The Scott County Record

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34 Pages • Four Sections

Volume 22 • Number 10

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Published in Scott City, Ks.

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County, Waste Connections pursue recycling While no one is disputing the benefits of recycling, there’s also one other indisputable fact.

It’s expensive.

To operate a recycling center cost Scott County just over $57,000 in 2013. Costs are on pace to be about $50,000 in 2014.

That has prompted the Scott County Commission to ap-

proach Waste Connections about the possibility of the company offering a recycling program as part of its trash collection service.

Representatives of the company have indicated they are willing to study the feasibility of a program and what it would cost the county.

“In more and more of the

communities we serve we’re hearing requests to offer recycling,” noted Jeff Fawcett, municipal marketing manager for Waste Connections, which is the parent company of Northend Disposal. “It’s something we’re willing to look at doing.”

Commissioners are hopeful the change might solve the dual problem of declining participa-

tion and rising costs.

Costs have ranged from a low of $25,343 in 2009 to last year’s $57,195. Meanwhile, tonnage collected by the recycling center and sent to the Northwest Kansas Regional Recycling Organization in Colby peaked at 199.5 tons in 2009 but has dropped to 129.5 tons in 2013.

Public Works Director Rich-

ard Cramer says other counties have reported similar declines after a program has been in effect for a few years.

“When you start everyone has stuff stacked away and they start bringing it in. And some people just don’t recycle like they used to because it becomes an inconvenience,” he says.

(See RECYCLING on page two)

Mini-health fair is Sat. at Scott Co. Hospital

setting sail

The Scott County Hospital will sponsor a mini-health fair on Sat., Oct. 18, from 7:3010:00 a.m., at the hospital.

In recent years the hospital has alternated between the minifair and the full-scale health fair that includes booths from businesses and health organizations.

The mini-fair is limited to providing vaccinations and blood work.

There will be vaccinations available for influenza, pneumonia, tetanus and TDAP. Costs range form $20 to $70.

Participants can also get a prostate test ($20) and blood chemistry profile ($30).

All persons planning to have blood work will need to fast after midnight.

Health fair Gold Sponsors include Wheatland Electric, the Scott Community Foundation, Scott County Hospital, Scott County and The Scott County Record.

Bronze Sponsors include First National Bank, the Scott Co-op, Security State Bank and the Scott City Pharmacy.

Local entities hearing public input on NRP

It was a Columbus Day shipbuilding event, but that didn’t keep third grader Emma Wheeler from thinking about the Pilgrims by constructing the Mayflower during Tuesday’s annual event at Scott City Elementary School.

(Record Photo)

Local taxing entities will conduct public hearings over the next couple of weeks to hear input from individuals and businesses regarding an extension of the Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP).

The program must be renewed every five years. If it is not renewed it will expire on Dec. 31.

The NRP provides a substantial property tax break for new construction that’s appraised in excess of $40,000, or for improvements to existing businesses or homes that increase the appraised value by $40,000 or more.

Those who qualify for the NRP receive a 90 percent rebate on the property taxes applied to the new construction/improve-

ment in the first year of the program. The rebate declines in subsequent years to 70, 50, 30 and 10 percent.

Property owners are required to pay the full amount of taxes owed and the county rebates the qualifying amount in each of the five years.

Persons wanting more information about the NRP and how they can qualify can contact Scott County Development Director Katie Eisenhour.

Hearing dates include: •City of Scott City: Mon., Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m., at City Hall.

•Scott County: Tues., Oct. 21, 3:30 p.m., commission room in the courthouse.

•USD 466: Tues., Oct. 28, 5:00 p.m., at the board meeting room.

New ER procedure to take effect at SC Hospital Imagine that you’re in the waiting room at the Scott City Medical Clinic for your scheduled appointment.

The time of your appointment passes by and you wait . . . maybe another 30 minutes, maybe an hour.

Why the long wait?

In an increasing number of instances it’s because the physician’s assistant or nurse practitioner scheduled to see a patient in the clinic had to respond to a call in the emergency room. It’s a concern that hasn’t gone unnoticed by the hospital administration as the number of emergency room visits climbed to an all-time high of 2,628 during 2013.

“It creates a lot of added stress on our mid-levels who have the responsibility of working in both the clinic and the ER. And it means that we have customers who aren’t happy, and understandably so, because they’ve had to wait for a long time in the clinic, or in the exam room when they scheduled an appointment,” says Scott County Hospital CEO Mark Burnett. “It certainly hasn’t been fair to them.”

Burnett finally has the staff available to address the situation.

Since August 1, Burnett has hired three new mid-level care staff boosting the total to five - with one

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Church services • Page 15 Health Fair • Page 16 Sports • Pages 19-26 Pigskin Payoff • Page 24 Farm section • Pages 28-29 Classified ads • Pages 31-33

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The Scott County Record • Page 2 • Thursday, October 16, 2014

County to review employee tattoo policy Scott County Commissioners are being asked to consider a change in the county’s personnel policy which prohibits employees from having tattoos that are visible while on the job Danny Wackerla, an employee in the treasurer’s office has proposed the county revise its policy so that it allows tattoos which aren’t “offensive or suggestive.”

According to Wackerla, he is

among seven employees in the courthouse - not including department heads or those in the public works department - who have tattoos.

“I’m okay with you regulating it, but be more lenient,” Wackerla said.

County Clerk Alice Brokofsky said there “needs to be more consistency” in how the personal appearance policy is being administered.

Recycling There have also been other factors.

In 2009 and 2010 there were state grants which made it possible for people to drop off their e-waste at no cost. The e-waste collected during those years amounted to 22,924 pounds and 26,274 pounds, respectively.

People are now asked to pay 25 cents a pound to drop off their e-waste.

Last year only 530 pounds of e-waste were collected in the county.

In the early years of the program there was also considerable cardboard being dropped off at the recycling center by Pamida and Alco. That material is now being held by those companies and returned to their distribution centers.

Residential Program However, Cramer feels that if there is a curbside program and all recyclable material can be put into a single dumpster without pre-sorting it would improve participation.

“I’d guess that maybe 50 percent of the people are currently recycling,” says Cramer. “Businesses don’t participate like they should. “But I could see participation improving if people didn’t have to sep-

The employee handbook states that tattoos and body piercing (other than earrings) should not be visible.

It also says employees cannot wear . . . athletic clothing, shorts . . . baseball hats and similar items of casual attire that do not present a businesslike appearance.”

“I guess I need to read the handbook. That puts me in vio-

Total Tons

e-waste (pounds)

2009

199.57

22,924

$25,344

2010

156.31

26,274

$45,629

2011

172.89

678

$37,764

2012

130.84

168

$49,960

2013

129.55

530

$57,196

2014

88.53

Total

971.36

2008

short-sleeved shirt and the tattoos on his arm were visible.

“No one,” he replied.

Minnix said the commission would be willing to consider proposed changes to the personnel policy, but he asked Wackerla to address the entire policy, not just tattoos.

Wackerla agreed to bring a proposal back to the commission for its consideration.

(continued from page one)

Recycling Program History in Scott County Year

lation,” observed Public Works Director Rich Cramer who was wearing a K-State baseball cap while sitting at the commission table.

“Most of us look at people and see people, but some people see tattoos and it makes them uncomfortable,” said Commission Chairman Jim Minnix.

“Has anyone ever mentioned your tattoos?” Brokofsky asked Wackerla. He was wearing a

93.67

Cost $31,609

$37,413 50,574

arate everything and haul it two miles south (to the recycling center).”

Commission Chairman Jim Minnix expressed concern that maintaining the current recycling program “will become more of a challenge.” Since the NWKRRO doesn’t receive state support, participating counties have seen their membership fees increase significantly over the past 2-3 years.

Cramer says the county’s cost will take a hit sometime in the next few years when it comes time to replace some equipment at the local recycling center.

“We haven’t been in it long enough for the big equipment to need replacing, but it’s going to happen someday,” he says.

$284,915

Residential Cost Fawcett said the additional cost for Waste Connections to offer a curbside recycling program in Derby is $4.75 per month.

He said transportation would be a factor for Western Kansas communities, but would come up with a cost early next year.

Residential customers are currently paying $15 per month for trash service.

Commissioner Jerry Buxton suggested the county could perhaps charge a $20 fee for voluntary pick-up.

“If it’s mandatory I’m afraid there’d be too much objection,” Buxton said.

Fawcett said that unless the program is mandatory it wouldn’t be feasible.

“We have to determine whether it’s worth bring-

ing a truck (for recycled items),” noted Fawcett.

With a mandatory program, Buxton felt it might be possible to get by with an added cost of $2 per month for residential customers.

“I like this idea better than what we’re doing now. I think more people will participate,” said Buxton.

Reduced Landfill Cost At the same time, the county is hopeful that if the recycling effort is significant enough it will lead to a reduction in landfill fees for the county. Fawcett presented the county with three rate proposals that would be part of a new contract.

Those rates, noted Minnix, are based on the current flow of trash.

“That should be reduced with more recycling,” he suggested.

What’s for Lunch in Scott City?

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

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

Wed. • Pork chop dinner.

Thurs. • Spaghetti dinner with side salad.

Fri. • Chicken enchilada dinner.

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Sat. • Prime rib

Breakfast specials every night.

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Community Living

Page 3 - Thursday, October 16, 2014

Many factors raise the risk of breast cancer Everyone should take the time to learn more about breast cancer and how it affects all of us.

According to the National Cancer Institute, breast cancer usually forms in the ducts (tubes that carry milk to the nipple) and lobules (glands that make milk). It occurs in both men and women, although male breast cancer is rare.

In 2013, there were 232,340 invasive cases of breast cancer diagnosed and 39,620 deaths.

No one knows the exact causes of breast cancer.

October is ‘Breast Cancer Awareness Month’

There is no explanation why one woman develops breast cancer and another does not.

Bumping, bruising or touching the breast does not cause cancer.

Research has shown that

women with certain risk factors are more likely than others to develop breast cancer. Some risk factors include: •The risk increases as a woman gets older.

•A woman who had breast cancer in one breast has an increased risk of getting cancer in her other breast.

•The risk is higher if there is a family history of breast cancer •Some women have cells in the breast that look abnormal under a microscope. Having certain types of abnormal

cells (atypical hyperplasia and lobular carcinoma in situ [LCIS]) increases the risk.

•Changes in certain genes increase the risk.

These genes include BRCA1, BRCA2 and others.

•The older a woman is when she has her first child, the greater her chance of breast cancer, in addition to women who had their first menstrual period before the age of 12.

Also at increased risk are those who go through menopause after age 55,

those who never had children and women who have taken menopausal hormone therapy with estrogen plus progestin after menopause.

•Breast cancer is diagnosed more often in white women than Latina, Asian, or African American women.

•Women who had radiation therapy to the chest (including breasts) before age 30 are at increased risk.

•Breast tissue may be dense or fatty. Older women whose mammograms (breast x-rays)

news briefs ‘Breast Fest’ unity event in SC Monday Historical Society

The second annual “Breast Fest” will feature guest speaker Dr. Anne O’Dea on Mon., Oct. 20, 6:00-8:30 p.m., at the Wm. Carpenter 4-H Bldg., Scott City.

The evening will begin with a free meal, followed by some demonstrations and the featured speaker.

This is a Breast Cancer Unity Project (bcup) event.

Following the dinner will be a “Fit to be Tied” presentation by Brandi Ludowese followed by the main speaker.

There will also be vendors and door prizes.

The bcup program is a

local initiative that provides free mammograms.

To learn more contact Gayla Nickel at 872-5811.

Sponsoring the Breast Fest are the Scott County Hospital, K-State Extension, Scott Community Foundation, The Scott County Record and the Susan B Komen Foundation.

Those who are interested in joining the bcup Honor Roll can also contact Nickel. Money raised through the Honor Roll helps to fund cancer awareness efforts and mammograms.

Memberships begin at $10.

Alpha Omega to assist with SC Chamber event

Alpha Omega Sorority met on Oct. 9 at the home of Nora Burnett. There were sixteen members present.

Following the opening ritual a moment of meditation was given by Wanda Barton.

Roll call was answered with, “What is your favorite Halloween candy?” Minutes from the previous meeting were read and approved.

All communications were read and the treasurer’s report was given.

Whimmydiddle was discussed and each committee gave a report. Details for the upcoming Chamber Cash Giveaway on October 25 were discussed.

Project Enthusiasm was presented by Kristi Conine and an educational program was presented by Kate Macy.

The closing ritual was read by all members.

annual meeting Sun.

The Scott County Historical Society will host its annual Membership Appreciation Day on Sun., Oct. 19, 2:00 p.m., at the El Quartelejo Museum, West K96 Highway, Scott City.

This informal meeting, hosted by the historical society board of directors, is open to the public.

Guest speaker will be Donald Blakeslee, a professor of anthropology at Wichita State University.

His program is “Kansas, BC (Before Columbus).”

Professor Blakeslee is an expert on prehistoric and early historic Plains life. He will be speaking about the culture and lifestyle of the native people who roamed this area long before America was “discovered.”

The program is provided through the speaker’s bureau of the Kansas Humanities Council, whose funding underwrites humanities programs throughout Kansas.

Guests are welcome to bring artifacts they would like to have identified by Professor Blakeslee.

Refreshments will be served.

A new exhibit in the museum’s temporary gallery commemorates the 100th anniversary of the beginning of WWI. New paintings and artifacts are also on display in the Jerry Thomas Gallery and Collection.

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show more dense tissue are at increased risk.

•The risk is higher after menopause in women who are overweight or obese.

•Women who are physically inactive throughout life may have an increased risk. Being active may help reduce risk by preventing weight gain and obesity.

•Studies suggest that the more alcohol a woman drinks, the greater her risk of breast cancer.

Many risk factors can be avoided. Others cannot be avoided.

(See CANCER on page 14)

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Editorial/Opinion

Page 4 - Thursday, October 16, 2014

editorially speaking

Recycling:

A change in program can be good for taxpayers

Scott County Commissioners are considering a change in the local recycling effort that may be good for the future of the program.

Waste Connections (the parent company of Northend Disposal) is willing to look at offering a residential recycling program in Scott City. This would make it more convenient for people to participate in the recycling effort.

It will, however, come with a price tag. While costs have yet to be negotiated or a proposal put in writing, it appears the residential customers would have to pay $2 to $3 more per month on their trash bill.

The county is hopeful of keeping the increase at a minimum, reasoning that Waste Connections stands to benefit by sending less trash to the Finney County landfill, extending the life of that site, plus the added revenue it stands to gain from recycled material. Waste Connections counters with the increased cost of transporting the recycled material to a sorting site in Hutchinson.

Either way, there is both cost and benefit.

While city residents may see this as an added cost, they need to keep in mind they’re already paying for a recycling program. It currently costs the county nearly $60,000 to operate the recycling center. That cost is part of the annual tax statement rather than a quarterly landfill fee.

“One way or the other we’re paying for this service,” noted County Commissioner Jerry Buxton.

The proposal would eliminate the county’s cost of maintaining a recycling program. Furthermore, it’s hoped that it will encourage more participation by local residents.

It’s an idea worth pursuing and one which would seem to benefit all parties involved.

Confusion:

Roberts can’t remember who his opponent really is

If one didn’t know better they would think that President Obama and Harry Reid are on the general election ballot in Kansas. That’s certainly the impression given the number of times that Sen. Pat Roberts brings up their names during debates with his real opponent, Greg Orman, and while stumping on the campaign trail.

In declaring a debate win over Orman, Roberts’ campaign manager Corry Bliss released a statement in which he declared, “President Obama has made it clear that his policies are on the ballot this election.

“A vote for Greg Orman is a vote to hand over the future of Kansas and America to Barack Obama and Harry Reid.”

If that’s the game they want to play, let’s turn the tables.

In recent weeks, the Roberts campaign has brought Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz into Kansas.

Palin is the same half-term governor who declared once that “[Paul Revere] did warn the British” and “. . . we’ve got to stand with our North Korean allies.”

And Cruz dislikes the government so much that he keeps wanting to shut it down.

So, what does that tell us, Sen. Roberts? That you believe the North Koreans are our allies and that we should shut down the government so people can’t get their Social Security checks?

As difficult as it has been for Roberts, he needs to stand on his own achievements - as feeble as that record is. After nearly 32 years in Congress, Roberts should be able to run a campaign about Pat Roberts - not about a senator from Nevada.

Then again, when you don’t have a record that’s worth running on, a senator from Nevada may be all you have.

More about Pat:

•“We have to change course because our country is headed for national socialism.” - Sen. Pat Roberts, campaigning with Bob Dole in Dodge City (Roberts’ campaign later said he meant it as “bigger government” rather than another name for Nazism) •“Both. How ’bout that?” - Roberts, after appearing with Sarah Palin in Independence, when MSNBC noted the apparent contradiction of Dole’s bipartisanship message and Palin’s fighting words and asked Roberts, “Whose side are you on?”

•“He’s basically furniture in the Senate, and the people in Kansas know that.” - national GOP strategist John Weaver, a former John McCain adviser, referring to Roberts in the Washington Post.

Putting blame where it belongs

We aren’t going to win any friends among our peers within the media, but we think it’s important to come clean.

Gov. Sam Brownback and the Kansas Legislature aren’t to blame because their massive tax cut policy has failed to live up to expectations.

It’s our fault, and by “our” I mean the media because we haven’t given Brownback’s tax policies enough time to work.

“I think they so desperately want what’s happening in this state to fail that they’re shopping for a factual setting to back that up because it’s working,” Brownback said of his critics in a recent interview on CBN. During his comments with CBN founder and televangelist Pat Robertson, the Kansas governor continued by claiming that “the left” wants his economic agenda to “fail so bad that they can’t wait for it to and they just want to get me electorally before we get on through this and prove that this is working.”

Guilty as charged.

Nothing makes us feel better than to have kids kicked off nutrition programs just so we can score political points.

We’re surprised that former KU football coach Charlie Weis hasn’t been making the rounds on network news claiming that the media - not him - is to blame for his 6-22 record.

“If the media hadn’t been so focused on my losing record I’d have had a lot more success recruiting five-star recruits,” we can imagine him saying.

Brownback undoubtedly has supporters who believe in what he’s saying and that his real live experiment would be working wonders if the media would conveniently go away. Dramatic tax cuts and trickle-down economics will work if the media would just ignore the fact it never has.

It’s been more than 30 years since Reaganom-

ics introduced the idea of trickle-down tax cuts.

Congressional Republicans and Republicancontrolled state legislatures have been keeping the idea alive in one form or another for more than three decades with the promise that it will work.

We’re still waiting.

If the media would simply disappear, as Governor Sam wishes, here’s what you wouldn’t know: •In the latest fiscal year, tax cuts were responsible for state revenue nosediving $688 million from the previous year. It was only because of cash reserves that the state was able to spend $329 million more than it received.

•In the upcoming year, it’s projected that the state will spend more than $650 million than it will get in revenue. Only it can’t do that because we no longer have the reserves and state law requires that the state can’t spend money which it doesn’t have.

•According to the Kansas Legislative Research Department, the state could be facing a deficit of more than $1.2 billion

in 2018.

•Public education in Kansas is already suffering with a steady decline in basic state aid that has cost individual school districts millions of dollars over the last four years.

The result has been staff cuts and larger class sizes while bringing about what some are calling “forced consolidation.”

But that’s not all.

According to data compiled by school superintendents within the Southwest Plains Regional Service Center (of which the Scott County district is a member) property taxes have increased an average of 7.9% to offset the loss of state aid. This is in addition to increased student fees.

The 36 school districts within the service center have had to offset lost state aid with property tax increases amounting to $100 million between 2009-13.

Blame that on the liberal media. And while you’re at it, blame the media for the millions of dollars in state money that (See BLAME on page six)

The virus you should worry about

If you are worried about contracting Ebola, I have two suggestions.

First, stop. Second, get a flu shot.

On the first: If you live in the United States, your chances of getting Ebola are vanishingly small even if you are a healthcare worker, or a journalist who travels to Africa to report on the epidemic.

That is not to diminish the significance of the problem. For Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the virus represents a public health catastrophe, one with dire implications for the continent and beyond For the United States, it represents a serious challenge to public health protocols - a reminder about the interconnectedness of the planet in an age of jet travel and a wake-up call about the perils of laxity in the face of a deadly disease.

Where to Write

another view by Ruth Marcus

But as Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health usefully tried to point out on numerous talk shows, there is an important distinction between stopping an Ebola outbreak and preventing an individual infection.

“We’re still quite confident, because of our ability to reach out, do the contact tracing and isolate people who are infected, that we won’t have a public outbreak,” Fauci said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “That’s a different thing than an individual health-care worker unfortunately getting infected.”

It is human nature, reinforced by journalistic instinct, to ignore this context. We worry about the plane crash and suppress

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

the far more likely, and therefore far more terrifying prospect, of the bad driver down the block.

We ignore the mundane tragedy of predictable and, in many cases, preventable deaths - from smoking, from gunshots, from the side effects of obesity - in favor of the newer, newsier threat.

This may have been good statistics and bad parenting, but when my children worried about being killed by terrorists in the aftermath of 9/11, I advised them to fear drivers on the Beltway. Being alert to the possibility of the black-swan event doesn’t mean ignoring the far more likely reality.

My profession, to put it mildly, doesn’t help matters. This is both ingrained response and business imperative. The news is the man who bites the dog. There are no viewers

Sen. Pat Roberts 109 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

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

for the plane that doesn’t fall from the sky.

The adage, “If it bleeds, it leads,” is terrifyingly apt when it comes to hemorrhagic fever. So we swarm to Dallas, interview neighbors, tweet breaking-news bulletins. We are serving the public but also disserving it.

People get riled up, for little rational reason. They and some of their politicians clamor to restrict entry from Ebola-infected countries, which could be counterproductive, and to step up screenings of travelers, which makes people feel safer without being much safer.

Which brings us to your flu shot - something that could actually protect you from a serious illness.

There is an interesting debate about how many people die of the flu each year.

(See VIRUS on page six)

Sen. Jerry Moran 141 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

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

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Banning medical marijuana makes no sense

by Jill Richardson

A few months back, a friend of mine died of cancer. I’ll call her “Karen,” for her privacy.

By the time we met, she was already terminally ill and had been for months.

Over the next year and a half, I watched my friend lose her hair and waste away until I could hardly distinguish her from her middle-school-aged son. She tried chemotherapy, radiation, and any other treatment her doctors would give her, even though she had little hope for remission.

There’s hardly anything “lucky” about her story. But Karen was fortunate in one regard: She lived in California.

In her last years, Karen relied on medical marijuana regularly for relief she couldn’t get from any other medication. In California plus 22 other states

and the District of Columbia, medical marijuana is legal.

Elsewhere, it isn’t.

Why deny a cancer or AIDS patient a medication that reduces suffering? Because a healthy person somewhere might use it recreationally for pleasure?

Karen’s medical marijuana use struck me as normal - until I moved away from California after living there for eight years.

I’m now going to graduate school in Wisconsin, a state where medical marijuana is almost completely illegal.

At first, I thought of medical marijuana as simply a moral issue: It’s inhumane to deny an effective medication to someone who is ill. Then, things got personal.

I’ve endured chronic migraines for the last two decades. I get them from visual triggers like videos and projec-

About 100 Americans die from overdosing on drugs like oxycodone every day - but it’s just about impossible to die from too much marijuana.

tors. I’ve seen doctors in four states. I’ve tried 20 different meds, without luck. Since starting school, I’ve had migraines every single day. I have one right now. These days, the main culprits are the fluorescent lights that illuminate just about every university building.

Oh, and the neurologist has a six-month wait list for appointments.

One possible treatment?

Medical marijuana. Apparently, certain strains are more effective than others for treating different conditions. In other words, if it’s a medical use you’re after, you’re best not buying something random illegally from a dealer.

Medical marijuana in pill bottles

And here’s what I’ve learned.

First, more research needs to be done to verify when and how marijuana is medicinally effective. It has not had the rigorous testing that any FDA-approved drug requires before it’s put on the market.

That said, there is some research happening. Scientists recently found that medical marijuana legalization could cut deaths from painkiller use. In my case, the only other drug I’ve found that reduces my pain is oxycodone, a habit-forming opioid.

About 100 Americans die from overdosing on drugs like oxycodone every day - but it’s just about impossible to die from too much marijuana.

Second, “legalized” pot doesn’t always mean legalized pot. In some states (Illinois, I’m looking at you), you can only use medical marijuana for a defined list of conditions (migraines not included). In its proposed rules, Illinois also plans to charge $100 and fingerprint you like a criminal if you apply to use medical cannabis.

Minnesota has an even smaller list of approved illnesses, charges $200, and won’t allow you to smoke your legal pot although you’re free to vaporize it. Most states require that you live in-state - and prove it.

For Pete’s sake, I’m no criminal - I’m just trying to overcome a common debilitating disease.

(See BANNING on page six)

Citizens disunited is turning voters into bystanders

by E.J. Dionne, Jr.

Speculators wall off young farmers

by Jim Hightower

Gabillionaires who invest in hedge funds generally have the ethical and aesthetic sensibilities of dirt clods. As far as they care, fund managers can put their money into skunk pelt futures - as long as the investment pays a super-fat return.

But since Wall Street’s 2008 crash revealed that so many of these investment schemes were based on nothing more than financial cobwebs and fairy dust, some of the clods began seeking hedge funds that would invest in something more down to earth.

Thus, Wall Street discovered: Dirt. More specifically, farmland.

Such money handlers as BlackRock (the world’s largest asset

manager) now offer big pieces of America’s heartland as an asset that super-rich penthouse dwellers can own and till for mega profits. As a result, ag professors report that their farmbelt conferences on land economics - which normally draw an audience of farmers and local farm lenders - are dominated these days

by Wall Streeters, and American farmland investment seminars are even being held in Dubai and Singapore.

But this Wall Street land rush is a flimsy fad, for it’s not based on economic realities. While crop prices are at record highs today, the painful historic record is that they will plummet tomorrow, destroying the cash flow that makes the hedge fund investment in land work.

Then, of course, the gabillionaires will rush to shed their overalls. But who will line up to buy the land? Certainly not real farmers, who can’t afford the inflated Wall Street price. And especially not young people who want to farm, but who’re already finding it hard to locate affordable land.

America desperately needs this next generation of food producers, yet we’re letting Wall Street speculators literally wall of the land they need.

To learn more, contact the National Young Farmers Coalition: www.youngfarmers.org.

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

Zombie economics in Kansas There are multiple zombie happenings in Denver this week, culminating in the annual Zombie Crawl this Saturday downtown. But over in Kansas, they’ve got a full month devoted to the undead.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has declared October “Zombie Preparedness Month,” a tonguein-decomposed-cheek way to urge citizens to be ready for emergencies like natural disasters. “If you’re prepared for zombies, you’re prepared for anything,” the governor’s office said.

Sadly, Kansans were completely unprepared for the undying horde of walkers the governor himself unleashed upon his own state: economic policies that have been ravaging Kansas and apparently eating brains - because anyone with a brain would have told Brownback these policies were terrible ideas.

We’re talking about “zombie economics” here, bad economic policies that, no matter how much evidence there is debunking them, they just won’t die. The term was coined

by John Quiggin to describe how

behind the headlines

by Tim Hoover

certain economists and their supporters clung to failed theories after the Great Recession, even though these ideas had helped cause the historic downturn.

You’ll easily recognize one of the most hard-to-kill zombies, “Trickledown.” It’s been repeatedly resurrected since at least the 1980s after being dispatched to the cemetery of discredited ideas. “Trick,” as you might call this zombie, looks somewhat harmless, staggering around in a pin-striped suit and murmuring, “Grrr, cutting taxes on the rich helps everyone.”

You’d think that he would have been killed off a long time ago.

Decades of data have shown trickledown economics was disproved during the 30-year boom after World War II, Quiggin has noted. During that time, income inequality was at historic lows as unionized workforces and progressive taxation existed

in harmony with full employment and continuous economic growth.

But Trick somehow survived the crossbow bolt of truth to the head and became the country’s zombiein-chief during the 1980s, when supply-side economists promised repeatedly that everyone would eventually benefit if we cut taxes for the wealthy. The opposite has happened.

From the late 1940s to the early 1980s, before trickle-down took hold, American workers from the richest to the poorest saw their earnings double. In contrast, income growth from 1979 to 2007 (during the period of trickle-down policy) was far less equal. The richest 20 percent of Americans enjoyed a 71 percent increase, compared to just seven percent for the bottom 20 percent.

In Kansas, though, Trick has been leading the zombie pack. In 2012, Brownback signed into law some of the largest tax cuts ever enacted by a state, holding up these cuts which disproportionately benefited (See ZOMBIE on page six)

Are we spending our democracy into oblivion?

This is the time of year when media scribblers bemoan how nasty political campaigns have become. The complainers are accused of a dainty form of historical ignorance by defenders of mud-slinging who drag out Finley Peter Dunne’s 1895 assertion that “politics ain’t beanbag.”

Politics has always been nasty, the argument goes, so we should get over it.

In fact, structural changes in our politics are making campaigns more mean and personal than ever. Even Dunne might be surprised.

Outside groups empowered by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision are using mass media in ways that turn off Americans to democracy, aggravate divisions between the political parties and heighten animosities among citizens of differing views.

Studies of this year’s political advertising show that outside groups are blanketing the airwaves with messages far more negative than those purveyed by the candidates themselves.

That shouldn’t surprise us in the least.

“Candidates can be held accountable for their ads,” says Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen, a consumer organization that is trying to encourage candidates to disown “dark money.” “The outside groups are unknown, and have confusing names.”

No one is advertising under the moniker “Influence Peddlers for Crummy Politics.”

There is far too much complacency about big money’s role in this year’s campaigns, on the grounds that both sides have plenty of it.

This misses the point.

“It doesn’t balance it out if you have billionaire Republicans battling billionaire Democrats,” says Weissman. “You still have billionaires setting the agenda for the election.”

Moreover, a focus just on this year’s competitive Senate and House races misses the enormous impact a handful of very wealthy people can have on state and local campaigns.

A new report by the Brennan Center for Justice details how, at a relatively modest cost to themselves, a privileged few can change how government that is supposed to be nearest to the people is actually carried out.

“At this scale, you don’t have to be a Koch brother to be a kingmaker,” the report informs us.

Worse, the supposedly “independent” spending of the super-rich kingmakers isn’t independent at all. The report documents how closely the activities of supposedly outside groups are coordinated with insiders and the candidates themselves.

Like everything else in our politics these days, Citizens United is usually debated along ideological lines. Progressives typically hate it.

Conservatives usually defend it.

But citizens of every persuasion should be worried about what this precedent-shattering decision has unleashed. More than ever, politics is the only profession that regularly advertises against itself. If voters feel cynical, the outside groups - on both sides - are doing all they can to encourage their disenchantment.

A study by the Wesleyan Media Project of ads aired between Aug. 29 and Sept. 11 found that 55 percent of ads in U.S. Senate elections were negative, up from 43.7 percent over the same period in 2010.

(See DISUNITED on page six)

The Scott County Record • Page 6 • Thursday, October 16, 2014

More cuts coming to Kansas public education

by Duane Goossen

Troubles in the Kansas budget have quite worrisome implications for our state’s future. Kansas revenue dropped precipitously after the implementation of dramatic tax policy changes, causing budget problems that already affect Kansas classrooms and other state services, but the profound effect is yet to come.

Education funding for students has dropped already, but with school finance such a large part

of the state’s general fund spending - 50 percent it’s a likely target for even more cuts as lawmakers struggle with a very large budget imbalance.

A quick run through the numbers: In the just completed fiscal year 2014, state revenue dropped $688 million from the year before, and Kansas spent $329 million more than it took in.

Now, three months into fiscal year 2015, revenue remains below last year’s levels, placing the state on a track to spend more

5 million forced back to work under Obama

by Andy Borowitz

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) - In a blistering indictment of the Administration’s economic policies, the chairman of the Republican National Committee has accused President Obama of forcing five million Americans back to work since he took office, in 2009.

“When President Obama took office, there were five million Americans at home all day who are now, sadly, not at home,” said Reince Priebus, on Sunday’s edition of “Meet the Press.”

“They have to go to work five days a week and they’re mad as hell about it.”

He said that he expected GOP candidates in the midterm elections to hammer away at the President’s greatest vulnerability, which he called “the ugly side of employment.”

“You don’t take five million Americans, uproot them from their families, and make them leave their homes for eight hours a day,” Priebus said. “This isn’t a dictatorship. This is America.”

He added that the President’s failure on this issue has helped sharpen the Republican Party’s message to voters. “If you’re sick and tired of employment, vote for us,” he said.

Andy Borowitz is a comedian and author

Zombie

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the wealthy - as a model for the rest of the nation.

But Kansas’s deep income tax cuts, instead of spurring economic growth, are causing huge revenue losses and deep cuts in support for schools, universities, libraries and other vital public services. The state then even raised taxes on poor and middle-class residents to help offset those cuts.

Meanwhile, the employment growth in Kansas lags the rest of the nation, as have residents’ incomes.

What the economic disaster next door in Kansas shows us is that those zombies must not be allowed to spread beyond Kansas. Luckily, the zombies you’ll see on Saturday walking downtown aren’t real and pose no threat to you.

If only the same could be said for “Zombie Economics.”

Tim Hoover is communications director for the Colorado Fiscal Institute

Banning

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I want relief from my crushing daily migraines, and I want better quality of life. I want to remain a productive member of society. I don’t know if medical marijuana will help me, but I’d like to find out. Legally.

Under the supervision of a doctor.

It hurts that there’s a potential solution for my pain and the pain of so many others but state and local governments won’t let us give it a try.

Let’s reform our laws to give patients relief, and engage in the scientific study needed to understand if, how, and when medical cannabis works.

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

than $650 million above receipts. Except, that cannot happen. The state’s savings account does not have enough money left to cover the difference between rising expenses and falling revenue.

Somehow revenue and expenses will have to be brought back together this year and in future years, but the fix is far from simple. Even more income tax rate reductions are scheduled to kick in all the way through 2018, further depressing receipts, but spending reductions

have already brought the base amount per pupil for funding schools down $548 from where it once was.

Why is this important?

Won’t lawmakers solve this?

Yes, they must find a solution, but the magnitude of the problem is so large that all of the state’s political energy will be required to address it.

Our efforts as a state must now go toward figuring out how to downsize, how to cut back, how to get by, rather than develop

and grow. Our neighboring states are being given an opportunity to push past us.

Other states ask: “How can we invest to make our schools the best?” while in Kansas we try to figure out how to get even more kids into a classroom.

No area is more important than public education.

Kansas has enjoyed excellent schools which have attracted newcomers to the state and kept people here.

Yet, in the present environment, schools have

had to pull back, and the state’s financial outlook does not leave a way to fix that, or invest and improve.

Kansans, we’ve allowed ourselves to be placed on a financial path that leads our state backward rather than into the future, a future that belongs to Kansas schoolchildren.

Duane Goossen served as state budget director for 12 years in the administrations of three governors - Republican Bill Graves and Democrats Kathleen Sebelius and Mark Parkinson

State cuts $3.8M from SC schools

by Kevin McWhorter

Some argue that Gov. Brownback has not cut K-12 funding.

While the following are not to the penny, let’s analyze the funding amounts for the Scott City school district for the past four years while the governor has been in office and learn the truth.

Funding amounts change each year due to weighted district enrollment, taken times the base state aid which increases or decreases by action of the legislature and the governor.

Base state aid cuts have been as low as $595 and as high as $653 per student during the past years.

Let’s average it at $625.

The weighted full-time equivalent (FTE) number of students is $1,547.4 x $625 = $967,125 that your district has been shorted each year by the governor and the legislature in violation of state law.

This number, divided by your general fund of $5,938,921, is a cut of 16.28% per year. Over four years the cut equals $3,868,500 that you have to make up with staff cuts, program cuts, local

Blame has been cut from Head Start, early child education and child nutrition programs in Kansas.

And yet Brownback says the problem isn’t the policy, it’s our lack of patience.

If that were the case, then job and business growth numbers in Kansas would offer a rosy picture of prosperity on the horizon. That doesn’t appear to be the case.

Kansas’ gross domestic product (GDP) grew 1.9 percent in 2013. Now,

Virus The standard, prod-themasses-into-getting-shots figure is north of 30,000.

In fact, the numbers are dodgy - flu is not necessarily listed as the cause of death, even when it is and vary widely from year to year.

A 2010 analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of 31 influenza seasons, from 1976 to 2007, found annual numbers in the United States ranging from 3,349 to 48,614. The World

to make public schools “more efficient.” The real plan by those who believe school funding is currently adequate or should be reduced even more is to “force school consolidation through starvation.”

In other words, continue to underfund schools at such a level that many smaller districts cannot afford to operate the schools in their communities.

Kevin McWhorter is a nine year member of the Goddard board of education who advocates for Kansas K-12 students by testifying before the Senate and House Education Committees regarding education issues when the legislature is in session

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we may not understand all the numbers that go into the GDP, but here’s what you should know. That’s half the rate of Colorado’s growth and trails Oklahoma’s 4.2 percent.

Kansas also trailed the growth rate in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa.

Those states didn’t implement a massive tax cut program. Or maybe those states are doing better, suggests Brownback, because their economies aren’t being undermined by the liberal media.

Disunited Negative ads were down slightly in the next two-week period, but there were still more negative commercials run this year than in the comparable period in 2010.

Defenders of massive spending on advertising, positive or negative, will make the case that at least the ads engage voters. Not necessarily, and certainly not this year. Indeed, the Pew Research Center found in early October

property tax increases, increased fees to students and parents, drawing down reserves and deferred maintenance.

Any business or household experiencing an income cut of 16.28% would be seriously stressed to make ends meet. Gov. Brownback has massively cut your K-12 education funding. The sun is not shining on the schools in Scott City.

The idea of forced school consolidation is a topic of interest to many of the legislature and their special committees continue to examine how

There’s also the little matter of the “liberal” investment firms Standard and Poor’s and Moody’s each downgrading the state’s bond rating because they put politics ahead of patience. That’s how financial firms operate.

As a member of the media, we apologize to Governor Sam for our “we can’t wait for you to fail” philosophy.

When young children are pushed out of nutrition programs, when the poor

are denied health care because the state won’t pay for Medicaid expansion, when Kansas teachers can’t get pay raises, when students are put into crowded classrooms and when the state’s infrastructure needs are put on hold because of state budget cuts, there’s only one thing you can say.

Be patient.

And ignore us naysayers in the media. We’re the reason this grand experiment is failing.

Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com

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that only 15 percent of Americans are following the elections “very closely.”

Interest in the campaign, says Scott Keeter, director of survey research at Pew, “is the lowest it has been at this point in an off-year election in at least two decades.”

Hardly a day goes by without someone lamenting how polarized our politics has become. Can

anyone seriously contend that the current way of running and financing elections is disconnected from the difficulty politicians have in working together?

“How are they supposed to get along with the other side the day after the election?” Weissman asks.

Writing recently in Foreign Affairs, the sometimes dissident conservative writer David Frum

argues that “the radicalization of the party’s donor base has led Republicans in Congress to try tactics they would never have dared use before.”

Thus the tragic irony: Citizens United is deepening our divisions and turning more citizens into bystanders. Our republic can do better.

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

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Health Organization estimates that annual flu epidemics “result in about three million to five million cases of severe illness, and about 250,000 to 500,000 deaths” worldwide.

Even so, a disappointingly low percentage of Americans get flu shots each year, even as the availability of vaccinations increases and the cost drops. By the end of flu season, the share of those who have received

shots tends to be less than half, according to the CDC. “I don’t need it,” people tend to say (28 percent, in a 2011 RAND study), or “I didn’t get around to it” (16 percent).

I write this with some sheepishness, as someone who hasn’t managed to get around to it in the last few years - and, even worse, hasn’t managed to rouse herself to get around to it for the kids either.

That was dumb. The

vaccine isn’t foolproof, but it can prevent you from contracting the flu and perhaps make your case milder if you do get sick. I’m marching us to the drugstore this afternoon.

You should, too. Stop fretting about the unlikely.

Do something about the predictable.

Ruth Marcus is an editorial writer for The Washington Post, specializing in politics, campaign finance, the federal budget and taxes

The Scott County Record • Page 7 • Thursday, October 16, 2014

Recognizing the value of co-ops in our community This month has been designated National Cooperative Month, a time to celebrate cooperative and the economic contribution that they provide to the nation.

The cooperative business model has been especially important to rural America and has provided one of the surest and best ways for agricultural producers to capture value in their farming operations.

Each October since 1930, the benefits that the nation’s cooperatives have provided to their member/owners has been recognized and we at the Scott Cooperative would like to join with coop members and associations throughout the country to celebrate the nation’s cooperatives this month.

Over the years, coop-

eratives have been organized for many purposes, but a fundamental reason for a cooperative business model is the need for member’s to band together to provide goods and services that would otherwise not be available for them in the marketplace.

Cooperative businesses differ from other business models in that they are organized as not-forprofit businesses. They are owned by the members who use the goods and services they provide and they are democratically controlled.

Earnings generated by the cooperative’s operations are paid back to members - in cash, stock or both - based upon the volume of business that they do each year with the cooperative. This model has been used in a variety of businesses but

it has worked especially well in agriculture and has successfully changed the landscape of rural America.

Coops in Rural America In the 1930s, much of rural America was without electricity and most private utility company’s felt it was too expensive to invest in electric lines to bring power to isolated rural farmsteads.

The Rural Electric Association was created to bring electricity to rural America. By 1939, REA had help to establish over 400 electric cooperatives that have changed agriculture in the United States and improved the rural economy and the lives of rural Americans.

The history of the Scott Cooperative tells a similar story. The Scott Cooperative was estab-

lished in 1957 by area grain producers who needed petroleum products and other farm supplies for their farming operations. These producers banded together to start a cooperative business that allowed them to get the products they needed to make their farming operations successful.

Over time, the membership of the cooperative expanded the product mix to include fertilizer and ag chemicals, bulk fuel delivery, on-farm tire services and grain storage and marketing services.

Over the past 57 years the Scott Cooperative has had a direct impact on the local economies of the communities that it operates in. Profits generated by the Scott Cooperative over the years have been returned to the members

as patronage dividends and these profits have turned over many times in the local community.

Like any other area business, the Scott Cooperative has paid property taxes, created jobs and issued pay checks that have also circulated through the economy.

From the start, the members of the cooperative have been generous in their support of local groups and activities ranging from 4-H clubs and FFA groups to school activities and community celebrations.

The Scott Coop has been challenged by the Kansas Cooperative Council to celebrate National Cooperative Month and to also celebrate the 70th year of the Kansas Coop Council, by working together to

increase awareness of those who do not have the ability to meet their daily nutritional needs.

The Coop Council has challenged all of the state’s cooperatives to “Pound Out Hunger” by collecting 70 pounds of non-perishable food to be donated to community food banks.

The Scott Cooperative is working together with Wheatland Electric this month to help “Cram the Van” with food donations to be given to our local food banks.

We invite you to help with this effort by bringing a food item to the Wheatland Broadband Center on Fri., Oct. 31, enjoy a sandwich and celebrate the rich heritage of the nation’s cooperatives.

Gary Friesen General Manager Scott Cooperative Assn.

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The Scott County Record • Page 8 • Thursday, October 16, 2014

South African native enjoys life as a PA in rural Kansas

It can be difficult enough convincing someone from eastern Kansas to take advantage of a job opportunity in the western half of the state.

So how did the Scott County Hospital manage to attract a physician’s assistant from half a world away?

Word of mouth, says Caley Roberts, whose home is in Johannesburg, South Africa.

“I heard good things about this hospital and the people who work here,” she says.

It was sports, not medicine, which first brought the 28-year-old to the Midwest.

She was an avid cricket player while growing up in Johannesburg, but there are very few opportunities for women. So Roberts took up softball and was

offered a scholarship at Butler County Community College, El Dorado.

That was followed by a two-year scholarship to continue her softball career with Wichita State University.

Roberts went on to complete her master’s degree as a physician’s assistant, but returning home to continue that career wasn’t an option.

“They don’t have PAs in South Africa,” says Roberts, who earned her degree in May and completed the board exams in August. “As a PA there’s a lot of versatility and you are always learning from a doctor, so it’s a good situation.

“And I wanted to stay in Kansas. This is where I’ve been for the past nine years, so it’s like home to me.”

ER Staff of those responsible only for emergency room calls during the day. The tentative plan is for a midlevel staff member to be stationed in the hospital Monday through Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., effective Nov. 3.

Began With the Move “We’ve seen a huge increase in ER visits since moving into our new hospital,” notes Burnett. “It’s reached a point where we had to hire the additional staff in order to keep everything flowing better within the clinic.”

When the move was made into the new hospital in April of 2012, a spike in ER visits began almost immediately.

“We were in the new hospital only 20 minutes when we saw our first ER patient,” says Janie Griswold, emergency room supervisor. “It hasn’t slowed down since. It’s been pretty phenomenal.”

“We considered the possibility of that happening, but not to this degree,” says Burnett. “It’s taken us all by surprise.”

In the last full year at the old hospital, total ER visits were 1,850. The hospital has seen that many ER visits in the first nine months of this year.

It was also Roberts’ goal to practice in a rural setting after doing some of her clinical work at Colby and Osborne.

“It gives you a chance to do everything,” she notes.

After receiving offers from several hospitals, Roberts settled on the Scott County Hospital, in large part because it was recommended by a friend.

“It’s a wonderful facility and you have a great support staff,” Roberts adds.

Her family was also supportive of the decision, even though they are half a world apart.

“The first time they Caley Roberts is a new physician’s assistant on the staff at the Scott City came to the United States Medical Clinic and Scott County Hospital.

(Record Photo) was for my graduation in May. They were very says. “But now their for myself and the friends don’t know that I could go back to Johannesburg skeptical about my deci- minds are at ease after I have here.

“I like the rural life. I now.” sion to stay here,” she seeing the life I’ve built

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Scott Co. Hospital ER visits by year 2010 1,904 2011 1,850 2012 2,322 2013 2,628 2014 1,830

A Number of Factors Burnett attributes several factors to the spike in ER visits. Perhaps at the top of that list is a corresponding increase in business at the clinic which has made it even more difficult to see the physicians on a timely basis.

“When people can’t see a doctor in the clinic their next stop is the ER,” Burnett says.

It’s also an option for the uninsured who otherwise would have to pay a fee before seeing a physician if they schedule an appointment at the clinic.

“Those who don’t have the ability to pay up front feel they have no choice but to come (to the ER),” says Griswold. “We’re here to provide a service.

We don’t turn them away.”

Even for people with insurance, visits to the emergency room are becoming more commonplace due to higher deductibles. People delay going to the clinic because their out-of-pocket costs are higher.

That delay, says Burnett, can turn what was

initially a relatively minor problem into something more serious.

“What could have been taken care of in the clinic now becomes an ER visit,” he says.

Burnett says the ER is also seeing more people from Finney County.

“Some of them have said that even with the drive to Scott City they can get faster treatment than by waiting in Garden City,” he points out. “And I think that being near the highway makes us more visible.”

Reducing ER Visits The overall goal behind the staffing change isn’t for the hospital to see more people in the emergency room, but to get more people into the clinic.

“Our hope is that by not having staff pulled away because of ER calls, we can see more people in the clinic because we’ll have fewer interruptions,” explains Burnett. “And if we can cut down on those interruptions that means people won’t have to wait as long and they’ll be happier.”

Plus, keeping people out of the ER helps the hospital’s bottom line.

“The ER isn’t where you want your business to be. You aren’t going to make money there,” says

That will make things run

The emergency room/clinic mid-level staff: a lot smoother in the clin-

Megan Dirks: a part-time nurse practitioner, she is a 2004 graduate of Scott Community High School. Dirks earned an undergraduate degree from Emporia State University and a Master’s degree in nursing (family practice) from Washburn University. She has been employed by the Scott County Hospital since May of 2012.

Joie Tedder: a nurse practitioner, she is originally from Arkansas City and earned her undergraduate degree from Southwestern College, Winfield. She completed her Master’s degree at New Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Tedder joined the local medical staff on August 1.

Melissa Batterton: a part-time nurse practitioner, she is originally from Tulsa, Okla. She earned her undergraduate and Master’s degrees from Wichita State University. For the past 11 years she had worked at hospitals in Hillsboro and Marion. The family made the move to Scott City so her husband, Shawn, could return to the family farm in Wichita County. The couple has two sons, Carson, 9, and Reed, 6. She joined the medical staff on August 1.

Ryan Michels: a physician’s assistant, is a native of Lawrence. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Kansas and earned a Master’s degree from Union College, Lincoln. He has been employed by the hospital since June of 2013. the hospital CEO. “I know that’s hard for some people to imagine given the cost of an ER visit.

“The ER is more heavily weighted toward those with no money or poor insurance. Because of that it’s hard to make the ER a money-making proposition.”

That’s also why there was some hesitation to increase staffing for a department that doesn’t provide a lot of revenue for the hospital.

However, everyone involved feels the change is a good one for the hospital and clinic.

“When you are on-call (for the ER) it’s a pretty difficult situation because you end up going back and forth between the clinic and the hospital,” says Ryan Michels, a physician’s assistant who has been with the hospital since June 2013.

“Now we’ll either be working in the clinic or the hospital, but not both.

ic. We shouldn’t see the schedule backing up like it has on some occasions.”

Having five mid-levels on staff is the most that Megan Dirks, a part-time family nurse practitioner, has enjoyed in her 2-1/2 years with the hospital.

“I’m looking forward to the change,” she says.

“It’s great to have the staff to make this possible.”

Burnett adds that the changes are a recognition that health care is continuing to change.

“With our ER this busy, maybe that’s proof we’re serving the mission we’re supposed to be doing as a hospital,” he says.

It’s even prompting Burnett to consider other options to address the community’s health care needs, such as an urgent care clinic. He says it’s a service usually found in larger cities, similar to mini-clinics.

“It’s not like a clinic where you schedule appointments, but it’s not an ER either,” he says.

“The question is whether you can provide too much medical care,” Burnett says. “Are there enough people to support it? You have to keep an open mind and be willing to consider different things.”

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More spending means better education results Money matters for public schools.

At least that’s the conclusion of a new study by the Kansas Association of School Boards, which says states that spend more on their public schools tend to get better results than those that don’t, even after taking poverty rates and the relative cost of living in each state into account.

“The amount of spending . . . is a significant predictor of almost all outcome measures, including all (National Assessment of Educational Progress) math and reading scores, college readi-

ness tests and high school completion,” the report states.

But Ted Carter, the research specialist at KASB who conducted the study, said Kansas is a special case because it gets higher-than-average student test scores, despite having lower-than-average education funding.

“Kansas gets more bang for the buck,” Carter says.

KASB officials presented the report on Tuesday to the Kansas State Board of Education during the board’s public comment period.

Those findings come

as a special task force created by the Legislature this year is preparing to finalize a report on how schools can spend their resources more efficiently. It also comes while a three-judge panel of the Shawnee County District Court is still considering whether funding levels in Kansas are constitutionally adequate.

Education funding has also been a dominant issue in this year’s race for governor. Gov. Sam Brownback, a Republican, oversaw large cuts in base state aid for schools, although he says total spending, including

The amount of spending . . . is a significant predictor of almost all outcome measures, including all . . . math and reading scores, college readiness tests and high school completion . . .

teacher pension funding, is now at record levels.

But his challenger, Democrat Paul Davis, has criticized Brownback for enacting what he says are the largest cuts to public education in state history.

The study looked at spending in all 50 states over the last 10 years and used a statistical method called regression analy-

sis to find out how much of the variation in test scores can be explained by spending, as opposed to other factors.

Ted Carter, a research specialist at KASB, said the study looks at spending in three different ways, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau: “total spending,” which includes everything from teacher salaries to capital expenses and pension funding; “current spending,” such as instructional expenses and support services, but not capital outlay or pensions; and “instructional spending,” or just the money dealing

Cool weather didn’t keep participants in the Little Beaver Cheer Camp from performing during halftime last Friday evening at the SCHSUlysses football game. Cheering on the Beavers were (top photo, from left) Rebekah Herndon, Piper Fox and DraeVynn Ullom.

(Left photo) Payton Hall (left) and Odessa Cline.

The girls were under the direction of the Scott Community High School cheerleaders.

(Record Photos)

Week of October 20-24 Breakfast Monday: Whole grain cinnamon roll, mandarin oranges, fruit juice.

Tuesday: Whole grain waffles, pineapple tidbits, fruit juice.

Wednesday: Breakfast pizza, mixed fruit, fruit juice.

Thursday: Egg taco and salsa, graham crackers, fresh grapes, fruit juice.

Friday: No school.

Lunch Monday: Pigs in a blanket, *spicy chicken patties, seasoned potato wedges, broccoli and cheese, pears.

Tuesday: Salisbury steak, *chicken fried steak, potatoes and gravy, green peas, warm rolls, peaches.

Wednesday: Bierocks, *corndogs, tri-tator, corn, mandarin oranges.

Thursday: Popcorn chicken, *tuna and string cheese, baked beans, tator tots, gelatin and fruit.

Friday: No school. *second choice at SCMS and SCHS

Friendship ‘Meals to Go’

Good for special diets • only $3.25/meal • Call 872-3501

(See RESULTS on page 18)

2 from area receive FHSU scholarship

cheering on the Beavers

USD 466 Lunch Menu

directly with the interaction between teachers and students.

The study found that total spending has more impact on educational outcomes than just the percent of money spent on instruction.

Those findings contradict other studies that the state presented during the trial of the Kansas school finance lawsuit in 2012.

They also contradict the conclusions of a study released earlier this year by the conservative Cato Institute, which argued that overall test scores have remained flat nationwide

Hannah Speer, Dighton, and Clancy Masterson, Leoti, are among 39 students who have been awarded the $1,000-persemester Ralph and Lucile Hunter Scholarship for the 2014-15 academic year at Ft. Hays State University.

Speer, a 2012 graduate of Dighton High School, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Speer. A junior, she is majoring in agriculture.

Masterson is a 2012 graduate of Wichita County High School. A junior, she is majoring in elementary education.

The scholarship is awarded to women who graduated from a Kansas high school on or west of US183 Highway. The scholarship requires fulltime attendance and a minimum GPA of 3.3.

For the 2014-2015 academic year, 28 students renewed the scholarship and 11 new awards went to incoming freshmen.

For the Record Do you need ID insurance, credit monitoring The Scott County Record

Jason Alderman

You’d have to be living under a rock not to be concerned about identity theft. It seems like every other month there’s a new report about another massive data breach somewhere in the world.

Not surprisingly, a thriving industry has sprung up around helping to protect consumers from identity theft. Most of these services are pretty expensive and many con-

sumer organizations argue that they merely take actions you could easily carry out yourself for free.

But if you don’t have the time or wherewithal, you may want to enlist a professional to help unravel the mess.

Following are some of the identity theft prevention services being marketed, as well as questions to ask when considering them: ID theft insurance is commonly offered as a

Scott City Council Agenda Mon., October 20 • 7:30 p.m.

City Hall • 221 W. 5th •Call to Order •Approve minutes of Oct. 6 regular meeting and Oct. 8 special meeting •Approve Ordinance No. 1161, “Demolishing, Altering or Moving Permit Fee and Certificate of Insurance” •Approve Ordinance No. 1162 (curb cuts for driveways) •Approve a resolution (No. 2014-8) to end the water watch •Approve Christmas Light Parade on Main Street sponsored by Chamber of Commerce •Scott County Development Committee 1) Neighborhood Revitalization Plan hearing 2) Approval of revised NRP •Discuss the property where former hospital was located •Discuss multi-jurisdictional hazard mitigation plan •Airport Commission 1) Discuss bids to move and install heaters •Mayor’s appointment to Sales Tax Committee •Open agenda: audience is invited to voice ideas or concerns. A time limit may be requested Pool Department 1) Year-end pool report 2) Discuss Renosys contract for pool liner Police Department 1) Misc. business Parks Department 1) Accept resignations of parks employee Public Works Department 1) Discuss street sweeper repairs Clerk’s Department 1) City council training on Oct. 28 at City Hall 2) Discuss Christmas party

Public (Published in The Scott County Record on Thurs., October 16, 2014)1t BEFORE THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS NOTICE OF FILING APPLICATION RE: Landmark Resources, Inc.: Application for Commingling of Production (ACO-4) in the Janzen 1-7 in Scott County, Kansas.

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

You, and each of you, are hereby notified that Landmark Resources, Inc. has filed an application to commingle the Marmaton group and the Cherokee producing formations at the Janzen 1-7, located 1853’ from the north line and 1542’ from the east line of NE/4 Sec.

rider to homeowners or renters insurance and typically costs $25 and $60 a year.

Note: it doesn’t protect you from being victimized in the first place, nor does it cover direct monetary losses resulting from identity theft. Rather, it reimburses costs associated with reclaiming your financial identity (e.g., phone calls, making copies, mailing documents, wages lost when pursuing

resolution and hiring an attorney).

Questions you should ask: What are the policy’s limits?

Is there a deductible?

If lost wages are covered, what limits apply and what triggers this coverage?

If legal fees are covered, what limits apply and must the insurer preapprove the work?

How much personalized assistance will you

Scott Co. LEC Report

get - will they assign a case manager to execute on your behalf or merely give you a checklist to follow?

Credit monitoring services track your credit reports and contact you whenever key changes occur - things like new accounts opened in your name, address changes, credit inquiries and increased credit limits.

They usually cost from $10 to $30 a month and services provided are all

over the map. For example: •Some monitor and provide credit reports from all three major credit bureaus; but some only track one.

•More expensive plans provide additional services including monitoring public records, black market website surveillance, and computer protection programs like antivirus and keystroke encryption software.

(See CREDIT on page 11)

Public Notice

(First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Oct. 9, Scott County Sheriff’s Department 2014; last published Thurs., Oct. 16, 2014)2t Oct. 6: A theft was reported at 6500 West Road 190. NEIGHBORHOOD REVITALIZATION PUBLIC HEARING Oct. 8: Theft of property or services was reported at The County of Scott County, Kansas, will hold a public hearing at 3:30 p.m. on Tues., October 21, 2014, in the Com11000 West Road 170.

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Oct. 16, 2014; last published Thurs., Oct. 23, 2014)2t CHANGE OF ZONING REQUEST Notice is hereby given that the Scott City Planning Commission will hold a special meeting on November 13, 2014, at 7:00 p.m., at the Scott City Council Meeting Room at City Hall, 221 West 5th Street, Scott City, Kansas, to consider the following agenda items: 1. Application for amendment of the official zoning map

by Mark C. Fouquet Shakespeare Oil Company, Inc., to change the zoning from R-2 Residential to C-2 General Commercial District for the following described property to wit.

Lot Fourteen (14) and North Half of Lot Fifteen (15), Block Fifteen (15), Cases 2nd Addition to the City and Vacated Alley. (507 Jefferson Street) Proposed use is storage facility and workshop.

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

Dated: October 14, 2014 Rodney Hogg, chairman Scott City Planning Commission

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Oct. 16, 2014; last published Thurs., Oct. 23, 2014)2t NEIGHBORHOOD REVITALIZATION PUBLIC HEARING Unified School District No. 466 will hold a public hearing at 5:00 p.m. , on Tuesday, October 28, 2014, at the Administration Office, Board Meeting Room, 704 S. College, Scott City, Kansas.

Purpose of the hearing will be to hear and consider public comment on the Neighborhood Revitalization Plan.

Unified School District No. 466 is entitled, pursuant to the Kansas Neighborhood Revitalization Act, K.S.A. 12-17, 117 et seq. (the Act), to adopt a neighborhood revitalization plan, pursuant to the Act and to enter into an Interlocal Agreement with other municipalities within Scott County, Kansas for the purpose of promoting the conservation or redevelopment of certain areas in Scott County, Kansas in order to protect public health, safety and welfare of the citizens of Scott County, Kansas.

The proposed Revitalization Plan is available for public review and consideration at the Board of Education Administration Office during regular business hours.

Mark Davis, president USD No. 466, Board of Education ATTEST Susan Carter Board Clerk

Public Notice

(First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Oct. 9, 2014; last published Thurs., Oct. 16, 2014)2t APPLICATION FOR SPECIAL USE PERMIT Notice is hereby given that the Scott City Planning Commission will hold a special meeting on October 23, 2014, at 7:00 p.m., at the Scott City Council Meeting Room at City Hall, 221 West 5th Street, Scott City, Kansas, to consider the following agenda items: Notice 1) Application for special use permit by Andrea Scheuer7-T17S-33W in Scott Coun- man and Bronson Baker to allow a chiropractic clinic practice, Lots Thirteen (13) and Fifteen (15), Block Four (4), ty, Kansas.

Any persons who object Case’s Addition to the City (920 S. Main Street) All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be to or protest this application shall be required to file their heard at such hearing. objections or protests with Dated: October 8, 2014 Rodney Hogg, chairman the Conservation Division of Scott City Planning Commission the State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas within fifteen (15) days Public Notice from the date of publication.

These protests shall be filled All creditors of the decepursuant to Commission (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Oct. dent are notified to exhibit regulations and must state specific reasons why the 9, 2014; last published their demands against the Estate within the latter of grant of the application may Thurs., Oct. 23, 2014)3t cause waste, violate correla- IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF four months from the date SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS tive rights, or pollute the natof first publication of notice ural resources of the State of IN THE MATTER OF THE under K.S.A. 59-2236 and ESTATE OF MARGARET K. amendments thereto, or if Kansas.

All persons interested or STOPPEL, DECEASED the identity of the creditor is NO. 14-PR-22 concerned shall take notice known or reasonably ascerNOTICE TO CREDITORS of the foregoing and shall tainable, 30 days after actual govern themselves accord- THE STATE OF KANSAS TO notice was given as provided ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: ingly. by law, and if their demands You are notified that a Landmark Resources, Inc. Petition for Probate of Will are not thus exhibited, they 1616 S. Voss Road, #600 and Issuance of Letters Tes- shall be forever barred.

Houston, Tex. 77057 Marcine A. Gorman, tamentary was filed in this Petitioner Court by Marcine A. Gorman, an heir, devisee and legatee, Jake W. Brooks and executor named in the Attorney At Law “Last Will and Testament of P.O. Box 664, 101 E. 6th Margaret K. Stoppel,” de- Scott City, Ks. 67871 ceased.

620-872-7204

•Financial and investments report •Mayor’s comments

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missioner’s room, located at the Scott County Courthouse in Scott City, Kansas.

Purpose of the hearing will be to hear and consider public comment on the Neighborhood Revitalization Plan and accompanying Interlocal Agreement.

The Commission is entitled, pursuant to the Kansas Neighborhood Revitalization Act, K.S.A. 12-17, 117 et seq. (the Act) to adopt a neighborhood revitalization plan pursuant to the Act and to enter into an Interlocal Agreement with the other municipalities within Scott County, Kansas for the purpose of promoting the conservation or redevelopment of certain areas in Scott County, Kansas, in order to protect public health, safety and welfare of the citizens of Scott County, Kansas.

The proposed Revitalization Plan is available for public review and consideration at the office of the County Clerk during regular business hours.

James M. Minnix, chairman County of Scott County Scott County, Ks. ATTEST Alice Brokofsky County Clerk

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Oct. 9, 2014; last published Thurs., Oct. 16, 2014)2t NEIGHBORHOOD REVITALIZATION PUBLIC HEARING The City of Scott City, Kansas, will hold a public hearing at 7:30 p.m., on Mon., October 20, 2014, at the Scott City Council Meeting Room at City Hall, 221 West 5th Street, Scott City, Kansas.

Purpose of the hearing will be to hear and consider public comment on the Neighborhood Revitalization Plan.

The City Council is entitled, pursuant to the Kansas Neighborhood Revitalization Act, K.S.A. 12-17, 117 et seq. (the Act) to adopt a neighborhood revitalization plan pursuant to the Act and to enter into an Interlocal Agreement with other municipalities within Scott County, Kansas for the purpose of promoting the conservation or redevelopment of certain areas in Scott County, Kansas in order to protect public health, safety and welfare of the citizens of Scott County, Kansas.

The proposed Revitalization Plan is available for public review and consideration at the office of City Clerk during regular business hours.

Dan Goodman, Mayor City of Scott City Scott County, Ks. ATTEST Brenda K. Davis, MMC City Clerk

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Public Notice

Public Notice

(First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Oct. 2, 2014; last published Thurs., Oct. 16, 2014)3t NOTICE OF GENERAL ELECTION NOVEMBER 4, 2014 CANDIDATES AND QUESTIONS TO BE VOTED FOR AT THE GENERAL ELECTION, STATE OF KANSAS, SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS To whom it may concern: I, the undersigned county election officer of the above named county, have received a certified listing of candidates for the various nominations to be made by each of the political parties of this state and, in accordance with the provisions of law, I hereby publish so much thereof as is applicable to this county, and I have added thereto the names, addresses and party of the candidates.

(First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., Oct. 9, 2014; last published Thurs., Oct. 23, 2014)3t DELINQUENT PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX UNCOLLECTED TAX WARRANTS FROM SCOTT COUNTY SHERIFF OCTOBER 1, 2014 Warrant Name 23 Arron Dornon

Address 411 N. College Scott City, Ks. 67871

39

David Heinrich

408 E. 6th Scott City, Ks. 67871

62.22

134

Ricardo Hernandez, Jr.

712 E. 5th, No. 4 Scott City, Ks. 67871

80.54

42

Travis Hinrichs

28049 U Road WaKeeney, Ks. 67672

196.20

50

Marc Kessler

11540 S. Navajo Road Scott City, Ks. 67871

243.04

79

Kenneth/Donita Moore 22 W. 56th St., Suite 107 Kearney, Nebr. 68847 279.30

80

Mary Alice Moore

1106 Glenn Street Scott City, Ks. 67871

203.14

84

Kurt Norman

412 W. 5th Street Scott City, Ks. 67871

350.70

88

Pitney Bowes Global P.O. Box 5151 Financial Services Shelton, Ct. 06484-9810

90

Ram Ag, Inc.

1008 Jackson Scott City, Ks. 67871

92

Mike D. Redburn

4971 N. Venison Road Scott City, Ks. 67871

85.41

98

Maria Rodriguez

410 W. 8th - No. 6 Scott City, Ks. 67871

201.57

139

Brian Rowton

410 W. Bellevue Avenue Scott City, Ks. 67871 267.09

99

Cynthia Salinas

1505 S. College Scott City, Ks. 67871

101

Ines Elizabeth Scott

4419 Autumn Meadow Dr. Katy, Tex. 77449 355.79

115

David Suri

603 N. Washington Scott City, Ks. 67871

122.34

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION Sally Cauble Dodge City, Ks.

119

Ramon Villarreal

712 E. 5th - No. 8 Scott City, Ks. 67871

164.67

COUNTY AND TOWNSHIP OFFICES SCOTT COUNTY COMMISSIONER - DISTRICT 1 Republican James M. Minnix Scott City, Ks.

124

Jay Weston

1311 Elizabeth Street Scott City, Ks. 67871

226.86

127

Darci Wren

608 York Street Scott City, Ks. 67871

158.03

Republican Independent Libertarian

NATIONAL OFFICE UNITED STATES SENATE Pat Roberts Dodge City, Ks. Greg Orman Olathe Randall Batson Wichita

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - DISTRICT 1 Republican Tim Huelskamp Fowler, Ks. Democrat James Sherow Manhattan, Ks.

Republican

STATE OFFICES GOVERNOR/LT. GOVERNOR Sam Brownback Topeka, Ks. Jeff Colyer

Democrat

Paul Davis Jill Docking

Lawrence, Ks.

Libertarian

Keen A. Umbehr Joshua J. Umbehr

Alma

STATE REPRESENTATIVE - 118TH DISTRICT Republican Don Hineman Dighton, Ks. Republican Democrat

SECRETARY OF STATE Kris Kobach Piper, Ks. Jean Kurtis Schodorf Wichita, Ks.

Republican Democrat

ATTORNEY GENERAL Derek Schmidt Independence, Ks. A.J. Kotich Topeka, Ks.

Republican Democrat

STATE TREASURER Ron Estes Wichita, Ks. Carmen Alldritt Topeka, Ks.

Republican Democrat Republican

COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE Ken Selzer Leawood, Ks. Dennis Anderson Overland Park, Ks.

SCOTT COUNTY CLERK (UNEXPIRED TERM) Republican Alice Brokofsky Scott City, Ks. Republican

ISBEL TOWNSHIP CLERK Kathi Shearmire Modoc, Ks.

Republican

LAKE TOWNSHIP CLERK Larry Vulgamore Scott City

Republican

VALLEY TOWNSHIP CLERK Randy Leighton Scott City

Grand Total Lark Speer, Scott County Treasurer

AT&T Mobility customers are eligible for refund

QUESTIONS AND REFERENDA Kansas Supreme Court Justice Shall Eric S. Rosen, Topeka, Position No. 4, be retained in office?

Yes

No

Shall Lee Johnson, Caldwell, Position No. 6, be retained in office?

Yes

No

Kansas Court of Appeals Judge Shall Stephen D. Hill, Topeka, Position No. I be retained in office?

Yes

No

Shall Patrick D. McAnany, Overland Park, Position No.4, be retained in office?

Yes

No

Shall Kim R. Schroeder, Hugoton, Position No.5, be retained in office?

Yes

No

Shall Henry W. Green Jr., Leavenworth, Position No.7, be retained in office?

Yes

No

Shall Anthony J. Powell, Wichita, Position No. 10, be retained in office?

Yes

No

Shall Tom Malone, Wichita, Position No. II, be retained in office?

Yes

No

Shall Michael B. Buser, Overland Park, Position No. 12, be retained in office?

Yes

No

Shall Melissa Taylor Standridge, Leawood, Position No. 13, be retained in office?

Yes

No

Kansas District Judge - 25th District Shall Robert J. Frederick, Lakin, Division No.1 be retained in office?

Yes

No

Shall Wendel W. Wurst, Garden City, Division No.4 be retained in office?

No

Yes

Pursuant to the foregoing, I hereby give notice that a General Election will be held on the 4th day of November, 2014, at which time the candidates from the above list, and the Questions and Reverenda may be voted on at the Wm. Carpenter 4-H Building, at the Scott County Fairgrounds.

This polling place will be open from 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. on November 4, 2014.

Advance voting will begin on Wednesday, October 15, 2014, at the Scott County Clerk’s office, 303 Court Street, Scott City, Ks. Advance voting will end on Monday, November 3, 2014, at 12:00 noon.

Done at my office in the City of Scott City, County of Scott and State of Kansas this 1st day of October, 2014.

Seal Alice Brokofsky Scott County Election Officer

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

AT&T Mobility customers in Kansas who were charged for thirdparty services on their mobile phone bills without their consent are eligible to receive refunds as part of a multi-state settlement reached earlier this week.

The national settlement was reached between AT&T Mobility, the attorneys general of Kansas and 48 other states and the District of Columbia, the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission. It includes a total payment of $105 million to resolve allegations that AT&T Mobility placed charges on consumers’ mobile phone bills for third-party services that had not been authorized by the consumer, a practice known as “mobile cramming.”

Under the terms of the settlement, AT&T Mobility is required to provide $80 million in funds to be used to pay refunds to consumers who were victims of cramming.

To obtain a refund, Kansas consumers should submit claims under the AT&T Mobility cramming refund program by visiting www.ftc.gov/att.

If consumers are uncertain whether they are eligible for a refund they can visit the claims website or contact the Claims Administrator at 877-8199692 for additional information.

Amount 93.02

65.76

1,400.42

125.03

$4,681.13

Credit

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•Some provide one or more free (or low-cost) credit scores.

Keep in mind when considering whether to buy credit monitoring: Many creditors report information to all three credit bureaus, but some only report to one, so your three credit reports may contain different information.

Because many lenders only report activity to credit bureaus monthly, it could take weeks before your monitoring service spots fraudulent behavior.

Ask how you’ll be notified of flagged changes (email, text and/or mail) and how frequently (daily, weekly, monthly).

You can order one free copy of each credit report from www.annualcreditreport.com per year, so by staggering them, you could get a different report every four months.

If you know - or fear

- that an account has been compromised but don’t want to fully block access to your credit reports through a credit freeze, you can place a free, 90-day initial fraud alert with the three credit bureaus. This means businesses must verify your identity with you before opening new accounts.

You can renew the alert after 90 days. If you don’t want to be bothered remembering, some monitoring services will file your renewals for a fee.

For more tips, see the Federal Trade Commission’s “Privacy and Identity” page at www.consumer.ftc.gov/ topics/privacy-identity.

Bottom line: Do you want to monitor your own credit (which is free but time-consuming) or hand off the task to a third party and pay hundreds of dollars? Either way, make sure it gets done.

The Scott County Record • Page 12 • Thursday, October 16, 2014

Motives questioned as state scrutinizes Early Head Start Dave Ranney KHI News Service

WICHITA - One of the state’s largest early childhood development programs has decided not to reapply for nearly $1 million in Early Head Start funding because of difficulties dealing with a state agency.

“This wasn’t something we wanted to do,” said Teresa Rupp, longtime executive director at Child Start, a Wichitabased program that provides Head Start and Early Head Start services for 981 low-income children in Butler, Cowley, Sedgwick and Sumner

counties.

The decision, Rupp said, was driven in large part by Child Start’s increasing frustration with auditors from the Kansas Department for Children and Families.

“Things just got to a point where we were having to spend more on administration than we used to and less on the children than we used to,” she said. “It’s very unfortunate.”

The funding - $949,392 for this state fiscal year had been used to finance full-year services for 90 children, from birth to age 3. Those slots are now gone, Rupp said.

Prior to July 1, Child Start had 254 pregnant women, babies and toddlers in its Early Head Start program. Now it has 164. Child Start also has 817 children in its Head Start program for ages 3-5.

The 90 eliminated slots had been financed primarily by a federal block grant administered

by DCF. The remaining 164 Early Head Start slots are funded under a different arrangement with the Office of Head Start in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Rupp said that in August 2013, two DCF

auditors spent almost a week at Child Start “looking at every transaction, every quart of milk, every drive across town, every individual’s time sheets documenting where they spent every hour and what they were doing every hour.”

The auditors, she said, cited Child Start for using its van to transport Head Start and Early Head Start children at the same time without differentiating the mileage.

“We got docked because we didn’t fill out a form to designate which miles were for the Head Start kids and which were (See HEAD START on page 16)

SCH staff prepared if Ebola virus surfaces In response to recently confirmed cases of Ebola in Dallas, Tex., the Scott County Hospital staff and physicians want to reassure the community they are prepared to provide safe patient care to individuals who have symptoms or are diagnosed with Ebola.

There has not been a reported case of Ebola in Kansas.

“Nevertheless, please contact your health care provider if you or a family member have traveled to West Africa and you think you or your family member have developed the onset of the following symptoms within 21 days of travel,” says Scott County Health Officer Dr. Christian Cupp.

Symptoms include: •fever greater than 101.5 degrees; in addition to •headache, joint and muscle aches, weakness, fatigue, diarrhea, vomiting, stomach pain or lack of appetite.

“If you need to visit your healthcare provider, call ahead so appropriate measures can be taken to protect other patients and staff,” says Dr. Cupp.

(See EBOLA on page 13)

Prescription costs are steep, even with insurance Julie Appleby Kaiser Health News

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sandra Grooms recently got a call from her oncologist’s office. The chemotherapy drugs he wanted to use on her metastatic breast cancer were covered by her health plan, with one catch: Her share of the cost would be $976

for each 14-day supply of the two pills.

“I said, ‘I can’t afford it,’” said Grooms, 52, who is insured through her job as a general manager at a janitorial supply company in Augusta, Ga. “I was very upset.”

Even with insurance, some patients are struggling to pay for prescription drugs for conditions

Attitude is important in a healthy child by the American Counseling Association

Fall and winter tends to mean more sick kids.

Every school-aged child is exposed to lots of viruses and germs every day. And while we realize that minor infections and illnesses are probably inevitable, there are a number of ways we can help our children avoid or fight off some of those cold and flu bugs.

Teaching preventative hygiene, like frequent hand washing and not sharing mouth-touched drinks and foods with friends, can certainly help.

Preventative medicine, like flu shots, is also important.

A healthy diet and plenty of rest are also vital.

Our bodies are usually great at fighting off the bacteria and viruses we encounter daily, but poor nutrition and lack of rest can rob them of the strength to combat those illness-causing bugs.

Another goal, one that many parents fail to recognize, is in helping your child reduce his or her stress. Research has found that stress weakens the immune system, yet even very young children encounter school and friend situations that raise stress levels.

Most of the time, parents don’t need to fix the stress-inducing problem for their children, but rather they just need to be a sympathetic and understanding audience. Really listening to your child’s concerns can reduce feelings of anxiety and stress.

If your child does fall ill, helping create a more positive attitude can lead to a quicker return to good health. Simply smiling, for example, can make a big difference.

When a parent of a sick child looks worried and concerned as they talk to that child it helps convince the child that he or she should also feel worried and concerned. A big smile, instead, helps relieve tension and anxiety, and creates an attitude of wellness rather than sickness.

You also want to use positive phrases with your child. Instead of repeatedly asking what hurts or what’s wrong, try asking what’s feeling better or what’s good.

The simple acts of touching and hugging can also be great medicine. Studies have found that touching and bonding literally help strengthen the immune system. Holding an ill child while watching TV or reading a book together can mean getting better faster.

Viruses and bacteria are always going to be out there. But healthy eating, plenty of rest and loving parents who are there to help a child have a positive, less-stressful attitude can do a great deal to keep those bugs at a distance.

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

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such as cancer, arthritis, multiple sclerosis or HIV/ AIDS, as insurers and employers shift more of the cost of high-priced pharmaceuticals to the patients who take them.

Increasingly, health plans - even those offered to people with job-based coverage - require hefty payments by patients like Grooms. In some plans,

patients must pay 40 percent or more of the total cost of medications that insurers deem to be specialty drugs and place in the highest tiers of patient cost-sharing.

The trend is controversial, prompting a civil rights complaint in Florida, legislative action in a few states and debate over how to slow the

rapid rise of spending on prescription drugs without hurting consumers or stifling development of new treatments.

Proponents say the high-priced drug tiers encourage patients to select lower-cost medications, just as similar efforts in the past decade led to a dramatic rise in the use of lower-cost

generics.

Brendan Buck, spokesman for the industry group America’s Health Insurance Plans, said insurers rely on costsharing tiers in their policies “as a way to keep premiums down for consumers and promote more cost-effective health care choices.”

(See STEEP on page 13)

Many states boost Medicaid benefits as economy improves Phil Galewitz Kaiser Health News

WASHINGTON, D.C. - With an improving fiscal climate, many states are increasing benefits for Medicaid recipients and paying their providers more.

The trend is continuing into fiscal year 2015 for those who rely on Medicaid, the state and federal health insurance program for the poor, according to a survey of 50 state Medicaid programs released this by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the National Association of Medicaid Directors.

The report found that 22 states were expanding Medicaid benefits compared to just two states restricting them in fiscal 2015, which for most states started July 1, 2014.

That’s the fewest states

cutting or restricting benefits in at least nine years.

The most commonly added benefits were dental coverage, along with mental health and substance abuse services.

However, virtually every state indicated concern about high-cost specialty drugs, especially $1,000-a-pill Sovaldi, approved last year to treat hepatitis C. Officials in 22 states said that new prior authorization rules were in place or under development to restrict use of the drug.

Meanwhile, 14 states were increasing Medicaid fees to specialists in fiscal 2015, compared to three states lowering them.

More states also were increasing fees to nursing homes and managed care organizations, the report found.

There were two exceptions: •31 states were cutting or freezing Medicaid hospital rates, compared to 19 that were increasing them; and •36 states either were not extending the Medicaid primary care pay raise that began last year under the Affordable Care Act and expires Dec. 31, or had yet to make a decision.

Under the law, states had increased Medicaid rates to Medicare levels, a 40 percent average pay raise. Medicare is the federal program for the elderly and disabled.

Though more people enroll in Medicaid during economic downturns, that’s also when states are most likely to cut benefits and provider fees to control costs. When finances improve, states often

restore cuts to beneficiaries and providers’ rates - which is what’s been happening the past three years.

The impact on Medicaid enrollees’ out-of-pocket costs was mixed. Four states in 2014 and 2015 were adding or increasing premiums, while seven states were cutting or eliminating premiums.

Generally, states are allowed to charge premiums only to Medicaid enrollees who have incomes above 150 percent of the federal poverty level.

Medicaid enrollment has increased by about 8 million people in 2014.

The program now covers 70 million people.

States expanding the program expect to see an 18 percent enrollment jump in fiscal 2015, up from 12 percent in 2014.

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KU patient is not showing signs of Ebola A man who was admitted Monday to the University of Kansas Hospital suffering from diarrhea and who worked recently near Africa’s west coast does not have Ebola, the hospital said Tuesday afternoon.

Results of blood tests showed the patient has not contracted the virus,

which has killed more than 4,000 people in the West African nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

At a Tuesday news conference, KU Hospital’s chief medical officer, Dr. Lee Norman, said preliminary tests on the patient were negative.

The patient, who is in

his 40s and thought to live in the Kansas City area, had worked as a medic on a ship off the west coast of Africa.

Although he did not have a fever when he arrived at the hospital, he had run a fever previously.

The patient, whose name has not been disclosed, was placed in

Telemed robot now has a name No robot should have to go through cyberlife without a name and Max Depperschmidt has made sure that won’t happen to the new telemed robot that has joined the staff at the Scott County Hospital.

His suggestion that the robot be named Jervis received the most Facebook votes among three finalists.

The other two names under consideration were Robodoc and Astro.

The five-year-old Scott City resident said he got the idea from his superhero phone. He was referring to the name given to Ironman’s artifi-

Steep In some cases, drugs placed in the highest tiers have equally effective alternatives that are in a lower-cost tier, he said, adding that high drug prices have spurred the use of specialty tiers: “If a drug maker is concerned that its treatment is on a higher tier than they would like, the solution is to lower the price.”

Skeptics say it remains unproven whether requiring consumers to pay more actually will result in lower overall medical costs. Many patients facing life-threatening diseases will choose the expensive drugs anyway, some studies have shown.

Meanwhile, some patient advocates fear such payments are simply a way for insurers to skirt the health law’s rules requiring them to accept all enrollees, including those with medical conditions.

While not rejecting anyone, they can discourage patients with health

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“The doctor will arrange for you to be seen in a quarantined environment where you will not expose others to the disease.”

For more information on the Ebola virus visit www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/, or http://www.kdheks. gov/ebola/.

Max Depperschmidt with the telemed robot, Jervis.

cially intelligent computer that is like a personal assistant in his home.

However, the name of that computer is actually J.A.R.V.I.S, which is an acronym for Just A Rather Very Intelligent System.

As the contest winner, Max was presented a Kindle Fire computer tablet.

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problems from enrolling if they set high payments for drugs for specific medical conditions.

“We will wind up with a race to the bottom where plans will design benefits to shift the greatest burden of cost to those with the greatest health needs,” said Wayne Turner, staff attorney at the National Health Law Program, which advocates for lowincome individuals.

“This amounts to discrimination based on disability,” said Turner, something federal law prohibits.

For Grooms, a solution came when her oncologist selected a different drug an intravenous medication - for which her share of the cost is $100 a month.

While she’s relieved, she said requiring huge payments by consumers sharply affects “middle-class people who are working and trying to make a living, even though they may be living with a serious illness.”

$10,000-a-Month Drug Driving the increasing use of such drug tiers and other cost-control efforts are a growing number of high-priced treatments that offer the hope of curing or managing debilitating diseases.

A new Hepatitis C drug, for example, costs $84,000 per 12-week treatment, and the average cost of brand-name cancer drugs has doubled to $10,000 for a month’s supply in the past decade, according to a report from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics.

Drugs for severe arthritis and multiple sclerosis can cost tens of thousands per year.

Responding to the increased use of such drugs and their rising prices, employers and insurers have changed their policies. Many already require patients to first try other drugs before moving to specialty medications, a practice called “step therapy.”

strict isolation. His blood was shipped to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and to a private lab in Omaha, Neb., for testing.

Norman said initial lab results from Omaha showed the patient does not have Ebola. However, he said, the hospital is awaiting further confir-

mation from the CDC in Atlanta in the next day or two.

“But the preliminary results are very, very encouraging for this gentleman,” Norman said.

The patient will be kept in isolation as a precautionary measure.

“As much as we would like to stand down and

have less stringent infection control practices, we are keeping everything in place until we get the final word from Atlanta,” Norman said.

Norman said the patient, who probably has a tropical disease such as typhus, is showing improvement.

Pastime at Park Lane Church services last Sunday were provided by the Prairie View Church of the Brethren.

Monday afternoon pitch and dominoe game helpers were Dorothy King, Wanda Kirk and Hugh McDaniel.

Monday evening’s activity was Wii bowling.

Bible study on Tuesday was led by Bob Artz from the First Baptist Church with Doris Riner playing the piano and Elsie Nagle leading the songs.

Residents made Halloween crafts on Tuesday afternoon. Helpers were D’Ann Markel and Lori Vasquez.

On Tuesday evening some residents played trivia.

Over 50 Chorus entertains

Providing entertainment at Park Lane last Thursday afternoon was the Over 50 Chorus. Singers included Marilyn Dryer, Charlene Hughes, Irma McDaniel, Neva Jacobus, Dorothy Milburn and Todd Steele.

Wanda Wright furnished the refreshments.

Blue Steele Band performs

Saturday afternoon’s entertainment was provide by “The Blue Steele Band whose members are Mike Steele, Daniel Dunn and Keith Steele.

They played a variety of 1950s music, folk songs and hymns.

Wedesday afternoon bingo game helpers were Wanda Kirk.

Thanks to Wanda Kirk for helping make the clothing protectors.

Thursday evening Bible study was led by Rus-

Deaths taught children’s church and taught Sunday school.

Survivors include: her husband, Marvin Detwiler, Pocomoke City; two sons, David Detwiler, and wife, Stephanie, Emmaus, Pa., and Dan Detwiler, Walnutport, Pa.; one daughter, Joelle Detwiler Gross, and husband, Daryl, Pocomoke City; one brother, Tony Mollhagen, and wife, Jacque, Lubbock, Tex.; one sister, Karen Pickering, and husband, Larry, Pueblo, Colo.; two sisters-in-law, Doris Henderson, and husband, Jerry, Pocomoke City, and Betty Sommer and husband, Willis, Bluffton, Ohio; four grandchildren and numerous nieces, nephews and other extended family members.

Funeral service was held Oct. 15 at Holly Grove Mennonite Church, Westover, Md. Interment was in the church cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to Holly Grove Christian School, 7317 Mennonite Church Road, Westover, Md. 21871 or to Coastal Hospice, Box 1733, Salisbury, Md. 21803.

Arrangements were in the care of Holloway Funeral Home, 107 Vine St., Pocomoke City, Md. 21851.

Condolences may be sent to the family at www. hollowayfh.com.

John Dee Gerstberger John “Johnny” Dee Gerstberger, 56, died Oct. 9, 2014 at the Wichita County Health Center, Leoti.

He was born June 1, 1958, in Scott City, the son of William and Frances (Mautz) Gerstberger.

A graduate of Wichita County High School, he was a farmer, rancher and lifetime resident of Leoti.

Johnny was a member of the Augustine Township board, the Wichita County Fair Board, and a Wichita County 4-H leader, all of Leoti.

On June 3, 1989, he married Denise Grover in Leoti. She survives.

Survivors include: his wife, Leoti; one son, Levi Gerstberger, Leoti; four daughters, Erin Marshall, and husband, Doug, Garden City, Rebecca Ward and husband, Rylee, Wichita, and Sophie Ger-

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

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

Joining Albert Dean in celebration of his 97th birthday were Nancy Holt, Patsy Graham and Larry Wright.

Visitors of Jake Leatherman were Dorothy Hutchins, Otto Harp and Ronald Eaton.

Lucille Dirks was visited by Dale and Vicki Dirks and Willeta Payne.

Geraldine Graves was visited by Chris Crocker, Les Spangler and Janet Soeken.

Sr. Citizen Lunch Menu

Patricia L. Detwiler Patricia L. Detwiler, 74, died Oct. 11, 2014, at her home in Pocomoke City, Md. S h e was born March 20, 1940, in Ellsworth, t h e Patricia Detwiler daughter of Milton and Frances (Bridges) Mollhagen.

Pat spent most of her childhood in Scott City, graduating with the class of 1958. She earned a bachlor of science degree in home economics from Kansas State University and taught at James M. Bennett High School in 1964-65 before serving as the Somerset County 4-H Extension agent from 1965-67. She taught at Holly Grove Christian School, Westover, Md., from 1981-90.

She graduated from Wor-Wic Community College in 1992 where she majored in business and secretarial studies and was the class valedictorian.

She then worked at Carvel Hall, Crisfield, Md., as an office assistant for two years before returning to Holly Grove Christian School, retiring in 2003 as a secondary teacher.

She was a member of Holly Grove Mennonite Church, Westover, Md., where she served as an elder, developed a prayer guide, organized and

sell and Mary Webster.

The residents had soft serve ice cream on Friday.

Rev. Warren Prochnow led Lutheran services on Friday.

Vivian Kreiser was visited by Sharon Lock.

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stberger and Hope Gerstberger, both of Leoti; three brothers, William “Bill” Gerstberger, Jr., Florissant, Colo., Dale Gerstberger, Moffat, Colo., and Mark Gerstberger, Ulysses; one sister, Linda Moore, Lakewood, Colo.; and three grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Funeral service was held Oct. 13 at the First United Methodist Church, Leoti, with Rev. Rick Just officiating.

Interment was at the Leoti Cemetery.

Memorials may be given to the Leoti EMS or the Wichita County Health Center nursing staff in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, Box 161, Leoti, Kansas 67861.

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

Support Your Hometown Merchants!

Week of October 20-24 Monday: Chicken fajita, refried beans, savory carrots, tortilla, tropical fruit mix.

Tuesday: Oven fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, tossed salad, whole wheat roll, fruit cocktail.

Wednesday: Tuna noodle casserole, Italian vegetables, whole wheat bread, strawberries.

Thursday: Swedish meatballs, broccoli, capri vegetables, whole wheat roll, rosy applesauce.

Friday: Pork roast, candied sweet potatoes, winter mix veggies, whole wheat bread, pears. meals are $3.25 • call 872-3501

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Women can help protect themselves by staying away from known risk factors whenever possible. But also keep in mind that most women who have known risk factors do not get breast cancer.

Most women with breast cancer do not have a family history of the disease.

In fact, except for growing older, most women with breast cancer have no clear risk factors.

Your doctor may be able to suggest ways to reduce your risk and can plan a schedule for checkups.

To schedule your mammogram at the Scott County Hospital call 872-5811. With the new changes in our insurance and Medicare, this might be paid for.

Don’t delay. Your life might depend upon it.

by Jason Storm

Emogene Harp was visited by Nancy Holt, Alicia Harp, Richard Harp, Joy Barnett and Jake the dog.

Edith Norman was visited by Nancy Holt, Sue Riner and Ted Whitson.

Harriet Jones was visited by Nancy Holt, Larry Wright, Rev. Don Martin, Pam Crist and Mary Hutchins.

Jim Jeffery was visited

by Libbie Joles and Pastor Dennis Carter.

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

Visiting Boots Haxton were Tony Jasnoch, Kearney, Nebr., Melissa Jasnoch and Rod and Kathy Haxton.

Dottie Fouquet was visited by Jon and Anne Crane, Mark Fouquet and Ethan McDaniel Noll.

Corrine Dean was vistied by Dianna Howard, Margie Stevens, and Aaron and Mandy Kropp.

Judy Redburn was visited by Tina Turley and Mary Torson.

Melva Rose was visited

by Tina Turley.

Nella Funk was visited

by Pastor Dennis Carter.

Richard Kirk was visited by Klif and Doreen Kirk, Ora Sharp, Wanda Kirk, Dustin Kirk, Marleigh Kirk, Tanna Pollock, Jaelyn Finlee, Renee Garcia, Candida Luman, Nikita Villa and Hector Villa.

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Social Security has strict guidelines to collect disability Learning the facts and hearing people’s stories about disability allows for a fuller understanding of what is perhaps the most misunderstood Social Security program.

The Social Security Act sets a very strict definition of disability. To receive disability benefits, a person must have an impairment expected to last at least a year or result in death.

The impairment must be so severe that it renders the person unable to perform not only his or her previous work, but also any other substantial work in the national job market.

Social Security Brandon Werth District Manager

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

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

Social Security aggressively works to prevent, detect, and prosecute fraud. Social Security often investigates suspicious disability claims before making a decision to award benefits - proactively stopping fraud before it happens. These steps help ensure only those eligible have access to disability benefits.

To learn more about what happens behind the scenes when someone applies for disability benefits, watch our sevenpart video series on the process at www.socialsecurity.gov/socialmedia/ webinars.

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Sharing His Hope and Love For all who read this article I just want to tell you about the heart of those who write in this space.

They are those who have a great concern and love for you. They endeavor to share with you a hope that they have experienced in their lives which has come to them from God through Jesus Christ His Son. If all of us who write could say the one thing here that would help you find that hope in Jesus, it would be worth everything to us. Jesus said, “The angels sing when one comes to Him.” That has to be the most wonderful song ever heard.

As pastors, we see miracles happen in peoples lives and we hear and see the most terrible brokenness of peoples lives and we weep over them. We pray for God’s mercy and healing for them and we fall on our faces before God to ask Him for the strength we need to be pastors.

There are only so many ways to say what we can about whom God is and His Son Jesus Christ and the promise of life in abundance here and everlasting life with Him. That is why we write and write and write here in this paper. We love you and we care for you, but God loves you more and can change your life forever.

We may never hear from anyone who reads this or hears a sermon we preach but we continue, and then sometimes there is that one person who calls and says “I talked to you or read your words and I heard the call of God and gave my life to Jesus because of what you said, “I was dead but now I am alive.”

We cry again tears, not of sadness but of great joy for this one and fall on our faces before God to rejoice and know that the angles are singing. We write and write and will write.

Pastor Steve Payne First Christian Church, Scott City

Scott City Assembly of God

Prairie View Church of the Brethren

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

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

Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.

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

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

St. Joseph Catholic Church

Holy Cross Lutheran Church

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

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

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

Pence Community 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

1398 S. US83 - Scott City - 872-2264

Kyle Evans, Senior Pastor Bob Artz, Associate Pastor

Robert Nuckolls, pastor - 872-5041

Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.

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

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

Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.

Gospel Fellowship Church

1st United Methodist Church

Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.

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

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

Sunday casual 6:30 p.m.: “The Way” contemporary gathering Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. • MYF (youth groups) on Wednesdays Jr. High: 6:30 p.m. • Sr. High: 7:00 p.m.

First Christian Church

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

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

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

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

Website: www.fccscottcity.org

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

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

Scott Mennonite Church

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

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

Sunday Evening Service: 7:00 p.m.

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

Sunday School, 10:50 a.m.

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

YMYW Wednesday, 8:00 p.m.

Head Start for the Early Head Start kids,” Rupp said. “We didn’t fill out the form because there wasn’t a form to fill out, and there wasn’t a form to fill out because we’d never tracked it, and we’d never tracked it before because no one had ever asked us to.”

Rupp said the new level of state scrutiny was unprecedented.

“We go through an independent audit every year that’s in accord with our federal grant guidelines. That means it’s a financial and a programmatic audit,” she said.

“And on top of that, our programs get reviewed every three years by teams of federal reviewers, looking at more than 3,000 requirements specified by Head Start Performance Standards.

“We are not always perfect, but we have had no significant findings of non-compliance, absolutely no financial irregularities and no significant deficiencies cited in the

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last 20 years,” said Rupp, a Child Start employee for the past 34 years.

In January, DCF sent a draft report, putting Rupp on notice that based on the audit findings Child Start should be prepared to pay back almost $85,000.

“Most of it had to do with them saying we spent more on salaries than we’d originally budgeted,” Rupp said. “And that’s true, we did. But you’re allowed to do that as long as you notify the state and get permission, which we did. We called DCF and asked if there was a form we needed to fill out, and they said no, that as long as we let them know, that was enough.”

The DCF audit finding, she said, stemmed from home visitation workers needing to put in more hours than initially predicted. Rupp said Child Start documents show the workers’ additional hours were spent assisting Early Head Start children and their families.

But the DCF auditors, she said, “denied

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

Pulmonologist Dr. Ballard, MD Monthly on mondays

Obstetrics/Gynecology Dr. Heskett, MD 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month

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

Orthopedics Dr. Titus Plomaritis, MD 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month Dr. Alex DeCaralho, MD 1st, 2nd and 3rd Tuesday of the month

Urology Dr. Darrell Werth, MD 2nd Wednesday of the month Dr. Kevin McDonald, MD 4th Wednesday of the month

Neurology Dr. Christopher Fanale, MD Monthly on Mondays Dr. Jeffrey Wagner, MD Every other month on Mondays

Cardiology Dr. Janif, MD 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month Dr. Dimen, MD 1st Wednesday of the month Dr. John Ferrell, MD 3rd Wednesday of the month

Vascular Disease Dr. Stephen Annest, MD 2nd Monday of every month

Dietitian Courtney McCarty, RD, LD 2nd Wednesday of the month Specialty clinics are scheduled monthly. Most of the clinics are conducted one time per month, however, some are scheduled two to three times per month.

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

the whole thing” because Child Start didn’t have any written indication from the agency that it had approved the additional salary expenditures.

DCF and Child Start have been haggling over their differences ever since.

Rupp said Child Start’s strained relations with DCF played a “significant” role in the decision to forgo the nearly $1 million administered by the state.

“We just felt like this (audit dispute) was something that wasn’t going to go away, and that we’d constantly be put in a position of providing services that we wouldn’t be reimbursed for because, frankly, the state is broke,” she said. “That . . . and the level of scrutiny was just nuts.”

Obligation to Taxpayers Theresa Freed, a DCF spokesperson, said the change in audit policy was driven by the department’s “obligation to Kansas taxpayers to ensure that funds are being used as intended - for the benefit of children.” The audits, she said, were not “intended to penalize our community partners/grantees.”

DCF, she said, changed the scope of its audits in December 2011 as part of an effort to “promote accountability and deter potentially fraudulent activities” among the department’s network of providers. She didn’t say what led state officials to be concerned about potential fraud in the state’s Early Head Start programs.

However, she did say that federal officials

shared DCF’s concerns and endorsed tighter scrutiny of the Early Head Start grants.

Asked if federal officials had put their concerns in writing, Freed said the sentiments were expressed during a telephone call.

“It appears there wasn’t a formal report,” she said.

Freed said DCF auditors are checking to see if there is an email record of federal officials’ concerns.

‘What’s really going on?’

Vaughn said Child Start’s experience with the DCF auditors is not unique.

“Everyone is fine with being audited and with DCF asking questions,” Vaughn said. “No one objects to being held accountable, but so much

of the focus seems to be on recouping dollars rather than on conducting audits. It kind of makes you wonder what’s really going on here.”

The audits have focused on the grant monies received in state fiscal year 2012, which ended June 30, 2012. Of the 13 Early Head Start programs that received a DCF-administered grant, 12 have received draft reports and one is still pending.

Collectively, Vaughn said, the 12 programs have been told they likely will have to pay back approximately $650,000.

He called the initial assessments, which are not yet official, “ridiculous,” noting that all 13 programs have passed federally required independent audits.

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Foundation gift

Security State Bank President Duane Ramsey (left) and Scott Community Foundation Director Ryan Roberts (right) present a $500 check to Darrel Faurot who was the winner of a drawing sponsored by the bank. The money was donated to the SCF on behalf of the Faurots who were able to determine the recipient of the donation. Darrel and Pam donated the $500 to the Caring Hands/ Caring Hearts program that’s administered through the Scott County Hospital.

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Ghost of Anna Morgan Faber summoned to Wichita County The Ghost of Anna Morgan Faber will be summoned to perform her 13-song cycle “The Legend of White Woman Creek” on Sat., Nov. 1, 7:00 p.m., in Marienthal, at the grade school.

This will be the first time the ghost of Anna Morgan Faber has performed in Kansas, in Wichita County, home to The White Woman Creek.

This performance follows a North American tour with performances at Fringe Festivals in Cincinnati, New York, Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Edmonton, Alberta, and Vancouver, British Columbia.

The Setting A young woman flees her Civil War-ravaged home of West Virginia, to start a new life on the American frontier.

The result is a cycle of love, betrayal and revenge on the Kansas prairie, sung by the Ghost of Anna Morgan Faber.

“The Legend of White Woman Creek” is a one- woman, music-theater piece inspired by a ghost story from Western Kansas, created by The Coldharts (Katie Hartman and Nick Ryan.)

It weaves a narrative through 13 original folk songs based on the traditional music that first inspired Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.

With only her guitar and powerful voice, Katie Hartman evokes the desolation of the Kansas plains, the oppressive times, the brutal conflict between two warring people, and the small joys one manages to find amidst such turmoil.

A tale told from the perspective of a spirit who cannot rest until she sings the record straight, “The Legend of White Woman Creek” is a presentation for lovers of music, ghost stories, and the North American West.

Hartman tells Anna’s tragic life story through song, accompanied by acoustic guitar.

Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Student tickets are $5.

Tickets can be reserved by contacting Wichita County Economic Development, (620) 3752182 or wced@wbsnet. org.

All proceeds will benefit the Wichita County Arts Alliance.

DAR offers genealogy workshop A genealogy workshop, open to the public and sponsored by the William Wilson Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and the Kansas Society DAR will be held on Sun., October 26, 1:30-5:30 p.m., at the Finney County Public Library, 605 E. Walnut St., Garden City.

The workshop will provide assistance for beginners wanting to start trac-

ing their lineage back to the Revolutionary War. It will also aid those who have been doing research on their family trees.

Ideas of where to search next and methods of documenting information will be shared.

This is a one-on-one workshop and space is limited. Reservations may be made by calling 620275-5412 or email: car-

olduercochran@kc.rr.com subject: Garden City.

Those attending should bring pencil, paper and the family information they have already obtained.

The DAR is a nonprofit, non-political organization for women.

DAR membership is open to any woman 18 years or older who lineally descends from a patriot or soldier of the American Revolution.

Roberts skips Ebola policy briefing On the stump and in television interviews, Sen. Pat Roberts has taken aim at the White House’s response to the Ebola outbreak in Africa, and in the United States, including calling for a travel ban to effected West African nations.

But when Roberts had a chance, as a member of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee, to attend a special joint hearing with top public health officials briefing lawmakers on the virus and the

fight against it - he was a no-show.

Senate records show Roberts was in the Capitol building on Sept. 16, when the meeting with officials including NIH infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci was held.

It remains unclear why Roberts chose not to attend the hearing, at which his Kansas counterpart Sen. Jerry Moran was an outspoken participant.

“Senator Roberts’ staff monitored the hearing, and he was briefed accordingly; however, you

don’t need to sit in a hearing room to understand the President’s failure to address the Ebola crisis and protect the American public or to see that we lack a clear and coordinated plan to deal with a very real threat to the United States.,” Roberts’ campaign manager Corry Bliss said in a statement.

Roberts has proposed instituting a travel ban to and from countries hit by the current Ebola outbreak; something many public health officials, including Dr. Fauci, oppose.

Kerr will observe 100th birthday Oct. 25

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since the 1970s, despite huge increases in education spending.

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GWAC champs SCHS junior Drake McRae (22) and his Beaver teammates celebrate an interception by Marshal Hutchins late in the game against Ulysses.

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SCHS ground game overpowers Ulysses With quarterback Trey O’Neil hobbled by a knee 7 injury, it was Ulysses Scott City 14 apparent early in Friday’s showdown with league rival Ulysses that the Beavers would need to rely on

their running game more than usual.

That figured to be a tall order against the bigger Tigers (4-2, 3-2) who were looking to dominate with their size on the line and establish their own running attack behind All-State runningback Ian Rudzik who entered

the game averaging 227 yards per game.

While Rudzik may have grabbed most of the attention entering the game, it was Scott City fullback Cooper Griffith who earned the spotlight on Friday with a 180 yard rushing performance that helped set the

stage for a 14-7 win that gave the Beavers (6-0, 5-0) their fourth Great West Activities Conference title in the last five years.

With O’Neil’s injury and lack of mobility in the pocket, Griffith and his teammates knew there would be more reli-

ance on the running game. But the Beavers were also motivated by memories of last year’s loss to the Tigers - Scott City’s only loss in league play over the last five seasons.

“We wanted to come out and show that we can run the (See OVERPOWER on page 21)

There’s another No. 33 in the GWAC Ulysses runningback Ian Rudzik has gained a lot of attention over the past three seasons as one of the premier high school football players in Kansas.

The r e p u t ation of Rod the TiHaxton, sports gers’ editor No. 33 w a s well-earned as he was averaging 227 yards and three touchdowns per game through the first five games of the season.

But it was another No. 33 that people were talking about after Friday’s game that decided the Great West Activities Conference title.

Scott City’s Madison Orr (left) and Madison Braun combine to block a hit during the home invitational on Saturday.

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(See NO. 33 on page 20)

SC bumps off higher seeds in regional field Scott Community High School’s Krystal Appel and Bri Smull didn’t enter the Class 3-21A regional tennis tournament with sparkling records, but that didn’t keep them from making a brief impact on the tournament field.

(See REGIONAL on page 25)

Scott City spikers fourth in home invite Winning their first two matches of the day, the Scott Community High School volleyball team went on to claim a fourth place finish in their own invitational on Saturday.

“These girls couldn’t recall a time when they’d advanced out of pool play,” says first year head coach Megan Gentry.

“It was nice to accomplish that and do it in front of our home fans.”

The Lady Beavers opened the day with a sweep of Oakley (25-19, 25-12) and survived a three-set match with the Dodge City JV (26-24, 21-25, 25-14).

That win all but assured them of advancing out of pool play. In their final match they pushed Wheatland-Grinnell to three games before losing (25-22, 13-25, 17-25).

That was the first of two matches

against the Lady Warriors. The two teams met again in the consolation finals and once again W/G was able to hold on for the three-game win (15-25, 25-18, 18-25.

Even though they dropped both matches to the W/G (18-9, ranked No. 5 in Class 1-Division II), Gentry feels those were two of their best matches during the day.

“We played really, really well against (See SPIKERS on page 20)

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Outdoors in Kansas

by Steve Gilliland

Look back at past deer hunts

As I sit writing this week’s column, the 2014 deer firearms season is in the wings and deer hunting stories from my past flood my memory.

In Ohio where I grew up the only legal firearm for deer was a shotgun shooting slugs; a deadly load if a deer is hit well, but not real accurate at any distance, especially with the overthe-counter shotguns we owned back then.

Our usual hunting style differed too; we hunted deer like many people hunted rabbits.

There were a group of us “locals” who hunted together and the more seasoned deer men in the group took a few of us kids under their wings and let us hunt with them.

We all owned land in the area so each of us came to know how the deer moved through our farms. It then became sort of communal effort.

Each day we’d gather in a group of six to eight and head for one of our farms.

If we had a fresh dusting of snow, so much the better, as we would drive around the blocks and look for fresh tracks crossing the road.

When fresh tracks were found, we’d go to the other side of the block to see if they exited. If not, a couple guys were dropped off where we knew deer normally crossed, and the rest of us walked through from the other side, attempting to get the deer moving and count on someone getting a good shot.

This method was pretty effective, but required great trust in our fellow hunters, and was perfect for teaching us kids safe shooting and target identification. In fact, this method was so effective and so prevalent in our area, that those of us land owners often sat alone in stands for the first day or two, counting on (See DEER on page 25)

SCHS freshmen Zach Carson (81) and Nic Cheney (61) bring defensive pressure against the Ulysses quarterback during JV action on Monday.

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Late TD denies JV a perfect season After falling behind 12-0 in the game’s first six minutes, it looked like the Scott City junior varsity would be in for a long day at Ulysses.

I n stead, the Beavers (5-1) ralUlysses 7 lied for Scott City 14 a 16-12 lead, only to give up a touchdown late in the final period to lose, 18-16.

“We had our opportunities,” said coach Brian Gentry. “I know it hurts to lose, but hopefully the boys can learn from this.

Mistakes that we were able to get away with against other teams this year we weren’t able to get away with against Ulysses.”

In their season finale, the Scott Community High School junior var-

No. 33 SCHS junior Cooper Griffith outgained Rudzik 180 yards to 135 yards.

He also demonstrated what a workhorse he is on both sides of the ball with a team high 14 tackles, compared to Rudzik’s 12.

Not to take anything away from Rudzik. He’s a quality back that anyone would love to have playing for them. But on a night when the SCHS offense wasn’t anywhere close to 100 percent due to quarterback Trey O’Neil’s injury, the running game was crucial.

And Griffith showed what a force he is. Most of Griffith’s yards were

sity squad can easily look at missed opportunities that denied them a perfect season.

A Scott City fumble led to the first Ulysses score.

A third quarter touchdown that would have given SCHS a 22-12 lead was called back by a penalty.

Scott City failed to recover a Ulysses fumble on their winning drive that would have ended the late scoring threat. The Tigers scored the game winning touchdown on the next play.

A strong north wind was one of the big factors throughout the night as all five touchdowns came with the wind behind the offense.

That also prevented teams from even attempting a punt into the wind.

Trailing 12-0, Scott City made a couple of defensive adjustments and were able to have some success against the Ulysses running game.

SCHS got on the scoreboard with a 20 play, 75 yard drive that began in the first quarter and ended with 8:07 left in the second period on a one yard scoring run by sophomore Kevin Lozano.

That cut the lead to 128.

The Beavers were able to capitalize moments later on a fumble by Ulysses that gave them possession at the Tiger 39.

Five plays later, sophomore Tre Stewart scored on a 15 yard run and Lozano added the PAT conversion that put the Beavers on top, 16-12.

“The boys did a great job of bouncing back af-

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of the hard-earned variety, usually carrying two or three Ulysses tacklers with him.

Outside of Scott City, Griffith may have been somewhat of an unknown prior to Friday night. He’s had a couple of games where he put up good numbers, but they didn’t come against an opponent the caliber of Ulysses.

You can bet that the junior will be getting a lot of attention from defensive coordinators the remainder of this season. * * * While Cooper put up the big numbers he wasn’t the only one who shined.

We never cease to be impressed at how much heart the Beavers play with and how much this coaching staff can get out of these boys.

Ulysses, given their size and talent, should have been able to take control of the running game - at least on paper.

It’s something we’ve become accustomed to seeing over the years.

On paper, the Beavers have often been the underdog.

On the field it’s been a different story.

That’s a credit to great coaching and great teamwork.

ter giving up the two early touchdowns,” says defensive coach Landon Frank.

“Ulysses had a lot more size up front and they had a couple of pretty good backs. We were able to stop them just enough to give ourselves a chance.”

With the wind behind them to start the second half, Scott City was able to force another Ulysses fumble at the SCHS 45.

Quarterback Bo Hess wasted no time connecting with sophomore wideout Justin Faurot on passes of 18 and 24 yards.

Moments later what appeared to be a completion in the end zone was waived off by a penalty.

Three plays later SCHS gave the ball back on downs at the five.

Ulysses regained the lead following a 62 yard

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drive that ended with an 11 yard run with 4:45 left in the game. SCHS missed a golden opportunity on third-and-10 when the ball was knocked loose, but it rolled forward and was recovered by Ulysses for a nine yard gain.

Ulysses scored the goahead TD on the next play.

Scott City had one final drive that ended with four incomplete passes from the Ulysses 30. They gave the ball back on downs with 13 seconds remaining.

SCHS finished with 254 yards of offense - 129 rushing and 125 passing.

Lozano led the team with 55 yards on the ground and Faurot had 60 yards receiving on four catches.

Ulysses had 303 yards of offense - all on the ground.

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them. Both were matches we could have won,” says Gentry. “Even when we don’t win at least we’re being pretty competitive in most of our games.

The only time the Lady Beavers were swept was in the semi-finals against league rival Holcomb (15-25, 22-25).

Scott City will have another chance to see the stateranked Lady Longhorns on Saturday when they host the Great West Activities Conference tournament.

Ulysses (29-2, No. 9 in Class 4A-Division I) is the tournament favorite. In addition to Holcomb, Colby was also ranked earlier in the season. Other teams include Hugoton and Goodland.

“It’s going to be a very tough tournament,” adds Gentry. “Ulysses is probably favored to win, but after that I think the other teams are pretty well balanced.”

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SCHS defense passes a major test against Tigers As good as the Scott Community High School defense has been this season, it had yet to be tested by a strong running attack.

That test came against Ulysses and the Beavers were up to the challenge.

“We knew we had scrappy kids who are undersized and play hard,” says head coach Glenn O’Neil, offering a description that would seemingly fit the Beavers in most years.

“When you play big, physical teams most often they’re going to line up and come right at you instead of trying to hit the edge,” he said. “Overall, we did a pretty good job of stopping them up the middle.”

“I’m not sure they had a trap for more than five yards, maybe one,” says defensive coordinator Jim Turner. “The (defensive tackles) did a good job of plugging things up, which is what we want them to do.”

Senior tackle Chantz Yager continues to be a thorn in the side of most offensive lines with his quickness. Showing steady improvement on the other side of the line is sophomore Jaime De La Rocha.

“The other DT spot was a big concern coming into the season, but Jaime has made progress,”

Turner says. “He’s still got a lot of work to do, but the Ulysses game was probably the best he’s played.”

In addition, junior Abe Wiebe seems to have found a home at defensive end where he was able to disrupt the Ulysses running game.

“Abe did a nice job of getting into people’s legs when they’re trying to pull,” Turner noted.

Wiebe finished with six tackles, including two behind the line of scrimmage.

The ability of defensive players to trust their keys and make the right decisions was also evident.

Inside linebackers Cooper Griffith (14 tackles, 3 solo) and Marshal Hutchins (11 tackles, 1 solo), along with outside linebacker Sloan Baker (12 tackles, six solo) had outstanding games.

“Last year, Cooper got caught going the wrong way a few times, but I’ll bet that didn’t happen once tonight,” said Turner following the game.

“They ran a reverse and he was in the middle of the pile plugging things up. He’s another year older and playing smarter.”

In fact, O’Neil said that a couple of Griffith’s reads were textbook examples of how the

Overpower ball and play physical,” says Griffith. “We pride ourselves in being able to run it down people’s throats and we’re getting a little better at that with each game.”

The decision to keep the ball on the ground wasn’t just based on the quarterback’s health.

“We’ve always run the fullback a lot against Ulysses,” says head coach Glenn O’Neil.

“In a 5-4 and even in a 4-4 (defense) there’s a soft spot. Cooper ran the ball really hard and the wingbacks did a nice job of blocking the linebackers.”

SCHS held a 317-197 edge in total offense with 257 of those yards coming on the ground.

Scott City, which has never trailed this season, took advantage of great starting field position following a punt at their own 49 yard line on their second possession.

Keeping the ball on the ground for 10 consecutive plays, O’Neil finished off the series with a one yard keeper with 2:34 left in the opening period.

They extended the lead to 14-0 on the opening possession of the second half with a drive that began from their own 47 yard line. Senior Brett Meyer, who had three of the team’s four receptions on the night, hauled in a 21 yard pass to the Ulysses 30 yard line.

From there, the Tigers were given a steady diet of Griffith on four of the next five plays that ended with a four yard touchdown run by Griffith.

Scott City senior linebacker Marshal Hutchins returns an interception during the fourth quarter of Friday’s 14-7 win over Ulysses.

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position is to be played.

“He made two of the better reads he’s had in his career on a couple of plays where he saw his keys and shot through the window,” says O’Neil, noting that one of those led to a six yard loss.

One of those plays came on a sweep by Ulysses runningback Ian Rudzik and the other was a wingback trap.

“Both were plays you put on a highlight reel as an example

of how to play the position,” O’Neil said.

The keys to defending against the run and containing Rudzik for most of the night, says Hutchins, was trusting your reads and your teammates.

“All week we practiced on making the right reads. It was read, read, read and watching film constantly. It was a matter of preparing your mind for what they were going to do and getting to the right spot as quickly

as possible,” says the senior linebacker.

“You can’t let a guy like Rudzik get some speed going or he’s tough to bring down. We always had someone hitting him and slowing him down which allowed other guys to get there and gang tackle.”

Early Stops the Key The bigger surprise for Turner was the ability of the defense (See DEFENSE on page 26)

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fourth-and-nine at the Scott City 25, quarterback Braden Scott connected with his receiver in the end zone to cut the deficit to 14-7.

A low snap and a blocked punt on Scott City’s next possession gave the Tigers new life at the SCHS 40 yard line.

However, Scott was caught for a six yard loss on the first play and on third-and-16 senior linebacker Marshal Hutchins intercepted a pass from Scott at the 39 yard line with just 4:41 remaining.

“I could see they wanted to pass it so I dropped back in coverage,” says Hutchins. “(The quarterback) was looking right at me so I waited for him to throw it.

“As soon as I got the interception it was such a relief. We knew the game wasn’t over, but we also knew that we had them in a pretty tough situation.”

The Tigers got the ball back twice more at their own 23 and 10 yard lines in the final 3:32, but were unable to move the ball with much success either time.

Defensive coordinator Jim Turner was very satisfied with the way the Beavers were able to contain the Ulysses running attack.

“On most of those plays where Rudzik was able to gain some decent yards it was because we missed tackles,” says Turner. “He hit the seams a couple of times but, overall, we did a good job of having guys in the right places. We didn’t do anything different than we normally do against Ulysses. The guys did a really good job of reading Tigers Close Gap Ulysses avoided a shutout their keys.”

Creating piles of bodies by the SCHS defense early in the fourth quarter. Faced with a for Rudzik to run through, or

SCHS junior Cooper Griffith finished with 180 yards rushing against the Tigers on Friday.

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around, was a key part in keeping him from being a big factor offensively, says senior linebacker Sloan Baker.

“We wanted to make a pile that would slow him down and allow other guys to get there and finish off the play. The quick pitches didn’t work well either because our outside guys were quick to the ball,” says Baker.

Outside of Rudzik’s 135 yards, fullback Zach Romero

added just 24.

In addition to Griffith’s huge night, the Beavers were able to find some running room to the outside with senior back Chantz Yager (8 carries, 47 yards) and junior Wyatt Kropp (10-for-31).

O’Neil was just 4-of-12 for 60 yards and threw his first interception of the season on his second pass attempt of the night.

“We thought going into the game that Trey’s leg would be a

little more mobile than it was,” says Coach O’Neil. “I thought Trey would be about 80 percent and I’d say he was closer to 60 percent.

“His responsibility against Ulysses was to make the correct calls at the line of scrimmage.

He obviously didn’t have one of his better throwing games, but he made good decisions and put the offense in the best situations where it would have success.”

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Season is on the line at Norman Kansas State plays Oklahoma in Norman this Saturday. It’s a must-win game for both teams.

OU is comby ing off a 31Mac 26 victory Stevenson against Texas and K-State had their bye week.

This game is hard to predict; it’s still early in the conference race and both teams have had some ups and downs. K-State lost a game they should have won against Auburn (14-20) and OU lost (33-37) to a talented TCU team.

Oklahoma is loaded, as usual, with talented and athletic players at all positions. But the Sooners have issues.

Quarterback Trevor Knight has not lived up to preseason expectations.

Last season Knight threw for 348 yards and four touchdowns and was the MVP in the Sugar Bowl win against Alabama. But Knight was inconsistent during the regular season and that problem was overlooked during the post-bowl hoopla.

Coach Bob Stoops’ teams, for some unexplained reason, have lacked the necessary killer instinct ever since they won the national championship in 2000.

OU’s defense is superb.

K-State will have to pay particular attention to linebacker Eric Striker (6-0, 221) who is among the nation’s leading pass rushers.

Striker is a one-man gang on passing downs.

Coach Bill Snyder has had a lot of time to prepare for the visit to Norman and he’ll study every aspect of the OU-Texas game. The winner will still be in contention for one of the four slots in the first national playoffs and the loser will be out.

It’s a vital game.

Where are the fans?

KU’s football team had a chance to defeat Oklahoma State late in the fourth quarter last Saturday before losing 27-20.

The crowd - on a gorgeous day - was abysmal.

Kansas is playing much better under the coaching of Clint Bowen, nevertheless, it appears that Texas Tech and Iowa State are the only (See SEASON on page 23)

SC coaching staff still finds imperfections despite 6-0 start The Beavers are the undefeated Great West Activities Conference champions and entering district play as the prohibitive favorites.

So what does that mean during the next three weeks?

Absolutely nothing.

Despite an offense that’s averaging 43 points and 478 yards per game, head coach Glenn O’Neil is anything but content.

There will be a couple of personnel changes in the next three games - one because of injury and others because the coaching staff is still looking for answers on offense.

Senior Brett Meyer, who has played backup quarterback in the past, and JV quarterback Bo Hess will be under center for the Southwestern Hts. game on Friday and possibly another district game in order for starting quarterback Trey O’Neil to get healthy.

“We’d like for Trey to be able to play on Senior Night,” says Coach O’Neil, referring to the Lakin game.

In order for O’Neil not to collect too much rust on the sideline, he will likely play in the bi-district game as well.

The hope is that the rest will have him close to 100 percent by the playoffs.

Line Play Under Scrutiny Despite Scott City’s success on the ground against Ulysses, O’Neil is still trying to get things figured out with the offensive line.

“Our offensive line still has a lot of work to do. They were blocking the wrong guy too many times. They didn’t follow the blocking rules,” says O’Neil.

“Even though we ran the ball for a lot

of yards it was, at best, an average game for our offensive line. On every pass we threw we had one offensive lineman blocking wrong. They weren’t missing a block, but were trying to block the wrong person.”

Those are mistakes a coach doesn’t want see after six weeks of the season and with the playoffs around the corner.

Even though lack of depth continues to be a problem for the Beavers - particularly on the line - look for O’Neil to look for some answers over the next couple of weeks.

Special Teams In addition, the Beavers will be looking to improve their special teams play.

“We have to kick the ball better on kickoffs and punts,” emphasizes O’Neil.

On one kickoff in particular, the Scott City crowd had one of those “ooooh” moments when senior Sloan Baker popped a Ulysses player who had fielded a short kickoff.

The hit may have had the fans impressed. Don’t count O’Neil on that list.

“Trey miffed the kick and that gave Sloan a great opportunity for a hit, but we aren’t looking for that kind of play at the 38 yard line,” O’Neil says. “We need to be kicking it to the 10 and making them run it back to the 38.”

Net punting yardage has got to improve, along with the special teams blocking.

“We had two or three punts where we

had three kids blocking nobody. Twice they ran right by us and we got lucky and were still able to get the punt away,” he says. “The third time, if we get a body on the kid coming in then we still have time to get the punt away. It doesn’t get blocked.”

Garden Plain Flashback O’Neil said he couldn’t help but have a brief flashback to the 2008 playoff loss against Garden Plain when a series of events stole defeat from the jaws of victory.

It began with the touchdown pass by Ulysses that shouldn’t have happened on fourth-and-long, and was followed moments later by the blocked punt.

Garden Plain also blocked a punt, followed by a fumble, in the final minutes of the game. So you can see why there was the brief flashback.

That’s why O’Neil wasn’t going to risk any handoffs on the final series - especially with the wet conditions - and then leave it up to the defense.

“Jim (Turner) and I had a lot of faith in the way the defense had played. There was no reason to think that Ulysses could move the ball 90 yards in two or three plays at the end of the game,” says O’Neil.

The defense did its job. The offense did its job.

Flashback erased.

KC, Chargers is strength vs strength Stop me if you’ve heard this before.

The KC Chiefs are in a must-win game on Sunday at San Diego. Then again, when you dig yourself into an 0-2 hole to start the season, just about every game is a mustwin.

A win over the Chargers (51) is especially critical since they are leading the division.

We can’t afford to fall three games behind them in the loss column.

Even though this is a road game, we have two things in our favor: 1) Head coach Andy Reid, going back to his days in Philadelphia, is 13-2 following a bye week. Unfortunately, the two losses have come back-toback in his final year at Phila-

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delphia and last season against Denver.

2) We have a history of playing well at San Diego.

On the flip side, San Diego quarterback Philip Rivers is having a career year. He’s No. 3 in the league in passing (1,756 yards) and has 15 touchdowns compared to just two interceptions.

The only thing that might skew those numbers is that three of San Diego’s wins have come against the Three Stooges of the NFL - Jacksonville,

the Jets and Oakland.

Statistically speaking, this game could be very interesting in that each team has similar strengths and weaknesses. For example: •San Diego is sixth in the league in pass offense (285.5 ypg). KC is seventh in pass defense (217.4 ypg).

•San Diego is 25th in rush offense (92.7 ypg). KC is 23rd in rush defense (127.4).

•Kansas City is 4th in rush offense (137.6 ypg). San Diego is 9th in rush defense (99 ypg).

Pledges to Run After being second-guessed throughout the week about his decision to give the running game a week off in the loss to San Francisco, Reid has

pledged this week to let Jamaal Charles and Knile Davis once again be part of the offense.

And we can’t forget about D’Anthony Thomas.

Unfortunately, it seems that we’ve seen this happen before.

Kansas City abandons the run.

Kansas City loses. Reid apologizes for not running the ball and promises not to let it happen again.

We’ll see.

It was no coincidence that we beat New England, which had the No. 1 defense at the time, by rushing the ball for 207 yards. It’s a formula that still works in the NFL. When you’re on the road the key is to shorten the game by running the ball. That keeps Rivers off the field and it also (See STRENGTH on page 23)

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Members of the Scott City Middle School seventh grade team that finished second in the league tournament are (front row, from left) Piper Wasinger, Jacy Rose, Jasmine Ramirez and Abbie LeBeau.

(Back row) Lyndi Rumford, Shelby Patton, Kylee Logan, Emily Weathers, Gabby Martinez, Amanda Lara, Makenna Ashmore and Madison Shapland.

7th grade spikers are GWAC runner-up The Scott City Middle School seventh grade volleyball team wrapped up their season with a second place finish in the Great West Activities Conference tournament.

Scott City (17-14) swept through their first two matches with wins

over Ulysses (21-16, 21-17) and Colby (21-10, 22-20) before losing to eventual league champion Holcomb (21-12, 18-21, 7-15).

They bounced back with a sweep over Goodland (21-11, 21-10).

“We knew Holcomb

Strength takes pressure off KC quarterback Alex Smith to think that he has to come up with big play after big play to help this team win.

The good news for the running attack is that right tackle Donald Stephenson should get a lot of playing time. He was off suspension and available last week, but he didn’t get on the field. It’s speculated that the coaching staff

Season possible wins left on the Jayhawks’ schedule.

If Bowen can keep his team together and improving under the most difficult of circumstances, he will have earned a chance to be the head coach in 2015.

AD Sheahon Zenger should give Bowen every consideration for several reasons: If he’s successful, Bowen will stay at KU just as Bill Snyder has done at K-State. That’s critical.

Bowen grew up in Lawrence and played at KU. He’ll have great appeal to the Jayhawk fam-

would probably be our toughest match,” says coach Heather Holstein.

SCMS was just 1-3 against Holcomb this season.

“We showed a lot of improvement during the season,” says Holstein.

“Ulysses is a very good team and we beat them three out of four times.

“These girls are pretty focused. They are very competititve, so I’m looking for them to do some great things next year and when they get into high school,” she adds.

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didn’t feel he was quite ready after the long layoff.

There’s also a chance that wide receiver Donnie Avery and All-Pro safety Eric Berry will also return from injuries.

Favorable Schedule If we can get a win this weekend . . . and that’s a very important if . . . the remainder of the schedule leans in our direction.

We have six of the remaining 10 games at home against St. Louis, the Jets, Seattle, Denver, Oakland and San Diego.

In addition, we have some very winnable road games against Buffalo, Oakland and Pittsburgh.

If we can win four of the remaining home games and two of those aforementioned road

games then it just might put us in the playoff hunt with nine wins . . . but it all begins with San Diego this weekend.

If we don’t beat the Chargers then it makes the remainder of the season a pretty steep climb.

The X Factor (Ty Rowton) is a former Scott City resident who has been inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame as a Chiefs Superfan

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ily. And Coach Bowen has appear anyone can stop the drive and energy nec- him. essary to be a highly sucThere was just one negative to the first game cessful recruiter. of the ALCS: it took 4:37 KC has Momentum hours. The pace of play in The Major League MLB is appalling.

Baseball playoffs are a lot Relief pitchers should like match play in a golf have to warm up in the tournament, but there are bullpen, not during an injust seven holes instead of terruption of play. Football or basketball play18.

Kansas City stunned ers don’t get any practice the baseball world by passes or shots when they sweeping Baltimore and enter a game. making their first trip to Quite often relievers the World Series since pitch to just one batter before another pitching 1985.

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Relief pitchers should quickly come in from the bullpen, take the ball, and go - no practice pitches while the game is stalled. * * * Anyone who watched the KU basketball team’s 20-minute scrimmage last Friday during Late Night at the Phog knows that Bill Self has a more talented and athletic team than he had last season.

Coach Self recently said, “Our talent level is close to our 2008 team.”

That was KU’s national championship team. Kansas is loaded.

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SCHS Football SCHS 14 - Ulysses 7 Score by quarters: SC 7 0 7 0 - 14 Ulysses 0 0 0 7 - 7

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Total Offense 317 197 Rushing Attempts 48 35 Yards Per Carry 5.4 4.6 Passing 4-12-1 2-14-1 Total Plays 60 49 Penalties 6-50 7-48 Fumbles/Lost 0/0 1/1

Individual Rushing Car. Yds. Cooper Griffith 24 180 Chantz Yager 8 47 Wyatt Kropp 10 31 Marshal Hutchins 2 9 Trey O’Neil 4 -10 Individual Receiving Rec. Yds. Brett Meyer 3 47 Wyatt Kropp 1 13 Individual Passing Comp Att Int TD Trey O’Neil 4 12 1 0 How they scored: 1st Quarter: 2:34: Trey O’Neil, 1 yd. (Tre Stewart kick).

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Both singles players knocked off higher seeds during the first two rounds of action, but couldn’t keep that momentum as they were each handed back-toback losses in the championship quarter-finals and in the consolation quarter-finals to end their season.

“We see some pretty tough competition during the season, including several (Class) 6A and 5A schools. It doesn’t do a lot for your record, but we feel it prepares the girls for regional,” says head coach Steve Kucharik.

Smull (15-11), a senior, entered the regional as a 17th seed and quickly defeated No. 12 seeded Brooke Summer (Norton), 9-1. She followed that with a straight set win over No. 5 seeded Cassidy Hild (Tribune, 15-10), 6-3, 6-1.

Smull’s run through the regional bracket ended with a loss to No. 4 Larissa Howard (WaKeeney), 6-0, 6-2, and with a straight set loss to Bailey Hobbs (Victoria), 6-1, 6-2.

Appel (7-10), a sophomore, was a No. 10 seed and eliminated the No. 7 seed, Erin Lei Van (Osborne, 1711) in a tie-breaker, 4-6, 6-4 (10-8).

She lost in the quarterfinals to No. 3 seeded Orianna Ratzlaff (Phillipsburg, 24-6), 6-0, 6-1, and ended her season with a tough loss to Maegan Karlin (Victoria, 17-9), 6-3, 7-5. Karlin went on to finish fifth and qualify for state.

Doubles Open With Win The doubles team of Emily Buxton/Emma Price (5-7), seeded No. 13, swept Schmidtberger/Radke (Victoria), 9-2, in the opening round before they were eliminated by Harris/Woelk (Tribune, 23-6), 6-2, 6-3.

Harris/Woelk, who entered as the No. 4 seed, claimed the regional title.

The other SCHS doubles team of Christina Tilton/ Melanie Tilton dropped their opening round match to No. 1 seeded Callie Cunningham/Alyssa Lamb (Ellsworth, 20-9), 6-0, 6-1.

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other hunters to move deer past us.

My nearest neighbor, Dave, a policeman in a local town, was practically a local deer hunting legend and could always be counted on to hunt with our group. His home had a large kitchen/dining room with windows facing three directions and was the spot where we often met to warm up and drink a cup of hot coffee or cocoa.

I cannot count the number of times that someone, usually him, saw a deer cross the road somewhere near as we all sat there warming up and shooting the breeze.

A cry would go up and coffee cups and chairs would fly as we all scrambled out the door and into pickups, attempting to get some shooters to the other side of the block before the deer moved completely through.

Then there was the day when we were walking through another neighbor’s woods and a nice buck erupted from a big brush pile in front of us.

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As I recall, Don, the landowner traded guns the very next week.

Another year, on opening morning, I sat in a fencerow overlooking a small patch of woods on our farm. The morning was as clear, calm and frosty as it could be, and shortly after sun-up a buck stepped out of the woods about 75 yards away.

It was so calm and frosty that I actually heard each step he took, and could see his breath as he stopped to survey his surroundings. I clicked off the safety, put the sights behind his shoulder and squeezed off the perfect shot, only to watch him flee the scene without a scratch.

I promptly took my shotgun to a local gunsmith for help in sighting it in.

I suppose the most memorable story of all involves my brother and his first deer. I got Joe involved with our annual neighborhood hunting group and he was soon as hooked as I. As I remember it, this particular weekend during deer firearms season I was gone during the day for some reason, and when I

returned home that evening, a nice buck hung in my barn. You have to understand that at this point I had hunted for two or three years without yet harvesting my first deer, and here I came home to find my “little” brother had harvested his first deer, a dandy buck, from my woods, and right where I’d missed the perfect shot in the story above. Today I’m ashamed of how I first reacted back then; I believe I asked him where he planned to find land to hunt the next year.

Today Joe is a still a better deer hunter than I, has harvested many more deer than I and both his son and daughter and their families are all deer hunters because of him.

My wife, Joyce, now hunts deer and we hope to pass our love of hunting and of the outdoors on to our young grandson as well. That’s what it’s all about and that’s how it’s supposed to work!

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SC has 3 undefeated teams in Super Sat.

Scott City has a chance at winning championship titles in three age divisions after three of their four teams were winners in the semi-finals of the YMCA youth football tournament on Sunday.

The champions will be determined on “Super Saturday” which is on Oct. 18.

All three finalists are undefeated with 6-0 records.

First National Bank/ Security State Bank rolled to a lopsided 36-0 win in their tournament opener against Appliance Furniture Mart in the third grade division.

Scott City got off to a slow start, leading only 14-0 at the half on a 23 yard run by Collin McDaniel and a five yard reverse by Avry Noll.

Scott City’s defense gave them an early spark in the second half with a safety. On the possession that followed, Scott City needed just three plays before McDaniel broke loose on a 37 yard scoring run that put his team on top, 22-0.

FNB/SSB added two more fourth quarter touchdowns on a 23 yard punt return by Kooper Wright and a 15 yard run by Noll.

WSB Pulls Away Late Western State Bank/Neuman Harris Chiropractic gave up an uncharacteristic three touchdowns, but were still able to pull away for a 34-20 win over Pizza Hut in the fourth grade division.

Scott Community High School will host the Great West Activities Conference volleyball tournament on Sat., Oct. 18.

Round-robin play will get underway at 9:00 a.m. with action in the high school and elementary school gyms.

SCHS will open play against Holcomb at 9:00 a.m. That will be followed by matches (in order) against Ulysses, Colby, Hugoton and Goodland.

All SCHS matches will be played in the SCHS gym.

Quarterback Austin Thon is able to slip away from a diving tackle attempt by Leightyn Heim on his way to a 28 yard touchdown run during Sunday’s tournament semi-finals.

(Record Photo) Scott City never trailed, but they had defensive breakdowns that allowed Pizza Hut to stay in the game. After opening up a 21-6 lead late in the first quarter following a 34 yard touchdown run by Jace Thomas, the defense gave up back-to-back scores for the first time this season. The second TD came on the final play of the first half, cutting the lead to 21-20.

The defense finally took control of the game in the second half, stopping Pizza Hut on fourthand-short at the 28 yard line. Two plays later, Thomas gave Scott City some breathing room with a 17 yard scoring run.

Pizza Hut again challenged the Scott City defense on fourth down and came up short, turning the ball over at the Scott City 11. Three plays later, Thomas finished off the 39 yard drive with a four yard scoring run with just :45 remaining.

SC Teams Battle What easily could have been the championship game was played in the semi-finals of the fifth/ sixth grade division when the two Scott City teams faced each other.

Faurot Ag/Fairleigh/ Zoetis (6-0) and the Scott County Record/American Implement/Wheatland (4-1-1) each entered the game without a loss, but were paired against each other in the first round of tournament play.

This was a defensive battle with Faurot Ag getting on the scoreboard on their second possession when Loren Faurot scored from 20 yards out after American Implement had been stopped on downs.

One of the key plays of the game came in the final moments of the first half when American Implement regained possession after a fourth down stop at their own 12 yard line. Quarterback Austin Thon connected

Jace Thomas (52) scores one of his five touchdowns on a 34 yard run.

(Record Photo) with Harrison King on a 36 yard pass play with King forced out of bounds at the two yard line as time expired in the half.

American Implement did reach the end zone early in the fourth quarter when Thon was able to race around the left end on a 28 yard run. The twopoint PAT failed, leaving Faurot Ag on top, 7-6.

American Implement had one final scoring opportunity after recovering a fumble at their own 15 yard line late in the game. They were stopped on downs, giving the ball back to Faurot Ag. Easton Lorg on scored on a six yard run on the game’s final play to give Faurot Ag a 13-6 win and send them into the title game.

7th grade Jays roll over Ulysses, 34-0 Pouncing on Ulysses for four first half touchdowns, the Scott City Middle School seventh graders coasted to a 34-0 win on the home field last Thursday.

The Bluejays (5-1) were in control of this game from the start, need-

ing just 3-1/2 minutes before Cale Goodman put his team on the scoreboard with a 24 yard run.

Just two minutes later it was Brandon Winderlin doing the same with a 12 yard run that put SCMS on top, 14-0.

Justus McDaniel extended the lead by

another touchdown with a two yard run early in the second period and then Winderlin busted the game wide open with a 78 yard run with just 2:31 left in the half, giving Scott City a 28-0 lead.

Sterling Wright finished off the scoring with a three yard touchdown

run in the final period.

“The boys played well with very few mistakes,” says coach Larry Fox. “The line continues to show improvement.”

He noted that Ulysses had success shutting down the interior running game, but SCMS had the speed to get to the outside.

Wright finished with a team high 132 yards rushing while Winderlin added 102.

Goodman, in addition to 56 yards rushing, had a monster game on defense with 10 tackles.

McDaniel and Sam Irwin each had six tackles.

Bluejays tame Cubs to stay unbeaten When you have a prolific offense that can seemingly score at will it’s easy to overlook the defense.

The Scott City Middle School eighth graders continue to show that they are solid on both sides of the ball with a dominating 36-6 win over Ulysses on the home field last Thursday. That kept the Bluejays (6-0) undefeated and assured them of the Great West Activities Conference title.

“When you’re scoring so many points it’s easy for the defense to be overshadowed, but (assistant coach Eisenhour) Brice has done a great job,” says head coach Skip Numrich.

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“Early in the year we were giving up a lot of yards, but no points. Now we’ve settled down and teams aren’t having much success moving the ball.”

In six games the Bluejays have given up just 14 points.

Special teams have been a big asset to the Bluejays this season, often times providing the team a short field to work with.

A big return by Marshall Faurot to open the game gave SCMS good starting field position “and we kept our foot to the gas pedal the rest of the game,” says Numrich.

SCMS didn’t score

on the opening possession, but they wasted no time when they got the ball back a second time at midfield. On the first play, Wyatt Hayes busted a tackle trap 55 yards for the score.

On the second possession, Scott City kept running off tackle with Jack Thomas getting the ball each time.

“Every once in awhile you find something that works and you might as well stick with it until they find a way to stop you,” noted Numrich. “Wyatt does a great job of kicking out the end and that sets the edge for Jack to make some nice runs.”

Faurot finished off the drive with a five yard run.

SCMS got the ball back one final time in the half, but with very little time left. After having one touchdown called back by a penalty, the Bluejays quickly regrouped and got the ball back to midfield with a 15 yard screen pass to Hayes. With only :12 remaining on the clock and no timeouts, Thomas threw a perfect pass to Faurot that he caught in stride on his fingertips.

He was tackled at the one yard line with just :04 remaining.

The Bluejays quickly got to the line of scrimmage and were able to

spike the ball. On the final play of the half they finished off the drive with a one yard run for a 24-0 lead.

Hayes scored on a two yard run early in the second half for a 30-0 lead.

After Ulysses finally got on the scoreboard, Scott City answered with a 20 yard sweep by Thomas.

“What’s been fun about this group is that we’re not just three or four players.

We have a lot of boys who are stepping up and contributing,” says Numrich.

“And we have a lot of unselfish boys. They don’t care who gets the yards or who scores as long as we win.”

Cox claims 1st in Payoff Thirteen continues to be the magic number in the weekly Pigskin Payoff with Trevor Cox missing just three games to finish all alone in first place this past week.

Aaron Kropp had 12 correct picks in another week that saw its share of surprising winners and upset victims. He won the tie-breaker with 40 points in the SCHS-Ulysses game to claim second place money.

There was a three way tie for third place between Adam Kadavy, Walter Johnson and Hannah Tucker who each had 12 correct picks and a 42 point tie-breaker.

Finishing out of the money with 12 correct picks were Steve Fenster, Craig Richards, Gary Cheney and Sue Rogers.

Grand prize at the end of the 14-week season is $275 to the individual with the most correct picks. The runner-up will receive $125.

There is also a $75 prize to the first perfect entry of the season.

3-on-3 hoops tourney at Shallow Water

The first Have Ball/ Will Travel 3-on-3 basketball tournament will be held at the Shallow Water gymnasium on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 18-19.

There will be divisions for 7-8 grades, 9-10 grades and 11-12 grades.

For more information contact Kevin Washington, (620) 640-9312.

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Shipbuilding is a Columbus Day tradition at SCES

For more than two decades the shipbuilding skills of Scott City Elementary School third graders and adults have been put to the test during the annual Columbus Day event.

Because of inclement weather last Friday, the young shipbuilders and their assistants got together on Tuesday afternoon.

There is no competition. The only test is one’s creativity as they build seaworthy craft from a variety of materials, most often including styrofoam or plastic.

The third graders are assisted by a parent, grandparent or friend as they add their own personal touches that can include sails, flags or an emblem representing their favorite team.

After spending about 30-40 minutes constructing boats in the SCES lunch room, the students put their creations to a final test in pools of water that were set up outside the school.

(Right) Third grader Cody Vance and his dad, Mark, near completion of their boat on Tuesday at SCES. (Record Photo)

Scenes from the SCES Columbus Day shipbuilding event are (starting above, going clockwise): Valeria Catano gives her boat a slight push as it enters the pool.

(From left) Cody Vance, Cesar Peregrino and Kevin Peregrino test the seaworthiness of their boats.

Tatum Wells adds some finishing touches to her boat.

Max Tuttle and hisdad, Craig, add a sail to their ship.

(Record Photos)

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Farm

KSU sponsoring Farm Bill meetings Farmers are faced with some of the most important decisions of their working lives under the 2014 Farm Bill. To help them make informed decisions, K-State Research and Extension is teaming with several sponsors to bring 15 educational meetings to Kansans in January and February.

“USDA has stated that farmers have at least until March 31 to elect one of the commodity programs,” said Art Barnaby, agricultural economist with K-State Extension. “Once a commodity program is elected, that farm serial number is locked in for the next five years, so these are important decisions.”

Starting in January, Barnaby and K-State agricultural economist Mykel Taylor will travel the state to provide information on commodity programs and the economic tradeoffs between the options, as well as major changes to crop insurance. Representatives of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency also will discuss commodity program procedures.

The half-day meetings will cover decision aid tools that were funded by the USDA, as well as a new Excel-based tool developed by Oklahoma State University and K-State, designed to help agricultural producers make decisions as they examine their options.

Scott City will host a meeting on Jan. 27.

More information and registration is available at http://www.agmanager.info/events/FarmBill/.

Further information also is available by contacting Rich Llewelyn at rvl@ksu.edu.

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NCBA vows to fight 2nd beef checkoff effort The largest contractor of the Beef Checkoff Program, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA), says that U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack’s idea to reform the checkoff by creating another beef checkoff fund is dead on arrival with the grassroots organization.

NCBA President and Texas cattleman Bob McCan said a big majority

of producers support the current checkoff structure and that creating a second checkoff is not only duplicative but also potentially risks the future of the Beef Checkoff Program.

“We have a big majority of support for our checkoff that we have now and very good return on investment - it’s been very successful,” McCan says. “The majority of producers in this coun-

try feel that way. It’s our obligation at NCBA as a grassroots organization to vocalize that opinion as much as we can.”

Established by the 1985 Farm Bill, the Beef Checkoff Program was created to fund projects related to promotion, research, consumer education and international marketing. Of the $1 per head assessment, which is the same amount as

it was in 1985, half is allocated to state beef councils and half goes to the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board (CBB) to administer the national checkoff program according to USDA rules and oversight.

According to the 1985 Act, CBB, in coordination with the Beef Promotion Operating Committee, (See CHECKOFF on page 29)

Hitting the optimal time to plant With all of the moisture we’ve had over the last few weeks, many producers in the area are struggling to finish planting their wheat.

With delays in planting some fields, farmers will often wonder what impact the late planting could have on yields.

To answer this ques-

Down on the Farm Chris Long Walnut Creek Extension Agent

tion, a study sponsored by the Kansas Wheat Commission was initiated at Colby in the fall of

2008. Now, the optimum planting dates for planting in this area are about five days later than Colby, so remember to add five days to the results.

TAM 111 was planted no-till at four seeding rates, 60, 90, 120 and 150 pounds per acre on four planting dates - Sept. 26, Oct. 9, Oct. 28 and Nov.

7. September 26 was chosen as the optimal seeding date for Colby in most years, while October 9 is also within the range of ideal seeding dates.

October 28 is late for that area and November 7 is very late.

The following conclusions can be made: (See PLANT on page 34)

Take precautions when grazing frosted forage Jack Frost will be visiting soon. Several forage species can be extremely toxic soon after a frost because they contain compounds called cyanogenic glucosides that are converted quickly to prussic acid (i.e. hydrogen cyanide) in freeze-damaged plant tissues.

Others species have an

El Niño to begin in 1-2 months

The El Niño weather phenomenon is expected to occur in the next 1-2 months and last into next spring in the Northern Hemisphere, though it will likely be weak, the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) agency of the National Weather Service said on Thursday.

While the forecast marks the strongest prediction yet from the U.S. weather forecaster after going on watch earlier this year, the call for a weak El Niño means the pattern will have less of an impact on global crops than previously expected.

“This El Niño will likely remain weak throughout its duration,” CPC said in its monthly forecast.

El Niño, the warming of sea surface temperatures in the Pacific, can cause flooding and heavy rains in the United States and South America and can trigger drought conditions in Southeast Asia and Australia.

increased risk of causing bloat when grazed after a frost.

Species that can develop toxic levels of prussic acid after frost include annual grasses in the sorghum family, Johnsongrass, shattercane, chokecherry, black cherry, indiangrass, and elderberry. It is always a

good idea to check areas where wild cherry trees grow after a storm and pick up and discard any fallen limbs to prevent animals from grazing on the leaves and twigs.

The potential toxicity after frost varies by species as follows: •Sudangrass varieties: low to intermediate in

cyanide poisoning potential •Sudangrass hybrids: intermediate potential Sorghum-sudangrass hybrids and forage sorghums: intermediate to high Grain sorghum: high to very high Piper sudangrass: low prussic acid poisoning

Projections again raised for a record corn crop The U.S. corn yield forecast has once again been raised to a record high of 174.2 bushels per acre - 2.5 bushels higher than last month’s forecast.

The higher yield, partly offset by a 0.7-million-acre decline in harvested area, puts the forecasted crop at 14.475 billion bushels, 80 million bushels above last month, and the largest ever.

A 129-million-bushel increase in supply and a 50-million-bushel increase in use raise the projected carryout to 2,081 million bushels.

Both the high and low end of the 2014-15 price range are projected 10 cents lower for a new midpoint

of $3.40 per bushel. If realized, this would be the lowest since 2006-07.

World coarse grain production for 2014-15 is boosted by prospects of a bumper crop for the EU. Global coarse grain ending stocks for 201415 are projected to be the highest in 15 years.

Global coarse grain production is forecast up 3.2 million tons - to 1,272.4 million, with foreign production up 2.3 million to 889.3 million. Increased production prospects for the EU more than offset reduced prospects in several other countries.

Foreign corn prospects are increased 1.2 million tons to 623 million.

potential Pearl millet and foxtail millet: rarely cause toxicity Animals can die within minutes if they consume forage with high concentrations of prussic acid.

Prussic acid interferes with oxygen transfer in the blood stream of the animal, causing it to die of

asphyxiation.

Ruminants are more susceptible to prussic acid poisoning than horses or swine because cud chewing and rumen bacteria help release the cyanide from plant tissue.

Plants growing under high nitrogen levels or in soils deficient in phospho(See FORAGE on page 29)

Market Report Closing prices on October 14, 2014 Scoular, at Pence Bartlett Grain Wheat..................

$ 5.46

Milo ....................

$ 3.25

White Wheat .......

Corn ...................

$ 5.60 $ 3.62

Soybeans (new crop) $ 8.75 Scott City Cooperative

ADM Grain

$ 5.60

October 8

76

53

$ 3.62

October 9

60

52

October 10

52 40 .94

October 11

62 36

October 12

61 43

October 13

61 41

$ 8.75

$ 14.55

$ 5.45

Corn....................

$ 3.62

Soybeans............

Sunflowers..........

Weather L

Wheat..................

Milo (bu.).............

$ 3.62

50

$ 3.25

Sunflowers..........

$ 3.25

Corn....................

$ 5.60

H

Milo (bu.).............

Soybeans ...........

Milo (bu.).............

White Wheat .......

83

$ 5.45

Corn....................

$ 5.45

October 7

Wheat..................

White Wheat .......

Wheat..................

$ 3.32 $ 8.70

$ 15.10

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.35

Moisture Totals October 2014 Total

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Greater access to credit for beginning farmers Agriculture Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden has announced that the USDA will improve farm loans by expanding eligibility and increasing lending limits to help more beginning and family farmers.

USDA is raising the borrowing limit for the

microloan program from $35,000 to $50,000; simplifying the lending processes; updating required “farming experience” to include other valuable experiences; and expanding eligible business entities to reflect changes in the way family farms are owned and operated. The

Forage phorus or potassium will be more likely to have high prussic acid poisoning potential.

After frost damage, cyanide levels will likely be higher in fresh forage as compared with silage or hay. This is because cyanide is a gas and dissipates as the forage is wilted and dried for making silage or dry hay.

Young, rapidly growing plants of species that contain cyanogenic glucosides will have the highest levels of prussic acid. After a frost, cyanide is more concentrated in young leaves and tillers than in older leaves or stems.

New growth of sorghum species following a non-killing frost is dangerously high in cyanide.

Pure stands of indiangrass can have lethal levels of cyanide if they are grazed when the plants are less than 8 inches tall.

Grazing Precautions The following guidelines will help avoid danger to livestock this fall when feeding species with prussic acid poisoning potential: •Do not graze on nights when frost is likely. High levels of toxic compounds

related experience, other types of skills may be considered to meet the direct farming experience required for farm loan eligibility such as operation or management of a nonfarm business, leadership positions while serving in the military, or advanced education in an agricul-

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are produced within hours after a frost, even if it was a light frost.

•Do not graze after a killing frost until plants are dry, which usually takes 5-7 days.

•After a non-killing frost, do not allow animals to graze for two weeks because the plants usually contain high concentrations of toxic compounds.

New growth may appear at the base of the plant after a non-killing frost. If this occurs, wait for a hard, killing freeze, then wait another 10 to 14 days before grazing the new growth.

•Don’t allow hungry or stressed animals to graze young growth of species with prussic acid potential.

•Graze or greenchop sudangrass only after it is 15 to 18 inches tall.

Sorghum-sudangrass should be 24 to 30 inches tall before grazing. •Never graze immature growth or short regrowth following a harvest or grazing (at any time of the year).

•Do not graze wilted plants or plants with young tillers.

•Green-chopping the frost-damaged plants will lower the risk compared with grazing directly,

Checkoff contracts with established national, non-profit, industry organizations to implement checkoff programs.

For three years, a checkoff enhancement working group comprised of the industry stakeholders has met to discuss potential reform of the beef checkoff in order for it to meet the needs of today’s diverse cattle industry and make it more effective and efficient.

Since that time, the group has not been able to reach a consensus.

Calling the process a “waste of time and money” and claiming “there is no willingness from key players within the group to allow real reforms to take place,” the National Farmers Union voted to leave the working group.

At the same time, NFU passed a resolution calling for a series of changes to the 1985 Act, which would require congressional approval and a change to the 1985 Act. During a September 30 meeting of the working

changes become effective Nov. 7.

The microloan changes announced will allow beginning, small and midsized farmers to access an additional $15,000 in loans using a simplified application process with up to seven years to repay.

In addition to farm

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group, Secretary Vilsack announced he is considering creating an additional beef checkoff that would fall under the 1996 Act. A move McCan says could jeopardize the entire national checkoff.

“It gives the federal government way too much authority,” McCan says. “There would be a lot of duplicity and additional bureaucracy.”

The new checkoff and the current checkoff would reportedly coexist for a period of three years before a producer referendum would take place.

At that point, and under a new administration, a referendum would be held on whether to continue.

Creating a second checkoff would, essentially, result in a doubling of the assessment, from its current $1 per head to $2 per head. NCBA has supported doubling the current checkoff assessment.

However, McCan says while the Secretary’s plan may achieve another dollar, a lot of that dollar could be “eaten up in administrative expenses.”

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

because animals are less likely to selectively graze damaged tissue. However, the forage can still be toxic, so feed greenchop with great caution after a frost.

•Always feed greenchopped forage of species containing cyanogenic glucosides within a few hours, and don’t leave greenchopped forage in wagons or feedbunks overnight.

Hay, Silage Safer Prussic acid content in the plant decreases dramatically during the hay drying process and the forage should be safe once baled as dry hay. The forage can be mowed anytime after a frost if you are making hay.

It is very rare for dry hay to contain toxic levels of prussic acid. However, if the hay was not properly cured and dried before baling, it should be tested for prussic acid content before feeding to live-

stock.

Forage with prussic acid potential that is stored as silage is generally safe to feed. To be extra cautious, wait 5-7 days after a frost before chopping for silage. If the plants appear to be drying down quickly after a killing frost, it is safe to ensile sooner.

Delay feeding silage for eight weeks after ensiling.

If the forage likely contained high levels of cyanide at the time of chopping, hazardous levels of cyanide might remain and the silage should be analyzed before feeding.

Freezing also slows down metabolism in all plants that might result in nitrate accumulation in plants that are still growing, especially grasses like oats, millet, and sudangrass. This build-up usually isn’t hazardous to grazing animals, but green chop or hay cut right after a freeze can be more dangerous.

tural field.

Producers will have an opportunity to share suggestions on the microloan process, and the definitions of farming experience and business structures through Dec. 8, the public open comment period.

Since 2010, USDA has

made a record amount of farm loans through FSA more than 165,000 loans totaling nearly $23 billion.

More than 50 percent of USDA’s farm loans now go to beginning farmers.

USDA has increased lending to socially-disadvantaged producers by nearly 50% since 2010.

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The Scott County Record Professional Directory

There’s no better way to reach your potential customers in Scott County and the surrounding areas.

Agriculture

SPENCER PEST CONTROL

Preconditioning and Growing

RESIDENTIAL – COMMERCIAL

• 45 Years Experience • Managed and owned by full-time DVM • 2,000 Head capacity Office - 872-5150 • Scott City

Termite Baiting Systems • Rodents Weed Control • Structural Insects Termite Control

Stuart Doornbos Home - 872-2775 Cell - 874-0951

Box 258, Scott City • (620) 872-2870

Construction/Home Repair

Sager’s Pump Service CHAMBLESS • Irrigation • Domestic • Windmills • Submersibles

ROOFING Residential

All Types of Roofing

Commercial

Cedar Shake and Shingle Specialists Return to Craftsmanship

Cell: 874-4486 • Office 872-2101

Attention to Detail and Quality Guaranteed 620-872-2679 • 1-800-401-2683

ELLIS AG SERVICES

Dirks Earthmoving Co.

• Custom Manure Conditioning • Hauling and Spreading • Custom Swathing and Baling • Rounds-Net or Twine • Gyp and Sand Sales • Custom Harvesting Call Brittan Ellis • 620-874-5160

Precision Land Forming of terraces and waterways; feed lot pens and ponds; building site preparation; lazer equipped

Richard Dirks • Scott City, Ks. (Home) 872-3057 • 877-872-3057 (Cell) 872-1793

Automotive

Walker Plumbing, Inc. Backhoe & Trenching services • Irrigation & gas leak repairs • Full-line irrigation parts T-L center pivot dealer Floor heat systems Pump & install septic systems Boring equipment

Willie’s Auto A/C Repair Willie Augerot Complete A/C Service Mechanic Work and Diagnostics Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

423 S. Mesquite Rd. • Scott City • 872-2130

Medical

404 Kingsley • Scott City • 874-1379

Charles Purma II D.D.S. P.A. General Dentistry, Cosmetics, and Insurance Accepted

We welcome new patients.

324 N. Main • Scott City • 872-2389 Residence 872-5933

Horizon Health For your home medical supply and equipment needs!

We service and repair all that we sell.

Contact:

Landscaping • Lawn/Trees

Berning Tree Service David Berning • Marienthal

620-379-4430

Tree Trimming and Removal Hedge and Evergreen Trimming Stump Removal

Fully Insured

SCOT AYTES • 874-1646 t Paint i

Red

Specializing in all coatings

or any other color Paint inside and out residential, commercial, and industrial.

Free estimates and 16 plus years of experience.

PC Painting, Inc. Paul Cramer 620-290-2410 620-872-8910 www.pcpaintinginc.com

Pro Ex II

Over 20 Years Experience

Professional Extermination Commercial & Residential

• Termites • Rodents • Soil Sterilization • Pre Treats • Lawn Care • Fly Parasites

John Kropp, Owner • Scott City 874-2023 (cell) • 872-3400 (office) • prox2@live.com

Call today for a Greener Healthier Lawn

RT Plumbing Rex Turley, Master Plumber

Residental and Commercial Plumbing Water Systems, water lines, sewer cleaning faucets and fixtures, garbage diposals and more

Marienthal, Ks.

Owner, Chris Lebbin • 620-214-4469

1602 S. Main • Scott City • 872-2232 Toll Free : 1-866-672-2232

620-909-5014 (H) • 620-874-4128 (C)

Dr. Jeffrey A. Heyd Optometrist 20/20 Optometry

Treatment of Ocular Disease • Glaucoma Detection Children’s Vision • Glasses • Contact Lenses

Complete family eye center!

106 W. 4th • Scott City • 872-2020 • Emergencies: 872-2736

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Help Wanted

Scott City Clinic

872-2187

Christian E. Cupp, MD

William Slater, MD

Libby Hineman, MD

Megan Dirks, AP, RN-BC

Josiah Brinkley, MD

Ryan Michels, PA

Family Practice Family Practice Family Practice

Matthew Lightner, MD Family Practice

General Surgeon

Joie Tedder, APNP Melissa Batterton, APRN

Scott City Myofascial Release Sandy Cauthon

Fur-Fection

RN

105 1/2 W. 11th St., Scott City 620-874-1813 scottcitymfr@gmail.com FB: Scott City Myofascial Release

Call me to schedule your Myofascial Release

Retail

Gene’s Appliance Over 200 appliances in stock!

COMPARE OUR PRICES!

We have Reverse Osmosis units in stock.

Remember us for parts in stock for all brands of all appliances.

Sales and Service Days • Mon. - Sat. Deliveries • Mon.-Sat.

Largest Frigidaire appliance dealer in Western Ks. 508 Madison • Scott City • 872-3686

Networktronic, Inc.

Computer Sales, Service and Repair Custom computers!

Networking solutions!

Mon. - Fri. 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

402 S. Main, Scott City • 872-1300

Brent Rogers

Sales Consultant b.rogers@officesolutionsinc.biz

Kansas Classifieds Ad Network

The classified ads below are appearing in 147 Kansas newspapers with a total circulation of 500,000 the classified display ads appear in 142 Kansas newspapers with a total circulation of 457,000. KCAN line ad is $300 for up to 25 words and $12 each additional word. A 2x2 display ad is $800 per insertion and a 2x4 display ad is $1,650 per insertion. To find out more, contact The Scott County Record at 872-2090.

Northend Disposal

Truck Driving

C O N T R A C T SALESPERSONS to sell aerial photography of farms. Commission basis, $4,225 first month guarantee. $1,500-3,000 weekly proven earnings.

Travel required. More info msphotosd.com or call (877) 882-3566.

––––––––––––––––––––– EARN $500 TO $1,000 a day selling funeral insurance to seniors. Daytime market. Leads furnished.

Complete training. Daily pay. Health and dental insurance provided. Call 1-888-713-6020.

––––––––––––––––––––– $2,000 BONUS. Oil field drivers. High hourly, Overtime. Class A-CDL/ tanker. One year driving experience. Home one week monthly. Paid travel, lodging. Relocation NOT necessary.

1-800-5882669. www.tttransports. com.

START WITH OUR training or continue your solid career. You have options. Company drivers, lease/purchase or owner/operators needed.

(888) 670-0392. www.

CentralTruckDrivingJobs. com.

––––––––––––––––––––– BUTLER TRANSPORT. Your partner in excellence. Drivers needed.

Great hometime. $650 sign-on bonus. All miles paid. 1-800-528-7825. www.butlertransport.com.

––––––––––––––––––––– DRIVER TRAINEES needed. Become a driver for Stevens Transport! No experience needed. New drivers earn $800+ per week. Paid CDL training. Stevens covers all costs. 1-888-589-9677. drive4stevens.com.

––––––––––––––––––––– COMPANY DRIVERS, owner/operators. Great pay, great miles (average 2,500/wk.). Running Opportunities newer equipment.

Excellent home-time.

SAWMILLS from only CDL-A 1 year OTR expe$4,397. Make and save rience. 1-800-831-4832. money with your own www.SchusterCo.com. bandmill. Cut lumber. Any dimension. In stock ready Education to ship. Free info/DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills.

CAN YOU DIG IT? com. 1-800-578-1363, ext.

Heavy equipment operator 300N. training. Three week program. Bulldozers, backSporting Goods hoes, excavators. Lifetime GUN SHOW. Oct. job placement assistance 18-19. Sat. 9:00-5:00; w/national certifications.

Sunday 9:00-3:00. Kansas VA benefits eligible.

ExpoCentre (19th and 1-866-362-6497.

Topeka Blvd.), Topeka.

Buy-Sell-Trade. For info call (563) 927-8176.

A garbologist company.

Office (620) 276-3131 Toll Free 1-800-794-9052 Cell (620) 874-0014 Fax (620) 276-8876 1007 N. 8th, Garden City, KS 67846 www.officesolutionsinc.biz

Tuesday-Saturday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

www.reganjewelers.com

Scott City • 872-1223 • 1-800-303-3371

PC Cleaning Services, Inc.

Dining

We'll clean your home, business or do remodeling clean-up Available seven days a week!

Paul Cramer, Owner

620-290-2410

412 N. Main • Garden City • 620-275-5142 All Under One Roof

C-Mor-Butz BBQ

Revcom Electronics

Barbecue, the only sport where a fat bald man is a GOD...

Your RadioShack Dealer Two-way Radio Sales & Service

& Catering

Kyle Lausch 620-872-4209

Bryan Mulligan & Chris Price 620-874-8301 & 620-874-1285

Locally owned and operated since 1990

1104 Main • Scott City • 872-2625

www.cmorbutzbbq.com • cmorbutzbbq@gmail.com

District 11 AA Meetings

Scott City

Unity and Hope Mon., Wed. and Fri. • 8:00 p.m.

807 Kingsley Last Sat., Birthday Night, 6:30 p.m.

All open meetings, 874-8207 • 874-8118

Services

Berning Auction “Don’t Trust Your Auction to Just Anyone”

Dighton

Thursday • 8:30 p.m.

For all your auction needs call:

(620) 375-4130

Russell Berning Box Q • Leoti

Support Your Hometown Merchants!

535 Wichita St. All open meetings, 397-5679 • 397-2647

Classifieds

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Buy, sell, trade, one call does it all 872-2090 ot fax 872-0009

Agriculture

Rentals

Services

Help Wanted

WANTED TO BUY. Stored corn. Call for basis and contract information.

1-800-579-3645.

Lane County Feeders, Inc. 32tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– WANTED TO BUY. Wheat straw delivered.

Call for contracting information. Lane County Feeders. 397-5341. 44tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– CERTIFIED SEED WHEAT: Brawl CL, Byrd, TAM 112, TAM 304, T158, T153, Duster, Oakley CL, Turkey Red. Also triticale and rye.

Ehmke Seed, Amy, KS. 51t16 620-397-2350.

HIDE AND SEEK STORAGE SYSTEMS. Various sizes available. Virgil and LeAnn Kuntz, (620)874-2120.

41tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– MULTIPLE HOUSES FOR RENT. 1 bedroom homes available. Also 8x10 storage units available. Stop by PlainJans to fill out an application or call 872-5777.

01tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– COMMERCIAL/RETAIL SPACE available Sept. 1. 306 W. 5th Scott City. Contact Jeff 8741659.

50tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– STORAGE UNITS in various sizes available at The Storehouse, Don and Trudy Eikenberry 620872-2914.

07tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– 1 AND 2 BEDROOM apartments for rent. Please call 620-874-8353. 10tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– 2-BEDROOM TRAILER $400 a month plus deposit. No pets. Call 2142677.

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WANTED: Yards to mow and clean up, etc. Trim smaller trees and bushes too. Call Dean Riedl, (620) 872-5112 or 87434tfc 4135.

––––––––––––––––––––– FURNITURE REPAIR and refinishing. Lawn mower tune-up and blade sharpening. Call Vern Soodsma, 872-2277 or 36tfc 874-1412.

––––––––––––––––––––– MOWER REPAIR, tuneup and blade sharpening.

Call Rob Vsetecka at 62036tfc 214-1730.

––––––––––––––––––––– METAL ROOFING, SIDING and TRIMS at direct-to-the-public prices. Call Metal King Mfg., 620-872-5464. Our prices 37tfc will not be beat!

––––––––––––––––––––– “JEN’S GROOMING”

By Jennifer Milner, hours: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. call 620-214-0097. Located in 09tfc Shallow Water.

USD 466 IS LOOKING for substitute route bus drivers. For applications and additional information contact Lance Carter at 620-872-7655.

Classified Ad Deadline: Monday at 5:00 p.m.

Classified Ad Rate: 20¢ per word. Minimum charge, $5.

Blind ad: $2.50 per week extra. Card of thanks: 10¢ per word. Minimum charge, $3. Classified Display Ad rate: $5.50 per column inch.

Classified advertising must be paid in advance unless business account is established.

If not paid in advance, there will be a $1 billing charge.

Tear sheet for classified ad will be $1 extra.

Card of Thanks Thank you for your support, gifts, prayers and your giving hearts. My motto has been, “reach above adversity, learn from it and become a better person. Do not quit keep up the fight.” Your support has helped me renew my strength to continue my battle.

Gloria O’Bleness

NEW LISTING

2,050 sq. ft. home with full basement 5 bedrooms on 1 acre lot $232,000.

Buy lots in the Eastridge addition for your new home location.

Thomas Real Estate

www.thomasreal-estate.com

914 W. 12th Scott City, Ks. 67871 (620)-872-7396 Cell: (620)-874-1753 or Cell: (620)-874-5002 10tfc

Pine Village Apartments 300 E. Nonnamaker

Apartments available for qualifying tenants 62+ or disabled with rental assistance available.

Hours: Tuesday, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. by appointment Call Steve 872-2535 or (620) 255-4824.

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GREAT STARTER

If you’re looking for that 1st home, this could be it!

3 bedrooms, family room, newer FA/CA and windows, nice cabinets, off street parking, corner lot.

ONLY $74,900.

Berry Realty • 872-5700 1102 S. Main, Scott City, Ks. 67871 www.berryrealtyonline.com

We Have Buyers!

We Need Listings!

Lawrence and Associates

Deb Lawrence, GRI Broker Shorty Lawrence, Sales Assoc.

513 Main • Scott City 872-5267 ofc. 872-7184 hm. lawrenceandassocrealty.com Sheila Ellis, Broker Assoc.

872-2056 Kerry Gough, Sales Assoc.

872-7337 Russell Berning, 874-4405 www.berningauction.com

GARAGE SALES Saturday, Oct. 18 Multi-Family Garage Sale 1213 Church, Scott City Saturday: 8:00 a.m. - noon Women’s, kid’s, baby and maternity clothes.

Toys, household items and furniture.

Call us to get your home listed.

Margie Berry, Broker Tracy Chambless, Sales Assoc. • 874-2124

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS If you want to drink, that’s your business.

If you want to stop, that’s ours.

Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

Tuesday nights at 8:30 p.m. at the United Methodist Church basement (use west door).

412 College, Scott City.

Al-Anon at same time and location.

Contact: 874-0472 or 872-3137. 30t52

Garage Sale 1411 Elizabeth St., Scott City Saturday: 9:00 a.m. - noon Kitchen items, dishwasher, large area rugs, pictures, entertainment center, end tables and more.

Garage Sale 1313 Elizabeth St., Scott City Saturday: 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Dishes, toys, back packs, purses, clothing (plus size jeans) and lots of misc.

No early sales. Cash only.

Money doesn’t grow on trees! Or, from your parents pockets!

Keep working through the school year and advertise your services here for FREE! My name is:________________________________ My phone number is:_______________________ Check your services: Mow Lawns:_____

Yard Clean up:____

House Cleaning:____

Babysitting:____

Snow Removal:____

Car washing:____

Other services you provide:_____________________________________ List your rates:$_______Or we can add “Call me for my rates”:____ (Your listing will run until you contact us to pull it out.)

Fill in the form above and return it to The Scott County Record: PO Box 377 406 Main, Scott City, Ks. 67871 phone: 620-872-2090 or Fax: 620-872-0009

For Sale NEW HORSE SADDLE and bridle assembly $200.

New Ram Deluxe golf clubs and bag. Features graphite woods and zebra putter $175. Call 87210t1p 2190.

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––––––––––––––––––––– INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCED ELECTRICIAN. Norse Electric is looking for an Industrial experienced electrician for a supervisory role within our company. Possession of a Journeyman’s License is preferred. Successful applicant will have a valid driver’s license, be willing to travel and work weekends. Apply in person at 104 S. Washington St, Scott City, Ks or fax a resume to 877-583-1166.

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––––––––––––––––––––– NEWS PAPER CARRIER needed. Approximately 130 papers. Must have reliable vehicle. Seven days a week for Hutchinson paper and six days a week for Garden City paper. Delivery in Scott City area. Contact Kimberly Cline 71909t4c 691-9199.

––––––––––––––––––––– SCOTT COUNTY HOSPITAL INC., Medical Laboratory Technologists in Scott City, Kansas. Performing all tests offered

by Scott County Hospital; maintaining quality control standards with each test, with responsibility of recording quality control data; recognizing common technical problems and methods to correct them.

May work weekends or evenings on call depending on staffing needs. Must have Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Medical Technology or related clinical degree. Must hold or be eligible for registration (ASCP MT, MLT or equivalent) as a medical technologist, with ability in laboratory procedures and instrumentation. Reply to: Pam Wheeler, HR Director, Scott County Hospital, 201 Albert Avenue, Scott City, KS. 67871. Fax 620-87210t2c 7715.

––––––––––––––––––––– PRO’S CHOICE BEAUTY CARE needs permanent part-time merchandiser to service our product in Shopko in Scott City, once every 21 days. Pay rate is $50 per service call. Contact Katie 206-718-6985 kmooreprohair@hotmail.

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Employment Opportunities CUSTODIAN

Unified School District No. 466 is looking for a qualified applicant for a full-time night shift custodian position at Scott City Elementary School.

For applications and additional information please contact: Lance Carter Board of Education Building 704 College, Scott City, Ks. 67871 (620)-640-7276 USD #466 is an EOE Employer.

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FLEET DRIVER

SPECIAL EDUCATION PARA-PROFESSIONAL

Moving?

Remember to contact The Scott County Record with your new address.

PO Box 377, Scott City, Ks. 67871 620-872-2090 • office@screcord.com

For High Plains Educational Cooperative Scott City Middle School is seeking a special education Para-Professional to work with students.

The position is available for the beginning of the 2014-15 school year. Start date is August 21, 2014.

For more information and application please contact.

Susan Carter Board of Education Building 704 College, Scott City, Ks. 67871 (620) 872-7600

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PEN RIDERS

PARK LANE NURSING HOME Has openings for the following positions: PRN-LPN/RN Part-time CNA (evenings and nights) Part-time Cook/Dietary Aide

Competitive wages are offered with a full benefits package including, 401(k) with company match, profit sharing plan, 100% paid medical and dental insurance for employee, 100% paid short/long term disability insurance, life insurance, paid vacation, sick leave, and career advancement opportunities.

Shift differential pay offered for evening and night shifts!

Please apply in person at:

Irsik and Doll is an EOE.

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Park Lane Nursing Home

210 E. Parklane Scott City, KS 67871 Or visit us at our website: www.parklanenursinghome.org “Quality Care Because We Care”

EEO/AA-M/F/Disability/Protected Veteran Status Employer

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PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Come and grow with us and be part of an innovative team. We are looking for experienced pen riders. Our next team member must be energetic, goal-oriented, and have a desire to grow and take on more responsibility. Bilingual-English/Spanish preferred.

Apply for this outstanding opportunity in person or send your letter of interest to: Royal Beef, ATTN: Aleta See, 11060 N. Falcon Rd., Scott City, KS 67871.

Animal Health International Technologies is looking to fill the position of Fleet Driver in our Garden City location.

This position will be responsible for ordering products based on warehouse and customer needs, delivering the product to the customer in a timely manner, maintaining the truck and planning the most efficient route. This position requires 1-2 overnight stays a month.

Previous experience in inventory control and material handling and a Class A CDL with 2 years of experience driving tractor/trailer rigs is required.

To learn more about the position and to apply online please visit: www.animalhealthinternational.com

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Camp Lakeside is looking for a Program Director.

Director is responsible for specific management functions in the areas of program, lodging, and public relations.

Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to: monitors and maintains a high level of program quality, processes all registrations and user group reservations, develops and implements camp activities which will create new experiences for campers each year, oversees guest relations relative to lodging issues, maintains and develops public relations, camp image and communication by use of the camp website and social media sites, written materials, video, email and other media communications, participates in public speaking engagements on behalf of the camp. Embody the Camp Lakeside Mission of a Christian Camp where all people may come to recognize, enter into and grow in their relationship with God. Great salary and benefits, flexible work hours and fantastic work environment!

Applications: Open: September 1, 2014 Close: October 15, 2014.

For an application packet contact: Andie T. Strong, Executive Director, at andie@camplakeside.net or 620.872.2021 04tfc

SCOTT COUNTY HOSPITAL HAS OPENINGS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS PATIENT CARE Acute Care RNs Physical Therapist Respiratory Therapist Outpatient Services RN ER RN OR RN Clinic Nursing RN Supervisor C.N.A.s SERVICE Day Cook Housekeeping Aide PRN Dietary Aide/Cook Applicants for these positions are required to be able to read, speak and understand English.

Pre-employment physical, drug/alcohol screening, immunization titer, physical assessment and TB skin test required. We are a tobacco free campus.

We offer competitive pay and great benefits.

Due to our recent expansion of services and rapid growth, we are in need of Acute Care RNs and are offering financial incentives.

Applications are available through Human Resources at Scott County Hospital 201 Albert Ave. Scott City, Ks. 67871 620-872-7772 or online at www.scotthospital.net

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The Scott County Record • Page 34 • Thursday, October 16, 2014

Clean up pumpkin, squash growing areas After pumpkins and squashes have been harvested for the season, clean up the area by shredding and tilling. This will help kill squash bugs and cucumber beetles that prevailed on the crop this fall season.

The bugs and beetles feeding on the plants this fall will allow them to go into winter in good condition. They will be ready to come out early next year and “give your garden fits.”

However, when you shred the vines and till them under, the bugs can’t complete their late-season feeding and they will be injured by the cold weather, providing a natural means of control. They

Plant •Wheat yields were much higher when planted at the optimal time: 75 bushels per acre (Sept.

26), or 85 bushels per acre (Oct. 9).

•At the earliest two planting dates, seeding rate had no effect on grain yield. This is because the plants have plenty of time to tiller, especially at the lower seeding rates.

•When planting dates October 28, at 45 to 69 bushels per acre, and November 7, at 31 to 46 bushels per acre, were later than optimal, increasing the seeding rate did improve yields significantly, although not to the yield level of the optimal planting dates.

At these later planting

especially like to feed on bright, warm autumn days on any remaining green vegetation.

So, the moral of the story is . . . harvest early, destroy squash and pumpkin vines, and make the squash bugs and cucumber beetles vulnerable to winter injury.

Spring-Flowering Bulbs Now is the time to plant spring-flowering bulbs such as tulips and daffodils. These plants need to develop roots in the

fall and must meet a chilling requirement over the winter in order to bloom in the spring.

Choose a planting site that has full sun to partial shade. The ideal soil would be a sandy loam, but even poor soils can be used if organic material such as peat moss, compost, or aged bark is mixed in.

For example, a heavy clay can be amended by mixing in one-third to one-half organic material. Soil pH should be between 6.0 and 7.0.

Bulbs need good aeration as well as good drainage for proper development. It is best if the bulbs are given 12 inches of prepared soil.

If one-third organic material were added, this would require that four inches of organic material would need to be mixed with eight inches of soil.

Incorporate about three pounds of a complete fertilizer such as a 5-10-5 per 100 square feet during preparation.

Planting depths vary depending on the size of the bulbs. For example, tulips and hyacinths are set about six inches deep and daffodils are put 6-8

inches deep. Smaller bulbs are planted shallower.

As a rule of thumb, bulbs are planted 2-3 times as deep as their width. Planting depth is the distance from the bottom of the bulb to the top of the soil.

Large bulbs are normally spaced 4-6 inches apart and small bulbs about 1-2 inches. Planting in clumps or irregular masses produces a better display than planting singly.

After placing the

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dates, the plants do not tiller as much because they do not have as much time to develop before cold weather begins. Increasing the seeding rate can compensate somewhat for the reduction in tillering and thus have a greater effect on increasing yield.

The 120 pounds per acre seeding rate on October 28 yielded 70% of the average from the September 26 and October 9, plantings.

What does this mean in our current situation?

Farmers can expect a reasonable wheat yield when planting late if they increase their seeding rate as long as the weather cooperates. The weather needs to allow the young,

tender wheat to establish and survive overwinter.

Also, the grain fill period next spring cannot be shortened prematurely by hot, dry windy weather.

Where wheat emergence is uneven or poor, producers will have to decide whether to replant.

This decision is not always clear-cut, but some guidelines can help with the decision. Generally, if the average number of plants is about 50 percent or more of normal, the recommendation is to keep the stand.

With less than 40 percent of normal, the recommendation is to replant the field. With a stand that is between 40 and 50 percent of normal, the decision is more difficult.

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Nitrogen helps cool-season turf through winter, spring November is second only to September as the most important month to feed tall fescue and Kentucky bluegrass lawns.

That may not seem logical, even for cool-season turfs. Their top growth almost stops in late fall.

“But, the plants are still making food - carbohydrates - through photosynthesis. And, they´re storing up everything they don’t need for growth right now. Nitrogen in November helps boost those photosynthesis and storage rates,” said Ward Upham, horticulturist, Kansas State University Research and Extension.

In turn, Upham said, the benefits for cool-season turf plants can extend for many months, includ-

bulbs at the proper depth, replace half the soil and water. This will settle the soil around the bulbs and provide good bulb/soil contact. Add the remaining soil and water again.

Although there will be no topgrowth in the fall, the roots are developing and so the soil needs to be kept moist but not wet. Mulch can be added after the soil has frozen to prevent small bulbs from being heaved out of the soil by alternate freezing and thawing.

ing: •Improved root growth and shoot (density) development until the lawn enters winter dormancy.

•Improved winter hardiness.

•Carbohydrate reserves that help turf green up as early in spring as the weather allows.

•Reserves that sustain growth into May without a nitrogen application in March or April.

“Nitrogen applied in early spring is riskier because it can lead to excessive shoot growth and reduced root growth - just as cool-season turfs should be toughening up for summer,” he said.

K-State recommends applications of one to 1-1/2 pounds of actual

nitrogen per 1,000 square feet of lawn in November.

Upham noted that this is not the same as pounds of fertilizer, because only a certain percentage of most fertilizers is nitrogen.

For example, achieving one pound of nitrogen requires four pounds of a 25-4-4 fertilizer.

“Because the growing season is nearly over, you need to use a water-soluble or quickly available nitrogen carrier, such as urea or ammonium sulfate. Or, you should look for turfgrass fertilizers that contain soluble nitrogen,” he advised.

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