December 26, 2013 by The Scott County Record

32 Pages • Four Sections

Volume 21 • Number 20

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Published in Scott City, Ks.

Council won’t pay $14K in zoning case

Beaver Broadcasting is

ON THE AIR

SCHS instructor Scott Holt and Cayleigh Ramsey check the teleprompter that provides Megan Thornburg (in the green room) with the script that she is reading. (Record Photo)

SCHS programming will soon be hitting the airwaves Scott Community High School students are experiencing the latest technology in broadcasting as part of two new classes introduced at the start of the school year. The community has already seen the results of the class through live video streaming of high school football games and volleyball matches this fall. But that’s only the beginning. “Sports is a big part of what we do, but the kids also want to video other school activities,” says instructor Scott Holt. Holiday concerts were on the list for December with plans to expand to regular news broadcasts shortly after the first of the year. The prospect of a media class was first discussed about two

years ago when the district’s administration approached Holt. Even though Holt had been a fifth grade teacher in the district for 32 years - prior to this school year - he’s also had a passion for technology. Once Holt and the district made the commitment to proceed last spring the real work began. Holt began visiting schools with media curriculum and gleaning ideas that would work at SCHS. The district has spent an estimated $30,000 - most of that start-up costs - to provide the necessary technology. Holt was able to stretch that budget further by getting grants and “shopping for bargains.” Perhaps the most difficult part has been developing a cur-

riculum for the two classes: “Media Broadcasting and Performance” and “Audio-Video Productions.” “There are no textbooks. We have to improvise and do a lot of different things to replace textbooks,” says Holt. Professional Experience Above all, Holt wants the 36 students enrolled in the two programs to know from first-hand experience what it takes to work in front of or behind the camera in an actual studio. “When I was approached about doing something like this my goal was to introduce kids to a program which shows where the technology is heading,” says Holt. “When a student completes this class they

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should be able to walk into any college curriculum without any problem. If kids want to go straight into the workforce, I believe they should have the background that it takes.” Students are gaining experience in writing the script for broadcasts, conducting interviews, giving news reports in front of the camera and operating the tricaster which makes most of the on-screen technology possible. “I did some acting when I was younger, so I like being in front of a camera,” says Kiana Yager, a freshman. “But I also wanted to learn what it takes to put together an entire production, from being a producer to an editor and a reporter.” (See AIRWAVES on page nine)

A request for a cash settlement from property owners after their request for a zoning change was first approved, and later denied, by the city has been rejected by the Scott City Council. Gerald Edwards, Garden City, submitted a bill to the council for $14,723 that included $12,000 for the purchase of two lots at the corner of K96 Highway and Washington Street. Gerald and his wife, Barbara, had purchased two lots with plans to construct a sandwich shop at the southeast corner of K96/Washington. They appeared before the Planning and Zoning Commission to have the lots rezoned for a building that would include a sandwich shop and office space. The zoning request was initially approved by the zoning commission, but a second hearing was required when it was discovered that one nearby property owner hadn’t been notified of the zoning change. A second hearing was held and again approved by the commission. It was only after the change was approved that the Edwardses purchased the property from Kirk and Shelli James. Following the property sale, however, an appeal of the zoning commission’s decision was filed with the city council. (See ZONING on page two)

Tag deadline is Tuesday

Persons whose last name begins with the letters U, X, Y or Z are reminded that license tags must be purchased by Tues., Dec. 31, to avoid a penalty. Tags are due for autos, light trucks, motorcycles and motorized bikes. License tags can be purchased at the county treasurer’s office.

Airport hangars in short supply in region With airport hangar space in short supply across the region, the Scott City Council is looking at options in order to meet the growing demand from local pilots. The city currently has space for 11 aircraft in the T-hangar and roundtop that it owns. Additional aircraft are kept in the main hangar, which is supervised by the fixed base operator (FBO) and there are private hangars for additional planes. But more aircraft could, and

would, be kept at the Scott City Airport if space were available. “The sky’s the limit,” says airport manager Weston Thompson. “We haven’t had hangar space available for three or four years. I have two planes coming in this week that I have to squeeze into the main hangar.” Because there is no available space in the primary hangar, Thompson says that any time an airplane comes in for maintenance another has to be moved outside.

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“I don’t see a problem with filling an eight-bay hangar,” he says. “It won’t happen overnight, but it will happen.” Preliminary estimates presented to the council put the cost at $344,000 for an eightbay T-hangar that’s 36x278 feet with a concrete floor and electricity. There is money available through the Federal Aviation Administration which would cover 90-95 percent of the cost. Darin Neufeld with EBH Engineers, Great Bend, has sat

in with members of the Airport Commission during preliminary discussions about a hangar. He pointed out the city receives $150,000 each year in “entitlement” funding from the FAA. Currently, the city has no money in that account because it’s been spent over the past several years on upgrades to the runway and lighting. Those improvements had to be completed, says Neufeld, before the city could earmark funds for additional hangars.

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Lighting improvements are in the process of being completed at this time. Given the rate at which funding is restored in the entitlement account, it will be at least two years before the city has $300,000 in which to cover the lion’s share of the project. That means the city would have to wait until October 2015, at the earliest, to submit design plans and seek bids. Construction (See HANGARS on page eight)

Grapplers compete in Holiday Classic at Goodland Page 17

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Christmas fun

Ten-year-old Jaimie Thrasher, Scott City, couldn’t wait to enjoy her Rip Razer on a beautiful Christmas Day. (Record Photo)

Closed for New Year’s

The Scott County courthouse and City Hall in Scott City will be closed on Wed., Jan. 1, for the New Year’s holiday.

Holiday hours at Post Office

The Scott City Post Office will observe shorter hours at its service window on New Year’s Eve. The customer desk will be open from 8:3011:15 a.m. There will be normal mail delivery on Tuesday. The Post Office will be closed on New Year’s Day.

Early copy deadline

Because of the New Year’s holiday, deadline for all advertising and news copy for next week’s Scott County Record is 5:00 p.m. on Monday.

Zoning

(continued from page one)

After hearing from nearby residents who were opposed to the zoning change, the city council reversed the commission’s decision. In order for the zoning change to be approved it required a two-thirds majority of the council - or six votes. The change was supported by only four councilmen. After an executive session during their last meeting, the council took no action on the bill submitted by Edwards. In addition to the cost of purchasing the two lots ($6,000 each), the bill included closing costs, a survey, some furnishings which had been purchased and time spent for travel and to attend the additional council meetings.

‘Moonshiners’ at VIP Center

“The Moonshiners” will be performing for a New Year’s Eve dance on Tuesday, from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., at the Scott County VIP Center, Scott City.

What’s for Lunch in Scott City? Sun. - Sat., Dec. 29-Jan. 4

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Tues. • Open faced prime rib sandwich with fries, $10.95 Wed. • Closed Happy New Year! Thurs. • Smothered steak with mashed potatoes and gravy, $6.95 Fri. • Tijuana tostada, $6.95

What’s for Supper?

The Broiler

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

Includes Fries, 21 oz. Drink and Small Sundae

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Tues.• Hamburger steak with mushrooms and onions Wed.• Fried chicken Thurs.• Mountain oysters Fri.• Seafood specials Sat. • Prime rib

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Community Living

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Less can be more as you prepare for 2014 Making a New Year’s resolution is, for many, a traditional way to begin the year. Unfortunately, we are often unable to keep resolutions because we don’t set realistic goals. It’s common for many people to resolve to lose weight, get into shape or out of debt. These are great ending goals, but the resolutions need to be what gets you to your goals. When making a New Year’s resolution, decide if it is a priority in your

your weight loss goal. Just as importantly, you’ll also be getting in better shape which will lead to a healthier life regardless of your weight.

life and whether or not you can achieve it. You’ll feel better about yourself if you can see progress in reaching your ultimate goal. If your goal is to lose weight, for example, resolve to exercise every day for 30 minutes. You will hopefully achieve

Recipe favorites . . .

New Year’s Eve Chicken Wings

Ingredients 2 quarts

vegetable oil for frying

1 cup 1 pound 6 ribs

hot wing sauce carrots, cut into sticks celery, cut into sticks

5 pounds

2 cups

chicken wings, separated at joints, tips discarded

blue cheese salad dressing

Directions Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray.

Heat vegetable oil in a large pot or deep fryer to 375 degrees. Rinse wings in a colander and pat very dry with paper towels. Deep-fry wings in batches of 5 or 6 until partially cooked, about 10 minutes; drain on paper towels and let wings cool slightly. Return wings to the hot oil and fry a second time until golden brown, 6 to 8 minutes per batch. Drain on paper towels. Transfer wings to a large mixing bowl and toss with hot wing sauce to coat. Use tongs to transfer wings to prepared baking sheet in a single layer. Brush wings with any leftover wing sauce. Bake in the preheated oven until surface of wings is nearly dry, about 15 minutes. Serve on platters with carrot sticks, celery sticks, and blue cheese dressing. Yield: 20 servings

Bacon Wrapped Dates Stuffed with Blue Cheese

Dates are stuffed with blue cheese, wrapped in bacon and baked until crisp. You can serve them at room temperature, so it is okay to make a few hours in advance! Ingredients 1 pound 1 pound 4 ounces

sliced bacon, cut in half pitted dates blue cheese

Directions Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Slice dates in half, and open them up. Pinch off pieces of blue cheese, and place them into the center of the dates. Close the halves of the dates, and wrap a half-slice of bacon around the outside. Secure each one with a toothpick. Arrange in a baking dish or on a baking sheet with sides to catch any grease.

Bake for 30 to 40 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the bacon is crisp. Turn dates over after the first 20 minutes for even cooking. Yield: 32 appetizers

Get Finances in Order Another good resolution is to get your financial records in order. Make time each week to balance your checkbook, file receipts or pay bills. Get your latest credit reports. We get three free each year. I space mine out so that I can check on them periodically

Throwing an easy New Year’s party

Invite a few close friends to ring in the New Year with an easy, intimate party at home. Make light of New Year’s resolutions by turning them into a guessing game. Give partygoers cards and have guests finish the sentences with hopeful wishes or tonguein-cheek witticisms. Gather the cards, read them aloud randomly, then let the gang try to figure out who wrote what. Print cards with these fill-in-the-blanks: •“The bad habit I want to kick this year is . . . .” •“The good deed I want to do this year is . . . .” “The person I want to be more like this year is . . . .” “The skill I want to learn this year is . . . .” Food Tips For an alternative to champagne, try Prosecco or nonalcoholic Twelve, a fizzy blend of fruit and herbal tea. Dessert: Chocolate Bar Fondue with fruit and pound cake for dipping, in a fondue pot. Favors: Give guests parting gifts of good fortune. Pack up black-eyed peas (which bring good luck, according to southern tradition) in a box or cellophane bag and a recipe.

throughout the year. Know who you owe and how much. Know what your credit score is and why. People who are debt free live free. Most of us can achieve this goal by prioritizing our needs vs. wants and setting a budget. We don’t deserve everything we want and those who don’t understand are doing themselves a gross injustice. Plan on getting your estate in order. Everyone over the age of 18 needs to have a will. Of course

the older you get, the more decisions you will probably need to make. A couple of years ago, we had a will done for only $200. This is important stuff. Do you really want the courts to decide who will raise your kids or how your assets are divided? Again, prioritize. If you want help with some great ideas, join me on January 14 for a “Knowledge at Noon” on “Financial Organization” at the Bryan Education Center.

Births PARENTS OF SON Greg and Stefanie Harris, Wichita, announce the birth of their son, Laykin, born Dec. 13, 2013, at Wichita. He weighed 7 lbs. 6 oz. and was 20 inches long. Maternal grandparents are Dan and Twilla Snell, Claremore, Okla. Great-grandparents are Dean and Ruth Riedl, Scott City. Great-great-grandfather is Malvin Wells, Ordway, Colo.

Declutter Your Life Organize photos on long winter nights. Do one box or drawer a week. Do the same with a closet or drawer. Get decluttered and give yourself more time and energy. If you don’t understand how that can happen, try it and see. I am sure that you have all heard how less is more. It’s true. Donate unwanted items to charity. If your resolution is to gain a tangible item, save for it, don’t buy it on (See PREPARE on page seven)

The Scott County Record

Editorial/Opinion

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editorially speaking

Keep it fair:

Don’t allow extra meters for city’s large water users

If someone drives 4-5 times as many miles on our Kansas highways as the average person, and pays 4-5 times more in fuel taxes, or perhaps owns 2-3 vehicles, does that entitle them to special privileges? Are they entitled to drive 10 mph faster than other people without getting a ticket? Do they get special parking spots in front of the grocery store or their favorite restaurant? Of course, not. Yet, the Scott City Council is being asked to consider a similar proposal for high-end water users. In an effort to get around sharply higher water rates that kick in at 60,000 gallons per month - and spike yet again at 80,000 gallons - it’s been proposed that certain property owners be allowed to purchase a second water meter. In this way they can divide their usage between two meters and avoid the worst of the rate hike. The argument made on behalf of these people is that they are entitled to this privilege because they are paying more in property taxes since they own larger houses and bigger lots. You know . . . with wealth comes privilege. As one council member noted, those households with 5-6 family members don’t get a break in their water rates, even though they may be using less water per person than a household with just one or two people. Councilman Jack Schmitt was more direct when he asked, “Just because you have the money, the huge house and you have the wherewith all, does that give you the right to use more water?” Those who question the city’s new water rate structure and conservation efforts by the city like to point out that all municipalities within the five-county Groundwater Management District No. 1 use a total of just 7/10 of one percent of all groundwater in the district. Regardless of what conservation efforts these cities adopt, the impact on the Ogallala Aquifer’s lifespan will be minimal. It’s difficult to argue against that. And if municipalities were being asked to carry the entire burden for extending the life of the Ogallala, we would agree with their viewpoint. But we all benefit from the precious water resources below us and we all benefit by protecting the quality and the life of the aquifer. While the success of a Local Enhanced Management Area (LEMA) within GWMD No. 1 will rest with farmers who rely on the Ogallala for irrigation, it’s a responsibility that we all share regardless of our economic status, the size of our home or the amount of land we own. We already live in a society where wealth earns more than its share of privilege. The ability to use a precious resource such as water shouldn’t fall into that same category.

Free lunch:

Kids aren’t the ones causing the problem

It’s easy to look at the poor and claim that they find themselves in that position by their own choosing. Or to say that those getting assistance don’t appreciate what others are doing for them. So it is with Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) who feels that kids need to learn at an early age there is no such thing as a free lunch. He’s proposing that low-income children be required to do some manual labor in exchange for their subsidized meals. Easy to say since these children and their parents aren’t going to be pouring tens of thousands of dollars into Kingston’s future election campaigns. That makes poor children and their families easy targets for those who feel the government spends too much and that the impoverished and elderly are to blame. But why limit the work requirement to children on subsidized lunch programs? Why not the Wall Street bankers who received billions of dollars in taxpayer bailout money, and continue to receive $83 billion a year. Why not require JP Morgan Chief Executive Jamie Dimon to work the food line at a homeless shelter? Maybe it will give him greater appreciation for the people he’s helped to put out of work and out of their homes. Why not require that of Congressmen who still got their paychecks during a government shutdown they created? Big Oil certainly hasn’t missed many meals either. If it’s a free lunch we want to stop, let’s go after those with the biggest appetite.

We’ve learned a lot during 2013

What have we learned during 2013? Here’s our list: * * * The GOP has come up with their own version of “The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” which they refer to as the “One Degree of Adolph Hitler.” When the Obama Administration was forced to close national parks and historic sites during the government shutdown that was brought on by Republicans, State Rep. Brenda Barton (R-Ariz.) referred to the President in a tweet as “de Führer.” She added that when Hitler rose to power he “started national health care and gun control.” When President Obama shook hands with Cuban President Raul Castro during Nelson Mendela’s funeral, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) noted that, “Neville Chamberlain shook hands with Hitler.” Maine Gov. Paul LePage said in a weekly radio address that Obamacare would mean: “You must buy health insurance or pay the new Gestapo - the IRS.”

Sheryl Nuxoll, a Republican state senator from Idaho, compared President Obama’s health care reform law to the Holocaust in an email to supporters. With the Republican version of this game, it doesn’t take six steps to compare Obama to Hitler. It takes just one. It’s much easier than the Kevin Bacon version. * * * The Tea Party tail continues to wag the Republican dog. Despite a Pew poll that shows a 49% “unfavorable” rating for the Tea Party, and a Gallup poll that finds Tea Party supports at nearly its lowest level (22%), the Republican establishment continues to cower in fear at the thought of standing up to the group or - even worse - facing a primary challenge from a Tea Party candidate.

And just as the minority has been able to rule the majority in the Republican Party, the GOP expects that same to hold true within Congress. When Democrats changed the rules to allow a simple majority to make some decisions within the Senate, it took some power away from the GOP’s minority of 45 senators. You know, it’s something that Hitler would have done. * * * What some have mistaken as political ignorance is just another sign of the Republican Party’s pure genius. For example: •Even though every known economist declared that the U.S. defaulting on its bills would lead to a worldwide economic crisis, some Republicans were smart enough to see through this scare tactic. What could possibly go wrong by not paying your bills? •Despite evidence that climate change is real, most Republicans know that science is a hoax controlled by liberals and that if we ignore the problem

it will eventually go away. •Republican men know what’s best for women and their reproductive parts. That’s a scientific and Biblical fact. * * * The biggest problem in this nation are poor people and children. That’s why they are constantly held hostage whenever Republicans want to get something done. If we want to prevent a debt ceiling crisis, take money from the poor. If we want to pass a farm bill, then cut funding for food stamps. These programs only teach poor families and children to be dependent on the government, unlike Big Oil and the defense industry. * * * The second biggest problem in this nation is people who vote illegally. That’s why Republican-controlled states such as North Carolina, Texas, Florida and others passed laws to eliminate sameday registration; ban 16 and 17-year-olds from (See LEARNED on page six)

Snowden is ‘Person of the Year’

There are really just two possible choices for person of the year. I want to say Pope Francis, but I’ve got to go with Edward Snowden. The spiritual leader of 1.2 billion Roman Catholics and a whistleblowing fugitive from American justice have just one thing in common: impact. Francis, by shifting his church’s focus to social justice, may change the world. But Snowden, by revealing the vast extent of government surveillance, already has. Someday, perhaps, this ranking will be reversed. I hope it is, because the change that Francis advocates is more sweeping - and long overdue. The Catholic Church, despite its many problems, remains a powerful force around the globe. If its energies are directed away from the

Where to Write

another view by Eugene Robinson

culture wars and toward fighting poverty, inequality and injustice, the church can play a hugely influential role in shaping the new century. I was a bit unsure about Jorge Mario Bergoglio when he was chosen as the first Jesuit and first modern-era non-European to serve as pontiff. I lived in Argentina, his homeland, for four years as a foreign correspondent for The Post. I knew that during the South American dictatorships of the 1970s and ’80s, the church in Argentina - unlike in Chile, for example - had been cozy and complicit with the ruling generals. The consensus of researchers who have examined Francis’s his-

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tory is that he did not collaborate with the murderous ruling junta, which killed or “disappeared” at least 15,000 suspected leftists - but also that he did not openly confront the regime. It is tempting to see his subsequent career as an extended act of atonement, culminating in the dizzying months since his election to the papacy in March. Francis declined to move into the opulent papal apartments, choosing instead to live in spartan rooms at a Vatican guesthouse. His acts of humility and compassion are so frequent that by now they seem almost commonplace - inviting three homeless men from the streets of Rome to share breakfast with him, for example, or washing the feet of young people living in a juvenile detention center.

Sen. Pat Roberts 109 Hart Senate Office Bldg. Washington, D.C. 20510 (202) 224-4774 roberts.senate.gov/email.htm

Most striking, however, is his decision to downplay issues such as abortion or homosexuality and instead emphasize social and economic justice. His recent 50,000-word exhortation to the faithful included a point-blank denunciation of trickledown economics and a reminder that Jesus’s teachings require offering compassion to the poor. Francis has also moved boldly to shake up the conservative church bureaucracy. Potentially, he will be remembered as the pope who confronted rising inequality in the same way that John Paul II was the pope who confronted communism. But it will be years before we know whether Francis succeeds. Snowden, unlike Francis, is rarely accused of humility. It is fair to describe him as smug and (See SNOWDEN on page six)

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We must do more about poverty in the U.S.

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by Katrina Vanden Huevel

While celebrating the holiday season, we are instructed by virtually all faiths to turn our thoughts to the “least of these.” January will mark the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty, but most notable today is how impoverished our discussion of poverty is. Political leaders in both parties pledge to save the “middle class,” because polls show that most Americans consider themselves part of the broad middle. Democrats tout their “middle out” economics against Republican “trickle-down” economics. Republicans claim to be fighting to save small businesses and middle-class homeowners from the rapacious demands of government. Very little attention is given to the poorest among us.

Perhaps that is because poverty scars this rich nation. A recent report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) reveals that among 35 developed nations the United States ranks 34th in childhood poverty, above only Romania, a country several times less wealthy. Worse, we are also next to last in the depth of childhood poverty - the gap between average income of child’s family and that of poverty standard. There is no argument about the facts. The poor were much more deprived when Lyndon Johnson declared his “war on poverty,” of course, but the percentage in poverty hasn’t changed much . Childhood poverty translates into poor health, poor education, and poor prospects. It isn’t an accident that the

Last month, Congress cut food stamps by an average of seven percent for 48 million Americans. And this week 1.3 million jobless Americans will lose unemployment benefits.

country frequently at the top of the international education rankings - Finland - also has the lowest levels of childhood poverty in that U.N. study. So you’d think Washington would be focused on what to do to reduce the number of children in poverty, to address mass unemployment, declining wages, family distress. Instead, Washington has decided to administer a little “tough love.” Last month, Congress cut food stamps by an average of seven percent for 48 million Americans. And this week 1.3 million jobless Americans will lose unemployment benefits, with as many as

five million left in the cold over the course of the coming year. In his recent “exhortation,” Pope Francis wrote starkly about the moral challenge of poverty: “We can only praise the steps being taken to improve people’s welfare in areas such as health care, education and communications. At the same time, we have to remember that the majority of our contemporaries are barely living from day to day, with dire consequences. A number of diseases are spreading. The hearts of many people are gripped by fear and desperation, even in the so-called rich countries. “Just as the commandment ‘Thou shalt not kill’ sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say ‘thou shalt not’ to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills. How can it be that it is not

a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure but it is news when the stock market loses two points?” Here, the pope was standing firmly in the long tradition of the church’s concern for the poor, but among American conservatives, the response was hysteria. Rush Limbaugh accused him of peddling “pure Marxism.” Louis Woodhill in “Forbes” scorned him for “Papal Bull” that seemed “copied and pasted out of ‘The Nation’ or ‘Mother Jones’.” In a recent speech on inequality, President Obama insisted, “We are a better country than this,” and he made the case for government action. But his agenda was far less impressive than his rhetoric - including lower corporate tax rates, more trade accords, “streamlined” (See POVERTY on page six)

Former GOP staffer: stop bashing the ACA by Clint Murphy

An American Philosophy by Jim Hightower

Christmas Day got me to thinking about America’s spirit of giving, and I don’t mean this overdone business of Christmas gifts. I mean our true spirit of giving - giving of ourselves. Yes, we are a country of rugged individualists, yet there’s also a deep, community-minded streak in each of us. We’re a people who believe in the notion that we’re all in this together, that we can make our individual lives better by contributing to the common good. The establishment media pays little attention to grassroots generosity, focusing instead on the occasional showy donation by what it calls “philanthropists” - big tycoons who give a little piece of their billions to some university or museum in

exchange for getting a building named after them. But in my mind, the real philanthropists are the millions of you ordinary folks who have precious little money to give, but consistently give of themselves, and do it without demanding that their name be engraved on a granite wall. My own Daddy, rest his soul, was a fine example of this. With half a dozen other guys in Denison, Tex., he started the Little League baseball program volunteering to build the park, sponsor and coach the teams, run the squawking P.A. system, etc., etc. Even after I graduated from Little League, Daddy stayed working at it, because his involvement was not merely for his kids . . . but for all. He felt the same way about

being taxed to build a public library in town. I don’t recall him ever going in that building, much less checking out a book, but he wanted it to be there for the community and he was happy to pay his part. Not that he was a do-good liberal, for God’s sake - indeed, he called himself a conservative. My Daddy didn’t even know he had a political philosophy, but he did, and it’s the best I’ve ever heard. He would often say to me, “Everybody does better when everybody does better.” If only our leaders in Washington and on Wall Street would begin practicing this true American Philosophy.

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

It is not surprising that so many Georgians are confused about the reforms of the Affordable Care Act. It seems almost daily that you have a Republican candidate or elected official is making inaccurate statements or using various stories to fit their narrative of what’s wrong with the law. As a Rotarian, we repeat a Four Way Test that asks, in part, “Of the things we think, say, or do, is it the truth?” I would submit to you that most of the Republican elected officials and candidates for office cannot answer in the affirmative to that question as it relates to the scare tactics being used to derail the ACA. At the core of the act is the individual mandate that all able-bodied individuals purchase health insurance. This is consistent with individuals taking personal responsibility for their lives and actions. This idea originated with the conservative Heritage Foundation in 1994 and was adopted by the Republican Party as its position on health insurance reform, up until it was made a part of the reforms of the ACA in 2009. Republicans abandoned this position simply because it was adopted by Democrats as part of the ACA. Georgia is one of only 16 states that does not have a highrisk insurance pool for people with pre-existing conditions.

As a Rotarian, we repeat a Four Way Test that asks, in part, “Of the things we think, say, or do, is it the truth?” I would submit to you that most of the Republican elected officials and candidates for office cannot answer in the affirmative to that question as it relates to the scare tactics being used to derail the ACA.

This means people who have a chronic illness or have survived a life threatening disease, such as cancer, have not been able to purchase insurance on the individual market at all. Thanks to the ACA, that discrimination comes to an end. It’s not a secret that the roll out of the Affordable Care Act did not go smoothly. Healthcare. gov was almost useless up until the beginning of December. Additionally, unintended consequences resulted when providers canceled some people’s health insurance policies. The website is working very well now and individuals can and should take a look for themselves. Getcoveredamerica.org is another helpful resource. The Affordable Care Act is not a perfect law and was never meant to be a panacea to the woes of our health care system. Republicans argue that this is an expansion of government. I find that a false notion as we are already paying for the care, be it through higher taxes or higher premiums, and the care provided is at the most expensive and inconvenient point of care - the emergency room. (See BASHING on page seven)

NAFTA at 20: the impact on North American ag One of the clearest stories to emerge in the two decades since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was implemented is the devastation wreaked on the Mexican countryside by dramatic increases in imports of cheap U.S. corn. But while Mexican farmers, especially small-scale farmers, undoubtedly lost from the deal, that doesn’t mean that U.S. farmers have won. Prices for agricultural goods have been on a roller coaster of extreme price volatility - caused by unfair agriculture policies and recklessly unregulated speculation on commodity markets, as well as by increasing droughts and other climate chaos. Each time prices take their terrifying ride back down, more

behind the headlines by Karen Hansen-Kuhn

small- and medium-scale farmers are forced into bankruptcy, concentrating land ownership and agricultural production into ever fewer hands. Corporate Consolidation It’s hard to separate the impacts of NAFTA from another big change in U.S. farm policy: the 1996 Farm Bill. That legislation set in place a shift from supply management and regulated markets to a policy of “get big or get out.” Farmers were encouraged to increase production with the promise of expanded export

markets - including to Mexico. But almost immediately, commodity prices dropped like a stone, and Congress turned to “emergency” payments - later codified as farm subsidies - to clean up the mess and keep rural economies afloat. Then, as new demand for biofuels increased the demand for corn, and as investors turned away from failing mortgage markets to speculate on grains, energy, and other commodities, prices soared. It wasn’t only the prices of farm goods that rose, however. Prices also increased for land, fuel, fertilizers and other petrochemical-based agrochemicals. As a result, net farm incomes became much more erratic. In many ways, the family farmers who had been the back-

bone of U.S. rural economies really did either get big or get out, leaving a sector marked by inequality and corporate concentration. Over the last 20 years, there has been a marked shift in the size of U.S. farms, with the numbers of very small farms and very large farms increasing dramatically. The increase in the number of small farms is due to several factors, including urban dwellers returning to the land (almost all of whom rely on off-farm jobs to support themselves), and the growth in specialty crops for local farmers’ markets. According to USDA researchers Robert Hoppe, James MacDonald, and Penni Korb, the number of farms in the middle - small operations

that are commercially viable on their own - dropped by 40 percent, from half of total farms in 1982 to less than a third in 2007. During this process of farm consolidation, corporations involved in agriculture and food production also consolidated. Mary Hendrickson at the University of Missouri has calculated the share of production held by just four firms in different sectors. In total beef production, for example, the share of the top four firms (Cargill, Tyson, JGF and National Beef) increased from 69 percent in 1990 to 82 percent in 2012. The story is the same in poultry, pork, flour milling, and other sectors. (See NAFTA on page six)

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Academic obsession with testing fails students by Kelly Yang

This month, for the third time in a row, the Asians kicked American butt - academically, that is. On reading, science and math, students in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore earned the top scores on the international PISA test. U.S. students scored below or near the worldwide average, prompting suggestions that American education as a whole is failing. As a Hong Kong educator, I’m confident that the last thing the United States needs to copy is Chinese education.

Here in this city of two million parents, there are two million school principals, all ordering afterschool academic courses like appetizers in a restaurant. Parents are the headmasters because our schools no longer control the education process. A 2011 survey estimated that 72 percent of Hong Kong high school students receive tutoring outside of school, often until late in the evening. So when our schools get out, the school day is just beginning for most kids. Long before the term “tiger mom” was coined, Chinese parents had a history of obsessing over

academics. The other day, I overheard two parents talking about their sons. One mom turned to the other and shrieked, “I found him in his room, just sitting there. Not doing anything!” The other gasped and shook her head in disbelief. Their sons are sixyears-old. It is not uncommon at parent get-togethers to hear references to an “inadequate foundation,” “unsystematic approach” and “syllabus gap.” Such phrases point to a fundamental distrust in our schools and, specifically, in the role of the school

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regulations, a “responsible budget” (meaning continued austerity). The president touted his “race to the top” education program, when, in fact, schools in low-income districts have been forced to fire teachers, leaving classrooms far more crowded. He bragged on his college loan efforts even as reports showed students are graduating even deeper in debt. He did repeat his call for universal preschool and raising the minimum wage, but neither of these has been able even to receive a vote in the Republican-led House. The reality is that government programs to lift the poor do work. Johnson’s War on Poverty brought poverty down dramatically. Today, the United States does a much better job lifting poor children out of poverty than it did before Johnson pushed through Medicare and Medicaid expansions, child nutrition programs, subsidized school lunches and more. Even so, the United States still does far less than other developed countries. In 2010, for example, Dutch government programs reduced its poverty rate from 25% to 7.5% while the United States only reduced its rate from 28% to 17%. Two fundamental issues should be at the center of our debate. The first, posed by Pope Francis and Barack Obama, is what must be done to make the economy work for working people? The second is that posed by the president: Are we a better country than this? Do we want to be? We know what works. We can afford it, even more than other industrial countries. But are we prepared to do what needs to be done?

pre-registering to vote; reduce the days for advance voting; prevent counties from extending poll hours to accommodate long lines; and prevent college students from voting where they attend school. The more difficult you can make voting the more people will appreciate the privilege of voting. And we can thank Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach for his role in at-

Trade Agreements Enter the free trade agreements. As corporations consolidated in the United States, they grew even larger by taking advantage of provisions in NAFTA that let them operate across borders. For example, U.S.based corporations can grow cattle in Canada and pork in Mexico, and then bring their products back to the United States for

Huelskamp is the voice of reason. That was evident when he declared the Tea Party was willing to let the U.S. government default on its debt unless cuts were made to Medicare. And Huelskamp represents a district that would be willing to do without farm subsidies, Social Security checks, veteran’s benefits, Conservation Reserve Program pay* * * That Congressman Tim ments and Medicare be-

tacking a non-existing voting problem in this state and making it worse. * * * Solutions don’t matter. The vast majority of Republican lawmakers claim to despise Obamacare but, in the nearly four years since it’s been signed into law the GOP has not come up with a single alternative plan.

ask them to do something not for their college application but for themselves, and they’ll draw a blank. That’s because one usually has to be bored to innovate. And Asian kids don’t have time to be bored; they are too busy acing tests. The fact that our kids are never idle will, I fear, ultimately cause our students to lag behind in ways that would be disastrous to our society. Even if the end goal is admission to an Ivy League university - which I don’t believe it should be - the statistics are alarming.

cause its people are too independent and too proud to turn to the government for help. “I’m from a district that pretty much ignores Washington,” declared Huelskamp. “If you say government is going to shut down, they say, ‘Okay, which part can we shut down?’” Sounds like a Congressman and a constituency who deserve each other.

But it gets better. When asked during a town hall meeting in Scott City what his solution is to unaffordable health insurance and higher health care costs, Huelskamp’s response: “There’s free health care all over the place.” That’s right. It’s free and it’s everywhere. Hopefully, the Nazis aren’t somehow involved.

from commodity support to crop insurance, while locking in place advantages for even bigger farms and corporations. And it perpetuates the same willful ignorance of the devastating impacts of droughts and flooding caused by climate change. The wild ride of prices under the NAFTA roller coaster has left us a food system that is dominated by fewer and bigger corporations. In many communities across the country, people are opting out of the existing Big Food system to rebuild smaller, healthier options that are rooted in local economies and nurture connections

between farmers and consumers. Whether those experiences can scale up from local experiences to national agriculture, and whether they can change policy, is a big question - one made harder by the overwhelming dominance of corporate interests. But rebuilding the system from the ground up, and considering how to make fairer links to farmers in Mexico and elsewhere, is really the only path forward.

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slaughter and sale. Efforts to label these meats under Country of Origin Labeling laws have been vigorously opposed by the Mexican and Canadian governments. As a result of these advantages to large-scale growers, independent hog and poultry producers in the United States have virtually disappeared. Over time, the U.S. public has gained a growing appreciation of the need to change food and farm policies to ensure healthier foods and more stable rural economies. But policymakers in Congress and the Obama administration continue

Snowden

self- righteous - an imperfect messenger, to say the least. But what a message. He was an obscure analyst working for a National Security Agency (NSA) contractor at a remote outpost in Hawaii. When he began working in the secret world, by his own telling, he was a true believer. But he became disillusioned - and then incensed - at what he considered outrageous violations of individual privacy by a surveillance apparatus that Katrina vanden Heuvel is editor and publisher of The was out of control. Snowden’s decision to Nation magazine

they are sick. Our children sit for lengthy, rigorous and confusing examinations, starting at age six. Weekends, summers and holiday breaks are golden opportunities to catch up on some R&R - review and revision, that is. But the thing about testing is that it creates excellent followers, not leaders. Doing well on tests requires constant test prep. Granted, when it comes to buckling down and cramming for hours on end, Asians kids will beat their U.S. counterparts to a pulp. But give them a task that is not testable or not directly related to school,

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NAFTA Fewer firms control bigger and bigger shares of total production, making it harder for other farmers to get fair prices or earn a living from their production.

teacher as the official executor and judge of a child’s educational needs. This, coupled with the irrational fear that somewhere out there, some child is learning more and working harder, sets into motion the tremendous after-school education Chinese children are subjected to. This after-school education is my world. I am one of the thousands of tutors helping Hong Kong students achieve high test scores. To me, the recent test results were no surprise: Of course East Asian kids test well. They are tested every day, even when

to support the same failed policies. They advocate for more free trade agreements, including the TransPacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. These are largely cut and pasted from NAFTA, but with a twist: they add dangerous new provisions that would limit any remaining restrictions on genetically modified organisms (GMOs), permit questionable food additives, and pave the way for even more questionable emerging technologies. A “new” U.S. Farm Bill currently being negotiated shifts the emphasis

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leak massive amounts of information concerning some of the NSA’s most secret and intrusive spying programs has done more than embarrass officials in Washington. It has galvanized efforts throughout the world to protect what little privacy we have left. Snowden’s revelations are devastating in their specificity. Americans know that all of our phone calls are logged by the government in a massive database. German Chancellor Angela Merkel knows that the NSA tapped her mobile phone. Brazilians and

Indonesians, among others, know that their phone conversations may be listened to and their e-mails may be perused. We know that secret court orders have forced phone companies and Internet providers to surrender private information. We also know that, unbeknown to those companies, the NSA and its partners - the equivalent spy agencies in Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - apparently tap into fiber-optic cables and guzzle as much information as they can.

These ongoing disclosures provide a detailed map of a shadow realm that spans the globe. We now know how technology is destroying privacy - and what steps governments and communications companies must be pressured to take in order that privacy survives. I can’t think of any individual who had more influence in 2013. Edward Snowden is the person of the year. Eugene Robinson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and former assistant managing editor for The Washington Post

Karen Hansen-Kuhn is International Program Director at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. She can be reached at khansenkuhn@iatp.org

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on credit. You will enjoy it more if you don’t have to go into debt. If you need more income to make this happen, get a second, part-time job or come up with other creative ways to make money. We all can do more for ourselves if we want to. Whatever goals you would like to achieve, put your resolutions into action. We will be more likely to achieve them if they become a priority and if they are truly workable. Best of luck and we will see you in the New Year. For more advice on how to get started on decluttering your physical space or getting your finanes in order, call me at the Extension office (872-2930). I have lots of self-help tips and books to make these goals happen.

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An October study found that one in four Chinese students attending Ivy League universities in the United States drop out. As a Hong Kong educator, I don’t view Hong Kong’s stellar PISA results as an indication of success. To me, it’s a sign that our education system is out of control. Likewise, I urge American parents and schools not to take the U.S. PISA results as an indication of defeat. I’d like to see Asian kids stop acing tests and start changing the world. Kelly Yang is founder and director of the Kelly Yang Project, an after-school program for students in Hong Kong, and a columnist for the South China Morning Post

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Those costs are hidden within our health care system. When people have health insurance and have access to primary care doctors, health outcomes improve, worker productivity heightens and costs begin to stabilize. It’s because of the start of these reforms that the rate of inflation for health care costs is at its lowest level in 50 years. There is still work to be done. But for that to occur, Republicans must come to the table with constructive and realistic ideas and solutions beyond a full repeal of the bill. To further insist upon that outcome is to deny reality and an insult to the many citizens, like me, who want their government to function for the betterment of all concerned in an efficient manner.

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Hangars likely wouldn’t begin until the summer of 2016. “The city’s done a great job of putting itself into position to qualify for money to build hangars,” says Neufeld. “Ten years ago the city couldn’t have looked at hangars because the runway was in bad shape. Five years ago we couldn’t because the lighting wasn’t up to par, which we’re taking care of. “Now we’re getting to the point where we can begin looking at building upgrades.” Thompson is hopeful that construction can take place sooner rather than later. “The airport can’t grow unless we’re willing to make the investment in more hangar space,” he added. Areawide Shortage This isn’t a problem unique to Scott City. The Lakin Airport has taken the initial step with plans to build a hangar that will accommodate 16 aircraft. Estimated cost of the project is $500,000. According to airport manager John Jenkinson, 12 of the spots have already been pre-rented for $100 per month. “I know there are hangars in airports around us that are renting in the $75 to $100 range, but we’re just trying to be fair,” says Jenkinson. The hangar will have Tshaped slots that are partitioned for privacy.

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Money for the project was loaned to the county by a local bank “who sees value in the economic impact” of having more hangar space, Jenkinson says. The airport board that oversees operations figures to see a boost in revenue from fuel sales and pilots who will be parking their planes at the airport on a short-term basis. “Rent and fuel sales will cover the cost of building the hangar,” predicts Jenkinson. “We won’t make any money, but we don’t expect to lose money either.” Plans are for the new hangar to be completed by summer. “We’ve learned there is a shortage of hangars in the area,” Jenkinson says. “There’s a waiting list in Lakin, Garden City, Syracuse and Ulysses.” There’s no available hangar space at the Garden City Regional Airport which has 62 airplanes kept on the site with five aircraft owners on the waiting list. According to airport manager Rachelle Powell, there are five pilots in hangars who would like to have more space if it was available. However, Garden City has no plans to build additional hangars in the immediate future. A majority of the airport’s T-hangars are city-owned and rented to pilots. There are also a couple of privately owned hangars.

The majority of the hangars rent for $65 per month, plus another $10 for electricity. The airport also has four twin hangars - which can accommodate twin-engine aircraft - which are 2,181 square feet and rent for $140 per month. The waiting list isn’t long enough to justify new construction. “We have nothing planned for the next five years, unless something dramatic happens,” says Powell. “We have discussed increasing our rent, but I don’t foresee that occurring in the next year.” Ulysses could also use additional hangar space, but construction isn’t going to happen any time soon if the county-owned airport relies on FAA assistance. “The airport board feels they could rent more hangars if they were available,” says County Clerk Sheila Brown. “But we first have to meet some compliance factors regarding the runway length and lighting.” The county currently has privately-owned hangars for five airplanes and county-owned hangar space for 18 aircraft. According to Neufeld there has been a hangar construction boom in Goodland where they have assisted with building six large hangars over the past 10 years. “We’re in the process of designing their new Thangars,” he said.

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Airwaves Zayra Peregrino, a sophomore, has had some experience with recording and photography, but is hoping this class will help as she pursues a possible career in broadcasting. “She’s real good at editing graphics,” Yager said of her classmate. “This is something I’d like to do as a career,” notes Peregrino. “I like making people look good in front of the camera.” Both girls say the class has opened their eyes to all that goes into creating a program for television. “As teenagers we see movies and TV shows all the time. Now we’re learning about what happens behind the scenes,” says Peregrino. Those students who have to be in front of the camera are also gaining an added appreciation to the challenge of multitasking. That may often include reading script off the teleprompter while hearing instructions through an earphone that tells them what camera to look into or giving other directions during a broadcast. “When all of that is going on you can’t think about what you’re reading, explains Peregrino. “That’s why it’s important to go over your script a lot,” adds Yager. “If something sounds confusing you need to make sure it’s corrected.” Those who appear in front of the camera are also reminded of how important it is to speak slowly and clearly. “It’s a little nervewracking to be in front of a camera, but you start to get used to it,” says Megan Thornburg, a senior. “And it helps that if something goes wrong we can go back and do it again, except when we do live streaming.” Live streaming of interviews or other programming - other than sports, music productions, etc. isn’t planned for the near future, according to Holt. “We’ll have to see when the kids are ready. I don’t want to put them under that kind of pressure,” he says. Nonetheless, Thornburg says the class has opened her eyes to all that

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4-Hers host pie social at Park Lane Apts. The Lake Wide Awake 4-H Club met on Dec. 8 at Park Place Apartments and hosted a pie social and club meeting. We served chocolate pie, apple pie, pumpkin cheesecake, cherry pie, coconut cream pie and hot chocolate. Several Park Place residents wanted to stay for our meeting after the pie social. They were interested in hearing what projects we are enrolled in. One resident reported that she was a 4-H member when she was a young girl and she enjoyed telling us about her projects and quizzing us to see if we knew the 4-H pledge. She still remembered it! Our roll call was, “What do you want for Christmas?” It was answered by 13 members and four community leaders. It was reported that Scott County 4-H will be able to buy 200 bricks for the Veteran’s Memorial and a present for each resident at Park Lane with the money raised at the 4-H pancake feed. Our recreation was caroling for the residents. Our next meeting will be Jan 13 at 7:00 p.m. at the Wm. Carpenter 4-H Building. Hosts will be Bret and Miles Haire. Alyssa Storm, reporter

(Top photo) Matthew Tuttle, Zayra Peregrino (center) and Kiana Yager edit script that’s to be read as part of a broadcast. (Above) Dustin Martinez makes adjustments to the background that’s appearing on the studio’s green screen while at the controls of a tricaster. (Record Photos)

goes into a production. news crew. “It’s a lot more compliThat’s possible without cated than it looks,” she leaving the room or, for says. that matter, without the broadcaster even moving Latest Technology from their chair. Through Holt says experts in the the use of a “green broadcasting field have screen,” any image can be commented about the projected behind the onquality of the equipment air crew. that is being used in the “We’ve had people SCHS studio. ask if we really spent that “They’ve told us that much money fixing up our our lighting and technolstudio when they first saw ogy set-up is in the top 20 us on TV,” says Holt. percent of what you’d find The beauty of the green in any high school or colscreen is that anything can lege,” says Holt. And don’t be fooled be projected if you have by the marvels of modern access to the software - or the ability to adapt softtechnology. One moment, it can ware. If you don’t want a city appear that students are broadcasting from the skyline, change it to the heart of a bustling news Co-op elevators. Want a center. Shortly afterwards football stadium visible they can appear in a low- through the large winlit room that’s perfect for dows when doing a sports interviews - complete broadcast? No problem. with a New York City “We can even put skyline visible through the Darner Field in the backlarge windows behind the ground,” said Holt.

Area students earn fall honors at Washburn

Three area students were named to fall semester honor rolls at Washburn University, Topeka. Kalie Turley, Modoc, was named to the Dean’s Honor Roll. To earn recognition on the list a student must maintain a grade point average of 3.4 to 3.99 and be enrolled in at least 12 credit hours. Named to the President’s Honor roll were Trevor Bollinger, Dighton, and Samantha Heath, Leoti. These students must be enrolled in at least 12 credit hours and maintain a 4.0 gpa.

That kind of technology is made possible through a tricaster that allows the students to do any number of things on the screen that are common with any professional broadcast. Anything is literally possible with this equipment. Dustin Martinez is among the students learning everything that the tricaster is capable of doing. “This is a chance to be creative and do different things with the sets,” says Dustin Martinez, a junior. “It’s pretty amazing what we can do with this equipment.” As for working behind the scenes in the production room, that’s just fine with Martinez. “I’d rather be behind the camera,” he says. The first on-air programming which can be seen on the Beaver Broadcasting Network (Channel 12) is scheduled to begin after the Christmas break.

For the Record Do homework before buying a timeshare The Scott County Record

Jason Alderman

Full disclosure: I’ve always been somewhat skeptical of timeshares. I understand the appeal of having a guaranteed vacation home in an area you love and being able to swap your unit for a place halfway around the world. But I worry that many buyers don’t consider all associated costs and mistakenly think timeshares are sound financial investments that will appreciate in value.

In fact, sellers rarely make a profit - some only get pennies on the dollar. Plus, the waters are filled with sharks eager to rip off people desperately trying to unload unwanted timeshares. Before you buy a timeshare, understand how they work. Challenges you may face when trying to resell and scams to avoid: •Timeshares are usually either: “Deeded,” where you own a share of the prop-

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record on Thurs., Dec. 26, 2013; last published Thurs., Jan. 2, 2014)1t REQUEST FOR ZONING VARIANCE Notice is hereby given that the Scott City Planning Commission will hold a special meeting on January 16, 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 variance by Rohn A. and Traci L. Shellenberger to allow a rear yard setback less than allowed by ordinance on: Lot One (1), Block Fourteen (14), C.A. Steele & Sons Third Addition to the City of Scott City, Scott County, Kansas (1000 Prairie Avenue) All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard at such hearing. Dated: December 23, 2013 Rodney Hogg, chairman Scott City Planning Commission

Public Notice (Published in The Scott County Record on Thurs., Dec. 26, 2013)1t BEFORE THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS NOTICE OF FILING APPLICATION RE: Lario Oil & Gas Company - Application for a permit to authorize the commingling of zones in the Feiertag A #9-15 located in Scott County, Kansas. TO: All Oil and Gas Producers, Unleased Minerals Interest Owners, Landowners and all persons whomever concerned. You, and each of you, are hereby notified that Lario Oil & Gas Company has filed an application to commingle Lansing, Marmaton and St. Louis zones in the Feiertag A #9-15, located approximately NW Sec. 15-19S-33W, in Scott County, Kansas. Any persons who object to or protest this application shall be required to file

their objections or protests with the Conservation Division of the State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas within (15) days from the date of this publication. These protests shall be filed pursuant to Commission regulations and must state specific reasons why the grant of the application may cause waste, violate correlative rights or pollute the natural resources of the State of Kansas. If no protests are received, this application may be granted through a summary proceeding. If valid protests are received, this matter will be set for hearing. All persons interested or concerned shall take notice of the foregoing and shall govern themselves accordingly. Lario Oil & Gas Company 301 S. Market Wichita, Ks. 67202 (316) 265-5611 ATTN: Jay Schweikert

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., Dec. 26, 2013; last published Thurs., Jan. 9, 2014)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF VIRGINIA M. DEWITT, deceased No. 2013-PR-19 NOTICE OF HEARING THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed in this Court by Shawna K. Foster, duly appointed, qualified and acting Administrator of the Estate of Virginia M. DeWitt, deceased, praying that her acts be approved; that the Will be construed and the Estate be assigned to the persons entitled thereto; that fees and expenses be allowed; that the costs be determined and ordered

paid; that the administration of the Estate be closed; that the Administrator be discharged and that she be released from further liability. You are required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 21st day of January, 2014, at 1:15 o’clock p.m., of said day, in said Court, in the City of Scott City, in Scott County, Kansas, at which time and place said cause will be heard. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition. Shawna K. Foster, Administrator WALLACE, BRANTLEY & SHIRLEY 325 Main - P. O. Box 605 Scott City, Kansas 67871 (620) 872-2161 Attorneys for Petitioner

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erty, usually for a particular unit for a specified time period - typically one or two weeks a year. Depending on your contract, you either own it for life, for a specified number of years, or until you sell it. “Right-to-use,” where a developer owns the resort and each unit is divided into “intervals” - either by the week or for a certain number of points. You purchase the right to use an interval for X number

of years but don’t own any real property. Many allow you to use your points to stay at an affiliated resort (swapping). •The price for buying a new timeshare can vary widely, depending on the area and amenities offered. A typical oneweek share might cost $10,000 to $25,000 - or many times that for a posh unit in Aspen or Kauai. Plus, you’ll be responsible for various other expenses: •Annual fees for main-

tenance, utilities and property taxes. •Assessments for major repairs or improvements. •Fees to swap your share for someone else’s or sell it. Don’t forget travel costs to and from the property each year. The Federal Trade Commission (www.consumer.ftc.gov) offers many helpful tips, including: •Compare the costs of buying and maintaining a timeshare with renting a

similar property. Perhaps rent a unit first to make sure you like the complex. •Evaluate the resort’s location and quality by visiting and talking to current owners about their experience. •Check for complaints about the seller, developer and management company with the state Attorney General’s Office (www. naag.org) and the Better Business Bureau (www. bbb.org). (See TIMESHARE on page 12)

Suspect in Scott City robbery is apprehended in New Mexico

The suspect in a robbery of a Scott City grocery store has been apprehended in New Mexico. Omar Hernandez, 28, who is suspected in the robbery of the Heartland Foods south location, was arrested on Dec. 18 along with Jamie Brock, 35, Garden City. “The paperwork is being filed to bring him back to Scott County,” says Scott City Police Chief Chris Jurgens. “But he’s wanted for some pretty serious stuff, so it may be awhile before we see him.” Hernandez previously

was convicted of possession of methamphetamine in 2011, kidnapping, aggravated battery, aggravated intimidation of a witness, misdemeanor theft, misdemeanor criminal damage to property, and domestic battery in 2013. Brock had been reported missing since Dec. 13. Warrants had been issued for her arrest by the Garden City Police Department and Finney County Sheriff’s Department. Brock had two warrants on a probation violation stemming from old cases

Scott Co. LEC Report Scott City Police Department Dec. 21: An accident occurred at Shopko when Mary Cortez, driving a 1994 Chevrolet, backed into a 2002 Chevrolet owned by Sarah Heath. Dec. 20: Darin Stewart was arrested on a Gove County warrant. Dec. 20: Tony Perez was arrested for domestic battery and transported to the LEC. Dec. 23: A theft was reported in the 300 block of Elizabeth. Scott Co. Sheriff’s Dept. Dec. 24: Jeremy Clinton and Leighton Wasinger were each cited for minor in consumption and released at the scene.

that she was previously convicted of - unlawful possession of hydrocodone in 2012 and a felony and misdemeanor theft in 2013. Hernandez also had two outstanding warrants for probation violation. Garden City police Capt. Michael Reagle said the two are dating and have had a volatile history together. After the two had been missing for several days, both agencies received a tip that they were in Albuquerque, N.M. Authorities said they then received at tip from a

family member of Brock giving a description of the vehicle and possible address where Brock and Hernandez were residing. When Los Lunas, N.M., police arrived at the residence, they spotted the described vehicle, with Hernandez and Brock entering the vehicle. That led to a 15 minute pursuit by officers before Hernandez pulled over and got out of the vehicle with his hands in the air. As soon as the processing is done with charges in New Mexico the two will be returned to Finney County.

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Hospitals to push for Medicaid expansion Jim McLean KHI News Service

The Kansas Hospital Association has hired former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt to help craft a Medicaid expansion plan that Gov. Sam Brownback and Republican legisla-

tors might support. Tom Bell, KHA’s president and CEO, said he hopes that Leavitt, a former Republican governor of Utah who headed HHS under former President George W. Bush, can help Kansas policymakers craft a plan similar to those developed in Arkansas

and Iowa, which expand Medicaid through the use of private insurance companies. “We ought to as a state be having a conversation about whether we can come up with a plan like that and the reality is that conversation just hasn’t happened yet,” Bell said.

Bell said Leavitt has agreed to help promote discussion among legislators and those in the health care industry about expanding Medicaid, which in Kansas is called KanCare. “He (Leavitt) would be willing to personally come into the state and sit

Kansas insurer says health care sign-up working better Jim McLean KHI News Service

Kansans are encountering fewer problems signing up for coverage in the online insurance marketplace as an initial enrollment deadline approaches, according to a spokesperson for the state’s largest insurer. Navigators and trained enrollment counselors have said they’ve seen marked improvement in the HealthCare.gov marketplace since federal officials declared it “fixed” on Dec. 1. Things also appear to finally be working better on the business end of the system.

“Early on, there were a lot of transactional issues,” said Mary Beth Chambers, a spokesperson for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas, the state’s largest private health insurer. Digital purchase forms - called 834s - contained so many errors that company sales representatives had to sort through them by hand, Chambers said. That is no longer necessary. “In the last several weeks as the volume has increased and the information has seemed to be more accurate, we have suspended that (hand sorting) process and we’re now allowing the 834s to

go through our computer system and set up enrollments,” Chambers said. Dec. 24 was the last day that consumers could sign up if they want their coverage to start on Jan. 1. People who didn’t meet the deadline can purchase coverage through the end of the March 31 open enrollment period. Approximately 10,000 BCBS policyholders whose coverage no longer meets federal standards have a choice to make. They can keep their noncomplying policies for another year or purchase new, more comprehensive plans. Given the option, the company is assuming

most will opt to keep the coverage they have. “We sent them a letter and we said, ‘we’re going to assume that you are going to keep your plan unless you call and let us know or you don’t pay your premium for January,’” Chambers said. Chambers said BCBS won’t know how many people opted to keep their old policies rather than purchase new more comprehensive coverage until after the first premiums are due on Jan. 10. “We won’t have a real good feel for the number of people who have renewed until sometime after that,” she said.

If you haven’t already signed up for Obamacare, don’t worry Linda Bergthold

If you did not sign up for health insurance by Christmas Eve this year, you are not out of luck. You can still get insured. With all the news about the Obamacare website, the deadlines, the delays, you would think that would be clear. But it could not be more confusing. For the relatively small number of people in the US who buy their own insurance, or would like to, there are some important deadlines you should know about. Although the deadline for enrolling and getting insurance coverage by January 1 in a federal or state exchange has passed, you can still enroll after the deadlines. You just won’t be covered right on Jan. 1, 2014. In fact, until March 31 of 2014, there are no specific deadlines that would keep you from getting health insurance if

There is one very important deadline - March 31, 2014. After that date, if you don’t have health insurance, you will pay a tax penalty of one percent of your income or $95, whichever is greater (and the amount goes up steeply in later years), even if you buy insurance later in the year.

you sign up. For example, if you apply for insurance in the first half of February next year and pay your premium, you will be covered the first of March. If you wait until the second half of February, your coverage may be delayed until the beginning of April. But the point is - you can still get insurance. And that insurance will include all the protections of the Affordable Care Act. Penalty Deadline There is one very important deadline March 31, 2014. After that date, if you don’t have health insurance, you will pay a tax penalty of one percent of your income or $95, whichever is greater

(and the amount goes up steeply in later years), even if you buy insurance later in the year. Also, if you want a federal subsidy to help you pay for insurance, you won’t be able to enroll in a state or federal exchange plan after that date unless you qualify for a “special enrollment period.” These periods are only applicable to people who have special life events like getting married, losing your other coverage, moving to another place, etc. Open Enrollment However - and this is one of the confusing things - you can apply directly with a health plan for coverage “outside” the exchanges any time

after March 31. The next formal “open enrollment” period for getting health insurance through a state or federal exchange (and possibly qualifying for a subsidy) will be Nov. 15, 2014, through Jan. 15, 2015. If you do apply directly with an insurance company after March 31, you will still pay the tax penalty and forfeit any subsidy, but you can’t be turned down for a pre-existing condition and the same services that are covered in exchange plans will be included in what you buy. Why has there been so much hype about the December deadline, then? Actuaries and policymakers worry that if there is no pressure to enroll, people will put it off. They worry that healthy people will put it off, leaving only sick people in the pool of the insured, thus potentially driving up costs the next year. (See WORRY on page 12)

down with policymakers and others and talk about what he sees happening in other states and talk about it from his perspective as a former HHS secretary and as a former governor,” Bell said. The Iowa Medicaid expansion plan, which was approved earlier

this month by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, uses federal dollars to finance the purchase of private health insurance for low income people made eligible for Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. (See MEDICAID on page 12)

KDHE report looks at health of veterans Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has released a report on the health of Kansans veterans. Data shows many differences in health conditions between veterans and civilians and between younger veterans (18-64 years old) and older veterans (65 years and older). Veterans are defined as those who reported they had ever served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces, either in the regular military or in a National Guard or military reserve unit. “I encourage health care providers to use the information in this report to be informed of the increased health risks for veterans and provide appropriate advice and support to these individuals, including referrals to many of the support systems available for our veterans,” said Robert Moser, M.D., State Health Officer. The data show that younger veterans are more diverse than older veterans. Younger veterans are less likely to be non-Hispanic white and more likely to be female. Younger veterans had a higher prevalence of having health care coverage, but also had a higher prevalence of many health issues including overweight/obesity, disability, depression, hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes and heart attack than civilians 18-64 years old. The health differences between senior veterans (65 and older) and senior civilians were much less pronounced. Senior veterans had a higher prevalence of the following conditions: cancer, coronary heart disease, diabetes, heart attack, overweight/ obesity and stroke as compared to senior civilians. More veterans 18-64 years old were diagnosed with depression, anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as compared to senior veterans. The percentage of veterans who have received psychological or psychiatric treatment in the past year was more than three times higher among younger veterans as compared to senior veterans. “This report shows that many veterans are using the health and mental health services available to them,” said Moser. “We encourage all veterans to use these services to maintain and improve their health.”

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Doctor groups concerned about health care confusion The nation’s top physician groups told White House officials recently they are worried about what consumers will encounter after Jan. 1, when millions are expected to gain coverage under the Affordable Care Act. The groups expressed worries that patients may unknowingly be signing up for “narrow network” plans that don’t include

their current physician or local hospital, said Bob Doherty, a senior vice president for the American College of Physicians. They’re also concerned about people who switch coverage while in the middle of treatments for cancer and other serious illnesses, which may force them to change providers or prescription drugs. He also said there were

Timeshare Make sure all sales agent promises are contained in the contract. Don’t act on impulse or be swayed by highpressure sales tactics. If possible, ask a lawyer or real estate professional to review the contract before signing. Like new cars, new timeshares quickly depreciate, so consider buying one used. A few cautions when selling a timeshare: •If you’re going through a reselling agen-

Iowans above the poverty line - those making more than $11,490 a year - will pay a small portion of their insurance premiums. Those below the line will pay nothing. The federal government initially will cover the cost of their coverage. Over time, about 10 percent of that cost will be transferred to Iowa taxpayers in keeping with the provisions of the health reform law. Kansas hospitals will miss out on an estimated $66 million that they would have received in 2014 had the state decided to participate in the first year of expansion, Bell said. “Beginning in 2014, we will in effect be sending some of our tax dollars to states that have expanded Medicaid,” he said. Kansas currently has some of the nation’s strictest Medicaid eligibility standards. Adults with no children are not eligible for Medicaid no matter how poor they are. Adults with children are eligible but only if they earn less than 32 percent of poverty, about $630 a month for a three-person household. The Kansas Health Institute estimates that expansion would make approximately 85,300 currently uninsured Kansans eligible for Medicaid. Gov. Sam Brownback hasn’t closed the door on Medicaid expansion, but neither has he given any indication that he is prepared to move forward with it. During an interview broadcast on Sunday by WIBW television, the governor said he was waiting to see how flexible the federal government was willing to be with states.

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cy, don’t pay more than a nominal upfront fee for appraisal, advertising, etc. Look for companies that take their cut after the sale. •Before setting your price, find out what comparable properties (at similar time periods) sell for so you don’t overprice. •Watch out for scams, such as: an agency cold calls you and claims it has buyers waiting in the wings; or someone claims you’re entitled to a settlement from an FTC lawsuit

Medicaid

concerns about whether patients might think they have enrolled successfully in plans when they have not. “We talked about whether some people will show up and think they have coverage, but it may not be clear (that) they successfully enrolled in a plan or (that) the health plan got all their information,” Doherty said. While the meeting was not focused on problems

brought against a scammer. •If you didn’t pay cash, you’ll probably have to pay off your loan before being able to sell. Beware of offers to accept your timeshare as a tax deduction for a fee - often thousands of dollars. The IRS only allows you to deduct “fair market value,” which is probably significantly less than you paid for it. Jason Alderman directs Visa’s financial education programs

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“I haven’t declared one way or the other because I don’t know that all the cards are out on the table,” Brownback said. B r o w n b a c k ’s Democratic challenger, House Minority Leader Paul Davis recently criticized the governor for not making his position on Medicaid expansion clear to Kansas voters. “I’m just not sure what the governor’s position

is because he’s said he’s constantly undecided about this,” Davis said. “I think he needs to take a position.” Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle could be a key to whatever negotiations take place. The Wichita Republican has indicated that she is open to considering a Medicaid expansion plan similar to those developed in Arkansas and Iowa.

with healthcare.gov, some physicians groups did note that the federal portal and other state insurance sites do not make it easy to find out which doctors are in which health plans, Doherty said. In the hour-long meeting with White House health care advisors Chris Jennings and Jeanne Lambrew, the groups also stressed the need for a

permanent change to the Medicare reimbursement formula for doctors, known as Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) to avert the annual threat of deep pay cuts to doctors. They also asked to extend the law’s two-year Medicaid pay raise to primary care doctors beyond 2014. Doherty said the administration officials listened to their concerns.

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Whatever the reasons, it is likely that the sickest will sign up anyway, and the healthy will wait until they absolutely have to do it or their mother forces them. So why should you sign up now? Why not wait until you get sick? Because unless your illness is planned, you won’t be covered for that while you wait for your coverage to “kick in.” If you have a bicycling accident on April 17, even if you apply the next day and pay your premium, you won’t have coverage for any medical care until June 1, and your accident won’t be covered anyway. Since it’s unlikely that you can predict any illness or accident, better to plan ahead. Linda Bergthold is a health policy consultant and researcher with over 25 years of experience

“This was not viewed as a PR exercise,” Doherty said. Other groups attending the meeting included the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Osteopathic Association and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

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Pastime at Park Lane The Scott Mennonite Church led Sunday afternoon services. Residents played pitch and dominoes on Monday afternoon. Game helpers were Madeline Murphy, Dorothy King, Joy Barnett and Hugh McDaniel. Residents played Wii bowling on Monday evening. Pastor Bob Artz led Bible study on Tuesday morning. Doris Riner and Elsie Nagel led the hymns. Naomi Teubner gave a music performance on the piano, the recorder and the violin. Residents played trivia games on Tuesday evening. Rev. Warren Prochnow held Lutheran Bible study on Wednesday morning. Max Moomaw and Company Band performed on Wednesday afternoon. Cheerleaders from SCHS visited and helped residents make snowmen. Residents played pitch on Wednesday evening. Elsie Nagel gave manicures on Thursday morning. Jan Huck played the guitar and sang a variety

Students perform holiday songs

Scott Community High School band director Suzette Price and her guitar students, Alfredo Ruiz and Ramsey Maurer, performed on Wednesday morning. They played a variety of Christmas songs. Karen Gonzalez and SCHS vocal music director Amy Norris sang along with the music.

Open house held at Park Lane

Park Lane hosted its annual Christmas open house on Saturday afternoon. Peppermint punch and Christmas treats were served. Santa made a special appearance as well! Park Lane extends its appreciation to all of the holiday carolers who visited. Western State Bank also furnished calendars for each resident’s room. of Christmas songs on Thursday afternoon. Russel and Mary Webster held Bible study on Thursday evening. Fr. Bernard Felix led Catholic Mass on Friday morning. Chocolate ice cream cones were enjoyed by residents on Friday afternoon. Harold and Gary Wright performed for residents in the main dining room during supper on Friday evening.

40 credits doesn’t mean maximum benefits Commonly asked questions of the Social Security Administration: Q: I worked for the last 10 years and I now have my 40 credits. Does this mean that I get the maximum Social Security retirement benefit? A: Probably not. The 40 credits are the minimum number you need to qualify for retirement benefits. However, we do not base your benefit amount on those credits; it’s based on your earnings over a lifetime of work. To learn more about how you earn Social Security credits and how they work, read or listen to our publication How You Earn Credits, available at www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs. Retirement Q: I’m trying to figure out the best time to retire based on my future earnings. How can I calculate my own retirement benefit estimate? A: We suggest you use our Retirement Estimator at www.socialsecurity.gov/estimator. Our Retirement Estimator produces estimates based on your actual Social Security earnings record, so it’s a personalized, instant picture of your future estimated benefit. Also, you can use it to test different retirement scenarios based on what age you decide to start benefits. For example, you can find out your estimated monthly payments if you retire at age 62, 70 or any age in between. Try it out now at www. socialsecurity.gov/estimator. Earning Credits Q: How do I earn Social Security credits? A: A Social Security credit (sometimes referred to as a “quarter of coverage”) is the basic unit for determining whether a worker is insured under

Social Security Q and A the Social Security program. The amount needed for a credit increases automatically each year as average wages increase. For 2013, workers receive one credit for each $1,160 of earnings. A worker can receive a maximum of four credits for any year. Generally, you need 40 credits to be eligible for retirement benefits. Learn more at www. socialsecurity.gov/OACT/ COLA/QC.html

Dona Dee Carpenter was visited by Pastor Dennis Carter, Larry LaPlant, Gloria O’Bleness; Harold, Craig and Gina Ramsey; Ryan, Lisa, Ashlynn and Grant Long; Liz O’Bleness, Erick and Susie Tanner, Roger and Jackie John, Kade John, Billy and Lori Stephenson, Danielle Noll, Hugh McDaniel and Norma Jean Mulligan. Jim Jeffery was visited by Wade Jeffery, Pastor Dennis Carter and Hugh McDaniel.

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Earl Gorman was visited by Loretta Gorman, Charlene Becht, Chuck Brobst, Connie Gruver and Robert Gruver. Jake Leatherman was visited by Rod and MaryAnn Leatherman and Floyd and Vivian Dirks. Boots Haxton was visited by Rod and Kathy Haxton. Mildred VanPelt was visited by David VanPelt, Joyce Schmitt, Joel Bryan, Willetta Payne and Pastor Dennis Carter. Geraldine Graves was visited by Charlene Becht, Cody Crocker, Kent and Susan Geist, Loretta Gorman and Janet Soeken. Dottie Fouquet was visited by Donna Gaschler, Jon and Anne Crane, Mark and Terri Fouquet, and Fritzie Rauch. Delores Brooks was visited by David and Cheryl Perry, Charles Brooks, Fritzi Rauch, Beth Tuck and Mary Ann Leatherman. Herb Graves was visited by Emily Wright, Michael McEachern, Tina Turley, Kelsi Schwartz and Ron Hess.

Sr. Citizen Lunch Menu Week of November December 30-Jan. 3 Monday: Chicken pot pie, mashed potatoes, cauliflower, pineapple. Tuesday: Roast beef and broth, scalloped potatoes, California blend vegetables, whole wheat roll, bread pudding with lemon sauce. Wednesday: Closed for New Year’s Day. Thursday: Hot roast beef sandwich, mashed potatoes, gravy, broccoli, pineapple upsidedown cake. Friday: Baked fish, peas and carrots, winter mix, whole wheat roll, cookie. meals are $3.25 • call 872-3501

by Jason Storm

Judy Redburn was visited by Tim Derstine, Mary Torson, Debbie Holland Bush, Mr. and Mrs. Lance Ellis, Tina Turley and Parker Nevills. Thelma Branine was visited by Ansley Herzog, Greg Herzog and Taishaia Herzog. Hilda Gruver was visited by Tina Turley. Cecile Billings was visited by Ann Beaton, Delinda Dunagan, Cami Lobmeyer, Larry Billings, Lindsay and Justin Singley, and Hallie Wiechman. Darlene Richman was visited by Phebe Unruh. Ruth Holland was visited by Charlene Becht, Frankie Rowton, Debbie Bush and Deb Lawrence. Mary Alice Lawrence King was visited by Shorty, Deb and Dakota Lawrence. Mike Leach was visited by Linda Dunagan, Kynsley Nicholson and Rev. Don Martin. Lula Dirks was visited by Darla Luebbers, Willetta Payne, Kim Smith, Dave and Deb Kraemer, and Floyd and Vivian Dirks.

Harriet Jones was visited by Nancy Holt, Rev. Don Martin, Annabelle McDaniel, Betty Schmidt and Dorothy Kasten. Edith Norman was visited by Doris Riner, Sara Shane, and Ron and Sue Riner. Ann Tedford was visited by Mary Plum, LaNora Dirks, Rich Dirks and Darla Luebbers. Clifford Dearden was visited by Randy, Cindy and Alyssa Scheuerman. Jim and Yvonne Spangler were visited by Les and MaryAnn Spangler, Greg and Yvette Mills, Jerica VanCampen, Adalei Zeller, and Will and Danica. Bonnie Pickett was visited by Gloria Wright, Margie Stevens, and Larry and Philene Pickett. Vivian Kreiser was visited by Larry and Sharon Lock. Lorena Turley was visited by Neta Wheeler, Rex Turley, Betty Ann Kough and Kay Mohler. Albert Dean was visited by Sue Rose, Kent Geist, Susan Geist and Patsi Graham.

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Deaths Carrol ‘Ramblin’ Andy’ Anderson George Everett Evans Carrol D. ‘Ramblin’ Andy’ Anderson, 84, died Dec. 22, 2013, at the Graham County Hospital, Hill City. He was born Aug. 23, 1929, in rural Graham County, the son of Everett Avon and Velma May (Charles) Anderson. A long-time area resident, he was in law enforcement, owned a water and oil well drilling company, was a farmer/stockman and, above all, he was a musician (Ramblin’ Andy). He married Betty Martin on July 22, 1950. He married Rita Penka on Dec. 29, 1978, in Hill City. She survives. Survivors include six daughters, Dana Edwards and husband, Steve, Scott City, Delinda Edwards and husband, Max, Scott City, Debra Kirk and husband, Don, Overland Park, Denise Wishon and husband, Steve, Topeka, Gina Cregg, Law-

rence, and Pamela Keith and husband, Matthew, Hill City; a brother, Darrel Anderson and wife, Donna, Hill City; two sisters, Rolleen Quiett and husband, Roy, Hill City, and Jeanine Ray and husband, Ralph, Morland; 14 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and a nephew, Calvin Ray. Funeral service will be Fri., Dec. 27, 11:00 a.m., at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, Hill City, with Rev. Les Crowe, Darrel Anderson and Phil Stinemetz officiating. Burial will be in the Hill City Cemetery. The family suggests memorials to the Musical Instrument Fund for the Hill City Grade and High School music departments or to the Graham County Hospital in care of Stinemetz Funeral Home, 522 North Pomeroy, Hill City, Ks. 67642.

Grace Marie Denman Grace Marie Denman, 101, died Dec. 19, 2013, at the Great Bend Health and Rehabilitation Center, Great Bend. S h e was born April 23, 1912, at Pueblo, Colo., the daughter of Grace Denman Charles and Agnes (Krebs) Watkins. She grew up and attended schools in Scott County where her family moved shortly after she was born. She was a retired sales clerk, moving to Great Bend in 1989 from San Jose, Calif. She was a member of the First Assembly of God Church, Great Bend, where she was active in the women’s ministries. Grace married Gordon Knox on June 19, 1969, in

Reno, Nev. He died May 12, 1972. Survivors include: five nephews; two nieces; 16 great-nephews and greatnieces; 22 great-greatnephews and great-greatnieces. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Charles Watkins and Richard Watkins, and one sister and brother in-law, Ruth and Loren Tanquary. Funeral service was held Dec. 23 at the First Assembly of God Church, Great Bend, with Rev. Dwight Dozier officiating. Interment was at the Great Bend Cemetery. Memorials may be made at the First Assembly of God Church to benefit women’s ministries, in care of Bryant Funeral Home, 1425 Patton Rd., Great Bend, Ks. 67530 Condolences may be sent to www.bryantfh.net

Ronald L. Bernard Ronald L. Bernard, 74, died Dec. 16, 2013, at his home in Craig, Colo. He was born Oct. 6, 1939, in Grand Rapids, Minn., the son of Alvin and Mildred (Wilkins) Bernard. Following high school, Ronald served in the US Army. Ronald was a service manager and mechanic in the crude oil transport business for many years. After moving to Craig, Colo., he was an express mail contract carrier. He was a member of the Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Scott City. He married Darlene K. Frank on May 3, 1963, in Arriba, Colo. They made their home in Scott City and Trenton, N.D., prior to moving to Craig, Colo.,

in 1995. Survivors include: his wife; two daughters, Ellen L. Bahre and husband, Roger, McPherson, and Kathleen E. DelToro and husband, Jose, Killeen, Tex.; one son, Steven Bernard, Ft. Carson, Colo.; his mother, Chatfield, Minn.; one sister, Cheryl Sanford and husband, Bill, Mesa, Ariz.; two brothers, Richard Bernard and wife, Betty, and George Bernard and wife, Ann, both of Dothan, Ala.; four grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his father; a son, Alvin John Bernard; and a brother, John A. Bernard. Cremation has taken place and a memorial service will be held at a later date.

George Everett Evans, 86, Keuterville, Id., died Dec. 11, 2013, at the Ashley Manor Assisted Living facility, Eagle, Id. He was born March 2, 1927, in Ingersoll, Okla., the son of Richard and Alice (Wells) Evans. He graduated from Cullison High School in 1945 and volunteered for the U.S. Navy that same year where he served on a destroyer in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. He had been employed as an oil field worker and truck driver in Kansas and Colorado; photography studio owner/operator in Utah; grain elevator manager; meat cutter and grocery store manager in Kansas; and finally, with his wife, was owner/operator of a flower shop in Moab, Utah. On March 2, 1947, he married Vera June Knop

in Natrona, Ks. Survivors include: three sons, Richard Allen and wife, Patricia, Moab, Utah, Ronald Leon and wife, Lynda, Houston, Tex., and Randall Gene and wife, Marla, Dighton; two daughters, Georgia Ann Shives and husband, Gary, Florence, Ore., and Rose Mary Milner and husband, Mike, Eagle, Id.; one sister, Evelyn Walter, Kissimmee, Fla.; one brother, Richard Leon Evans and wife, Nadine, Branson, Mo.; seven grandchildren, six greatgrandchildren and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents and one grandson, Darek Evans. Services will be held at a later date at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery with Rev. Tim Pauls officiating.

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It’s Not Over As you are reading this, Christmas has been celebrated, the wrappings have been thrown away and the gifts are being played with and put to use. Some people have even suffered a letdown because all of the excitement that builds up to that day is now over. Life gets back to the normal pace and the routine of the week seems to be uninterrupted by excitement and anticipation. If that is how you feel or how you see your life for the rest of the year I have to say, “You missed Christmas.” Christmas Day is gone, but Christmas isn’t. If you are one of those people who, no matter how old or young, maybe understood Christmas for the first time in your life, the excitement and anticipation has only just begun. For those of you who understood this for the first time, it is clear to you that Jesus is real and He is alive. You now understand that you have a Savior and that God has filled you with His Holy Spirit. You are overwhelmed with the gift of grace and mercy that God has brought to you in His Son. You have confessed to Him your sin and He has forgiven you and cleansed you from all unrighteousness. He has given you hope and replaced the normal with the excitement and joy of everlasting life. Christmas is all year long and knowing that Jesus was the best gift you could have ever received makes the coming year so exciting it’s hard to contain. Now the anticipation of what is coming for us in Christ is filled excitement and joy overflowing. The coming event promised us in Him is something we look forward to and even want to come soon. The day that we will all be together and in the presence of God, our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ is going to be a day like no other. Imagine such a gift, seeing Jesus face to face. Does it get any better than that? Steve Payne First Christian Church, Scott City

Scott City Assembly of God

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

St. Joseph Catholic Church

A Catholic Christian Community 1002 S. Main Street - Scott City Fr. Bernard Felix, pastor • 872-7388 Secretary • 872-3644 Masses: 1st Sunday of month - 8:30 and 11:00 a.m. Other weekends: Sat., 6:00 p.m.; Sun., 11:00 a.m. Spanish Mass - 2nd and 4th Sundays, 1:30 p.m.

Pence Community Church

Prairie View Church of the Brethren

4855 Finney-Scott Rd. - Scott City - 276-6481 Pastor Jon Tuttle Sunday School: 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. Men’s Fellowship • Wednesday mornings Breakfast at 6:30 a.m. Held at Precision Ag Bldg. west of Shallow Water

Holy Cross Lutheran Church

1102 Court • Box 283 • Scott City 620-872-2294 • 620-872-3796 Pastor Warren Prochnow holycross-scott@sbcglobal.net Sunday School/Bible Class, 9:00 a.m. Worship every Sunday, 10:15 a.m. Wed.: Mid-Week School, 6:00-7:30 p.m.

Community Christian Church

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

12th & Jackson • Scott City • 872-3219 Shelby Crawford, pastor Sunday School, 9:30 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship, 10:45 a.m. Wednesday Night Bible Study, 7:00 p.m. Wednesday: God’s High School Cru, 7:30 p.m.

First Baptist Church

Immanuel Southern Baptist Church

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

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

Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.

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

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

Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.

Gospel Fellowship Church 120 S. Lovers Lane - Shallow Water Larry Taylor, pastor Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.

First Christian Church

1st United Methodist Church

5th Street and College - Scott City - 872-2401 Dennis Carter, pastor 1st Sunday: Communion and Fellowship Sunday Services at 9:00 a.m. • Sunday School, 10:30 a.m. All Other Sundays • Worship: 8:30 and 10:45 a.m. Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. MYF (youth groups) on Wednesdays Jr. High: 6:30 p.m. • Sr. High: 7:00 p.m.

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

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SC pounces on Tigers early in GWAC opener

It was the first road trip of the season for the Scott Community High School boy’s basketball team, but it didn’t look that way. T h e Beavers ( 3 - 1 ) looked right at Scott City 53 Ulysses 32 h o m e as they drilled three first quarter treys and rolled to a 25 point first half lead on their way to an easy 53-32 win at Ulysses (3-2) on Friday in the Great West Activities Conference. “We played really well in the first half. Our defense was good and I felt we had Ulysses frustrated,” says head coach Glenn O’Neil. “I don’t know that they had any good shots in the half except for a three at the (halftime) buzzer.” A three-point basket early in the game gave the Tigers a brief 3-2 lead, but after that it was all Scott City. The scoring tandem of Trey O’Neil and Brett Meyer hit consecutive baskets followed

by a three-pointer from sophomore guard Dylan Hutchins that opened up a 9-3 advantage. O’Neil, who finished with a game high 26 points (3-of-9 3-pt. FG) and 10 rebounds, drilled back-to-back treys that stretched the lead to 15-6. Scott City’s defense smothered the Tigers during an impressive 20-2 scoring stretch in which they opened up a huge 35-10 lead following O’Neil’s three-pointer at the 2:06 mark. Ulysses was held without a point for nearly seven minutes during that span. A couple of officiating calls stalled Scott City’s momentum to close out the half. A player technical foul, followed by another SCHS foul, allowed Ulysses to snap its scoring drought with four free throws. Then, with the Beavers running out the final 30 seconds of the clock for a final shot, O’Neil was called for a five-second violation on the perimeter.

“What’s frustrating is that the official who was standing right there wasn’t the one who made the call,” says Coach O’Neil. “It was made by an official who was out of the line of sight on the other side of the court.” That turnover led to a Ulysses three-point basket just ahead of the buzzer to finish off a 7-0 scoring run. “The five-second call was a big swing of momentum. Instead of us scoring two or three points it went the other way,” says O’Neil. “In the second half we didn’t shoot the ball all that well and the pace slowed down quite a bit.” Ulysses was never closer than 16 points in the second half. An 8-0 scoring run by the Beavers that began late in the third period and carried into the fourth quarter gave the Beavers their largest lead of the night, 52-26, with 5:12 to play. Meyer was the only other Beaver in double (See TIGERS on page 19)

SCHS junior Trey O’Neil hits a jumper on his way to a game high 26 points during a 53-32 win at Ulysses. (Record Photo)

Kropp claims four wins at Goodland dual tourney Wyatt Kropp’s potential has never been in doubt. It just seems that if there is a state-ranked wrestler or a former state champion, the Scott Community High School sophomore will end up knocking heads with him in a dual or tournament. That was the case again on Saturday when Kropp faced Norton’s Jared Tallent (ranked No. 4 in Class 3-2-1A) in the second round of the Holiday Dual Classic at Goodland. Throughout most of the third period, Tallent kept working the edge of the mat and wrestling defensively in order to escape with a 4-3 win over Kropp in the 145-pound division. But it showed that the Scott City grappler is capable of competing with the state’s best and it was his only loss in five rounds of dual matches. “Last year, his wins were few and far between. Maybe we expected too much too early,” says head coach Jon Lippelmann. “But he’s a good listener and he’s doing what we’ve taught him. He’s figuring out what he can do to improve and putting it to use on the mat. “He needs to show that he

Rod Haxton, sports editor

Wheels are falling off the Chiefs bandwagon

Chance Ramsey, a 120-pound senior, pins Norton’s Kyle Bell during the dual tournament at Goodland last Saturday. (Record Photo)

can compete with the best kids in state and we’re starting to see that,” says the SCHS coach. Kropp’s impressive day included a 3-1 decision over Bryce Rodriguez (Ulysses) and a 5-0 win over Andrew Voss (Colby), along with pins against opponents from Baca County and Leoti. As a team, the Beavers were 2-3 with wins over Baca County (36-33) and Leoti (52-24). They lost to Norton (67-6), Colby (69-9) and Ulysses (36-27).

Long Day for SC Outside of Kropp, it was a long day for the Beavers that got off to a rough start when defending state champion James Jurgens (126) was injured in his opening round match by Stetson Loader (Baca County). Jurgens (126) lost the match by a fall to Loader, a senior who was a 120-pound state runnerup in Colorado last season. Loader was able to turn Jurgens with a hard chicken wing

that had SCHS coaches questioning whether the move was being used legally. The official didn’t stop the match and when Jurgens came off the mat his day was done. “It was our decision not to have him wrestle any more,” says Lippelmann. “It wasn’t worth putting James out there when he’s less than 100 percent and you don’t know the extent of the injury. In the long run, we felt it would be better to let

After the fact, it’s always easy to say “I told you so.” The Kansas City Chiefs make it agonizingly easy. That’s why, even during their 9-0 start, it was easy not to jump on the bandwagon that was going to take KC to the AFC West title, AFC championship and (dare we say) a trip to the Super Bowl. I’m sorry, but even with six Pro Bowlers who were on the roster from last season, a new head coach and loads of optimism, we have to keep in mind, these are the Chiefs. They have shown that the early skepticism was not misplaced with their 2-4 record over the past six weeks. None of those losses was more disappointing than their lifeless 23-7 setback against Indianapolis last weekend.

(See KROPP on page 18)

(See WHEELS on page 23)

Lady Hornets enter break with romp over Wildcats

When the Dighton High School girls were locked in a 6-6 defensive battle with Sharon Springs after the first quarter, that wasn’t unusual. Sharon Springs has never b e e n an easy Dighton 45 place to Sharon Sp. 14 get a win. It didn’t get any easier

when senior center Leslie Speer picked up a pair of quick fouls and had to spend most of the first quarter on the bench. What happened during the next eight minutes was anything but typical. The Lady Hornets (5-1) buried Sharon Springs under a 19-0 scoring avalanche and coasted to a lopsided 45-14 win in Northwest Kansas League action last Friday.

“Even though we weren’t scoring in the first quarter we were playing very good defense,” says head coach Amy Felker. “When we switched to a 2-3 defense in the second quarter that seemed to throw them off balance.” Dighton was able to deny the ball inside the post which is the key to their offense. “You could see they were pretty frustrated,”

Felker says. That frustration was compounded when their star center Rachel Kuhlman had to leave the game late in the second quarter with an injury and did not return. “But the girls kept playing great defense and that set things up for our offense,” says the head coach. After building a 25-6 halftime lead, the Lady

Hornets were able to roll through the second half. However, they continued to play solid defense, limiting Sharon Springs to just eight points. “We continued the rest of the night with a pressure zone, not letting them get any looks from the three-point line without a hand in their face,” Felker says. Bouncing back from her early foul trouble,

Speer was 7-of-8 from the field and finished with a game high 14 points. Senior Shambrey Budd added a double-double for the Lady Hornets with 10 points (5-of-10 FG) and 10 rebounds. “We had a balanced attack with Leslie hitting from the inside and the outside. And (freshman guard Sara Cramer) did a great job of getting (See HORNETS on page 19)

The Scott County Record • Page 18 • Thursday, December 26, 2013

KDWP Report

Reserve state park cabins for 2014 If you’re dreaming of warmer weather and making plans for next year’s state park fun, you can now reserve your favorite campsite. In addition, many Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) 2014 permits and licenses went on sale Dec. 16 and they are valid through the rest of 2013 and all of 2014. Camping and cabin reservations guarantee the holder their spot will be open and ready when they arrive at the park. All of KDWPT’s 121 cabins can be reserved year-round, up to 364 days in advance. About half of each individual park’s sites are reservable for the camping season, which is April 1-Sept. 30. Payment in full is required at the time a reservation is made. Reserving a cabin requires a nonrefundable $14 reservation fee. Reserving a campsite requires a non-refundable $3 reservation fee per stay. Remember that when you renew your vehicle tags and registration, you can purchase Kansas State Parks Passports for $15. State Parks Passports will get you into any state park for a year and represent significant savings over traditional annual vehicle permits, which are still available at KDWPT offices for $25. Daily vehicle entrance permits are $5. Annual vehicle permits for seniors and persons with disabilities are available through department offices for $13.75.

DHS offense disappears in second half A strong start turned into a disastrous finish when the Dighton High School boys traveled to Sharon Springs for a showdown of Northwest Kansas League powerhouses on Friday. T h e first half lived up to expectations with both Dighton 48 t e a m s Sharon Sp. 68 playing to a 35-35 deadlock. The second half came unraveled for the Hornets (3-3) who were outscored 15-2 in the third period and couldn’t recover in a 68-48 loss.

“I’m putting this one on me,” says head coach Dean Cramer. “In the first half we had success getting the ball inside and creating mismatches. In the second half I had boys in positions where they weren’t comfortable and it cost us.” Dighton’s second half trouble was compounded by injury and illness which left them with a short bench. That short bench became a bigger issue when the Hornets lost senior forward Mathew Barnett to fouls in the third quarter and junior guard Wyatt Habiger fouled out early in the fourth. After having trouble

with full-court pressure against Hoxie in the Quinter tournament, the Hornets handled the Wildcats’ pressure in the first half. “Their press wasn’t a big factor in the game, though it did wear us down some in the second half,” Cramer says. The big difference in the second half was the absence of an inside scoring attack from Dighton’s big people - Sam Moomaw and Mathew Barnett - who each scored four points in the first half but were held scoreless after the intermission. “That can’t happen and I put that on me,” says

Cramer. “I was posting up Isaac (Alinor) because he had a mismatch that we were able to take advantage of.” The senior guard scored a season high 17 points (5-of-10 FG) and led the team with five rebounds. “But that put Sam on the wing which took him out of his comfort zone,” Cramer says. With Dalton Birney out of the lineup due to illness that didn’t allow Cramer to give his post people an occasional break. Likewise, senior guard Ryan Horn won’t return to the lineup until after the Christmas break due to a shoulder injury.

“That didn’t allow us to substitute like we wanted and you could see our shooting suffer because of fatigue in the second half,” says the head coach. “In addition, Sharon Springs is a three-point shooting team and they can put together a lot of points in a hurry. We aren’t a team that can come back from 15 or 20 points down. We need to keep it a 10 point game.” Senior guard/forward Matthew Mulville was the only other Hornet in double figures with 12 points (2-of-7 three-pointers) while Habiger added seven points.

Oberlin pulls away from WCHS in fourth quarter

A big offensive night by senior guard Jantz Budde combined with a dominating game under the boards by senior center Brock Sheppard led the Wichita County High School boys to a 52-47 win over Oberlin in Northwest Kansas League play last Friday. It was an early Christm a s present Wichita Co. 47 for head Oberlin 52 c o a c h Hayden Parks and his Indians (2-4) who were able to enter the break with a much-needed win. “This is something we can build on over the

Kropp the shoulder heal and hopefully he’ll be ready after Christmas. We hope it’s only a strain.” Senior Chase Ramsey (120) picked up a pair of wins, including a second period fall over Norton’s Kyle Bell. Jesse Anchondo (138)

break,” says Parks. “Oberlin has been playing some good ball, so this shows that we can play with the top teams in our league.” The key, says Parks, was a solid defensive effort throughout the game. WCHS jumped out to a 12-8 first quarter lead, but saw the Red Devils (4-2) chip away at that deficit, knotting the score at 3636 heading into the final period. “It was great to see the boys put together a pretty strong fourth quarter and get the win. That’s going to do a lot for our confidence,” says Parks. Sheppard had a big game under the basket

with eight defensive rebounds, many of those coming in the final period when the Indians were needing to make defensive stops. Budde was the offense for WCHS with 28 points (7-of-14 FG), including 12-of-13 at the charity stripe, despite seeing a junk defense designed to slow him down. Oberlin started the game in a 3-2 zone, but Budde was able to slice his way through the defense and either score or dish the ball off to teammates for easy baskets. That prompted the Red Devils to switch to a boxand-one in order to isolate

Budde and limit his scoring ability. Senior Casey Day soon followed with a three-point basket - his only field goal of the night - but Oberlin then switched to a triangleand-two and put a guard on Day. “It took awhile for the boys to adjust to the defenses they were throwing at us,” says Parks. “We had some other boys step up and hit some key baskets for us.” Junior guard Treven Burch (2-of-5 FG) hit a pair of baskets in the third quarter to finish with five points. Junior guard Spenser Thurman added a three-point basket.

Day scored seven points and senior forward Chris Wilson added six. Leoti had a big night at the free throw line where they were 21-of-30. However, second-chance scoring opportunities were in short supply as they managed just five offensive rebounds. From the field, WCHS was just 13-of-42 (31%). “We need to get more balanced offensive production,” emphasizes Parks. “We’re going to see teams trying to take Jantz out of the offense, so we need other boys who will be more aggressive and who can start hitting some shots.”

dual tournaments over the past two weekends, but that’s likely to change after Christmas when SCHS will compete primarily in bracketed tournaments. “We need for our younger kids to gain confidence in what they’re doing. They’re gradually

learning what we want, but they need to have success working their moves against kids who are on the same level they are,” Lippelmann says. “Their time on varsity is probably over unless we have an opening at regional they can fill.”

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also claimed a pair of wins over Layton Tankersley (145-Leoti) and Kaler Gilbert (Ulysses), each by first period falls. Wins, however, were few and far between for the young and inexperienced Beavers. “We have kids with bad habits they can’t seem to

Lady Indians head into break on 2 game streak

Led by a 29 point performance from Tailor Bremer, the Wichita County High School girls stretched their win streak to a pair of games with a 57-47 win at Oberlin prior to the Christmas break. Leoti (2-3) seized control of the game with a 17-4 first quarter lead which proved to be enough for the rest of the night. Bremer, a senior, had a huge night at the charity stripe where she was 14-of-17. The rest of the WCHS squad was 7-of-20 at the line. Senior guard Katie Bailey was also in double figures with 14 points while Bailey Preedy added four points. The Lady Indians will return to action on Jan. 7 when they host Lakin in a non-league game.

shake and it’s not going to get any better for them going up against varsity competition,” says Lippelmann. The head coach said he moved those boys to the varsity level so the Beavers wouldn’t have so many open weights in

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SCHS offense ‘stagnant’ in league loss to Lady Tigers Any momentum the Scott City girls were hoping to carry over from their first win of the season was short-lived in a 3728 loss last Friday to Ulysses in Great West Activities Conference play. Senior forward Bailey Nickel, who entered the Scott City 28 Ulysses 37 game averaging 23 points per contest, was held to a season low 10 points as the Lady Tigers kept her from becoming a major factor. Head coach Shelby Crawford wasn’t surprised by Ulysses’ strategy. He was frustrated with how his team responded. “I’d emphasized to the girls all week that teams are going to play zone against us and pinch in on Bailey and try to take her out of the offense,” says Crawford. “We need someone else to step up. At the same time we need to get better ball movement and give Bailey a clean shot in the post.” Nickel had six of her team high 10 points in the first 9-1/2 minutes, but only one of those came in the lane from the halfcourt offense. Her other points came on a fastbreak layup and at the free throw line. Unable to get their offense started early in the game, Scott City fell behind 11-4 before climbing back into the contest. The Lady Beavers looked as though they might have overcome their early doldrums with an 11-2 scoring run. They scored seven unanswered points, including a six-footer by Holly Wilcoxson and a free throw by Nicole Latta that put them on top, 15-13, with 3-1/2 minutes left in the half. It was shortly after that surge that senior guard Kelly Wycoff was called for her fourth foul. Even though Wycoff was able to avoid fouling out of the game, Crawford felt it affected the team’s overall aggressiveness on defense. Scott City’s biggest lead of the night came with 5:58 left in

Tigers figures with 11 points (4-of-9 FG). He barely missed a double-double with nine rebounds and a team high three steals. SCHS limited the Tigers to just 19 percent from two-point range (5-of-26). Coming into the game, the lowest shooting percentage by a Scott City opponent was 48 percent (Pueblo East).

inside the numbers

field goal shooting percentage for Dighton center Leslie Speer against Sharon Springs (7-of-8)

free throw shooting percentage by SCHS boys through 4 games (56-of-78)

2-point field goal shooting percentage by Ulysses boys vs SCHS (5-of-26)

2.8

assists per game for Dighton’s Sara Cramer and Shambrey Budd through six games

Takedown kids tourney is Sat.

SCHS sophomore Nicole Latta gains control of a rebound during Friday’s game at Ulysses. (Record Photo)

the third period following baskets by Riley Hawker and Nickel that put them on top, 20-17. Wilcoxson picked up her fourth foul shortly afterwards and the SCHS girls were held scoreless for the remainder of the quarter. Ulysses was just as ineffective on offense, scoring just three points during that span as both teams entered the final period tied, 20-20. The score was tied again, 22-22, following a basket by Wycoff with 6:32 remaining, before Ulysses put the game out of reach with an 8-0 run.

SCHS was able to pull within four, 32-28, following a basket by Nicole Latta and a jumper in the lane by Wycoff at the 1:52 mark. But that ended the scoring for the Lady Beavers. Crawford saw no shortage of things to work on over the Christmas break. “Our offense was too stagnant,” he says. “We have to be able to space the floor and move people. The Ulysses defense hardly had to move in order to defend us. To attack a zone you have to swing the ball from side to side and we have a bad habit

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“I thought our defense played better, even with our post players on the bench with foul trouble,” says Coach O’Neil. Brayden Strine, who scored six points (3-of-4 FG) and Sloan Baker, who added four points and seven rebounds, each had four fouls. Statistically, it was a mixed bag for the Beavers. They committed just five

turnovers, but they had just six assists. “If we’d have finished off a couple of opportunities and made some shots that we should have made, the number of assists would have been higher,” notes O’Neil. “We need to be averaging between 12 and 15 assists per game.” The Tigers committed just nine turnovers which was par-

of keeping the ball on one side of the court.” The Lady Beavers will also have to rebound better after getting beat soundly on the boards by Ulysses. “That’s one reason we were in foul trouble. We were out of position for rebounds,” says the head coach. And, in spite of all that, they were still tied with the Lady Tigers with 6-1/2 minutes remaining. “It was a frustrating game, but we need to learn from it,” added Crawford.

The Takedown Kids Wrestling Club in Scott City will be hosting its annual tournament on Sat., Dec. 28, starting at 9:00 a.m. in the Scott Community High School gym. About 350 grapplers from across Western and central Kansas will be competing.

Hornets

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the ball to girls when we needed it,” Felker says. Cramer led the team with seven assists while sophomore guard Kiara Budd’s five points included a pair of early baskets that forced Sharon Springs to extend their defensive pressure and open up the middle for Dighton’s big girls. Dighton dominated in the paint with 37 rebounds, including 13 offensive boards. “Everyone who stepped on the court contributed,” adds Felker. “We are excited about how our season has started, but we aren’t satisfied. After the Christmas break we want to make a strong run through the tially due to the lack of pressure league and into the post-seadefense by the Beavers. son.” ”We wanted to do more halfcourt traps against Ulysses, but with our foul trouble we didn’t feel this was an opportune time,” adds the head coach. The Beavers will have an extended holiday break and won’t return to action until Jan. 10 when they travel to Hugoton in a GWAC game.

Wildcats anxious to end bowl loss streak Kansas State is once again firmly entrenched among the elites of college football. by Head coach Mac Bill Snyder Stevenson has his team in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl this Saturday against traditional national power Michigan. This will be KState’s fourth consecutive bowl game since Snyder’s return from retirement and the Wildcats first-ever game with Michigan. The game will be televised on ESPN with a 9:15 p.m. start. The rewards for playing in a bowl game for a program like K-State are numerous. Practicing for a bowl game is the same as an extra spring practice and it’s invaluable for young players who haven’t had much playing time. Kansas State will be featured on national television, which is priceless publicity and a vital aid in recruiting. And it’s a great trip for the players and fans that draws the Bill Snyder family even closer together. K-State and Michigan had identical 7-5 records during the regular season. The Wildcats were 5-4 in Big 12 play and finished fifth; Michigan was 3-5 and finished fifth in the Legends Division of the Big 10. Michigan coach Brady Hoke has a dilemma on his hands at quarterback. Junior starter Devin Gardner has been hampered with a turf toe injury and hasn’t practiced much for the bowl game. During the regular season, Gardner completed 208-of-345 passes for 2,960 yards and 21 touchdowns. If Gardner can’t go, freshman Shane Morris (63, 183) will start. Morris played in just three games and threw only six passes. Turf toe injuries are slow to heal, but the guess here is that Gardner - who is an experienced pass-run threat - will be the Michigan quarterback. Kansas State has lost five-straight bowl games and the Wildcats are eager to eliminate that albatross. (See STREAK on page 22)

Defense crushes Ulysses The Scott Community High School junior varsity boys turned up the defensive pressure against Ulysses, allowing just two field goals over a 16 minute stretch, and cruised to a 39-25 road win last Friday. Trailing 10-8 after the opening period, the BeaScott City 39 vers seized Ulysses 25 control of the game in the second period when they outscored the Tigers, 10-2. Freshman Bo Hess, who finished with eight points, hit a pair of early field goals in the quarter, sandwiched around a basket by Jess Drohman that gave SCHS a 14-10 lead and they never trailed again. Hess added another basket and Chantz Yager’s drive into the lane and scoop shot with :32 left in the half gave Scott City an 18-12 advantage. The Beavers limited Ulysses to a single free throw over the final five minutes of the third period as they continued to add to their lead. Balanced scoring saw baskets from Nick Storm, Heath Briggs and Matthew Jenkins in the quarter. Sophomore guard Dylan Hutchins finished off a scoring flurry with all nine of his points in the final period, including a pair of treys. Freshman guard Justin Faurot added seven points for the night, including Scott City’s first three field goals to start the game.

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SCHS freshman Bo Hess gains control of a rebound during Friday’s win over Ulysses. (Record Photo)

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SCHS Wrestling Holiday Dual Classic Dec. 21, 2013 • at Goodland SCHS 36 - Baca County 33 SCHS 6 - Norton 67 SCHS 9 - Colby 69 SCHS 52 - Leoti 24 SCHS 27 - Ulysses 36 106: Zach Tucker rec. forfeit from Baca County; pinned by Caysean Campbell (Norton), 4:05; pinned by Tate Carney (Colby), 1:04; rec. forfeit from Leoti; rec. forfeit from Ulysses. 113: SCHS open 120: Chase Ramsey rec. forfeit from Baca County; pinned Kyle Bell (Norton), 2:42; pinned by Tanner Elias (Colby), 1:28; pinned Lane Ridder (Leoti), 1:59; pinned by Zach Miller (Ulysses), 5:21. 126: James Jurgens pinned by Stetson Loader (BC), 3:27. 126: Morgen Roberts pinned by Ethan Ross (Norton), 0:54. 126: Irvin Lozano pinned by Travis Finley (Colby), 0:33; rec. forfeit from Leoti; rec. forfeit from Ulysses. 132: Morgen Roberts pinned by Austin Batterton (BC), 0:46; pinned Blaze Fisher (Leoti), 2:53; pinned by Mario Rodriguez (Ulysses), 0:39. 138: Jesse Anchondo dec. by J.D. Chenoweth (BC), 7-0; pinned by Alec Hager (Norton), 2:11; dec. by Brett Schroeder (Colby), 3-2; pinned Kaler Gilbert (Ulysses), 1:57. 138: Kevin Aguilera received forfeit from Leoti; 145: Wyatt Kropp pinned Dax Doyle (BC), 1:44; dec. by Jared Tallent (Norton), 4-3; dec. Andrew Voss (Colby), 5-0; dec. Bryce Rodriguez (Ulysses), 3-1. 145: Jesse Anchondo pinned Layton Tankersley (Leoti), 1:20; 152: Abe Wiebe pinned by Luke Loflin (BC), 1:00; pinned by Mike Kasson (Norton), 1:48; pinned by Juan Anguiano (Ulysses), 0:24. 152: Wyatt Kropp pinned Zeke Castillo (Leoti), 1:40; 152: Forfeit to Colby; 160: Abe Wiebe pinned by Taylor Seaton (Leoti), 1:08; 160: SCHS open 170: SCHS open 182: SCHS open 195: Garrett Osborn received forfeit from Baca County; pinned by Jordan Dole (Norton), 0:32; pinned by Jay Ziegelmeier (Colby), 1:23; pinned by Brice Mason (Leoti), 1:29; pinned by Diego Maravilla (Ulysses), 0:27. 220: Lane Hayes pinned Dalton Westphal (BC), 2:52; maj. dec. by Jacob Green (Norton), 12-4; pinned by Austin Hart (Colby), 5:12; rec. forfeit from Leoti; pinned by Otto Orosco (Ulysses), 1:42. 285: Cole Birney received forfeit from Baca County; pinned by Michael Johnson (Norton), 1:39; pinned by Ethan Jay (Colby), 1:53; rec. forfeit from Leoti; rec. forfeit from Ulysses.

SCHS Basketball Scott City Ulysses

Varsity Boys Scott City 53 - Ulysses 32 24 11 10 8 10 7 9 6

Chantz Yager Brayden Strine Chris Pounds Dylan Hutchins Trey O’Neil Brett Meyer Sloan Baker Scott City Ulysses

2 1-2 3-4 0-2 0-1 5-10 4-9 2-5 15-32 5-26

3 1-2 0-0 0-1 1-4 3-9 0-0 0-0 5-16 4-18

FT 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 7-8 3-4 0-0 10-13 10-13

53 32 Tot 5 6 0 3 26 11 4 53 32

Rebounds: O’Neil 10, Meyer 9, Baker 7 Steals: Meyer 3, Yager 2 Assists: O’Neil 5 Blocks: Meyer 1 Rebounds: SCHS 39, Ulysses 32 Turnovers: SCHS 5, Ulysses 9 Assists: SCHS 6, Ulysses 6

Dighton Basketball Varsity Girls Dighton 45 - Sharon Springs 14 Dighton 6 19 8 12 Sharon Springs 6 0 5 3 Diamond Brown Kiara Budd Sara Cramer Liz Heath Leslie Speer Regan Foos Shambrey Budd Tristan Wilson Kayla Borell Jordan Speer Dakota Hoffman Dighton

2 1-3 1-5 2-3 1-7 7-8 0-1 5-10 0-1 0-1 1-4 2-4 20-47

3 0-0 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-2

FT 2-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 2-5

45 14 Tot 4 5 4 2 14 0 10 0 0 2 4 45

Rebounds: S. Budd 10, Heath 7, J. SPeer 6, L. Speer 5 Steals: Cramer 3, Brown 3 Assists: Cramer 7, S. Budd 3 Blocks: K. Budd 1 Rebounds: Dighton 37 Turnovers: Dighton 7 Assists: Dighton 17

During his legendary era with K-State, Snyder has always been a formidable foe when he has extra practice time to prepare for an opponent. Snyder will have K-State ready to go against Michigan. Snyder’s two-quarterback system on offense with Jake Waters and Daniel Sams splitting playing time - has become increasingly effective during the regular season. Coupled with their receiving corps led by Tyler Lockett and Tramaine Thompson, the Wildcats have a dangerous passing attack. Running back John Hubert and Sams provide balance with their rushing skills behind an experienced and talented offensive line.

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Kansas State’s defense has improved steadily throughout the season, particularly the interior linemen. Defensive end Ryan Mueller has become a nationally recognized player and defensive tackles Chaquil Reed and Travis Britz are solid run stoppers. Kansas State is a 3.5 point favorite on most of the early betting lines. It will be a close and exciting game, unless Michigan doesn’t have their starting quarterback. If Gardner isn’t available, that changes everything. If K-State defeats Michigan, it will be their biggest single-season turnaround in Kansas State football history.

What a fitting finish that He has proposed a would be to another re- three-game schedule with warding season for the the first game in Allen Wildcats. Fieldhouse, the second at the Sprint Center in KanKU vs Wichita State sas City, and the third at It’s time for Kansas the Intrust Bank Arena in basketball coach Bill Self downtown Wichita. to tear down the fence What could be more he’s built between his Jay- fair than that? hawks and Wichita State. WSU made it to the FiCoach Gregg Marshall nal Four last season and of WSU made another the Shockers are off and overture while trying to rolling this season with get a series with KU. It an 11-0 record - the best would be a positive for start in Wichita history. both schools. If Kansas were to lose to “We’d like to play Wichita it wouldn’t be an home-and-home. Kan- embarrassing upset. sas is a special program, Coach Self would be they’re elite and we know doing himself and all the that. If we can be in the basketball fans in Kansas same conversation with a favor if he would put his them, it’s usually pretty stamp of approval on the good,” said Marshall. Marshall-proposed series.

Wheels This was a game played at Arrowhead. This was a game that had meaning. Kansas City still had a chance at winning the AFC West, getting the No. 1 seed and gaining home field for the playoffs. They aren’t playing like a team that expects to be around in the playoffs for very long. In a recent conversation with the X-Factor, he said that a friend couldn’t understand why some people were so upset with KC’s recent play. “They still have 10 wins,” he said at the time, which has since become 11 wins. The difference is momentum. Who’s the better team right now - Kansas City (11-4) or Philadelphia (9-6)? I’ll take Philly which has won four of their last five, opposed to KC losing three of their last five. Who wouldn’t? It’s not like Kansas City is riding a wave of confidence as the No. 5 seed in the playoffs.

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everyone but owner Jerry Jones and head coach Jason Garrett can’t seem to understand the value of a running game. The criticism was deafening following the meltdown against an Aaron Rodgersless-Green Bay team that couldn’t stop the Dallas running game. Instead, while playing with a big lead and DeMarco Murray having a career day, the Cowboys decided to run the ball just twice during the final 21 minutes. The Cowboys giftwrapped a 37-36 loss with a pair of Tony Romo interceptions in the final three minutes. But is Andy Reid that much better in his playcalling. In the rematch against Denver in Kansas City on Dec. 1, the Chiefs were sitting on the two yard line on their opening possession. They have perhaps the best runningback in the league and Alex Smith throws an interception in the end zone. The Chiefs go on to build a 21-7 lead (which Rely on the Run could have possibly been It’s been fun to watch 28-7 without the interthe implosion in Dallas as ception) before they lose

again to the Broncos, 35-28. Why did they pass at the two yard line? For the same reason that Jamaal Charles only had six carries in the second half against Indianapolis when a win - and a little momentum - might have been a pretty good thing against a team the Chiefs could be seeing in the playoffs. Reid is a pass first, pass second and, if necessary, pass third kind of coach. Charles has proved he’s among the NFL’s elite and against the Colts you wonder if Reid even remembers that he’s on the roster. Charles rushed for 106 yards and had the team’s only touchdown. But he had just five carries in the second half while Indianapolis was scoring 23 straight points. It’s not as though they had to abandon the run. Reid just felt “we were put in a position where we had to throw the ball a little bit.” Garrett apparently felt the same way . . . with a similar result. But whether or not the Chiefs can survive beyond the first round of the play-

offs will, unfortunately, depend less on Charles and a lot more on a KC defense that was getting rave reviews through the first nine weeks of the season. Here are a few numbers to keep in mind: •Since the bye week (that started with the first Denver loss) KC is giving up 27.8 points per game. In terms of yards given up per play, the Chiefs rank 21st. •In their four losses, opposing quarterbacks completed 67 percent of their passes for an average of 340 yards with 10 touchdowns and only two interceptions. Blame the lack of pressure up front, or a porous secondary, but quarterbacks are licking their chops against KC. Does any of this mean this hasn’t been a great year for the Chiefs? Of course, not. Reid may well be named Coach of the Year, John Dorsey could be Executive of the Year and Charles may be the runner-up in Offensive Player of the Year balloting behind Peyton Manning. The Chiefs have made one of the biggest turn-

arounds in NFL history from a team that finished 2-14 last season and they are still a team that has the potential to win a first round playoff game. KC fans have reason to be excited. At least there is hope for the future in Kansas City. However, as with any franchise, the window of opportunity isn’t open for long. KC has several players in the prime of their careers. They need to take advantage of this with stars such as Charles, Justin Houston, Tamba Hali and Derrick Johnson. If KC can’t figure out how to stop the pass in the remaining games it has to become a No. 1 priority during the off-season. As Chiefs’ fans, we’ve had too much experience with getting our hopes elevated only to be met with disappointment at the end of the season. This season has been a great turnaround and the team’s rise from last year’s wreckage has been a great story. But there’s never been the feeling that “this is our year.” Hopefully, in the nottoo-distant future, “our year” will arrive.

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fulfilling the dream Hayes ready to join the K-State football family Even on a national powerhouse football team loaded with Division I prospects, Luke Hayes is nearly impossible to overlook. That happens when you’re six-foot-six and tip the scales at 300 pounds. As an offensive lineman at Butler County Community College, Hayes has been attracting plenty of attention from programs around the nation who were anxious to have the AllAmerican. “There were 10 or 12 DI schools who had made offers to me,” says the former Scott Community High School standout. There were others who had contacted the BCCC coaching staff for game film on Hayes. Even though he considered those offers, including a campus visit to Kentucky and a near-visit to Michigan State University, Hayes decided to stay closer to home with the university that had been the first to contact him last February. On the first day that he could officially sign his letter-of-intent, Hayes made it official that he will be playing at Kansas State University next fall. He will be transferring to K-State at the semester so he can participate in spring drills. “I’ve always dreamed of playing for a big DI school. Now that it’s happened I’m pretty excited,” says the 20-year-old. Even with so many offers on the table Hayes had narrowed his options to four schools. Kentucky was ruled out shortly after his visit to the campus. Hayes didn’t feel the “sense of unity with the offensive line that we had at Butler” and that he also saw at K-State. He had also set up a visit to MSU on Oct. 12, but three days before the trip he received a phone call from the coaching staff notifying him that they had no more scholarships. Hayes made a call to K-State and they made arrangements for him to visit the campus that weekend. While he was leaning toward K-State, Hayes was still considering a visit to the University of Arizona, “but I still wasn’t sure that’s where I wanted to go.”

During a meeting with head coach Bill Snyder on the Sunday before leaving Manhattan, the legendary coach offered some advice. “He told me that it’s best to think about your family first and you can go for the adventure later,” recalls Hayes. “When coach said that I realized that I’d be happier playing closer to home where my family could watch me and where I could still watch my brothers in sports once in awhile. “Later that day I made the commitment to go to K-State. The visit with Coach Snyder sealed the deal.” Making the Transition Even as an All-State football player and two-time state champion, the transition to a junior college All-American and highly regarded DI prospect didn’t come easily for Hayes. A tight end and defensive end coming out of high school, Hayes was asked to make the transition to a new position with BCCC. One of the first things that offensive line coach Cody Oates told Hayes upon his arrival was he could “be a pretty decent tight end or a great offensive tackle.” “So I started playing a lot more tackle and it worked out real well,” Hayes says. During his freshman year, he was still given the opportunity to play tight end in a two-tight end package when he was used solely as a blocker on running plays. At the time, Hayes still felt he could play tight end and tackle, but he was largely slipping under the recruiting radar until late in his freshman year. While BCCC was preparing for their national championship game it’s common for a lot of DI coaches and scouts to visit the campus during a bye week or after their regular season is completed. “A lot of coaches will roll through here and watch us during practice,” Hayes says. “Coach Oates told me that a lot of them were wanting to see game film. That’s when I realized I was starting to get some attention.”

(Top photo) Luke Hayes (68) in action against Hutchinson Community College earlier this season. (Courtesy Photo) (Above) Hayes signs a commitment letter to play football at Kansas State University. He is joined by his parents (left) Larry and Sandy Hayes, along with SCHS head coach Glenn O’Neil. (Record Photo)

close-knit group of offensive linemen “who liked hanging around together.” “It was like that in high school. It’s something I’ve grown up with and I realize what a difference that can make. At K-State you can tell it’s the same way,” he says. “But it’s not just the players and coaches who are the family. The fans are part of the family, too. You can feel that the program has support from everyone.” Adding to that sense of family is the opportunity to be reunited with former teammate Colborn Couchman, a sophomore walk-on at K-State who has earned a spot on special teams this past season. “After I committed, their recruiting coordinator told Colborn. He texted me and said he was excited that we’d be playing together again. I said the same thing. I had hoped we could play together at Butler, but this is better because we’re at a DI program, which is really The K-State Family cool,” says Hayes. While playing at BCCC, As a juco transfer, Hayes has Hayes liked being part of a hopes of making an immediThat’s also when Hayes realized his football future would be as an offensive left tackle. “Even though I never started my freshman year I got a lot of playing time as an extra tight end which helped a lot. But going into my sophomore year I knew I’d be the starting left tackle.” “The only thing I had real difficulty on was pass protection when I first got there. I’d never done that in high school,” says Hayes. “Once I got that down I started focusing on making my run blocking better. Their technique is out of this world. Once you get it down it makes you a much better player.” It also helps being part of one of the top junior college programs in the nation. The Grizzlies were No. 2 in the nation during Hayes’ freshman year and finished No. 6 this past year. If not for a regular season loss to Highland, BCCC might have been in the national title game again.

ate impact. He’s been told by offensive line coach Charlie Dickey that the competition is wide open with the loss of the offensive right and left tackles, along with their top back-up, to graduation. “They will return their three inside guys on the offensive line, so the line has a chance of being pretty good,” Hayes says. “Coach Dickey said they are hoping two juco tackles can start for them right away.” Hayes is anxious for the opportunity to prove that he can play at the DI level. But he hasn’t forgotten where the foundation for that success was established. He gives credit to SCHS football head coach Glenn O’Neil and his staff. “They make sure you understand the game really well and are ready to play at the next level,” says Hayes. “But, more importantly, they emphasize that you need to have good character.” With that kind of background, Hayes couldn’t have found a better fit than K-State.

Hayes is among 3 Grizzlies named NJCAA All-Americans Three more players have been added to the long list of Butler’s NJCAA All-Americans, with offensive tackle Luke Hayes, tight end Steven Walker and defensive lineman Owen Williams earning those honors. This is the 31st consecutive season in which the Grizzlies

have had a player earn NJCAA All-American status, and the 19th straight year in which Butler has had multiple players earn such an honor in the same season. Butler has now had 68 players earn NJCAA All-American honors under Troy Morrell, who

just finished his 14th year as Butler’s head coach. That is an average of nearly five per season for the Grizzlies, who have a record of 146-19 and three national titles in that time span. The Grizzlies had the most All-Americans of any team in the Jayhawk Conference. Hayes, a sophomore from

Scott City, anchored the left side of Butler’s offensive line at the tackle position, serving as a punishing run blocker and effective pass blocker for the Grizzlies. He has committed to play at Kansas State University next fall. Butler finished the season with a 9-2 record, winning its

fourth consecutive Jayhawk Conference and Region VI championships along the way and finishing No. 6 in the final national poll. It is the 16th-consecutive year for Butler to finish in the top 10, the longest streak among any NJCAA football program.

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Mulligan named ‘Power and Hope’ award winner

Checking the hydrogen gas level within a playa are French researchers (from left) Valerie Beaumont, Julia Guelard and Daniel Pillot. (Record Photo)

Playas may have another role in earth’s geology Research over the years has found that playa lakes have a role in recharging the Ogallala Aquifer, serving as sort of a funnel from the surface to the reservoir of water that rests below. It would only make sense that if water could move in one direction through the playas that, perhaps, something could also be moving in the other direction. French researchers were in Lane County for several days to investigate playas in hopes of determining whether these land features might be a source of hydrogen or other gases seeping from the rock structure below. “We think of these rocks as holding only mineral deposits - certainly not gases,” explains K. David Newell, a geologist with the Kansas Geological Survey. In particular, researchers have taken particular interest in the presence of “free hydrogen” - meaning hydrogen that hasn’t formed a compound with another element (i.e., water - H2O). “It wasn’t until about 30 years ago that we realized it was around in this form - that in some areas it seems to be escaping from the earth,” Newell says. Under the right conditions, playas appear to be one of those areas. Researchers have found hydrogen in significant quantities in Russian playas - in a region about halfway between Kazakhstan and the Ukraine. Five of those researchers with the French Institute of Petroleum were investigating playas in Lane and Scott counties to see if hydrogen or other gases could be found in similar quantities here. Initial test results indicate that may not be the case. Playas that were studied in Russia were found to have up to 2,000 parts per million (ppm) of hydrogen along the basin of the land features. Typically, the basin of the playas studied in Western Kansas indicated minimal amounts of hydrogen, with the largest concen-

Wheatland Electric employee Bryan Mulligan was recently selected as a recipient of the Kansas Power and Hope Award. The newly established award was created by the Kansas Touchstone Energy Executive Council to highlight cooperative employees who have made a significant contribution to the betterment of their communities. The award recognizes individuals who routinely go above and beyond the Bryan Mulligan call of duty. Nominations were reviewed by the Kansas Touchstone Energy Executive Council with Mulligan one of two inaugural recipients. In selecting the Scott City resident, the council noted that Mulligan was part of a relief effort that assisted the tornado victims of Moore, Okla., last May. He was on a team of volunteers who traveled to Oklahoma to join Operation BBQ Relief. Before heading to Moore, Mulligan and his team spent a day gathering up donations. The team left Scott City stocked with over 3,000 pounds of meat donated from local feed yards, nearly a pallet of bottled water donated by Wheatland Electric and other supplies, as well as $5,000 dollars that had been donated from community members and businesses. Once in Moore, Mulligan spent five days helping to prepare, cook and serve thousands of barbeque meals to tornado victims and other volunteers assisting in the relief efforts. The KEC (Kansas Electric Cooperatives) plans to present Mulligan with the award at its annual meeting on Jan. 27 in Topeka. As part of the award, the Kansas Touchstone Energy Executive Council will make a $500 donation in Mulligan’s name to a charity of his choosing.

Taking samples of gas levels in Lane County playas and logging their findings are (from left) K. David Newell, a geologist with the Kansas Geological Survey, and French researchers Daniel Pillot and Eric Deville. (Record Photo)

trations amounting to only 50 ppm. Generally, there seemed to be higher concentrations of hydrogen along the playa ridges. But even then, it was often times in the 10-20 ppm range. Certainly not the level that researchers were hoping to discover. When doing their field study, researchers would dissect a playa from beyond the outer ridge, through the basin and to the opposite ridge. Approximately every 100 feet they would drill 2-3 feet into the soil with a small diameter drill. After it was removed they would quickly insert a probe that would read gas levels within the soil before they could blend with the atmosphere. The Playa Connection The finding of hydrogen in large quantities in Russia has researchers excited about the possibilities, according to Valerie Beaumont, who was among those conducting field studies in Western Kansas. “There has been the assumption that there is no natural hydrogen, which is not true,” she says. “We’re finding it can exist in certain geological structures. “We’re trying to determine why it can be found in certain areas because hydrogen can be a very important contributor to

the energy mix of the future when hydrocarbons become less abundant,” she says. Of course, researchers and geologists are curious why hydrogen would appear more abundant in playas than with other surrounding land features. One possibility, suggests Beaumont, is that the playas act as a type of “chimney” through which gases such as hydrogen, methane, CO2 and other gases escape the earth’s crust. “Where we find hydrogen we also find methane and nitrogen,” Beaumont notes. “The composition of the mixture varies from site to site.” According to researcher Eric Deville, the playa region they studied in Russia sits on top of an aquifer, similar to the Ogallala. “Where hydrogen and methane are found escaping playa lakes it’s in areas where there is a very deep aquifer. I’m not talking about aquifer that you use to water crops, but the very deep aquifer near the bedrock,” Deville says. While the initial findings in the Lane and Scott county playas are a little discouraging, they also lead to more questions. For example, why do playas in one region seem to have large amounts of hydrogen while that element is missing in another

region? “This is leading us to investigate what we never did think of before, and that’s the movement of these gases from the crust of the earth,” Newell says. “Now that we’re finding they exist, finding their rates and their volumes will probably be the next step.” Even if Western Kansas playas don’t become a new source of hydrogen and other gases, the information learned from studying their geological characteristics will still be valuable. “It always helps to know a little more about how the earth works, especially if you’re going to do things such as store greenhouse gases in the ground. It helps to know how these gases may move below the surface,” explains Newell. Since Kansas may someday become a storage site it will be helpful to know more about how they move within the earth, how they are stored, where they come from and where they go, says the KGS geologist. “There are things at play here that we don’t understand,” admits Newell. “That’s why we do this kind of research, so that we can hopefully find the answers to those questions and others which will arise from research such as this.”

Discussing the possibility of funding for a treatment facility in Scott City were (from left) Sen. Mitch Holmes, Tammy and Chris Lund and Scott County Development Committee Director Katie Eisenhour.

Lund hopes to direct treatment funds to local site

With plans for an extended care alcohol and drug abuse treatment center on the drawing board for Scott City, Chris Lund is hopeful he can attract state money to assist with the project. Chris and Tammy Lund, who operate City on a Hill in Wichita County, are hoping to offer a follow-up center in the former Scott County Hospital. They made their pitch last week to State Sen. Mitch Holmes (R-Stafford) who was in Scott City to view the former hospital and visit with the Lunds. Sen. Holmes is also a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee which oversees block grants for treatment programs in Kansas. Lund is hoping to capture some of the more than $300,000 that had been going to a treatment center in Larned before it closed more than a year ago. “Probably 95 percent of the money for treatment programs remains in eastern Kansas,” says Lund. “I’ve advocated that Western Kansas is entitled to the same level of services and (the state) should allocate money to us as well.” Lund noted that block grants from the state account for only a portion of the dollars needed to operate COAH and the proposed site in Scott City. The facility also receives money from private insurers, Medicaid and, in the future, through the Affordable Care Act. “Sen. Holmes said this was important to him, so I’m taking him at his word and hopefully it will result in some additional funding,” Lund says. What sets COAH apart from other treatment centers in Kansas is that it is the only one in the western two-thirds of the state that serves only women.

Farm

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Crop insurance shouldn’t be only safety net In his recent analysis of crop insurance guarantees, University of Illinois Farm Management Specialist Gary Schnitkey makes the observation that the significantly lower guarantees expected for the 2014 crop demonstrates the inappropriate nature for crop insurance to be the lone safety net for agriculture. Crop insurance can pro-

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vide support from planting to harvest, but once the fall guarantee is set on a revenue protection policy, there is no more that crop insurance can do to provide financial support. Consequently, the type of safety net and the level

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Beaton is nominated for FSA committee The FSA Scott County Committee election is underway. Ballots must be returned to the local FSA office by Jan. 17. Nominated to fill the position in Local Administrative Area (LAA) is John Beaton who has served on the committee for three years. Other committee members are Judy Winderlin and Allen Hess. “County committee members provide input and make important decisions on the local administration of disaster and conservation programs,” says Lora Wycoff, Scott County FSA executive director. To be an eligible voter, farmers and ranchers must participate or cooperate in a FSA program. Voting by proxy is prohibited.

Checkoff to fund research in sorghum tolerance

The Sorghum Checkoff will fund a five-year, $1.21 million project with the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) station in Lubbock, Tex., that will continue and expand research ARS has conducted on sorghum cold and drought tolerance and the identification of unique sorghum genetics. The project will seek to continue drought and cold tolerance research, while also working to develop and mark key genes in sorghum, such as Tri-Seed.

Landowner designation requirements

Producers are reminded of the importance of reporting to their local Farm Service Agency (FSA) office any change to their farming operation that would affect the status of that farm so the change can be effective for the current fiscal year. A farm, as defined by FSA, is generally made up of tracts that have the same owner and the same operator. A sale of land in the farm or a tract of land within the farm would be an instance that requires notifying the local FSA office. A special provision exists that would allow contract acres to be divided in a manner agreed to by all sellers and buyers. The method of division, known as the “Designation by Landowner” provision, must be requested. The land sold or transferred must have been owned for at least three years.

of funding that Congress will appropriate become increasingly important as commodity prices continue to spiral downward. The four top leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees have become their own self-appointed Conference Committee to resolve the differences between the House and Senate’s versions of a new Farm Bill.

While food and nutrition programs have received the most attention because of the lightning rod nature of funding those programs, little public attention has been given to the farm policy debate within the small group of negotiators. While they represent their respective houses of Congress, they are trying to find middle ground on

resurrecting target prices, using specific prices or year to year averages, and how much money to allocate toward a single season crop insurance program versus year to year support programs. Ohio State University agricultural economist Carl Zulauf looked back at commodity support programs in past farm bills and said counter-

cyclical programs in the 1996 Farm Bill were 5.6 times the level of spending on crop insurance and 2.8 times crop insurance outlays in the 2002 Farm Bill. “Countercyclical programs are designed to provide assistance against multiple-year declines in price or revenue,” he said. (See SAFETY on page 27)

Senators introduce bill to eliminate corn ethanol mandate

A group of 10 U.S. Senators introduced a bipartisan bill on Thursday to eliminate the corn ethanol mandate, arguing that current law raises the cost of food and animal feed and damages the environment. The bill, introduced by Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and eight cosponsors, faces an uphill battle as many lawmakers from agricultural states support the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) that dictates that rising volumes of ethanol

made from grains, including corn, be blended into motor fuel. Feinstein said the bill supports development of advanced biofuels, including those made from soybean oil, grasses and trees. But it would eliminate the mandate for corn-based ethanol, which currently represents the vast majority of biofuels produced in the United States. She said the corn mandate diverts a large proportion of the U.S. corn crop towards

making fuel, raising animal feed and food prices. In 2012-13, over 4.6 billion bushels of corn was used for the production of ethanol and by-products, out of a droughtreduced total U.S. supply of 11.9 billion bushels, according to the USDA. “I strongly support requiring a shift to low-carbon advanced biofuel, including biodiesel, cellulosic ethanol and other revolutionary fuels. But a corn ethanol mandate is simply bad policy,” Feinstein said.

Coburn said the corn ethanol mandate costs taxpayers billions of dollars and causes higher fuel prices at the pump. “Eliminating this mandate will let market forces, rather than political and parochial forces, determine how to diversify fuel supplies in an ever-changing marketplace,” Coburn said. The ethanol industry suffered a blow last month when the EPA, which administers the RFS, proposed the first cut (See MANDATE on page 27)

Another drop in aquifer anticipated Water levels in the Ogallala Aquifer system have fallen drastically in recent years, and scientists who plan to take new readings this winter don’t expect things to be any different this time. Last year, Kansas Geological Survey researchers found the groundwater levels in the High Plains Aquifer had dropped an average of about 3.5 feet, the second largest single-year decline they had ever recorded. That was exceeded only by the average 4.25-foot decline the previous year.

“I’ve only been doing this about eight years, and historically it’s declined year after year,” said Brett Wedel, manager of the KGS water level data acquisition program. “Some areas are worse than others. Two years ago was definitely the most drastic drop I’ve seen.” Geological Survey crews and the Kansas Division of Water Resources plan to measure roughly 1,400 wells in the aquifer region of central and Western Kansas, from Colby and Goodland in the north to

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$ 6.32

$ 6.62 $ 4.12 $ 4.40

$ 12.59

Scott City Cooperative Wheat..................

$ 6.32

Milo (bu.).............

$ 4.12

White Wheat ....... Corn....................

Soybeans ...........

Sunflowers.......... ADM Grain

$ 4.42

$ 4.12

Weather H

Dec. 18

$ 4.40

Dec. 19

Dec. 20

Dec. 21

Dec. 22

Dec. 23

$ 12.59

$ 16.40

Corn....................

$ 4.47

Sunflowers..........

Corn....................

Milo (bu.).............

Dec. 17

$ 6.32

Soybeans............

$ 6.32

$ 6.62

Wheat.................. Milo (bu.).............

Wheat..................

White Wheat .......

$ 4.17 $ 12.55

$ 16.95

Moisture Totals December

0.00

2013 Total

20.41

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Liberal and Garden City in the south. Most of the wells draw from the High Plains aquifer, a large network of underground waterbearing rocks that stretches from South Dakota to Texas. It includes the Ogallala aquifer in Western Kansas, the Great Bend Prairie aquifer in westcentral Kansas and the Equus Beds aquifer north and west of Wichita. The aquifers are the primary source of water for cities and industries in Western Kansas, but agriculture is the heaviest user of the water - especially

since the invention in 1948 of center-pivot irrigation. An extended drought over the Central Plains over the past five years has forced farmers to rely even more on irrigation. That has drawn the water levels down 2-3 feet each year, while nature replaces only a few inches of that annually. The annual data collection is intended to help landowners and other water users manage groundwater resources. Most people acknowledge, however, that those management plans will only buy time. (See AQUIFER on page 27)

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Hessian flies can be biggest threat to wheat crop When surveying your wheat crop you need to determine if there is any insect or disease damage. Plants may die during the winter, not from winterkill but from a fall infestation of Hessian fly. Many people are familiar with the lodging that Hessian fly can cause to wheat in the spring, but fewer recognize the damage that can be caused by fall infestations of Hessian fly. Wheat infested in the fall often remains green until the winter when the infested tillers gradually die. Depending on the stage of wheat when the

Corn use estimate up, price down The USDA boosted its estimate for domestic corn use during 2013-14 by 100 million bushels in the December’s feed outlook report, based on projected increases in ethanol production and grain exports for the new crop. The USDA now projects corn exports for the 2013-14 crop year at 1.5 billion bushels, up 50 million bushels from last-month’s estimate, based on year-to-date sales. With the 2013 crop estimated at just under 14 billion bushels, more competitive prices have boosted the U.S. market share of corn trade to 33 percent, compared with 18 percent in 2012-13. USDA also raised its forecast of new-crop corn use for ethanol production by about the same amount, based on strengthening U.S. ethanol prices and production during October and November. Ending stocks estimated at 1.8 billion bushels are more than double last year’s estimate of 824 million. The December report lowers the forecast U.S. corn price received by farmers for 2013-14 by $0.05 on the low end of the range and $0.15 on the high end to a range of $4.05 to $4.75 per bushel. This puts the midpoint of the range at $4.40 per bushel, compared with a 2012-2013 season-average price received by farmers of $6.89 per bushel.

Down on the Farm Chris Long Walnut Creek Extension Agent

larvae begin their feeding, individual tillers or whole plants can die. If the infestation occurs before multiple tillers are well-established then whole plants can die. If the plants have multiple tillers before the plants are infested then often only individual tillers that are infested by the fly larvae will die. The key to confirm-

Safety Since the 2008 Farm Bill, annual spending has only averaged a half billion dollars on countercyclical programs, but over $4 billion on crop insurance, which he says is a function of the large increase in commodity prices. “This increase has not only reduced spending on countercyclical programs as market price rose above the policy target prices but also increased spending on insurance as the value of insured crops rose.” Zulauf says the direct payment program from the last several Farm Bills has been in conjunction with the recent period of farm prosperity, and those supports were twice the level of the supports dur-

Kansas cattle count slips 8%

Kansas feedlots, with capacities of 1,000 or more head, contained 2.05 million cattle on feed on November 1, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. This inventory was down eight percent from last year. Placements during October totaled 470,000 head, up 24 percent from 2012. Fed cattle marketings for October totaled 400,000 head, up 10 percent from last year. Other disappearance during October totaled 20,000 head, down 5,000 head from last year. Ask about an on-line subscription to The Record

ing that Hessian fly is the culprit carefully inspect the dead plants or tillers for Hessian fly larvae or pupae. This can be done by carefully removing the plant from the soil and pulling back the leaf material to expose the base of the plant. By late winter all of the larvae should have pupated and the pupae should be easily detected as elongated brown structures pressed against the base of the plant. The pupae are fairly resilient and will remain at the base of the plant well into the spring. Damage from winter grain mites, brown wheat

mites, aphids, and crown and root rot diseases can also weaken wheat plants and make them somewhat more susceptible to injury from cold weather stress or desiccation. Fall armyworms and army cutworms may have fed on emerging wheat in the previous month leaving bare patches. Fall armyworms will have died by now. Army cutworms will overwinter right in the soil and continue to feed on wheat plants anytime the temperature is 45 degrees or more from now through about April. So if you have bare

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ing the period of prosperity in the 1970s. With the demise of direct payments in future farm policy, Congress is weighing how to redistribute those $6 billion per year dollars across a year to year safety net versus single season crop insurance programs. Zulauf says, “However, over 60 percent of the eliminated direct payments remain in spending on the safety net for field crops. Between 65 percent (House) and 81 percent (Senate) of these dollars are used for multiple-year commodity price support programs while the remainder is shifted to single-year crop insurance programs.” He says this issue has

received little attention so far in the Farm Bill debate, but could emerge as a key farm policy issue if commodity prices continue their downward plunge. Crop insurance can protect the value of a crop during its growing season, but not during the marketing year. That has to be a function of any farm policy safety net, and that discussion has not been at the forefront of the ongoing debate to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the legislation. With declining values of farm commodities, any price support program and its design will have to become a key part of the debate in the final days before expected passage.

patches now, it is a good idea to keep an eye on them and see if they slowly expand over the winter. Get out and check in the soil around the base of the plants to see if there are small worms curled up about an inch or two below the surface, especially in loose soils. A spot application of a registered insecticide on a warm winter afternoon will do a pretty good job of controlling the worms and allow the plants to come back in the spring as these worms only feed on the above ground leaf tissue, and not on the roots or crown.

If plants are killed outright by cold temperatures, they won’t green up next spring. However, if they are only damaged, it might take them a while to die. They will green up and then slowly go “backwards” and eventually die. There are enough nutrients in the crown to allow the plants to green up, but the winter injury causes vascular damage so that nutrients that are left cannot move, or root rot diseases move in and kill the plants. This slow death is probably the most common result of winter injury on wheat.

Aquifer

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Unless farming practices in the region - or the weather - change dramatically, water in the aquifer eventually will run out, Wedel said. “At some point it no longer becomes a continual process,” he said. “You’re going to eventually bleed that resource dry.”

Mandate

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in the use of biofuels since the law was expanded in 2007. The EPA proposed cutting the overall 2014 mandate to 15.21 billion gallons, about 16 percent less than the current 2014 mandate’s 18.15 billion gallons, and below this year’s requirement of 16.55 billion gallons.

County Plat Maps By

Western Cartographers Logan • Wichita Wallace • Greeley • Kearny Also Available: Scott • Ness Gove • Lane • Finney Pick them up today at:

406 Main • Scott City • 620 872-2090

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The Scott County Record Professional Directory

There’s no beter way to reach your potential customers in Scott County and the surrounding areas.

Agriculture

Preconditioning and Growing • 45 Years Experience • Managed and owned by full-time DVM • 2,000 Head capacity Oﬃce - 872-5150 • Scott City

Jerry Doornbos, DVM Home - 872-2594 Cell - 874-0949 Stuart Doornbos Home - 872-2775 Cell - 874-0951

Sager’s Pump Service

Walker Plumbing, Inc.

Construction/Home Repair

CHAMBLESS ROOFING Residential

All Types of Roofing

Commercial

Cedar Shake and Shingle Specialists Return to Craftsmanship Attention to Detail and Quality Guaranteed 620-872-2679 • 1-800-401-2683

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

423 S. Mesquite Rd. • Scott City • 872-2130

Dirks Earthmoving Co.

• Irrigation • Domestic • Windmills • Submersibles

Precision Land Forming of terraces and waterways; feed lot pens and ponds; building site preparation; lazer equipped

Cell: 874-4486 • Oﬃce 872-2101

(Home) 872-3057 • 877-872-3057 (Cell) 872-1793

Richard Dirks • Scott City, Ks.

Medical

ELLIS AG SERVICES

Charles Purma II D.D.S. P.A.

• Custom Manure Conditioning • Hauling and Spreading • Custom Swathing and Baling • Rounds-Net or Twine • Gyp and Sand Sales • Pickup or Delivery

General Dentistry, Cosmetics, and Insurance Accepted

We welcome new patients. 324 N. Main • Scott City • 872-2389 Residence 872-5933

Call Brittan Ellis • 620-874-5160

Automotive

Horizon Health

Willie’s Auto A/C Repair

For your home medical supply and equipment needs!

Willie Augerot Complete A/C Service Mechanic Work and Diagnostics Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

We service and repair all that we sell. 1602 S. Main • Scott City • 872-2232 Toll Free : 1-866-672-2232

404 Kingsley • Scott City • 874-1379

Pro Health Chiropractic Wellness Center

(Scott City Chiropractic) “TLC”... Technology Lead Chiropractic

Dr. James Yager • Dr. Marlyn Swayne Dr. Robert Fritz 110 W. 4th St. • Scott City • 872-2310 Toll Free: 800-203-9606

t Paint i

Red

or any other color Paint inside and out residential, commercial, and industrial. Free estimates and 16 plus years of experience.

Landscaping • Lawn/Trees

Berning Tree Service David Berning • Marienthal

620-379-4430

Tree Trimming and Removal Hedge and Evergreen Trimming Stump Removal

Fully Insured

Area Mental Health Center

Specializing in all coatings

SERVICES PROVIDED:

PC Painting, Inc.

Marriage and Family Therapy • Individual Psychotherapy Psychiatric Evaluations • Drug and Alcohol Counseling Mediation • Child Psychology • Psychological Evaluations • Group Therapy Pre-Marital Counseling

Paul Cramer 620-290-2410 620-872-8910 www.pcpaintinginc.com

210 W. 4th • Scott City • 872-5338

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

24-hour Emergency Answering Service

Scott City Myofascial Release Sandy Cauthon RN

105 1/2 W. 11th St. Scott City 620-874-1813

Call me to schedule your Myofascial Release

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

Call today for a Greener Healthier Lawn

SPENCER PEST CONTROL RESIDENTIAL – COMMERCIAL Termite Baiting Systems • Rodents Weed Control • Structural Insects Termite Control

Owner, Chris Lebbin • 620-214-4469

Box 258, Scott City • (620) 872-2870

Turner Sheet Metal

Heating & Air Conditioning

Daniel R. Dunn, MD Family Practice

Heating & Cooling Systems Since 1904

872-2187

Matthew Lightner, MD Family Practice

Christian E. Cupp, MD William Slater, MD Family Practice

Commercial & Residential 1851 S. Hwy. 83 • Scott City 872-2954 Shop • 1-800-201-2954

Scott City Clinic

Libby Hineman, MD

Ron Turner Owner

Family Practice

Josiah Brinkley, MD Family Practice

General Surgeon

Megan Dirks, AP, RN-BC Ryan Michels, PA Mindy Schrader, PA

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Sporting Goods Truck Driving

Northend Disposal A garbologist company. Scott City • 872-1223 • 1-800-303-3371

Retail

LM Wild Animal Eviction Service Control, capture and removal of nuisance animals.

Tuesday-Saturday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

www.reganjewelers.com

412 N. Main • Garden City • 620-275-5142

out ! Coyotes, pigeons, Let’s BOOcT ters it r y k s e p m e raccoons, skunks, th snakes, rabbits and more.

Lee Mazanec (620) 874-5238

lmwildanimaleviction@gmail.com

All Under One Roof

Revcom Electronics

Your RadioShack Dealer Two-way Radio Sales & Service Locally owned and operated since 1990

1104 Main • Scott City • 872-2625

Brent Rogers

Sales Consultant b.rogers@officesolutionsinc.biz

Office (620) 276-3131 Toll Free 1-800-794-9052 Cell (620) 874-0014 Fax (620) 276-8876 1007 N. 8th, Garden City, KS 67846 www.officesolutionsinc.biz

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!

Fur-Fection

GUN SHOW. Dec. 27-29. Kansas Coliseum, Wichita (I35 and East 85th St. North). Fri., 1:006:00 p.m.; Sat. 9:00-5:00; Sunday 9:00-3:00. BuySell-Trade. For info call (563) 927-8176.

Homes S P E C I A L GOVERNMENT programs for mobile homes. $0 down for land owners. Free construction loans. Will match your tax refund up to $8,000. Used homes $29,900$59,900. All credit types accepted. Habla Espanol! 866-858-6862.

Education BECOME AN EXPERT in HVAC installation and repair. Pinnacle Career Institute Online HVAC education in as little as 12 months. Call us today: 1-877-651-3961 or go online: www.HVACOnline-Education.com ––––––––––––––––––––– NEED CLASS A CDL training? Start a career in trucking today. Swift Academies offer PTDI certified courses and offer best-in-class training. New Academy classes weekly. No money down or credit check. Certified mentors ready and available. Paid (while training with mentor). Regional and dedicated opportunities. Great career path. Excellent benefits package. Please call: (602) 714-9455.

PARTNERS IN EXCELLENCE. OTR drivers. APU equipped PrePass EZ-pass passenger policy. 2012 and newer equipment. 100% notouch. Butler Transport, 1-800-528-7825. www. butlertransport.com ––––––––––––––––––––– TRAINING. Class ACDL. Train and work for us. Professional and focused CDL training available. Choose between company driver, owner/ operator, lease operator or lease trainer. (877) 3697885. www.centraltruckdrivingjobs.com. ––––––––––––––––––––– EXPERIENCED FLATBED drivers. Regional opportunities now open with plenty of freight and great pay. 800-277-0212 or primeinc.com. ––––––––––––––––––––– TRANSFER DRIVERS. Need CDL A or B contract drivers, to relocate vehicles from local body plants to various locations throughout U.S. No forced dispatch. 1-800-501-3783 or www.mamotransportation.com under Careers. 1-800-528-7825. ––––––––––––––––––––– TRANSPORT AMERICA has dedicated and regional openings. Variety of home-time options. Good miles and earnings. Enjoy Transport America’s great driver experience. TAdrivers.com or 866-204-0648.

PC Sports/Outdoors Cleaning Services, Inc. We'll clean your home, business or do remodeling clean-up Available seven days a week! Paul Cramer, Owner

620-290-2410

Mon. - Fri. 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. 402 S. Main, Scott City • 872-1300

Services

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.

A T T E N T I O N HUNTERS, trappers, processors. Petska Fur buying or trading gloves for deer/ elk hides, antler and fur. www.petskafur.net. 308730-1968. Strong demand for fur and leather.

Berning Auction “Don’t Trust Your Auction to Just Anyone”

For all your auction needs call:

(620) 375-4130

Russell Berning Box Q • Leoti

Dining

District 11 AA Meetings

Scott City • Unity and Hope

C-Mor-Butz BBQ

Barbecue, the only sport where a fat bald man is a GOD...

& Catering

Monday, Wednesday and Friday • 8:00 p.m. 807 Kingsley Last Saturday, Birthday Night, 6:30 p.m. All open meetings, 874-8207 • 874-8118 ________________ A.A. • Al-Anon • Tuesday • 8:30 p.m. United Methodist Church, 412 College 872-3137 • 872-3343

Kyle Lausch 620-872-4209

Bryan Mulligan & Chris Price 620-874-8301 & 620-874-1285

www.cmorbutzbbq.com • cmorbutzbbq@gmail.com

Dighton • Thursday • 8:30 p.m. 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

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 We would like to thank Jason, Robbie, Justin, Bryce and Seth also Janelle and Jamie for the beautiful canvas family picture for our 40th anniversary. We also want to thank all the family and friends who sent cards. Walter and Carolyn Hundertmark

COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE

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.

A HOME FOR YOUR HOLIDAYS!

Your family will love this 3+2 bedroom brick home in wonderful west location! Large family room in full basement, SA garage, large backyard.

We would like to take this opportunity to say “Thank You” to all our friends and clients for your friendship and business throughout the year. May your Christmas be BLESSED!!!

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

Help Wanted

Real Estate

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!

HOUSEKEEPER parttime at Lazy R Motel. Apply in person, 710 E. 5th, Scott City, 872-3043. 10tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– You have a Pickup and Trailer? Want to work for yourself? We are looking for you!!! We are looking for self-motivated and dependable individual looking to work as a wholesale food distributor in Western Ks. If you are interested in being your own boss. Email Contact Info. to: guy@jus20t5c t4userv.com

RENOVATED 4 BEDROOM HOUSE for sale. Brand new kitchen, new wood and tile floors, beautiful lighting throughout, french doors leading to a spacious backyard and patio, DA garage, main floor laundry, partial downstairs with half bath. Serious inquires call Dale Holterman, 620-8741100. 15tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– STUCCO HOME 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, livingroom, den, laundry and dine-in kitchen. Covered patio off den area. Nice yard and garden area. Detached 2-car garage and extended shop. Nice corner lot. Retirement home or starter home with room to expand! Reasonably priced. Call to see 620214-1434 or 318-23016tfc 3824. ––––––––––––––––––––– FOR SALE BY OWNER 5 bedroom, finished basement, SA garage, 3000+ sq.ft. living space. 402 S. College, Scott City. Call for appointment, 620-2143103 or after 5:00 p.m. 11tfc 620-874-1005. ––––––––––––––––––––– HOUSE FOR SALE IN DIGHTON 2 bedrooms, 2 bath, fenced-in yard with 2 garages, full basment, central heat/air. Great neighborhood with nice, caring neighbors. 231 North Wichita. 620786-5706 or 620-6178037. 20tfc –––––––––––––––––––––

Agriculture

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Commercial building for sale. Located at 1317 Main St., Scott City. Call 872-5387, 874-1033 or 620-521-4313. 19t4c

Services

WANTED TO BUY. Stored corn. Call for basis and contract information. 1-800-579-3645. Lane County Feeders, Inc. 32tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– WANTED TO BUY. Wheat straw delivered. Call for contracting information. Lane County Feeders. 397-5341. 44tfc

Home remodeling, new construction, tree trimming and removal, windpump service. Licensed and insured experts. Call us today! For your free estimate. TWH Home Renovations, LLC 251-508-4113 or 620-874-8030

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Business INDIVIDUAL OFFICE SUITES from one to four rooms available for lease. Leases starting at $250/month including utilities. Common areas available for use including reception and break rooms. Perfect for quiet small business or climate controlled storage. Former location of Scott City Chiropractic, 1101 S. Main. Call 214-3040 for 27tfc information.

Rentals HIDE AND SEEK STORAGE SYSTEMS. Various sizes available. Virgil and LeAnn Kuntz, (620) 874-2120. 41tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– 1 AND 3 BEDROOM houses available and storage units. Come fill out an application at PlainJans or 18tfc call 620-872-5777. ––––––––––––––––––––– NEWLY REFURBISHED HOME. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, carport, kitchen appliances included, nice yard space, quiet area. No pets or smokers. Available for rent in early Dec. Call Fred or Jana Brittan 620-872-2957. 15tfc

HOUSE FOR SALE IN SCOTT CITY. Well built home on double corner lot. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. Lots of built-in storage. Over 2,400 square feet, plus 3 season screened porch, double attached garage. Established yard with underground sprinklers.

Coming Soon Garage Sale Friday/Saturday, Jan. 4-5 St. Mary’s Parish 208 N. 2nd St. Marienthal Friday: 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Saturday: 1:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Contents of old Marienthal school. Student desks, 100s of books, kitchen supplies, lots of misc.

Christmas Angel Baby Bells Birth Candles Candy Card

Cedar Crib Eggnog Fairies Fir Frosty Gold

Ham Holly Holy Inn Ivy Jolly Joy

Lord Magi Mary Mass Noel Party Pie

Pine Potato Punch Red Ribbon Roast Sausage

Season Sing Sled Snowman Spirit Star Stocking filler

WORD SEARCH SEARCH WORD

Toys Wassail Winter Worship Wreath Xmas Yule

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Employment Opportunities CASHIER Scott County Hardware/Ace is looking for a full-time cashier who is customer service oriented. This is a full-time position including evenings and weekends. We are also accepting applications for part-time, evenings and weekend cashiers. Drug testing mandatory. Apply in person at: Scott County Hardware 1405 S. Main Scott City 19tfc

Park Lane Nursing Home Has openings for the following positions:

WE WOULD LIKE TO WISH YOU A SAFE AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Full-time/Part-time CNA/CMA Part-time Nursing-LPN/RN Part-time Transportation Aide (M-W-F 1:00-8:00 p.m., must be flexible and have valid DL) Full-time/Part-time Cook/Dietary Aide (experience helpful) Shift differential pay offered for evening and night shifts! Please apply in person at:

Park Lane Nursing Home

210 E. Parklane Scott City, KS 67871 Or visit us at our website: www.parklanenursinghome.org “Quality Care Because We Care”

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RNs NEEDED $5000 SIGN ON BONUS Scott County Hospital is looking for full-time Registered Nurses to join our team of dedicated nursing professionals. We offer diverse nursing opportunites, experienced nursing administrative staff, excellent ratios, competitve wages, shift and weekend differentials, flexible paid time off, call pay and excellent benefits. Pre-employment physical, drug/alcohol screen, physical assessment and TB skin test required. Join us today! Applications are available through Human Resources Scott County Hospital 201 Albert Ave. Scott City, KS. 67871 620-872-7772 and on our website: www.scotthospital.net www.scotthospital.net

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