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34 Pages • Four Sections

Volume 21 • Number 9

Thursday, October 10, 2013

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Park Lane finances are making a turnaround After losing nearly $1 million over a three year period, Park Lane Nursing Home is on track to earn a profit of more than $120,000 this year, according to latest financial records and an audit that was recently presented to Scott County Commissioners.

That’s good news for taxpayers after the county took over operation of the nursing home

on Sept. 1 last year.

At the time, the privatelyowned and operated nursing home was facing a severe cash crunch. It’s cash reserves were nearly depleted and, shortly after the nursing home was transferred to the county the commission made a loan of about $127,000 to the new board of directors so it could meet its payroll.

Community health fair is Saturday

Part of the cash problem at that time, notes Administrator Nicole Turner, was due to delays in Medicaid reimbursements through the state’s newly implemented KanCare program.

“Our goal was to get things turned around so that Park Lane wouldn’t be a drain on the taxpayers,” says Commission Chairman Jim Minnix. “The improvement in the financial

situation since last September 1 has been dramatic.”

Instead of losing an average of $25,000 to $30,000 per month, the nursing home has been steadily operating in the black throughout the current year.

According to the nursing home’s financial data, it had operating losses in five of six years between 2002-07.

Even when depreciation (which is an accounting writeoff) is eliminated from the calculation, financial reports show the nursing home had losses ranging from $31,627 (2004) to $248,064 (2005). The only year it showed a profit during that stretch was in 2003 ($83,726).

According to information provided to the commission, (See PARK LANE on page two)

pumpkin carvin’ time

Are you looking for tips on a healthier lifestyle? How to get the most from your workouts? Or maybe you just want to get your blood pressure checked.

You can find the answers to your health questions and more during the annual Community Wellness Fair on Sat., Oct. 12, 7:30-10:30 a.m.

The event will be returning to the Scott City Middle School after being held at the Scott County Hospital last year. Everyone is asked to enter through the south doors on the east side of the school. The north doors are for handicapped access only.

There will be about 40 booths featuring a variety of health care professionals who will offer tests and screenings, in addition to educational material.

Participants can get blood chemistry profiles ($30) and PSA blood tests ($20).

Vitamin D testing ($25) can help determine bone health, cardiovascular health, cognitive balance and asthma in children. There will also be vaccinations for pneumonia ($65), influenza ($20), tetanus ($25) and T-dap ($50).

Those who plan to have blood chemistry work must not eat anything after midnight.

Blood chemistry results should be available within about two weeks.

City, property owner reach compromise on SRC building repairs Efforts to prevent water from draining into the basement of the Scott Recreation Commission building are moving ahead following a compromise between the Scott City Council and the neighboring landowner.

Water has been entering the basement along the north wall of the building (See SRC on page 10)

Six-year-old Hailey Shapland with her mother, Stephanie, both of Scott City, find what they were looking for during a visit to the pumpkin patch on Tuesday afternoon at the First United Methodist Church. The church has received more than 860 large pumpkins, along with many miniature pumpkins, that are being sold as a fundraiser for the church youth groups and community mission projects. Other events during the month include a 5k/one mile runs and a cruise-in/barbeque.

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Council has second thoughts about vacating alley

Two weeks after giving the okay to vacate a platted alley, the Scott City Council has had second thoughts.

During Monday’s meeting, the council decided not to approve an ordinance to abandon the alley located south of Prairie Avenue between Steele Avenue and Russell Street. The alley, as platted, extends between home

lots owned by Josh Bailey and Rohn Shellenberger.

When the two property owners appeared before the council previously the council had authorized the city attorney to draw up an ordinance vacating the alley on a 5-2 vote.

Bailey noted that because both houses will face to the north when they are completed, the alley will divide the two

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properties rather than going behind the lots. That is the same situation in the three blocks farther to the east on Prairie Avenue. Each has an alley that dead-ends at the city limits, but they have not been vacated.

Mayor Dan Goodman expressed concerns about providing alley access if the land to the south is developed for housing and annexed into the city.

Councilman Everett Green said at the previous meeting it may be more efficient to have alleys along the south property line of the homes located on Prairie Avenue.

With a couple of weeks to think about their decision, Councilman Bo Parkinson said the decision may have been “premature.” He questioned why the city would want to

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abandon property without being compensated.

Councilman Gary Eitel, who was not in attendance at the previous meeting, felt that abandoning the alley may set a precedent the council should consider carefully.

“I think we’ll be overwhelmed by people wanting to close alleys,” he said.

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Park Lane Park Lane had losses of about $400,000 in 2010, $350,000 in 2011 and $170,000 in 2012.

Profits over the last three months for which information was available range from $9,211 in July to $42,675 in August.

“Because it was privately owned and operated, we didn’t see all of this financial information,” says Minnix. “I didn’t know the extent of the losses until the figures came out during the annual meeting in (late) 2011.

That’s when it became pretty apparent we needed to do something.”

More Stability Several factors contributed to the rough road that the nursing home was traveling over the past three years.

The nursing home went through some particularly rough times starting in April of 2011 when the administrator and two other top department heads were fired. Frontline Management was brought in to run the home and what followed for more than a year was considerable turmoil that led to a frequent turnover in staff and reduced census.

As the losses mounted over the next 16 months, Frontline agreed to step aside and ownership of the facility was transferred to the county.

A combination of events and changes have contributed to the turnaround, says Turner.

While the nursing home was going through

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a $6.2 million addition and renovation project it wasn’t feasible to look at attracting more residents.

Census had slipped to about 50 prior to the renovation and, once it was completed, began to climb slightly.

During Frontline’s tenure there was also considerable staff turnover which created a doublewhammy for the home’s bottom line.

First of all, people were refusing to put their family members into the facility, which held down census and revenue.

It also meant that Frontline was forced to hire far more expensive agency help since they couldn’t find enough fulltime staff.

Hiring temporary outside agency employees had a huge impact on the home’s bottom line. It reached a peak of $31,095 in February 2012 and the following month was $16,835. In a typical month today, those costs will range from $3,000 to $4,000.

“Our employee situation is much more stable today,” Turner says.

The nursing home’s improving financial situation allowed the board and administration to raise salaries which had been frozen from 2009 through October 2012. The salary of a Certified Nurses Aide (CNA) had been $7.60/ hour, but has been increased to $9.

“We study salaries for similar positions in similar sized nursing homes

and are trying to get ours to where they fall into the median range,” Turner says. “We’d like to pay more, but at least we’re moving in the right direction. It’s something we’ll continue to work on.”

A more stable workforce has also led to more satisfied residents. This has helped the nursing home to increase its census from 49 in April 2012 to an average of 62 per month during 2013. There have been a couple of months where it’s climbed to as high as 63 or 64.

A third area which has helped the bottom line was the recent addition of Medicare Part A and Part B care which, previously, was only available at the hospital. In August, the nursing home billed residents for about $23,350 in Part A services and $5,300 in Part B. Over the course of a year, that’s about $300,000 in new revenue.

“This doesn’t only benefit the nursing home, but it’s good for the residents.

We can now provide right here where they can feel more comfortable,” Turner says.

“We hear a lot of good things from our residents and from people who visit Park Lane from outside the area,” says Turner.

“It’s great that we’re making money. We don’t want to ask the taxpayers for help. But our main goal is to have a nursing home that the residents and their family members are proud of. If we do that, the finances will take care of itself.”

Alley

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Councilman Jack Schmitt said that even though the land to the south hasn’t been platted, it’s likely to be developed for housing in the future.

He questioned whether the council wants to be closing alley access to future home sites.

“We don’t know what will happen in the future,” said Councilman Fred Kuntzsch. “Once it’s been abandoned you won’t get it back.”

It was noted that if there is housing development to the south the homes would

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likely face to the east and west, which would require an extension of the existing alleys.

“On the other hand, nothing has happened south of those lots for 40 years. Why worry about it now?” wondered Schmitt.

“That’s what we’re supposed to do,” said Goodman. “We’re supposed to look ahead and anticipate what may happen. That’s an area where we’re going to see future growth.”

Even though the ordinance closing the alley passed on a 4-3 vote, it

lacked the fifth vote that is required to approve an ordinance. Voting against closing the alley were Eitel, Schmitt and Kuntzsch.

“I’m sure we haven’t heard the last of this,” added Goodman.

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Community Living

Page 3 - Thursday, October 10, 2013

Be well-informed about medications you take

Any time is a good time to be talking about your prescription medications.

But particular awareness is being paid to this important topic during October which is “Talk About Prescriptions” Month, or TAP Month.

This year’s theme is “Be Medicine Smart.”

I found a wealth of information on the National Council on Patient Information and Education (NCPIE) website. It stated “the choices that people make every day can have a great

impact on their own health.

With all the information about medications thrown at us through advertising, it is easy to become confused and frustrated. A willingness to ask questions of your doctor and pharmacist is your best offense in using your medicines safely.

This information does not refer to prescriptions only. It is also very useful for over-the-counter (OTC) medicine. When you receive a new prescription, ask what the name of the medication is. They don’t all sound as they are spelled and many times are called by a shortened name.

Know whether the prescription is a “brand” name or a generic version. If it’s a brand, ask if a generic version is available. Generic drugs are cheaper and if you have insurance, the insurance

company will usually pay more benefits toward generic drugs.

Ask your doctor how to take the medicine (how often, when and for how long) and then ask your pharmacist the same question. Make sure the answers match up.

Make sure that when you receive the medicine from your pharmacist, you have them repeat the drug’s name to you.

This way, you know that the medications you are receiving are the same that your doctor said you

will be getting. Mistakes do happen.

Find out from your pharmacist if there are requirements when taking a certain drug. Some medications need to be taken with food, some on an empty stomach.

Ask what to do should you ever forget a dose, and always, always take the drug in it’s entirety unless told not to by your doctor. A few other questions to ask might include: •how long before the medications should start to work; •can I safely take them

with other medications including supplemental vitamins; •what are the side effects?

If you do not like the side effects ask about taking a different medication.

OTC Medications If you choose to take an OTC medicine, which you can purchase at your local discount store, grocery or pharmacy, be informed of your choices. Many times, when purchasing an OTC medicine, the pharmacist on duty will (See MEDS on page eight)

Scott Co. attorney is Study Club speaker

Janessa Mayer and Jordan Habiger

Mayer-Habiger to wed in April

Jeff Mayer, Scott City, and Jalancy Mayer, Colby, announce the engagement of their daughter, Janessa, to Jordan Habiger, son of Darrin and Michelle Habiger, Scott City.

Janessa is a 2010 graduate of Scott Community High School and graduated from Garden City Community College with a degree in business administration. She is currently employed at Xtreme Tanning, Garden City.

Jordan is a 2010 graduate of SCHS and from Manhattan Area Technical College with a certificate in electrical power and distribution. He is em-

ployed with Wheatland Cooperative, Garden City.

Janessa is the granddaughter of Kevin and Bobby Ferbert, McPherson; Richard Crouse, Colby; and the late Chuck and Doris Mayer.

Jordan is the grandson of Sherrill Tubbs, Scott City, and the late Albert Tubbs; Darrel and Cynthia Maley, Wichita, and the late Gary Davidson; and Duane and Tammy Habiger, Kinsley.

The wedding will be held on April 5, 2014, at the First Baptist Church, Scott City. The couple plans to live in Garden City.

Megan McKenty and Christopher Carroll

McKenty-Carroll are engaged

Mr. and Mrs Chris Carroll, Scott City, and Mr. and Mrs. John McKenty, Austin, Tex., announce the engagement of their children, Christopher Carroll and Megan McKenty.

Megan graduated from Texas A&M University in 2006 with a major in secondary education. She is currently working at The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk in Austin, while at the same time completing her PhD in special education

at the University of Texas, Austin.

Christopher graduated from Middle Tennessee State in 2006 with a bachelor of science degree in recording. He is currently living in Austin and is working as a sound designer with Retro Studios on an upcoming video game.

The couple is planning a Feb. 22, 2014, wedding in Austin.

A reception will be held in Scott City at a later date.

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The High Plains Study Club met at the home of Marvel Hopkins-Keyse on Oct. 3 with Jean Hardy serving as co-hostess.

Ceramic favors decorated each refreshment plate.

Becky Fouquet gave an inspiring report on her duties and concerns while serving as Scott County Attorney.

President Barbara Dickhut called the meeting to order with the reading of the club collect and the flag salute. Twentyone members answered the roll call question, “What was your first job?”

A devotional reading was shared by Patsi Graham reinforcing the club practice that each member has a different responsibility, but we all serve the same God. Winner of the Lucky Dip was Cheryl France.

Anita Hoeme will bring a gift for the next meeting’s drawing.

Gwen Huck gave a thought-provoking report on the pros and cons of the Common Core Standards initiative.

The next meeting will be Oct. 17 at Park Lane Nursing Home.

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Editorial/Opinion

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editorially speaking

False bravado:

Republicans should be careful what they wish for

Republicans have a history of saying outrageous things about government, knowing that it plays well to their highly energetic and poorly informed voters. They get away with it because: 1) They represent safely gerrymandered districts where they only have to worry about appealing to their base.

2) They know that no matter how radical their ideas, people with common sense will stop them from making those ideas become reality.

For example, it was little more than a week ago that FreedomWorks and the Heritage Action were egging on their supporters and Republican Congressmen, telling them to force a government shutdown at all costs.

The FreedomWorks CEO said that not raising the debt ceiling would “not be a bad thing.”

Now that the shutdown has occurred and we could reach the disastrous consequences of defaulting on our debts in a matter of days, FreedomWorks and the Heritage Action have backed off those demands.

The reality of having to live with the consequences of their decisions has finally hit home with some - but not all - of the most radical voices within the Republican Party. They are discovering through a shutdown that the government does provide some services we’d rather not be without.

The problem isn’t government. The problem is Congressmen who would rather play politics than offer solutions and voters who can’t tell the difference.

KanCare:

Health care problems found closer to home

There has been plenty of criticism about the problems associated with the rollout of Obamacare. The huge demand placed on the system from the huge number of people inquiring about marketplace options led to long delays in getting assistance by computer and over the phone.

Naturally, one would have hoped that the introduction of Obamacare to the public would have gone smoother.

Of course, Congressman Tim Huelskamp and his Kansas colleagues were quick to jump on the bandwagon condemning the snafus that were involved with Obamacare sign-up.

But when it comes to looking at similar problems a little closer to home, Huelskamp and the remainder of the Kansas Congressional delegation are silent.

For example, Secretary of State Kris Kobach and the Kansas Legislature couldn’t wait to pass a voter ID law that supposedly prevents widespread fraud in our state elections.

But the newly implemented system leaves 12,029 Kansas voters “in suspense.”

Rather than express concern about the large number of voters no longer able to cast ballots, Kolbach simply dismisses it as a minor snafu hardly worth worrying about.

Where is Huelskamp when it comes to protecting the rights of voters?

Gov. Sam Brownback and his administration have put their KanCare system into effect, which is a new managed care plan for Medicaid.

There are three managed care organizations - Amerigroup, United Healthcare and Sunflower State Health Plan - who share responsibility for the state’s 370,000 KanCare recipients.

Implementation of the plan, which was launched on Jan. 1, hasn’t been without its flaws.

Nursing homes and hospitals in Kansas continue to report problems with receiving payments from the three managed care groups.

According to the CEO of the Holton Community Hospital, they’re still trying to get paid for claims filed in March. When Gov. Sam Brownback claims the new system has saved the state $37 million so far, CEO Carrie Saia replies, “The reason they’re saving so much money is we’re not getting paid correctly.”

So where is the Kansas Congressional delegation when it comes to protecting the financial interests of community hospitals and nursing homes? Silent.

This is, after all, a Republican administration implementing a Republican plan.

Obamacare? That’s another matter.

It would be great if KanCare and Obamacare worked better from the beginning. Maybe that’s unrealistic.

But if our Congressional delegation is going to be silent about KanCare’s faults after 10 months in operation, then they have no room to complain about the implementation of Obamacare after day one.

Holding the government hostage

Five men are seated around a kitchen table in their wooden shack deep in the woods.

“We did it,” says Ted Cruz with a huge grin.

“We kidnapped the government and we didn’t get caught. Who wants to write the ransom note?”

“I do. I got a gold star for penmanship in the third grade,” says Tim Huelskamp as he pulls out a sheet of paper. “What do we ask for?”

“We tell them that if they want to ever see the government alive again the President has to get rid of Obamacare,” says Rand Paul. “Be sure to put that at the top of the ransom note in big, bold letters.”

“Absolutely,” everyone else echoed.

“We want them to know we aren’t fooling around,” says Boehner.

“Let them know that if we don’t get our way on the Obamacare demand we can get pretty rough.”

“Let’s chop off a finger and send it with the note to show how serious we are,” says Cruz with a gleam in his eye.

“Not yet,” advises Mitch McConnell. “We can try that later if necessary. Let’s wrap the note in a package with some dead fish. That sends the message that we won’t be happy until Obamacare sleeps with the fishes.”

“Oh, that’s good,” says Huelskamp. “Where do you come up with good ideas like that?”

“That’s the reason I’m minority leader in the Senate,” replies McConnell.

There is about five minutes of silence around the table.

“Is that it?” asks Paul.

“There must be something else we want?”

“Let’s demand that every state below the Mason-Dixon line get three senators instead of just two. That way we can regain control of the Senate,” says McConnell.

“Sounds reasonable to me,” says Paul. “Put that on the list.”

“And we won’t return the government until President Obama balances the budget,” says Boehner.

“I’m not bending on that one bit.”

“I think we can do it by eliminating unemployment benefits, food stamps, WIC, Social Security and Medicare,” says Huelskamp. “Anyone who is getting those benefits is leaching off the government and either needs to get a job or leave the country.”

“Good idea. Put that on the list,” says Cruz. “But let’s tell Obama that he can’t cut defense spending, homeland security or subsidies for oil companies. And he can’t raise taxes.”

“And he has to make the University of Kansas the national champions in football,” adds Huelskamp.

Everyone stares at each other for a moment.

“Oh, why not,” Boehner says. “If we have to give up something on our list of demands, we’ll give up that one just to show that we’re not being unreasonable.”

The ransom note is mailed to the President and the following day, at the dropoff site, a courier leaves a message for the kidnappers.

“What do you mean it says no way?” says Cruz as the group gathers around the table. “That’s all it says?”

“Well, it is written in capital letters,” says Huelskamp. “But the writing doesn’t look near as neat as mine did.”

Boehner comes from outside where he has been trying to keep the government entertained and he looks pretty roughed up.

“It’s your turn,” he says, looking at McConnell. “We were playing cowboys and Indians and that little beast tied me to a stake and threatened to burn me alive. If he’d have found a cigarette lighter I might not be here.”

“I was with him yesterday and I got poison ivy while playing hide-nseek,” McConnell says.

“There’s no way I’m spending time alone with him again.”

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Shutdown: tea party’s last stand

If the nation is lucky, this October will mark the beginning of the end of the tea party.

The movement is suffering from extreme miscalculation and a foolish misreading of its opponents’ intentions. This, in turn, has created a moment of enlightenment, an opening to see things that were once missed.

Many Republicans, of course, saw the disaster coming in advance of the shutdown. But they were terrified to take on a movement that is fortified by money, energy and the backing of a bloviating brigade of talk-show hosts. The assumption was that the tea party had become invincible inside the GOP. People who knew better followed Sen. Ted Cruz down a path of confrontation over Obamacare.

Yet even before the shut-

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down began, Republicans stopped talking about an outright repeal of Obamacare, as House Speaker John Boehner’s ever-changing demands demonstrated.

The extent of the rout was then underscored in the hot-microphone incident last week when Sen. Rand Paul was caught plotting strategy with Sen. Mitch McConnell. Paul’s words, spoken after he had finished a television interview, said more than he realized.

“I just did CNN. I just go over and over again: ‘We’re willing to compromise, we’re willing to negotiate,’ ” Paul said, adding this about the Democrats: “I don’t think they’ve poll-tested, ‘We

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won’t negotiate.’ ” Tellingly, Paul described the new GOP line this way: “We wanted to defund it, we fought for that, but now we’re willing to compromise on this.”

It’s revealing to hear a politician who is supposed to be all about principle mocking Democrats for failing to do enough polltesting. It makes you wonder whether Paul poll-tests everything he says.

But Paul’s statement raised a more important question: If just days after it began, a shutdown that was about repealing Obamacare is not about repealing Obamacare, then what is it about?

Actually, it’s what even conservatives are calling the Seinfeld Shutdown: It’s about absolutely nothing, at least where substance is concerned.

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Moreover, Paul and his friends need to explain why, if they are so devoted to “negotiation,” they didn’t negotiate long ago.

Why did they relentlessly block negotiations over a Senate Democratic budget whose passage, according to a now-discarded pile of press releases, they once made a condition for discussions?

Only now can we fully grasp that politics on the right has been driven less by issues than by a series of gestures. And they give up on even these as soon as their foes try to take what they say seriously.

What the tea party and Boehner did not reckon with is that Obama and the Democrats are done being intimidated by the use of extra-constitutional means to extort concessions that the right cannot win through normal (See STAND on page six)

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Republican moderates should ditch the party

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by Harold Meyerson

Over the next couple of weeks, the fate of, well, some pretty big things - the Republican Party, the American system of government, the global economy - rests with about 20 people: Republican members of the House who have said they favor a straight-up continuing resolution that funds the government.

No re-litigating Obamacare, no scaling back Social Security - just a “clean” resolution that would leave those other conservative causes to be fought about on their merits some other day.

When those votes are added to those of the 200 House Democrats who have said they would support a clean resolution, that yields a narrow majority for ending the government shutdown. It is hard to believe that those GOP dissidents wouldn’t support raising the

debt ceiling as well.

If they’re not willing to hold the functioning of government hostage to the tea party’s demands, they’re not likely to hold the economy hostage, either.

But that’s a big “if.” While The Washington Post counts 21 GOP House members who have declared themselves in favor of ending the shutdown by passing a clean resolution, most of them have done nothing to compel the House Republican leadership to allow such a vote.

They could, for example, publicly declare their intention to join House Democrats in signing a discharge petition that would eventually force such a vote. They could privately declare that intent to House Speaker John Boehner, leaving him either to accede to such a vote or have it forced upon him.

These center-right Republicans, however, have not

Leaving Republican ranks would not mean joining the Democrats. But the center-right dissidents are being willfully blind if they can’t see that the ideological gap between them and the tea-party-dominated GOP is also vast.

indicated that they are willing to cross that Rubicon.

There is a simple explanation for their reluctance: Such action would surely result in serious primary challenges in 2014, when all the internal dynamics of today’s Republican Party would be working against them.

The gerrymandering of congressional districts has made them safe for radical conservatives. The rise of the right that has marginalized the party nationally and driven moderates from its ranks has made the remaining handful of center-right incumbents exquisitely vulnerable to tea party challengers.

That, in turn, has created a strategic asymmetry within the House Republican caucus.

The tea party faction, which by most estimates includes about 40 members, wields vast power over the leadership and the caucus, while the center-right contingent wields zilch.

Both factions have enough votes to block legislation backed by the House leadership if the Democrats also vote against it, but it has been tea partyers, not centrist-moderates, who have used that veto power.

Unlike their tea party counterparts, the center-right members lack gumption and imagination.

The gumption gap is understandable; unlike the Republican radicals, the moderates fear primary challenges next year.

But there is a way to avoid Republican primary challenges, though it would take a leap of political imagination.

To vote his beliefs and duck that challenge, all a center-right Republican has to do is declare himself an independent.

This is hardly a course to be taken lightly. It entails the loss of congressional seniority and would cause rifts with friends and allies. It requires considerable explanation to one’s constituents. There is no guarantee of reelection.

But others have taken this course and survived - most recently, former Sen. Joseph Lieberman, who, when he lost Connecticut’s Democratic Senate primary in 2006, reconfigured himself an independent and won reelection. Many of the House members tagged as supporters of a clean resolution, such as New York’s Peter King and Pennsylvania’s Charlie Dent, come from districts in the Northeast that aren’t as rabidly right as some in the Sunbelt.

(See DITCH on page six)

Texas could learn from Maryland’s economic model

by Gov. Martin O’Malley

JP Morgan: the man and the bank

by Jim Hightower

J.P. Morgan was recently socked in the wallet by financial regulators, who levied a fine of nearly a billion bucks against the Wall Street baron for massive illegalities.

Well, not a fine against John Pierpont Morgan, the man. This 19th century robber baron was born to a great banking fortune and, by hook and crook, leveraged it to become the “King of American Finance.”

During the Gilded Age, Morgan cornered the U.S. financial markets, gained monopoly ownership of railroads, amassed a vast supply of the nation’s gold, and used his investment power to create US Steel and take control of that market.

From his earliest days in high finance, Morgan was a hustler who often traded on the shady side.

In the Civil War, for example, his family bought his way out of military duty, but he saw another way to serve. Himself, that is.

Morgan bought defective rifles for $3.50 each and sold them to a Union general for $22 each.

The rifles blew off soldiers’ thumbs, but Morgan pleaded ignorance, and government investigators graciously absolved the young, wealthy, well-connected financier of any fault.

That seems to have set a pattern for his lifetime of antitrust violations, union busting, and other over-the-edge profiteering practices. He drew numerous

official charges - but of course, he never did any jail time.

Moving the clock forward, we come to JPMorgan Chase, today’s financial powerhouse bearing J.P.’s name. The bank also inherited his pattern of committing multiple illegalities - and walking away scot free.

Oh sure, the bank was hit with that big fine, but not a single one of the top bankers who committed gross wrongdoing were charged or even fired - much less sent to jail.

Banks don’t commit crimes.

Bankers do. And they won’t ever stop if they don’t have to pay for their crimes.

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

With gridlock and partisanship having all but paralyzed Washington, governors are at the forefront of our country’s policy divide.

On the No. 1 issue facing our nation - how to ensure that Americans are winners, not losers, in the 21st-century economy - two divergent approaches frame the debate. Texas Gov. Rick Perry highlighted this debate with his recent trip to Maryland.

The contrast is clear: Should we slash taxes on the wealthiest Americans - crippling our ability to invest in schools, job training, infrastructure and health care - because we believe that even lower taxes for our wealthiest will magically lead to jobs and robust economic growth? Or should we make tough choices together that provide the resources to invest in schools, bolster growing industries and create quality middleclass jobs?

Perry and like-minded Republican governors subscribe to the slash-and-burn economic philosophy - a belief that “less” will somehow become “more.”

In Texas, he has implemented this vision with gusto, cutting taxes and slashing funding for critical middle-class priorities such as public schools, higher education, health care and infrastructure.

The results? Texas ranks 49th in high school graduation, 10th

in the rate of poverty and 50th in the percent of residents with even basic health insurance.

And while Perry likes to promote the job creation in Texas during his time in office, he leaves out a critical point: The jobs “miracle” he touts is driven by low-paying, non-sustainable jobs.

This year, Texas - tied with Mississippi - leads the nation for the percentage of hourly paid workers earning equal to or less than the minimum wage.

More than one in 10 workers nationwide earning at or below the minimum wage works in Texas.

The fallacies of his argument don’t end there. Even on Perry’s preferred metric for comparison - taxes - businesses fare quite well in Maryland. According to the Anderson Economic Group, Maryland’s businesses have the seventh-lowest business tax burden, while Texas ranks 17th.

Additionally, both established firms and new investments do well in Maryland.

The conservative Tax Foundation ranks Maryland as having the eighth lowest tax burden on mature firms, while Texas ranks 12th. Ernst and Young ranks Maryland as having the 12th lowest tax burden on new investment; Texas has the 20th lowest burden.

My administration has made Maryland a better place to do business by focusing on middleclass and sustainable jobs.

(See MODEL on page seven)

Stealing control of the internet from its users Is the Internet on life support?

We recently learned that U.S. and British intelligence agencies have broken the back of digital encryption - the coded technology hundreds of millions of Internet users rely on to keep their communications private.

In addition, “Der Spiegel” reported that the NSA and its British counterpart are also hacking into smartphones to monitor our daily lives in ways that wouldn’t have been possible before the age of the iPhone.

This news, just the latest revelations from the files of Edward Snowden, only heighten our sense that we can no longer assume anything we say or do online is secure.

But that’s not all. In a case that was heard in a U.S. fed-

behind the headlines by Tim Karr

eral appeals court in September, telecommunications colossus Verizon is arguing that it has the First Amendment right to block and censor Internet users.

(That’s right. Verizon is claiming that, as a corporation, it has the free speech right to silence the online expression of everybody else.)

It’s come to this. Government and corporate forces have joined to chip away at two pillars of the open Internet: the control of our personal data and our right to connect and communicate without censorship or interference.

A series of reports coordinated among the Guardian, the New York Times and ProPublica revealed that the NSA and its British counterpart have secretly unlocked encryption technologies used by popular online services, including Google, Facebook and Microsoft.

Using National Security Letters and other secret court orders, intelligence agencies can wedge their way onto the large telecommunications networks that move most of the world’s Internet traffic. Getting access to the data is only half the challenge. To read and sort these communications, the NSA works with a lesser-known assortment of security vendors that filter through mountains of data, target references and patterns of interest and crack codes

designed to safeguard user identity and content.

Many of the companies that ply this trade are only now being exposed through “Spyfiles,” collaboration among WikiLeaks, Corporate Watch and Privacy International designed to shed light on the multibillion-dollar industry. According to the latest documents provided by Edward Snowden, U.S. intelligence agencies alone spend $250 million each year to use these companies’ commercial security products for mass surveillance.

Without safeguards that protect users from surveillance and censorship, the Internet’s DNA will change in ways that no longer foster openness, free expression and innovation. It’s part of a sprawling complex of companies, lobbyists and govern-

ment officials seeking to rewire the Internet in ways that wrest control over content away from Internet users.

While motivations may differ, the result is the same: a communications network that works against the Interests of many for the benefit of the few.

The Internet wasn’t meant to be like this. Bruce Schneier, an encryption fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, writes that the NSA and the companies it works with are “undermining the very fabric of the Internet.”

Telecommunications companies are doing their part by giving spy agencies access to our data. They’re also bankrolling a multimillion-dollar lobbying effort to destroy Net Neutrality (See INTERNET on page six)

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legislative and electoral methods.

Obama doesn’t just want to get past this crisis.

He wants to win. And win he must, because victory is essential to re-establishing constitutional governance, a phrase that the tea party ought to understand.

Obama didn’t need to “poll-test” his position because the poll that matters, the 2012 election, showed that the tea party hit its peak long ago, in the summer of 2011, when it seemed to have the president on the defensive.

The slowly building revolt among Republicans against the tea party shutdown is one sign of how quickly the hard-right’s influence is fading. So is the very language they are being required to speak.

Having talked incessantly about how useless and destructive government can be, House Republicans are now testifying to their reverence for what government does for veterans, health research, sick children and lovers of national parks, especially war memorials.

Appreciation for government rises when it’s no longer there. By pushing their ideology to its obvious conclusion, members of the Cruz-Paul right forced everyone else to race the other way.

Yes, the tea party will still have its Washingtonbased groups that raise money by bashing Washington, ginning up the faithful and threatening the less ideologically pure with primary challenges. But no Republican and no attentive citizen of any stripe will forget the mess these right-wing geniuses have left in their wake.

We now know that the tea party is primarily about postures aimed at undercutting sensible governance and premised on the delusion that Obama’s election victories were meaningless. Its leaders abandon these postures as soon as their adversaries stand strong and the poll-testers report their approach is failing.

This will give pause to anyone ever again tempted to follow them into a cul-de-sac.

Republicans shut down prefrontal cortex

by Andy Borowitz

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) - In an escalation of the stalemate gripping Washington, House Republicans voted today to shut down the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that controls reasoning and impulses.

The resolution, which passed with heavy Tea Party support, calls for a partial shutdown of the brain, leaving the medulla and cerebellum, sometimes referred to as the “reptilian brain,” up and running.

The Tea Party caucus cheered the passage of the

bill, which was sponsored

by Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who called the measure “long overdue.”

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) offered no timetable for restarting the prefrontal cortex, telling reporters, “It will most certainly remain shut

down during any negotiations with the President.

That’s the only leverage we have.”

Rep. Bachmann agreed: “The President can go ahead and put a gun to our heads. There’s nothing there.”

While the GOP’s decision to shut down the

prefrontal cortex rattled Wall Street, the neuroscientist Davis Logsdon said it should be seen as little more than a symbolic vote, noting, “It’s actually been shut down since the 2008 election.”

Andy Borowitz is a comedian and author

Crop insurance is good Hostage for the community, too

It is easy to make cuts in government programs that do not affect us as individuals directly. When dollars spent on programs do not appear to correlate directly to our well-being or our personal welfare it is easy to determine that they are an unnecessary expense.

Such appears to be the case when it comes to crop insurance. There are several misconceptions about crop insurance.

One of the greatest being the thought that crop insurance is a program designed for farmers only.

It is true that some farmers do rely on crop insurance, but usually not for the reasons pointed out by those that oppose crop insurance. Farmers, as well as landowners who do not farm, usually do much better financially when they do not collect a loss through crop insurance because the actual crop is more valuable.

editor’s mail As pointed out earlier, there is a misconception about crop insurance and it needs to be corrected.

Crop insurance should be looked upon as more of a rural sustainability program. Crop insurance can help communities stay in business.

In our rural areas that rely on agriculture as a lifeline it is paramount to maintain a viable crop insurance program. It is essential because, in a bad year when crops do not do well, crop insurance not only helps farmers stay in business it does enable them to pay their bills and thus merchants and vendors can remain whole.

With most crop insurance plans it is not equitable to do much more than that.

Although farmers and landowners pay about 40 percent of the insurance premium for 70 to 75

percent coverage of their crop it is not affordable to ensure a higher percentage of the crop. When there is a loss and bills are paid, because the plans usually cover 70 percent, the farmer is the entity that does not get paid. But they are able to stay in business.

By insuring a crop the farmer and landowner is basically purchasing insurance for the whole rural community and are basically paying a portion of the premium to help keep them whole.

If we, as a country, are concerned about rural communities we actually need to enhance the crop insurance program and make it more affordable in order to help maintain our rural communities.

Since crop insurance is essential, think of crop insurance as community viability insurance.

Ron Suppes Dighton

We can’t play political games with the economy

If you’re not angry, you should be.

The disfunction in Congress has reached an all-time high as legislators failed to pass a spending bill to keep the government open. Federal employees numbering near one million are being furloughed without pay as services across the country begin to shut down.

The disagreement over passage of the spending bill is tied directly to House Republicans who insist any new spending include provisions to either defund, derail or deE.J. Dionne, Jr., is a politi- lay Obamacare. Senate cal commentator and longtime op-ed columnist for the Democrats are just as insistent that it doesn’t.

Washington Post

Internet - the one rule that prohibits Internet service providers from blocking or degrading our ability to connect to one another, share information and use the online services of our choosing.

If Verizon wins its case in Washington, ISPs will be able to prioritize certain online content while degrading user access to sites and services that the big companies don’t like.

It’s a business that puts at risk the most integral function of the World Wide Web. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the Web’s pioneer, saw the network

The health care law isn’t directly tied to funding the government, but is being used as a bargaining chip. The fact of the matter is that with all the political wrangling, including the shutdown, Obamacare will most likely be unaffected.

Most of the money for the Affordable Care Act comes from new taxes and fees, as well as from cost cuts to other programs.

Political stunts like this are unacceptable.

The American people deserve better. This is not a, “We’re sorry for the inconvenience” moment.

This should never happen.

Our Senators and Representatives need to be ac-

countable; their feet held to fire. Let them know now how you feel and don’t forget stunts like this the next time you cast a vote at the ballot box.

How much damage will this do to a still recovering economy and the families directly affected by the shutdown? Only time will tell.

If there is one bright spot, unintentional of course. At least fewer guns will be on the street.

The office that issues permits is now shut down . . . gun control . . . bet the Tea Party Republicans didn’t see that one coming.

Larry Caldwell Scott City

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as a “blank canvas” - upon which anyone could contribute, communicate and innovate without permission.

This networking principle has far-reaching political implications, favoring systems that are more decentralized and democratic.

Without safeguards that protect users from surveillance and censorship, the Internet’s DNA will change in ways that no longer foster openness, free expression and innovation.

The fight for these policies is being led by a diverse and bipartisan

alliance of civil liberties and communicationsrights organizations, including the ACLU, EFF, Free Press and Public Knowledge.

We’re working to stop bad laws, amend others and implement new policies that put Internet users first.

A grassroots movement is fueling this fight. If you haven’t joined us yet, now’s the time to step up and save the Internet.

As the Campaign Director for Free Press and SavetheInternet.com, Tim Karr oversees campaigns on public broadcasting and noncommercial media

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“What’s the matter with you two? It’s only the government,” says Cruz.

“Quit treating it with kid gloves.”

“Easy for you to say,” says Boehner. “You never cared for it anyway, but I do have a soft spot for it after all these years.”

“Okay, we’ll scale back our demands,” Paul says. “We’ll only ask that Obama eliminate all safety net benefits, that he doesn’t raise taxes and we’ll even settle for having two senators from each state. If that isn’t a compromise, I don’t know what is.”

“But we keep the demand for KU football,” says Huelskamp.

The demands in the ransom note are rejected, just as they are in ransom notes that are sent over the next seven days. In the meantime, an increasingly unruly government is taking a toll on the hostage takers.

“I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m not playing one more game with that monster. I still can’t find two of my teeth and I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to walk again without a limp,” says Boehner.

“I’ve heard all the whining I want to hear,” yells Cruz. “Okay, let’s tell Obama this is our final

Ditch Others, such as Virginia’s Scott Rigell and Frank Wolf, come from districts with large numbers of federal employees, who almost surely are not entranced by the tea party’s anti-government jihad.

Leaving Republican ranks would not mean joining the Democrats.

The ideological gap between GOP dissidents and the Democratic Party is huge. But the centerright dissidents are being willfully blind if they can’t see that the ideological gap between them and the tea-party-dominated GOP is also vast.

If they truly believe that government by hostage-taking is no way to run a democracy, they shouldn’t have too much trouble defending their defection. They could argue that their party has been transformed into a

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note. Either he eliminates Obamacare completely or he’ll never see the government alive again.”

The following day, the group retrieves a note at the dropoff site and anxiously opens it as they meet in the shack.

“What does it say?” asks Paul.

“Obama says that he’ll take the government back no matter what condition it’s in and that he won’t prosecute any of us. He says that we can even continue serving in Congress.”

“I say take the deal,” pleads a worn and frazzled Boehner.

“Is that it?” says a dejected Cruz.

“The note also demands that we have a capital letter ‘I’ tattooed on our foreheads to let everyone know that we’re idiots.”

“But then everyone will know that we were the kidnappers,” says Paul.

“They already know, you idiot,” McConnell says. “This is the best deal we’re going to get.”

“But what about KU and the national championship?” asks Huelskamp.

“When we tattoo his ‘I’ let’s make it bigger than the rest,” says Boehner.

“He’s earned it.”

Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com

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closed sect that can never win a national majority, or that it has descended into a hysteria that has run roughshod over such conservative values as prudence and balance, not to mention a modicum of strategic sense.

They could dub themselves Independent Republicans or True Republicans. They could tell their constituents that they put the interests of the nation above those of their party. If that’s not a winning argument in a swing district, Lord only knows what is.

Of course, these dissident Republicans could always stay and fight. But by staying and not fighting - their current course of inaction - they abet the very tea party takeover they dread.

Harold Meyerson is a political and domestic affairs columnist for the Washington Post

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Model In addition to being No. 1 in median income, the median wage for hourly workers in Maryland is $14.17 vs $12.00 in Texas, which lags the national median of $12.80. And while Texas leads the nation in minimum-wage workers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ranks Maryland first in the nation in innovation and entrepreneurship, second in concentration of science, technology, engineering

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and math jobs and third for its “talent pipeline.”

How did we make this possible? By investing in our schools, which Education Week has ranked No. 1 in the nation since 2007. Maryland did more than any other state to hold down rising college tuition costs.

We modernized infrastructure and invested in growing sectors such as biotechnology and life science, green technology

and clean energy, aerospace and advanced manufacturing.

These investments didn’t come without a price. First, my administration cut more in state spending than any governor in Maryland history.

We also had to ask the wealthiest Marylanders to pay a bit more by making income taxes progressive for the first time in state history.

This is the issue facing our nation. Will we make the tougher and better choices that fuel modern economies - investing in education, innovation and infrastructure - and create jobs along the way?

Or will we sacrifice these critical investments with the false promise of tax cuts and trickle-down economics that make for slick ads?

Those who believe the latter is preferable should

be asked tough questions: How much less education do we think would be good for our children?

How much less public safety would be good for our cities? How many fewer college degrees would be good for our nation?

The United States is the world’s greatest job-creating, opportunity-expanding democracy. But like a garden, we must tend to it if we expect it to yield

results in the future. We must resist those who say we will be the first generation of Americans to give our children a country of less.

Instead, we must commit, together, to the urgent work of creating more jobs and more opportunity. We can do that only by making more - not fewer investments in the future.

Martin O’Malley is the a Democrat governor of Maryland

Meds answer any questions you might have.

Remember, OTC medications are still medications that can be very dangerous and highly toxic if misused.

When using OTC medications, read the label. From that you will know if it is the correct medication to treat your symptoms. You will also understand the dosage and become aware of any warning that might apply to you. Look for an OTC

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medicine that will treat only the symptoms that you have.

You should not mix and match medications.

Instead, purchase one that will treat all or the majority of your symptoms.

Know what active ingredients are in your medications. An active ingredient is the chemical compound in the medicine that works with your body to bring relief to your symptoms.

Many OTC pain relievers commonly contain one or more of four different active pain relief ingredients. Often, a multisymptom medicine like flu and cold medicine will also include the same active ingredient as a pain reliever, so don’t overdose yourself.

If you use multiple OTC medications, make sure that you are not duplicating medicines with the same ingredients.

Know what you should or

shouldn’t do while taking a medication (i.e., avoid alcohol with any medication).

Take the medicine exactly as stated on the label. If you are dosing a child, know the child’s weight so that you can medicate correctly. Taking too much of a nonprescription medicine or taking it to often can be very harmful, especially to a small child.

Don’t combine OTC drugs and prescribed

drugs without talking to your doctor. The medications could have an adverse reaction or they could interfere with each others effectiveness.

If you are a person that has to take medication daily, write the medication down along with dosage. Include all prescribed medications as well as OTC and dietary supplements.

Never use OTC medicines after their expiration date. They lose their

effectiveness and they might not be beneficial to you.

It is up to each of us to take responsibility for our medications. We need to educate ourselves of their effectiveness and benefits.

We also need to understand that every medication has risks as well as benefits and that we need to respect all medications including both prescriptions and over the counter types at all times.

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CASA, Family Crisis Services receive grants

The Kansas Attorney General’s office has awarded two local agencies grants totaling $72,500 for victims service programs.

Family Crisis Services was awarded $20,000 to provide assistance, support and safety to residents residing in the shelter. The organization was also awarded $38,500 to provide assistance, support and safety to survi-

vors residing in the shelter.

Spirit of the Plains CASA was awarded $14,000 to provide advocacy services to child victims of abuse and neglect within the 25th Judicial District through a fulltime volunteer coordinator who oversees cases and supervises volunteer advocates assigned to each child.

The 25th Judicial District includes Finney,

Scott, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny and Wichita counties.

“The work of our victims service organizations throughout the state ensures that services are available to crime victims,” said Attorney General Derek Schmidt.

The grants were awarded from the State Crime Victims Assistance Fund, the Protection from Abuse Fund and the State Crime Victims Assistance Fund

for Child Abuse and Neglect.

The victim services grant programs are funded by state general fund, marriage license fees, district court fines, penalties and forfeitures, county court costs and municipal court assessments.

This year, the Attorney General’s Office awarded more than $2 million in grants to local and state crime victim assistance organizations.

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Promoting SC businesses an easy sell for Venters

Brad Venters has gone from selling commercial spots for radio to selling the benefits of having a business in Scott City.

He prefers the latter.

“My heart wasn’t into selling commercial spots,” says Venters, who has been hired as the new Chamber of Commerce director. “But helping my community is something I could feel passionate about.”

Venters, a Dighton native, had originally moved to Scott City when he became director of the Scott Recreation Commission.

The first order for Venters is to assist in the Chamber of Commerce/ Scott County Development Committee transition from two organizations under one director into two separate entities.

Katie Eisenhour, who had been director of both organizations is now with ecodevo only.

During Eisenhour’s nearly five years as Cham-

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which is located on the adjoining property owned

by Don Crawford.

Initially, Crawford was reluctant to allow the city to lay a cement strip on his land that would take water away from the building.

However, Crawford has decided to put a concrete drive on the south side of his house that would butt up against the SRC building.

The city will assist with $2,516 of the concrete cost.

“This is the closest thing we can come to a permanent fix and stop the leaks,” says Public Works Director Mike Todd.

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ber director the membership climbed from just over 50 to 185.

“That’s pretty impressive,” Venters notes. “I would guess that represents probably 85 percent of the businesses in Scott City - maybe more. We’ll continue to look for ways to expand our membership, but the main focus is to retain those members we already have.”

The best way to accomplish that is by helping businesses see value in being a Chamber member.

One program that Venters hopes to have in place

by January 1 is a centralized hiring pool with people who are seeking employment stopping at the Chamber office to fill out job applications. These will be broken into employment categories such as restaurants, feedlot industry, etc., with businesses able to access this site and check the list of applicants.

“This way people don’t

Chamber of Commerce Director Brad Venters

have to stop at four or five different businesses to fill out job applications,” says Venters. “It’s a convenience for them and the employers.”

With the Affordable Care Act getting ready to take effect, Venters acknowledges that businesses and even individuals have a lot of questions about how it will affect them and what they are required to do.

“We don’t want to get into the pros or cons of the health care law, but we would like to provide

educational programs that help businesses prepare for the changes that are coming,” he says.

Venters would also like to start a “seat at the table” once a month when a Scott City councilman or Scott County commissioner can sit with the Chamber board and not only get updated on Chamber activities but hear concerns and issues from the members.

“There are things that we hear from our members that we can pass along,” Venters explains.

Perhaps the most im-

mediate change that people will notice is that the Chamber director’s sole responsibility will be to serve the members. No longer is the director also splitting time as the ecodevo director.

“It was expecting a lot to have one person doing two full-time jobs,” Venters says. “I’m going to be devoted just to Chamber duties.”

Venters will also be the Chamber’s only full-time employee with no plans by the board to hire an assistant director.

Bottom line, says Venters, is that Scott City is a community that has shown it wants to be progressive.

“There are very few communities in Western Kansas that have had the leadership we’ve seen in Scott City and the people who are willing to get things done,” he points out. “As a Chamber, we want to continue making that happen. We want to help create an environment in our town that makes businesses want to come here.”

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Mid-semester USD 466 Lunch Menu courses to Week of October 14-18 Breakfast begin at GCCC

Enrollment for daytime and evening classes for the second fall session is now open at Garden City Community College.

The second session classes, which are eight weeks long, will begin Monday, Oct. 21.

Students can enroll at the GCCC Student and Community Services Center between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday A traveling exhibit, “Poverty: A-Z”, is currently on display through the end through Friday. of October at the Scott County Library. The exhibit, sponsored by the Scott A full courses list may County Arts Council, has been touring communities in Kansas and Colorado for the past three years. It includes true stories as told to volunteers be viewed at www.gcccks. and staff members with the Kansas Community Action Clients. In addition edu, under “Search for to the large panels there are also two listening stations. (Record Photo) Classes.”

For more information call the admissions office (276-9608) or the main Ft. Hays State Univer“Perhaps most impor- of new freshmen from campus line (276-7611). sity set another all-time tant as an indicator of Colorado in the history of headcount record on the future enrollments, the FHSU, up to 122 from 78 official 20th day of the fall number of on-campus a year ago; •Head count in the semester, including the freshmen grew by 30, up to 962,” said Dr. Edward Virtual College is 5,380 biggest class of incoming on-campus freshmen in H. Hammond, FHSU students. Last fall it was president.

4,975 students. the school’s history.

The Chronicle of In 2008, the head count All the Kansas Board Higher Education, the for new freshmen was just of Regents universities nation’s leading source release their enrollment 767.”

President Hammond of news about colleges numbers when the last also cited some other sig- and universities, reported of the schools reaches its nificant areas of growth. that FHSU was the third20th day. This provides a He noted that overall fastest growing university basis for comparison of Hispanic enrollment grew in the United States from enrollments from year to to 869 students this fall, 2001-11. From an enrollyear. compared to 744 in 2012, ment of 5,626 in fall 2001, The FHSU head count which is an increase of FHSU grew to 12,802 in is 13,441, a one percent 16.8 percent. fall 2011, which was an increase from a year ago.

Graduate school enroll- increase of 127.6 percent.

That is 131 students ment is 2,008 this fall, FHSU delivers colmore than last fall and the compared to 1,853 a year lege courses through three largest enrollment in the ago. Of those, 141 are in modalities - to students history of the university. the Virtual College. on the Hays campus, to On-campus head count Other areas of inter- students in the Virtual this fall is 4,767 students, est in the fall enrollment College and to students up slightly from last numbers include: at partner universities in year’s 4,746.

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Monday: No school.

Tuesday: Whole grain waffles, pineapple chunks, juice.

Wednesday: Breakfast pizza, tropical fruit, juice.

Thursday: Excellent egg taco and salsa, graham crackers, grapes, juice.

Friday: Whole grain muffin, fresh banana, juice.

Lunch Monday: No school.

Tuesday: Mighty rib on a bun, *pork tenderloin sandwich, sweet potato puffs, winter blend, banana.

Wednesday: Macaroni and cheese, *fish sticks, chicken nuggets, broccoli, cherry crisp and whip.

Thursday: Sanchos and cheese, *burrito, refried beans, cantaloupe, cookie.

Friday: Cheeseburger macaroni, *egg roll, creamy potatoes, green beans, fruit salad. *Second choice for SCMS and SCHS

Another record enrollment at FHSU

School Calendar Fri., Oct. 11: SCES third grade ship building; SCES individual pictures; SCHS in regional tennis at McPherson; SCHS football vs Goodland (H), 7:30 p.m.

Sat., Oct. 12: SCHS in regional tennis at McPherson; 7th/8th grade volleyball in GWAC tournament at Holcomb; SCHS varsity volleyball tournament, 9:00 a.m.; SCHS crosscountry at Lakin, 10:00 a.m.

Mon., Oct. 14: District in-service. No school; SCHS JV football at Goodland, 5:30 p.m.; BOE meeting, 7:00 p.m.

Tues., Oct. 15: Freshman volleyball quad at Dodge City.

Thurs., Oct. 17: SCHS site council meeting, 7:00 a.m.; 7th grade football vs Goodland (H), 4:00 p.m.; 8th grade football vs Goodland (H), 5:30 p.m.

Fri., Oct. 18: End of the first nine weeks; sophomores order class rings; SCHS football vs Hoisington (T), 7:00 p.m.

Sat., Oct. 19: SCHS invitational debate tournament, 8:00 a.m.

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USD 466 Board of Education Agenda Mon., October 14 • 7:00 p.m.

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Scott County Commission Agenda Tues., October 15 County Courthouse

2:00 p.m.

Report from The Buckley Group on senior housing Scott Buckley and Katie Eisenhour

3:00 p.m.

•Recognition of persons/delegations present 1) High Plains Co-op - Eric Erven 2) NW Ks. Tech. College - Mark Davis 3) Administrative reports

County business Approve accounts payable/minutes Approve tax change orders Approve K-Camp interlocal agreement Consider maintenance contract for phone system

3:30 p.m.

•Financials 1) Bills payable

Discuss adding a driver’s license examiner • Treasurer Lark Speer

4:00 p.m.

Public Works Director Richard Cramer

5:00 p.m.

Other county business

•Awards and recognition •Comments from public •Executive session

•Consent agenda 1) Approve previous minutes 2) Resignations 3) Recommendations for hire

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

•Consider items pulled from consent agenda New business 1) Long-range planning 2) Review of mission statement •Additions, if any

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., Oct. 10, 2013; last published Thurs., Oct. 24, 2013.)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS

•Adjournment

Public Notice (First published in the Scott County Record, Thurs., Oct. 3, 2013; last published Thurs., Oct. 17, 2013)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF NADINE MARIE GIES a/k/a NEVA NADINE GIES, deceased, Case No. 2013-PR-20 NOTICE TO CREDITORS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that on September 24, 2013, a Petition for Probate of Will and Issuance of Letters Testamentary was filed in this court by Kathleen Hoeme and Elizabeth Hess, heirs, devisees, legatees, and Co-

Public (First published in The Scott County Record on Thurs., Oct. 10, 2013; last published Thurs., Oct. 24, 2013)t3 BEFORE THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS NOTICE OF FILING APPLICATION RE: Wilton Petroleum, Inc. - Application for a permit to authorize the enhanced disposal of saltwater into the Scott No. 1 Lease, located in Scott County, Kansas.

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

You, and each of you, are hereby notified that Wilton Petroleum, Inc. has filed an application to commence the disposal of saltwater into the Cedar Hills formation at the Scott No. 1 Lease, located in the NW NW SW, 36-17S31W, 2310 feet from South Section Line, 4950 feet from East Section Line, all within the SW/4 of 36-17S-31W,

Executors named in the Last Will and Testament of Nadine Marie Gies, deceased.

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

Kathleen Hoeme Elizabeth Hess WALLACE, BRANTLEY & SHIRLEY Public Notice 325 Main - P.O. Box 605 Scott City, Kansas 67871 (First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., Oct. 3, Attorney for Petitioner 2013; last published Thurs., Oct. 17, 2013)3t 2012 DELINQUENT PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX Notice UNCOLLECTED TAX WARRANTS FROM SCOTT COUNTY SHERIFF Scott County, Kansas, with OCTOBER 1, 2013 a maximum operating pressure of 100 pslg and a maxi- Warrant Name Address Amount Marc Kessler 11540 S. Navajo Road mum injection rate of 3,000 35 Scott City, Ks. 67871 351.35 bbls per day.

Any persons who object Daniel Lewis PO Box 1693 to or protest this applica- 57 Fairplay, Colo. 80440 16.85 tion shall be required to file their objections or protest Joseph E. Maine 101 N. Venison Road with the Conservation Divi- 59 Scott City, Ks. 67871 69.73 sion of the State Corporation Commission of the State of Kenneth/Donita Moore 22 W. 56th St., Suite 107 Kansas within thirty (30) days 66 Kearney, Nebr. 68847 394.12 from the date of this publication. These protests shall be 67 Mary Alice Moore 1106 Glenn Street filed pursuant to CommisScott City, Ks. 67871 245.84 sion regulations and must state specific reasons why 68 Allen Morse 2040 E. Road 200 granting the application may Scott City, Ks. 67871 16.85 cause waste, violate correlative rights or pollute the nat- 72 Kurt Norman PO Box 421 ural resources of the State of Scott City, Ks. 67871 338.63 Kansas.

All persons interested or 78 Pitney Bowes Global PO Box 5151 concerned shall take notice Financial Services Shelton, Ct. 06484-9810 243.55 of the foregoing and shall Pitney Bowes Global PO Box 5151 govern themselves accord- 79 Financial Services Shelton, Ct. 06484-9810 14.93 ingly.

Wilton Petroleum, Inc. 80 Pitney Bowes Global PO Box 5151 Bernard Rundstrom, V.P. Financial Services Shelton, Ct. 06484-9810 14.49 PO Box 391 Canton, Kansas 67428

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record on Thurs., Oct. 10, 2013)t1 IN THE MATTER OF THE 2013 REVISED BUDGET AND THE 2014 REVISED BUDGET FOR THE WESTERN KANSAS GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT NO. 1 OF LANE, SCOTT, WICHITA, GREELEY AND WALLACE COUNTIES, KANSAS NOTICE OF HEARING Notice is hereby given pursuant to K.S.A. 82a-1030 that: WHEREAS, a revised budget for 2013 and a revised yearly budget for 2014 has been duly drafted and filed on behalf of the above captioned district.

WHEREAS, a copy of said budgets are available for public inspection in the

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF NEVA MERLE GRUVER, deceased Case No. 2013-PR-07 NOTICE OF HEARING THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed in this Court by Gene William Gruver, duly appointed, qualified and acting executor of the Estate of Neva Merle Gruver, deceased, praying that his acts be approved; that the Will be construed and the Estate be assigned to the persons entitled thereto; that fees and expenses be allowed; that the costs

be determined and ordered paid; that the administration of the Estate be closed; that the Executor be discharged and that he be released from further liability.

You are required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 6th day of November, 2013, at 10:30 o’clock a.m., of said day, in said Court, in the City of Scott City, in Scott County, Kansas, at which time and place said cause will be heard. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

Gene William Gruver, Executor WALLACE, BRANTLEY & SHIRLEY 325 Main - P. O. Box 605 Scott City, Kansas 67871 (620) 872-2161 Attorneys for Petitioner

office of the secretary of said district at 906 W. 5th, Scott City, Kansas.

NOW THEREFORE, a public hearing will be held on the 19th day of November, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. (CDT) at the district office in Scott City, Kansas at 906 W. 5th, for the purpose of presentation of proposed changes, modifying and adopting a final draft of said budget. Any persons desiring to be heard shall file in duplicate with the office five days prior to said date of hearing a written statement of their intent to appear at said hearing and the substance of the views they wish to express.

Greg Graff, President Board of Directors Western Kansas Groundwater Management District No. 1

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Maria Rodriguez

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Craig Stotts

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David Suri

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Public Notice (Published in The Scott County Record on Thurs., Oct. 10, 2013)1t RESOLUTION NO. 2013-02 WHEREAS, a petition has been filed with the City Clerk of the City of Scott City, Kansas, (hereinafter referred to as the “City”) requesting that certain improvements be made in and by the City; WHEREAS, said Petition has set forth: (a) The general nature of the proposed improvements; (b) The estimated or probable cost of the improvements; (c) The extent of the proposed improvement district to be assessed; (d) The proposed method of assessment; (e) The proposed apportionment of cost, if any, between the improvement district and the City at-large; and (f) the petitioner’s request that the proposed improvements be made by the City without the requirement of any notice or hearing as otherwise required by law; and WHEREAS, said petition is, as signed, sufficient as a matter of law; and WHEREAS, the Governing Body of the City of Scott City, Kansas, has the authority when it is so requested by the petitioners to determine the advisability of constructing street improvements without a public hearing pursuant to K.S.A. 12-6a04; and WHEREAS, the Governing Body has determined it to be necessary to construct street improvements to serve the benefit district hereinafter described.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF SCOTT CITY, KANSAS, THAT: Section 1. The Governing Body hereby finds and deter¬mines that the following improvement project is advisable: (a) The general nature of the proposed improvement is to curb, gutter and hard surface pave, (1) Yucca Street from its intersection with the east edge of Oak Street, thence east approximately 349.5 feet to its intersection with the east edge of the north/south alley in Block 7, Eastridge Subdivision; (2) Maple Street from its intersection with Yucca Street, thence south approximately 610 feet to its intersection with Seventh Street; and (3) Seventh Street from its intersection with the east edge of Oak Street, thence east approximately 229.5 feet to is intersection with the east edge of Maple Street, together with all things necessary and incidental thereto; (b) The estimated or probable cost of such im-

provement is: $250,000; (c) The boundary or extent of the proposed improvement district shall be: Lots nine (9) through eighteen (18), inclusive, Block four (4) and Lots one (1) through eight (8), inclusive, Block seven (7); all in the Eastridge Subdivision to Scott City, Scott County, Kansas; (d) The proposed method of assessment is equally per square foot; and (e) The apportionment of cost between the improvement district and the City at large shall be seventy-one percent (71%) to be assessed against the improvement district and twenty-nine percent (29%) to be paid by the City at large.

Section 2. That said improvements are hereby found advisable and authorized and ordered to be made in the manner provided by Article 6a, Chapter 12, of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, as amended.

Section 3. That the City both reasonably expects and intends to finance the costs of said improvements from the proceeds of general obligation bonds of the City. The City does hereby express its official intent to reimburse any such capital expenditures made or obligations incurred by it on or after the date which is 60 days before the date of this Resolution from the proceeds of such bonds in the estimated maximum principal amount of $250,000. The City will issue such bonds for such purposes and make the reimbursements within eighteen (18) months after the date the expenditure to be reimbursed was paid or, if later, eighteen (18) months after the date on which the property resulting from the expenditure was placed in service. Provided, that, in any event, the City must make the reimbursement allocation within three (3) years after the date the expenditure was paid.

Section 4. That this Resolution as the expression of the governing body’s official intent regarding the matters described herein will be available for public inspection in the City Clerk’s office at City Hall during regular business hours of the City.

Section 5. That this Resolution shall take effect from and after its passage and publication in the official city newspaper, as provided by law.

IT IS SO RESOLVED. ADOPTED this 7th day of January, 2013.

Dan Goodman, Mayor Scott City, Kansas ATTEST: Brenda K. Davis, City Clerk City of Scott City, Kansas (SEAL)

Public Notice (Published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., Oct. 10, 2013)1t LANE-SCOTT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC. STATEMENT OF NON-DISCRIMINATION Lane-Scott Electric Cooperative, Inc. has filed with the Federal Government a Compliance Assurance in which it assures the Rural Utilities Service that it will comply fully with all requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Age Discrimination act of 1975 and the Rules and Regulations of the Department of Agriculture issued thereunder, to the end that no person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be otherwise subjected to discrimination in the conduct of its program and the operation of its facilities.

Under this assurance, this organization is committed not to discriminate against any person on the grounds of race, color or national origin in its policies and practices relating to applications for service or any other policies and practices relating to treatment of beneficiaries and participants including rates, conditions and extension of service, use of any of its facilities, attendance at and participation in any meetings of beneficiaries and participants or the exercise of any rights of such beneficiaries and participants in the conduct of the operations of this organization.

Any person who believes himself, or any specific class of individuals, to be subjected by this organization to discrimination prohibited by Title VI of the Act and the Rules and Regulations issued thereunder may, by himself or a representative, file with the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 20250 or the Rural Utilities Service, Washington, D.C. 20250 or this organization, or all, a written complaint.

Such complaint must be filed not later than 180 days after the alleged discrimination, or by such later date to which the Secretary of Agriculture or the Rural Utilities Service extends the time for filing. Identity of complainants will be kept confidential to the extent necessary to carry out the purpose of the Rules and Regulations.

Scott Co. LEC Report Scott City Police Department Oct. 4: The Scott Co-op reported a burglary and criminal damage to property at its Shallow Water site on Oct. 2.

Oct. 5: Ryan Jenkins was arrested for possession of a stimulant and use/possession of drug paraphernalia.

He was transported to the LEC. Oct. 5: Timothy Altum, 25, and Angela Maggard, 36, were arrested for possession of and use of narcotic drugs and for intent to distribute. They were transported to the LEC. Oct. 7: Josh Becker was backing out of an angled parking stall when he struck a car parked next to him that is owned by Wyatt Eitel.

County Commission September 3, 2013 Scott County Commissioners met in a regular meeting with the following present: Chairman James Minnix, Commissioners Jerry Buxton and Gary Skibbe and County Clerk Pam Faurot.

•The Commission and County Attorney Rebecca Faurot discussed the proposed Donation Agreement prepared by CPV Keystone Renewable Energy Company.

CPV’s proposal is to pay the County $2,500 per megawatt, per year with the funds distributed equally to Scott County entities. Rebecca felt the phrase “power purchase agreement” should be further defined and Commissioner Minnix wanted to research the amount per megawatt as compared to other counties.

•Approval was given for using the remaining Rural Opportunity Zone funds in an amount of $1,013.91 for applicant Dawn Fritz.

•It was agreed to be a gold sponsor of the annual Scott County Wellness Fair in the amount of $1,000.

The commission also agreed to cover all expenses for any testing or immunizations for county employees participating in the fair.

•James Minnix reported that he had attended the latest Park Lane Nursing Home board meeting and they discussed changing some of the independent living apartments to assisted living apartments.

Commissioners discussed this option for Park Lane.

•Approval was given to the following road agreements: H&B Petroleum Corporation: a tank access road on S. Venison Road at Sec 23, T19s and Range 31W. Lario Oil & Gas Company: an underground electric line in the county right-of-way and under Beaver Road (bored) at Sec 21, T18S, R34W and Sec 20, T18S and R34W. Eagle Creek Corporation: a tank access road on Arapaho at S17, T17S and R34W. York Joint Venture Co.: a water line in the road rightof-way on Road 290 at S2, T16S and R 31W. Palomino Petroleum, Inc.: a tank access road on Road 40 at Sec 16, T20, and R34.

FIML, Inc.: an electrical line bored under Road 140 at S19, T31W, R18S and S30, T31W and R18S. FIML, Inc.: an electrical line bored under Rodeo Road at S25, T32W, R18S and S30, T31W and R18S. •Public Works Director Richard Cramer reported that they were done crushing cement and asphalt at the landfill. They crushed 8,000 tons of cement at $8 a ton and 1,300 tons of asphalt at $7 a ton.

Dallas Savolt asked the county to build a road to an oil site on his property. The county already has a 60 foot right-of-way for the road and Cramer asked if it was okay to build the road. The commission gave its approval if the adjoining landowners agree a road can be built.

•Community Foundation Director Ryan Roberts informed the commission that the Recreation Committee will meet to begin discussing a recreation facility for Scott County.

Public Notice (Published in The Scott County Record on Thurs., Oct. 10, 2013)1t RESOLUTION NO. 2013-04 WHEREAS, a petition has been filed with the City Clerk of the City of Scott City, Kansas, (hereinafter referred to as the “City”) requesting that certain improvements be made in and by the City; WHEREAS, said Petition has set forth: (a) The general nature of the proposed improvements; (b) The estimated or probable cost of the improvements; (c) The extent of the proposed improvement district to be assessed; (d) The proposed method of assessment; (e) The proposed apportionment of cost, if any, between the improvement district and the City at large; and (f) The petitioner’s request that the proposed improvements be made by the City without the requirement of any notice or hearing as otherwise required by law; and WHEREAS, said petition is, as signed, sufficient as a matter of law; and WHEREAS, the Governing Body of the City of Scott City, Kansas, has the authority when it is so requested by the petitioners to determine the advisability of constructing street improvements without a public hearing pursuant to K.S.A. 12-6a04; and WHEREAS, the Governing Body has determined it to be necessary to construct street improvements to serve the benefit district hereinafter described.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF SCOTT CITY, KANSAS, THAT: Section 1. The Governing Body hereby finds and determines that the following improvement project is advisable: (a) The general nature of the proposed improvement is to curb, gutter and hard surface pave (1) Curtis Street in its entirety; (2) Wheatridge Avenue in its entirety; and (3) Sagebrush Avenue in its entirety, together with all things necessary and incidental thereto; (b) The estimated or probable cost of such improvement is: $300,000; (c) The boundary or extent of the proposed improvement district shall be: Lots one (1) through fifteen (15), inclusive, Block one (1); Lots one (1) through

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five (5), inclusive, Block two (2); and Lots one (1) through seven (7), inclusive, Block three (3), all in the Prairie Meadows Addition to Scott City, Scott County, Kansas; (d) The proposed method of assessment is equally per square foot; and (e) The apportionment of cost between the improvement district and the City at large shall be one hundred percent (100%) to be assessed against the improvement district and zero percent (0%) to be paid by the City at large.

Section 2. That said improvements are hereby found advisable and authorized and ordered to be made in the manner provided by Article 6a, Chapter 12, of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, as amended.

Section 3. That the City both reasonably expects and intends to finance the costs of said improvements from the proceeds of general obligation bonds of the City. The City does hereby express its official intent to reimburse any such capital expenditures made or obligations incurred by it on or after the date which is 60 days before the date of this Resolution from the proceeds of such bonds in the estimated maximum principal amount of $300,000. The City will issue such bonds for such purposes and make the reimbursements within eighteen (18) months after the date the expenditure to be reimbursed was paid or, if later, eighteen (18) months after the date on which the property resulting from the expenditure was placed in service. Provided, that, in any event, the City must make the reimbursement allocation within three (3) years after the date the expenditure was paid.

Section 4. That this Resolution as the expression of the governing body’s official intent regarding the matters described herein will be available for public inspection in the City Clerk’s office at City Hall during regular business hours of the City.

Section 5. That this Resolution shall take effect from and after its passage and publication in the official city newspaper, as provided by law.

IT IS SO RESOLVED. ADOPTED this 4th day of March, 2013.

Dan Goodman, Mayor Scott City, Kansas ATTEST: Brenda K. Davis, City Clerk (SEAL)

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(First published in The Scott County Record on Thurs., Oct. 3, 2013; last published Thurs., Oct. 10, 2013)2t NOTICE OF ZONING HEARINGS Notice is hereby given that the Scott City Planning Commission will hold a special meeting on October 28, 2013, at 7:00 p.m., at the Scott City Council meeting room at City Hall, 221 West 5th Street, Scott City, Kansas, to consider the following agenda items: 1. Application for variance by Max L. Edwards to allow a garage to be constructed of a height greater than and size greater than allowed by ordinance on: South 53’ of Lot Four (4) and Lot Five (5), Block Eight (8), Ware Addition to Scott City, KS (1408 Elizabeth Street) 2. Application for amendment of the official zoning map

by Harold R. Burnett Trust to change the zoning from Ag-Agricultural District to I-1 General Industrial following described property to wit: A tract of approximately 5 acres square, located within the Southeast (SE) Quarter of Section Seventeen (17), Township Eighteen (18) South, Range Thirty-two (32) West of the 6th PM, North of the railroad along Navaho Road 3. Application for conditional use permit by Jack Hawkins to manufacture small arms ammunition on the following described property.

A 3-acre tract in the Northwest Quarter (NW/4) of Section Sixteen (16), Township Eighteen (18), Range Thirty-two (32), lying North of the railroad right of way.

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

Dated: October 2, 2013 Rodney Hogg, Chairman Scott City Planning Commission

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record on Thurs., Oct. 10, 2013; last published Thurs., Oct. 17, 2013)2t APPLICATION FOR ZONING VARIANCE Notice is hereby given that the Scott City Planning Commission will hold a special meeting on October 28, 2013, at 7:00 p.m., at the Scott City Council Meeting Room at City Hall, 221 West 5th Street, Scott City, Kansas, to consider the following agenda items: Application for variance by Owen Unruh to allow curb cuts wider and a rear yard fence taller than allowed by ordinance on: Lot Nine (9), Block Eighteen (18), Webster’s 2nd Addition to the City of Scott City, Scott County Kansas (1209 W. 9th).

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

Dated: October 8, 2013 /s/Rodney Hogg, Chairman Scott City Planning Commission

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KDHE to hold WIC checks for Nov., Dec. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment directed local WIC offices to limit the issuance of WIC checks to only those checks dated October 2013 and to withhold checks dated November and December until further notice.

KDHE is able to fund WIC purchases made with October checks. However, the agency cannot guarantee its backing of grocery purchases made with checks dated November and December because it cannot predict the end of the federal government shutdown.

KDHE will keep authorized WIC grocery stores informed regarding the current situation including specific instructions if restrictions are placed on the redemption of WIC checks.

Printed on each WIC check is a date labeled: “Do not use before this date.” WIC checks are valid for 30 days from that date.

“Limiting the issuance of WIC checks is the appropriate response at this time,” said Dave Thomason, Kansas WIC Director. “We are hopeful that the shutdown will be resolved before it impacts WIC past the month of October, but we must be fiscally responsible during this time of uncertainty.”

WIC provides nutrition education, breastfeeding support and supplemental, nutritious foods to low-income families.

The Kansas WIC program serves approximately 70,000 participants every month, including: •Pregnant women.

•Breastfeeding women through the first year of their infant’s life.

•Women who have had a baby within the past six months.

•Infants under the age of one.

•Children from age 1 to 5.

Insurance info meeting in GC The Kansas Insurance Department (KID) will conduct a health insurance information meeting for the public on Wed., Oct. 16, 7:00 p.m., at St. Catherine’s Hospital, Garden City.

Cindy Hermes, KID health care ombudsman and outreach director, will present information on how the new online insurance marketplace could affect Kansans and their health insurance.

She will show marketplace information available from a new KID website, www.insureks.org, and answer audience questions.

No signup or registration is required.

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Costliest 1% of patients account for 21% of spending Sandra Boodman Kaiser Health News

A 58-year-old Maryland woman breaks her ankle, develops a blood clot and, unable to find a doctor to monitor her blood-thinning drug, winds up in an emergency room 30 times in six months.

A 55-year-old Mississippi man with severe hypertension and kidney disease is repeatedly hospitalized for worsening heart and kidney failure.

Doctors don’t know that his utilities have been discon-

nected, leaving him without air conditioning or a refrigerator in the sweltering summer heat.

A 42-year-old morbidly obese woman with severe cardiovascular problems and bipolar disorder spends more than 300 days in a Michigan hospital and nursing home because she can’t afford a special bed or arrange services that would enable her to live at home.

These patients are among the one percent whose ranks no one wants to join: the costly cohort battling mul-

tiple chronic illnesses who consumed 21 percent of the nearly $1.3 trillion Americans spent on health care in 2010, at a cost of nearly $88,000 per person.

Five percent of patients accounted for 50 percent of all health-care expenditures.

By contrast, the bottom 50 percent of patients accounted for just 2.8 percent of spending that year, according to a recent report by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Sometimes known as super-utilizers, high-frequen-

cy patients, or frequent fliers, these patients typically suffer from heart failure, diabetes and kidney disease, along with a significant psychiatric problem.

Some are Medicare patients unable to afford the many drugs needed to manage their chronic health problems. Others are younger “dual eligibles” who qualify for Medicare and Medicaid, and who often bounce from emergency room to emergency room, struggling with (See COSTLIEST on page 15)

KanCare problems persist for providers Payment delays, claims denials not going away Spokespersons for a broad range of the state’s Medicaid provider groups complained to a legislative oversight panel today about problems they are having with KanCare, most of them related to delayed or disputed claims for payment.

“Claims are being overpaid, underpaid, and in some cases not being paid at all,” said Tom Bell, chief executive of the Kansas Hospital Association, testifying to the first meeting of the Joint Committee on Home and Community Based Services and KanCare Oversight.

“Not only do these reimbursement issues cause cash flow problems for our providers, they also require significant staff time to monitor and

track through patient accounting systems when claims have to be reprocessed due to incorrect payments,” Bell said.

Bell was the first of the provider representatives to testify. Then came a bunch of dittos from groups ranging from the Kansas Medical Society - which represents most of the state’s doctors - to the lobbyists for the nursing home industry.

“It is of no value to whine and complain, but there are

Ks. drug monitoring program credited with reducing overdoses Kansas has among the lowest rates of drug overdose in the country, likely due in part to its prescription drug monitoring program, according to a new report.

Less than 1 per 10,000 Kansans died of overdoses in 2010 - the majority of which nationwide are from prescription drugs - ranking eighth lowest among states, according to a report released this week by the non-profit Trust for America’s Health.

While the rate has nearly tripled since 1999, it has gone up even more in most other states.

The report also indicated which of 10 key policies states had implemented to curb prescription drug addiction and deaths.

Kansas has only implemented four of them, but it is leading the nation in the No. 1 indicator: An active Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (or PDMP).

Albert Lang, spokesman for report’s authors, said Kansas’ PDMP has an edge over most state monitoring programs in that it shares data across state lines.

“Also, we don’t have it in the report but Kansas is one of only five states that had daily reporting to the PDMP,” Lang said, noting that most update about once a week.

Prescription drug monitoring programs allow doctors and pharmacists to log on to a secure website to review the prescription histories of patients.

The systems can prompt the

sending of notices to providers and pharmacists when potential prescription abuse is detected.

In Kansas, all licensed pharmacies that fill patient prescriptions are required by law to use the state’s monitoring program, called K-TRACS, and many hospitals voluntarily use it as well. The program also plans to connect to LACIE, one of the two networks that comprise the statewide health information exchange.

This week, the Kansas monitoring program began implementing a software upgrade that should make it even more effective, said new executive director of K-TRACS, Marty Singleton.

Singleton said that drug abusers, dealers, and others who “doc shop” for multiple prescriptions had figured out ways to evade detection by the system, which launched in 2010.

“They would use multiple addresses, slightly different birth dates, slightly different spellings of their name so that they could go undetected and get multiple prescriptions filled above and beyond the prescribed dosage,” Singleton said.

“Earlier versions of the software had trouble putting together these records and saying ‘These are all the same person, so this is a red flag - don’t fill this prescription, or if you do fill it, you probably want to keep an eye on it,’” he said. “This (upgrade) will give us a lot better data.”

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real problems you can’t wish away,” said lobbyist John Federico on behalf of the Kansas Health Care Association and Kansas Center for Assisted Living, which represents more than 200 nursing home or similar facilities across the state.

Legislators, Republicans and Democrats, picked up on the complaints or echoed them and raised the toughest line of questioning since (See KANCARE on page 15)

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Kansas officials pull plug on SNAP outreach grant The Kansas Department for Children and Families has decided to drop its participation in a federal grant program designed to help poor people apply for food-stamp benefits.

“We simply do not believe taxpayer dollars should be used to recruit people to be on welfare,” Theresa Freed, a spokesperson for DCF, wrote in an email to KHI News Service.

The five programs affected by the decision and their grant amounts: Rice County Communities That Serve, Lyons: $16,267.50 Kansas Food Bank, Wichita: $13,818.61

Harvesters, Kansas City: $14,314.50 Community Access, Independence: $12,620.77 Catholic Social Services, Dodge City: $14,506.50 DCF informed the programs of its decision on Sept. 30, a day before the grants were to be renewed.

“We’d filled out our application and had gotten everything accepted and approved to start on Tuesday (Oct. 1),” said Debby Snapp, who runs the Catholic Social Service office in Dodge City. “And then on Monday (Sept. 30), I got an email from DCF that

Costliest substance abuse, homelessness and related medical conditions. Still others have private health insurance.

Nearly all wind up in emergency rooms because they have enormous difficulty navigating the increasingly fragmented, complicated and inflexible health-care system.

Because of lack of alternatives or because of force of habit, they use hospitals, often several in the same city, for care that could be provided far more cheaply and effectively in outpatient settings.

Many suffer from the phenomenon known as “extreme uncoordinated care.”

In the past few years, efforts to lower costs and improve care have proliferated. In Ann Arbor, Mich., two programs at the University of Michigan Health System assign specialized case managers to super-utilizers, some of whom have been in the ER more than 100 times in a year.

In a largely rural swath of central Pennsylvania, Geisinger Health System

the KanCare program was unveiled as a proposal by Gov. Sam Brownback late in 2011.

KanCare was launched Jan. 1 this year. With it, virtually all the state’s 380,000 Medicaid enrollees were moved into managed care plans run by three large insurance companies: Amerigroup, UnitedHealthcare and Sunflower State Health Plan, a subsidiary of Centene. Each of the companies is a major player in the national Medicaid managed care industry.

A couple of Medicaid consumers, including former Kansas City Star reporter Finn Bullers, appeared before the committee to describe problems they had experienced or anticipated and Committee members also voiced concerns with the program.

“I’m hoping at the next hearing that we’ll

stop local charities from helping the poor to apply for SNAP benefits.

Instead, she said, it only means their efforts will not be funded with state or federal dollars.

Snapp said Catholic Social Service will look for alternate sources of funding.

“Our plan is not to do anything different from what we’re doing now because we think what we’re doing is the morally right thing to do - and that’s helping people who are really struggling,” she said. “I understand that there are people out there who think these are

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enrolls elderly Medicare patients in its Proven Health Navigator program, calling them after they leave the hospital and providing heart failure patients with scales that transmit data to nurses: Sudden weight gain can signal a problem.

In the Washington area, a program sponsored by Medical Mall Health Services - a program founded by civil rights activist and physician Aaron Shirley that targets medically underserved patients - provides home visits and helps arrange services for newly discharged patients.

“We’ve seen situations where, for want of a $20 cab ride to get to dialysis, a patient ended up with an emergency hospitalization costing $20,000,” said Tim McNeill, chief operating officer of Medical Mall, which is headquartered in Jackson, Miss.

Most programs are modeled on an approach pioneered by Denver geriatrician and MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” winner Eric Coleman, whose Care Transitions

KanCare

said they’d decided not to accept any more outreach money.”

Nationally, SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) outreach grants are funded by the USDA and administered by state welfare departments.

Nearly 320,000 Kansans - almost half of whom are children - receive SNAP benefits. The average per-person benefit is $122 per month.

Freed said South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming have also chosen not to participate in the program.

DCF’s decision, Freed said, was not meant to

program has been widely adopted and embraced by Medicare. In addition to a patient’s medical and mental health needs, these efforts focus on the social determinants of health including income, education and community support, low levels of which often trigger unnecessary readmissions.

More effectively managing the 1 percent is “a huge problem for us and for the health-care system in general,” said surgeon Carnell Cooper, vice president of medical affairs for Prince George’s Hospital Center, where more than 50 percent of patients are uninsured or underinsured, one of the highest rates in Maryland.

“We are well aware from a quality perspective that we have to work on decreasing readmissions,” he said.

100 ER Visits The problem is receiving increasingly urgent attention from hospitals and insurance companies, which are facing pressure to deliver better and cost-effective care.

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hear some improvement on (Medicaid) claims processing,” said Rep. David Crum, an Augusta Republican who has been one of the administration’s stronger supporters on KanCare.

Sen. Laura Kelly of Topeka, the committee’s ranking Democrat, raised repeated questions about the effectiveness and independence of the KanCare ombudsman’s office, which is part of the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services.

She said she had heard from numerous Medicaid consumers and providers who said they no longer called the office because they knew it wouldn’t do any good. The ombudsman is James Bart.

She said people told her that Bart is “a nice man” but as a one-man office lacked the resources

to deal with the problems they brought him.

Bart told the committee he had fielded 1,318 “documented contacts” from people with concerns since Jan. 1, the majority of which were of “unspecified subject matter,” according to the agency’s categorization method.

He said he was in the process of hiring a second person to produce more detailed reports that would better demonstrate the number and nature of the concerns he has helped resolve or handled.

Shawn Sullivan, secretary of the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, said the number of people in nursing homes had dropped by 200 since KanCare launched, which he interpreted as evidence that the managed care companies were helping keep more people out of institutional settings.

(ACA) is ramping up penalties levied on hospitals for certain Medicare patients readmitted within 30 days of discharge.

Hospitals have traditionally made more money readmitting patients than trying to prevent them from bouncing back. A recent study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine found that only a third of 400 elderly patients were discharged with a follow-up doctor’s appointment and 25 percent were handed instructions written in impenetrable medical jargon.

Insurers are also scrambling. They are expected to enroll millions of new customers under the ACA but can no longer control costs by imposing lifetime expenditure caps or refusing to cover preexisting conditions.

people who choose not to work because they can get food stamps. But I have to say that’s not been our experience at all.”

Debi Kreutzman, director of community relations at the Kansas Food Bank, said the program also is looking for alternate funding.

“Charities can only do so much,” she said.

“If we’re truly going to address food insecurity, SNAP outreach has to be part of the picture. Food pantries, commodity programs, soup kitchens . . . they’re just not enough.”

Shannon Cotsoradis, executive director with the advocacy group Kansas

Action for Children, blasted DCF’s action.

“Families with children that unexpectedly find themselves in difficult circumstances may not be aware that they are eligible for food assistance without outreach,” says Cotsoradis.

“This (decision) means more Kansas children will go hungry. Hungry kids not only suffer healthrelated consequences, but they are also less able to concentrate and learn in school. This policy decision will increase the likelihood that children living in poverty today will become tomorrow’s poor adults.”

‘Comfort Zone’ retreat at Camp Lakeside Oct. 18-20 St. Catherine Hospice is again sponsoring the annual “Comfort Zone” Family Retreat at Camp Lakeside north of Scott City. The camp is offered to help families and individuals who are dealing with grief.

The retreat features sessions for adults, teens and children to share their feelings and gain the tools to help them and their family. The goal of the weekend retreat is to educate the participants about the grieving process and provide suggestions for coping skills.

The retreat is Oct. 18-20. Cost for the weekend, which includes six meals and two nights lodging, is $10 per family member.

The number of participants is limited. For more information or to register call Gina Cash, retreat director, at St. Catherine Hospice 620-272-2519 or 1-800-281-4077 or visit www.stcatherinehospice. org/bereavement to download information and an application.

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

Pastime at Park Lane The United Methodist Church led Sunday afternoon services.

Residents played pitch and dominoes on Monday afternoon. Game helpers were Dorothy King, Joy Barnett, Hugh McDaniel, Madeline Murphy and Mandy Barnett. Darla Unruh furnished cookies.

Residents played Wii bowling on Monday evening.

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

Residents played trivia on Tuesday evening.

Rev. Warren Prochnow led Bible study on Wednesday morning.

Residents played bingo on Wednesday afternoon.

Helpers were Mary Ann Spangler, Barbara Dickhut and Madeline Murphy.

Cards were played by several residents on Wednesday evening.

Madeline Murphy helped with the games.

Elsie Nagel gave manicures on Thursday morning.

Youth donate time at Park Lane

The local Girl Scouts made fleece lap robes for each resident at Park Lane. Their efforts are appreciated.

The residents also thank the Lake Wide Awake 4-H Club for making the pumpkin centerpieces for the dining room tables.

VIP Band performs on Thursday

The Hit and Miss Band from the Scott County VIP Center played on Thursday afternoon.

Band members were Margie Stevens, Retha Lemmons, Arlene Cauthon and Melody Stevens.

Russel and Mary Webster held a Bible study class on Thursday evening.

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

Residents watched the Ryman Country Homecoming music video on Friday afternoon. Ice cream bars were served.

Residents watched “El Dorado” on Saturday afternoon. Popcorn was served during the movie.

Dottie Fouquet was visited by Mark and Terri Fouquet, Donna Gaschler, Fritzie Rauch and Mrs. Joel Bryan.

Joyce Bohnert was visited by Tina Turley.

Jake Leatherman was visited by Natalie and George Armantrout, Don and Judy Browning, and Hugh McDaniel.

Pat Palen was visited by Lori and Baylor Vasquez, Tina Turley, Adele Christy, Mike Palen, Cassandra Shultz, Jack and Sheri Rapier, and Deb Lawrence.

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Ruth Holland was visited by Debbie Bush, Charlene Becht and Deb Lawrence.

Verna Willman was visited by D’Ann Markel.

Cecile Billings was visited by Julianne Dunagan, Linda Dunagan, Kynsley Nicolson, Delinda Dunagan, Ann Beaton, and Ken, Patti and Mandy Billings.

Mike Leach was visited

by Linda Dunagan, Kynsley Nicholson, Julianne Dunagan, and Rev. Don Martin from St. Luke’s Church.

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

Kathy McKellips was visited by James Percival, Kay Depperschmidt, Tim and Pat Percival, and Jamie Percival.

Ann Tedford was visited by Elsie Nagel, Arlene Cauthon and Mary Plum.

Edith Norman was visited by Albert Dean, Sue Riner, Sara Shane, Doris Riner and Betty Ohnick.

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Earl Gorman was visited by Pete Steffens, Alonna Mantzke, Charlene Becht, Loretta Gorman, Marcine Gorman, Hugh McDaniel and Jane McBroom.

Bonnie Pickett was visited by Gloria Wright, Arlene Cauthon, Margie Stevens, Larry and Philene Pickett; Joshua, Jenny and Kylie Wright; and Treva McCandless.

Lorena Turley was visited by Rex Turley, Tracy Hess and Neta Wheeler.

Lula Dirks was visited

by Willetta Payne, Darla Luebbers, Ralph Payne and Norma Fox. Vivian Kreiser was visited by Larry and Sharon Lock.

Jim and Yvonne Spangler were visited by Yvette Mills.

Mildred Van Pelt was visited by David Van Pelt and Treva McCandless.

Dona Dee Carpenter was visited by Gloria O’Bleness, Larry LaPlant, Bill and Kandi John, and Alisa Moore.

Geraldine Graves was visited by Charlene Becht, Alonna Mantzke and Megan Dirks.

Boots Haxton had as her visitors her daughter, Joni Pottberg from Salina; Miles Veeder, Dodge City; Rod and Kathy Haxton and Melissa Jasnoch.

Herb Graves was visited by Tina Turley and Kelsi Schwartz.

Darlene Richman was visited by Phebe Unruh.

Mary Alice Lawrence King was visited by Shorty and Deb Lawrence.

Mike Kitch was visited

by Charlene Becht, Alisa Moore and Shorty and Deb Lawrence.

Hilda Gruver was visited by Tina Turley.

Judy Redburn was visited by Tina Turley, Wendy Derstine, Carol Ellis, Debbie Holland Bush and Elizabeth Parkinson.

Delores Brooks was visited by Charles Brooks, Cheryl Perry and Raegen Walok.

Jim Jeffrey was visited

by Hugh McDaniel and Libbie Joles.

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Frances V. (Kostner) Luke Frances V. (Kostner) Luke, 95, died Oct. 7, 2013, at Park Lane Nursing Home, Scott City.

S h e was born Sept. 26, 1918, at El Dorado, the daughter of Frank Frances and Alice (Kostner) Luke (Ryan) Mulnix. She was a longtime resident of Scott City. She was a homemaker and a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Scott City.

On June 8, 1944, she married Clark F. Kostner.

He died in 1959. On Sept.

4, 1973, she married Clarence D. Luke. He died Oct. 23, 1991, in Scott

by Jason Storm

City.

Survivors include: three sons, Clark F. Kostner, Leawood, William B. Kostner, Littleton, Colo., and Robert R. Kostner, Wichita; three grandchildren, Pamela Millison, Bill Kostner and Kamme Carlsten; four greatgrandchildren and 18 nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; two sisters, Marcella Mallo and Mary Heath; one brother, Dwuane Mulnix; and one granddaughter, Amber Kostner.

Funeral service was held Oct. 10 at St. Joseph Catholic Church with Fr. Bernard Felix presiding.

Interment was at the Scott County Cemetery.

Shirley Jean Rein

Shirley Jean Rein, 70, Dorris, Bartlesville, Okla; died Oct. 7, 2013, at the and six grandchildren, Scott County Hospital, Amelia Vasko, Alivia Scott City.

Noll, Avry Noll, AddiS h e son Noll, Matthew Noll, was born and Danielle Noll, Scott May 25, City, and Legacy Murphy, 1943, at Spring Hill.

Tacoma, She was preceded in Wa s h . , death by her parents and t h e one son, Bryan A. Rein.

Shirley Rein daughVisitation will be Fri., ter of George T. and Verna Oct. 11, 10:00 a.m to 8:00 May (Adam) Hasty. p.m., at Price and Sons A resident of Scott City Funeral Home, Scott City. since 1974, moving from Funeral service will Sugar City, Colo., she was be Saturday at 2:00 p.m. a retired teacher for USD at the United Methodist 466, Scott City.

On Sept. 11, 1964, she Church, Scott City, with married Robert A. Rein Rev. Dennis Carter offiin Roswell, N.M. He sur- ciating. Interment will be in the Scott County Cemvives.

Other survivors in- etery.

Memorials may be sent clude: two daughters, Teresa J. Noll, and husband, to the Scott County LiScott, Scott City, and brary in care of Price and Cecelia P. Weir-Weisenberger Charlene A. Murphy, and Sons Funeral Home, 401 Cecelia P. WeirOther survivors in- husband, Robb, Spring S. Washington St., Scott Weisenberger, 72, died clude: one daughter, The- Hill; one sister, Glenna S. City, Ks. 67871.

Oct. 7, 2013, at the Scott resa Gonzales, Garden County Hospital, Scott City; three sisters, Phillis City.

Scotland, Edinburgh, Clifford Lynn Dean S h e Clifford Lynn Dean, Ohnick, Rocky Ford, Scotland, Roberta Weir, was born 61, died Oct. 7, 2013, in Colo.; and nine grandchilEdinburgh, Scotland, and March dren.

Mary Weir, Edinburgh, Scott County.

27, 1941, He was preceded in He was born June 18, Scotland; one brother, in Ardeath by his father and Bobby Weir, Toronto, 1952, at Scott City, the magh, one granddaughter, ShelCanada; one grandson, son of Eli Mark and Sue Northby Woods.

Damien Gonzales, Jr., (Daily) Dean. ern Ire- Cecelia WeirVisitation will be Fri., Garden City; and two A lifetime resident of land, the Weisenberger Oct. 11, 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 granddaughters, Jacque- Scott City, he was a cattle daughter of Robert lyn Gonzales, Garden p.m., at Price and Sons truck driver and a memJames and Mary Theresa Funeral Home, Scott City.

City, and Allie Gonzales, ber of the First Baptist (Hagan) Weir.

Funeral service will be Garden City.

Church, Scott City.

Growing up in Belfast, Saturday at 10:00 a.m. at She was preceded in On Sept. 6, 1985, he Northern Ireland, after the First Baptist Church, death by her parents and married Lea M. Hunt at WWII she moved to EdScott City, with Rev. Kyle Scott City. She survives. inburgh, Scotland, where one sister, Gale Weir.

Evans officiating. InterVigil services were Other survivors in- ment will be in the Scott she finished her schooling. She was a US Army held Oct. 10 at St. Josephs clude: one son, Justin County Cemetery. veteran, serving from Catholic Church, Scott Dean, Scott City; two Memorials may be sent daughters, Leanna Hens- to the Clifford Dean Me1969-71, and earning the City.

Funeral service will be ley, Hutchinson, and Mar- morial Fund in care of rank of SP-4.

A resident of Scott City held Fri., Oct. 11, 10:30 kie Brown, Scott City; Price and Sons Funeral since 1997, moving from a.m., at St. Joseph Catho- mother, Sue Spear, Lin- Home, 401 S. Washington Garden City, she was a lic Church, Scott City, coln; one sister, Marlyn St., Scott City, Ks. 67871. cook for the Scott County with Fr. Bernard Felix ofHospital and Park Lane ficiating. Interment will Nursing Home, Scott City. be in the Scott County Cecelia was a member Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, meof St. Patrick’s Catholic Cathedral, Armagh, morials may be sent to the Disabled American VetNorthern Ireland.

On Jan. 16, 1997, she erans in care of Price and married Frank S. Weisen- Sons Funeral Home, 401 berger in Garden City. He S. Washington St., Scott City, Ks. 67871. survives.

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

Week of October 14-18 Monday: Beef and noodles, Scandinavian vegetables, whole wheat bread, strawberries and pears.

Tuesday: Chicken parmesan, baked potato, peas and carrots, whole wheat bread, orange slices.

Wednesday: Swiss steak with tomatoes, mashed potatoes, steamed cabbage, whole wheat roll, apricots.

Thursday: Roast turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, broccoli, whole wheat roll, pumpkin pie cake.

Friday: Spaghetti with meat sauce, corn, tossed salad, French bread, applesauce. meals are $3.25 • call 872-3501

Richard (Dick) Sheils Richard (Dick) J. Sheils, 79, died Sept. 6, 2013.

H e was born Dec. 28, 1933, to Carl J. and Audrey F. (Case) Richard Sheils Sheils.

He served his country from 1956-58 in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Germany. He retired

from Boeing as an electrician in 1995.

Survivors include: two sisters, Charlene Hughes, Scott City, and Marilyn Wright, Belton, Mo.; one brother, Charles J. ”Jim” Sheils, Cheney; and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Loretta Buttram.

Memorials may be sent to the Kansas Humane Society.

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Horseshoe art was a natural transition for longtime farrier A true craftsman can make almost anything out of almost anything.

So why not horseshoes?

Don Baskins had spent a lifetime shaping horseshoes for fourlegged critters throughout the Midwest, so it only seemed natural that he would eventually see art where others see . . . well, just a horseshoe.

Baskins had his artwork on display at Whimmydiddle where he attracted as many questions as he did buyers.

Perhaps attracting the

most attention was the foot-long metal rod that was hooked on the end.

“It’s a steak turner,” said Baskins with a grin.

He had stretched a single horseshoe under extreme heat, creating a handle at one end and the hook at the other which could sink into a cut of steak.

Baskins is familiar to many outside the arts and crafts world as a farrier who shod horses for Billy Allen for more than 30 years.

“I found the place where Billy is living

Park Place People

by Doris Riner

I am starting this week with a sad comment, more like a complaint.

Eight people gathered on the east side of Park Lane, sitting on chairs, walkers, wheel chairs and scooters for the high school parade to come by. It never came.

We sat there for over an hour. It never came.

Lou Pfanenstiel is resting this week after his great family reunion.

Another birthday was celebrated last Saturday.

This time it was Cliff Thon and a big celebration it was.

Beside the usual bunch here, his daughter and husband came from Colby. They also had lunch with him and Phylis. Karen Hoover baked a large cake with a large spider in the middle (now we know it’s October). Barbara Wilkinson helped Karen and brought ice cream.

Tava See brought Halloween cookies one morning for us to enjoy at coffee and we enjoyed having her sit and visit with us.

Sorry, I didn’t get around and get news this last week. I’ll try to do better next week.

today,” he says. “He was living in New Mexico at the time.”

Baskins, who describes himself as an “ambitious person,” didn’t like the thought of idle time when he retired, so about eight years ago began creating the metal art.

He goes to about 15 shows a year. This was his fourth Whimmydiddle.

As for the number of acquaintances who stopped by to say hello, he offered, “You can’t be in my business for 30 years without making a few friends.”

Don Baskins has gone from being a farrier to a horseshoe craftsman.

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My Home Away From Home My country, the Philippines, is in Asia, south of Japan. It is situated between two huge bodies of water, the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean.

The Philippines consists of more than 7,000 islands, some are too small to inhabit, with a population of 98 million. The climate is tropical which makes it conducive to grow coconuts, bananas, mangoes, pineapples, papaya and other tropical fruits. There isn’t any snow and the coldest it gets in our part of the country is in the 60’s. It stays between 80-90 degrees most of the time. It’s very humid.

Our main diet is rice, fish and veggies, sometimes we have pork or beef. When I was little my parents raised chickens and we ate them if we needed food.

About 90% of the people are Christians. The rest of the population is Muslim. The Philippines is the only Christian nation in all of Southeast Asia.

We have a lot of dialects. Tagalog is the main language spoken in the country and English is the second language.

We were colonized by Spain and under the Spanish government for more than 400 years, then the Japanese came and then the Americans. The Americans liberated us from the Japanese in World War II. The Americans have a strong influence in the educational system of the Philippines such that English is one of the two national languages. I learned English in school there.

We deal with the communist insurgence in my country. The communists speak of the great corruption of our government and of the rich. This gains the support of the poor throughout the nation. And this movement is a threat to our economy as they strive to force their way on the people with gun barrels.

Marinduque, my home, lies at the very heart of the Philippine archipelago. It is like the shape of a human heart floating on a clear blue sea. The island is characterized by undulating hills, picturesque valleys, and sheer seaside cliffs interspersed with patches of flatland on the 370 square mile island.

My home island is agricultural with rice, bananas and coconuts as the major crops. The soil is fertile but marked in certain spots by large stony areas, making wide continuous farming difficult. We have little farming in our area. People use animals, like water buffalo, to plow the ground.

Deposits of iron, copper and lead are found and mined in the province. It also has huge fishing grounds.

The population is more or less 300,000. The working population read and speak Filipino and English.

There is a wet season from June to February (rainy season) and a dry season from March to May (summer season). That’s the kind of season we have, just two seasons and I call it “hot and very hot.”

I consider myself privileged to come to Southwest Kansas and work. I am enjoying my stay here. Coming from a different culture, it’s quite hard for me to adjust and adapt to many things like language, food, weather, driving in the snow, dealing with people and so on, but am doing my best to get adjusted to this culture and be acquainted with people.

I am glad I am here. I am away from my family, working thousands of miles away from home and being alone is not easy. But I consider this place my home away from home.

Fr. Bernard H. Felix St. Joseph Catholic Church, Scott City

Scott City Assembly of God

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

St. Joseph Catholic Church

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

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

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

Pence Community Church

Prairie View Church of the Brethren

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

Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.

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

Held at Precision Ag Bldg. west of Shallow Water

Holy Cross Lutheran Church

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

Worship every Sunday, 10:15 a.m.

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

Community Christian Church

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

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

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

Sunday Morning Worship, 10:45 a.m.

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

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

First Baptist Church

Immanuel Southern Baptist Church

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

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

Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.

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

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

Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.

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

Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.

First Christian Church

1st United Methodist Church

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

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

Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

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

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

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

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

Website: www.fccscottcity.org

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

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

Scott Mennonite Church

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

12021 N. Eagle Rd. • Scott City Franklin Koehn: 872-2048 Charles Nightengale: 872-3056 Sunday School Worship Service: 10:00 a.m.

Sunday Evening Service: 7:00 p.m.

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

Sunday School, 10:50 a.m.

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

YMYW Wednesday, 8:00 p.m.

The Scott County Record • Page 18 • Thursday, October 10, 2013

Little benefit from letting grass grow in winter Sometimes you will hear people say to let the grass grow tall right before winter sets in. Their reasoning is that the extra foliage will insulate the crown of the plant from the extreme cold.

Although this may sound reasonable, in practice it probably does little, if anything, to increase winter hardiness. On the contrary, a canopy that is too high during the winter may lay over and become matted down, leading to an increased incidence of winter diseases such as snow mold.

Turfgrass species vary genetically in their cold tolerance, with warm season grasses being less cold tolerant than the cool season types.

Given these differences, cold tolerance is improved by increasing the health of the plants going into the winter, and healthy plants are a result of a sound management program (fertilizing, watering and mowing), during the spring, summer and fall.

The lawn will benefit more from continuing to mow at the recommended height than from trying to gain some insulation against winter by allowing it to grow tall.

Here is a list of the recommended mowing height ranges (in inches) for home lawns in Kansas: tall fescue, 2.5-3.5; Kentucky bluegrass, 2-3; Perennial ryegrass, 2-3; Buffalograss, 2-3; Bermudagrass, 1-2; Zoysiagrass, 1-2.

(Note: Mowing at heights below 1.5 inches requires a reel mower).

There may be some benefits gained by adjusting mowing heights within the recommended range at times. For example, it is a good practice to mow warm season grasses at the higher end of recommended heights during late summer and early fall.

This should help them store more carbohydrate

reserves for the winter, and it may reduce the incidence of certain cool weather diseases.

But the rule to remember is to stay within the recommended height range for your species.

Soil Testing Though we often think of soil testing as a spring chore, fall can actually be a better time.

Soil testing laboratories are often very busy during the spring, resulting in a longer turnaround from submission to recommendations. Also, soils in the spring are often waterlogged, making taking samples difficult.

If your soil test suggests more organic matter,

Blood drives in area counties during October

With an increasing number of blood donors being turned away because of low hemoglobin levels, the American Red Cross is recommending that people eligible donors eat a well-balanced diet with extra iron-rich produce.

Recommended fruits and vegetables which are abundant this time of year include broccoli, kale, sweet potatoes, spinach, apricots and chard.

Food can have two types of iron - heme and nonheme. The body can absorb up to 30 percent of heme iron, primarily found in meat, but only two to 10 percent of nonheme iron. Foods high in vitamin C, such as leafy greens, peppers and citrus fruits, help with iron absorption.

Visit redcrossblood.org/iron to learn more.

Blood drives will be in the area on the following dates: Tues., Oct. 22: 2:00-6:00 p.m. at the American Legion, 100 E. Plum in Dighton.

Wed., Oct. 23: 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Wichita County High School, Leoti.

Wed., Oct. 30: noon to 6:00 p.m. at the Wm. Carpenter 4-H Building, Scott City.

fall is a much better season because materials are much more available than in the spring, and fresher materials can be used without harming young tender plants.

Begin by taking a representative sample from several locations in the garden or lawn. Each sample should contain soil from the surface to about 6-8 inches deep. This is most easily done with a soil sampler.

The Extension office has a sampler available for checkout. If you don’t have a sampler, use a shovel to dig straight down into the soil. Then shave a small layer off the back of the hole for your sample.

Mix the samples together in a clean plastic container and select about one to 1-1/2 cups of soil.

This can be placed in a plastic container such as a resealable plastic bag.

Take the soil to the Extension office to have tests done at the K-State soil testing laboratory for a small charge.

A soil test determines fertility problems, not other conditions that may exist such as poor drainage, poor soil structure, soil borne diseases or insects, chemical contaminants or damage, or shade with root competition from other plants.

All of these conditions may reduce plant performance, but cannot be evaluated by a soil test.

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Sports

Page 19 - Thursday, October 10, 2013

Clearwater on SCHS football schedule in ‘14

nowhere to run

SCHS senior linebackers Keigun Wells (left) and Paco Banda sack Hugoton quarterback Yates Sutton during Friday’s GWAC win.

(Record Photo)

SCHS defense dominates in bounce-back win over Eagles Following their first regular season loss in more than four years, the big question was how would the Scott Community High School football team respond this week?

The answer?

“Pretty darn good,” according to defensive co0 ordinator Jim Hugoton Scott City 28 Turner.

Turner had reason to feel proud of the defensive effort following Scott City’s 28-0

win over Hugoton - the Beavers first shutout of the season.

Hugoton (3-2) entered the game averaging 343 yards rushing per game. They managed just 81 yards against SCHS (4-1), with 74 of those coming in the second quarter.

The Eagles had also been averaging 36.5 points per game.

“We gave up a few plays in the first half that we didn’t defend particularly well. We made a couple of minor adjustments and did much bet-

ter in the second half,” says Turner.

Except for a 13-play drive early in the second period, the Eagles were bottled up by the SCHS defense all night. On that drive, the Eagles had two running plays good for 18 and 14 yards. They didn’t have another play that was good for more than 10 yards except for a reverse halfback pass in the fourth quarter covering 27 yards.

On their other 10 possessions in the game Hugoton

managed a total of just two first downs.

“Any time you can shutout a senior dominated team that’s expected to be one of the better teams in the league the boys should feel real happy with their performance,” says head coach Glenn O’Neil.

This was a night in which the SCHS defense made a statement by swarming to the ball and playing their most physical game of the season.

(See EAGLES on page 25)

It’s been a tough stretch for spikers

When you have a young, inexperienced squad, there are going to be some bumps in the road.

Scott Community High School volleyball head coach Jordan Dreiling feels like they’ve dropped into a pothole after being swept in the Oakley tournament over the weekend and at the Holcomb triangular on Tuesday.

The Oakley tournament started well for SCHS as they again beat Goodland in the opening game - just as they had in a quad earlier this season. That’s the last game the SCHS girls have won.

After falling to Goodland (25-19, 15-25, 10-25), they were swept by Quinter (21-25, 16-25) and WheatlandGrinnell (18-25, 15-25).

The lack of consistency at the setter position has been a major obstacle for the Scott City offense. Dreiling brought freshman Taylor Goodman up from the JV ranks to be a setter so she could move senior Kelly Wycoff to outside hitter, but Goodman had to sit out the weekend to avoid using up her tournament eligibility.

“She had played in a JV tournament, so we needed to have her sit sometime in order to have her available for our tournament and sub-state,” Dreiling says.

When Wycoff was forced to the sideline because of illness, the offense all but disappeared.

“Without Kelly or Taylor it was difficult to find any offensive rhythm,” says Dreiling.

(See SPIKERS on page 22)

Once again, Scott City will be heading south for Class 3A district football playoff action for the 2014 and 2015 seasons.

District assignments for all Kansas high school football teams were announced on Wednesday morning with representatives from all schools gathered in Salina.

The Beavers will open district play with Southwestern Hts., followed by Lakin and Cimarron.

The only question facing Activities Director Randy Huck and coaches Glenn O’Neil and Jim Turner once the district assignments were released was who they would find to fill the one open week on the schedule.

SCHS will open the season with Class 4A opponent Clearwater on the home field Sept. 5.

“It took awhile to find someone who wanted to schedule us,” says Huck. “It looked for awhile that we might have to schedule someone outside the state.”

They visited with a number of schools that included Hays, Clay Center, Chapman, Circle, Marysville, LaCrosse and Wichita Collegiate.

“Most of them wanted to schedule someone closer,” says Huck.

Clearwater agreed to the home-and-home series with a little assistance from Collegiate.

“Collegiate was actually interested in playing us if things didn’t work out with Clearwater. They spoke to the Clearwater representatives and told them how well they were treated when they came to Scott City. They had a lot of good things to say about our hospitality.”

Huck is hopeful that SCHS can develop ties with the AVCTL and perhaps look to them to help fill the football schedule in future years.

The 26-team AVCTL is broke into four divisions, based on enrollment. The eight smallest AVCTL schools in Classes 3A and 4A are Wichita Collegiate (249), Clearwater (358), Andale (417), Wellington (477), Towanda-Circle (515), El Dorado (554), Mulvane (558) and Rose Hill (576).

2014 SCHS Football Sept. 5 Clearwater Sept. 12 Colby Sept. 19 Holcomb Sept. 26 Goodland Oct. 3 Hugoton Oct. 10 Ulysses Oct. 17 SW Heights* Oct. 24 Lakin* Oct. 30 Cimarron* * district games

H T H T T H T H H

Sams is the future of KSU football

Scott City freshman Taylor Goodman bumps the ball to a teammate during Tuesday’s action at Holcomb.

(Record Photo)

Last Saturday’s Rod s t a t s Haxton, may not sports editor indicate it, but Daniel Sams is the quarterback of the future at K-State.

Yes, the sophomore tossed a pair of interceptions in the final four minutes that prevented an upset over Oklahoma State. But he’s no more to blame than a defense that gave up the go-ahead touchdown after the Wildcats had taken a 29-23 lead with 6:09 left in the game.

If not for Sams, a couple of late interceptions would have been little more than a footnote in another KSU loss.

(See SAMS on page 22)

The Scott County Record • Page 20 • Thursday, October 10, 2013

Outdoors in Kansas

by Steve Gilliland

Deer: from field to table Todd Robinson is the game warden for Cloud and Republic counties, and his wife, Leah, is a Family and Consumer Science Agent for the Central Kansas Extension District.

A couple years ago Leah attended some training that included a workshop on deer processing. She came home with the idea of presenting a workshop for local Kansas hunters.

After working with their respective employers, the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) and Kansas State University, a deer processing workshop, “Venison 101: From Field to Table” was developed and presented last year for the first time.

Part of the rational for the class was the thought that perhaps the cost of having a deer commercially processed and not knowing how to use the meat were both possible deterrents keeping some people from experiencing deer hunting.

Todd said that to be certain of having a deer to process for the class, the deer will be harvested ahead of time and skinned prior to the workshop. Although obviously not able to demonstrate actual field dressing, field dressing of the deer carcass will be discussed and advice from local processors as to handling of the carcass before they receive it will be shared with participants.

Speakers from KSU Extension and from KDWPT will provide in-depth meat cutting demonstrations, various home processing methods and talk about food safety practices.

Changes and updates regarding hunting laws and deer diseases will also be discussed.

(See DEER on page 22)

Hornets crush O-B in district opener Dighton had been hoping for a breakout game from its offense.

They got one on Friday when t h e y rolled up Otis-Bison 12 386 yards Dighton 58 of total offense against Otis-Bison in the opening round of district play.

The result was a 5812 blowout win for the Hornets which they hope will carry over into the remainder of their district

schedule.

Freshman Tyler Lingg, getting his first start at quarterback, had the best night of his young career with 185 yards passing (10-of-18, 4 TDs) and no interceptions.

“Tyler made good decisions and put the ball where it needs to be,” says head coach Ken Simon.

All-purpose runningback Isaac Alinor added 259 yards which included a season high 170 rushing, 51 receiving and another 38 on kickoff returns.

“We wanted to mix up

our offense and keep them guessing on defense,” Simon says. “They were creeping the safeties up to stop the run. We mixed in some play-action passes to keep them on their heels.

Isaac ran the ball hard and had some big runs.”

Both teams traded touchdowns in the opening period with Dighton scoring first on a 17 yard pass from Lingg to Marcos Cruz.

That was just the start of a big night for Lingg which saw him completing TD passes of 17, 59, 20

and 18 yards.

The Hornets led 8-6 and 16-12 before adding a touchdown just before Lingg and Dylan Foos connected on a 59 yard scoring pass at the end of the first quarter that gave them a 22-12 lead.

The remainder of the night was dominated by the Hornets who scored 36 unanswered points during the next two quarters.

Lingg and Matthew Mulville scored on runs of six and two yards in the second quarter, followed by a 20 yard completion

from Lingg to Alinor. Cruz was on the receiving end of an 18 yard TD pass early in the second half and Alinor closed out the night with a 52 yard scoring run.

The defense, however, had solid game after a shaky start.

“The defense adjusted well after the first quarter.

A point of emphasis was getting off blocks and getting into position to make plays,” Simon says.

Freshman safety Foos made some nice defensive stops to finish the night (See CRUSH on page 22)

Terrorhead will bring stadium title to KC It’s hard to know which is generating the most buzz in Kansas City these days.

•The Chiefs’ 5-0 start.

•Terrorhead Returns.

•Or my natural good looks and magnetic charm.

Let’s start with the undefeated Chiefs.

If offense brings in the fans and defense wins championships, the Chiefs are on their way to a championship.

We are No. 1 in scoring defense (11.6 ppg), sacks (21), passes defended (38), defensive touchdowns (3, tie), recovered fumbles (8, tie); third in interceptions (7, tie); and fourth in

against Tennessee and had an interception. He’s moved into a starting role on the defense.

Inside the Huddle

with the X-Factor

passing yards allowed.

Marcus Cooper has been a great addition. You may recall that we picked him up from Seattle on the Sunday following the final roster cuts. That’s a testament to general manager John Dorsey and the scouting team.

He recovered the muffed punt in the end zone for a score

Injuries Adding Up Injuries are starting to become a major concern.

Linebacker Justin Houston was held out of practice earlier this week with a possible concussion. We’re waiting to see if he passes the medical tests and can play Sunday against Oakland.

Offensive tackle Eric Fisher is waiting for clearance to return from his concussion. That could happen this week. We also hope to have tight end Anthony Fasa-

no back from an injury.

Tight end Travis Kelce could be lost for the rest of the season after a routine scope found a fracture in his knee.

Terrorhead Returns Of course, the big news this week is the attempt to break the Guinness record for noise in a stadium. The new record of 136.6 was set at CenturyLink Field in Seattle on Sept. 15.

“Terrorhead Returns” has taken on a life of its own. Marv Albert has been in contact with the Chiefs, Rob Riggle (of the “Hangover” movies) was at Ar(See TERROR on page 25)

Lady Hornets nearly shock No. 3 Indians The Dighton High School volleyball team was looking forward to its rematch last week with state-ranked Hoxie.

“We feel that we’re taking steps in the right direction that we can compete with them,” says head coach Whitney Linenberger.

The Lady Hornets made believers of more than their coach after pushing the No. 3 ranked team in Class 1A-Division I to a third game tie-breaker.

Hoxie (18-1) escaped with a narrow 25-27, 25-17, 25-22 win over Dighton in a quadrangular at Quinter. Dighton swept the other two matches against WaKeeney (25-14, 25-20) and Quinter (2514, 25-8).

“We were pretty disappointed in how we played against them in our invitational. They pretty well

kicked our butts,” says Linenberger. “While we wanted to win, our goal was to at least take them to three games.”

The Lady Hornets were able to accomplish that with solid play at the net and outstanding court coverage.

“The girls refused to let a ball hit the floor. And whenever it was close to being out (of bounds) they made the right decisions,” says the head coach.

Dighton also got strong offensive play from their trio of Diamond Brown (16 kills), Shambrey Budd (13 kills) and Leslie Speer (10 kills).

“And our blockers did a phenomenal job,” says Linenberger. “If you can’t block them, you can’t win. We didn’t shut them down, but we got in their face and we made some good blocks. When we didn’t get a block, we

Dighton High School senior Leslie Speer blocks a shot during recent volleyball action.

(Record Photo)

forced them to make some adjustments with their hits.”

Dighton will have one more opportunity to see Hoxie this season at the Northwest Kansas League

tournament “We know we can beat them. We know what it takes mentally,” says Linenberger. “We also know that if we want any chance at beating them

we have to keep our mistakes to a minimum. We made too many hitting and serving errors. In the last game (against Hoxie) we missed at least three (See HORNETS on page 24)

The Scott County Record • Page 21 • Thursday, October 10, 2013

Bluejays Beavers are overcome finding a 22 point formula that deficit Trailing by 22 points at halftime, a lethargic Scott City Middle School eighth grade squad was needing something to get them back into their Great West Activities Conference game with Colby.

Zac Carson provided the answer.

Carson returned the opening kickoff of the second half 70 yards for a touchdown and that jump-started the Bluejays who scored 36 unanswered points in a 36-22 win last Thursday.

“Thirty-six points in one half of a junior high game is a lot of points. You have to get a few breaks and make things happen pretty quickly,” says head coach Skip Numrich.

Even with his team trailing by three touchdowns at the half, Numrich didn’t feel they were out of it.

“We had to quit beating ourselves,” he said, referring to two first half fumbles and a pair of interceptions that accounted for two Colby touchdowns.

“I told the boys that if we could score right away in the second half, make a defensive stop and score again, we were right back in the game,” he says. “The kickoff return was huge. We scored and didn’t take hardly any time off the clock.”

While SCMS (4-1) didn’t score on their next possession, the defense did step up big as it did throughout the second half. Conner LeBeau’s interception set up a 30 yard scoring pass from quarterback Dexter Gooden to Austen Turner. That score came with 7:07 remaining in the game, cutting the lead to 20-16.

With Colby overloading the strong side of the line, Scott City started running the other way and finding success with their ground attack.

After another TD pass to Turner was called back because of a penalty, the Bluejays quickly answered with a 30 yard scoring run by Turner that tied the game, 22-22.

Carson followed with an interception return of 30 yards that gave Scott City their first lead of the game, 30-22, with 2:52 remaining.

Turner added a 22 yard scoring run with :46 on the clock.

In addition to Turner’s three touchdowns, the Bluejays had strong offensive games from Nick Nowak and James Jurgens.

(See BLUEJAYS on page 22)

works for them When your confidence has been shaken or, as SCHS head coach Glenn O’Neil stated, “our ego got stepped on a little,” one of two things can happen.

You can begin to question your ability or you can prove that what happened in that loss is not who we are.

We lost. We learned from the loss.

Now it’s time to get better so that we don’t have to experience that feeling again.

The Beavers responded in the right way which was evident during the Hugoton game. The game was every bit as one-sided as the 28-0 score would indicate.

It was the most physical game SCHS has played this season and their best allaround defensive game.

Granted, Hugoton didn’t have someone with the speed of Holcomb’s Heath Tucker or the power of Ulysses runningback Ian Rudzik. But they were still a team that entered the game averaging 38 points and more than 350 yards per game.

They had the potential to put up some big numbers and control the ball . . . and they didn’t.

What happened on Friday began with a much better week of preparation.

“We had a good week of practice,” says O’Neil.

“We felt like we were a day ahead all week compared to the week heading into the Ulysses game when we felt like we were two days behind in our preparation for formations, reading keys and everything.

“Everything went smoother and the attention span was better,” he noted.

Opening Drive A methodical, well-executed open-

ing drive set the tone for the rest of the night.

The Beavers converted two thirdand-five situations by completing 10 yard passes.

That would be a common theme.

SCHS converted 4-of-5 third down plays in the first half and had possession of the ball for 21 plays compared to just four for the Eagles.

That’s how you win games.

Runningbacks by Committee Coming into the season, O’Neil knew the team lacked a “home run threat” like they’ve enjoyed in the recent past with explosive backs such as Colborn Couchman, Dalton Smith and Dalton Buehler.

Sticking with a baseball analogy, one might say the Beavers are playing small ball.

Through the first five games, only once has SCHS averaged more than four yards per carry (Abilene, 5.18).

They averaged just 2.51 yards as a team against Holcomb.

However, there were signs of improvement against Hugoton. Wyatt Kropp averaged 6.2 yards on five carries and senior tailback Martin Gough averaged 4.8 yards.

Sophomore fullback Cooper Griffith has become part of the runningback committee during the past couple of weeks, powering his way to an average

of 3.3 yards against the Eagles.

The Beavers are finding balance in their running game even if they aren’t putting up the glossy numbers that we’re accustomed to seeing.

“I’d sure like for someone to have a breakout game,” says O’Neil.

Until that happens, he’s found a formula that is working.

“We’re a ball-control, short- to medium-yardage passing team. We’ll get what we can on the ground and pass when we have to,” he says.

The key to continued success is not to put the defense in a bad position with turnovers. As the defense has shown for most of the season, they’re capable of stopping most teams.

“Hopefully, our special teams will continue to improve. Offensively, we want to win the turnover battle and rush for a little better yards per carry than we are now.

“That’s our formula this year,” he says.

And that’s what makes this coaching staff so good.

They aren’t going to make a team something it isn’t. You find your strengths and try to stay within what you’re capable of doing well.

The Beavers aren’t going to put 50 or 60 points on the scoreboard, but they can find a way to score enough to win and, in the end, that’s what matters.”

Hayes rushes for 167 yards, 3 TDs; 7th grade Jays rally by Colby, 24-22 A 55 yard touchdown run by Wyatt Hayes midway into the fourth quarter led the Scott City Middle School seventh graders to a come-from-behind 24-22 win at Colby last Thursday.

Hayes had a monster game for the Bluejays (2-3), rushing for 167 yards and three touchdowns on just 17 carries.

It was a see-saw game in which Scott City erased an early 8-0 deficit with touchdown runs of 50 and 20 yards by Hayes in the first and second quarters

that gave SCMS a 12-8 halftime lead.

Colby quickly regained the advantage when they returned the opening kickoff of the second half 70 yards for a score and a 16-12 lead.

Less than 1-1/2 minutes later, SCMS was back on top, 18-16, when quarterback Parker Vulgamore connected with Marshall Faurot for a 40 yard scoring strike.

Colby moved back in front with a touchdown early in the

fourth quarter before Hayes’ final TD run.

“We were able to hold them on the last two series to come away with a hard-fought win,” says coach Larry Fox. Runningback Jack Thomas, who returned to the lineup after missing two games with an injury, finished with 54 yards on 11 carries while Faurot added 34 yards.

Juan Rodriguez led the defense with six tackles, followed

by Hayes with five.

Haunted House at the old Scott County Hospital • Fri./Sat., October 25-26

The Scott County Record • Page 22 • Thursday, October 10, 2013

League Standings Team

Great West Activities Conference Boy’s Division

Ulysses

Scott City

Hugoton

Holcomb

Goodland

Colby

Team

League W L 4

3

2

2

1

0

0

Overall W L 4

1

4

1

3

2

3

2

3

5

0

1

1

2

2

2

5

PF

PA

266

142

152

95

133

125

165 58

Northwest Kansas League 8-Man Division League W L

Sharon Springs 2

0

Atwood

0

1

Overall W L

PF

78

97

161

249

Strk 4W

1W

1L

2W

2L

4L

PA

Strk

5

0

202

34

5W

5

0

256

22

5W

Hoxie

2

1

4

1

222

66

3W

Dighton

2

1

3

2

138

119

1W

Tribune

0

2

2

3

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This year’s workshop will be presented on October 24 in Minneapolis. Cost is $10 each and a free chili supper is part of the deal. Door prizes consisting of knife sets, meat processing equipment, etc., will also be given.

Preregistration is required by Oct. 17 by calling Leah Robinson at (785) 392-2147.

Todd told me he has been hunting deer for twenty one years or so. Leah used to hunt with him until two small children came along, and has harvested her share of Kansas deer also. They process their own venison, and Todd’s latest successful experiment was making pastrami out of some of their venison roasts.

He told me “We pretty much live off wild game,” and this year he wants to try grinding bacon into some of their deer burger.

Continue to Explore Kansas Outdoors!

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

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David Perry Scott Noll Sue Rogers Alex Antillion Trevor Cox Adam Kadavy Ryan Roberts Chris Rodriguez Janette Storm Jason Storm Jan Tucker Theron Tucker Anissa Wilkinson Rick Wright

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Sub-State X-Country Saturday, Oct. 26 Class 4A McPherson, Rolling Acres Golf Course Girls: 3:00 p.m.

Boys: 3:30 p.m.

Teams: Abilene, Buhler, Chapman, Clay Center, Colby, Concordia, Goodland, Hugoton, Larned, LindsborgSmoky Valley, McPherson, Nickerson, Pratt, Russell, Scott City, Ulysses Class 2A Meade Golf Course Girls: 2:30 p.m.

Boys: 3:00 p.m.

Teams: Coldwater-South Central, Elkhart, Ellinwood, Greensburg-Kiowa County, **Kinsley, Leoti-Wichita County, Meade, South Gray, Ness City, PrattSkyline, St. John, Stanton County, Sterling, Sublette, **Syracuse *Boys Team Only **Girls Team Only Class 1A Prairie Ridge Golf Course at Tribune Girls: 2:00 p.m. (CT) Boys: 2:30 p.m. (CT) Teams: *Ashland, Bucklin, *Cunningham, Deerfield, Dighton, Fowler, *Ingalls, Jetmore-Hodgeman Co., Langdon-Fairfield, Macksville, Minneola, *Moscow, Otis-Bison, Rolla, Stafford, Tribune *Boys Team Only **Girls Team Only

“James was a tailback in a double tight end formation and had some real nice runs,” says Numrich.

The defense was led by Rafael Estrella who was moved from linebacker to noseguard at halftime, in addition to sliding the defensive tackles a little wider.

“They couldn’t block Rafael. He was either in their backfield or meeting their backs at the line the entire Sub-State second half,” Numrich says. “We couldn’t afford to have them taking time off the clock with long drives. X-Country The defense did a great job of stopping them and getSub-State Sites ting their offense off the field.

Class 4A • Division II “I’m not sure (Colby) finished the second half with 32 schools • 8 sub-states positive yards.”

Colby: Colby, Goodland, Once again, Numrich says his team keeps finding Hugoton, Scott City ways to win.

“We could be 0-5 right now instead of 4-1,” he says.

Support Your “That’s because these boys play hard and they believe Hometown Merchants in what we’re telling them.”

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with three solo tackles and one assist.

“He really surprised me by coming up and making plays against their option that stopped them for losses a couple of times,” says Simon. “He filled in real well against the run.”

The Hornets (3-2, 1-0) will travel to Wilson (1-4) for a district playoff game on Friday.

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Drop 2 at Holcomb The Lady Beavers lost to Southwestern Heights (17-25, 20-25) and Holcomb (16-25, 7-25) on Tuesday.

“It was disappointing to lose to Heights for the second time this year. We didn’t execute offensively and we made way too many mistakes,” Dreiling says.

Scott City looked like they would force a tie-breaker after opening up a slim 17-15 lead in the second game, but they were outscored 9-1 down the stretch as the Lady Mustangs completed the sweep.

“We’re trying to find a rotation where we can avoid giving up big scoring runs like we did late in the Heights match,” Dreiling says. “When we don’t have Kelly or Bailey (Nickel) on the front row we struggle offensively. We need someone else who can step up and be the player who can end points and get us out of a tough spot in the rotation.”

In the match, Wycoff led the team with four kills and Goodman had seven assists.

Nickel was the primary offensive threat against Holcomb with four kills and Wycoff added three solo blocks.

“There was improvement in our court coverage in both matches. We’re going to need that because the top teams in our league tournament and in sub-state have girls who can block,” Dreiling says.

On the other hand, the Lady Beavers need to keep unforced errors to a minimum.

“That’s a big problem with our serves. That’s one part of our game we can control and we’re missing too many serves at critical times,” says the head coach.

“We’re taking ourselves out of matches with missed serves.”

The Lady Beavers will host their invitational tournament on Saturday.

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Another dismal season for the Hawks

The horses hitched to the Charlie Weis bandwagon are going to have a much lighter load to pull than they had before the rout (54-16)

by Texas Tech. by Whoever Mac was responsiStevenson ble for having punter Trevor Pardula try and run for a first down from his own 16-yard-line late in the second quarter made an inexcusable mistake. The game was tied 10-10 at the time and Texas Tech turned the awful call into an easy touchdown.

That was a game changer.

Kansas solidified their justified reputation as the worst football team in the Big 12. Speculation by the media that Coach Weis had recruited well for this season has been refuted.

KU has not improved appreciably since last season.

The hope of Jayhawk fans that their team would be better has dissolved like a puff of smoke.

Weis didn’t try and sugarcoat another ignominious loss and said, “So basically what you’re saying is that in a couple of minutes over a half you just got outscored 47-0. Who you gonna beat doing that? You’re not gonna beat anybody.”

There will be no six wins leading to a bowl game.

Putting it as kindly as possible, KU’s team is not yet competitive. And AD Sheahon Zenger’s choice of Weis as head coach no longer appears to have been a wise decision.

In fairness to all concerned, Lew Perkins was the worst AD in KU’s history. He dug a very deep hole for Kansas football by hiring Turner Gill as head coach and giving him a five-year contract. That set KU back and Weis has been unable to show significant progress since.

Too Many Mistakes Kansas State’s football team had five turnovers and 12 penalties and still almost beat Oklahoma State, losing 33-29.

Even though the Wildcats are 0-2 in the Big 12 after road losses at Texas (See HAWKS on page 24)

SC boys, girls first at Ness With five runners finishing among the top 10, the Scott Community High School boys easily won team honors at the Ness City Invitational last Thursday.

It was the best team showing of the season for the crosscountry squad which scored 26 points to easily outdistance Ness City (59) and Victoria (67) in the title chase.

Miguel Chavez (4th, 18:47) easily led the Beavers, followed by teammates Edi Balderrama (5th, 19:21), Heath Briggs (6th, 19:28), Irvin Lozano (7th, 19:40) and Dylan Hutchins (9th, 19:43).

While the times weren’t stellar, head coach Kevin Reese didn’t expect them to be for this particular race.

“We knew the competition level wasn’t going to be quite as strong as we’ve seen in some meets, so we used this one more as a workout,” says Reese. “We ran the kids hard in the three days before this race, so by the time they came off the course their legs were shot.”

Chavez was the only runner who didn’t run slower than he did a year ago on the same course - matching his 18:47 time from last year over the 3.1 mile course.

“That was pretty impressive considering the workout week that we had,” Reese says. “He ran a smart race and handled the heat much better than he usually does.”

Even though the other top finishers among the boys ran times that were between 28 and 37 seconds slower than last year, Reese wasn’t disappointed.

“Edi, Heath, Irvin and Dylan ran their tails off during prac-

Sams With Sams, the Wildcats have a chance to salvage their season.

The Wildcats have dug themselves into a deep hole and right now they just need to find a way to win before they worry about whether or not they can qualify for a bowl game.

Another Big 12 title? Not this year.

When Collin Klein departed KSU, we felt that Sams was next in line - even with the recruitment of highly touted Jake Waters. We’ve been down this road before back in 2002 when it seemed that junior college transfer Marc Dunn and his passing skills had beaten out Ell Roberson for the starting role.

Dunn was the 2000 National Junior College Athletic Association “Offensive Player of the Year.” During that season he

Scott City junior Miguel Chavez in cross-country action earlier this season. (Record Photo)

tice. I saw the effort (on Thursday) that I wanted to see,” says the head coach.

“There’s no way you can perform at your peak level in every race. We gear our practices so that we can hopefully perform our best at the right times.”

In the junior varsity division, freshman Chance Jones (1st, 20:47) easily won top honors, followed by Matt Jenkins (2nd, 21:13) and Cole Allen (4th, 23:07).

to nudge Tribune for the team title by four points, 26 to 30.

Sophomore Jade Wren (5th, 18:30) finished just ahead of teammate Taylor George (6th, 18:35) and Megan Thornburg (9th, 18:44). Rounding out the squad were Aubrey Davis (15th, 19:57) and Macy Davis (22nd, 22:07).

“Jade’s not afraid to challenge Taylor and take the lead,” says Reese. “And with each meet it looks like Megan is getting healthier and running betGirls Are First ter.”

The Lady Beavers had four The cross-country team will girls finish among the top 15 travel to Lakin on Saturday and which was just enough for them host the Great West Activities

Conference meet on Oct. 19.

Reese says that means adjusting the workout schedule. Practices won’t be quite as grueling, which should mean the runners are better prepared for the weekend races leading into regional.

“I’m looking for season bests, if not career bests, this weekend at Lakin if the weather cooperates,” says Reese.

The two meets will also include Class 4A regional opponents Hugoton, Goodland and Colby, which should provide a good idea of how much the Beavers have improved and how they stack up against those teams.

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broke the NJCAA all-time passing record.

Sound familiar?

By 2002, Roberson was the starting quarterback and in 2003 he guided the Wildcats to a Big 12 championship game win over Oklahoma and into the Fiesta Bowl.

The similarities between the quarterbacks, their past history and their styles are unmistakable.

Like Roberson, Sams’ skills as a passing quarterback have been questioned. In his rare appearances last year, he was seen as a quarterback who would tuck the ball and run when faced with a little pressure in the pocket.

And, like Roberson, he has the athletic ability to make things happen with his feet.

Roberson, however, became a much better passer by his junior and senior seasons and that dual threat made him and the Wildcats so successful. It would seem that Sams is developing that same skill set.

During a visit with head coach Bill Snyder last spring, we wondered how Sams had progressed with his passing game and the normally very low key Snyder offered high praise for the quarterback. He said Sams had “improved vastly” since the end of the 2012 season and he had “become a more knowledgeable quarterback.”

Maybe there’s just something inside Snyder that longs for a quarterback who can stay in the pocket and run a pro-type offense. There must be some explanation as to why he tries

to build an offense around quarterbacks like Dunn and Waters when it’s never worked in his coaching history at K-State.

Snyder has coached a tremendous line of talented KState quarterbacks - Chad May, Michael Bishop, Jonathan Beasley, Roberson and Klein. What they have in common is their ability to scramble, to create opportunities with their feet.

None of them found a career waiting for them in the NFL, but very few quarterbacks do.

Water is obviously a talented quarterback with a very good arm.

But Snyder’s history at KState would indicate that if the Wildcats are to become a conference powerhouse and regain a place on the national stage, it will be with Sams under center.

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Runner-up finish in GWAC at stake Friday Goodland was a preseason pick to contend for a Great West Activities Conference and appeared ready to live up to those expectations with a 3-0 start.

However, back-to-back losses against Holcomb (34-12) and Ulysses (7534) have eliminated the Cowboys from the league championship picture.

While Goodland is at risk of tumbling down the league standings, Scott Community High School is looking to secure a runner-up finish in the league when they host the Cowboys on Friday in their final regular season game before starting district play.

They will be facing a Cowboys defense that’s trying to regroup after giving up 669 yards rush-

Hawks and Oklahoma State, they proved they can compete with every team in the conference with the possible exceptions of Oklahoma and Baylor.

K-State’s iconic coach, Bill Snyder, was baffled after his team’s mistakeprone performance at Stillwater.

Snyder said, “In our history, we just have not been that kind of a football team. I mean, we haven’t always been extremely good, but we haven’t turned the ball over and we haven’t always been penalized. We had a chance to win even with it, but it sure makes it a lot harder.”

If anything positive came from the O-State loss, it was the emergence of QB Daniel Sams as a run-pass threat. K-State is clearly a better offensive team with Sams at quarterback.

Hornets

ing in last week’s loss to Ulysses. Sophomore runningback Ian Rudzik was a one-man offensive wrecking crew with 467 yards rushing - averaging 17.9 yards per carry.

One reason for Ulysses’ success on the ground was Goodland’s nine-man defensive front. Once Rudzik broke through the line there was nothing between him and the end zone except grass. The Beavers saw a similar defense from Abilene in the season opener.

“We need to figure a way to run the ball and maintain control when every gap is covered,” says head coach Glenn O’Neil.

The ground game has been, at best, inconsistent for the Beavers.

Ironically, their best rushing game of the sea-

son came in the season opener against Abilene with 207 yards. The Beavers had just four yards rushing in the first half against Abilene’s nineand 10-man defensive front, but scorched the Abilene secondary for 223 yards passing in the first half.

The Cowboys were forced to make a defensive adjustment in the second half and the Beavers responded with 203 yards rushing.

Since then, Scott City’s rushing attack has been fairly subdued by their standards against Colby (130), Holcomb (113) and Ulysses (109) before putting together a strong ground game against Hugoton (180 yards).

“Obviously, when you’re playing so many

people up front it makes you susceptible to someone going over the top,” says O’Neil - just as the Beavers did in the first half against Abilene.

“That also means you have to gain enough time for your quarterback to find an open receiver.

(Goodland) is planning to bring enough pressure to force you into making mistakes or into a sack since they’re bringing one more lineman than you have blockers,” he says.

Stretch the Field On the other side of the ball, Goodland has faith in the passing skills of sophomore quarterback Trey Teeter who has completed half of his pass attempts (74-of-148) for 1,314 yards.

Even against the Ti-

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The Big 12 is way down from their normal prestigious national standing. It’s possible that Kansas State will win six games and qualify for a bowl game, but they have to eliminate the turnovers and needless penalties.

Next up for the Wildcats is Baylor in Manhattan. Baylor is one of the two best teams in the Big 12, but the Bears have played an undemanding schedule so far. Nevertheless, Baylor is an explosive offensive football team and are better than anyone is giving them credit for.

Down through the years Snyder’s teams have been characterized by their resiliency. Look for the Wildcats to bounce back from their errorfilled game last week and challenge Baylor.

- behind their big-time defense - maintained their unbeaten NFL record (50) last Sunday and kept the weekend from being a complete disaster for football fans in Kansas.

Even though the Chiefs won (26-17), their offense sputtered against Tennessee, mainly because of poor pass blocking by the offensive line and the inability of receivers to get open.

This Sunday the Chiefs play Oakland at Arrowhead Stadium. KC will be favored to move their record to 6-0.

Nose guard Dontari Poe (6-3, 346) has been the most consistent and dominating player on the Chiefs’ defense. His improvement since his rookie season has exceeded the highest expectations.

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serves. That’s the difference in the match.”

With the Class 1A sub-state tournament in the near future, Linenberger likes the way her team is playing.

While they are currently 14-9, she feels they can be a dangerous team in sub-state.

“The girls have a better understanding of the things we do well and where we need to improve,” she says.

“One area where we can get better is with our serves.

We can place them better than we have been.

“The girls are learning that good volleyball teams don’t just play hard they need to play smart. We’re learning to play smarter and to force other teams into making mistakes,” she adds.

cause of a concussion he suffered against the New York Giants. KC needs him. Fisher has the ability to be a solid blocker as he gains NFL experience.

Kansas City’s defense has played superb football so far, but the offense is still a work in progress.

Quarterback Alex Smith has been outstanding, however, he needs more help from his offensive line and receivers.

If the offense improves, the Chiefs could become the surprise team in the NFL this season.

gers, Goodland finished with 248 passing yards and five touchdowns.

“Their (Ulysses) secondary didn’t appear to be reacting to (Goodland’s) passing routes very well.

There were a couple of times when Goodland had receivers running free in the secondary,” O’Neil says.

With an average of 17.76 yards per catch, Goodland wants to stretch the field. However, that’s only slightly better than Scott City’s 15.3 yards per catch.

The Cowboys haven’t relied on their rushing game which is averaging just 109 yards per game including 45 yards on just 12 carries against Ulysses.

Senior fullback Garret Taylor leads the team with 28.1 yards rushing

per game.

Senior Dax Ruhs (5-8, 175) is averaging just 12.5 yards on the ground, but 115.2 yards as a slot receiver.

That may work out fine for the SCHS defense which has had trouble containing Ruhs in the past as a runningback and on special teams.

“Ruhs has always been a pain in our side as a runningback,” says O’Neil.

“They’ve gotten away from the I (formation) and are playing more spread action. They’ve been throwing the ball pretty successfully.”

Goodland is averaging 263 yards passing per game, but will be going against a Scott City defense allowing an average of just 77.4 yards through the air.

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They forced five turnovers, including two fumbles - one of those resulting in a TD. Of the three interceptions, two helped to set up touchdowns.

“We felt we had a lot to prove,” says senior linebacker Paco Banda.

“There were people out there doubting how good we are and we wanted to go out this week and prove them wrong. We had a great week of practice. Everybody played team ball and we weren’t playing selfish. That’s exactly what happened.”

SC Scores Early For the second consecutive game, SCHS scored on its first possession with an impressive 65 yard drive that took nearly five minutes off the clock.

The drive was kept alive by a pair of 10 yard receptions on third-andfive situations to wideout Chantz Yager and tight end Warren Kropp.

Quarterback Trey O’Neil and his receivers connected on seven plays of more than 10 yards - four on the opening series. He followed with completions of 14 yards to Yager and a 19 yard play to senior Brayden Strine who was knocked out of bounds at the one yard line.

The 10-play drive ended with a one yard run by fullback Banda for an early 7-0 lead.

“The opening drive set the tone. Everybody was together and we were ready to play,” says senior center Keigun Wells.

Scott City’s ability to control the ball nearly the entire quarter when they were going into the strong north wind was critical in establishing field position the remainder of the half.

SCHS held a 21-4 advan-

Terror rowhead shooting a game day video and the national media attention has been phenomenal.

Here’s my understanding of how things will work: •Guinness will conduct a pre-game test of the equipment with several thousand fans prior to opening up the stadium on game day.

SCHS junior Chantz Yager (right) dives into the end zone for a touchdown after recovering a fumble at the two yard line during the third quarter of Friday’s game against Hugoton.

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tage in offensive plays in the opening period.

However, the Beavers were able to get into the end zone only one time in the first half.

Hugoton’s only offensive series of any consequence came early in the second quarter after stopping Scott City on downs at their 33 yard line. They drove to the SCHS 29 the only time they crossed midfield the entire game - before the scoring threat ended on a fourth down interception by Martin Gough.

Defense Takes Control Perhaps one of the key decisions of the night came when head coach Glenn O’Neil opted to have the strong north wind to his team’s back to start the second half.

“We debated whether to take the wind in the third or fourth quarter,” O’Neil says. “We were hoping that Tim (Bolle) could kick it into the end zone.”

As it turned out, SCHS kicked off three times in the third period with Hugoton starting drives from their 20, 7 and 16 yard lines.

“We were hoping the defense could stop them and force a punt from deep in their end of the field. The defense did its job,” says O’Neil.

There was no need to wait for a punt. Strine intercepted the ball on Hugoton’s third play of the half, giving Scott City excellent field position at the Eagles’ 41. That drive stalled when they were stopped on fourth-andone just inside the five yard line.

“We knew that we needed to stop them and get the ball back,” says Wells. “I think this was the best our defense has played this season.”

On Hugoton’s second play after regaining possession, a quarterback pitch was mishandled in the face of strong de-

score. However, a penalty behind the play erased the touchdown.

Scott City’s final score was set up by an interception by Brett Meyer at the SCHS 32. The Beavers followed with an impressive 13 play drive in which they converted a pair of third-and-short plays into first downs and were successful on two fourth-down conversions.

On fourth-and-three from the Hugoton 30, junior wide receiver Sloan Baker slipped into a huge opening behind the defense and hauled in a pass at the 18 yard line. He then outraced the defensive secondary to the end zone with 4:17 remaining in the game.

Despite limiting Hugoton to just 119 total yards for their best defensive outing of the season, the Beavers still aren’t satisfied.

“Our offense was still kind of iffy, but our defense was a lot better. We were a lot more solid. We

played our responsibilities a lot better,” says tight end and defensive end Warren Kropp. “The first quarter (against Ulysses) gave us a glimpse of how good we can be. We looked better this week, but we still have a long way to go.”

After the loss to Ulysses, Kropp was confident the team would bounce back this week and avoid back-to-back losses for the first time since 2005 when they were defeated

by Ulysses and Hugoton.

“One streak ended, but we weren’t going to lose a home game - certainly not Homecoming,” says Kropp. “You just don’t do that.”

The Beavers did find some balance in their offense with 180 yards rushing and 130 passing.

O’Neil was 10-of-18 with one pick and one TD. A backfield by committee was led by Banda with 54 yards on 13 carries (4.2 ypc), followed by Wyatt Kropp (5-for-31) and Martin Gough (6-for-29).

We are close to selling out 77,000+ seats at Arrowhead, which is about 10,000 more than can fit into CenturyLink Field.

In addition, if every single seat in Arrowhead is sold out, then team officials can sell standing room only tickets which would add about 3,000 fans to the concourse area.

I have good reason to

believe that Seattle will have representatives at the game to observe what we’re doing. When we beat their world record, they plan to learn from what we’ve done so they can try to regain the record. I can see this challenge going back and forth between the two organizations and their fans.

Everyone is behind this event from the top execu-

tives with the KC organization to the fans and the media. There are people flying into KC from all over the country to make this the one game they have to attend this year.

Arrowhead will be rockin’ on Sunday.

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•A sound guy (originally from Garden City) admits he has been “geeking out” over all the sound equipment that will be available. 3M is providing the equipment and 30,000 ear plugs.

•We’ve organized section leaders who will be encouraging people to be on their feet and yelling throughout the game.

•There will be only three times during a game when certain Chiefs officials will make the call to “mark it” when they feel they have reached a peak noise level that could be a record.

During the Giants game we reached an unofficial level of 124.5 decibels without a sellout crowd and with no world record on the line.

SC tennis squad to regional at McPherson The road to state won’t be an easy one for the Scott Community High School girl’s tennis squad.

None of the Lady Beavers are likely to be among the seeded teams when they compete in the Class 4A regional at McPherson on Friday and Saturday.

With the best chance of advancing to state is the doubles team of Diana Rodriguez and Holly Wilkinson. The two seniors have a 12-15 record.

“They have been inconsistent, which can also make them pretty danger-

fensive pressure. Yager picked up the loose ball at the two yard line and dove into the end zone for a touchdown.

The Eagles had trouble handling the following kickoff and were pinned down at their nine yard line. After gaining just two yards on three plays, Hugoton was forced to punt from their end zone and a wobbly kick ended up at the line of scrimmage where the Beavers took possession. They needed just two plays to cover nine yards, capped

by Banda’s three yard scoring run that extended Scott City’s lead to 21-0.

It appeared Scott City would capitalize on another short punt on Hugoton’s next series. The ball was rolling to a stop at the Hugoton 22 yard line and with no Hugoton players nearby, Warren Kropp picked it up and raced down the right sideline, diving into the end zone for an apparent

ous,” says coach Cheryl Kucharik. “You don’t know what to expect from them. When they’re on top of their game they’re very capable of getting to state.”

The duo had a strong outing at Garden City little more than a week ago, only to follow that by getting swept in all their matches the following weekend at Colby. Two of those losses came against opponents from Russell and Colby who will now be seeded above them at regional.

“That was a letdown.

If they could have beaten

just one of those two teams it would have helped this weekend,” Kucharik says.

The other doubles team will consist of junior Emily Buxton, a first year player, and freshman Emma Price. They have only a 3-4 record in varsity competition.

“They placed second in No. 2 doubles against some tough 3A teams at Ellsworth last week,” says Kucharik. “They’re capable of playing well.”

Competing in singles will be junior Brianna Smull (8-17) and sophomore Christina Tilton (0-2).

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(Above) Crown bearers Kasten Wren and Ella Frank.

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SCHS fall Homecoming

King Paco Banda crowns Queen Megan Thornburg while last year’s Homecoming queen, Charlotte Bickimer, looks on.

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Seaboard granted exception to odor controls in Greeley County Sierra Club claims KDHE not enforcing the law Seaboard Food’s Ladder Creek hog feeding operation in northeast Greeley County is the largest in Kansas and one of the largest in the United States. Its current capacity is 132,000 mature hogs.

In order to limit the odor potential of this massive facility, Seaboard’s permit contains a condition that the ten waste impoundments, also called lagoons, must be filled to a level of 10 feet to allow mixing of clean water with the hog manure

to facilitate treatment.

The first barns were stocked on July 17, 2012 and the Kansas Chapter filed a complaint on August 22, 2013 noting that water levels in three of the first five impoundments to be placed into operation were still significantly below the 10-foot standard for odor control.

“Relying on incomplete calculations provided

by Seaboard, and without checking current hog stocking levels, KDHE responded by granting Seaboard an exception to the permit condition, cutting the requirement to a as little as 5-1/2 feet of depth,” says Craig Volland, agriculture chair

with the Kansas Chapter of the Sierra Club.

“The permit contains no language allowing such an exception,” adds attorney Robert Eye, former General Counsel of KDHE. “The 10-foot standard is unequivocal and should be enforced as written.”

KDHE claims it inadvertently left off qualifying language in the original permit. However, Seaboard had every opportunity to challenge the 10-foot standard during the original public comment period, and they did not.

No qualifying language was included in another Seaboard permit issued just six months earlier.

“When KDHE accepted the calculations as provided

by Seaboard, they not only did not follow KDHE’s own design manual, they did not adhere to ASABE engineering standards for design of anaerobic treatment lagoons,” says Kathy Martin, a professional engineer from Oklahoma who specializes in evaluating waste management systems of large animal feeding operations.

“The ASABE standard clearly requires a treatment depth that includes space attributable to the manure volume and sludge buildup, which were ignored in Seaboard’s calculation.”

(See SEABOARD on page 29)

Cargill profits slide by 41%

Cargill reported a 41 percent drop in quarterly profits this week as the lingering effects of the 2012 severe drought in the United States reduced grain-handling opportunities.

The company struggled with razorthin inventories in the world’s top farm exporter, which kept grain pricey and lowered processing volume and export demand during the summer months.

Cargill, one of the world’s largest privately held corporations and a top commodities trader, reported $571 million in net earnings for the first quarter ending Aug. 31, down from last year’s record quarter of $975 million.

A big U.S. corn and soybean harvest now underway is expected to replenish supplies, thus boosting export prospects and processing volumes for Cargill as well as its rivals, ADM and Bunge, which also reported disappointing earnings for the quarter ending June 30.

Shutdown sends traders elsewhere for data Uncertainty looms across the United States as to when the government shutdown will end, and this uncertainty has troubled the agricultural industry and those wanting to make trading decisions for their crops and livestock.

“I don’t know how long this will last, but context

is important,” said Glynn Tonsor, associate professor and livestock economist for Kansas State University. “The sun still came up today. Feeder cattle are being sold. Corn is being harvested. Those kind of physical activities I don’t think are changing.

What is changing, at least in the short term until the

shutdown is resolved, is how we discover ag prices, how they’re reported, and how people make buy-sell decisions.”

The USDAs entities are among those currently not functioning due to the shutdown. Even the USDA’s website is not available for use. The USDA’s Agricultural

Marketing Service (AMS) is the entity responsible for facilitating the fair marketing of U.S. agricultural products and reporting price averages.

Ag commodity traders rely on those unbiased numbers from the AMS, Tonsor said. Some private companies develop

What will be impact of info not collected by the USDA?

Farmers who believe USDA should not be in the business of collecting statistical information about agriculture and then disseminating it to the rest of the world are getting a chance to see their wishes come true.

The shutdown of the government has already halted the USDA’s Market News Service that reports daily prices from every possible commodity and market location. That, in turn, has caused disruption in some futures contracts that are based on

ag outlook Stu Ellis FarmGate blog

price indexes established by the cash prices, which are not being collected.

We’re coming close to finding out what it would be like to not have the data collection and sharing.

After taking hundreds of farmers through the USDA lock ups to watch the process of assembling spring acreage reports, the August First Crop Report,

Grain Stocks Reports, and Quarterly Hogs and Pigs reports, there were always some vocal skeptics who expressed their opposition to the concept of having to report their crop data and then letting the market trade it.

To them, “It just is not American!” Most were convinced otherwise by the cadre of leaders and statisticians with the National Agricultural Statistics Service, who were always quick to say that if the USDA did not provide that service for

Kansas enacts new trichomoniasis regs After more than 18 months and more than 36 public meetings with at least 2,000 stakeholders, the Kansas Department of Agriculture’s final regulation regarding Trichomoniasis (Trich) in

cattle took effect on Oct. 4.

Trich is a highly contagious venereal disease in cattle that is carried by a bull and transmitted to a cow during breeding. It causes pregnancy loss or

abortion in the cow, prolonged calving intervals and high open rates in infected herds.

The final regulation addresses the changeof-ownership of bulls (See TRICH on page 29)

everyone, farmers and the market included, and then only the market could afford to collect its own data that would not be shared with farmers.

Kansas State University marketing specialist Dan O’Brien makes a similar statement when he postulates what might happen if USDA reports were sharply curtailed, as they are now with the government shutdown. He says: 1) Grain producers and users would be paying much more attention (See USDA on page 29)

cash numbers as well and might issue them for a fee, but many of those companies use AMS data to figure their numbers. Tonsor points out that even AMS data isn’t free, as the AMS is a tax-paid service. But, due to the shutdown, the most recent cash numbers available for cattle, for

example, are from Sept.

27.

Tonsor said people should educate themselves about the origin of the data and the potential targeted audiences, if any, of private data companies.

The AMS is viewed as an unbiased source, much like universities, he said.

(See DATA on page 29)

Market Report Closing prices on October 8, 2013 Bartlett Grain Wheat.................. $ 7.41 Winona Feed and Grain Milo ....................

$ 4.07

Corn ...................

$ 4.52

Soybeans ...........

$ 11.99

Scott City Cooperative Wheat..................

$ 7.46

White Wheat .......

$ 7.76

Milo (bu.).............

$ 4.07

Corn....................

$ 4.54

Soybeans ...........

$ 11.99

Sunflowers..........

$ 16.65

ADM Grain

Wheat..................

$ 7.46

Milo (bu.).............

$ 4.07

White Wheat .......

$ 7.76

Weather H

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October 1

77

50

October 2

84

55

October 3

82

53

October 4

64

42

October 5

62

37

October 6

71

36

October 7

80

37

Wheat..................

$ 7.46

Milo (bu.).............

$ 4.12

Corn....................

$ 4.57

Soybeans............

$ 11.89

October

Sunflowers..........

$ 17.20

2013 Total

P

Moisture Totals 0.00 19.07

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Farm Bill not being forgotten during shutdown

A short staff at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the federal government shutdown limits the organization’s ability to track existing or emerging outbreaks of food borne illness.

Chris Braden, director of the CDC’s Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases says a team of eight people oversee-

ing the critical foodborne illness tracking database PulseNet has been reduced to three. PulseNet compares the “DNA fingerprints” of bacteria from patients to find clusters of disease that might represent unrecognized outbreaks.

PulseNet was launched in 1996 in response to the 1993 outbreak of E. coli O157:H7, associated with Jack in the Box res-

SD livestock losses could top 60,000

Data

Producers are still tallying losses, but calculations from the early blizzard moving through South Dakota Friday estimate livestock losses near 60,000 head.

The blizzard, one of the worst in state history, dumped four feet of snow in some areas leaving cattle producers to dig through snow drifts in hopes of rescuing part of the herd. Some producers lost up to half of their herds and early estimates listed herd losses in western South Dakota to be five percent of the total cattle supply.

New reports Tuesday list cattle losses at 60,000 head and more bad news for the state’s producers stem from D.C.’s inability to pass a new farm bill. The Livestock Indemnity Program in place to limit the losses cattle producers incur from natural disasters expired with the 2008 farm bill on Oct.1, the first day of the government shutdown.

The paperwork detailing losses with the USDA’s Farm Service Agency won’t be filed until the USDA returns to work.

“Those (FSA) offices are furloughed and there are no employees there.

They are unable to help us even though they desperately want to,” Silvia Christen, executive director of the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association, told The Dickinson Press.

Other states are also in the process of tallying agricultural losses as the snow affected Colorado and Wyoming and snow and tornadoes hit Iowa and Nebraska. One estimate lists cattle losses in Nebraska over the weekend between 2,000 and 3,000 head.

Seaboard (continued from page 28)

Seaboard plans to expand the Ladder Creek operation in this watershort area to almost 200,000 hogs next year.

“Water depth in lagoons may seem like a minor issue to some,” says Volland, “but KDHE’s handling of this should cause concern for all Kansans. If some big corporation brings thousands of hogs into your county, your quality of life will not be protected.”

A private provider might show a rosier example of prices to cow-calf producers, for instance, if that’s its targeted audience.

“I don’t want to come across as an advocate for USDA, but I have made a point to try to raise awareness to ag producers that a lot of publicly gathered data gets repackaged, and folks like me and others end up bringing it to them,” Tonsor said.

“Understanding where that data comes from, how it’s collected and the fact that it isn’t collected for free, is very important.”

How long the government shutdown will continue and how long commodity traders will go without base-reported prices is uncertain.

Without the AMS data, it is evident that the marketplace is uneasy, but Tonsor said the typical

USDA to basis and cash price trends at various upstream and downstream locations in the U.S. and world grain marketing system along with any arbitrage opportunities that may exist from transportation of grain.

2) The market would also be more closely attuned to grain futures carrying charges and the general structure of futures prices as signals of whether to hold and store grain or to “sell now”.

3) Technical market analysis would probably be relied upon more heavily - as ag producers with crops to sell turn as well as users of grain with needs to fulfill would be looking wherever they can for guidance on what to do to

Trich

(continued from page 28)

within Kansas and import requirements for both bulls and females.

“This regulation was developed with input from industry. We have worked with our partners in the industry and listened to stakeholder concerns throughout this lengthy process. I am confident this final rule will help protect herd health throughout Kansas,” said Kansas Animal Health Commissioner Dr. Bill Brown.

Under the final rule, non-virgin bulls, bulls of unknown virginity status and bulls older than 18 months of age must test negative for Trich prior to change of ownership in Kansas.

taurants in the Western United States. More than 700 people became ill and four died during that outbreak.

According to the PulseNet website, the system identifies outbreaks by connecting the dots, in this case DNA fingerprints of bacteria making people sick. Once PulseNet makes these connections and an outbreak is identified, PulseNet can work

with teams at the CDC and state and local health departments to figure out what is causing people to get sick. Each year PulseNet identifies: •About 1,500 clusters of foodborne disease at local or state levels.

•About 250 clusters that span multiple states.

•10-15 multistate outbreaks of foodborne disease that are widely dispersed.

(continued from page 28)

cow-calf producer who is going to sell his or her calves is probably still going to do it.

“We’re still going to find a price that makes transactions go forward, but the cost of that price discovery system, at least in the short term, has gone up,” Tonsor said.

“Everybody is adjusting to find this information somewhere else, and maybe it’s not as efficient.

Not everybody has the same network. Not everybody has access to the same private data sources.”

Tonsor said in addition to using private sources to obtain data, people should consult their personal networks and do some searching online to better understand the current markets.

Another problem that has developed out of this shutdown is gaps in his-

torical perspectives of the markets. The feeder futures market, for example, has a cash settlement index that is based on prices reported from various parts of the country.

Tonsor said because no information is being collected now, there won’t be the ability to build that index for the traditional way of settling the feeder cattle contract.

“We are definitely building gaps, some of which will not be resolved even if the shutdown ended right now,” Tonsor said.

“Every day, every minute that goes by, there is something that is not being captured that won’t be back-filled. Some things that are being captured won’t be back-filled because of computer systems being down. So you have gaps in the data series.”

(continued from page 28)

fulfill their respect needs.

He says currently the USDA “crowds out” other data collection firms, which would spring up and fill the void if the USDA was not there. But there would be a host of different companies providing different services, in different areas, and their collective data could not be reconciled or merged to provide a single database that would be available for historical comparison.

“To the degree that grain markets would be more vulnerable to the withholding of cash price or local production information by major local/ regional market participants - then market per-

formance and efficiency could suffer,” says O’Brien.

And he questions that while the void would be filled by small private firms, would the “public good” that USDA serves ever be filled for the benefit of small to mediumsized farmers.

Agreeing with O’Brien is Farm Progress economist John Otte who says, “An extended government shutdown will introduce inefficiencies in the agricultural commodity price discovery mechanism.

Sketchy data on cash market prices will diminish market transparency.

Futures traders will have more difficulty getting reality checks from cash market transactions.”

Since the creation of PulseNet in 1996, more than one-half billion pounds of contaminated food have been recalled due, in part, to PulseNet activities.

The CDC is currently monitoring about 30 clusters of foodborne illnesses around the country, which is typical at any given time. Braden says his reduced staff is

focusing on areas of highest risk, but he expresses concern over their ability to respond to a large outbreak, as about half of CDC staffers involved in surveillance and outbreak response are furloughed.

Braden says he has authority to bring this staff back to work in an emergency, but adds that the process likely would slow the response time.

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Garage Sales Friday/Saturday, Oct. 11-12

Garage Sale 1406 Elizabeth St. Friday: 4:00- Dark Lots of household items, western shirts and jean.

Bad weather cancelled.

Moving Sale 1010 S. College Most items 25¢. Priced to sell, linens, tools, lawn and garden items, purses, luggage, lamps, wheelchair, furniture, knick-knacks, wall decor, and antiques.

Yard Sale Garage Sale 141 S. Central, Dighton 1310 Elizabeth Friday: Friday: 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

Saturday: Saturday: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

9:00 a.m.-noon Furniture, toys, clothes, Baby clothes and wedding dress, catering, furniture, gun cabinet, fabric, jewelry, lamps, Christmas items. baked goods.

Lots of misc.

––––––––––––––––––––– MOBILE HOME 1 1/2 bedrooms, furnished, all bills paid. 212 Clara Ave., Scott City. (620) 87208tfc 3506.

Classified Ad Deadline: Monday at 5:00 p.m.

Classified Ad Rate: 20¢ per word. Minimum charge, $5.

Blind ad: $2.50 per week extra. Card of thanks: 10¢ per word. Minimum charge, $3. Classified Display Ad rate: $5.50 per column inch.

Classified advertising must be paid in advance unless business account is established.

If not paid in advance, there will be a $1 billing charge.

Tear sheet for classified ad will be $1 extra.

House for sale in Scott City

Well-built home on double corner lot, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, lots of built-in storage, over 2,400 sq. ft., plus 3 season, screened porch, DA garage. Established yard with sprinkler system. Call 620-353-9933.

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Employment Opportunities

Park Lane Nursing Home “Quality Care Because We Care” Has openings for the following positions: PT/FT Housekeeping PT/FT Nursing CNA/CMA Full-time Dietary (cook experience helpful) Full-time LPN/RN Shift differential 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 Fill out application and return to human resources.

Indigent Defense Attorney SCOTT COUNTY is accepting applications for two indigent defense attorneys. Contract labor pay: $1,200/ month. One year contract. No benefits. Submit application or resume to: Scott County Commission 303 Court St. Scott City, Ks. 67871 Deadline is Nov. 1.

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For information contact District Court: 620-872-7208 or County Clerk: 620-872-2420

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SCHS Homecoming parade

YMCA tackle football team members

SCHS Senior Class Float

First National Bank Float

SCHS Freshman Class Float

SCMS 8th Grade Volleyball Team Members

SCMS 7th Grade Volleyball Float

SCHS Volleyball Mothers Float