tfc will not be beat!

––––––––––––––––––––– “JEN’S GROOMING” Jennifer Milner grooming at 503 E. 5th St., (formally Cowboy Cabins). Please call for an appointment 620-214-0097.

Hours are Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m.- noon.

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Rentals

HIDE AND SEEK Agriculture STORAGE SYSTEMS. Various sizes available.

WANTED TO BUY. Virgil and LeAnn Kuntz, Stored corn. Call for basis (620)874-2120.

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FOR SALE BY OWNER

Nicely updated 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths, living room, dining room, large kitchen, family room and utility room on a large corner lot.

Call: Pam Wheeler 620-872-3076 or Scot Aytes 620-874-1646.

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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

We Have Buyers!

We Need Listings!

Call us to get your home listed.

TRUCK DRIVER/ EQUIPMENT OPERATOR Scott County Public Works is seeking a truck driver/equipment operator.

Must have a Class A CDL, drug and alcohol testing required, must be able to lift 50 plus pounds.

We offer competitive pay and benefit package.

Pick up application at: Public Works Office 481 East Road 160 Scott City, KS. 67871 620-872-2202 49t2c

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Employment Opportunities MAINTENANCE WORKER

HOUSEKEEPING Unified School District No. 466 is looking for a qualified applicant for a full-time housekeeping position at Scott City Middle School.

For applications and additional information please contact: Rusty Lindsay Board of Education Building 704 College, Scott City, Ks. 67871 (620)-872-7655 USD #466 is an EOE Employer.

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The City of Scott City is accepting applications for a maintenance worker in the street, water and sewer department.

Benefits include: BC/BS, vacation and sick leave.

Applications may be obtained and returned at: City Hall, 221 W. 5th St., Scott City applications accepted until position is filled.

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County Plat Maps

By Western Cartographers Scott • Lane • Wichita • Ness • Logan Gove • Greeley • Finney • Wallace • Kearny Pick them up today at:

EXTENSION AGENT Family and Consumer Sciences opportunity in Wichita County, Leoti.

Details: www.ksre.ksu.edu/jobs Deadline: August 5, 2014 K-State Research and Extension is an EOE of individuals with disabilities and protected veterans. Background check required.

NEW GRADS AND RN’S Work with the best in the West!

St. Catherine’s Hospital is looking for new grads and experienced RN’s.

• Sign-on bonus for new grads and experienced RN’s • Tuition reimbursement and school loan repayment opportunities • A regional referral center with multi special ties to choose from • Recent market adjustment allows us to extend highly competitive pay • Exceptional benefits • A faith-based facility Apply at: www.stcatherinehosp.org 401 East Spruce Garden City, KS 67846 620-272-2531 Centura Health does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, disability, age, sex, religion, creed, ancestry, sexual orientation, and marital status in admission, treatment, or participation in its programs, services and activities, or in employment. For further information about this policy contact Centura Health’s office of the General Counsel at (303)804-8166.

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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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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.

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 and part-time CNA (evening shift) Part-time CMA (evening shift) Full-time RN/LPN (evening shift) Shift differential pay offered for evening and night shifts!

Please apply in person at:

Park Lane Nursing Home

210 E. Parklane Scott City, KS 67871 Or visit us at our website: www.parklanenursinghome.org “Quality Care Because We Care”

406 Main • Scott City • 620 872-2090 49t3c

PARK LANE NURSING HOME

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SCOTT COUNTY HOSPITAL HAS OPENINGS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL STAFF Director of Nursing/Chief Nursing Officer PATIENT CARE Acute Care RN’s C.N.A.s Respiratory Therapist PRN/Temporary Outpatient Services RN ADMINISTRATIVE Marketing Coordinator CLERICAL HR Benefits Specialist Evening Ward Clerk Outpatient Scheduler HIM ROI/Transcriptionist SERVICE PRN Dietary Aide/Cook Housekeeping Aide Floor Care Maintenance Worker 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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MARKETING COORDINATOR Position available for an enthusiastic, customerfocused individual to coordinate the marketing plan for a growing rural hospital organization.

Responsibilities include providing support by strategizing, executing, tracking and optimizing marketing campaigns.

Requirements: BA/BS in Business, Marketing, and/or other related degrees preferred or minimum 2 years experience in marketing or related field. Proficiency in MS Office products, strong writing and verbal communication skills, detail oriented, ability to multi-task, an interest in wellness a plus.

30 to 40 hours per week. $35K to $40K salary range dependent on hours and qualifications.

We offer great benefits including flexible paid time off, partially paid health, dental and prescription insurance, paid life and long term disability insurance and a 401(k) Profit Sharing plan.

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, Scott County Hospital, 201 Albert Avenue, Scott City, KS 67871.

620-872-7772, or on our website www.scotthospital.net.

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Scott County Hospital is looking for fulltime Registered Nurses to join our team of dedicated nursing professionals.

PRN- RN opportunities also available.

WE OFFER: √ Diverse Nursing Opportunities √ Experienced Nursing Administrtive Staff √ Excellent Ratios √ Wages up to $29.95 for RN’s √ PRN RN wage $30.00 (benefits do not apply) √ Weekend Option Program (work weekends for six months at premium pay) √ Shift and Weekend Differentials √ Critical Staffing Pay √ Call Pay BENEFITS: √ Flexible PTO √ Extended Illness Leave √ Fully Paid Life Insurance √ Fully Paid Long Term Disability Insurance √ Partially Paid Health Insurance √ 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan √ Continuing Education √ Reduced Local Health Club Fees √ Reduced Broadband Internet Fees Scott County Hospital is a 25 bed CAH located in Scott City, a progressive Western Kansas community of 4000. The friendly hometown atmosphere and newly built and renovated schools provide an excellent place to raise families. Make the most of this great opportunity!

Pre-employment physical, drug/alcohol screen, TB skin test & physical assessment required. SCH is a tobacco free facility.

Applications available through Human Resources, Scott County Hospital, 201 Albert Ave., Scott City, KS, 67871, 48tfc (620) 872-7772, and on our website:

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Senate’s budget-writing committee, rejected that explanation.

“Any attempt by Sam Brownback to blame the mess that he’s created on the president is a cynical effort to avoid responsibility for his record and hide from his policies,” Winter said.

Recently, there has been a spate of stories in major national news outlets about the Brownback tax cuts and their impact on state revenues and the governor’s race.

Former Senate President Dick Bond of Overland Park, who also served as chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents, said he and the other Republicans gathered behind him on risers for dramatic effect - including Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger - decided it

was time to put the interests of their state ahead of their party.

“The decision to endorse a Democratic candidate for governor is a big step for every one of us; a big departure from our Republican roots,” Bond said. “We do not make this decision lightly.”

In brief remarks, Davis said he was humbled by the endorsements and pledged a bipartisan approach to governing if elected.

“All of us standing here today, and folks all across this state, know that Kansas can do better,” Davis said. “We can have better schools and a stronger economy. It will mean working together and embracing compromise. But ultimately, we can put Kansas back on the right track.”

Kelly Arnold, chair of the Kansas Republican Party, noted that several of the former officer-holders who endorsed Davis were defeated in 2012 by more conservative candidates.

Clay Barker, executive director of the Kansas Republican Party, said the Republicans endorsing Davis are “oblivious to the profound shift in the beliefs of Kansas voters.”

Fred Kerr, a Pratt farmer who served in the Kansas Senate for 16 years - including four as majority leader - before leaving in 1992 to prepare for an unsuccessful run for governor, said he believes he’s still in touch with the constituents he once served. He said many of them are concerned, as he is, that Brownback’s tax cuts are threatening years of investments in public

education and infrastructure.

“I believe strongly in a fair and balanced tax system, and he (Brownback) has distorted that in favor of the wealthy,” Kerr said. “I believe in strong public schools, and they are being eroded. And I worked hard on a strong highway program, and those funds are being confiscated for other purposes.”

Funding of public education is the top issue for many of the moderate Republicans who endorsed Davis, particularly those from Johnson County. Their backing of Davis could be an indication that moderate GOP voters aren’t inclined to give Brownback much credit for supporting a $129 million education funding plan passed by the 2014 Legislature in

response to a Kansas Supreme Court order.

Former Democratic Gov. John Carlin was among the Davis supporters who attended Tuesday’s event. He acknowledged that endorsements often don’t carry much weight with voters but said the backing of so many prominent Republicans could be a difference-maker for Davis.

“It’s historical,” said

Carlin, who headed the National Archives after leaving the governor’s office in 1990. “If they walk away today and this is it, it will be a news story for political types who follow politics, but it won’t reach the masses.

But if come November the 4th the message is out there that these respected Republican leaders are for the Davis/Docking ticket, it will have a significant impact.”

Scott County Hospital awarded tax credits The Scott County Hospital, has been awarded $160,000 in tax credits to be used for the purchase and installation of permanent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment.

This will help provide improved care for patients, with faster diagnosis and treatment.

The Kansas Department of Commerce announced that 25 nonprofit organizations will share $4.13 million in tax credits under the Kansas Community Service Tax Credit Program (CSP).

Since 1994, CSP has helped nonprofit organizations undertake major capital fund-raising

drives for various projects.

Projects eligible for tax credit awards include community service, crime prevention and health care. Tax credit awards are distributed through a competitive application process.

Based on the scope and cost of the proposed

project, applicants may request up to $250,000 in tax credits. Applicant organizations in rural areas (less than 15,000 population) are eligible for a 70 percent credit.

Applicant organizations in non-rural areas are eligible for a 50 percent credit.

invites you to the

64th

Annual Meeting Tuesday, July 22  6:30 p.m.

6:00 - 7:30 p.m.  FREE carnival rides 6:30 p.m.  BBQ catered by Stan Hoss 7:30 p.m.  Business meeting and doorprizes

Lane County Fairgrounds Dighton

Friends of Lake Scott

Quilt Drawing

Scott City Community Learning Center 620-872-3785 708 Washington

Tickets may be purchased at Lake Scott Beach House or contact Millie Dearden, 874-1696

$5

per ticket

Drawing on Labor Day Weekend

Southwest Plains Regional Service Center

Your Future Awaits!