The Scott County Record

34 Pages • Four Sections

Volume 23 • Number 3

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Published in Scott City, Ks.

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Dighton gets $150K in additional funds Randy Freeman tried to be optimistic when he appeared at the Senate Finance Council’s meeting in Topeka with representatives from 39 other school districts who were seeking additional state funding.

With so many schools competing for $12.3 million in “extraordinary needs” fund-

ing from the state, the school superintendent from Dighton was just hoping to get a small portion of the $182,742 that he was requesting.

Freeman and Dighton fared much better than expected. He left Topeka on Monday afternoon with a guarantee that the district will get $150,679.

The additional funding was requested to offset a sharp drop in Lane County’s assessed valuation due to plummeting oil and gas prices. That loss of valuation resulted in a tax revenue loss of $182,742.

State Budget Director Shawn Sullivan presented the Council with a formula for determining

how the state could distribute additional funding to the 22 school districts who had experienced significant revenue loss due to declining assessed valuations.

Freeman said that part of the process was based on a formula that was “pretty cut and dry.”

“Based on the spreadsheet

they presented to us, it was evident what we were going to receive. I didn’t even have to make a presentation,” said Freeman.

Not everyone was pleased with what the Council was proposing. Several school superintendents in the packed meet(See DIGHTON on page 10)

Enrollment climbs 27 in SC district

you can go back Scott City Elementary School kindergarten teacher is among the growing number of SCHS alumni who have returned to their hometown to pursue careers.

(Record Photo)

Four SCHS alumni have joined USD 466 staff to start new year For the last 30 to 40 years, Kansas - and Western Kansas in particular - have lamented the “brain drain” as young people leave, never to return.

In far too many instances, young people can hardly wait to get their high school diploma and see their former town in the rear view mirror.

The lack of job opportunities in many Western Kansas communities which are struggling for survival is a driving force that

keeps many young people from considering a return to their home town. While Scott City isn’t immune to that same concern, a thriving Scott County Hospital, a healthy agricultural economy and school enrollment that has been experiencing a slight increase have all contributed to a stronger job market.

And former Scott City residents have shown they will take advantage of the opportunity to return home.

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Kindergarten students enjoy their first day of school Page 27

Of 11 new teachers in the Scott County school district this year, four are SCHS alumni.

“I think it’s pretty neat to look around and see friends here that I used to go to school with,” says Shelby Kite, a 2009 graduate who is now a kindergarten teacher.

After attending Pratt Community College on a volleyball scholarship and attending Ft. Hays State University, Kite returned to Scott City and finished her

Early enrollment numbers show an increase of 27 students in the Scott County school district (USD 466) for the 2015-16 school year.

Grade Year ‘14 ‘15 Total enrollment 35 34 is 969 students, up ECH K-Prep 28 22 from last year’s offiKinder.

69 63 cial count of 942. First 67 62 Enrollment doesn’t Second 84 75 become official until Third 73 83 Fourth 66 79 September 20.

Fifth 67 67 Enrollment Sixth 57 77 increased signifiSeventh 77 63 cantly in Scott City Eighth 67 80 Middle School Freshmen 69 61 (grades 5-8) where Soph.

82 76 there are 287 stu- Juniors 53 80 48 47 dents, compared to Seniors Total 942 969 268 a year ago.

A larger freshman class and a small graduating class has contributed to an increase of 12 students in Scott Community High School which currently has 264 students.

In years past, an increase of 27 students would have meant a substantial increase in state funding. Basic state aid combined with various weighting factors would have meant roughly $200,000 more in state aid.

However, a block grant program approved by the state legislature has frozen state funding at the same level it was in 2014-15, regardless of any enrollment changes.

(See ENROLLMENT on page two)

Council okays runway project for new tenant

degree while living here.

“Even while I was away I always thought of Scott City as my home and this was where I wanted to raise my family,” she says. “When the teaching position opened up that was great. And when I was also given the chance to coach that was perfect.

It’s just what I wanted.”

Amanda Kennedy, the vocal music director at Scott Community High School, wasn’t quite so sure about

The Scott City Council has agreed to fund a project which will allow an aerial spraying operation access from their proposed hangar to a runway.

However, the $56,000 project could take money away from new hangar construction that the city has on the drawing board.

Frontier Ag has approached the council with plans to construct a hangar. While the aerial spraying business will be responsible for most of the cost to lay concrete that will connect their facility with the runway, the city will bear the cost for a taxi lane connector.

The city’s share of the project will involve about 560 yards of concrete at an estimated cost of $56,000.

The city has been putting aside $150,000 per year in Federal Aviation Administration cost-share funding. This year’s installment would give the city $450,000 toward build-

(See ALUMNI on page eight)

(See RUNWAY on page two)

406 Main, St. Scott City • 620-872-2090 www.scottcountyrecord.com Opinion • Pages 4-6 Calendar • Page 7 Youth/education • Page 11 LEC report • Page 12 Health care • Pages 14-15 Deaths • Page 16

Church services • Page 17 Sports • Pages 19-26 Pigskin Payoff • Page 24 Farm section • Pages 28-29 Classified ads • Pages 31-33 Delinquent taxes • Page 34

SCHS fans get a glimpse of Beavers in first football scrimmage Page 19

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Urban, rural divide seen in Council’s funding

The State Finance Council on Monday approved millions in additional aid to schools but gave larger, more urban districts less than Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration had recommended.

The council, comprised of legislative leadership and the governor, approved budget director Shawn Sullivan’s recommended amounts for districts

seeking funds to offset declining property values. Those districts were mostly small and rural.

In contrast, the council ignored Sullivan’s recommendation for typically larger districts seeking aid due to enrollment increases, opting to dole out less.

The administration’s recommendations were, however, less

than what all districts had initially requested.

Kansas City Unified School District 500 walked away with $407,548, far less than the approximately $2 million it had requested to help deal with increased enrollment.

Wichita USD 259 had asked for $980,000 to help deal with an influx of refugees, but received zero, though lawmakers prom-

Enrollment

Community conversation will be in SC on Monday

What impression do people have of Scott City?

What are the community’s shortcomings and strengths?

These are some of the topics to be addressed during the Public Square Communities meeting on Mon., Aug. 31, in the Scott Community High School commons area.

The evening will begin with a sloppy joe meal at 6:00 p.m. followed by the community conversation.

Persons who would like to provide additional feedback can pick up a community asset survey at City Hall, the county clerk’s office, the Chamber of Commerce or the Scott County Library.

In addition, members of the Public Square group have been conducting surveys of community members over the past few weeks.

The public is encouraged to attend the meeting.

Bike rodeo in SC Saturday

Bicycle safety and skills will be part of the first bike rodeo to be held on Sat., Aug. 29, from 10:00 a.m. to noon at the Scott Community High School parking lot.

All area youth are invited to bring their bicycles and go through a skills course, learn about traffic safety and take their bicycles through a safety inspection.

All participants will receive a coupon for a treat from Dairy Queen or Wendy’s. There will also be drawings for four winners of $50 in Chamber bucks.

Bike rodeo sponsors include Dairy Queen, Wendy’s, State Farm Insurance, Rodenbeek and Green Insurance Agency, Revcom/RadioShack and The Scott County Record.

The district had anticipated the higher numbers, but didn’t add additional staff. The only grade level where that may have put the district in a tough situation is the fourth grade where there are three classes for 79 students, broken down into sections of 26, 26 and 27 students.

The third grade class is the largest in Scott City Elementary School - and in the district - with 83 students. There are four teachers for that grade level.

There were 73 students in last year’s third grade

tion. But when you look at the list of applications due to increased enrollment, you have Manhattan, Kansas City - inner-city school districts that are typically represented by Democrats,” Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley (D-Topeka) said.

“They cut the budget director’s recommendation in half (See FUNDING on page 10)

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class so the district felt it could continue having three teachers for that grade level when hiring decisions were being made last spring.

“You try to project what the enrollment will be each spring. We had projected 75 students (in fourth grade) knowing that some kids will move out and others will be moving in,” notes SCES Principal Shawn Roberts.

“We added new students and hardly anyone left.”

Ideally, she says the district would prefer not

Runway ing a proposed seven-bay T-hangar.

However, the council may scale back their own hangar project to gain funding for the runway connector.

It was suggested the council may want to cut down the size of its hangar to six bays and shift money toward the runway.

The city, however,

ised another look later this year.

The disparity between urban districts and more rural ones had one member of the council smelling politics.

“The end result injected politics into this thing because they went along with the budget director as it relates to rural districts represented by Republicans when they had a reduction in assessed valua-

to have classes with 26 or 27 students. However, there is no way of knowing how many students will move in and out of a district from year to year, and the district also must consider how much money is available in the budget.

“Ideally, we want the smaller classes because it allows teachers more opportunity to work with the students. We have other things in place to assist teachers and make sure our students are getting the individual attention they need,” Roberts adds.

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hasn’t requested bids for would be subject to prophangar construction as it erty taxes. awaits the next distribuCouncilman Gary Eitel tion of FAA funds. informed the council that he expects construcSet Lease Rate tion on the hangar to get The council decided to underway soon. set its annual lease pay“The Frontier Ag board ment for Frontier Ag at has given its approval to $5 per frontage foot - or $500 annually to locate a locating in Scott City,” he said. “They want to move hangar at the airport.

In addition, the coun- forward with this as quick cil noted that the hangar as possible.”

What’s for Lunch in Scott City?

Sun. - Sat., August 30-September 5

Majestic Theatre 420 Main • 872-3840

Hours

Lunch • Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

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

Tate’s Restaurant

1211 Main • 872-3215

5Buck Lunch

1304 S. Main • 872-5301

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

11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

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

Wed. • Smothered steak with mashed potatoes and gravy.

Thurs. • Reuben sandwich with chips.

Fri. • Tijuana tostada.

6

• Chili Cheese Dog $ • Deluxe Cheeseburger • 3 Piece Chicken Strips

Includes Fries, 21 oz. Drink and Small Sundae

49

Buffet

405 Main Call for take out - 909-5002 Tuesday - Thursday 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Friday-Saturday 11:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m.

Sunday 11:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Western Burger (includes choice of side)

Fresh onion ring, BBQ sauce, grilled honey ham, on a thick cerified angus burger.

$850 $10

(with salad bar)

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Community Living

Page 3 - Thursday, August 27, 2015

Find balance between family, outside activities As the summer winds down and school resumes, many other organizations get started as well. But, how much is too much?

I know that it takes a lot of volunteers to make this place such a great community to live and raise families, but, how thin can we spread our time, money and other resources? This column is really hard for me to write as I know the value of volunteers. K-State Extension, and especially the 4-H program, would not be

what they are without the dedication and devotion of volunteers who help us.

Even in saying that, I still think we could all slow down just a little and take some time to enjoy our lives and our families.

I found an article written

by Ramona Creel and the

title is “20 Ways to Say No.” I am not going to list them all as she has in her column, but just touch base with those I feel are the most important.

If you are already involved in several projects, just let people know that you have other obligations and responsibilities. There is no need to make excuses if you don’t have any more free time.

No one will fault you for having already filled your plate.

Vehicle tag deadline Mon.

Persons whose last name begins with the letters M, N or O are reminded that license tags must be purchased by Mon., Aug. 31, to avoid a penalty.

Tags are due for autos, light trucks, motorcycles and motorized bikes.

License tags can be purchased at the county treasurer’s office.

Tags must be renewed during September for persons whose last name begins with P, Q or R.

Just explain that your schedule is full.

Understand your limits and talents and be true to them.

Be truthful. If you feel a task that you are asked to do or volunteer for is more than your talents and expertise can handle, just say you don’t feel as though you are most qualified for the job. This will keep you from being overwhelmed down the road and the task not being completed correctly.

Your time and fam-

ily time is precious, don’t waste it on doing something that you don’t like or enjoy. We all have different tastes and talents.

Your priorities are yours and you should never let anyone change them around for you.

Volunteer for the right reasons and not for your own agenda. Don’t coach a team that your child plays on so that you can pick the teammates.

Should there be some perks to volunteering (See BALANCE on page nine)

Study: fat is a new basic taste

Miller to celebrate 80th birthday Robert Miller, a lifetime resident of Scott County, will celebrate his 80th birthday on Tues., Sept. 1.

He was born on Sept.

1, 1935, in Scott City, the son of Ralph and LaVon Miller.

On April 8, 1972, he married Elizabeth Kottmann in Lyons.

A retired rancher and farmer, Miller attended Ft. Hays State University and graduated from New Mexico A&M in 1958 with a BS degree in range management.

He served in the National Guard motor pool (specialist). Miller is a member of Gideons International and the First Baptist Church, Scott City.

The Millers have five children: Kristi Gorman and husband, Chris, Hartford, S.D.; Heather Dick and husband, Mark, Aurora, Nebr.; Meredith Cupp and husband, Chandler, Joel Miller, and wife, Calista, and Lindsay Andrews, all of Scott City.

He also has 10 grandchildren.

If you are uncomfortable with a request for volunteers, just say that “I am not comfortable with that project.” If someone tends to “bully” you with requests, that is even more justification to decline a request for help.

You could also just tell people that you are not taking on any new responsibilities. That doesn’t mean you won’t help out in the future, but you’ve just decided you aren’t going to make that commitment at the moment.

Brooke Boulware and Matthew Means

Couple plans Sept. 19 wedding Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Boulware, Scott City, announce the engagement of their daughter, Brooke Ashton, to Matthew Michael Means, son of Mr. and Mrs. Maxie Means, Cherokee, Okla.

The bride-to-be is a graduate of Scott Community High School and Northwestern Oklahoma State University. She is currently employed by SandRidge Energy as a dispatch coordinator for Lariat Services, Inc. She is the granddaughter of Mary Clark and

Harold and Ruth White, all of Scott City, and the late Darlow Boulware and Don Clark.

The prospective groom is a graduate of Cherokee High School. He is currently employed by SandRidge Energy as a production pumper.

He is the grandson of Chet and Dolly Keener, Ponca City, Okla., and the late Hugh Means and Burton and Barbara Sherrill.

The couple is planning a September 19 wedding at The Golf Club at Southwind in Garden City.

For the longest time, the essential tastes were a steady foursome of sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. (Don’t you remember those tongue diagrams you had to label in middle school?)

Umami, though discovered in Japan in the early 1900s, only started becoming known in the U.S. around the 2000s.

It’s that rich, savory taste you get from eating meat, truffles, or anchovies thanks to MSG. Now there’s a new addition to that list. A recent study by Purdue University states that the sixth essential taste is fat, or “oleogustus” in scientific terms.

The research shows that fat, though commonly described as bitter or sour, is unique enough to stand alone. This is not to be confused with the feel of fat, which has a thick, creamy sensation on the tongue.

“By building a lexicon around fat and understanding its identity as a taste, it could help the food industry develop better tasting products and with more research help clinicians and public health educators better understand the health

implications of oral fat exposure,” said Richard D. Mattes, professor of nutrition science and coauthor of the study.

But how do you actually describe the taste of fat?

According to the research, no familiar words can explain it. So what the 102 participants in the study had to do was organize an array of solutions according to taste.

Though the participants at first started to group the fatty samples with the bitter ones, they eventually grouped the fatty samples separately.

Mattes says fat itself has a generally unpleasant flavor, but it can improve the pleasantness of other foods when added in small doses - think of the tiny amounts of bitterness in chocolate or coffee, or the way we can add salt or sugar to any dish or dessert.

With fat isolated as its taste element, it will be possible to enhance bland foods, according to the study. Maybe in the form of a seasoning or a sauce.

Perhaps it’ll also be possible to mimic that fatty taste with a healthier substitute.

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Editorial/Opinion

Page 4 - Thursday, August 27, 2015

editorially speaking

Who pays?

Grant funding plan ignores economic reality

The good news is that enrollment numbers are continuing to climb in Scott County (USD 466).

The bad news is that it doesn’t mean one extra dime in state aid to educate this influx of students.

Thanks to the new block grant funding program, state funding is frozen at the 2014-15 level for this year and next, regardless of enrollment.

It’s obvious to most that level funding is impractical as the costs of utilities, insurance, etc., continue to climb. The biggest injustice, however, is to our teachers and support staff. Even though a 2% pay cut was returned to staff with a “13th check” in June, the base salary hasn’t changed.

Salaries were “increased” by 1% this year, but that’s still 1% lower than they were in the 2013-14 school year. For example, a first year teacher in 2013-14 would have received an annual salary of $36,425. A first-year teacher in 2015-16 will earn $36,060.

No matter what political spin the governor or conservative lawmakers try to put on school finance, Kansas districts find themselves in a very difficult situation. Scott City is not unique.

The state’s “extraordinary” funding mechanism that subjectively awards additional money to certain districts who appear before the Finance Council is a thinly veiled attempt to cover up for a disastrous finance plan.

How can we maintain a quality public education system in Kansas and keep quality teachers under such circumstances?

The answer is simple: we can’t.

Progressive ag:

Modern farming not built on ‘conservative’ thinking

What could possibly be political about agriculture? Leave it to Gov. Sam Brownback to demonstrate how.

In an op-ed piece following his tour of Kansas farms and ranches, Brownback claimed that conservation is a “conservative value” which was an interesting choice of words.

If one wants to put a political spin on agriculture, it could be argued that “conservative” thinking is what contributed to the devastation of the Dust Bowl era. Farmers didn’t recognize how their farming methods and equipment were causing long-term problems. Conservative thinking led them to believe that what worked in the past would continue to work indefinitely.

It was only through progressive thinking that farmers (with the help of big government) introduced programs and methods that led to smarter farming practices and conservation methods which are still in use today.

But the story doesn’t end there.

Progressive thinking towards irrigation methods, no-till and minimum till farming and many other modern farming practices have given us the agricultural landscape we see today.

However, Brownback’s politicizing of agriculture didn’t end there. The governor claims he will continue to protect Kansans from the federal government’s “efforts to infringe on our state’s water rights” and he condemned a “one-size-fits-all federal policy” that threatens our water resources.

Exactly how the federal government is infringing on our ag water rights is a bit of a mystery. In fact, it’s too little government - not too much - that has contributed to our water dilemma, particularly in Western Kansas.

It was the state - not the federal government - which overappropriated irrigation water rights to Kansas farmers. It was a long-standing “use it or lose it” policy on water use which discouraged more conservation. And for years it’s been the state that has not aggressively pursued and severely fined those who violated water use laws.

It’s because of the state’s hands-off approach that we are now confronted with imminent depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer.

In what apparently is a “conservative” philosophy, Brownback has set a goal of reducing water usage for ag irrigation over the next 50 years. It apparently doesn’t matter that in 50 years huge swaths of Western Kansas will no longer be under irrigation due to lack of water.

Furthermore, that plan has yet to be developed because, based on “conservative” thinking we don’t want some big, nasty government telling us what to do. And even if such a plan is developed, Rep. Tom Sloan, a Lawrence Republican and chairman of the House Vision 20/20 Committee, questions whether the state will be able to enforce a 50-year plan or have the money to execute it.

Agriculture shouldn’t be about politics. It should be about doing the right thing now and doing what’s best for future generations.

Sorry, Gov. Brownback, but that requires an open mind and progressive thinking.

We don’t have time for details You’ve probably seen or heard the commercial for a company offering to help inventors get patents for their inventions.

When my boys were very young, one of them said he would hire the company to patent their machine that would take people from one place to another in an instant. I agreed it was a great idea, but informed him that he also had to invent the machine.

That proved to be a minor stumbling block and, unfortunately, the travel machine never became a reality.

Little did I realize at the time that my son was way ahead of his time as presidential material. He would fit in well with today’s Republican candidates who offer grand fantasies - like time machines - but are as disconnected from reality as a sevenyear-old when asked for specifics.

Donald Trump pledges to deport 11 million Hispanics without offering any details as to how this will happen or how it will be paid for, other

than to promise he’ll hire good managers.

Apparently, that’s good enough for 25-30 percent of Republican voters who say they’d vote for him.

Or to paraphrase the Mexican banditos from “Blazing Saddles,” the Republican base is declaring, “We don’t need no stinkin’ details.”

The Republican field is obliging the base by not providing any.

In fact, that’s been a pattern of Republican politics for the past seven years - lots of rhetoric and no substance.

Some GOP politicians, along with Libertarian leaning candidates such as Rand Paul, call for elimination of the IRS to the delight of their voting base. But they do so without offering a plan to fund the necessary functions of government such as agricultural programs, Medicaid, Medicare,

Social Security, defense and, dare we say, border security.

Who has time for such details?

Same with a call to repeal the 14th Amendment which says that anyone born in the United States is a citizen of this country. It sounds great to the Fox News audience that is parading up and down their streets with pitchforks and torches in protest of “anchor babies,” but it’s not going to happen.

Remember how Planned Parenthood was the outrage of the moment only a few weeks ago and every Republican from Jeb Bush to Kansas Congressman Tim Huelskamp was bragging that they had either defunded the program in their state or that it should be defunded and dismantled?

The rhetoric plays well to the GOP base, but in the real world 97 percent of what Planned Parenthood does involves providing better health care and vital information for women.

Huelskamp, Sen. Pat

Roberts and others can call for special hearings and they can play to their conservative base but, at the end of the day, nothing is going to happen because the critics are offering no alternative to a program that benefits tens of millions of women.

That, however, has become the Republican Party’s standard operating procedure.

Even before Republicans had seen the Iran nuclear deal they were condemning it. Presidential candidates are vowing to tear it up on their first day in office. Trump is stirring up his supporters on the campaign trail by making claims about the deal that are, for lack of a better word, lies.

Who cares about the details? This involves Iran so it must be bad. It was negotiated by a President who was born in Kenya.

Which brings us to the never-ending efforts - and more than 65 votes in Congress - to repeal Obamacare. Even as millions and millions of (See DETAILS on page six)

Trump reveals GOP’s bigotry Wednesday was Women’s Equality Day, the anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave American women the right to vote 95 years ago.

And how have Republicans marked this egalitarian milestone? Why, with another bimbo eruption, of course.

The perpetrator, as usual, was Donald Trump, the front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination, who, in his three-week-old feud with debate moderator Megyn Kelly, circulated a tweet late Monday once again referring to the Fox News star as a “bimbo.”

Fox News boss Roger Ailes, who had already had words with Trump over his sexist attacks on the anchor, fired back with a statement saying Trump’s “surprise and unprovoked attack on Megyn Kelly during her show last night

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is as unacceptable as it is disturbing.” He went on to call Trump’s Twitter attack “crude and irresponsible.”

“Donald Trump rarely apologizes, although in this case, he should,” Ailes said.

Trump’s response, at a press conference in Iowa: “It is a very small element in my life, Megyn Kelly. I don’t care about Megyn Kelly. No, I would not apologize. She should probably apologize to me.”

Right. The victim of Trump’s misogyny should apologize to him.

More telling than Trump’s latest disparagement of women is the reaction from the rest of the Republican presidential field: virtual silence.

Even businesswoman

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

Carly Fiorina, one of the few candidates who has called out Trump in the past, stepped carefully when asked about Trump on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” She said Trump represents “a wake-up call to a lot of folks,” and the closest she got to criticizing him was to say that “character will be revealed of all the candidates over time and under pressure.”

But the character of the candidates already has been revealed. Trump is acting like a sexist and a bigot - and the rest of the candidates are, with occasional exceptions, too timid to call him what he is.

Over the weekend, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus even praised the contribution made by Trump’s candidacy.

“I think it’s a net positive for everybody,” he said in a radio interview.

Sen. Pat Roberts 109 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

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

A net positive? That’s an intriguing calculation, considering all the gross negatives: Describing Mexican immigrants as rapists and thugs.

Kicking one of the nation’s leading Latino journalists, Jorge Ramos, out of a news conference, telling him, “Go back to Univision.”

Reacting to Kelly’s tough debate questioning - about his tendency to refer to women as “fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals” - with derision and then by employing the “bimbo” slur and saying, “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”

I’m no fan of Ailes, and I’ve taken issue with Kelly’s journalism before, but I’m squarely with them on this one.

(See BIGOTRY on page six)

Sen. Jerry Moran 141 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

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

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What could tumbling stocks mean for politics?

by Eugene Robinson

The sudden turmoil in the financial markets is a reminder that when the preliminary hoopla is over and voters actually begin to select their presidential nominees, competence and cool will probably matter.

If the global swoon in stock prices were to turn into something more serious, which candidates would benefit? Could it give a boost to the billionaire developer who has a degree as he constantly reminds us from the prestigious Wharton School? Or would his four corporate bankruptcies and “ready, shoot, aim” approach to life make Donald Trump’s supporters think twice?

I’m reminded of a story I’ve heard House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) tell.

You may recall that when the

financial crisis struck in the fall of 2008, Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the GOP candidate, melodramatically suspended his campaign and demanded an all-hands summit meeting at the White House. Democratic candidate Barack Obama was invited, as were the leaders of both houses of Congress and the frantic, sleep-deprived members of George W. Bush’s economic team. Bush was a reluctant but gracious host.

The president offered McCain the floor, as Pelosi recounts, but it turned out that the senator had nothing of substance to say.

Attendees were dumbfounded.

Then came Obama, the constitutional lawyer, who gave an academic lecture on finance to a room littered with MBAs, including the former head of Goldman Sachs.

Bush, who had no patience

with meetings that wasted his time, leaned over to Pelosi and whispered, “Y’all gonna miss me when I’m gone.”

In the end, voters decided that sang-froid, perhaps with a touch of arrogance, was better than cluelessness. The financial crisis alone didn’t swing the election Obama’s way, but it helped.

This sharp decline in stock prices is in no way comparable to the meltdown of 2008, which threatened the global financial system with ruin. Venerable investment houses are not failing. Big banks are not clamoring for emergency infusions of cash. There is no subprime bubble to burst.

But the current market losses, which began in China, are not happening in a vacuum. China’s growth rate, which for years was about 10 percent a year,

A man looks at a stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo on Monday.

is down to a relatively anemic seven percent, according to official figures - and the true growth figure is probably much lower, according to independent economists.

A slowdown of this magnitude in the world’s second-biggest economy inevitably ripples

across the rest of the globe.

Oil prices, meanwhile, are lower than we’ve seen in years at about $45 a barrel.

This should be good news for consumers. But remember that the United States - not Russia or Saudi Arabia - is now the (See STOCKS on page six)

America has entered a Platinum Age

by Chuck Collins

Just months later a court ruled the block grants violated both a Supreme Court judgment and the state constitution, while also “promoting inequity among poorer and wealthier districts,” as a Kansas City Star editorial noted.

Educators still hope the courts will find that the Legislature is underfunding schools, likely to the tune of a half-billion dollars a year.

Indeed, the fact that many school superintendents support a lawsuit against the state meant to get them extra money was the big elephant in the room during Monday’s discussion, basically making adversaries out of Brownback and the educators.

Going back to April 2014, Brownback approved a new law that included the repeal of tenure for teachers.

At the time, both Merrick and Wagle defended the move - even that part of the bill was never discussed at a public hearing, where teachers and school administrators could have commented on it.

▪Gays are targets of the governor’s wrath, too.

Is America’s political system controlled by a small financial elite? One former president thinks so.

Almost 40 years after he was elected, former President Jimmy Carter commented recently that our political system is now “an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery.”

He may be right.

For the last three decades, wealth has concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. Just how few? As of 2013, the wealthiest three percent of households in the United States held more than half of all private wealth.

All that concentrated wealth translates into concentrated political muscle - including the power to influence elections.

As of this summer, over half of all donations to Republican super PACs came from just 130 wealthy families and their businesses.

Democratic candidates had a wider base of small contributors, but also plenty of big-money donors of their own.

We’re now living through the billionaire primary. Six months before a single vote is cast in New Hampshire, the field of candidates is being selected and winnowed by billionaire donors.

Indeed, it seems like a presidential hopeful must have at least one billionaire backer - and ideally several - to be considered a credible candidate. Roofing billionaire Diane Hendricks gave $5 million to the Scott Walker campaign.

Houston billionaire Toby Neugebauer gave a $10 million boost to Ted Cruz. Oracle CEO and billionaire Larry Ellison gave $3 million to Marco Rubio.

This political patronage system effectively disenfranchises ordinary voters.

Since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision opened the floodgates for unlimited political sending, the pace of contributions has only escalated. Super PACs have already raised $258 million for this election cycle - more than 16 times the total from this point in the 2012 race.

Unfortunately, this is just the tip of iceberg.

The wealthy are major contributors to a vast array of other lobbying groups masquerading as tax-exempt social welfare organizations.

The Koch brothers alone have vowed to give and raise nearly $1 billion for these kinds of groups and related work by think tanks and universities during this electoral cycle.

These organizations don’t have to disclose the identity of their donors, even as they increasingly influence our elections.

The Federal Election Commission has effectively thrown up its hands in attempting to regulate this secret money. As a result, untold additional millions will flow through these tax-exempt corporations, providing the superwealthy with another avenue to influence the outcome of state and federal elections.

This isn’t just a new Gilded Age. As Campaign Finance Institute president Michael Malbin says, this may even be a new “Platinum Age.” What can we do?

Encouraging movements are forming in response to the corruption of our electoral system. So far, 70 former members of Congress have come together to form the bipartisan

(See ENEMIES on page six)

(See PLATINUM on page six)

Higher wages, but with a catch

by Jim Hightower

Peter Georgescu has a message he wants America’s corporate and political elites to hear: “I’m scared,” he said in a recent New York Times op-ed.

He adds that Paul Tudor Jones is scared, too, as is Ken Langone, and they’re trying to get the Powers That Be to pay attention to their urgent concerns. But wait - these three are Powers That Be. Georgescu is former head of Young and Rubicam, one of the worlds largest PR and advertising firms; Jones is a quadruple-billionaire hedge fund operator; and Langone is a founder of Home Depot.

What is scaring these powerful peers of the corporate plutocracy?

Inequality. Yes, amazingly, these actual occupiers of Wall Street say they share Occupy Wall Street’s critical analysis of America’s widening chasm between the rich and the rest of us.

“We are creating a caste system from which its almost impossible to escape,” Georgescu wrote, not only trapping the poor, but also “those on the higher end of the middle class.”

Of course, their concern is not driven by moral outrage, but by selfinterest: “We are concerned where income inequality will lead,” he said.

Specifically, he warned that the present path will lead to social unrest or, (horror of horrors) “oppressive taxes” on the superrich.

Motivation aside, Georgescu

does comprehend that society must “Invest in the actual value creators - the employees.” How? With “a wage that enables employees to share amply in productivity increases and creative innovations.”

He adds that nearly all corporate chieftains agree on the need to compensate employees better.

Great! So they’ll just do it, right?

Uh . . . no. The CEOs say that to get them to pay more to workers they need the government to - guess what? - give tax breaks to their corporations to subsidize any wage increases.

Good grief. These guys put the “sin” in cynical.

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

Gov. Brownback’s ‘enemies list’ Schools, gays, judges and the poor, so far On Monday, Gov. Sam Brownback sounded downright irritated that he had to deign to consider passing out extra tax dollars to Kansas schools facing tough times.

Eventually, the governor voted along with other Republicans on the State Finance Council that he leads to give out only $6 million of the $12 million in funding sought by K-12 superintendents because of extraordinary needs, such as higher student populations or lower property assessments.

The Olathe School District got none of the money it requested. Kansas City schools received only 20 percent of the $2 million they asked for in expectation of educating several hundred more students this year.

Still, no one was surprised by the imperious actions of Brownback on Monday, or of the other GOP legis-

behind the headlines

by Yael Abouhalkah

lators who follow his approach, led

by House Speaker Ray Merrick and Senate President Susan Wagle.

In fact, this often contemptuous approach to governing has become part and parcel of Brownback’s governance style in Topeka, especially since his re-election last November.

If Brownback had an old-fashioned enemies list, it would look like this: ▪Schools lead the way, unfortunately.

Monday’s action was just the latest example of how Brownback considers himself at war with superintendents, teachers and parents who think high-quality education - which, yes, can cost a lot of money - is a good investment in Kansas’ future.

In March, Brownback signed into law a bill putting in place a new block grant approach to K-12 funding, undermining a more flexible approach to school support.

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Brownback’s education war damages schools again

by Kansas City Star

With their continued negligent approach to K-12 education, Gov. Sam Brownback and Republican leaders this week stiffed Kansas kids again.

Making things up as they went along, Brownback and the State Finance Council he leads refused on Monday to give the Olathe and Bonner Springs school districts a single extra cent to better

serve additional students.

The Kansas City School District fared marginally better, receiving $400,000 more, but far below the $2 million it requested to serve a higher enrollment this fall.

Overall, the council handed out only $6 million of the $15 million sought by several dozen districts across the state.

So how did Brownback and the other lawmakers reach those decisions?

Unsurprisingly, the

Nation needs a cheaper way to find the worst candidates

by Andy Borowitz

MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report) With U.S. Presidential elections now costing more than $5 billion dollars, there must be a cheaper way to find the worst people in the country, experts believe.

According to Davis Logsdon, a political scientist at the University of Minnesota, the United States could use current technology to find the nation’s most reprehensible people at a fraction of the $5 billion price tag.

“Any search for the worst people in the country should logically begin one place: on Twitter,” said Logsdon, who recommends scouring the social network for users who consistently show signs of narcissistic-personality disorder, poor impulse control and other traits common to odious people.

Once a comprehensive list of those Twitter users is compiled, Logsdon said, it could be cross-referenced with a database containing the names of people who have presided over spectacular business failures, have been the target of multiple ethics probes, or are currently under indictment for a broad array of criminal offenses.

“After we crunch the numbers and find the 12 or so worst people in our database, we could then put them on television to demonstrate just how awful they are as people,” said Logsdon, who noted that that part of the current system “works very well.”

All in all, Logsdon believes that his method for finding the nation’s worst people would cost practically nothing, leaving $5 billion left over to help rebuild the nation’s schools, roads and other crumbling infrastructure.

The political scientist expects to encounter significant resistance to his proposal, however.

“It’s hard to imagine a new system finding worse people than our current one does,” he admitted.

Soon after the meeting began, Kansas budget director Shawn Sullivan unveiled his plans for doling out the funds. That was a new problem: No school officials asking for the state money had known of Sullivan’s proposed solutions, nor had the public.

cavalier process was not crystal clear before the meeting began and got murkier as it went along.

Last week, four GOP leaders - including House Speaker Ray Merrick of Stilwell and Senate President Susan Wagle of Wichita - suddenly asked schools seeking extra

Enemies In February, Brownback signed an executive order that rescinded protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender state workers.

Essentially, the governor reopened the potential for them to be discriminated against, fired or harassed because of their gender identity or sexual orientation.

In June, Brownback harshly criticized the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage. He staunchly defended the state-approved ban on such unions - ignoring the fact that federal courts trumped that law.

Rather than be magnanimous in defeat, Brownback seemed to keep open the possibility that the state would try to violate the rights of gay people to wed in the future.

Stocks

world’s biggest producer of oil and natural gas.

The domestic fossil fuels industry is bound to suffer.

How might all of this affect the presidential race? I’m guessing it could make voters pay more attention to the candidates’ records on economic and Andy Borowitz is a comedian and author financial management and might give a boost to those with experience, as opposed to promise.

On the Democratic (continued from side, I would expect page five) Hillary Clinton to get a ReFormers Caucus to press for campaign finance bump. Polls consistently reform. And a new group, 99Rise, has launched a cam- say that voters see her as the most experienced paign to expose and eliminate secret money from our campaign finance system.

Carter laments that the present system of campaign finance “violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system.”

A century ago, Louis Brandeis expressed similar It has nothing to do with fears for our fragile experiment in self-governance.

“We must make our choice,” the future Supreme Court party or ideology - it’s justice said. “We may have democracy, or we may about decency.

To their credit, some of have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we Trump’s opponents have can’t have both.” stood up to him after preWe must make our choice: democracy or rule by vious bouts of sexism. Fiothe rich? rina, the only woman in the Republican race, said Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies where he directs the Program on Inequality and the that “women of all kinds Common Good (www.inequality.org) are really sort of horrified

Platinum

Bigotry

Details Americans are enrolling in the plan and as the number of uninsured Americans continues to decline, presidential candidates and the Republican Party still promise to do away with the Affordable Care Act if elected. They vow to replace it with something better, but after six years of railing against Obamacare not a single

funds to send in ways they had become more efficient with state tax dollars in the last three years.

That exercise isn’t in the official process for how the state hands out “extraordinary need” funds. Districts make such requests when enrollment jumps or property tax rev-

enues are affected by falling property tax assessments.

Still, being efficient with tax funds is a good thing, so this request just forced the schools to comply and send a list. So how often did the GOP leaders use those reported efficiencies on Monday to determine whether a district got more money?

Never once.

Soon after the meeting began, Kansas budget director Shawn Sullivan

unveiled his plans for doling out the funds. That was a new problem: No school officials asking for the state money had known of Sullivan’s proposed solutions, nor had the public.

That prompted a scramble to get this vital data into the hands of superintendents when it was essentially too late for them to do anything about it.

(See SCHOOLS on page 7)

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▪Brownback’s war on judges is still in motion.

He seems focused on trying to coerce the judiciary into following his dictates; never mind the three-legged stool of government or separation of powers.

The governor earlier this year signed into law an almost unbelievable measure that would eliminate funding for state courts if they eventually strike down a law passed by the Legislature in 2014.

Brownback in January also called for changing how the Supreme Court is appointed, including one proposal that would allow the executive branch to do that - wresting the power away from a commission that now puts forward candidates’ names to the governor.

Overall, this approach

is Brownback’s way to try to have much more control over who sits on the court, especially when it is called upon to decide whether he and the Legislature are following the state constitution. Think: school funding.

▪Finally, the poor can’t catch a break under Brownback - unlike the businesses and farmers he’s helping with aggressive income tax breaks.

In April, the governor signed into law a bill that set strict requirements for how much welfare recipients could receive and how they could use the funds.

No more massage parlors and cruise ships for the welfare queens.

It was yet another slam against a group of people that it’s easy for Brownback and the GOP to demonize for political pur-

poses.

Except that many of the poor are children who obviously aren’t in the workforce. Their parents are targeted by the law, and the children are swept up in the mix.

In reality, the governor does not have to care what his critics think. He was elected not just once but a second time, and that 2014 campaign came when the people of Kansas had good evidence of what kind of governor they had put in place in Topeka.

To the winners go the spoils and Brownback won.

Meanwhile, his “enemies” continue to lose. Too bad, because they don’t deserve to be on that list.

Yael Abouhalkah is a columnist for the Kansas City Star.

He can be reached at abouhalkah@kcstar.com

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candidate in either party.

Steady economic management is part of the Clinton brand.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has plenty of bold economic ideas, but voters might look at their shrinking 401(k) balances and become more risk-averse.

The Republican side is where things get really interesting. Jeb Bush was supposed to be the adult in the room, the steady helmsman. But there’s the slight matter of his brother who let the 2007-08 crisis get out of hand before finally reacting with a huge bank bailout that

many conservatives saw as corporate socialism.

Governors such as Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Chris Christie of New Jersey have already been pressed to defend management of their states’ budgets and credit ratings. Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) has had to answer for his precarious personal finances.

Businesswoman Carly Fiorina did run a massive corporation, but there is disagreement over how well. Ben Carson was a gifted neurosurgeon but has never really run anything.

And then there’s Trump. Many of his policy prescriptions are, to put it mildly, far-fetched.

Round up and deport 11 million people? Somehow force the Mexican government to pay for a border wall? Take back jobs from China?

Logically, it seems to me that market craziness ought to be bad for Trump.

But while his candidacy is about many things, logic isn’t one of them.

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

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by this.” (Trump, true to form, responded by saying that listening to Fiorina gives you “a massive headache.”)

Jeb Bush, referring to women, asked, “Do we want to insult 53 percent of all voters?” while Rick Santorum urged an end to “crass personal attacks.”

But as the Trump outrages continue, they tend to be met more by eyerolls and a Trump-will-beTrump acceptance - and less by condemnation. After this week’s bimbo episode only George Pataki (yes, he’s still in the race) weighed in, saying Trump was “over the line” and

displaying a “demeaning attitude towards women.”

That’s good, but insufficient. The way to combat Trump’s bigotry and misogyny is to denounce it as loudly as he spews it.

The fault lies not just with candidates and lawmakers who have grown adept at telling voters what they want to hear.

Also to blame are lowinformation voters who are too lazy to question what’s possible and what isn’t, or more importantly, to ask what happens next?

What happens after you deport 11 million Hispanics?

What happens when you eliminate the IRS? What happens when millions of Americans lose Obamacare coverage?

What happens when lack of funding forces the local school or hospital to close its doors?

Conservative politicians are guilty of not confronting these ques-

tions. Their base is guilty of not caring about the answers.

But on the outside chance that Trump is elected President and needs help in deporting 11 million Hispanics, we’ll be glad to visit with him about our travel machine.

They are two ideas that were meant for each other.

Dana Milbank is a Washington Post staff writer and author

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Republican has offered “something better.”

Details, as we’ve learned, are overrated.

It’s no different in Kansas politics.

Conservative lawmakers cut funding for public education and the consequences are immaterial.

Let the local districts sort out the details.

The Legislature refus-

es to take advantage of federal funding to expand Medicaid eligibility which would provide better health care for the poor. It’s easier for these Republican lawmakers to campaign as opponents of Obamacare than it is to help fellow Kansans and provide an economic boost to our health care industry.

Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com

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Schools Even after that, Sullivan’s recommendations were further altered under dubious circumstances.

At the tail end of the meeting, Wagle wondered how much student enrollment should go up before it was called an “extraordinary” event.

Her proposal differed from Sullivan’s, and that led to further cutbacks for many districts. Kansas City was a big loser: Sullivan had recommended it receive $1.2 million, but Wagle’s out-of-theblue and lightly discussed

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guideline slashed the figure to $400,000.

In an another lowlight, Sen. Ty Masterson (R-Andover) said the needs of several hundred refugee students in Wichita could be better served by private schools rather than taxpayer-supported public schools.

Masterson did not say who would pay for this private education of students with limited English skills. And Wichita Public Schools got nothing of the $1 million it sought in extra assistance.

The long-running court battle over whether the

Legislature is adequately funding Kansas schools hung in the background on Monday.

Many educators hope the state Supreme Court eventually will increase annual revenues by hundreds of millions of dollars a year, an outcome Brownback and his supporters strenuously oppose.

This week’s proceedings presented another disappointing example of how Brownback’s battles with educators disrupt local attempts to create high-performing schools in Kansas.

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Amanda Kennedy is the SCHS vocal music director and SCMS vocal music instructor.

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Alumni

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returning to Scott City after getting her diploma in 2008.

“I told myself at the time that I wasn’t coming back,” she says with a huge smile. “I knew I didn’t want to live in a small town.”

After getting her music education degree from Wichita State University and then teaching in the Wichita public school system for two years, Kennedy began to look at things differently.

“I missed the smalltown feel and being part of a community that’s so supportive like Scott City,” she says. “I had to move away in order to see that. I had to experience it personally.”

Not everyone understands the small-town life. When Kennedy told friends and colleagues in Wichita she was returning to Western Kansas they tried to talk her out of doing so.

“They kept telling me that everything I had was right there. Why would I want to leave?” she says.

“If you haven’t grown up in a small town you probably wouldn’t understand.”

City,” says Robinson.

After getting her teaching degree from Kansas State University, she was hired as an assistant director with the Scott Recreation Commission.

Robinson had been the SRC director for 2-1/2 years before applying for the fourth grade position at Scott City Elementary School.

“I couldn’t have asked for a better opportunity.

I get to teach and coach, which is what I love doing,” says the first-year teacher.

As for the decision to return, Robinson says most of her friends weren’t surprised.

“I think a lot more people my age get it. That’s why we’re starting to see so many coming back,” she notes.

Admittedly, having a social life can be challenging when you’re young and single in a small town.

“It’s not always easy finding something to do.

It comes down to who you surround yourself with,” Robinson emphasizes.

“I’m lucky that I have good friends that I can hang around with.”

No Plans to Return Kennedy’s initial sentiments were also shared

by Lauren Robinson who admits she had no plans to return to Scott City after getting her diploma in 2007.

“It wasn’t until I was away for awhile that I realized being from Scott City is different. I’ve been in other towns and you don’t get the same sense of community that you feel when you’re from Scott

Changing Attitudes What may have been almost unthinkable for too many graduates 10 or 20 years ago is becoming more commonplace.

More former graduates are returning because they have a chance to become part of the family business or farm, a career opportunity has opened up or they simply want to raise a family in the same smalltown atmosphere that they once enjoyed.

“Attitudes are changing,” says Kite. “Kids I went to school with are coming back because this is where they want to raise their family. We’ve learned to appreciate everything that Scott City has to offer.

“When you get down to it, I think it’s because we’re proud to say we’re from Scott City.”

Alex Hutchins, a science teacher at Scott City Middle School, said he’d only been away to college for a couple of years before realizing he would like to return.

“When I mentioned it to my friends I think they understood. It was important for me to be around my brothers and watch them compete in sports.

Being around family is important to me,” he says.

But he also appreciates the extended family that comes with being from Scott City.

“There’s something special about going to a state championship (football) game or a state (basketball) tournament and seeing so many people who still feel the pride of being from Scott City even though they no longer live here. It’s something that never leaves you,” he says. “Now I get to be part of that again as a coach.

“I don’t know that you can call a high school a brand, but the name of Scott City is out there and people have seen what we’ve been able to accomplish over the years. Wherever you are in Kansas people know about Scott City.”

As for whether it will

Alex Hutchins is the seventh grade football head coach in addition to being a science teacher at the middle school.

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Scott City Elementary School fourth grade teacher Lauren Robinson.

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be a lifelong decision, Hutchins isn’t ready to make that commitment.

“If it happens, I’m fine with that. Right now, this

is a great situation for me. I get to teach and I have the opportunity to learn under one of the best coaches (Glenn O’Neil) in

Kansas,” he says. “And if I end up raising a family here someday, then I can’t think of a better place for that to happen.”

Fall control is best for dandelions

Cool-season broadleaf weed control with postemergence herbicides is most effective from about mid-September through the end of October.

Why? Because during the fall, perennial weeds such as dandelions are growing vigorously and are moving resources to the root system in preparation for winter.

Consequently, fallapplied herbicides are translocated to the roots and the entire plant is killed.

During the spring, dandelions and similar weeds are funneling resources to the shoots and flowers, so less herbicide reaches the root system and the weeds may recover.

Summertime applications often are less effective because weed growth has slowed and the plants do not take up the herbicide as readily as in the spring and fall.

Another good reason to treat now is that trees, shrubs and other garden plants are much less susceptible to herbicide drift injury than in the spring and summer. Still, injury can occur in windy conditions, so do not spray if the wind speed exceeds five mph.

Amine formulations will give effective control and are less volatile than the esters.

Postemergence broadleaf herbicides should not be applied to turf that is drought-stressed or when temperatures are above 80 degrees.

Best control with postemergence herbicides such as trimec will be achieved when the weeds are actively growing (i.e., when soil moisture is plentiful and air tem-

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peratures are in the 60-75 degree range).

Do not mow for several days before and after the application to allow for maximum uptake and translocation of the herbicide. Do not water for at least 24 hours after application, and do not treat if rain is expected within 24 hours.

Remember, always read and follow the herbicide label instructions carefully.

Tomato Vine Decline One limitation of the ‘semi-determinate’ or smaller-vined tomato varieties is they do not redevelop after periods of stress or serious disease infestation. After a 6-8 week productive period the vines usually die or nearly so.

If you want tomatoes for fall, it’s best to plant some late plants about mid-June. They will begin to produce just as early tomato plants are finished.

Standard vined tomatoes will begin a period of regrowth for fall production, but there’s no guarantee that tomatoes that are just blooming now will produce tomatoes before our first freeze. A lot depends on the weather between now and then.

If we experience a mild September and early October there is a chance that tomatoes might ripen for a fall harvest.

If it begins to cool off in September, the fruits may not have time to develop and ripen before the first freeze.

Balance

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your time? Sure, as long as there is not a conflict.

Organizations that ask for volunteers need to remember that these are not paid employees and should be treated with that in mind. Their families should be included when at all possible and no volunteer should be mistreated.

Now, having given you guidelines that will help you to say no and protect your time for yourself and family, keep in mind one should be willing to give back to the organizations that your family is involved in.

If you can’t give back in some way because you don’t have any time to give, maybe you and your family are involved in too much. There can’t always be teams and no coaches. There has to be leaders and organizers and your help is very much needed.

Just saying no includes what your kids are involved in. Being involved in your community is great, but not to the point that your family, your health or your finances suffer. No one who lives in your community would want that to happen.

Slow down, prioritize and enjoy.

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Funding Requests by School Districts Who Lost Assessed Valuation District Satanta Plainville South Barber Ness City Sublette Deerfield Western Plains Rolla Moscow Hodgeman County Dighton Trego County Russell Quinter Stanton County Hoisington St. John-Hudson Ingalls Burrton South Haven Woodson Garden City

Amount Requested $485,504 466,466 277,424 274,993 402,554 461,195 118,890 189,000 366,199 195,354 182,742 389,870 501,391 187,929 300,000 567,380 200,000 125,000 57,830 22,106 99,900 606,977

Dighton ing room addressed the Council with an explanation as to why they felt they were in need of additional money.

“That’s when things started getting a little tense. Some of the superintendents didn’t like that their explanations were being questioned by the Council and members of the Council gave the impression they didn’t like that their decision was being questioned by the administrators,” Freeman said.

“I think what bothered a lot of the administrators is that the Council kept framing their reasoning in such a way as to make it seem they were giving the schools more money than they would have received under the old finance plan. They were trying to make the schools feel like they were better off with the block grants. All the administrators who were there knew better.”

Freeman said he felt very fortunate that the Dighton district received

as it relates to increased enrollment but they approved it 100 percent on assessed valuation. My concern about this whole finance council approval process was that it would be political in terms of what their decisions were and today proved that out.”

The council approved 62 percent of all dollars that had been requested by districts dealing with declining property values.

Meanwhile, the council approved only 24 percent of all requested aid dollars for districts experiencing increased enrollment.

Sen. Ty Masterson (R-Andover) sits on the council because of his role as chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee. He dismissed concerns over political influence.

The Legislature’s decision to eliminate the state’s school finance formula this spring and replace it with a block grant formula put into place the process for districts to approach the finance council for additional aid. Ultimately, lawmakers say they want to develop a new, perma-

Amount Granted $436,648 417,202 242,313 254,935 345,275 187,899 118,890 159,632 194,436 161,336 150,679 217,291 406,392 95,444 194,473 152,221 152,515 59,977 35,251 7,352 11,435 56,055

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82 percent of the funding it requested.

“The money, at least as much as we can, will go into reserves. We need to protect ourselves because we can’t be certain this same thing won’t happen again next year,” says Freeman.

He acknowledges that such a decision represents a double-edged sword that is criticized by those who feel school districts shouldn’t be banking their money.

“We have an obligation to protect the district’s financial integrity because we don’t know what the future holds,” Freeman explains. “Being responsible with the taxpayers’ money means putting some money aside for a rainy day - or protecting us if the legislature should decide not to give us all the money they’ve promised, which we’ve seen happen in the past.

“Unfortunately, when districts put money into reserves there are some who criticize us for doing that.”

Funding

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nent formula.

Brownback and other Republicans said the finance council process allows districts to approach the state for more aid that under the old formula they would have had to wait a year to receive.

“Although state aid funding for each of these schools increased, we continue to see remnants of the old funding formula creating financial challenges for some districts,” Brownback said.

In the background of the new system is a years-old ongoing lawsuit known as the Gannon case, where several school districts sued the state seeking additional funding. Courts had ruled the Legislature failed to adequately fund schools under the old formula.

New rulings from the Kansas Supreme Court on school finance are likely next year.

An analysis of aid requests and amounts allocated didn’t show the council treated districts who are part of the Gannon lawsuit differently.

The calm waters at Lake Scott reflect a setting sun on Monday evening.

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Amanda Kennedy

Shelby Kite

Sarah McCormick

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Todd Richardson

Lauren Robinson

Jay Tedder

Suzanne Trotter

11 new teachers join USD 466 staff

Stacy Davis Stacy Davis isn’t new to Scott City, having lived here since 1992, but this is her first year to be an official staff member of USD 466.

In 1990, she began working for Greenbush as a Parents as Teachers coordinator. When she and her family moved to Scott City she continued working for Greenbush in that capacity, which is also associated with the school district.

A native of Bronson, in southeast Kansas, Davis graduated from Uniontown High School.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in vocational education (home economics) in 1990 from Kansas State University.

In recent years, the FACS (family and consumer sciences) program at SCMS had been reduced to part-time. It has been restored to a fulltime position this year under Davis.

She and her husband, Mark, have three daughters: Janae, a junior at KSU, Macy, a freshman at KSU, and Trella, a sophomore at SCHS.

Teresa Goebel A new first grade teacher at SCES is Teresa Goebel.

A native of West Point, Nebr., she earned a bachelor’s degree in biology and psychology from Nebraska Wesleyan in 2010.

However, she decided to join other family members who had careers in education and, in 2012, completed her Master’s degree in elementary education from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

For the past two years she has been a fifth grade teacher before moving to Scott City where her husband, Jack, is employed with Bartlett Grain.

Alex Hutchins A 2010 graduate of Scott Community High School, Hutchins earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Kansas State University.

He is teaching seventh and eighth grade science at Scott City Middle School.

Prior to returning to Scott City, Hutchins was a fifth grade teacher for one year at Minneapolis.

During that time he was also the boy’s basketball head coach and an assistant coach for football and track.

His coaching duties in USD 466 include head football for the seventh grade and SCHS boy’s assistant basketball.

Dale Jessup Dale Jessup is a native of Phillipsburg and a 2006 graduate of Kansas State University with a bachelor’s degree in agricul-

tural economics.

He is the FFA/ag mechanics instructor at SCHS. Jessup, 32, has previously been a FFA/vo-ag teacher for three years in the Healy school district.

He has also worked and farmed in the Scott City area since moving here in 2008 after marrying the former Kristin Ramsey.

The couple has two children, Piper, 4, and Trace, 1.

Amanda Kennedy Following graduation from SCHS in 2008, Kennedy attended Wichita State University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in music education.

She previously taught grades K-5 vocal music at Holcomb before accepting the position as SCHS vocal music director and SCMS assistant vocal music instructor.

Kennedy, 25, has a class in which she works with soloists for the fall musical production. She plans to assume a larger role with the musical next year.

Shelby Kite A 2009 graduate of Scott Community High School, Shelby Kite attended Pratt Community College on a volleyball scholarship for one year before transferring to Ft. Hays State University.

Kite earned a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education in December 2014.

During the spring semester she worked for the education cooperative in Lakin and Ulysses.

KAMS info session at Garden City

Staff from Ft. Hays State University’s Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science, which offers high school juniors and seniors the opportunity to get a head start on their college education, will host information sessions across the state this fall.

Students and their

parents can learn about KAMS and visit with representatives from the academy.

The final session in Western Kansas will be Tues., Sept. 1, 6:00 p.m., in Garden City at the FHSU Higher Education Opportunity Center, 311

N. Campus Drive, Suite 102.

All information sessions are free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Angela Delzeit, coordinator for marketing and recruitment, at 785628-4719, or visit www. fhsu.edu/kams.

Kite has a five-year-old so they can continue the son, Sage. tradition of success that Scott City is known for,” Sarah McCormick says Richardson. “Plus, Joining the SCMS staff this is a great opportuas a seventh/eighth grade nity for me to learn from English teacher is Sarah a great group of coaches.”

McCormick.

Richardson will also be A graduate of Cheney a head girl’s track coach High School, she had at SCMS. basketball scholarRichardson and his ships at Independence wife, Rachel, have a Community College and two-year-old daughter, Emporia State University. Natalie.

She earned a BS degree in education from ESU in Lauren Robinson 2000.

A Scott City native, McCormick added Lauren Robinson gradua Master’s degree in ated from SCHS in 2007 2003 with an emphasis and in December of 2011 in English, literature and completed her bachelor’s creative writing. degree in elementary eduDuring her time at cation from Kansas State ESU, McCormick was University. also a grad assistant with Upon returning to Scott the women’s basketball City, Robinson began program. substitute teaching until Her teaching backshe was hired as assisground includes two years tant director of the Scott at Maize High School, Recreation Commission nine years at Garden Plain in March of 2012. The and the last two years at following January she Maize Middle School.

Her husband, Brad, became the SRC director.

In addition to teachis the new principal at ing fourth grade at SCES, SCHS. Robinson is a seventh They have three children, Brynn, 12; Peyton, grade volleyball assistant coach and the eighth 9; and Brock, 3. grade girl’s assistant basketball coach.

Todd Richardson A native of Louisburg, Richardson is a spring Jay Tedder Joining the SCHS staff graduate of Pittsburg State as a math instructor is Jay University with a bachTedder who is teaching elor’s degree in physical education. He has a minor algebra I, algebra II and in strength and condition- financial algebra.

Tedder, 50, earned ing.

He is teaching strength/ his BA degree in eleconditioning at SCHS in mentary education from addition to being an assis- Southwestern College, Winfield. He later added tant football coach.

“I’m excited about the the education endorseopportunity to be a driv- ments to teach middle ing force behind making school math and science our athletes even better and is awaiting endorse-

ments for high school math.

The family had been living in Arkansas City and for the past seven years he has been teaching in the Wellington school district.

When Tedder’s wife, Joie, joined the Scott County Hospital in August 2014 as a midlevel nurse practitioner, he began looking for teaching opportunities in the area.

In addition to teaching, Tedder is also the SCMS cross-country coach.

The Tedders have a son, Sam, who is a freshman at SCHS. Suzanne Trotter Suzanne “Suzi” Trotter, 33, originally from Reno, Nev., is an English teacher on the SCHS staff.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Brigham Young University in 2005 and also added an emphasis in family history/genealogy.

Trotter was a genealogist while living in Provo, Utah, and also a substitute teacher before deciding to pursue a full-time teaching career.

She received her teaching credentials in Kansas through Emporia State University and is currently working on a double masters in education and curriculum/instruction.

She has lived in Kansas for seven years, teaching English, history and English as a Second Language for school districts in Dodge City, Caldwell and last year at Western Plains (Ransom).

She has two sons, Josef, 9, a fourth grader, and Merrick, 5, in kindergarten.

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The largest turnover in staff in many years has led to 11 new teachers in Scott County (USD 466) schools for the 2014-15 academic year.

Five of the new staff members are in Scott Community High School with three each Scott City Middle School and Scott City Elementary School.

New staff members include:

Thursday, August 27 Head out to the Keystone Gallery and tell Barb she’s still lookin’ young!

For the Record Money preparations for prospective parents The Scott County Record

by Nathaniel Sillin

It costs parents an average of $245,340 to raise a child from birth to age 18.

That figure from the USDA is just one reason why prospective parents are advised to consider parallel financial planning for child-based expenses and retirement. The key is to start doing it as early as possible – in a December 2012 article in The New

The Scott County Record Page 12 • Thursday, August 27, 2015

Republic, adults are starting families later than previous generations. In short, savings needs for childcare, college and retirement seem on a tighter collision course than ever.

For prospective couples or single parents, any discussion of family should begin with the pros and cons of starting a family in terms of personal, lifestyle and career suc-

Scott Co. LEC Report Scott City Police Department Aug. 18: Andrew Pauda, 28, was arrested for battery of a law enforcement officer, distribution of an opiate/narcotic/stimulant, possession of a hallucinogenic drug, use/possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia, interference with a LEO and no drug tax stamp.

He was transported to the LEC. Aug. 23: Christine Zeller reported the theft of property/services.

Aug. 23: Bryan Weems reported a burglary and criminal damage to property.

Aug. 23: Ruth Riedl reported the theft of property.

Aug. 23: David Suri, 33, was arrested for probation violation and transported to the LEC. Scott County Sheriff’s Department Aug. 20: Andrew Pauda was served a warrant from another county while in the Scott County LEC. Aug. 24: Joshua Dirks, 34, was arrested for domestic battery and transported to the LEC. Aug. 25: Joshua Dirks was served a warrant for parole violation while in the Scott County LEC. Aug. 25: David Suri was served a warrant for parole violation while in the LEC.

Public Notice (Published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Aug. 27, 2015)t1 BEFORE THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS NOTICE OF FILING APPLICATION Re: In the matter of Landmark Resources, Inc. Application for a Permit for Water Injection/Disposal into the Beeson Unit A 1-1 located in Scott County, Kansas.

To: All Oil and Gas Producers, Unleased Mineral Interest Owners, Landowners, and all persons whosoever concerned.

You and each of you are hereby notified that Landmark Resources, Inc. has filed an application to commence the disposal of saltwater into the Cedar Hills Formation at the Beeson Unit A 1-1, located 2562’ FNL and 2586’ FEL of Section 1-T17S-R34W, Scott County, Kansas, with a maxi-

mum operating pressure of 0 psig and a maximum injection rate of 500 barrels per day.

Any persons who object 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 the 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 forgoing and shall govern themselves accordingly.

Landmark Resources, Inc. 1616 S. Voss Rd., Suite 600 Houston, TX 77057 (713) 243-8550

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Aug. 27, 2015; last published Thurs., Sept. 3, 2015)2t BEFORE THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS NOTICE OF FILING APPLICATION Re: Discovery Natural Resources, LLC-Application for a permit to authorize the injection of salt water into the Long 11A-28-1831 well, located in Scott County, Kansas.

To: All Oil and Gas Producers, Unleased Mineral Interest Owners, Landowners, and all persons whosoever concerned.

You, and each of you, are hereby notified that Discovery Natural Resources, LLC has filed an application to commence the injection of salt water into the Arbuckle formation at the Long 11A28-1831 well located NE/NE/ SW 2,310’FSL, 2,310’FWL, Sec 28 T-18S, R-31W, Scott County, Kansas, with a maxi-

mum operating pressure of a 1800 psi and maximum injection rate of 20,000 bbls 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, CO 80202 Phone: 303-893-5090

cess. In short, the question “Do we want kids?” should come before “Can we afford kids?”

Once family goals are settled, it’s wise to evaluate where current finances stand. While many couples have a thorough money talk (http://www. practicalmoneyskills. com/moneyquestions) before they wed, it works for family planning, too.

Couples and single

parents will benefit from complete financial transparency before pregnancy, adoption proceedings or fertility treatment starts.

Utilize qualified financial and tax advice to fit specific circumstances.

Consult trusted family and friends for referrals to qualified financial planning and tax experts. Also check current tax rules for how to handle and potentially deduct certain costs

Scott County Commission Agenda Tuesday, September 1 County Courthouse 3:00 p.m.

County business Approve August payroll Accounts payable Discuss dispatch of emergency vehicles

3:30 p.m.

Discussion of home health with Health Director Dana Shapland

4:00 p.m.

Bill Dinkel, Red Cross representative, to discuss blood drive offered by health department

4:30 p.m.

Public Works Director Richard Cramer

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

related to adoption or fertility treatments.

Research thoroughly and bookmark resources online. The IRS website (http://www.irs.gov/ Individuals/Parents) continually updates its summary of tax issues for parents which can guide overall planning.

New authors and bloggers emerge daily on virtually every aspect of parenting; friends, relatives

and colleagues can also provide resources.

For prospective parents who are employed, it is a good idea to evaluate benefits well ahead of a pregnancy, fertilization procedures or adoption.

Depending on specific circumstances, employees should review health and general benefits for routine and emergency medical coverage, medi(See PARENTS on page 13)

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Aug. 27, 2015; last published Thurs., Sept. 10, 2015)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS In the Matter of the Estate of EDNA MATLIDA UPPENDAHL aka EDNA M. UPPENDAHL aka EDNA UPPENDALH, Deceased (Petition Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 59) No. 2015-PR-15 NOTICE TO CREDITORS THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are notified that on August 24, 2015, a Petition for Probate of Will and Issuance of Letters Testamentary was filed in this Court James A. Pohlmann, an heir, devisee and legatee, and executor named in the “Last

Will and Testament of Edna Matilda Uppendahl aka Edna M. Uppendahl aka Edna Uppendahl,” deceased.

All creditors of the decedent are notified to exhibit their demands against the Estate within the latter of four 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.

JAMES A. POHLMANN Petitioner Jake W. Brooks Attorney For Petitioner P.O. Box 664, 101 E. 6th Scott City, Kansas 67871 620-872-7204

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KDOT, researchers discuss use of drones

A group of academics and representatives from businesses and the Kansas Department of Transportation met earlier this week in Topeka to discuss economic and public safety benefits of unmanned aerial vehicles - commonly referred to as drones - and how to address the public’s concerns about their use.

The gathering was the last of a series of public discussions ahead of a summit in October that organizers hope will facili-

tate better understanding about these devices, which have drawn increasing media attention through their use by the military, by hobbyists and even by activists who have used them to observe confined feeding operations.

Drones have spurred public concerns about invasion of privacy or the risks they may provide when used near airports.

Attendees on Tuesday said the devices have a range of uses that may not be apparent to the public

Public Notice (Published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Aug. 27, 2015)1t

TREASURER’S QUARTERLY STATEMENT SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS • AS OF JULY 31, 2015 Total cash in the Scott County Treasury as of the above date $12,541,262.69 FUND

FUND BALANCES

General .................................................................. $ 1,912,572.00 Community Development Block Grant Loan ........

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

90,012.22 Alcohol Program ....................................................

3,577.55 Indoor Arena Fund ................................................

9,661.25 26,610.63 Special Cemetery Equipment .................................

County Employee Benefits ..................................... 1,125,659.91 County Health - M. Koehn Memorial .....................

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

391.99 County Health .........................................................

295,064.69 County Health - Bio-Terrorism ................................

21,402.86 County Health - Special Assistance ........................

13,920.00 Home Health ...........................................................

0.00 Hospital Maintenance ..............................................

0.00 Library Maintenance ................................................

134,976.39 Library Building ........................................................

34,640.63 Noxious Weed ..........................................................

74,833.46 Special Noxious Weed Equipment ...........................

108,992.31 Landfill Special Equipment Sales ............................

45,700.32 Road and Bridge ......................................................

924,384.11 Fire District ...............................................................

198,065.69 County Public Buildings ........................................... 1,286,866.42 Special Highway Improvement ................................

514,416.80 Special Road Machinery ..........................................

443,230.18 Equipment Reserve ..................................................

484,721.50 County Bond and Interest ........................................ 1,831,576.68 Hospital Bond and Interest .......................................

444,246.64 Sheriff Equipment Fund .............................................

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

8,463.71 Prosecutor Training and Assistance ...........................

5,555.15 Attorney Worthless Check Fees .................................

575.25 Register of Deeds Technology Fund ..........................

47,288.44 Clerk Technology Fund ..............................................

1,102.62 Treasurer Technology Fund ........................................

1,102.62 Motor Vehicle Operating Fund ...................................

10,462.44 Zella O. Carpenter (S.A.) ............................................ 315,589.02 Zella O. Carpenter ....................................................

508,740.00 Oil and Gas Valuation Depletion ............................... 1,045,413.22 Keystone General .....................................................

13.07 Keystone Hall .............................................................

13.03 Scott Township General .............................................

537.72 Advance Tax ..............................................................

914.52 Current Tax ................................................................ 117,130.08 Tax Escrow Accounting .............................................

24,082.22 Current Tax Interest ...................................................

2,472.16 Delinquent Personal Property Tax .............................

3,241.46 Redemptions .............................................................

2,240.75 Commercial Motor Vehicle ........................................

4,602.85 Motor Vehicle Registration Tax .................................. 181,506.68 Rental and Excise Tax ................................................

404.93 Recreation Vehicle Tax ...............................................

3,151.22 911 Tariff .....................................................................

14,931.09 911 Tariff - Wireless .................................................... 178,743.17 Wildlife and Parks .......................................................

5,667.45 Driver’s Licenses ..........................................................

619.50 Motor Vehicle ................................................................

3,595.17 Vehicle Registration Tax Interest ...................................

2,114.64 Motor Sales Tax ............................................................. 25,046.97 Total All Funds $ 12,541,262.69 State of Kansas County of Scott I do solemnly swear that the above statement is complete, true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief, so help me God. Lark Speer County Treasurer Subscribed to and sworn to before me this 17th day of August 2015 Alice Brokofsky Notary Public

but that hold potential for public safety, for research or for farmers to carry out work in a fast and lowcost manner.

“I think it’s important that we educate not only our legislators but we educate ourselves and the public,” said Joel Anderson, development director in the office of research at Kansas State University.

K-State was one of the first universities in the country to offer instruction on operating unmanned aircraft. Its Salina

campus offers a bachelor’s degree in that subject, and the school is part of an alliance of 22 universities that offer research and expertise on the topic to the Federal Aviation Administration.

The University of Kansas and Wichita State University also are members.

As an example for agriculture, Anderson says K-State had helped a farmer save time and money by using an infrared-equipped unmanned aircraft to locate a prob-

Parents

(continued from page 12)

cal leave policy and extras like child care benefits.

Couples should compare their coverage to determine who has the best family coverage overall.

Start planning for childcare expenses as soon as possible. Full- or part-time childcare services for working parents can be surprisingly expensive and difficult to obtain depending on location.

In 2015, the White House reported that the average cost of full-time care for an infant was about $10,000 a year, and a 2014 Boston Globe (https://www.boston globe.com) report noted state-by-state estimates that were significantly higher. For peace of mind and affordability, it is advisable to tackle the childcare issue as early as possible.

Prospective parents might also speak with a qualified tax advisor about whether it is more advantageous to claim the Child and Dependent Care Credit on their taxes or pay childcare expenses from a Flexible Spending Account at work.

Loved ones can also lend financial assistance to a new family in a variety of ways. Affordable basics include general parenting advice, as-

lem with an expensive drainage system he had installed on his land.

“He had a leak somewhere and he couldn’t figure out where it was,” Anderson said.

John Martens, founder of NMotionUAS, a Wichita-area company that works with fire, police and other emergency responders, said unmanned aerial devices have the potential to speed up the search for a lost child or Alzheimer’s patient, or to help police

check out a hostage situation before sending in officers.

“This tool can provide them a lot better information, a lot quicker and a lot safer than just traditional ground-based methods,” Martens said.

Attendees Tuesday also emphasized that unmanned aircraft should be used responsibly and with appropriate training.

Anderson cited a 2013 report indicating the unmanned aircraft industry (See DRONES on page 17)

Public Notice

needed babysitting services and sharing coupons and hand-me-downs like clothing, toys and unneeded child-related equipment in good condition.

For those willing to lend financial support, such options might include a Coverdell Education Savings Account, 529 college savings plan or a gift of cash or assets to the child subject to IRS rules. Also, anyone can directly pay medical expenses in full for someone they do not claim as a dependent under certain circumstances.

If friends or family members offer financial help, encourage them to evaluate options with qualified financial and tax experts.

Finally, prospective parents should become dedicated bargain hunters and savers with an equal focus on handling childcare expenses and supporting retirement goals.

Both financial goals are equally important.

Bottom line: It pays to plan early for a family.

Evaluate your finances, reach out to friends and family for advice and get help from qualified experts if you need it.

(First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Aug. 27, 2015; last published Thurs., Sept. 10, 2015)3t BEFORE THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS NOTICE OF FILING APPLICATION RE: Walker Tank Service, Inc - Application for a permit to authorize the disposal of saltwater into the Frank 1A20-1831, 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 Walker Tank Service, Inc has filed an application to commence the disposal of saltwater into the Cedar Hill Sand formation at the Frank 1A-20-1831, located in the 330’ N 495’ E, 20-18-31 W, Scott County,

Kansas, with a maximum injection rate of 500 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 (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.

Walker Tank Service, Inc PO Box 117 Utica, KS 67584 785-391-2408

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The Scott County Record • Page 14 • Thursday, August 27, 2015

Court says Kansas must pay Medicaid workers minimum wage Ruling could reduce services to seniors, disabled Dave Ranney Kaiser Health News

Kansas officials are reviewing a recent federal appeals court ruling that requires the state’s Medicaid program to pay in-home care workers minimum wage and overtime.

Officials at the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services issued a statement shortly after the court decision was announced on Friday saying they were attempting to determine its “poten-

tial impact” on the state’s Medicaid program, known as KanCare.

In part, the statement read: “KDADS is committed to minimizing any negative impact this may have on consumers, direct service workers and providers while ensuring the health, safety and welfare of those who receive services from HCBS programs.”

HCBS refers to Medicaid-funded home and community based services.

Previously, KDADS Secretary Kari Bruffett had said that having to pay home care workers more - particularly those who provide sleep cycle sup-

port - would increase costs and reduce access to services that help frail seniors and people with disabilities live in communitybased settings rather than in nursing homes.

Sleep cycle support workers provide overnight care to individuals who need help toileting, taking medications and being repositioned to prevent bedsores.

Having to pay them minimum wage - $7.25 an hour - would cost the state an additional $12 million, Bruffett told Kansas lawmakers last spring.

Kansas and eight other states filed amicus briefs opposing a U.S. Department of Labor

regulation requiring thirdparty employers to pay in-home care works minimum wage and overtime.

The ruling Friday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reversed an earlier district court ruling that had blocked enactment of the regulation.

Deane Beebe, a spokesperson for the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute, a national organization that represents home health aides and personal care attendants, hailed the ruling.

“The (appeals) court has ruled and recognized that home care workers (See MEDICAID on page 15)

Independent KanCare ombudsman would aid Medicaid beneficiaries The leader of an advocacy group for older Kansans told a legislative committee last week that the state’s grievance process for Medicaid claims has been stacked against beneficiaries since the state moved to managed care in 2013.

Mitzi McFatrich, executive director of Kansas Advocates for Better Care, said the beneficiaries have no one independent of state government to advocate for them if they disagree about their medical care plan with one of the three private insurance companies that administer Medicaid.

“This leaves consumers on an uneven playing field that tilts against them,” McFatrich said.

The state rebranded its Medicaid program as KanCare after placing all such services under three private insurance companies that also are known as managed care organizations (MCOs).

Medicaid is funded through a combination of state and federal dollars, and McFatrich questioned whether the KanCare program meets a contractual obligation with its federal partners to develop a (See KANCARE on page 15)

State is looking for ways to boost immunizations Michelle Andrews Kaiser Health News

When kids start school this fall, it’s a sure bet that some won’t have had their recommended vaccines because their parents have claimed exemptions from school requirements for medical, religious or philosophical reasons.

Following the much-

publicized outbreak of measles that started in December at Disneyland in California, these exemptions have drawn increased scrutiny.

That outbreak, which eventually infected 147 people in seven states, was a wake-up call for many parents, who may not have realized how contagious or serious the

Establishing a routine important to students, families

With the school year upon us, it seems to be an appropriate time to discuss the importance of establishing routines for families with children.

Routines offer children consistency and a

by Kent Hill, regional director sense of safety Compass Behavioral Health and security.

Children are better able to transition from activity to activity when they know what to expect and when.

Routines provide structure to a child’s day.

Families can develop routines from already existing family habits such as meal time, getting around in the mornings, going to school or daycare, bathroom routines, bedtime, etc.

Here are some simple steps to help you and your family begin to build a comfortable routine: •Start with what is already established. For example, school and work times.

•Add in routine times for additional activities such as meals and bedtime. Often times, children’s sleep schedules can become significantly off track in the summertime.

Instead of waiting the night before the first day of school to get them back on a school bedtime schedule, begin to gradually implement it a week before school starts.

•Establish healthy hygiene routines for bathing, brushing teeth and toileting. Having a bedtime ritual, doing the same things in the exact same order every night before bed, can help train our brains to switch into sleep mode at bedtime.

•Add routine times for chores.

•Consider establishing a routine for an “all family” chore. For these, assign age-appropriate responsibilities for all members of the family, remembering that children need small tasks and enough time to complete tasks. This helps create a sense of a shared experience; sending the message “we are all in this together.”

Be patient when you and your family begin to develop a routine. Remember, this is new.

Talk your family through every step to help them get used to the schedule and know what to expect.

For example, “It’s time to set the table for dinner” or “It’s time to come inside and wash your hands for dinner.”

Having a routine structure helps to create better relationships within the family. When families have experienced a trauma (such as a death, or a home damaged by fire or storm) they will ask me how to help their children deal with the trauma.

(See ROUTINE on page 15)

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disease can be, and for states as well, say public health officials.

“States are beginning to realize that they have effective measures to combat these outbreaks, and philosophical exemptions are eroding these protections and resulting in significant costs to states,” said Dr. Carrie Byington, professor of pediatrics at

the University of Utah and chairwoman of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases.

In addition, research shows that eliminating vaccine exemptions or making them harder to get can improve vaccination rates and reduce disease outbreaks.

California and Vermont

passed laws this year eliminating exemptions in 2016 for philosophical reasons; California’s law eliminates religious exemptions as well.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides suggested vaccination schedules for children and adults, but there’s no federal requirement that

parents vaccinate their children. All states, however, have laws or policies requiring that children be up-to-date on recommended vaccines in order to attend school or day care.

Unvaccinated children can generally attend only if their parents have obtained a vaccination (See BOOST on page 15)

Community health centers see higher demand for services Bryan Thompson Kansas Health Institute

Health centers that serve Kansans who lack insurance or struggle to pay for primary health care are seeing no lack of demand for their services.

Rebecca Lewis once was among those Kansans.

In 2011, the McPherson woman found herself working three part-time jobs and trying to complete a college degree. As a single mom with three young boys - then ages 8, 5 and 2 - it was hard to make ends meet.

“My earned income was under $10,000,” she said. “I was experiencing extreme survival mode.

Every single day is a fight. It was always about the rent, and the lights and transportation.”

Although her sons had health coverage through the Kansas Medicaid program, she found it challenging to find a doctor who would accept them as patients. She could have taken them to community health centers in Hutchinson or Salina, but those were 30 miles away.

So Lewis did what a lot of people in her situation do.

“There were times that I would wait until later in the evening and take them to the emergency room when I knew they needed antibiotics, because it was a better short-term choice for me and my children if I didn’t have to miss work or miss school and go out of town,” Lewis said.

Relying on the emergency room for health care is expensive, and

meant that her boys only saw a doctor when it was absolutely necessary.

They missed a lot of the routine preventive care kids are supposed to get.

Lewis and others who couldn’t afford health care wondered why McPherson didn’t have its own clinic to serve uninsured and underinsured patients. Then a local committee studying ways to address poverty came up with a solution: partner with an existing federally funded health center to open a satellite clinic in McPherson.

Wichita-based GraceMed has agreed to do just that. As soon as a location in McPherson can be finalized, the committee plans to conduct a fund drive to raise the money to pay for the

building and equipment.

“We will take over, in terms of providing the medical provider and the support staff to deliver that care,” said David Sanford, chief executive officer of GraceMed, a ministry of the United Methodist Church that operates 10 clinics serving 35,000 patients in the Wichita area.

Sanford expects the clinic in McPherson to be sustainable for the long haul. That’s based on the assumption that 60 percent of the patients there will have some form of insurance, whether it’s private coverage or Medicare or Medicaid.

Sanford said that target would be easier to meet if Kansas would expand Medicaid eligibility.

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State reduces proposed Obamacare rate hike

Premiums for Kansas health insurance plans offered in the federal marketplace won’t increase as much as originally proposed, state Insurance Commissioner Ken Selzer said Tuesday.

In May, Kansas insurance companies requested rate increases of up to 39 percent for individual market policies to be sold through the healthcare. gov marketplace during the next open enrollment

period, which begins Nov. 1 and ends Jan. 31.

But Selzer, a Republican serving his first term, said rate reviews conducted by the department reduced the proposed increases to an average range of 9.4 percent to 25.4 percent.

A single average increase wasn’t calculated, said Bob Hanson, a spokesperson for the department.

“During the review process our department was able to lower many of the

Routine

Boost

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One of the things I always recommend is getting the children back on some type of routine as soon as is possible. This helps give them a sense of normalcy, which helps them feel more secure.

Having routines develops a comfortable environment where all family members know what to expect, and it helps children to grow and handle life’s challenges.

Kent Hill, LCP, is regional director of Compass Behavioral Health in Scott City and is also a member of the Scott Community Foundation’s Healthcare Committee.

For more information contact the Foundation at (620) 8723790

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are doing hard work and deserve the same labor protection as most workers in this nation, and that states need to prepare to implement the new rule and get ready to pay workers what they rightfully deserve,” Beebe said.

In Kansas, sleep cycle support workers are paid roughly $25 for a six-hour night or $31 for an eighthour night.

“That’s less than minimum wage,” said Ami Hyten, assistant director at the Topeka Independent Living Resource Center, which helps people with disabilities find, hire and train caregivers.

“That will be the single, most profound effect that this decision is going to have on us because we don’t have the money in our budget to make that happen,” Hyten said. “It’s not in KDADS’ budget either.”

Hyten said about 25 percent of the 400 people who receive in-home services through the Topeka center rely on sleep cycle support. Without it, she said, many likely would have to move to nursing homes.

It’s not yet clear when the new regulation will take effect.

The plaintiffs in the case, Home Care Association of America v. Weil, are trade associations representing the nation’s home care providers. They have until early October to ask the appeals court to reconsider.

William Dombi, vice president for law with the National Association for Home Care and Hospice, last week said he and other industry officials had yet to decide whether to appeal the ruling.

exemption approved by the states.

Every state allows medical exemptions for children whose immune systems are compromised because of congenital problems or cancer treatment, for example. Nearly all states allow exemptions from vaccinations because of religious beliefs.

rate increase requests for 2016, saving significant money for Kansas consumers compared to the original requests,” Selzer said in a news release.

“We worked to find the balance between company claims trends and the need to hold down consumer rates.”

Still, Selzer, an ACA opponent, said that federal mandates - including a requirement that companies cover anyone seeking to purchase a policy

Just three states - West Virginia, Mississippi and now, California - allow vaccine exemptions only for medical reasons.

In recent years, exemption rates for children have soared, but they vary. On the low end, New Mexico’s rate was less than half a percent in 2012, while the top state rate was Oregon’s at 6.5

whom were previously uninsured.

“In 2014, we absorbed about $74 million in underwriting losses,” Chambers said, explaining that many of the Kansans who purchased marketplace policies required more services, had more chronic conditions and needed more expensive drugs than the company anticipated.

Six companies will offer a total of 96 plans in the 2016 marketplace.

percent, according to a study this month in the journal Health Affairs.

Because in most places the percentage of children getting the recommended vaccines tops 90 percent for most diseases, many parents have never seen someone with, for example, measles or whooping cough and may not understand their dangers.

“In the absence of disease, the alleged risks of the vaccine become easier to sell,” Tan said.

For the vast majority of people, however, vaccines are very safe, and studies have failed to show a link to autism, a common concern of parents who don’t vaccinate their kids.

The more restrictive policies were reflected

in lower rates of whooping cough. States with the most effective exemption policies had an average incidence of 7.3 pertussis cases per 100,000 people from 2002 to 2012, while states with the least effective policies had an incident rate more than twice as high at 16.06 cases, the study reported.

replacing an all-volunteer clinic that had been open one afternoon a week.

The health centers are able to provide basic care for uninsured patients, Postai said. However, if uninsured patients need specialty care - like cancer treatment or a heart bypass - they may be out of luck.

“If they had Medicaid, I could refer them in to specialists,” Postai said.

“But right now we are finding it almost impossi-

ble to find providers who will take patients who have no coverage.”

Currently, 45 percent of the patients at Postai’s clinics have no insurance.

She estimates that figure would drop to 10 percent if Kansas expanded Medicaid.

There’s no end in sight to the demand, she said, as patient volume at the clinics has been growing around 18 percent each year.

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according to Krista Postai, who runs the Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas. The Pittsburgbased organization operates 10 health centers that serve 40,000 patients in four counties in southeast Kansas - an area with some of the state’s leasthealthy residents.

“In southeast Kansas, depending on what county you live in, you’re likely to die five or 10 years earlier than other Kansans,”

KanCare “qualified, independent, conflict-free entity” to help beneficiaries resolve grievances.

The KanCare program has an ombudsman, Kerrie Bacon, but the position is housed within state government and is prohibited from working on behalf of a beneficiary who has filed a grievance with one of the MCOs. McFatrich said KanCare beneficiaries and their families have reported about employees for the state or the MCOs discouraging them from filing those claims.

“An independent and able-to-advocate for KanCare members ombuds program is needed to protect KanCare members’ rights to due process,” she said.

McFatrich’s group has developed a guide outlin-

insurer, requested rate increases of 35-39 percent. Coventry Health Care requested increases of 20-35 percent.

At the time the requests were submitted, Mary Beth Chambers, a spokesperson for BCBS of Kansas, said the increases were necessary to cover anticipated claims in 2016. She said the rates charged by the company in 2014 and 2015 weren’t sufficient to cover the claims of new policy holders, many of

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Centers “Without Medicaid expansion, the state is making it even more difficult for people to access quality care,” he said.

“They’re basically forcing them to get into the bad habit of going to the ER for non-emergency care. They’re forcing people to wait too long to come and be seen by a physician just because they don’t have the resource to do so.”

And people literally are dying because of it,

regardless of their health status - were responsible for the rate increases.

But Sheldon Weisgrau, director of the Health Reform Project in Kansas, said the increases reflect “what it actually costs to insure a large majority of the population,” noting that the system that existed prior to the ACA “excluded a lot of people” who were sick.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas, the state’s largest health

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ing the grievance process for KanCare beneficiaries. It plans to post the guide on its website Some Democrats have called for an independent ombudsman since the beginning of KanCare, but the idea has gained little traction among Republican legislative leaders.

Postai said. “The No. 1 reason for that is access to care, and that’s why every night when I go to bed I pray that Medicaid will expand someday.”

The Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas is among six Kansas health centers that will receive $4 million in federal funding to open new facilities. Postai’s organization will use the $475,000 to open a new health center in Parsons,

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Pastime at Park Lane The Immanuel Baptist Church led Sunday afternoon services.

Residents played Wii bowling on Monday evening.

Pastor Bob Artz led Bible study on Tuesday morning. Doris Riner and Elsie Nagel led the hymns.

Naomi Teubner played the violin, the piano and the recorder on Tuesday afternoon. Lynn Unruh furnished cookies for everyone.

Russel and Mary Webster led Bible study on Tuesday evening.

The Scott Mennonite Youth sang on Tuesday evening.

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

Residents played bingo on Wednesday afternoon.

Residents enjoy pitch, dominoes

Park Lane residents played pitch and dominoes on Monday afternoon.

Game helpers were Madeline Murphy, Joy Barnett, Arlene Cauthon, Dorothy King, Charlotte Utley, Hugh McDaniel and Mandy Barnett.

Wright family performs

The Wright family performed on Friday evening. Harold and Gary provided the music and Wanda furnished refreshments.

Helpers were Barbara Dickhut and Mandy Barnett.

Residents enjoyed vanilla ice cream cones on Thursday afternoon.

Fr. Bernard Felix led Catholic Mass on Friday morning.

Residents enjoyed a watermelon feed on Friday afternoon.

Residents watched “Black Beauty” on Saturday afternoon.

Dottie Fouquet was visited by Jon and Anne Crane, Mark Fouquet, Fritzie Rauch, and Mrs. Tuttle.

Emogene Harp was visited by Alicia Harp, R. Harp, Nancy Holt. Donna S. Eitel and Margie Stevens.

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LaVera King was visited by Tatum, Shanna and Hunter Wells; Gloria Gough, Carol Latham; Chad, Danea, Audie and Tinley Wasinger; Velda Riddiough and Margie Stevens.

Lorena Turley was visited by Karen Harms, Mary Lou Oeser, and Neta Wheeler.

Lucille Dirks was visited by Dale and Vicki Dirks.

Cecile Billings was visited by Ann Beaton and Delinda Dunagan.

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

Arlene Beaton was visited by Donna S. Eitel and Linda Savolt.

Deaths Allan L. Hoeme

Allan L. Hoeme, 61, died Aug. 24, 2015, at the Scott County Hospital, Scott City.

H e was born on March 29, 1954, in Scott City, the son of R o b e r t Allan Hoeme William and Erma (Hofman) Hoeme.

A lifetime resident of Scott City, he was a farmer.

Allan was a 1971 graduate of Scott Community High School and graduated from Northwest Kansas Area Vocational and Technical School, Goodland, in 1973. He was an avid pilot.

Allan was a member of the Holy Cross Lutheran Church and Pheasants Forever, both of Scott City, and AOPA and the NRA. On Dec. 3, 1983, he married Anita Williams in Scott City. She survives.

Survivors include: one brother, Robert W. Hoeme, and wife, Patti, Scott City; one sister, Karen Black, and husband, James, Cedaredge, Colo.; father and motherin-law, Duane and Molly Williams, Modoc; three

by Jason Storm

Lowell Rudolph was visited by Tom and Kathy Moore, LuAnn Buehler, Rev. Don Martin, Larry and Connie Knobbe, Marci Knobbe, Steve and Mary Grigg, and Chuck Kirk.

Corrine Dean was visited by Karen Harms, Mary Lou Oeser, Gerald Koehn, Aaron and Mandy Kropp, Damian Ortiz, Donna S. Eitel, and Janice Drohman.

Geraldine Graves was visited by Deb Farr, Mary Jane Knapp, Jeanne Howard, Elizabeth dearden, Charlene Becht, Taylor Elwood, Cindy Medina, Janet Soeken, and Mary Ann Leatherman.

Boots Haxton was visited by Donna S. Eitel and Rod and Kathy Haxton.

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

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

Nella Funk was visited

by Mary Lou Oeser, Karen Harms, Aaron and Mandy Kropp, Donna S. Eitel and Janice Drohman.

Delores Brooks was visited by Nancy Holt, Charles Brooks, Dave and Cheryl Perry, Raegen and Sage Wolak, D and J Brooks, and Fritzi Rauch.

Dona Dee Carpenter was visited by Gloria O’Bleness, Larry LaPlant, Gina Ramsey, Trace and Piper Jessup, Fritzie Rauch and Donna S. Eitel.

Jim Jeffery was visited

by Brady Jeffery.

Sr. Citizen Lunch Menu brothers-in-law, Andy Williams and wife, Jamie, Andover, Alan Williams and wife Tonja, Modoc, and Frank Williams and wife, Rita, Troy, Alab.; three sisters-in-law, Susie Gooden and husband, Archie, Garden City, Aleta See and husband, Scott, Scott City, and Nancy Teetzen and husband, Paul, Garden City; in addition to 22 nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; one brother-in-law, Clint Oksen; and one nephew, Jason Black.

Memorial service will be held Fri., Aug. 28, 10:00 a.m., at the Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Scott City, with Pastor Warren Prochnow, officiating.

Inurnment will be at the Scott County Cemetery.

Memorials may be given to the Holy Cross Lutheran Church or the Spencer Flight Center in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 401 S. Washington St., Scott City, Ks. 67871.

There will be no calling times.

E-condolences may be sent at www.priceandsons.com.

Irmalee Eggleston

Irmalee Eggleston, 89, died Aug. 24, 2015, at Park Lane Nursing Home, Scott City.

S h e was born on Jan. 7, 1926, in Logan County, the daughter of Floyd Irmalee Eggleston and Gladys (Council) Lowe.

A resident of Scott City since 1949, moving from Winona, she was a secretary for Farm Bureau Insurance until retirement.

Irmalee was a member of the First United Methodist Church, the First United Methodist Church bell choir and the Scott City Music Club, all of Scott City.

On June 16, 1946, she married Selwin H. Eggleston in Colby. He died July 22, 1998, in Scott City.

Survivors include: one son, Gary Eggleston, and

wife, Susan, Scott City; one brother, Dick Lowe, Caldwell; one sister, Eleanor Sponsol, Cambridge, Ill.; four grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and one great-greatgrandchild.

She was preceded in death by her parents and one daughter, Tonja Holovach.

Funeral service will be held Sat., Aug. 29, 10:30 a.m., at the First United Methodist Church, Scott City, with Pastor John Lewis officiating.

Interment will be at the Scott County Cemetery.

Visitation will be Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Memorials may be given to the Scott Community High School Music and Band Trip in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 401 S. Washington St., Scott City, Ks. 67871.

E-Condolences may be sent at www.priceandsons.com.

Week of August 31-September 4 Monday: Chef’s salad, crackers, whole wheat roll, angel food cake with strawberries.

Tuesday: Sweet and sour chicken or barbeque meatballs and rice, stir fry vegetables, whole wheat bread, mandarin oranges.

Wednesday: Baked fish fillet, baked potato, tossed salad, citrus fruit cup.

Thursday: Roast beef and gravy, mashed potatoes, capri vegetables, whole wheat bread, creamy fruit salad.

Friday: Chicken grilled with tomato sauce, spaghetti noodles, carrot raisin salad, whole wheat roll, grapes. meals are $3.25 • call 872-3501

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Park Place Days The Park Place lively set of residents warmly welcomed my entrance, or perhaps it was my homemade, fresh from the oven, chocolate chip (Ghirardelli) cookies that were so warmly welcomed!

Monday’s thoughtful surprise visit by Chet Quance, Dighton, was appreciated by residents.

Guests Mary Lou Oeser and Karen Harms shared pleasantries with residents Thursday.

A frequent visitor, George Evans, brought popcorn treats and a welcome presence with Friday’s visit.

Western Kansas grand tourists, Wilda Jantz and Elsie Nagel enjoyed their all-day excursion to Garden City on Monday.

Bob Artz came bearing fresh rhubarb for residents with his recent visit.

Arlene Cauthon’s special guests this week included her grandson, Matt Novak, and his mother,

Drones holds significant economic potential.

Some of the uses for drones include wildfire mapping, weather monitoring, oil exploration, utility power line surveys and law enforcement. The report says precision agriculture and public safety uses “are thought to comprise approximately 90 percent of the known potential markets.”

It also says Kansas appears to be one of the top states poised to benefit most from the industry’s development, with a potential for 3,700 jobs and $2.9 billion in economic impact by 2025.

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Sherry Novak, both of Modoc.

Thursday’s guest, Lynn Taylor, shared a pleasant visit with his mother, Kathryn Taylor.

Elvira Billinger’s son, Don Billinger, Canon City, Colo., enjoyed special time with Elvira while he was in Scott City attending the Lake Scott Rod Run. Another son, Benny Billinger and his daughter, Connie Bonwell, both of Garden City, also shared special time with Elvira last weekend.

Sunday church services and in-church Monday morning coffee were Madeline Murphy’s favored sojourns again this week.

Doris Riner and daughter, Trudi Eikenberry, savored another lunch out on Tuesday.

Thank you everyone for another gracious, fun and newsworthy session.

It was my pleasure!

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The conversation on Tuesday was facilitated by the Kansas Department of Transportation, which wants to get an overview of who is using such devices in Kansas so far and for what purposes.

Dennis O’Connor, manager of federal and state affairs at the agency, said the agency’s goal is to hear from the users themselves about what they are doing and to gather information about potential benefits to the state.

The Federal Aviation Administration is working on regulations pertaining to unmanned aerial systems.

Attend the Church of Your Choice

Ordinary Acts of Courage Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

This past week you probably heard about three Americans who risked their lives on a train bound from Amsterdam to Paris. These three childhood friends were on vacation when they spotted a gunman entering the train carrying an AK-style machine gun, a handgun and a box cutter. One of their group rushed the gunman and the other two assisted in disarming and subduing the assailant.

A British passenger joined in the scuffle – presumably inspired and modeled by the three who took the daring action to save lives.

We have acts of heroism around us daily, but we fail on either end of the spectrum. On one end, we are watching for those heroes who risk life and limb to save lives that the need or opportunity just never arises. On the other end of the spectrum, we see daily acts of care and concern for people that we just assume, that is the way we ought to behave towards one another… but do we?

More often than not, we miss the examples of cour-

age because we are looking on the wrong end of the spectrum. We are looking for the spectacular rather than the ordinary. We love the splash more than the ripple. But, every day we have heroes around us and people who are drowning.

Jesus took a stand for every sinner, including me.

He stood under God’s judgment and took the punishment so that I would be set free, and I’m set free to love others as God has love me - better than I could love myself.

This brave man, Jesus Christ, has taken the stand for you too! Now that you have been set free, free from trying to find rationale for your behavior or excuses for not action, what has Christ set you free to do?

There is likely not such an eminent threat as a gunman, but there is despair and abandonment. He doesn’t use an AK style weapon but our own history and innermost thoughts. This threat is real and you are in the perfect place to shelter someone and tell them of the One, Jesus Christ, who has died so that they may live and lives so that they would never die.

Pastor Warren Prochnow, Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Scott City

Scott City Assembly of God

Prairie View Church of the Brethren

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

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

Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Men’s Fellowship • Tuesday breakfast at 6:30 a.m.

Held at Precision Ag Bldg. west of Shallow Water Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m., at the church

St. Joseph Catholic Church

Holy Cross Lutheran Church

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

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

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

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

Worship every Sunday, 10:15 a.m.

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

Pence Community Church

Community Christian Church

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

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

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

Sunday Morning Worship, 10:45 a.m.

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

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

First Baptist Church

Immanuel Southern Baptist Church

803 College - Scott City - 872-2339

1398 S. US83 - Scott City - 872-2264

Kyle Evans, Senior Pastor Bob Artz, Associate Pastor

Robert Nuckolls, pastor - 872-5041

Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.

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

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

Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.

Gospel Fellowship Church 120 S. Lovers Lane - Shallow Water Larry Taylor, pastor Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.

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

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

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

First Christian Church

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

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

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

Website: www.fccscottcity.org

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

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

Scott Mennonite Church

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

12021 N. Eagle Rd. • Scott City

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

Sunday School, 10:50 a.m.

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

YMYW Wednesday, 8:00 p.m.

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

Sunday Evening Service: 7:00 p.m.

How far to the right?

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Poll indicates Kansans more moderate than state lawmakers Democratic operatives in Kansas are touting new polling numbers this week that show most Kansans are more moderate than Gov. Sam Brownback and the Republican-led Legislature on issues such as taxes, school funding, environmental and economic policies.

But even the people who commissioned the poll concede that Democrats have an uphill battle in convincing voters to trust them to govern on those issues.

“If Democrats want to be taken seriously, they’ve got to do something on these issues,” said Chris Reeves, a partner in the Democratic consulting firm Smoky Hills Strategies.

The poll was released just days before the Kansas Democratic Party’s midyear “DemoFest” convention in Wichita.

It also comes at a time when there is internal wrangling within the party over whether it should try to “re-brand” itself going into the 2016 elections, and whether Democrats should offer more concrete proposals on policy issues rather than simply criticizing Brownback and the Republicans over theirs.

The survey of 1,217 likely voters was conducted Aug. 5-6 by Public Policy Polling, a firm based in North Carolina.

Among its findings: •76 percent of those responding said the state’s sales tax rate is now too high after Kansas lawmakers raised it this year to 6.5 percent.

•72 percent believe business owners should have to pay Kansas personal income taxes like everyone else. (They were exempted in the tax

cuts Brownback pushed through in 2012.)

•62 percent think Kansas doesn’t spend enough money on public education.

•59 percent say they want Kansas to expand its Medicaid program, as allowed under the federal Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare.”

•57 percent say the state minimum wage should be raised to either $10 or $15 an hour.

•43 percent want the state to re-enact the renewable portfolio standards on electric utilities, which Republicans repealed this year; and 27 percent think those standards should be stricter, requiring power companies to produce 30 percent of their power from renewable sources instead of the 20 percent required under the nowrepealed law.

Patrick Miller, a political science professor at

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Kansas University, said those numbers are consistent with another poll this spring conducted by Ft. Hays State University.

But he said he’s not surprised that elected officials in Kansas tend to enact more conservative policies.

“These attitudes also reflect generally the opinions Kansans expressed in a number of polls throughout 2013 and 2014,” Miller said. “But, like in many states, there is a larger incentive for politicians to be responsive to what their primary voters want than what the public at large thinks.”

Kansas GOP Chairman Kelly Arnold said he wasn’t concerned about the polling numbers, and he doesn’t believe they provide any useful information heading into the 2016 elections.

“If Kansas Democrats want to run on raising taxes

to expand Obamacare, be Larry Meeker, has been my guest,” he said. actively trying to re-brand the party, but those efforts Re-branding Democrats appear to be ruffling even Following three con- more feathers. secutive “clean-sweep” Meeker was quoted victories at the polls by this week as saying he Kansas Republicans, a wanted to change the pardivision has opened up ty’s name to “Red State within Democratic ranks Democrats,” dropping over how to appeal to a the word “Kansas,” while broader segment of vot- portraying themselves as ers. fiscal conservatives.

That “schism,” as In a Wichita Eagle Reeves has called it, was article on Wednesday, on full display at the par- Meeker walked back ty’s last Washington Days from that statement, sayconvention in Topeka, ing he was misinterpreted. where western Kansas But he went on to say Democrats like former that Democrats need to House Minority Leader acknowledge that Kansas Dennis McKinney openly is a Republican state. criticized party leaders for And he tried to disfocusing almost exclu- tance the state party sively on urban voters from the national party while ignoring places like by saying the typical southeast Kansas, which Kansas Democrat would was once a Democratic be considered a moderstronghold. ate Republican in states More recently, the like California and party’s new chairman, Massachusetts.

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Scrimmage offered a familiar sight for SC coaching staff

Saturday’s first football scrimmage of the season featured a number of new players and, in several instances, familiar players in different roles.

But, in some ways, it wasn’t all that different from scrimmages that head coach Glenn O’Neil has seen in more than two decades as a coach with the Scott Community High School football team.

The linemen were playing with their pad levels too high.

Receivers weren’t running routes with precision.

Players away from the action were watching rather than pursuing a play, were not sealing off the back side or making an extra block downfield.

“It’s nothing new. These are things we see every year in our first scrimmage,” notes O’Neil.

One of the biggest benefits of the scrimmage is the opportunity to show players on film what the coaches have been emphasizing in practice.

A common issue with the linemen on both sides of the ball is firing off too high.

“That’s something we have to tell linemen about every year and we saw it again on Saturday. Now it comes down to how quickly they will make the adjustment,” says the head coach.

Second Day in Pads Friday’s practice was the first time the (See SCRIMMAGE on page 21)

SCHS senior runningback Wyatt Kropp stiffarms a defender on his way to a 42 yard run during Saturday’s scrimmage.

(Record Photo)

New football contact rule lands with a thud

Scott City junior Kearston Buffington works on her net play during Tuesday’s practice.

(Record Photo)

Depth will keep competition keen for varsity tennis spots

The Scott Community High School girl’s tennis team could have a key ingredient that’s been in short supply the past few seasons.

Competition . . . as in girls who will be battling for varsity positions.

“We have about eight girls who are competing for the six

varsity spots and there are three or four junior varsity girls who might be able to challenge later in the season,” says head coach Steve Kucharik.

The competition for rankings within the squad could get interesting with the current No. 1, Alma Martinez, being challenged for the top spot by

junior Krystal Appel. Both girls are also playing on the same doubles team.

“I like the idea that a younger player is willing to challenge a senior. When girls are willing to do that it’s going to make us a better team.”

Martinez was the No. 7 play(See TENNIS on page 23)

Efficiency has always been a trademark of a Glenn O’Neil practice - whether it’s football or basketball.

That’s even more essential for high school and junior high football coaches as they adapt to new contact rules that are in effect for the 2015 season.

The guidelines, aimed at reducing the risk of concussions, didn’t allow Kansas football players to begin fullcontact drills in pads until last Friday. Among other restrictions, athletes are limited to 90 minutes of “live action” contact during practices each week.

“Head concussions are a big issue, as it should be, and we’re adapting to the changes,” says O’Neil, who is beginning his ninth season as the head coach for Scott Community High School football. “The state and (national) federation have put in guidelines to make sure the boys aren’t out there beating their heads the whole time during practice.”

Under the guidelines there are five recognized levels of contact: Air: Players run drills unopposed without contact.

Bags: Drills are run against a bag or another soft-contact surface.

Control: Drills are run at assigned speed until the moment

of contact; one player is predetermined the “winner” by the coach. Contact remains above the waist and players stay on their feet.

Thud: Drills are run at assigned speed through the moment of contact; no pre-determined “winner.” Contact remains above the waist, and the players stay on their feet and a quick whistle ends the drill.

Live action: Drills are run in game-like conditions and is the only time that players are taken to the ground.

“Last week was kind of an experiment for everybody in terms of handling these changes,” O’Neil says.

The head coach says there is no limit on “thud” action during practice since “you aren’t taking someone all the way to the ground or cutting your linemen below the waist,” he explains.

“But everyone has to realize that once we go to live contact we have to keep things moving. We have a limited time.”

Even before this year’s guidelines, O’Neil says the team rarely exceeded 90 minutes of contact a week. Mondays are a day to review scouting reports of the upcoming opponent while the junior varsity has their game.

(See THUD on page 21)

SC x-country teams hoping for a quick start to season

At times, Scott Community High School cross-country coach Kevin Reese feels he sounds like a broken record.

“I tell the kids in the spring and throughout the summer, if they aren’t working out and putting in the miles they’ll pay the price in the fall,” he says.

“We’ll spend half the season just trying to get ourselves into shape and that’s not going to get the job done if we want to get to state and do well once we get there.”

Season Opener SCHS X-Country travels to Goodland Thurs., Sept. 3 • 5:00 p.m.

That message may finally be taking hold.

Overall, says Reese, the team is in better running condition than it’s been in the past few seasons.”

“It’s not as good as it should be. There are a couple of kids who I wish had started the sea-

son in better shape, but it’s better than it has been,” he says.

That could make Scott City one of the top teams in the region in both the boy’s and girl’s divisions starting with the season opener at Goodland on Thursday.

Despite their fifth place finish in last year’s Class 3A state meet, the SCHS boys could be one of the surprise teams this season.

“I think a lot of people are looking for us to drop off a little

with the boys who graduated and I don’t see that happening,” Reese says.

Scott City’s prospects have been given a big boost by the addition of juniors Jess Drohman and Drew Duff who are in their first year of crosscountry. Both are expected to make the varsity roster.

But the bigger surprise could be senior Dylan Hutchins.

“This could be a breakthrough year for Dylan,” Reese says. “Everything he’s done in

practice has been impressive.

It doesn’t matter what we’re doing in practice - whether it’s sprints or distance work - he’s taken it to another level. Plus he’s such a strong competitor.

Sophomore Conner LeBeau has taken a “huge step forward since last season,” notes Reese.

“He’s put in a lot of work this summer.”

And freshman Angel Rodriguez, who has been battling an early season injury, (See X-COUNTRY on page 21)

The Scott County Record • Page 20 • Thursday, August 27, 2015

Learning curve for SCMS 7th graders, new coaching staff Seventh grade football is a transitional year for young athletes.

“Even if they’ve been playing YMCA football for the past four years, and a lot of these boys have, this is something new,” says head coach Alex Hutchins.

“We’re seeing that in practice. The boys are trying to process a lot of information, especially on offense, and it seems they are always a step behind where they need to be.

“Eventually, we’ll get up to speed, but it’s going to take a little while.”

Hutchins and assistant coach Shane Faurot are hoping that process moves along quickly as they prepare for their season opener on Thursday against Goodland.

This is also the first year for both head coaches who are part of a transitional year in the middle school program. Seventh graders are now running the same offensive and defensive schemes as the eighth graders, which also lines up with the Scott Community High School program.

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“It doesn’t help the boys so much this year because they’re learning something new. But it should really help next year when they are eighth graders,” notes Hutchins.

Adding to the difficulty in understanding assignments and schemes more quickly is the lack of players. There are 21 boys on the roster with two new additions this week.

“We don’t have enough to scrimmage against a full team,” says Hutchins.

“We may get some opportunities against the eighth graders, but I don’t know how much it will help (the eighth graders).”

Offensively, the emphasis has been on learning formations.

“Except for an occasional mental lapse, the backs and receivers are picking up on their responsibilities pretty well,” says the head coach.

He has been impressed with the play of quarter-

SCMS seventh grade assistant coach Shane Faurot works on blocking schemes with the offensive linemen during Monday’s practice.

(Record Photo)

back Harrison King “who seldom makes a mistake.”

“I’ve been blown away by his ability to understand what needs to be done,” says Hutchins.

“The thing that we need to see more of from Harrison is vocal leadership. When they’re on the field the other boys need to know that he’s in charge.”

Joining him in the backfield are fullback Sawyer Stevens and wingbacks

Easton Lorg and Loren Faurot.

The tight end is Gabe Bowers and the wide receiver is Blaine Culp.

The line is a little farther behind because they haven’t had the opportunity to face an attacking defense and get a better feel for blocking assignments.

“We need to find an interior three who know the plays and will be

physical. We need boys who can drive defenders off the line and create some running lanes,” says Hutchins. “Coach Faurot is mixing and matching the pieces and trying to find the right combination. Right now, I couldn’t tell you who our linemen will be on Thursday.”

Defensively, the Bluejays will be lined up in a 4-4.

“They’re learning

to make reads and that requires lots of reps,” says Hutchins.

He says that with many of these boys having played at the YMCA level the last 3-4 years they bring a good understanding of the game and the ability to be physical.

“They’re an intelligent group. What we need is time to learn everything so we can play with confidence,” he adds.

SCMS x-country off to a running start

SCMS cross-country members getting in their mile workout on Monday afternoon were (from left) Samantha Aguilar, Taia Waldrop and Gisselle Aguirre.

(Record Photo)

Scott City Middle School athletes now have a third option when considering fall sports.

Twenty seventh and eighth grade boys and girls are members of the first cross-country team which is preparing for its first competition on September 3 in Goodland.

The head coach is Jay Tedder who had previously coached middle school track in Wellington for the past five years.

There are 20 young runners on the squad - 12 seventh graders and eight eighth graders. There are 10 seventh grade girls which is the only grade level where the Bluejays will be able to compete for a team title.

“Since it wasn’t known if we’d have a junior program until just before school started we didn’t have a chance to run during the summer or have a camp. We’ll be emphasizing running and getting

SCMS Roster Eighth grade: Samantha Aguilar, Kylee Logan, Fernando Garcia, Christian Wright, Maricio Zarate, Johnny Lara, Aalyson Collins and Eric Frances.

Seventh grade: Lisa Ivey, Taia Waldrop, Gisselle Guirre, Alyssa Chorak, Paige Prewitt, Brooke Sherwood, Megan Vance, Lizette Bejarano, Roberta Apodaca, Baylyn Mantzke, Peyton Samms and Ashlynne Oswald.

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into the weight room next summer,” says Tedder.

“The kids weren’t in very good shape during our first week of practices, which is what I’d expect. But they’re working hard and they don’t complain. And I see some pretty good runners in this group.”

The Bluejays will open their cross-country season

on Thursday when they travel to Goodland. SCMS will travel to four meets with the SCHS squad and have two other meets on their own.

Tedder says the seventh grade races will always be one mile in length. At the eighth grade level, he says most meets will be two miles, though some will be 1-1/2 miles.

Scrimmage Beavers were in full pads and “that definitely raised the intensity level,” says senior fullback and linebacker Cooper Griffith.

“It’s football. We want to come out here and hit. When we finally get to do that it puts a little juice in us,” he says.

But there’s also a transition in going from non-contact drills to full contact.

“Earlier in the week, before we put on pads, things were looking a lot smoother and everyone seems to be understanding their responsibilities,” Griffith notes. “Once you put on the pads you have to take a step back.”

With a full week of practice in pads and a couple of sessions in full contact, O’Neil expects to see some significant improvement by Friday’s scrimmage during the annual Back-to-School Bash.

Getting Healthy This week’s scrimmage will hopefully provide a better glimpse of everyone who is battling for varsity spots on the line.

Senior lineman Reid Flower (5-10, 240) hasn’t played since a season-ending injury early in his freshman season. Because of an illness, he missed two practices leading up to last Saturday’s scrimmage.

Likewise, junior lineman Jaime De La Rocha (5-8, 220) didn’t play in the scrimmage because of a rib injury, but he was back on the practice field again Monday.

Both are likely starters who

(continued from page 19)

should make an impact in this week’s scrimmage.

Offensive Mistakes While a lot of attention is focused on the offensive and defensive lines, O’Neil says players at the skilled positions also have a lot to improve after Saturday’s performance.

“We had some nice catches, but there were also three dropped passes that were in our hands,” says O’Neil.

Add in three interceptions spread among the three quarterbacks, along with a couple of fumbles “and that’s not a recipe for winning football,” emphasizes the head coach.

O’Neil described junior quarterback Bo Hess as “hot and cold, which is what you’d expect from a quarterback with only JV experience.

“He needs to make better reads before the snap has taken place. That’s a learning process.

It’s not like college or the pros where you have a two hour film session with the quarterback and can go over the different Sophomore Adrian Ruelas makes a leaping catch during Saturday’s scrimmage.

(Record Photo) things he’s going to see.”

O’Neil added that the receivers could help their quarterback special teams,” he says.

And each practice is an by running better routes. (continued from page 19) “At times, they put Bo in a opportunity for the players to gain a better feel for the personbad spot,” he points out. nel around them.

Thursdays are limited to shoulder pads and shorts during a final “I have a new linebacker review for the game.

Defense Will Make Gains The defense wasn’t as domi- playing beside me. That takes That allows 45 minutes of live contact on Tuesdays and Wednesnating as Beaver fans are accus- learning by both of us,” says days. tomed to seeing, but O’Neil Griffith. “You have to adjust During two-a-days, only one practice can involve control, thud said that’s no surprise since the to their style and they have or live action. emphasis during the first week to adjust to you. Most of us The new guidelines do not allow boys who played in a JV game seniors are used to last year’s on Monday to participate in full contact action on Tuesday. They is on the offense.

“The emphasis this week is team and we have to realize this are allowed to participate in air, bags, control and thud drills.

“For the teams like us with smaller rosters that will affect us defending the power running will be a completely different some,” O’Neil says. game and with the defensive team.”

X-Country could find himself in the varsity lineup if he can stay healthy.

Injuries are always a concern for Reese early in the season, especially among athletes who didn’t prepare themselves well with summer workouts.

“We’re always trying to walk that line of pushing ourselves hard, but not doing too much too soon,” says the head coach. “We’re far and above where we were last year at this time and I

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Thud

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think that’s going to be evident with the way we compete in our first few meets.”

Filling No. 5 Spot The Lady Beavers return five of the top six runners from a team that finished fourth at state a year ago. However, filling the No. 5 spot on the roster will be a concern for a squad that lacks depth.

“We could be one of the top teams in (Class) 3A again this year. I defi-

nitely feel we’ll be stronger, but we really need someone to step into the No. 5 position,” emphasizes Reese.

Right now it appears that may come down to senior Jade Wren or junior Kylee Trout who battled with a leg injury through most of track season last spring.

Sophomore Makaela Stevens, who was seventh at state last fall, will once again be the team leader.

Reese says that sopho-

more Olivia Prieto has shown the most improvement among the Lady Beavers.

“She’s improved her running form and that’s bringing down her times,” he says.

Sophomore Trella Davis, who was 21st at state as a freshman, is also running stronger and the squad is helped by the addition of freshman Dulce Ayala who will likely step into a varsity spot.

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“I don’t think it will be a big factor,” Reese says.

“Most of our girls have been putting in the miles this summer and they’ve shown up in pretty good shape.”

SCHS will travel to Goodland on Thurs., Sept.

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Ertz seems to have edge as K-State quarterback Winning teams in college football - almost without exception - have a quarterback that is a highly effective passer. It’s an asset to have a QB who has run-pass ability, but the pass is by far the most important.

Kansas by State coach Mac Bill Snyder Stevenson hasn’t named his starting quarterback, but all indications are that Jesse Ertz (soph., 6-3, 211) is going to be the man.

Ertz was highly recruited from Burlington, Ia., and his primary talent is throwing the football. That’s what K-State needs.

Four quarterbacks have been battling for the starting position: Ertz, Jonathan Banks (soph., 6-2, 205), Joe Hubener (jr., 6-5, 211) and Alex Delton (fr., 6-0, 201).

Banks is a juco newcomer who doesn’t know Snyder’s system and Delton, a true freshman, will likely redshirt. Hubener played some as a sophomore, but his passing accuracy may put him behind Ertz.

What’s vital for this Kansas State team is to have a quarterback who will grab the reins and hold on tight.

The Wildcats have three nonconference games they should win (South Dakota, UTSA and Louisiana Tech) and a bye week before Big 12 play begins. That’s four weeks to sand down the rough edges.

The last thing Coach Snyder needs is a quarterback controversy two or three games into the season.

The first three games in Big 12 play are as tough as it gets. K-State opens league play on the road against highly regarded Oklahoma State, followed by home games against TCU and Oklahoma.

TCU is loaded and OState and OU have enough talent to be Big 12 contenders. All three could challenge for a place in the national playoffs.

Kansas State is going to have another quality football team. Those first three games in the Big 12 will determine just how competitive the Wildcats will be in conference play and on the national level.

If Ertz is moving the offense and hitting his passes, (See ERTZ on page 25)

The Scott County Record • Page 22 • Thursday, August 27, 2015

Run defense will be solid for 8th graders If a team is going to find offensive success against the Scott City Middle School eighth grade football team, it likely isn’t going to happen on the ground.

And with quality passing attacks rare at the middle school level, that could make the Bluejays pretty difficult to score against this season.

“If most teams are going to hurt you with a running game it’s going to be to the outside,” notes head coach Skip Numrich. “We have good size and speed on the outside.”

That begins on the edge with defensive ends Parker Gooden and Brandon Winderlin. Giving the Bluejays added speed on the corners are outside linebackers Sterling Wright and Kaden Wren.

And if teams think they’re going to find a soft spot up the middle they’ll be greeted by inside linebackers Caleb VanDegrift and Cale Goodman.

The secondary will be anchored by cornerbacks Kevin Herman and Hunter Yager along with safety Justus McDaniel.

“In practice it’s hard to get

SCMS eighth grade assistant football coach Brice Eisenhour discusses gap responsibilities with defensive linemen during practice this week.

(Record Photo)

a sense of how good we are because we don’t have enough depth. That’s true on both sides of the ball,” says Numrich.

“But it’s going to take a pretty darn good running game to move the ball against these boys.”

However, Numrich says that Goodland may provide a unique test in the season opener on Thursday if last year is any indication. The Mustangs came out in a spread offense a year ago.

“If they have the same offense again this year, it’s possible they could give us

some problems. We’ll be working more on our secondary this week,” he says. “The key is to be disciplined in zone coverage and do your job.”

Though Numrich emphasizes the best defense against a passing game is to get pressure on the quarterback, which he feels they can do.

Power Running Attack Offensively, the Bluejays have the potential to be just as formidable.

Quarterback Sterling Wright offers a solid running or passing threat and he’s joined by

two powerful and fast runningbacks in Goodman (fullback) and Winderlin (halfback).

Gooden is at the wingback and McDaniel will line up at wide receiver.

The offensive line will include Luke Wright (center), Wren (guard), Eli Amack (guard), Sam Irwin (left tackle), Kale Sower (right tackle), and VanDegrift (tight end).

“The biggest challenge right now for the linemen is learning the blocking rules. When defenders move around they have to know who’s their responsibility,” Numrich says.

Giving NFL superfans a national brand Since my “birth” as the XFactor, nearly everything I’ve done as a superfan has been in Kansas and in the Kansas City area - from charity fundraisers to appearances in schools.

We’re in the process of giving the superfan brand a new image on a nationwide scale over the next few months with “Legends of the Fans.”

It’s been my dream to take KC Superfans to a national level and for the past 19 months I’ve been working really hard to make this a reality.

We’re bringing together the biggest of the biggest superfans. These aren’t just any superfans, but Hall of Famers who are class acts on and off the field. Each of them has 20plus years of superfan experience.

There are seven of us on the Legends board: the Ultimate

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Eagles Fan (Shaun Young), Big Nasty (Tampa Bay), Hollywood Hillbilly (Washington), Cannonball (Seattle), The Violator and Raider Ron (Raiders).

We also have 13 superfans in other cities we can call on.

Within the next five years we plan to take this to all 32 NFL teams.

We’re also in the process of creating a seven-part comic book series in which we’re the main characters. We put our “angels” into the books as the main characters.

The purpose behind all of this is to promote sportsman-

ship, good citizenship and helping young kids to make the right decisions. We’ll be talking about bullying, teamwork, suicide/drug/alcohol prevention, healthy living and more.

We also have plans for a program where kids can read books and get first downs.

First and foremost, our objective is to teach fans that we can love our teams, but we can also be good sports. Nobody is more fanatical about their teams than this collection of superfans, but we also know that for as much as we love the game of football it is, after all, still a game.

There are more important things in life.

We want to be ambassadors where we go into schools and teach kids core values. We realize that we are basically walking cartoons and that we grab

the attention of young people (and not so young) wherever we go.

What better way to help teach kids than with a real-life comic book character?

Our goal by year three of the Legends program is for each superfan to be speaking at 400 schools a year.

We’re even looking at the possibility of this becoming a reality show. So many of them are negative. We’d be more positive and entertaining in our approach.

But, above all else, we want to help kids on a national level.

We’re another way for people to connect with the NFL and we’re much more accessible than the players.

The X Factor (Ty Rowton) is a former Scott City resident who has been inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame as a Chiefs Superfan

The Scott County Record • Page 23 • Thursday, August 27, 2015

214 teams in roping benefit

raising cane

Fans of all ages were on hand to show their support for the Scott Community High School volleyball squad during the alumni scrimmage last Friday evening.

(Record Photo)

Thomas, Vance win Bluejay one-mile run

Having fun with the Bluejay mascot during Saturday’s fun run at SCMS were (from left) Tressa Goodman, Crissa Irvin and Cooper Irvin.

Tennis

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er on last year’s squad, so she saw time at the varsity and junior varsity levels. Her and Appel also had success when they combined for doubles play.

Since the duo couldn’t make varsity in doubles, Appel played more singles and competed in singles at the regional tournament.

“She really surprised us with how well she played last year,” says Kucharik, “but I promised her that if she played singles (last year) I’d allow her to play doubles this year. I think her and Alma can have a lot of success.”

The other returning doubles team is Christina and Melanie Tilton. Playing varsity singles when the Lady Beavers travel to Liberal on Saturday will be junior Karen Gonzales and senior Ximena Ayala.

However, the lineup could see some changes by the second week of the season. Senior Addie Price and junior Emma Price didn’t have enough practices to be eligible for this week’s competition, but will be competing for varsity spots next week. Emma played varsity doubles last season.

Kucharik feels the team can be very competitive with teams across Western Kansas and even when they venture to tournaments at Ellsworth and Hoisington.

“We don’t have very many practices before our season starts, so it may take a couple of weeks for these girls to hit their stride and for us to see what our varsity lineup looks like,” Kucharik adds.

Assistant coaches are Cheryl Kucharik and Jon Lippelmann.

SCHS fall bash is Friday

All SCHS fall sports teams will be featured during the annual Backto-School Bash to be held on Fri., Aug. 28.

Action will begin with a scrimmage by the volleyball teams from 5:306:30 p.m. in the high school gym.

Activities will then move to the football complex where the SCHS Booster Club will sponsor a free hamburger feed starting at 6:00 p.m.

The football teams will scrimmage from 7:309:30 p.m.

During the evening, cross-country, girl’s tennis and girl’s golf coaches and athletes will be introduced along with members of the SCHS cheerleading squad.

Jace Thomas and Megan Vance were winners in the one mile youth division at the “Shake Your Tail Feathers” Bluejay run held on Saturday morning.

Thomas crossed the finish line in 7:47 while Vance was clocked in 10:10.

In the 25-years and under 5K runs, Kaden Wren (21:24) and Kennedy Holstein (28:37) were winners in the men’s and women’s divisions.

First place finishers in the 25-years and older 5K runs were Brian Vulgamore (24:03) and Paula Vulgamore (24:16).

Other participants were: One Mile Run Kristin Duff, Gayle Irwin, Kennedy Wasinger, Cheyenne Cramer, Tressa Goodman, Kayden Holstein, Crissa Irvin, Tara Rose, Brynlie Stevens, Payton McCormick, Jay

Tedder, Brad McCormick, Jamie Rumford, Nate Nowak, Dylan Duff, Brodie Holstein, Jacob Irwin, Jackson Rumford, Brady Welker, Jamie Wren, Kasten Wren.

Women’s 5K Run Susan Boulware, Shellie Carter, Cara Cramer, Nancy Goodman, Heather Holstein, Gena Lausch, Jenny Rose, Heidi Stevens, Adrianne Wren, McKenna Ashmore, Kaely Capps, Payton Goodman, Brooke Hoeme, Brynn McCormick, Jacy Rose, Ella Rumford, Lyndi Rumford, Paige Vulgamore, Piper Wasinger, Alli Brunswig, Alli Patton.

Men’s 5K Run Aaron Goodman, James Pickert, Corbin Stevens, Ken York, Conner Armendariz, Spencer Cramer, Cale Goodman, Cooper Irvin, Sam Irwin, Sawyer Stevens, Camden Vulgamore.

There were 214 teams taking part in a roping benefit fundraiser for Courtney Wright on Aug. 22 at the Scott County Indoor Arena.

Wright, 20, suffered a seizure on July 25 and was taken to the emergency room where a CT scan revealed she has a pilocytic astrocytoma (tumor) that had cased hydrocephalus (fluid on the brain).

She was transported by ambulance to Lincoln, Nebr., where a biopsy was conducted on July 28 that showed the tumor was located in a high-risk area which makes removal an unsafe option. A shunt was inserted on Aug. 3 to begin draining the fluid.

She was in the hospital for 11 days and will be seen by a neuro oncologist in the near future for additional care.

She is the daughter of Dennis and Jackie Wright, Scott City.

All proceeds from the fundraiser will aid with medical care.

The evening began with a free-will donation hamburger feed. A silent auction was also held.

Results of the roping competition are: Fast Time in the First Round 1st: Leighton Wright/ Jarrett Dougherty, 6.36.

2nd: Tanner Samuelson/Kurt Hall, 6.41.

Placings 1st: Gene Jett/Garrett Estes, 29.02.

2nd: Tanner Samuelson/Cody Remington, 29.98.

3rd: Scott Sheets/Joe Reynolds, 32.15.

4th: Kyle Hall/Kurt Hall, 32.82.

5th: Joe Reynolds/ Steve Valentine, 35.22.

6th: Tristen Tyler/ Courtney Poe, 38.19.

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K-State could once can make up for some of again be one of the sur- the shortcomings. prise teams in the nation.

Kansas will start slow, but they might improve Low Expectations for KU significantly as they go Kansas University’s along. It’s all new and 2015 football team is made the young Jayhawks are up of mostly unknown facing an intimidating players and predicted to schedule. If they win two be one of the worst teams or three games, it will be a in college football. Coach solid start to a better footDavid Beaty inherited a ball program. mess.

But drastic problems Ready for Stretch Run require drastic solutions The Kansas City Royand Beaty has employed als have made a shambles that strategy. out of baseball’s American Beaty has about 50 League Central race. After freshmen recruits and the August 22 games, KC walk-ons in camp; he’ll had a 12.5 game lead over need plenty of help from second place Minnesota.

All that remains in these young kids to put a competitive team on the the regular season is to field. KU’s players and maintain their best of the coaches have worked American League posihard during the offseason, tion, insuring home field but so have all the other throughout the playoffs. teams. Nevertheless, suGeneral Manager Dayperb coaching and excep- ton Moore has improved tional effort by the players the Royals consider-

ably with his late-season moves. Moore acquired starting pitcher Johnny Cueto and utility player Ben Zobrist, who is really a starting player at numerous positions.

And now manager Ned Yost has made a move that solidifies the starting pitching.

Yost moved Kris Medlen into the starting rotation, replacing Jeremy Guthrie who has been cuffed around frequently.

Medlen is a former starting pitcher for Atlanta who is coming off Tommy John surgery on his right elbow. He’s been very effective coming out of the Royal’s bullpen.

The guess here is that Medlen will be an outstanding starter for KC and a member of the Royals’ four-man rotation during the playoffs. Cueto and Edinson Volquez are

sure to make the playoff rotation and Yordano Ventura is coming on. Medlen will be the fourth starter with Danny Duffy being held in reserve.

Left fielder Alex Gordon is in Omaha going through a few rehab games before he rejoins Kansas City. When Gordon returns, Yost can use Zobrist at second base or right field. Either move will strengthen the ball club.

If KC stays healthy, they have their best team since 1985. The Royals are ready to compete for another trip to the World Series. The addition of Cueto, Zobrist, and Medlen solidifies any potential soft spots in the lineup.

With football and Royals’ baseball, what great months September and October promise to be.

Dove season signals start of fall For those who don’t hunt, fall may officially start on September 23, the Autumn Equinox, but for hunters, fall starts on September 1 when dove season opens.

Dove season is open Sept. 1-Oct. 31 and Nov. 7-15. Mourning, whitewinged, Eurasian collared and ringed turtle doves may be hunted.

The daily bag limit on mourning and whitewinged doves is 15, single species or in combination.

There is no limit on Eurasian or ringed turtle doves, but any taken in addition to a daily bag limit of mourning and white-winged doves must have a fully-feather wing attached during transport.

Mourning doves are the most widespread and abundant game bird in North America, and Kansas boasts one of the high-

est breeding populations in the Midwest.

By the time September 1 rolls around, Kansas can literally be teeming with morning doves. However, taking a limit of 15 doves isn’t as easy as it may appear.

First, doves are fast and agile fliers and a difficult target for the most seasoned wingshooter. And then there is the matter of being in the right place at the right time.

Pre-season scouting will greatly improve a dove hunter’s odds for success. Finding feed fields the birds are using and open pasture ponds where doves water are keys to good hunting.

Fantastic dove hunting can also be found by visiting the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism’s (KDWPT) website, www.ksout-

doors.com, where hunters will find a page devoted to KDWPT managed dove fields.

The list includes locations of fields on wildlife areas where public land managers plant doveattracting crops. Listings will include type of crop planted and any special regulations, such as fields reserved for youth hunters.

Dove hunters must use non-toxic shot on all managed dove fields and waterfowl management areas where non-toxic shot is required for all shotgun hunting. The 2015 Kansas Hunting and Furharvesting Regulations Summary has a list of all areas requiring non-toxic shot for dove hunting.

Hunters should also check the regulations for wildlife areas that have converted to electronic

daily hunt permits through iSportsman, which replace the old paper daily hunt permits.

Hunters can go to https://kdwpt.isportsman. net to register. Once registered, a hunter can check in before a hunt using a smartphone, personal computer, cell phone or landline.

All resident dove hunters 16-74 must have a Kansas hunting license and a Harvest Information Program permit, unless exempt by law. Hunters must have permission to hunt private land whether it is posted or not, and this includes railroad right-ofways.

Hunters must have written permission to access any land posted with written permission signs or having purple paint visible on posts or trees along the boundaries.

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Walleye/saugeye: slow; saugeye up to 3.6 lbs.; walleye up to 6.1 lbs. Fishing fish imitating baits along points, dropoffs, and edges of weedbeds. Remember, all saugeye and walleye must be 18 inches or larger to be legal for harvest.

Largemouth bass: fair; up to 5.5 lbs. Casting soft plastic baits, suspending jerkbaits, and swimbaits around fish attractors, rocky shorelines, or laydown trees has produced fish. Most of the fish anglers have recently reported range in length from 12 to 14 inches.

Sunfish: fair/good; up to 8 inches. Fishing worms under a bobber around the fish attractors, laydown trees, riprapped shorelines, and edges of aquatic vegetation.

Anglers report catching fish of all sizes, but fish up to 8 inches are not uncommon.

Crappie: slow; most up to 9 inches. Minnows, mealworms, worms or small tube jigs fished around the fish attractors, off the handicap dock, and along deeper riprapped shorelines has been good.

General comments: Release all walleye/saugeye and largemouth bass less than 15 inches.

Please discard all leftover bait in a trash can, even baitfish. Remember it is illegal to release any fish into public water unless it was taken from that water.

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Hornets have more experience than roster might indicate With a roster that’s very light on upperclassmen, it might be easy to dismiss the upcoming season for the Dighton/Healy football team as a building year.

That’s not how head coach Ken Simon views his young team.

“We’re young, but several of our sophomores saw a lot of varsity playing time last year,” says Simon. “We have boys who will be playing with more confidence and who have more experience than you’d expect from a team this young.”

Nine sophomores account for more than half of the 17 man roster which includes just one senior and four juniors.

The lone senior is runningback Marcos Cruz (5-9, 165) who led the team last year with 470 yards (4.9 ypc) and 10 touchdowns.

The Hornets were more of a pass oriented team until quarterback Tyler Lingg’s season ended with a knee injury in the sixth game. Up to that point he had thrown for 923 yards (153.8 ypg) and six touchdowns.

Junior Dylan Foos (6-0, 170) was his favorite target with 675 yards receiving and four touchdowns. He also provided a dual threat with another 169 yards and two TDs on the ground.

However, Foos had to make the switch to quarterback to finish the season.

Dighton (3-6) avoided a five game losing streak to end the season when they finished district play with a 36-34 overtime win against WaKeeney.

Along with avoiding injuries, Simon says it will be important for the Hornets to find offensive balance.

“With Tyler on the field it gives us more options,” says Simon.

And while he wants to balance the running and passing games, he will also be utilizing Lingg’s size (6-5, 200) out of a spread offense.

“We want to give Tyler opportunities to throw, but by spreading the defense it should also open things up for our running game,” Simon notes.

That success up front will begin with a young, but experienced line that includes center Gunther Shull (so., 5-9, 175).

“He’s put on about 20 pounds and he’s worked hard in the weight room this summer,” says the head coach.

He will be flanked by right guard Logan Lingg (so., 6-1, 195) and left guard Isaac Torson (so., 6-3, 155).

“Isaac is giving up a little size, but he’s very competitive and he has good mobility,” Simon says. “Since he’s going to be smaller than most guys he lines up against, (Isaac) will

Dighton/Healy head coach Ken Simon looks on as players go through blocking and tackling drills last Friday afternoon.

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Skyler Cantrell Defensive Changes Simon and his coaching staff have been focused on improving a defense that gave up an average of 45 points per game.

“We gave up too many explosive plays,” says Simon, who is emphasizing a more aggressive style from this year’s defensive unit. “We’re putting in multiple coverages and blitz schemes.

We want to attack more and, hopefully, force teams into making some poor decisions.”

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first day of school

(Scenes from the first full day of school in Shelby Kite’s kindergarten classroom are (clockwise, from top): Kamryn Kough shows Kite the cast for her broken wrist.

Clara Wolkensdorfer cuts a picture she has colored which will go into a book.

Youngsters “get the wiggles out” while watching a video.

Camila Robles-Martinez checks out the view in her classroom.

Marleigh Kirk writes her name at the bottom of a page.

Students work on puzzles and other projects at their desks to start the day.

When Miss Kite steps away from the group Brody Rios takes over by reviewing the days of the week with the rest of the class.

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Nominations open for final photo in ‘Kansas Farmer’ Kansas Farm Bureau has partnered with nationally published photographer Scott Stebner to create a photo book celebrating Kansas farmers and ranchers. The hardcover, coffee-table book tentatively titled “Kansas Farmer” will showcase the hard work and pride of Kansas producers with beautiful photos and thoughtful commentary.

Stebner has spent the last year shooting photos and interviewing Kansas farmers for the book. Before the book is printed and available in December, the last farmer will be selected through a statewide nomination process.

Nominations are accepted until Sept. 7 at kansaslivingmagazine.com/nominate-a-farmer.

Those submitting photos are asked to say in a 90-second video submission or photo with no more than 300 words why Scott should photograph your farmer: Is he great at what he does? Is she passionate about helping others? Has he overcome diversity? Sell us on why your farmer (or you) should be included in “Kansas Farmer.”

From the submissions, three nominees will be chosen as finalists. Public voting for the final selection will begin Sept. 12 and end Sept. 18.

Follow Kansas Farm Bureau on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter to get updates on contest entries, calls for voting and the winning nomination.

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Are we ready to change our thinking about water?

Even with a major drought in the West and overdrawn aquifers everywhere else, it will take a change in our collective mindset to begin treating water as the non-renewable resources it really is.

Back in ancient times - the 1970s - I spent several seasons working in forestry as what they call a “pre-commercial thinner.” Translation: You spend 8-10 hours a day cutting down thousands of smaller fir trees, saplings and what are known as “whips” so that the

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remaining trees have the room to grow bigger and faster.

If you love the sound of chainsaws, you’d be in paradise.

Since the areas where we worked were commercial timber units, the forests were all secondgrowth trees, the original old-growth firs, hemlocks and cedars having been

logged off back in the 1950s. Even so, there were hundreds of huge sections of logs, some eight or nine feet in diameter, just lying on the forest floor, often still solid and seemingly suitable for cutting into lumber, even a couple decades after they’d been felled.

I asked one of the foremen why what appeared to be millions of board feet of timber had been cut down, bucked into lengths and then left behind. He said, “They probably had checks (cracks) or pitch

rings, and back then, they only took the clear fir logs to the mill.”

It seemed inconceivable that such wastefulness could have been acceptable, yet that’s what happens when any resource seems inexhaustible.

It happened with timber, it happened with oil - remember the sevenmiles-to-the-gallon muscle cars of the 1960s?

Now it’s happening with water. Unless something becomes scarce, (See WATER on page 29)

Consumer Reports confuses safety issues A Consumer Reports study released this week includes misleading information that could increase consumer confusion about food safety heading into the Labor Day weekend, say beef safety experts.

“I have relied on

Consumer Reports when purchasing cars and electronics but unfortunately this report will not help consumers when purchasing safe ground beef. The good news is the bacteria found in the Consumer Reports tests

are not the type of bacteria commonly associated with foodborne illness in ground beef,” says Mandy Carr-Johnson, Ph.D., senior executive director, Science and Product Solutions.

“As an industry, our

number one priority is producing the safest beef possible. Ground beef is the safest it has ever been with greater than 90 percent reductions in bacteria. The beef community continues to invest mil(See SAFETY on page 29)

Looking into livestock industry’s crystal ball Tom Parker Kansas Farmers Union

MCPHERSON Listening to economist Bill Helming talk forecasts and demographic changes and economic trends and growth rates and market shares and income streams andabove all-fractions and

Comments open for drugs, feed combination

The FDA is considering changing the approval process for drugs used in combination in medicated feeds. Currently, the use of combined drugs in a medicated feed requires an approved new animal drug application (NADA) for each drug individually, and a separate NADA for the combination.

The FDA says it is exploring changes to allow combination drug medicated feeds available in an efficient manner while protecting public health.

The FDA published a Federal Register notice seeking comment on this initiative on September 9, 2014, and held a public meeting in March. The agency plans to publish draft recommendations based on stakeholder feedback, and the draft recommendations then will be open for public comment.

The FDA now encourages interested stakeholders to submit comments to the docket (FDA-2014-N-1050) by September 9, prior to the development of draft recommendations.

whole numbers and percentages is a lot like getting tossed into a commercial clothes dryer set to permanent press.

At first the momentum is dizzying as you tumble and spin and bounce and whirl, but after a while the rhythmic regularity of the rotational force settles down into a disjointed

equilibrium that’s actually kind of entertaining, in a vertiginous sort of way.

More surprising is that Helming suddenly makes sense.

The good news is that your clothes come out wrinkle-free. The bad news is that Helming paints a fairly bleak picture of the future for the

world in general and the beef industry in particular.

“Beef is simply too high priced,” Helming said. “Beef needs to become more affordable. Since 1946, the beef industry has lost 46 percent of its market share.

Any business or major industry that has seen a decline like that ought to

Germany starts move to opt-out of GMO crops Germany has initiated a move to stop the growing of genetically modified crops under new European Union rules.

German Agriculture Minister Christian Schmidt has informed German state governments of his intention to tell the EU that Germany will make use of new “opt-out” rules to stop GMO crop cultivation even if varieties have been approved by the EU. A new EU law approved in March cleared the way for new GMO crops to be approved after years of previous deadlock. But the law also gave individual countries the right to opt

out by banning GMO crops even after they have been approved as safe by the European Commission.

Widely-grown in the Americas and Asia, GMO crops have divided opinion in Europe. Britain is among those in favor of them, while France and Germany are among those opposed.

Previously, when the EU approved crops as safe to produce they had to be permitted for cultivation in all EU states.

Under the new EU rules, countries have until Oct. 3 to inform the Commission that they wish to opt out of new EU GMO cultivation approvals.

be reevaluating and thinking about what they might be doing differently to turn that trend around in a positive direction.”The good news is that it can be done. The bad news is that the beef industry isn’t doing that so far.”

Helming, the first chief economist for the National Cattleman’s Beef

Association, founder of CattleFax and now a selfemployed agribusiness consultant and economist, will present his analysis of the immediate future of the beef industry at a twoday workshop on Sept.

21-22 in Topeka.

His “Reading the crystal ball of the beef indus-

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Food Facts Americans eat approximately 100 acres of pizza each day, or 350 slices per second. Each man, woman and child in America eats an average of 46 slices (23 pounds) of pizza a year.

Water we have a terrible track record of conserving natural resources. It’s all about use it, abuse it and move on somewhere else . . . until there’s no “somewhere else” available.

Even here in the Pacific Northwest, where jokes about the 360 days of glorious rainfall we enjoy every year are ingrained in the region’s lifestyle, we’re feeling some pain.

A severe shortage of snowfall last winter has created a summertime crisis fueled by the depleted snowpack in the mountains, disappearing reservoirs, and historically low water flows in area rivers.

It has led to cutbacks in hydroelectric production, closure of fishing

Crystal try future” will provide an in-depth analysis of the past and present state of the beef industry, followed by a sobering forecast of where it’s headed unless necessary changes are made.

“Economics of the Livestock Industry” will feature both Helming and and Jim Gerrish, coowner with wife Dawn of Amazing GrazingLands Services of May, Idaho.

Gerrish’s experience includes over 20 years of beef-forage systems research and outreach while on the faculty of the University of Missouri, as well as 20 years of commercial cattle and sheep production on their family farm in northern Missouri.

The University of Missouri-Forage Systems Research Center rose to national prominence as a result of his research leadership. He was also co-founder of the very popular three-day grazing management workshop program at FSRC, attend-

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seasons, and restrictions on irrigation for farmers and growers.

Yet not one word from the authorities about conserving residential water use. People still turn on sprinklers for hours on their lawns, blithely run hoses at full throttle to wash their cars and trucks and otherwise act as if they can’t even spell drought, much less grasp its implications.

It reminds me of living in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe, Ariz., a desert climate where daytime temperatures in summer routinely reach 110 to 115 degrees. Yet the majority of homes sported lush green lawns and lots of shrubbery, and the town

voted to dam up the Salt River - which runs totally dry six months of the year - north of town to pump water into a manmade “Tempe Town Lake” of approximately 220 acres.

The net loss from evaporation off that lake was estimated at more than 1.7 million gallons of water . . . per day. That’s right: Close to two million gallons of water lost.

Of course, local officials touted the project as “conservation measure,” to store water that otherwise would be “wasted” when the big dam on the upper Salt River filled up.

Only one problem: That reservoir overflows about as often as Donald Trump says something reason-

able. Which is to say very, out of virgin forests, and very rarely. the massive logs left behind on those long-ago A Change in Thinking timber thinning units tesTruth is that much of tified to such a mindset our urban and rural water still in place within our capture, containment and current lifetimes. distribution infrastructure Likewise, there was a is aging or even obso- time when gas was three lete. As previously noted, gallons to a dollar, not replacing and upgrading three dollars a gallon, those systems carries a and so driving a car that got exceptional mileage 10-figure price tag.

But the larger prob- wasn’t even an afterlem is that as an industry, thought. Who cares when as a society, we need to you can fill up your tank make the shift from think- for a couple of bucks?

But as aquifers are ing of water as merely something that runs out pumped out faster than of a faucet and then down they can recharge, as the drain to understanding water tables in farm counthat it’s neither inexhaust- try continue to drop and ible nor easily renewable. as once mighty rivers like Once upon a time we the Colorado now run dry thought we’d never run before they hit the sea

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ed by over 3,000 producers and educators from 39 states.

While Helming convolutes data into complex webs of ideas, facts and projections before wrangling the unwieldy mass into a brilliant synthesis, Gerrish’s manner is more blunt. The bottom line for producers, he said, can be boiled down to a simple question: Are you in it for production or profit?

“There is a big difference,” he said. “Farming and ranching can only be sustainable if it is profitable.”

Between the two of them, there should be plenty of forage for thought and not a few hackles raised.

“Macroeconomics is very important as it impacts every business and industry within the U.S. economy,” Helming said.

Macroeconomics is a branch of economics that deals with the perfor-

mance, structure, behavior and decision-making of an economy as a whole rather than through individual markets.

Guilty of High Prices One of the biggest mistakes the cattle industry is guilty of is in the high cost of its product, he said.

“Four years ago, the typical coast-to-coast supermarket price for steaks was $2.49 per pound to $4.49 pound. It’s double that now. Beef is a very good product, it’s a safe product, but steaks are a lot higher in price.

So is ground beef. The beef industry is making a major mistake by not figuring out a way to lower costs for making ground beef. It’s a staple and the American people like the product.”

The American people are also buying more chicken and other protein products, at the expense of the beef industry.

During the past 39 years, consumption of chicken

rose a little more than one pound per person per year, while beef consumption declined about the same amount.

“That’s a gain for the chicken market,” Helming said, “but a loss on the beef side. The beef industry is not paying attention to the consumer. The consumer is going one direction and the beef industry the other.”

Helming’s focus is on global markets and arcane economic figures while Gerrish’s focus is on the nitty-gritty details of a profitable ranching enterprise.

For more information call Mary Howell at 785562-8726 or visit Amazing Grazing’s website at AmazingGrazingKansas. com.

because billions of gallons are siphoned out to water lawns and green up golf courses in Arizona, we’re going to have to accept that, like oil, water requires conscious conservation and far more efficient usage.

It’s going to take time, but it needs to happen if farming and livestock production are going to maintain their viability as population and commercial pressures further impact the nation’s limited water supplies.

And we could do without more lakes in the middle of one of the country’s largest deserts.

Dan Murphy is a food-industry journalist and commentator

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lions of dollars in developing new safety technologies with the goal of eliminating foodborne illness.”

Carr-Johnson says the only helpful takeaway from the report for consumers is that all ground beef should be cooked to and internal temperature of 160 degrees and confirmed with an instant-read meat thermometer, as recommended by the USDA. Other food safety experts are concerned the Consumer Reports article and subsequent media coverage misleads consumers into thinking that organic and/or grass-fed beef is safer. According to the USDA, “organic” and “grass-fed” labels do not imply any additional safety factor.

“Our concern is that leading consumers to believe organic and grass-fed beef are safer could make them think they do not need to cook those products to 160 degrees, creating a food safety concern,” says Dr. Mindy Brashears, professor, food microbiology and food microbiology, Texas Tech University.

“It is important to note that bacteria was also found in the organic and grass-fed samples. The bottomline is that no matter what the label says ground beef should be cooked to 160 degrees as a final step to ensure safety.”

The good news is the Consumer Reports study did not find pathogenic bacteria in any of the samples, including conventional beef.

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Walker Plumbing, Inc.

Agriculture

Preconditioning and Growing

Backhoe & Trenching services • Irrigation & gas leak repairs • Full-line irrigation parts T-L center pivot dealer Floor heat systems Pump & install septic systems Boring equipment

• 45 Years Experience • Managed and owned by full-time DVM • 2,000 Head capacity Office - 872-5150 • Scott City Stuart Doornbos Home - 872-2775 Cell - 874-0951

423 S. Mesquite Rd. • Scott City • 872-2130

Construction/Home Repair

Sager’s Pump Service • Irrigation • Domestic • Windmills • Submersibles

Cell: 874-4486 • Office 872-2101

ELLIS AG SERVICES • Custom Manure Conditioning • Hauling and Spreading • Custom Swathing and Baling • Rounds-Net or Twine • Gyp and Sand Sales • Custom Harvesting Call Brittan Ellis • 620-874-5160

Automotive

Custom Steel Buildings, LLC All steel and metal building system 26 GA R-Panel and 4" R 14 insulation standard

We can build your building to meet whatever specs you may have. Call today for your free quote.

Brandon Dirks • 620-874-5083 Justin Koehn • 620-214-3550

RTRex Turley, Plumbing Master Plumber Residental and Commercial Plumbing

Water Systems, water lines, sewer cleaning faucets and fixtures, garbage diposals and more

Marienthal, Ks.

620-909-5014 (H) • 620-874-4128 (C)

SPENCER PEST CONTROL

CHAMBLESS ROOFING Residential

All Types of Roofing

Commercial

Cedar Shake and Shingle Specialists Return to Craftsmanship Attention to Detail and Quality Guaranteed

RESIDENTIAL – COMMERCIAL Termite Baiting Systems • Rodents Weed Control • Structural Insects Termite Control Box 258, Scott City • (620) 872-2870

620-872-2679 • 1-800-401-2683

Dirks Earthmoving Co. Precision Land Forming of terraces and waterways; feed lot pens and ponds; building site preparation; lazer equipped

Richard Dirks • Scott City, Ks. (Home) 872-3057 • 877-872-3057 (Cell) 872-1793

Medical

Landscaping • Lawn/Trees

Charles Purma II D.D.S. P.A.

Berning Tree Service

General Dentistry, Cosmetics, and Insurance Accepted

David Berning • Marienthal

620-379-4430

Tree Trimming and Removal Hedge and Evergreen Trimming Stump Removal

Fully Insured

We welcome new patients.

Contact:

SCOT AYTES • 874-1646

Red

324 N. Main • Scott City • 872-2389 Residence 872-5933

Specializing in

all coatings t Paint i or any other color

Paint inside and out residential, commercial, and industrial.

Free estimates and 16 plus years of experience.

PC Painting, Inc. Paul Cramer 620-290-2410 620-872-8910 www.pcpaintinginc.com

Pro Ex II

Over 20 Years Experience

Professional Extermination Commercial & Residential

• Termites • Rodents • Soil Sterilization • Pre Treats • Lawn Care • Fly Parasites

John Kropp, Owner • Scott City 874-2023 (cell) • 872-3400 (office) • prox2@live.com

Horizon Health For your home medical supply and equipment needs!

We service and repair all that we sell.

1602 S. Main • Scott City • 872-2232 Toll Free : 1-866-672-2232

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Pro Health Chiropractic Wellness Center

Services

(Scott City Chiropractic) “TLC”...

Technology Lead Chiropractic

Dr. James Yager 110 W. 4th St. • Scott City • 872-2310 Toll Free: 800-203-9606

Berning Auction “Don’t Trust Your Auction to Just Anyone”

For all your auction needs call:

(620) 375-4130

Dr. Jeffrey A. Heyd

Russell Berning Box Q • Leoti

Optometrist 20/20 Optometry

Treatment of Ocular Disease • Glaucoma Detection Children’s Vision • Glasses • Contact Lenses

Complete family eye center!

106 W. 4th • Scott City • 872-2020 • Emergencies: 214-1462

Scott City Myofascial Release Sandy Cauthon RN

Bolen Enterprises Prairie Dog Control

1101 S. Main, Scott City 620-874-1813

Call me to schedule your Myofascial Release

•34 years experience •Bonded/Licensed

Bob Bolen 785-821-0042 • Fax 785-852-4275

Kansas Classifieds Ad Network

The classified ads below are appearing in 147 Kansas newspapers with a total circulation of 500,000 the classified display ads appear in 142 Kansas newspapers with a total circulation of 457,000. KCAN line ad is $300 for up to 25 words and $12 each additional word. A 2x2 display ad is $800 per insertion and a 2x4 display ad is $1,650 per insertion. To find out more, contact The Scott County Record at 872-2090.

For Sale

Truck Driving

PIANO SALE. Final days to save big bucks on over 150 grand, vertical and digital pianos.

Payments as low as $49/ month.

Mid-America Piano, Manhattan, 800950-3774. Preview sale at www.piano4u.com.

––––––––––––––––––––– S T O R A G E CONTAINERS. 20 ft., 40 ft., 45 ft., 48 ft. and 53 ft. centralcontainer.net or 785-655-9430.

––––––––––––––––––––– ALL NEW. Happy Jack DuraSpot. Kills and repels fleas, ticks and larvae.

Repels mites, lice and mosquitoes.

Contains Nylar IGR. Orschlen Farm & Home. www.happyjackinc.com.

BUTLER TRANSPORT. Your partner in excellence. Drivers needed.

Great hometime. $650 sign-on bonus. All miles paid. 1-800-528-7825. www.butlertransport.com.

––––––––––––––––––––– NEEDED CLASS A OTR drivers. Regional, local end dump drivers for newly expanded business.

Late model equipment.

Vacation pay. Health insurance. 401K. Call (800) 776-5672.

Help Wanted

EARN $500 A DAY. Insurance agents needed. Leads. No cold calls. Commissions paid daily. Lifetime renewals.

Complete training. Health and dental insurance. Life Sporting Goods license required. Call GUN SHOW. August 1-888-713-6020.

29-30. Saturday, 9:005:00; Sunday 9:00-3:00.

Education Expocentre (19th and Topeka Blvd.), Topeka. CAN YOU DIG IT? Buy-Sell-Trade. For info: Heavy equipment operator career. We offer train(563) 927-8176. ing and certifications running bulldozers, backhoes TRITICALE and excavators. Lifetime Whether you’re looking job placement. VA benefor a hay, silage or fits available. 1-866-362graze-out variety, we 6497. have an award-winning solution to your forage need. At 21.7 tons/acre, ThunderTall topped the 2015 NMSU irrigated dairy variety trials.

For grazing, reputation cattlemen say ThunderGraze Extra doubled their production.

Ehmke Seed, Healy Ks. 620-397-2350 52tfc

ES N JO UB S CL B Driving M A L

for the PURPLE!

Retail

Jeremy • 620-397-1638 Stefanie • 620-397-8075

Gene’s Appliance Over 200 appliances in stock!

COMPARE OUR PRICES!

We have Reverse Osmosis units in stock.

Remember us for parts in stock for all brands of all appliances.

Sales and Service Days • Mon. - Sat. Deliveries • Mon.-Sat.

Largest Frigidaire appliance dealer in Western Ks. 508 Madison • Scott City • 872-3686

Networktronic, Inc.

Computer Sales, Service and Repair Custom computers!

Networking solutions!

Mon. - Fri. 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

402 S. Main, Scott City • 872-1300

Brent Rogers

Sales Consultant b.rogers@officesolutionsinc.biz

Office (620) 276-3131 Toll Free 1-800-794-9052 Cell (620) 874-0014 Fax (620) 276-8876 1007 N. 8th, Garden City, KS 67846 www.officesolutionsinc.biz

Northend Disposal A garbologist company.

Scott City • 872-1223 • 1-800-303-3371

All Under One Roof

Revcom Electronics

Your RadioShack Dealer Two-way Radio Sales & Service Locally owned and operated since 1990

1104 Main • Scott City • 872-2625

Dining Tuesday-Saturday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

www.reganjewelers.com

412 N. Main • Garden City • 620-275-5142 Support your hometown merchants who back your school and community activities throughout the year!

Classifieds

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Buy, sell, trade, one call does it all 872-2090 ot fax 872-0009

Classified Ad Deadline: Monday at 5:00 p.m.

Classified Ad Rate: 20¢ per word. Minimum charge, $5.

Blind ad: $2.50 per week extra. Card of thanks: 10¢ per word. Minimum charge, $3. Classified Display Ad rate: $6.00 per column inch.

Classified advertising must be paid in advance unless business account is established.

If not paid in advance, there will be a $1 billing charge.

Tear sheet for classified ad will be $1 extra.

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GARAGE SALES Saturday, Aug. 29 Garage Sale 1612 Church St., Scott City Sat., Aug. 29 • 8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Clothing, misc. items, Scholastic books.

Most items under $2.

NEW LISTING!

MISSING CATTLE 450-500 lbs. heifers missing, lot tag in one ear, fly tag in other. S bar brand on left hip looks like a number five. Missing from northeast Scott County, near Logan, Gove and Scott County lines.

Call 620-874-4258 with any information.

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Pine Village Apartments 300 E. Nonnamaker

Apartments available for qualifying tenants 62+ or disabled with rental assistance available.

Hours: Tuesday, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS by appointment If you want to drink, Call that’s Steve 872-2535 your business. or If you want to stop, that’s ours.

(620) 255-4824.

Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

Tuesday nights at 8:30 p.m. at the United Methodist Church basement (use west door).

19tfc 412 College, Scott City.

1+2 bedrooms (could

have family room), newer FA-CA, new floor

coverings, two garages, will have new roof, two lots. Only $69,000.

Lawrence and Associates

Deb Lawrence, GRI Broker Shorty Lawrence, Sales Assoc.

513 Main • Scott City 872-5267 ofc. 872-7184 hm. lawrenceandassocrealty.com Sheila Ellis, Broker Assoc.

872-2056 Kerry Gough, Sales Assoc.

872-7337 Russell Berning, 874-4405 www.berningauction.com

NEW LISTINGS

Agriculture

Real Estate

For Sale

WANT TO BUY. Stored corn. Call for basis and contract information.

1-800-579-3645.

Lane County Feeders, Inc. 32tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– WANT TO BUY. Wheat straw delivered. Call for contracting information.

Lane County Feeders.

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––––––––––––––––––––– TRITICALE whether you’re looking for a hay, silage or graze-out variety, we have an awardwinning solution to your forage need. At 21.7 tons/ acre, ThunderTall topped the 2015 NMSU irrigated dairy variety trials. For grazing, reputation cattlemen say ThunderGraze Extra doubled their production. Ehmke Seed, Healy, Ks. 620-397-2350.

COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS for sale.

40x60 ft. metal shop building and a 133x45 ft. (approx.) round top building. Serious inquiries only.

Seller is a real estate agent selling own property. 87426tfc 5109 or 874-2124.

SALON BUSINESS AND EQUIPMENT. Located in Leoti. Call Nancy Berning for more details, 02t4p 620-214-3064.

––––––––––––––––––––– J-M 1326 GRAIN CART, 1,200 bushel. Call Roger Cooley 620-8740381.

02t4c ––––––––––––––––––––– ESTABLISHED FIVE STATION on trend hair salon. Excellent location, appealing atmosphere, walk-in and take over cliental. Priced to sell. Call 03t4p 620-260-0429.

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––––––––––––––––––––– CERTIFIED SEED WHEAT Mint • Denali •TAM 112 • TAM 304 • Brawl CL • Oakley CL • KanMark • T158 • Byrd • Antero white wheat • Turkey Red. We also have a fall line of Thunder Brand™ triticale, rye and blends for hay, silage, grass-out. Ehmke Seed, Healy, Ks. 620-397-2350 www.ehmkeseed.com 01t12c

––––––––––––––––––––– CUSTOM HARVESTING, wanting corn, milo and soybeans, etc. Quality work since 1960. Call Dave 402-641-0503. 02t5p

Rentals HIDE AND SEEK STORAGE SYSTEMS. Various sizes available.

Virgil and LeAnn Kuntz, 620-874-2120.

41tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– ALL BILLS PAID VALUE RENTALS. 2-3 bedroom houses available.

Stop by PlainJan’s to pick up an application or call 620-872-5777.

43tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– PLAINJAN’S WILL HAVE 30x50 ft. metal insulated shop for rent.

Building will include electricity. $350 per month.

Reserve yours today. Call 39tfc 620-872-5777.

––––––––––––––––––––– CURRENTLY HAVE two 10x10 units available.

The Storehouse 620-8722914.

02tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– 14x70 TRAILER FOR RENT. 2 bedroomS, 1 1/2 baths, all appliances furnished. $475 rent includes water and trash service.

Free Wi-Fi. $450 deposit required. No smoking. No pets. 620-872-3076. 03t2c ––––––––––––––––––––– 1-BEDROOM, 1-BATH apartment. $300 a month plus utilities. No pets. Call 03t4c 620-521-0039.

Remember to call us!

620-872-2090

3 bedrooms, 1 bath, full

*with your new address*

garage, fenced yard,

So we can make sure your paper makes the move too.

Daylight Donut Shop with

*Please note: Change of address cards at the Post Office DO NOT apply to newspapers and magazines.

basement, SA garage, DD south location.

Al-Anon at same time and location.

Contact: 874-0472 or 872-3137. 30t52

refurbished building inside and out. All equipment, very clean established

business on Main Street.

406 Main • Box 377 Scott City, Ks. 67871 Very Nice East location

5 bedrooms, 1 3/4 baths, S/A garage, full basement, newer windows, paint, and flooring! Located in a nice neighborhood with low traffic!

brick with 2 + 1 bedroom, 4 bath, 2-car garage.

Underground sprinklers.

Great Central Location

Brick with 2 + 1 bedroom,

1 3/4 bath, single-attached garage.

Let us build you a new home!

Thomas Real Estate

www.thomasreal-estate.com

914 W. 12th Scott City, Ks. 67871 (620)-872-7396 Cell: (620)-874-1753 or Cell: (620)-874-5002

Services WANTED: Yards to mow and clean up, etc. Trim smaller trees and bushes too. Call Dean Riedl, (620) 872-5112 or 87434tfc 4135.

––––––––––––––––––––– METAL ROOFING, SIDING and TRIMS at direct-to-the-public prices. Call Metal King Mfg., 620-872-5464. Our prices 37tfc will not be beat!

––––––––––––––––––––– FURNITURE REPAIR and refinishing. Lawn mower tune-up and blade sharpening. Call Vern Soodsma, 872-2277 or 4015tfc 874-1412.

––––––––––––––––––––– MOWER REPAIR, tuneup and blade sharpening.

Call Rob Vsetecka at 620214-1730.

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Help Wanted USD 466 NEEDS s u b stitute route bus drivers.

For applications and additional information contact Lance Carter at 620-87202tfc 7655.

––––––––––––––––––––– TRUCK DRIVER/ FARM LABOR, SILAGE PIT DRIVER, needed for fall starting Sept. 1. CDL required or able to obtain one. Possible full-time employment after fall. Please call Jason 01t3c 620-874-1160.

––––––––––––––––––––– FA R M W O R K E R , 8/1/15-11/1/15, Troy Kuck, Bertrand, Nebr., five temp. jobs. Operates harvesting machines to harvest crops in Nebr.

Adjust speed of cutters, blowers, conveyors and weight of cutting head.

Change cutting head.

Drive truck to transport produce to storage area and haul harvesting machines b/w work sites.

Service machinery/make in-field repairs. Clean MVR, driver’s license, 3 months experience, employment references required. $13.59/hr.,-$1800/ mo., ¾ work guarantee, tools/equipment/housing provided, transportation and subsistence expense reimbursed. Apply at Kansas Works, 620-2272149. Job# 293062. 03t1c ––––––––––––––––––––– CARE ATTENDANT Scott City resident has positions available for a direct support attendant.

Duties include providing: personal care, meal preparation, household maintenance, C.N.A. certification not required. Training will be provided. Background check required.

Seriously interested parties may contact: 620214-1238. Please leave a message if no answer. 03t1p

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Employment Opportunities MAINTENANCE WORKER

PARK LANE NURSING HOME

SCALE OPERATOR

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 at City Hall, 221 W. 5th St. Applications will be accepted until position is filled.

Has openings for the following positions: Part-time/RN/LPN Full-time/part-time/CNA/CMA

Scott Coop Association, Marienthal and Selkirk locations, are looking for full-time scale help during the Fall harvest season.

This is a temporary position beginning late September and running through early November.

Interested individuals can pick up an application at the Coop Elevator 129 N. Co. Rd. 20 Marienthal, Ks. 67863.

EOE Employer

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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:

406 Main • Scott City • 620 872-2090

SPECIAL EDUCATION PARA-PROFESSIONAL Do you enjoy working with kids in an educational setting? Would you like the working hours of a school day?

Unified School District No. 466 is seeking HPEC Special Education Para-Professionals in the elementary, middle and high school. Scott Community High School is also in need of an ESL ParaProfessional. All positions work with students.

The positions are available for the beginning of the 2015-16 school year.

For more information and applications please contact: Susan Carter Board of Education Building 704 College, Scott City, KS 67871

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Shift differential pay offered for evening and night shifts!

Please apply in person at:

Park Lane Nursing Home

210 E. Parklane Scott City, KS 67871 Or visit us at our website: www.parklanenursinghome.org “Quality Care Because We Care”

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Scott Coop Association is an equal opportunity employer.

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SERVICE TECHNICIAN

SCOTT COUNTY HOSPITAL HAS OPENINGS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS

American Implement, Inc., a progressive John Deere agricultural dealership in Southwest Kansas, is experiencing significant growth and is currently seeking qualified individuals to fill the position of Service Technician in the Leoti location.

PATIENT CARE Acute Care RNs Physical Therapist Respiratory Therapist C.N.A.s - FT and PT Float RN Emergency Department RN Outreach/Specialty Clinic RN Lab Tech - Night Clinic Medical Assistant Cardiac Rehab RN/CRT CLERICAL HIM Coder HIM Transcriptionist/ROI Clinic Receptionist

Responsibilities are to analyze, troubleshoot and perform electrical and mechanical repairs on agricultural equipment. Experience in maintenance and repair of automotive, diesel or heavy equipment required.

Qualified applicants must own a set of tools to perform the functions of the job.

American Implement offers competitive wages and an excellent benefits package, which includes life, health and supplemental insurance, 401(k) plan and a quarterly incentive bonus program.

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.

Applications are available on our website at www.scotthospital.net or call 620-872-7772 for more information.

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Interested applicants may send a cover letter and resume to: Brad Schields Location Manager 232 E. Hwy. 96, Leoti, Ks. 67861. or Call: (620) 375-2621.

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The Scott County Record

Delinquent Tax List

(First published in The Scott County Record on Thurs., Aug. 13, 2015; last published Thurs., Aug. 27, 2015)3t NOTICE OF DELINQUENT REAL ESTATE AND MINERAL TAXES FOR 2014 Notice is hereby given, that on the 1st day of September, 2015, I, Lark Speer, as County Treasurer of Scott County, Kansas, in accordance with K.S.A. 79-2306 will bid in for Scott County, Kansas, at the County Treasurer’s office in the City of Scott City, Kansas all the following described Real Estate and Severed Mineral properties for the delinquent taxes for the year 2014 and the charges thereon. No individual bids will be received. It is possible that some properties have been paid, but were not paid in time to change the publication.

A current list is available for public inspection in the Scott County Treasurer’s office during regular office hours.

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SCOTT CITY 813 W. 4th Street, Lot 17, Blk 1, Church Addition, Vivian I. Voth $ 69.90 809 W. 4th Street, Lots 18, 19 & W. 20’ of Lot 20, Blk 1, Church Add’n, Bob and Debra M. Farr $ 261.09 1107 S. Washington Street, Lots 11 and 14, Blk 12, Cases Add’n, Paul & Peggy D. VanWey $ 97.08 602 S. Antelope Street, Lot 2 & N 14’ of Lot 3, Blk 18, Cases Add’n, Manuel R., Jr. & Virginia Rios Good faith payments are being made $ 595.90 202 S. Antelope Street, Lot 2, Blk 3, East Acres Add’n, Lynda F. Burnett, Good faith payments are being made $1,032.24 302 S. Antelope Street, Lot 11, Blk 3, East Acres Add’n, Eric C. & Lori R. Vasquez $1,679.80 409 S. Downing Road, Lot 9, Blk 4, East Acres Add’n, Scot D. Aytes $ 748.16 403 Manor Drive, Lot 1, Blk 5, East Acres Add’n, Linda Marie Park, Good faith payments are being made $ 743.30 409 Manor Drive, Lot 8, Blk 5, East Acres Add’n, Frank R. and Pamela K. Rebarchek $ 824.92 1011 S. Kingsley Street, Lot 12, Blk 5, Eggleston Add’n, Jamie R. and Amanda J. Martinez $2,888.28 1008 Santa Fe Avenue, S. 45’ of Lot 4 & N. 32’ of Lot 5, Blk 7, Eggleston Add’n, Chad D. and Rochelle Irwin $2,176.92 704 W. 5th Street, E. 5’ of Lot 10 & all of Lots 11, 12 & W 5’ of Lot 13, Blk 14, Eastmans Add’n, Cynthia A. Geist $ 607.48 510 W. 8th Street, Lot 3, Blk 7, Fairlawn Add’n, Nella G. Funk $ 342.60 702 S. Jackson Street, Lot 2 Blk 8, Fairlawn Add’n., Oscar Manuel Flores Martinez and Elva Pinedo Lerma, et al $ 409.32 413 E. Bellevue Avenue, Lots 14 through 20 & Lot 21, Blk 11, Halls Add’n, Veronica and Jose Manuel Garcia $ 899.62 912 S. Court Street, Lot 20 & S/2 of Lot 17, Blk 1, McLain Swan & Sangster, Paul L. Binford Good faith payments are being made $1,788.36 901 S. Church Street, Lot 1 & N. 40’ of Lot 4, Blk 3, McLain, Swan & Sangster, Allen Osborn $ 895.36 908 S. Elizabeth Street, Lot 10, Blk 3, McLain, Swan & Sangster, Thomas Matthew and Tammy Lynn Jenkins $ 978.60 1001 S. Elizabeth Street, Lot 1, Blk 5, McLain, Swan & Sangster, Jimmy Dunkel, Good faith payments are being made $ 228.48 1002 S. Glenn Street, Lot 2, Blk 5, McLain, Swan & Sangster, Renee G. Johnson $ 389.68 1011 S. Elizabeth Street, Lot 12, Blk 5, McLain, Swan & Sangster, Enrique G. Martinez $ 117.25 1002 S. Court Street, Lot 2, Blk 8, McLain, Swan & Sangster, Lendol G., Jr. and Heather L. Corter $1,618.70 1112 S. Church Street, Lot 11 & S. 20’ of Lot 10, Blk 10, McLain, Swan & Sangster, Randy G. and Victoria Ann Wells $ 565.46 108 S. Myrtle Street, Lot 10, Blk 1, Original Town, Brad Leatherman and Everett Wayne Sanders Good faith payments are being made $ 605.40 101 S. College Street, Lot 1 & N/2 of Lot 4, Blk 3, Original Town, Elmer P. & Lillian E. Tittel, Good faith payments are being made $ 659.48 108 S. Washington Street, Lot 7, Blk 3, Original Town, Lyle D. Barber and Marian Elaine Williams & Bruce Kendall Barber $6,983.34 109 S. Church Street, Lot 9, Blk 7, Original Town, Faye L. Stewart $ 574.28 304 S. College Street, Lot 3 & N 20’ of Lot 6, Blk 18, Original Town, Robert L. and Nikki J. Cooper $1,902.96 308 S. College Street, Lot 10, Blk 18, Original Town, James R. & Sandra Smith Good faith payments are being made $1,000.86 309 S. Elizabeth Street, Lot 9, Blk. 24, Original Town, Troy S. and Robin L. Marsh, $ 231.04 311 S. Elizabeth Street, Lot 12, Blk 24, Original Town, Troy S. and Robin L. Marsh, $ 291.26

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412 W. 5th Street, Lots 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16, Blk 25, Original Town, Robert L. and Nikki J. Cooper $1,351.62 405 S. College Street, Lot 5 & S. 6’ of Lot 4, Blk 30, Original Town, Matthew A. and Karyn R. Hendrix Good faith payments are being made $ 567.24 612 S. Glenn Street, W 40’ of Lots 10 & 11, Blk 41, Original Town, Margarito Tarango $ 456.40 605 S. Main Street, Lots 4, 6, 7 & 9, Blk 44, Original Town, Bernardo P. Cuevas $ 905.90 606 S. Main Street, Lot 4, Blk 45, Original Town, Mario E. Ortega $2,251.10 207 E. 6th Street, W. 50’ of Lot 1 and W. 50’ of N/2 of Lot 4, Blk 46, Original Town, Bryan W. Voth Good faith payments are being made $ 957.32 801 S. Church Street, Lots 1 & 4, Blk 58, Original Town, Larry G. and Judy K. Ribbing $2,149.58 808 S. Church Street, Lot 7, Blk 59, Original Town, Steven C. Gruver $ 828.01 1514 S. Myrtle Street, Lot 4, Blk 1, Southview 2nd Add’n, Tom and Virginia E. Proctor $ 460.86 1513 S. Myrtle Street, Lot 5, Blk 2, Southview 2nd Add’n, Noel L. Turley $ 203.30 1524 S. College Street, Lots 16 through 20, Blk 2, Southview 2nd Add’n, Noel L. Turley $ 777.92 507 N. Washington Street, S. 50’ of Lot 3, Blk 2, Starr Suburb, Xochitl Cruz and Eufemiz Cruz Ayala $ 252.69 501 N. Washington Street, E 50’ of Lot 4, Blk 2, Starr Suburb, Marvin Turley, Good faith payments are being made $ 749.72 110 Starr Avenue, W 50’ of E100’ of Lot 4, Blk 2 , Starr Suburb, Chester Fairchild $ 66.44 907 Jefferson Street, Lot 7, Blk 3, Thomas Add’n, Carl and Jean Stiffler $ 306.10 Public Drive, a tract in SE4 of Sec. 13, Twp. 18, Rng. 33, Bryan & Karen Gunther $ 210.96 503 E. 11th Street, a 1.7 acre tract in Sec. 13, Twp. 18, Rng. 33, Heather A. Holstein $4,611.46 1001 W. 5th Street, Lots 1 & 4, Blk 3, Websters, Add’n, Marcia K. and Craig D. Matthies $2,295.82 203 S. Russell Street, Lots 1, 2 & 3, Blk 3, Westside Add’n, Robert G. Harris $ 278.30 BEAVER TOWNSHIP 171 Buffalo Trail, Lots 23 through 26, Blk 2, Broadview Cabin Site, Robert and Brenda Schulz $ 367.84 N Lariat Road, 10 acres in SE corner of Sec. 24, Twp. 17, Rng. 33 Turnage Holding, LLC $ 9,060.88 Severed minerals in NE4 of Sec. 9, Twp.16, Rng. 33, 1/192 Interest, John L. Pratt, III $ 0.65 Severed minerals in SE4 of Sec. 31, Twp. 16, Rng. 33, 28.25% of 6.64062% of 1/2 Interest, Spreading Adder Oil Company, L.L.C. $ 0.65 ISBEL TOWNSHIP 450 Modoc Lane, Lots 5 through 10, Blk 61, Modoc, Michael Colbary $ 227.64 Modoc Lane, All Block 88, Modoc, Dale R. and Brenda J. Farr and Kenneth Fairchild $ 97.72 2551 S. Cherokee Road, SE4 of Sec. 33, Twp.18, Rng. 34, Richard D. West $ 685.40 KEYSTONE TOWNSHIP Main Street (Grigston), a .26 acre tract in Sec. 14, Twp. 18, Rng. 31, Anthony Ivey $ 0.40 71 Grigston Lane, All Blks I & P, Lots 6 through 18, Blk J, Lots 1 & 2, Blk O, Anthony Edward Ivey $ 575.84 10250 + E. Highway 96, Lots 1 through 5, Blk J, Grigsby, Anthony E. Ivey $ 934.94 4971 N. Venison Road, Lots 1 through 5, Blk 23, Manning, Ralph Derstine $ 226.44 4991 N. Venison Road, A small tract in Sec. 27, Twp. 17, Rng. 31, and Tracts 2 and 5, Manning, Ralph & Wendy Derstine $ 107.34 4993 N. Venison Road, Tract 4, Manning, Kari Sherd $ 286.38 E Road 190, A 48 acre tract in the W/2 SW4 of Sec. 29, Twp. 17, Rng. 31, less a tract, Robert D. Huck $ 82.07 Good faith payments are being made 10250 E. Highway 96, A 19 acre tract in SW4 of Sec.14, Twp.18, Rng.31, Anthony E. Ivey $2,572.66 S. Rodeo Road, S2 NE4 & S2 N2 NE4 of Sec.12, Twp.19, Rng. 32, Janet M. Cohlmia $ 608.46 E. Road 110, N2 N2 NE4 of Sec.12, Twp.19, Rng. 32, Janet Cohlmia $ 203.34 Several Minerals in SE4 25-17-32, 1/2 Interest, Marvin W. and Marcine Dawn Durrant $ 31.40 Severed Minerals in NE4 35-17-32, 1/3 of 1/2 Interest, Lysle Elbert and Letha Crowell $ 10.48

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Several Minerals in NE4 of Sec. 35, Twp.17, Rng. 32, 1/30 Interest, Sandra Lee Crowell $ 1.96 2-K01270 Severed Minerals in NE 4 of Sec. 36, Twp. 17, Rng. 32, 1/2 Interest, Marvin W. and Marcine Dawn Durrant $ 31.40 LAKE TOWNSHIP LA0272 E Road 150, NE4 of Sec. 17, Twp. 19, Rng. 32, Daniel J. Huslig $ 808.86 LA0274 E Road 90, SE4 of Sec. 17, Twp. 19, Rng. 32, Daniel J. Huslig $ 833.62 LA0344 E Road 70, NW4 of Sec. 34, Twp. 19, Rng. 32, Michael and Linda Allen $ 812.12 MICHIGAN TOWNSHIP MI0287 E. Logan-Scott Road, 5 acres in NW4 of Sec. 5, Twp.16, Rng. 32, Sandra Sue Gaona $ 792.94 MI0407A E. Road 250, NE4 of Sec. 33, Twp.16, Rng 32, Sandra Sue Gaona $ 831.92 2-M00630 Several Minerals in SE4 of 8-16-32, 1/32 Interest, Helen Pritchard Estate $ 1.96 2-M09550 Several Minerals in NE4 of Sec. 4, Twp. 16, Rng. 31, 28.25% of 6.6406% of 1/4 Interest Spreading Adder Oil Company, L.L.C. $ 0.65 SCOTT TOWNSHIP ED0001 N. Highway 83, Lot 1, Blk 1, Edwards Addition, Joel Lynn Edwards $ 69.14 SC0046A 901 E Road 180, A 6 acre tract in NE4 of Sec. 6, Twp. 18, Rng. 32, Bryan and Latisha R. Burnett $2,565.96 VALLEY TOWNSHIP VA0160 Highway 83, N2 SE4 in Sec. 13, Twp. 20, Rng. 33, Jean Stiffler D/B/A Southwest Wrecking $1,408.60 VA0407A 10731 S. Cherokee Road, SE4 of Sec. 9, Twp. 20, Rng. 34, less a tract, Charles H. Moore, Jr. Trust $1,076.30 VA0407B 10541 S. Cherokee Road, A 24 acre tract tin NE4 SE4 of Sec. 9, Twp. 20, Rng. 34, Charles H., Jr. and Darla Sutor Moore $ 744.19 VS0052 390 N. Lovers Lane, W. 145.5’ in Tract 9, Shallow Water, Lori Michelle Green, et al $1,280.34 VS0056 210 E. Main Street, Tract 14, Shallow Water, Cristobal Amezcua $2,298.80 2-V00336 Severed Minerals in 5 acre tract in SE4 of Sec. 34, Twp. 19, Rng. 33, (1/2 Interest), Bryan and Karen Gunther $ 1.31 2-V00550 Severed Minerals in E2 SE4 of Sec. 8, Rng. 20, Twp. 33, (1/16 Interest), Paul M. Starr $ 1.97 2-V02360 Severed Minerals in SE4 of Sec. 4, Twp. 20, Rng. 34, (1/32 Interest), Madge Havenstein $ 6.57 2-V02410 Severed Minerals in SE4 of Sec. 4, Twp. 20, Rng. 34, (1/3 of 1/24 & 1/3 of 1/32 Interests), James Scott Blair $ 1.97 2- V02420 Severed Minerals in SE4 of Sec. 4, Twp. 20, Rng. 34, (1/3 of 1/24 & 1/3 of 1/32 interests), Robert Rush Blair $ 1.31 2-V02440 Severed Minerals in SE4 of Sec. 4, Twp. 20, Rng. 34, (3/24 Interest), Blanche Stapp Estate $ 7.88 2-V02460 Severed Minerals in NE4 of Sec. 9, Twp. 20, Rng. 34, (1/32 Interest), Madge Havenstein $ 1.97 2-V02470 Severed Minerals in NE4 of Sec. 9, Twp. 20, Rng. 34, (3/24 Interest), Blanche Stapp Estate $ 7.88 2-V02520 Severed Minerals in NE4 of Sec. 9, Twp. 20, Rng. 34, (1/3 of 1/24 & 1/3 of 1/32 interests) James Scott Blair $ 1.31 2-V02530 Severed Minerals in NE4 of Sec. 9, Twp. 20, Rng. 34, (1/3 of 1/24 & 1/3 of 1/32 Interests) Robert Rush Blair $ 1.97 Grand Total $ 81,561.29

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