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Volume 24 • Number 25
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Published in Scott City, Ks.
County oks 2.5% pay hike for employees
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Scott County Commissioners have approved a 2.5 percent pay hike for its employees retroactive to Jan. 1. The county increases each department’s overall budget for salaries by 2.5 percent. Each department head has the discretion of giving each employee an across-the-board 2.5 percent raise or varying raises for different employees. “If an employee doesn’t get the 2.5 percent raise then the department head has to meet with the commissioners and explain their decision,” notes County Clerk Alice Brokofsky.
Sports Jekyll and Hyde Beavers survive scare at Lakin Page 17
Youth/Education.......... 9 Public notices............ 11 Deaths....................... 13 Church services......... 13 Health care...........14-15 Sports...................17-24 Farm section.........26-27 Classified ads.......29-31
Deaths
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Community County conservation award winners are being recognized special section
Health High-risk health care pool may replace Obamacare Page 14
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Agriculture GIPSA chief reflects on early days of AAM, changing ag policies Page 26
City Elementary School. The selection “Sing,” for example, “has a lot of words and it’s so fast-paced,” says Green. “And ‘Take Five’ also
took us out of our comfort zone. We wondered for awhile if we’d be able to do it and do it right, but Jeannette had the vision and (See HARMONY on page eight)
Chili cookoff teams are gearing up for the annual Lions Club cookoff to be held Sunday from 5:00-7:00 p.m. at the Wm. Carpenter 4-H Building. The event is a major fundraiser for the Lions Club which uses proceeds to help with vision needs for local youth and adults, along with other community service projects. The cookoff has helped with a Pedia-Vision screener that is used to test students in Scott County schools and is also made available to schools and health departments in surrounding counties. (See COOKOFF on page eight)
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The “Serendipity Singers” are back, but with a few new musical twists as they prepare for upcoming performances on Feb. 3-4. The popular singers will take on a younger look with the addition of grade school and middle school vocalists for a couple of selections. There will also be three musicians featured as accompanists for several songs. Even though the hour long performance is called the “Valentine’s Spectacular,” director Jeannette Raynes says it will feature a variety of songs. “Some people like to attend without feeling it has to be a couple’s affair,” says Raynes. “We want it to be an enjoyable evening for family, friends, couples or whomever.” The 13 male and female voices who make up the popular “Serendipity Singers” have been harmonizing since they began rehearsals last October. “I find some of the music to be really challenging,” says longtime member Nancy Green, a vocal music instructor at Scott
(Top) Young “Serendipity Singers” sharing a laugh during Sunday’s rehearsal are (from left) Tanner Gooden, Amelia Emberton, Delaney France and Malorie Cupp. (Above) Director Jannette Raynes during the group rehearsal on Sunday afternoon. (Record Photo)
The Scott County Commission received some welcome budget news when informed that health insurance costs for their employees will be virtually unchanged during the upcoming year. Blue Cross/Blue Shield reported that premiums will actually decline by about $153 per month - a savings of just under $2,000. (See HEALTH on page two)
staying safe
Program targets awareness for young women Any young woman who has been involved in athletics should be familiar that Title IX is what opened the door to many opportunities at the high school and college level. But, Title IX can also impact the lives of many young women in ways they may not be aware of. “So many people think of Title IX only in terms of sports equality,” says Amy Schaffer, a compliance officer and lead investigator at Fort Hays State University.
“But, it also deals with sexual assaults, sexual harassments and discrimination on campus.” Schaffer will be featured speaker during a “How to Stay Safe on and off Campus Seminar” in Scott City on Tues., Feb. 7, at The Majestic. The free program includes dinner at 5:30 p.m., followed by the program at 6:00 p.m. Schaffer spent 20 years working with domestic violence issues for Kansas Legal Services before
making a career change and joining the staff at FHSU seven months ago. Schaffer has insight into what it’s like to be a rural Kansas girl dealing with the freedoms and safety issues that are part of college life. “I was one of those smalltown girls,” says Schaffer, who is a 1990 graduate of Scott Community High School and the daughter of Kate Macy. Though she emphasizes the
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Index
Lions Club chili cookoff in SC Sunday
Serendipity Singers to feature new sound for annual performance
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Community Scott City youth to receive Scouting’s highest honor Sat. Page 9
in perfect harmony
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State KDOT to let bids on only $44M in projects next year Page 2
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risks are the same for everyone. “With all of these kids, especially freshmen, it’s their first real experience away from their parents. It doesn’t matter if you’re from Olathe or Scott City,” she says. “What’s true for everyone is that in order to be successful and safe you have to keep your head about you.” More Awareness While incidents of sexual vio(See SAFE on page two)
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Kansas to spend just $44M on new roads In a typical year state will okay $600m in contracts In what could be a blow to the road construction industry in Kansas, the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) Tuesday said it will only spend $44 million on new projects in the next fiscal year. For the past several years KDOT has let about $400 million just on preservation projects, including roads and bridges. “It’s going to cause us additional concern about the safety and reliability of our roads, getting product to market and also providing jobs for many of the folks who are in the construction business,” says Bob Totten with the Kansas Contractors Association.
Safe lence on college campuses has grabbed national headlines, often times when it involves high profile sports programs and their athletes, Schaffer doesn’t feel that the environment is any more risky for young women. She says the incidents of sexual assaults and harassments at FHSU declined last year. At the same time, however, she says more women are reporting incidents earlier, before something more serious happens. “We encourage people to come forward and notify us if something is happening that makes them feel uncomfortable,” she says. “We want to educate people and address
Health
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Monthly premiums for a single employee increased by 81 cents; for an employee and spouse, it increased $1.77; for an employee and child, it declined by $8.73; and a family plan dropped $7.77. The county pays the cost of a full single policy. Employees who want coverage for additional family members must pay 25 percent of the added premium. Monthly out-of-pocket for an employee seeking added coverage is: Employee/spouse: $194.45 Employee/children: $185.06 Family: $379.50 The premiums include a dental plan. Friendship Meals to Go at Scott Co. VIP Center only $3.50 • Call 872-3501
Totten says some companies in the state have laid off workers due to the KDOT cuts, but most are finding work in neighboring states. Contractors are starting to find additional work in Nebraska which has slowly been raising its gas tax over the last three years to fund road projects. Kansas companies are also finding work in Oklahoma and Arkansas. It’s better than not working, but, says Totten, it does nothing for Kansas. “The problem with that is that the employees will be spending money in Oklahoma for gas, food, whatever else they need to have and they won’t be home mowing the grass or watching Johnny play baseball.” Gov. Sam Brownback wants to sweep $600 million from KDOT in the next two years to balance a budget devastated by
the 2012 tax cuts. Since 2011, $1.3 billion has been swept from KDOT and preservation projects all over the state have been delayed. The news for KDOT just keeps getting worse. In just the last two months 34 road preservation projects have been delayed. Budget Director Shawn Sullivan told the Legislature after the Governor’s State of the State address that KDOT will not begin any new expansion projects in the next two fiscal years. While the contractors are worried Kansas roads will substantially deteriorate with these cuts, KDOT maintains state roads are doing just fine. The department says in 2015, 98 percent of interstate highways exceeded performance targets for road conditions and 90 percent of other state roads are in
Under Gov. Brownback’s budget plan KDOT will only let $44 million in contracts next fiscal year. That number usually hovers around $600 million.
good condition. “Kansas continues to have one of the nation’s best highway systems and our expectation is that the spending level will allow us to continue to meet
or exceed our performance targets,” KDOT Secretary Richard Carlson said in a statement. KDOT stresses that it will spend $286 million on projects already approved or underway.
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situations before a bigger problem occurs.” And that means watching out for others. “We call it bystander intervention,” says Schaffer. “If you see something that doesn’t seem right, do something. Intervene, or find a friend who can help, to stop something before it happens.” Schaffer says her presentation in Scott City will include safety and security on campus, sexual assault, individual rights and more. Local Incidents The program, which is being coordinated by Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center through
a grant from the Scott Community Foundation. It is open to all young women, their sisters, mothers and others who would be interested. “There has been more awareness of rapes on college campuses and we’ve had a couple of girls come to us who have been rape victims,” says Chris Smull, program manager and forensics interviewer with WKCAC. “In one of the situations
that came to us, the girl knew her attacker. In the other it was a stranger,” says Smull. “People tend to think that rape usually involves a stranger, but 90 percent of the time it’s someone you know.” Smull emphasizes that the information available at this program is valuable for younger girls as well. “We’ve had situations like this occur right here in Scott City. It happens in all 32 counties that we
cover,” Smull says. She says there will also be advice as to how girls can protect themselves on-line. “Teenagers spend a lot of time on-line and that’s how predators find them,” says Smull. While the program is free, a head count is needed for the meal. Those attending are asked to RSVP no later than Feb. 3 to csmull@wkcac.com or call (620) 874-8355.
Community Living
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Generic drugs cost less for the same result Prescription drugs can be a costly medical expense, especially for older people and those who are chronically ill. However, each state has a law that lets pharmacists substitute less expensive Carol Ann generic drugs for many brand- Crouch Family and name products. Consumer Sciences Depending Agent for on your preScott County scription needs,
your savings could be significant. Before you talk with your doctor or pharmacist about switching, there are things you need to know about generic drugs and the law. There is not much difference between prescription drugs and generic except for name and price. A generic drug is called by its chemical name; a manufacturer assigns a brand name. The products have the same ingredients. Standard practice and most state laws require that a
generic drug be equivalent to its brand-name counterpart. That is, it must have the same active ingredients, strength, and dosage form - pill, liquid, or injection. The generic drug must also have the same medical effect. Not all drugs have a generic version. Some drugs are protected by patents and are supplied by only one company. However, when the patent expires, other manufacturers can produce its generic version. Currently, about half the
drugs on the market are available in generic form. You can get the generic brand by talking with your doctor or pharmacist. Explain that you want the most effective drug at the best price. Ask your doctor to write prescriptions for generic drugs when possible. If your doctor writes on the prescription form that a specific brand-name drug is required, your pharmacist must fill the prescription as written. However, your pharmacist
Chamber director is guest speaker for sorority Alpha Omega Sorority met on Jan. 9 at the Suzy Berning home. Scott City Chamber of Commerce Director Lindsay Singley gave a presentation, “What the Chamber can do for its members.” Fourteen members answered roll call with, “What would you invent to help make life better?” “Thank yous” were read by President Paige Vallejo for communications. Diana Burr read an inspirational meditation entitled, “Learning to live in the moment.” Barb Summers of the Ways and Means Committee said that serving the Scott Co-op annual meeting was a success. The sorority will be serving at the First National Bank meeting. Mikayla Wiechman thanked the group for serving at the Bloodmobile which surpassed its goal for donations. Alpha Omega will host the District G meeting in March. Committees were formed to take care of the details. Balloon Stomp was played for “project enthusiasm” led by Annette Orr. Diana Burr was the winner after a tie-breaker with Wanda Barton. Dessert was prepared by Wanda Barton and Suzy Berning. Next meeting will be Feb. 9.
can talk with your doctor about the prescription. Perhaps there’s an acceptable generic drug that your doctor is not aware of. Your pharmacist can compare and evaluate generic and brand-name drugs and may be able to consult with your doctor to provide the right medication at the best possible price. Not all doctors automatically prescribe the generic version. It depends on the physician. You can ask your (See GENERIC on page 12)
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Tilton-Hickok to wed March 18 Mr. and Mrs. Russell Tilton, Scott City, announce the engagement of their daughter, Jamie Tilton, to Nolan Hickok, Ulysses, son of Bill and Bobbi Jo Hickok, Ulysses, and Julie and Larry Schauvliege, El Paso, Tex. The bride-to-be is a graduate of Scott Community High School and Sterling College. She is currently attending Wichita State University and working
at Syndeo Business Management as a payroll specialist. The prospective groom graduated from Hanau American High School, Hanau, Germany. He attended Garden City Community College. He works as a Sara Lee route sales specialist for Bimbo Bakeries. The couple is planning a March 18 wedding at the First Baptist Church, Scott City.
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Editorial/Opinion
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editorially speaking
Replacing ACA:
Moran’s ‘wish list’ leaves many holes in health care
Republicans in Congress wasted no time in fulfilling President Trump’s pledge and their never-ending quest to pull the plug on Obamacare. In giving his reasons for voting to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Sen. Jerry Moran cited, “canceled policies . . . massive premium increases . . . sky-high deductibles . . . .” These are the same issues which have plagued health care for years and resulted in the ACA. Moran didn’t seem too concerned about those issues when he originally voted against the creation of Obamacare and in the years since by his reluctance to work at making the ACA better. Now Moran has a plan for providing Americans with better health insurance coverage. Actually, it’s less of a plan and more of a wish list. Let’s take a look at Moran’s prescription for health in the U.S. •We need not accept the idea that cost for currently available medical treatments will inevitably rise. That’s very admirable. Moran says this can happen by boosting financial support for the National Institutes of Health. However, like so many federal programs, the NIH is trying to do more with less funding which has occurred while Republicans have controlled Congress. NIH Director Francis Collins reported that the agency once funded one in three research proposals. That has been reduced to only one in six. Studies show that 18% of young scientists are considering moving to other countries to continue their research because of funding cuts in the U.S. This has occurred on your watch Sen. Moran. •Moran says health care costs can be reduced by preventing “unnecessary emergency room visits,” especially by low-income families, with a focus on “preventive health.” Great idea, Jerry. Sounds a lot like Obamacare. With affordable health coverage people tend to take more preventative measures rather than waiting to visit the hospital ER. •Moran’s wish list also includes a guarantee that individuals won’t be denied insurance coverage due to pre-existing conditions (sounds like Obamacare) and tax credits to assist low-income in purchasing insurance (different name, same intent as Obamacare subsidies). And while on that, Moran makes no mention of the ability for young people through age 26 to remain on their parents’ insurance plan - a very popular feature with Obamacare. Neither does Moran make any mention of no annual or lifetime limits on coverage which is part of Obamacare. Too bad. Those are both popular and essential. •Moran says the biggest issue he hears when visiting with each of the 126 hospitals in the state has been the ability of fewer and fewer people to afford co-payments and deductibles. We don’t dispute that. But, its disingenuous (some might say a falsehood) to blame that entirely on Obamacare. Moran might ask how many of those with co-pay and deductibles issues are with Obamacare patients and how many are a result of private health plans the ones available through the almighty marketplace. Just as individuals have had to hike deductibles and co-pays in order to afford what becomes little more than a catastrophic insurance policy, many businesses and local units of government have had to do the same for their employees. That’s put more burden on individuals and that’s an expense a growing number can’t afford. Consequently, that’s a loss passed along to hospitals. •Moran claims that, “Obamacare has taken away Americans’ freedom to make health care decisions . . . .” Freedom from what? Before Obamacare, those who couldn’t afford insurance had the freedom to remain sick at home or go to the emergency room. And Moran makes no mention of obscene profits for pharmaceutical companies, which is perhaps the single biggest driving force behind skyrocketing health care costs. Until lawmakers are more concerned about protecting consumers rather than protecting Big Pharma profits, little headway can be made in reducing the cost of health care in the U.S. Where is this on your wish list, Senator? Moran has offered a lot of the rhetoric which is typical of Republicans who defend the marketplace while ignoring that it is the so-called free market which made health insurance unaffordable for tens of millions of Americans. Obamacare was an attempt to reverse an unsustainable human catastrophe. Obamacare is not - or was not - a perfect solution, but it was an attempt to fulfill a moral obligation to do what’s right. It’s made health insurance coverage available to roughly 20 million Americans. It has saved lives. It has made lives better for millions of people. That can’t be considered a failure by any interpretation. For all their condemnations, Congressional Republicans have yet to offer anything that will come close to matching Obamacare’s success. A wish list from Moran barely qualifies as a starting point.
An ‘alternative’ to the truth
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. - George Orwell * * * George Orwell described a society in which one says something, but means the opposite and the truth is what the government tells us it is. He was referring to Oceania in 1984. The place and time are here and now. President Trump spokesperson Kellyanne Conway drew more than a few comparisons to Orwellian doublespeak by referring to lies as “alternative facts” during a bizarre weekend TV interview with Chuck Todd. By Wednesday morning, Orwell’s “1984” was No. 1 on Amazon’s computer-generated list of best-selling books. We imagine the book will become handy reference material on the Trump Administration. In addition, editors with Merriam-Webster Dictionary report that Conway’s comments led to a spike in online search-
Rod Haxton, editor
es for the word “fact.” Sad to say, but it appears many people aren’t sure whether an “alternative fact” is the same as a real “fact.” It doesn’t help when we have politicians who don’t care about the facts and major media that refuses to call lies for what they are. For example, President Trump has claimed that U.S. unemployment is 42 percent (that’s not a misprint), even though official government data puts the level at 4.6 percent. He calls climate change a “hoax” initiated by the Chinese. Trump boasts that the crowd attending his inauguration address was the largest in history. And he insists that three million to five million “illegals” voted in the last election and, of course, none of them voted for him.
This is a pattern of behavior that was evident throughout the primary election (i.e., Ted Cruz’s father had a part in John F. Kennedy’s assassination). The “lame stream media” didn’t damage its reputation any by accepting Trump for his entertainment value and not holding him to the same standard as a normal politician. Sure it was unimaginable having a political candidate - particularly one seeking the presidency - who was such a compulsive liar. But, it’s no less irresponsible for the media not to call a lie exactly what it is. Falsehoods. Nonfactual statements. Four Pinocchios. Nontruthiness. Choose whatever Orwellian word you like, but until you call it a lie people are thumbing through the online version of MerriamWebster trying to determine if a falsehood can still be truthful. Unfortunately, this isn’t just a Trump problem. “I believe that we have to be honest with the American people, but I
think sometimes we can disagree with the facts,” Spicer told reporters Monday in the first press briefing under President Donald Trump. No you can’t disagree with the facts. You may not like them, but facts are indisputable. And there are those who come to Trump’s defense by asking, “If he believes in his own mind what he’s saying then is it a lie?” If a six-year-old believes in his own mind that 6+6=13, does that make him wrong? A lie is a lie is a lie regardless of what is going on in Donald Trump’s mind - if anything at all actually occurs there. Many may have considered Trump delusional when he claimed during the primary campaign, ”I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” Credit him with knowing his voting base better than anyone. It would also seem that Trump can (See TRUTH on page six)
Just a new bunch of alligators So here’s how you “drain the swamp.” ▪To head major agencies, select successful and, excepting Rick Perry, smart business people whose ideological mission is to reduce the size and reach of those departments without, in many cases, understanding much about what they do, or why and how they do it. ▪Set the example, from the top, of a self-aggrandizingly loose approach to ethical principles. ▪Rush through confirmation of the swampcleaning crew even before its members have fully disclosed their financial involvements, as the law requires. ▪Threaten any ethics officials and agencies that even raise an eyebrow. ▪Dismiss any objections to all of this as political whining and snarl
Where to Write
another view by Davis Merritt
“get over it.” Thus, the Donald Trump administration’s first steps to “drain the swamp of Washington, D.C.,” are into a dark jungle of conflicts of interest - some obvious, some as-yet unseen - with no moral compass or ethical map in hand. As the U.S. Supreme Court said in 1961, conflicts of interest are “an evil which endangers the very fabric of a democratic society.” What conflicts? ▪Trump himself continues to hide details of his financial affairs, including his tax returns and how much he owes to foreign governments and banks, and refuses to divest his private ventures despite
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the practice followed by every president since 1978. ▪Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal and company attorney, will continue as Trump’s personal attorney. As if it makes everything perfectly straightforward, Cohen declared, “I’m not a government official. I’m not taking a government salary. I’m just going to continue technically in the role that I play for Mr. Trump as president of the Trump Organization.” That’s the Trump Organization that Trump says he has turned over to his sons. But, of course, his conversations with Cohen will be covered by attorney-client privilege, so we’ll never know who has talked with whom about what. ▪Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., nominated to head Health and Human
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Services, traded more than $300,000 in stocks of medical companies in the last four years while guiding legislation that would benefit those companies. In the most blatant case, Price bought shares of Zimmer Biomet last April at $103, then introduced a bill to delay a regulation opposed by the company, which then made a campaign contribution to Price. By September, Z-B was at $132. ▪EPA nominee Scott Pruitt, who has repeatedly sued that agency while Oklahoma’s attorney general, refused to recuse himself from eight ongoing cases against the agency he would head. ▪Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., failed to pay more than $15,000 in payroll taxes for household help over four years, a wellworn tax dodge that has (See BUNCH on page six)
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Making the rich richer a Congressional priority by Chuck Collins
Donald Trump’s voters have high hopes that he’ll boost the economy and protect jobs for those who’ve been left behind after three decades of flat or shrinking paychecks. They didn’t vote to make the super-wealthy even wealthier. Even Steve Mnuchin, the Goldman Sachs banker Trump picked to be his treasury secretary, seems to understand this. He promised “no absolute tax cuts for the upper class.” Yet one of the first priorities of Republicans in Congress is to give an exclusive tax break to multi-millionaires and billionaires. They plan to abolish the estate tax and allow tax loopholes for billionaires to continue. The estate tax, sometimes
derided as a “death tax,” is only paid by households with assets over $11 million. In 2013, 99.8 percent of the population was exempt. But, the 0.2 percent who are subject to the tax are well represented in Donald Trump’s cabinet. Our first billionaire president has nominated a cabinet that includes two billionaires and at least ten multi-millionaires, whose combined net worth is estimated at over $13 billion. As a group, they’re part of the tiny segment of U.S. society that will personally benefit from such targeted tax cuts for the wealthy. Under the GOP plan, Mnuchin’s taxes would be cut by $3.3 million a year, according to an analysis by Americans for Tax Fairness. And his heirs
would get an extra $160 million if the estate tax is abolished. Members of Donald Trump’s family would also score big. If Trump has the $10 billion he claims, scrapping the estate tax would net each of his four children an additional $1 billion in inherited wealth. There’s no credible argument that abolishing this tax on inherited wealth will create jobs or help the economy. It’ll simply be a windfall for the already have-a-lots. At the root of our problems is a two-tiered tax system in America: one for the privileged and one for everyone else. The tax system for the bottom 99 percent is hard to play games with: Most of us have taxes taken out of our wages in every paycheck. The privileged people’s tax
system, for those with $10 million or more, includes numerous opportunities for the superrich to get out of paying their fair share. Wealthy families like the Mnuchins and Trumps hire teams of lawyers, accountants, and estate planners to help them to design escape routes from their tax obligations.
Mnuchin has personally set up several “dynasty trusts” to avoid paying any taxes on his personal estimated fortune of $620 million. According to federal ethics disclosures, he has $32 million in one such trust, including corporate stock, artwork, and a private jet. (See PRIORITY on page six)
Help us GOP. You’re our only hope by Garrison Keillor
Who ordered Spicer to soil his own credibility? This was essentially the question Chuck Todd kept putting to White House counselor Kellyanne Conway Sunday on NBC News’s “Meet the Press.” Conway, who will tell you that a hissing snake is just a harmless hunk of rope, would not say. She kept deflecting the question and, in a tour de force of Orwellian creativity, defended Spicer’s use of “alternative facts.” Todd was laudably persistent, but really we know the answer to his question: Trump is an unhinged narcissist, and Conway is his mirror. Reality must conform to what he wants. We now know that Trump’s selfadoration is not a mere personality glitch. It is instead an engine of intimidation, a furiously dominant aspect of his personality, and when it gets challenged, as it was over the weekend, he responds irrationally. He went to the CIA, stood before a wall dedicated to agents and others
What we know so far is that the man is who he is. There is no larger, finer man inside him trying to get out. Everyone who is paying attention knows this. Flags flying at the Capitol, the U.S. Marine Band, gray eminences in black coats, and He Who Is Smarter Than Those With Intelligence delivers 16 minutes of hooey and horse hockey about corrupt politicians betraying the people, and American carnage, and patriotism healing our division, though the division is mainly about Himself and though love of country does not necessarily make people stupid. There might as well have A sizable been a 14-year-old boy at the minority of lectern saying that he is in pos- Americans, session of the Golden Goblet longing for that will drive the Gimlets greatness or wanting to from Fredonia and preserve smack down the Sacred Marmite of Lord an ambitious Numbskull and his Nimrods. woman . . . The next day he motored has elected out to the CIA and stood before him. To him, this minority is the memorial wall honoring a mass moveheroes who gave their lives ment such as in anonymity and he whined the world has about his newspaper coverage. never seen. The next day he boast- God have ed that his inauguration’s mercy. TV ratings were higher than those in 2013. The day after that, he told the congressional leadership that he lost the popular vote because millions of illegal votes were cast, which everyone in the room knew was a bald-faced lie, except perhaps Himself. The man is clueless, tightly locked inside his own small bubble. A sizable minority of Americans, longing for greatness or wanting to smack down an ambitious woman and to show those people in the hellhole coastal cities what the real America is all about, has elected him. To him, this minority is a mass movement such as the world has never seen. God have mercy. “American carnage?” The correct term is “American capitalism.” Jobs are lost to automation, innovation, obsolescence, the moving finger of fate. The carriage industry was devastated by the automobile, and the men who made surreys and broughams and hansoms had to learn something new; the Pullman porter union was hit hard by the advent of air travel, and the porters sent their sons to college; the newspaper business was hit hard by Craigslist. Too bad for us. I know gifted men who were successful graphic designers until computers came along and younger people with computer skills took their place and those gifted men had to do something else. T-shirts are made in Asian countries because Americans don’t want to pay $20 for one. Coal yields to natural gas as renewable energy marches forward. Who doesn’t get this? The idea that the government is obligated to create a good living for you is one the Republican Party has fought since Adam was in the third grade. It’s the party of personal responsibility. But, there he is, promising to make the bluebirds sing. As if. Everyone knows that the man is a fabulator, oblivious, trapped in his own terrible needs. Republican, Democrat, libertarian, socialist,
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Billionaires tamper with Constitution by Jim Hightower
When you think of America’s great constitutional minds, names like Madison, Jefferson, Washington, and Franklin come to mind. And, of course, Abbott. Wait, who’s Abbott? Last year, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott revealed that he’d penned nine new amendments to the U.S. Constitution. His proposals amount to a bill of sale, effectively transferring our national government from The People to The Plutocrats. His “tweaks” would outlaw government actions that restrain corporate abuse of workers and consumers, while also preventing future Congresses from meeting crucial public needs such as health care, voter rights, and restoration of our
national infrastructure. However, Abbott isn’t the force behind this tampering with our constitution. A group called the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC - at the direction of billionaire GOP donors Charles and David Koch and their corporate cohorts - wrote Abbott’s bill of sale. Back in 2010, ALEC’s board of directors approved a resolution calling for a constitutional convention to enact the corporate humbuggery Abbott is now pushing. Convening a convention, permitted under Article V of the Constitution, is a dream of those seeking an American plutocracy, and ALEC is spearheading a hodgepodge of right-wing groups that are close to succeeding.
At the convention, they’d attempt to rewrite our nation’s fundamental governing document. The changes would enthrone the “moneyed corporations” that Jefferson and other founders abhorred as destroyers of America’s democratic possibilities. It takes 34 states to convene a constitutional convention, and 28 states have already passed resolutions to do exactly that. The ALEC/ Koch consortium is now targeting 11 others. Absurd? Of course. Even the former-head of the rightwing Eagle Forum, Phyllis Schlafly, said before her death that this push is “a prescription for political chaos.” Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator, writer, public speaker and author
Spicer’s Stalinist apparition Press secretary loses credibility lying about lies Sean Spicer is the appropriate face of the new Trump administration. He is the White House press secretary, the spokesman and all of that, and he came into the briefing room on Saturday wearing the blank expression of Laurence Harvey after turning over the queen of diamonds in “The Manchurian Candidate.” You’ve heard of a molotov cocktail. Spicer was wearing a molotov face. Vyacheslav Molotov was Joseph Stalin’s foreign minister. He was so scared of Stalin that when the Soviet dictator ordered Molotov’s wife exiled to Siberia and called for a vote by the leadership on the issue, Molotov abstained. In his dealing with foreign governments, Molotov never strayed from Stalin’s line, no matter how unreasonable. When confronted with facts, logic or the truth, he
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might break into a sweat. Usually, though, he just looked like Spicer. The humiliation of Spicer, apparently ordered to babble lies about crowd size, was highly significant. He chastised the media for “deliberately false reporting” on the size of the inaugural throng. It did not matter that photographs showed that Barack Obama’s inaugurations outdrew Trump’s. Spicer maintained otherwise. He denied the undeniable and insisted on the farcical - and then fled without taking questions. Monday he was back in the briefing room. This time he expanded the inaugural audience to embrace TV and the Internet and re-asserted that “it was the most watched inaugural.” Possibly so. Probably not. But, in inaugural crowds, as in other things, size should not matter. It clearly mattered to Trump.
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Myth of ‘information literacy’ with the web by John Schrock
“The Thunderbolt” was a publication of the American Nazi Party. I saw my first copy my first year of teaching in rural Kentucky in 1969. Before class, a high school student showed me a copy, careful that no classmates were nearby. The feature story was an outrageous claim that African-Americans were more closely related to gorillas because they could produce hybrids and white Aryans could not. The article had a picture of a very hairy black infant to “prove” the case.
Truth change the facts to whatever he wants and not lose voters either. In a survey released this week by Public Policy Polling, 34 percent of Trump voters believe he did have the biggest crowd in inauguration history; 43 percent believe he had a bigger inauguration crowd than President Obama; and 38 percent believe that most of the women who participated in marches around
Hope white supremacist or sebaceous cyst - everyone knows it. It is up to Republicans to save the country from this man. They elected him, and it is their duty to tie a rope around his ankle. They formed a solid bloc against President Obama and held their ranks, and now, for revenge, they will go after health insurance subsidies for people of limited means, which is one of the cruelest things they can possibly do. Dishwashers and cleaning ladies need heart surgery, too - hospital emergency rooms already see streams of sick
Spicer who have lost their lives in service to the country, and asserted that his beef with the intelligence community was a media concoction - his tweets notwithstanding, including one in which he accused the CIA of using “Nazi” tactics. He then veered into crowd figures, a glaring demonstration of vanity before a wall dedicated to largely anonymous sacrifice. No one in his inner circle seems to stand up to Trump. No one publicly contradicts him. It took the famous “Access Hollywood” tape for Mike Pence to utter a peep of disquiet, but other than that, this oft-proclaimed heartland Christian has reliably licked the boots of the Manhattan pagan. It is no different with Reince Priebus, the lobotomized soul of the Republican Party. He is
I recognized the picture. I wrote the term “hirsutism” on a slip of paper and sent the student to the library with instructions to look it up in the World Book encyclopedia. When he came back after class was over, he came up and whispered: “They lied, didn’t they.” I nodded. He had found the encyclopedia entry on the wide range of infants that have this rare hirsute condition and realized how the neo-Nazis had fabricated their racist article. We did not use the term “fake news” in 1969. We had fake news, but it was
Simply, any assertion that schools can teach students a method to separate truthful reporting from fake news, is itself “fake news.”
slow to spread in print, and readership was small. Today with social media, such fake news could “go viral” overnight. Today, both K–12 and higher education are rushing to battle fake news with so-called “information literacy” courses that have magic cures for detecting the range of amateurish didn’t-quiteget-the-story-right misinformation to vicious falsehoods, such as the example above.
Librarians are often called upon to sort truth from trash. That is ironic because before the internet, library materials were classified: 500s and 600s were the pure and applied sciences. The occult was in the 100s. But, our misunderstanding of free speech has kept the internet free from classification. How dare anyone put “vaccines cause asthma” or “dolphins are just underwater humans” in the non-sciences.
So the internet has become a vast wasteland. I let my student teachers discover this themselves. I assign them to find 10 accurate websites on the internet in some specific biology field that they choose: kidneys, ferns, fish, etc. They think it will be an easy assignment, but it takes hours or even days. They have over 40 credit hours of biology under their belts and they detect website after website that looks good - until they read the details. Tips on search words and other literacy tricks have little effect.
A study in the journal “Pediatrics” found the majority of online information on childhood diarrhea was wrong, and sometimes fatal. Dot.gov and dot.edu sites are no more accurate than dot. com addresses. A most damning piece of research came from the University of Connecticut. Seventh grade students were taught to become “research pros” by using RADCAB, a “critical thinking assessment tool for online information” teaching about Relevance, Appropriateness, Detail, (See MYTH on page seven)
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the country in protest of Trump over the weekend were paid to do so by George Soros. It’s not that these Trump supporters don’t have access to the truth. We’re seeing the result when people seek out the “truth” they want to hear whether it’s a tweet from the President or the latest conspiracy theory from right wing radio host Alex Jones. That point was made
40 years ago in a British sci-fi show “Doctor Who” in which the Doctor tells his future companion: You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don’t alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views. We have a new President who fits both descriptions and believes in his own facts. That is dangerous,
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people, uninsured, poor or unable to deal with the paperwork, coming in for ordinary care, and when upward of 30 million are left high and dry, people will suffer horribly. “Nobody is going to be dying on the streets,” Trump said. No, they’re going to die at home in their bedrooms. The question is: How cynical are we willing to be and for how long? How long will Senate Republicans wait until a few of them stand up to the man? Greatness is in the eye of the beholder. American self-respect is what is
at stake here, ladies and gentlemen. The only good things to come out of that inauguration were the marches all over the country the day after, millions of people taking to the streets of their own free will, most of them women, packed in tight, lots of pink hats, lots of signage, earnest, vulgar, witty, a few brilliant (“Take your broken heart and make it art”), and all of it rather civil and goodhumored. That’s the great America I grew up in. It’s still here. Garrison Keillor is an author and radio personality
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now the White House chief of staff, passing papers to Trump in photo ops. Does he ever say, “Mr. President, you’re wrong”? I doubt it. Trump is a human dust devil, spinning off analogies and references. He is Orwellian, Kafkaesque and always chillingly demagogic. He vilifies the press as Hitler and others once vilified Jews - mysterious, powerful, deceitful, unpatriotic. He looks to his schoolboy past for an American future - a tall country in a world otherwise flattened by World War II - and he blames the relative decline not on automation or the inevitable rise of China, but on the indifference and selfishness of the establishment. Like a sleepy child in a creaking house, he imagines boogeymen everywhere.
Finally, we have the Stalinist apparition of Sean Spicer, running through his several paragraphs of deceit Saturday like a hostage fearing for his life - or Molotov remembering that his wife, whom he adored, was in Stalin’s gulag. What does a press secretary have but his own credibility? Richard Nixon over time shredded Ronald Ziegler of his, but Nixon’s lies were for a time unprovable. Not so with Trump’s. He stood before the wall of the fallen and said his differences with the CIA were concocted by the media. He lied about that, then lied about the turnout for his inaugural address, and then shoved Spicer out into the briefing room to lie about the lies. Trump wants to destroy his enemies. First, though, he’ll destroy his friends.
particularly if there is no one in the White House who can tell the President that he is wrong . . . that his information is simply not factual . . . that he can’t continue lying to the American people. In his essay “Politics and the English Language,” Orwell told about the misuse of words by the powerful to distract citizens from objective truth: “Political language -
and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful.” It’s up to us to be smart enough to seek the truth, to know the truth when we hear it and, most of all, to want the truth. Orwell and MerriamWebster could be in for a very busy four years.
tripped up nominees in the past. He’s up for budget director. ▪Treasury secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin somehow overlooked $100 million in real estate assets and his role as director of an offshore tax haven when originally “disclosing” his financial affairs to the Senate Finance Committee. When committee staffers Rod Haxton can be reached caught the omission, he at editor@screcord.com filed a revision. Oh, and his children own $1 million in artworks he forgot about. ▪The minute President Trump took the oath of office, he was in violation of his lease agreement with his own government by Andy Borowitz on his new Pennsylvania WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) - In Avenue hotel. The lease less than a week as President, Donald J. Trump prohibits elected federal has created ten million jobs for fact checkers, the officials from renting the Department of Labor has confirmed. Old Post Office property. Harland Dorrinson, the executive director of So nothing new in the HonestyWatch, a Minnesota-based fact-checking swamp. Just a new breed organization, called the pace of hiring in the factof alligators, and stormy checking industry since Trump’s Inauguration weather ahead. “blistering.” “The nation’s supply of fact checkers is being Davis Merritt is a Wichita stretched to the breaking point,” he said. “There journalist and author. He can be reached at dmerritt9@ are not enough fact checkers to keep up with the cox.net exponential growth in alternative facts.” Dorrinson said that he expects hiring in the fact-checking sector to remain robust for the next Have questions about the four years, outpacing employment in manufacScott Commnity Foundation? turing, agriculture and technology. Call 872-3790 “With Trump in the White House, recent college graduates are flocking to careers in fact checking,” he said. “There’s guaranteed job security, and you basically just have to Google stuff.” In his daily press briefing, Sean Spicer, the White House press spokesman, touted the surging employment for fact checkers but said that the actual number of jobs created was closer to 10 billion.
Trump creates 10M jobs for fact checkers
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The primary purpose of these vehicles is to dodge federal estate taxes for generations to come. When the wealthy dodge taxes, ordinary taxpayers who can’t game the system must pick up the tab for infrastructure, defense, national parks, and servicing the national debt. The super-rich reap the enormous benefits of growing their wealth in U.S. society, but they’re freeloaders when it comes to paying the bills. Historically, being wealthy hasn’t disqualified a president from being a champion for Richard Cohen is a colum- those with less. There are nist for The Washington Post many examples of “born
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on third base” presidents: Roosevelt, Kennedy, Bush. The test of leadership is whether they put the country ahead of their own narrow personal financial interests. For Trump, the estate tax is the first such test. Making America great doesn’t mean giving booster rockets to multigenerational dynasties of wealth. We need one tax system that’s fair to everyone. Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies where he directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good (www.inequality.org)
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Help deny parole for killer of Leoti police chief Citizens of Scott City and surrounding counties: The family of the late Carl A. Simons, Chief of Police, Leoti is respectfully asking for “back-up” for Chief Simons. Chief Simons was killed in the line of duty on May 25, 1976, in Leoti. The man that committed the murder is Richard M. McCowan, KDOC No. 0008144. He is once again being considered for parole in March 2017. Public comment is encouraged prior to the PRB meeting with inmate McCowan. I will be appearing before the Prisoner Review Board in Topeka on Feb.
editor’s mail 24. I am the eldest daughter of Chief Simons and I feel that the PRB should have a face and a voice to connect with the victim to better understand how the loss of my dad impacted our family and community. That he was an officer killed in the line of duty. The remainder of our family will have also submitted their impact statements to the board. Inmate McCowan was on parole at the time of the murder, but there was a parole violation pick-up order issued. This is the reason Chief Simons be-
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gan a traffic stop that resulted in his murder. Inmate McCowan forced his 12-year old daughter to participate in the murder. Officer Simons was shot three times, then dragged from the highway in front of his patrol vehicle into the opposing road ditch where he bled to death. Inmate McCowan was paroled in 2005 to a halfway house with ankle monitor 24/7. In March 2007, inmate McCowan removed his monitor and “absconded.” As defined by the State of Kansas, it means he left without approval/permis-
sion. The inmate turned himself in six weeks later in California on the advice of his lawyer. He was returned to Kansas, receiving an automatic one year lock up in prison - parole revoked. McCowan has been considered for parole twice more, each time denied and given the longest time before consideration both times. The parole board denied his last request for four reasons: history of criminal activities, violent nature of crime, denies responsibility and public objections. Yes, your comments do make a difference. The family is hoping
pus only lives in the sea, nearly all of the students rejected the expert. They now had “ownership” of this falsehood. This would not have happened if the students had actually known something about an octopus. To combat fake information in the future, citizens are just going to have to know more content. To return to the NeoNazi Thunderbolt article
I described at the beginning, my ability to defuse that terrible lie came directly from my having read through the World Book encyclopedia in fifth grade and then recognizing the picture over a decade later. Without that knowledge and our unique ability to recall faces and photos for long times, I would have had to resort to an authoritative “believe me” explanation that would
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not have undermined the legitimacy. Abstract “information literacy” lessons don’t work. If there was any god-like truth detector, we would all be using it. Simply, any assertion that schools can teach students a method to separate truthful reporting from fake news, is itself “fake news.”
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Currency, Authority and Bias. The Connecticut study directed students to use RADCAB on the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus website. The students found that the Tree Octopus website passed all the tests for authority, citations and other criteria (the PhDs and journals were fake, however). But, when an actual expert was brought in to explain how the octo-
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sponds to the plea for assistance for the family of the late Chief of Police Carl A. Simons. My dad’s contact cards had the following on them . . . To Protect and Serve. He was killed in the line of duty for your community. The address is as follows:
for a large response of “no parole” for inmate McCowan, KDOC0008144. Our family understands how busy all citizens are with their daily lives. Our family is asking that you take a few moments to assist the late Chief Simons. On May 25, 2016, it was 40 years since Chief Simons’ death. Not an anniversary that any person should have to remember. All letters/correspondence must be legible and it must include the KDOC0008144 number and be submitted by Feb. 28, 2017. Thanking you in advance to anyone who re-
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The Lions Club also provides vouchers to needy children and families that can be used to purchase eyeware. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for youngsters 12-years and under. Raffle tickets can also be purchased from any Lions Club members for $10 each in advance or at the door. Individuals need to be present for door prizes given away throughout the night. Grand prize is $1,000 in Scott City Chamber Bucks. Have questions about the Scott Community Foundation? call 872-3790 or e-mail: julie@scottcf.org
Rehearsing for the upcoming Valentine’s Spectacular are (from left) Brad Kirk, Alan Graham, Joel Edwards, Roger Winter and Ron Hopkins. (Record Photo)
Harmony knew what she could get out of us. She’s done a very good job.” However, that’s one of the reasons that Green has continued to be a part of the group for so many years. “If you don’t challenge yourself then you lose your skills,” she notes.” Raynes said she eagerly accepted the opportunity when asked to become the director. “This is such a talented group of vocalists and it’s been fun to see how they’ve accepted the challenge of learning some difficult music,” she says. “We’ve had to work on spots where the harmonies are difficult, but they’ve mastered them. And we have several acapella pieces that show the talent within this group.” Young Singers An added feature at this year’s performance will be 13 young Serendipity Singers who were selected from Scott City Elementary School and Scott City Middle School. Raynes and Green were familiar with most of the vocalists since they had been part of a select afterschool choir at SCES and performed in the summer musical. Some have done both over the years. “Most, if not all, are
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Serendipity Singers Adults: Linda Armstrong, Nancy Green, Rebekah Williams, Susan Richards, Jenny Eitel, Katie Eisenhour and Julie Mason. Youngsters: Allie Brunswig, Haley Shapland, Chelsie Rose, Annie Talbert, Brinlee Stevens, Kennedy Wasinger, Delaney France, Calli France, Mallory Cuupp, Amelia Emberton, Emily Kasselman, Max Contreras and Tanner Gooden.
after-school kids’ choir alums,” says Green. “They’re very good and they enjoy singing.” “It’s my hobby,” said seventh grader Max Contreras, who had participated in the district honor choir on Saturday in Dodge City. “I was asked to join and it seemed like something to do in my free time. It gives me a chance to perform in public,” says Contreras. Seventh grader Chelsi Rose has worked with Green and Raynes in the kids’ choir and was eager to perform as part of the Valentine’s Spectacular when she was asked. “I enjoy getting in front of people and performing,” she says. The young singers will perform “Sing” with the adults as the opening number following intermission. Later in the evening they will be back on stage for a medley of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” and “Climb Every Mountain.” “I think the adults enjoy
it as much or more than the kids,” says Raynes. “But, this is also a great experience for young singers to hear the harmonies from the adults and to absorb that. I want them to realize that this is something they can be doing someday.” Musicians who will be joining the group for selected songs are Allen Hess (trumpet and flugle horn), Clint Raynes (soprano saxophone) and Jan Winter (flute). And Raynes has high praise for the group’s accompanist, Ann Hawkins. “Everyone knows how valuable a good accompanist is. Ann really carries the weight of the group. She’s the foundation on which we build,” says Raynes. She also adds her appreciation to the Scott County Arts Council for sponsoring the annual event. “Without them, this wouldn’t happen,” she added.
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Cure completes Scouting career with highest honor When you’re six-yearsold and attending your first Cub Scout pack meeting, the last thing on your mind is being an Eagle Scout. “That’s a pretty far off goal when you’re a first grader,” says Kyle Cure. That accomplishment isn’t so far off anymore. The 18-year-old will be completing the final step in achieving his Eagle Scout award during a ceremony at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Scott City, at noon on Sat., Jan. 28. While being an Eagle Scout wasn’t necessarily foremost on his mind during his early years in Scouting, Cure also knew that he would like to follow in the footsteps of his father, Keith, who had been an Eagle Scout. He joined Cub Scouts while the family was living in Garden City and even after the family moved to Scott City he continued as a member of Pack No. 316 until he earned his Arrow of Light Award. That’s when he became a member of Boy Scout Troop No. 149 in Scott City. Keith also joined the Troop as an assistant patrol leader and later became the patrol leader. Cure admits there were challenges to remaining in Boy Scouts, especially with all the demands on personal time that come from being involved in high school activities and sports. “I’m the only one in my class who’s in Scouts, but a lot of my friends are in 4-H,” he said. “I’d thought about going into 4-H, but I figured that being in Scouts made me unique. My friends were
Kyle Cure, 11-years-old at the time, is presented the Arrow of Light Award by Cub Master Shelby McNutt. That is the highest honor in Cub Scouts before a youth advances into Boy Scouts.
doing what was important to them and I was doing what was important to me.” At the same time, Cure is encouraged by the growth he’s seen in Scouting during the last few years. “For awhile we were down to four or five (Cub) Scouts, but we’ve had a lot of young kids joining and our numbers are up,” he says. “Scouting is good for kids and it’s good for the community, just like 4-H. It’s another way for kids to get involved.” Eagle Project A community service project is the final phase in becoming an Eagle Scout and Cure’s search led him to a sign in front of St. Joseph Church which had sustained storm damage. “The sign was in pretty bad shape and I talked to Fr. Bernard and the parish council. They agreed to help finance the project,” Cure says. The concrete base of the sign had also sustained
damage and required some masonry work. With assistance from local contractor Arturo Ayala, he put a stucco cap on the top of the L-shaped brick support and along the bottom where the sign is mounted. Cure designed both so that they will shed water and snow. He contacted a sign company in Liberal and after exchanging ideas they settled on the new design and material. “The old sign was made of wood and held in place with metal brackets. The wind had ripped the brackets out of the concrete,” said Cure. The new sign is made of fiberglass with a honeycombed interior that is designed to hold up better in strong winds. The project began last June and was completed by early August. Scouting has provided Cure with a lot of great experiences, especially the annual summer camping trips to Spanish Peaks with other local Scouts. “It was time that I
County spelling 17 from area bee is Tuesday earn semester Ten finalists from grades 4-8 at honors at KSU Scott City Elementary School and
Scott City Middle School will be competing for top honors in the county spelling bee. The county bee will be held on Tues., Jan. 31, 10:00 a.m., at the Scott Community High School auditorium. Qualifiers and alternates by grade level include: Fourth: Amelia Ramsey and Warner Murphy. Erika Stewart (alt.). Fifth: Tanner Gooden and Kalo Hineman. Erin Massaglia (alt.). Sixth: Emilee Turner and Eliana Ayala. Aiden Schwindt (alt.). Seventh: Paige Hoelting and Natalie Herman. Erick Castillo (alt.) Eighth: Lizette Bejarano and Adam Elder. Dutch Turner (alt.). The Scott County champion will advance to the regional bee to be held Sat., Feb. 25, 9:00 a.m., at the Beach/ Schmidt Performing Arts Center, Sheridan Coliseum, Fort Hays State University campus. The local competition is sponsored by The Scott County Record.
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Seventeen students from Scott, Lane and Wichita counties earned fall semester academic honors from Kansas State University. Students earning a grade point average of 3.75 or above on at least 12 credit hours received semester honors along with commendations from their deans. Honor students include: Dighton: Ryan Horn and Ryan Kuhlman. Healy: Mariah York. Leoti: Evan Ridder and Megan Robertson. Scott City: Jesse Birney, Aubrey Davis, Jenee Davis, Macy Davis, Shanaya Hoeme, Krista Kucharik, Kelsey Kuckelman, Luke Minnix, Addison Price, Brayden Strine, Wyle Yeager and Jaylee York.
(Above) Boy Scout Kyle Cure with the sign project he completed to earn his Eagle Scout badge. (Below) Cure and local contractor Arturo Ayala apply a stucco layer to the brick foundation.
could spend with my dad and brother. I have a lot of memories from our trips there,” he says. Saturday’s ceremony will feature a review of Cure’s accomplishments as a Boy Scout and then his father presenting the Eagle badge with friends, family and other Scouts in attendance. “Becoming an Eagle Scout is a major commitment. I’m glad that I was able to accomplish this,” says Cure. “To have my dad, mother and brother supporting me through this adds to the feeling. “I’m pretty proud that my dad is an Eagle and now I’m going to be able to say the same thing.”
For the Record Court ruling backs gun limits in public buildings The Scott County Record
by Jim McLean
Kansas lawmakers seeking to keep university campuses, hospitals and government buildings off limits to firearms are facing a familiar argument from opponents. Namely, that such restrictions infringe on the right to keep and bear
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arms protected by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. In Kansas, lawmakers are debating whether to maintain restrictions on concealed weapons highlighted in two U.S. Supreme Court rulings. “It’s a Second Amendment issue,” says Rep. John Whitmer, a
Wichita Republican. “It’s a right to bear arms issue.” Whitmer says a proposal to maintain a short list of restrictions on where people can carry concealed handguns is “dead on arrival” in a Legislature committed to defending Kansans’ constitutional rights. But, two recent U.S.
Supreme Court decisions say the type of restrictions that some Kansas lawmakers are attempting to preserve don’t violate the Constitution. Writing for the court’s 5-4 majority in a 2008 case in which the court struck down a Washington, D.C., ordinance banning handguns, Justice Antonin
Multi-layers of government in state draw legislative scrutiny A bizarre voting outcome in the central Kansas community of Frederick demonstrated how difficult it would likely be to consolidate some of the 3,800 cities, counties, townships and special districts scattered across the state. In 2016, the town’s nine registered voters were asked to decide whether to dissolve the city 75 miles west of Wichita. On Election Day, officials reported the vote was 13-7 in favor of keeping Frederick. The problem? People ineligible to weigh in on the issue were allowed to vote. “The incorrect ballot was handed out,” said Eric Sartorius, executive director of the League of Kansas Municipalities. Secretary of State Kris Kobach, one of the
nation’s biggest advocates for voting accuracy, said he lacked authority to intervene in the local question. The electoral debacle in Frederick illustrated how tricky it could be to cut into a Kansas governance structure of 1,500 special districts, 1,300 townships, 625 cities, 288 public school districts, 105 counties and 19 community college boards. Kansas has the distinction of hosting the fourthhighest number of local units of government percapita in the nation. “Government is everywhere,” Sartorius said during a recent presentation to the House Local Government Committee. He joined with Randall Allen, who leads the Kansas Association of Counties, in a briefing
House K-12 reject’s governor’s delay of KPERS The House K-12 Education Budget Committee has rejected a plan by Gov. Sam Brownback to not make a Kansas Public Employees Retirement System payment of $84 million. The recommendation has been sent to the full House Appropriations Committee for consideration. The KPERS proposal is part of Brownback’s plan to bridge a $350 million budget gap. KPERS provides retirement benefits for state employees, teachers and other public employees. State Rep. Ed Trimmer, D-Winfield, made the motion to reject the governor’s proposal, saying the state’s budget problems shouldn’t be put on the backs of teachers’
retirements. But, some on the committee said that while they didn’t like the proposal, they were unsure where the $84 million would come from given the state’s budget problems. Legislators were briefed on a key feature of Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposed solution to the current year budget shortfall: borrowing against an obscure program in the state’s idle funds management. Scott Gates, general counsel for the State Treasurer’s office, explained to the House Appropriations and Senate Ways and Means Committees that since 2000, the Treasurer has been directed by law to invest a portion of the (See KPERS on page 11)
for legislators about the status, history and importance of local government. Several committee members said they were interested in the issue of government consolidation, but made clear the impetus would need to be derived from local units of government and was unlikely to become a high legislative priority. “If (counties) want to do that then they can bring it up here and we can take a look at it, but I don’t want to take away local control,” said Rep. John Alcala, a Topeka Democrat on the House committee. Rep. Eber Phelps (D-Hays), said he would be willing to explore consolidation among local governments due to the declining population, tax-base erosion and eco-
nomic challenges in rural Kansas. “I’m not an advocate, but I’m willing to look at it for the simple fact that we find ourselves in difficult financial times,” Phelps said. County populations in Kansas range from 1,330 people in Greeley County to more than 580,000 residents in Johnson County. In terms of geographic size, the smallest is Wyandotte County at 151 square miles. The largest is Butler County with 1,428 square miles. “If we were starting today we wouldn’t have 105 counties,” said Allen, executive director of the Kansas Association of Counties. “The reasons for creating 105 are no longer in place. Having said that, we are where we are.”
Scalia wrote, “Nothing in the ruling should be taken to cast doubt on . . . laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings.” Two years later, when the court struck down a similar ban in Chicago, Justice Samuel Alito affirmed the list of permis-
sible restrictions specified in the earlier decision and added, “We repeat those assurances here.” In Kansas, lawmakers are debating whether to maintain the very kind of restrictions the court highlighted. A bill scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Federal and State Affairs (See RULING on page 11)
Scott Co. LEC Report Scott City Police Department Jan. 18: Jordan Miekle, 17, was arrested for disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property. He was transported to the LEC. Jan. 19: Jordan Miekle was arrested for battery. Jan. 19: Tyler Gossman, 32, was arrested for violation of a protection order and transported to the LEC. Scott County Sheriff’s Department Jan. 19: Steven Turley, 41, was served a Finney County warrant while being held in the LEC. Jan. 19: Officers responded to a report of interference with parental custody.
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state’s idle funds in a long-term investment portfolio, which is now valued at $364 million: $317.2 million of that has been transferred from the state general fund and $46.4 million is capital gains earnings. The amount of money added to this fund every year is based on the difference between unclaimed property deposited in the state general fund and payments for unclaimed property appropriated from the state general fund. However, none of the money in this long term investment portfolio actually is unclaimed property. Brownback has proposed taking the $46.4 million in “profit” this year as revenue to the state general fund, and essentially “borrowing” against the $317.2 million to deposit that amount in the SGF. The $317.2 million would be repaid over seven years. Those funds would be used to cover a projected $350 million deficit in the state general fund resulting from a reduction in tax revenue estimates. It appears this strategy is somewhat similar to “certificates of indebtedness,” which essentially borrows money from state idle funds to provide cash flow during the fiscal year and are repaid at the end of each year. The governor’s proposal would also borrow from idle funds, but this “loan” would be repaid over multiple years. Currently, state idle funds include approximately $500 million from various state agencies; $300 million from the Department of Transportation, and $900 million from local governments, including school districts. The Pooled Money Investment Board manages these funds and invests them in secure short-term instruments. However, the portion set aside for the longterm investments, which the Governor proposes to tap, is managed by the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System. Reaction from members of the budget committees tended to be lukewarm, with several calling it the least objectionable of bad options. The only other suggestion for the current year deficit under discussion is to close the gap with spending cuts, including reductions in state school aid. Reducing SGF spending by $350 million would require a 5.5 percent cut in approved budgets. The major objections to using the long term investment portfolio are, first, use of one-time money; second, repaying the “loan” would require payments in future years that would not be available for other programs; and third, the investment fund has had earnings for the state general fund that would not be available if the money is loaned to the SGF rather than invested.
County Commission January 3, 2017 The Scott County Commissioners met on Jan. 3. Members present were Chairman James Minnix, member Gary Skibbe; and County Clerk Alice Brokofsky. Member Jerry Buxton was absent. •County Clerk Alice Brokofsky presented the cash lease payment for Berning Farms. They had overpaid the lease payment in 2016 and the 2017 payment reflected that amount. •County Attorney Rebecca Faurot presented a cost saving study for changing the chandeliers in the courtroom from incandescent bulbs to LEDs. Commissioners thought the cost saving would be worth converting the bulbs. The commission is also seeking cost estimates for blinds on the top windows of the courtroom. •Approval was given to paying $500 for county membership in the Scott City Chamber of Commerce. •Economic Development Director Katie Eisenhour discussed extending the Neighborhood Revitalization Program from five years to 10 years for a senior housing project. •Public Works Director Richard Cramer said a boom lift had been purchased for $9,750. •Approval was given to plug and cap well No. 6 at the county landfill. •There was discussion of 2017 mowing contracts. Cramer would like to see the amount per mile increased to maintain the contracts he has now. Commissioners agreed to increase the contracts for ditch mowing from $50 per mile to $100 per mile. •Approval was given for Cramer to seek bids for a 3/4 ton pickup and an all-wheel drive grader.
Ruling Committee would strike parts of a 2013 law that require local governments and universities to allow the concealed carry of handguns in public buildings starting July 1. Sen. Laura Kelly (D-Topeka) voted for the 2013 law but now says she favors retaining the protections it would eliminate. “The Supreme Court has affirmed that keep-
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ing guns out of schools and government buildings is perfectly acceptable,” Kelly says, noting that her change of heart cost her the endorsement of the National Rifle Association in the 2016 campaign. Kelly says the recent defeat of several conservative incumbents by moderate Republicans and Democrats has changed the makeup of the Legislature to the
point that the bill may have a chance of passing. “I think it’s going to get a robust debate,” she says. “But, I think there very well may be the votes for it.” Kelly says a recent incident at Kansas State University involving a 19-year-old student who accidently shot and wounded himself in his dormitory may also be a factor in the debate.
(Published in The Scott County Record on Thurs., January 26, 2017)1t City of Scott City • 221 W. 5th • Scott City, Ks. 67871
TREASURER’S FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE PERIOD FROM OCT. 1, 2016, THRU DEC. 31, 2016 FUNDS
Oct. 1, 2016
General Fund
$ 1,501,344.04
EXPENSES
RECEIPTS
Dec. 31, 2016
$ 544,071.35
$ 276,240.80
$ 1,233,513.49
Employee Benefit
117,873.86
52,310.63
3,957.87
69,521.10
Trans. Guest Tax
149,797.60
34,130.57
26,086.61
141,753.64
Insurance Proceeds 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Public Notice (First Published in the Scott County Record, Thurs., Jan. 26, 2017; last published Thurs., Feb. 9, 2017)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS in the Matter of the Estate of BONNIE PICKETT, aka BONNIE JUNE PICKETT, aka BONNIE J. PICKETT, deceased, Case No. 17-PR-000001 NOTICE TO CREDITORS (Petition Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 59) THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are notified that on January 17, 2017, a Petition for Probate of Will and Issuance of Letters Testamentary was filed in this Court by Larry D. Pickett and Gloria Wright, heirs, devisees and legatees, and Co-Executors named in the “Last Will and
Testament of Bonnie Pickett,” deceased. All creditors of the decendent are notified to exhibit their demands against the Estate within the latter of four months from the date of the first publication of notice under K.S.A. 59-2236 and amendments thereto, or if the identity of the creditor is known or reasonably ascertainable, 30 days after actual notice was given as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, they shall be forever barred. Larry D. Pickett Petitioner Gloria Wright Petitioner Jake W. Brooks Attorney At Law P.O. Box 664 101 E. 6th Scott City, Ks. 67871 620-872-7204
Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Jan. 19, 2017; last published Thurs., Jan. 26, 2017)2t NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SCOTT COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT To all qualified electors residing within the boundaries of the Scott County Conservation District, notice is hereby given that pursuant to K.S.A. 2-1907, as amended, on the 2nd day of February, 2017, at 12:00 noon, an annual meeting of the Scott County Conservation District will be held at the 4-H Exhibit Building, Scott City, Ks. The meeting agenda will include the following business items: One: The supervisors of the Scott County Conservation District shall make full and due report of their activities and financial affairs since the last annual meeting. Two: The supervisors shall conduct an election by secret ballot of qualified electors, there present, of one supervisor to serve for a term of three years from date of said meeting. The terms of Clint Dearden and Trevor Cox are expiring. All in the County of Scott in the State of Kansas. Clint Dearden, chairperson Scott County Conservation District Attest Morgan Barnhart, district manager
Rachel Fisher 4-H Trip Fundraiser chili feed at the First Christian Church • Sun., Feb. 5 • noon-2:00 p.m.
Fire Equipment
165,926.20
639.75
166,565.95
Municipal Equip.
72,262.01
20,000.00
92,262.01
Airport Enterprise
18,031.09
2,390.88
5,513.54
21,153.75
Airport Sinking
357,823.54
35,000.00
62,061.11
384,884.65
Special Highway
115,225.78
27,307.50
142,533.28
0.00
0.00
1,522.25
24,384.08
Street Imp. Fund Special Parks Water Improv. Fund
0.00
0.00
22,861.83 0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Water Utility 1,098,928.08
173,295.16
266,950.07
1,192,582.99
379,449.64
27,497.15
48,603.75
400,556.24
$ 3,999,523.64
$ 868,695.74
$ 738,883.25
$ 3,869,711.18
AVAILABLE CASH
$ 3,869,711.18
Sewer Use Fee TOTALS
I, Dan Weides, hereby certify that the above statement is correct
Dan Weides City Treasurer
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Pastime at Park Lane Residents played pitch and dominoes on Monday afternoon. Gary Goodman and Madeline Murphy led the games. Residents played Wii bowling on Monday evening. Pastor Bob Artz led Bible study on Tuesday morning. Doris Riner and Elsie Nagel led the hymns. Naomi Teubner played her violin on Tuesday afternoon. Russel and Mary Webster led Bible study on Tuesday evening. Ladies received manicures on Thursday morning.
Local students visit Park Lane
Residents played bingo on Wednesday afternoon. Scott City Middle School fifth and sixth graders helped with the games. Children from the First Baptist Church visited residents on Wednesday evening.
2 musical groups entertain
Harold and Gary Wright performed on Friday evening. The Blue Steele Band performed on Saturday afternoon. Several people played trivia games on Thursday evening. Fr. Bernard Felix led Catholic Mass on Friday morning. Chocolate ice cream cones were served on
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Friday afternoon. Thanks to the family of Reece Roemer for the flowers brought to Park Lane in his memory. Corrine Dean was visited by Nancy Holt and Dianna Howard.
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DeLores Brooks was visited by Charles Brooks, Cheryl Perry, Tracey Richmeier, Peyton Gentry and Nancy Holt. Lawana Rothers was visited by Janet Offutt. Yvonne Spangler was visited by Les Spangler, Yvette Mills, and Danny and Mona Spangler. Hugh McDaniel was visited by Berniece McDaniel, Fay Hoover, Tava See, Mark McDaniel, Karen Roberts, Kim Smith and Preston Dunagan. Lowell Rudolph was visited by LuAnn Buehler, Tom and Kathy Moore, Jon Buehler and Rev. Don Martin.
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James Still and Mike Leach were visited by Linda Dunagan and Rev. Don Martin. Louise Crist was visited by D’Ann Markel, Nancy Holt, Don and Tara Williams, Pastor Jon Tuttle, Patsi Graham and Doris Riner. Cloide Boyd was visited by Dick and Jackie Boyd. Doris Riner was visited by Trudy Eikenberry and Bill and Sue Riner. Vivian Kreiser was visited by Larry and Sharon Lock. Boots Haxton was visited by Nancy Holt and Kathy Haxton.
Clifford Dearden was visited by Kirk and Janet Ottaway from Hays. Arlene Beaton was visited by Nancy Holt, Bill and Brooke Savolt, and Margie Stevens. Elsie Coleman was visited by Janice Lockman. Loretta Gorman was visited by Velda Riddiough, Charlene Becht, and Chuck and Barb Brobst. LaVera King was visited by Randy, Kay and Harrison King; Shellie Carter, Carol Latham, Margie Stevens and Gloria Gough. Jim Jeffery was visited by Nathella, Calvin and Jett Humburg.
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websites with information on programs to help seniors and people with disabilities reduce their prescription drug costs. These sites offer the most help if you don’t have other prescription drug coverage and if your income is limited. Finally, you can access the federal government’s Medicare information at www.medicare.gov or by calling 1-800-MEDICARE. To file a complaint with the FTC or to get free information on consumer issues, visit www. ftc.gov or call toll-free, 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877382-4357). The FTC enters Internet, telemarketing, identity theft, and other fraud-related complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database. If you would like help in accessing this information, or do not have a computer, call (872-2930) or stop by the Extension office and I can help you.
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Deaths Elvira L. Billinger Elvira L. Billinger, 86, died Jan. 22, 2017, at Park Lane Nursing Home, Scott City. S h e was born March 5, 1930, in Ness City, the daughter of Joseph and Elvira Billinger Katherine (Dechant) Rupp. Elvira attended Holcomb schools and graduated from Holcomb High School in 1948. She has lived in Garden City and Scott City. She worked in nursing at St. Catherine Hospital. She also worked at the Garden Medical Clinic for 18 years. Elvira was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Scott City, Daughters of Isabella and the Eagle’s Auxiliary. On Sept. 28, 1948, she married Albert A. Billinger in Garden City. He died March 4, 1996. Survivors include: five sons, Jerome Billinger, and wife, Janie, Lenoir, N.C., Donald Billinger, Canon City, Colo., Duane Billinger, and wife, Susan, Wichita, Gerard Billinger, and wife, Margaret, Big Lake, Ark., and Benny Billinger, and wife, Dala-
na, Garden City; three daughters, Cheryl Mouser, and husband, Bill, Salina, Connie Bonwell, Garden City, and Cynthia Prince, and husband, Erik, Wichita; one sister, Rita Reibel, Minneola; companion, Edwin Allen, Scott City; 17 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Albert; her parents; five brothers, John Rupp, Mike Rupp, Paul Rupp, Frank Rupp and Adam Rupp; four sisters, Katherine Zimmerman, Pauline Kaiser, Mary Eggers and Julia Stoecklein; and one grandchild, William David Mouser. Funeral service was Jan. 26 at St. Dominic Catholic Church with Fr. Reginald A. Urban and Fr. Bernard Felix officiating. Burial was at Sunset Memorial Gardens, Garden City. Memorials are suggested to Park Lane Nursing Home or to St. Catherine Hospice in care of Garnand Funeral Home, 312 N. 7th Street, Garden City, Ks. 67846. Condolences may be given to the family through the funeral home website at garnandfuneralhomes.com.
Carol A. Brant Carol A. Brant, 70, died on Jan. 24, 2017, at St. Catherine Hospital, Garden City. She was born Feb. 19, 1946, in East Brunswick, N.J., the daughter of Melvin and Anna (Wirschack) Bruebaker. A resident of Scott City since 1984, moving from Ingalls, she was a homemaker. On April 18, 1967 she married Rex D. Brant in Colorado Springs, Colo. He passed away on May 25, 2009, in Scott City. Survivors include a son, Willie Brant, Humboldt, Ia.; a daugh-
ter, Rene Brant, Hastings, Nebr.; two brothers, Jim Bruebaker of Colorado and Lonnie Bruebaker, Garden City; 10 grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, a son, a daughter, two sisters and one brother. A memorial service will be held Sat., Jan. 28, 10:30 a.m., at Price and Sons Funeral Home, Scott City, with Pastor Bob Bates presiding. There will be no calling times.
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Religion and Politics Two subjects you are supposed to avoid at all costs, but what about a religious article that deals with politics? This last election cycle seemed to bring the worst out of everyone. Some view President Trump as the anti-Christ and others as the second coming. The same was said of Hillary Clinton. Neither is true. But, this is not an article about President Trump, in fact, I’d like to think I would have written this same article if we were saying President Hillary Clinton. This article is about the spiritual nature of our political climate. Specifically how Satan may be at work in causing divisions around politics, especially in the church. On Wednesday nights a small group of us at First Christian Church have been reading C.S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters.” If you are unfamiliar with this fictional work allow me to summarize it for you. Lewis wrote this book as a series of letters written from a high-ranking demon named Screwtape. Each chapter is a letter to his nephew and lower-ranking demon Wormwood. Wormwood is struggling with how to handle a human (referred to in the book as his patient) he’s been assigned to. His patient is a new convert to Christianity and Wormwood is met with obstacle after obstacle in regards to leading him away with temptation. Screwtape’s advice is designed to exploit the patients human nature and covers the vastness of the human experience; including politics. My Dear Wormwood, Be sure that the patient remains completely fixated on politics. Arguments, political gossip, and obsessing on the faults of people they have never met serves as an excellent distraction from advancing in personal virtue, character, and the things the patient can control. Make sure to keep the patient in a constant state of angst, frustration and general disdain towards the rest
of human race in order to avoid any kind of charity or inner peace from further developing. Ensure the patient continues to believe that the problem is “out there” in the “broken system” rather than recognizing there is a problem with himself. Keep up the good work, Uncle Screwtape “Screwtape Letters” 1942 * * * Really not a bad plan if you think about it. If Satan can get us to look at the other guy (or gal) as the enemy and fixate on all their flaws we begin to neglect self and self-examination. We begin to believe that I’m always right and they’re always wrong. In fact, many will begin to behave badly simply to point out the flaws of a politician. We will engage in character assassination while all the time ignoring our own shortcomings. Didn’t Jesus say something about removing the log from your own eye before you help the brother with the speck in his own (he didn’t say not to judge, but to be careful how you judge; I digress). I guess, I say all that to say this; the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, and any other Third Parties are not the enemy. We may disagree, but they are not the enemy. Ephesians 6:12 says, “For your struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” And, they will use everything in their power, including politics, to attack Christians and the church and distract us from loving our neighbor and loving God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. Much more could be said, but that’s probably good for now.
Pastor Scott Wagner First Christian Church, Scott City • fccscottcity.org
Scott City Assembly of God
Prairie View Church of the Brethren
1615 South Main - Scott City - 872-2200 Ed Sanderson, Senior Pastor 9:00 a.m. - Pre-Service Prayer 10:00 a.m. - Sunday Worship Service and Children’s Church Wednesday: 7:00 p.m. - Bible Study and Prayer
4855 Finney-Scott Rd. - Scott City - 276-6481 Pastor Jon Tuttle Sunday School: 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. Men’s Fellowship • Tuesday breakfast at 6:30 a.m. will be held at the church Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m., at the church
St. Joseph Catholic Church
Holy Cross Lutheran Church
A Catholic Christian Community 1002 S. Main Street - Scott City Fr. Bernard Felix, pastor • 872-7388 Secretary • 872-3644 Masses: 1st Sunday of month - 8:30 and 11:00 a.m. Other weekends: Sat., 6:00 p.m.; Sun., 11:00 a.m. Spanish Mass - 2nd and 4th Sundays, 1:30 p.m.
1102 Court • Box 283 • Scott City 620-872-2294 • 620-872-3796 Pastor Warren Prochnow holycross-scott@sbcglobal.net Sunday School/Bible Class, 9:00 a.m. Worship every Sunday, 10:15 a.m. Wed.: Mid-Week School, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Pence Community Church
Community Christian Church
8911 W. Road 270 10 miles north on US83; 2 miles north on K95; 9 miles west on Rd. 270 Don Williams, pastor • 874-2031 Wednesdays: supper (6:30 p.m.) • Kid’s Group and Adult Bible Study (7:00 p.m.) • Youth Group (8:00 p.m.) Sunday School: 9:30 • Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.
12th & Jackson • Scott City • 872-3219 Brian Thompson, pastor Sunday School, 9:30 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship, 10:45 a.m. Wednesday Night Bible Study, 7:00 p.m. Wednesday: God’s High School Cru, 7:30 p.m.
First Baptist Church
Immanuel Southern Baptist Church
803 College - Scott City - 872-2339
1398 S. US83 - Scott City - 872-2264
Kyle Evans, Senior Pastor Bob Artz, Associate Pastor
Robert Nuckolls, pastor - 872-5041
Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.
Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. • Worship: 11:00 a.m.
Sunday morning worship: 8:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.
Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.
Gospel Fellowship Church
1st United Methodist Church
Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.
5th Street and College - Scott City - 872-2401 John Lewis, pastor 1st Sunday: Communion and Fellowship Sunday Services, 9:00 a.m. • Fellowship, 10:15 a.m. • Sun. School, 11:00 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.
120 S. Lovers Lane - Shallow Water Bill Geurin, pastor • 874-8395 Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.
First Christian Church
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
701 Main - Scott City - 872-2937 Scotty Wagner, pastor Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.; Worship, 10:45 a.m. Wednesday is Family Night Meal: 5:45 p.m. • Study: 6:15 p.m. Website: www.fccscottcity.org
Elizabeth/Epperson Drives • Scott City • 872-3666
Scott Mennonite Church
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
12021 N. Eagle Rd. • Scott City
9th and Crescent - Scott City - 872-2334 James Yager • 620-214-3040 Sacrament, 9:30 a.m. Sunday School, 10:50 a.m. Relief Society and Priesthood, 11:20 a.m. YMYW Wednesday, 8:00 p.m.
Franklin Koehn: 872-2048 Charles Nightengale: 872-3056 Sunday School Worship Service: 10:00 a.m. Sunday Evening Service: 7:00 p.m.
Holy Eucharist - 11:45 a.m. St. Luke’s - 872-3666 (recorded message) Senior Warden Cody Brittan • (913) 232-6127 or Father Don Martin • (785) 462-3041
High-risk health care pool may return as Obamacare alternative If congressional Republicans repeal the Affordable Care Act before they replace it, they may revive a costly Kansas program that exists on paper, but has been inoperative for several years. Between the late 1990s and the end of 2013, the state’s insurance department operated a high-risk pool for people unable to obtain health insurance due to pre-existing conditions, spending state tax dollars to ensure a relatively small number of residents - primarily middle-class Kansans suffering from cancers and rare diseases - received coverage for expensive treat-
ments. The Affordable Care Act, with its protections for those with pre-existing conditions, made most high-risk pools obsolete. Though Kansas hasn’t used a high-risk pool since 2014, the state statute that created the pool and dictates its functions remains in place. U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican and one of 15 physicians in Congress, would like to see highrisk pools, in tandem with other programs, bridge the gap between a repeal of the ACA and a replacement. “We’re not going to push anybody off of the
cliff,” Marshall said. “We have 90,000 Kansans on the exchange right now, and we’re going to make sure there’s a transition period for those people to go to different alternatives, including a high-risk pool.” Michael Byerly, a spokesman for U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins, said the Republican congresswoman “is open to considering how we fund high-risk pools run by the states.” “Thank goodness Kansas still has a highrisk pool in law,” Marshall added. “I would be scrambling if I was a governor who didn’t have high-risk pool legislation set up. This high-risk pool will be
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funded with federal block grants and it will also be funded somewhat locally as well.” The logistics of such a proposal are unprecedented and could prove difficult. In 2013, the last full year a high-risk pool was used in Kansas, 1,375 people took part, according to Bob Hanson, a Kansas Insurance Department spokesman. Marshall would like to move a quarter of the Kansans on the ACA exchange to high-risk pools - about 22,500, by his estimates. Linda Sheppard, a senior analyst at the Kansas Health Institute
Get screened: Cervical Health Awareness Month The American Sexual Health Association Scott Community Foundation (ASHA) and the Healthcare Committee National Cervical Cancer Coalition (NCCC) named January Cervical Health Awareness Month. Women are encouraged to get screened for cervical cancer and receive the human papillomavirus vaccine if eligible. Here are 10 things to know about HPV and Cervical Cancer from ASHA and NCCC: 1) HPV is Common. Most sexually active individuals have HPV at some point. At any time, there are approximately 79 million people in the U.S. with HPV. 2) Different Types. Some types of HPV can cause genital warts while some other, different types are linked to cervical cell changes that, if not detected early, can increase a woman’s risk for cervical cancer. (See CERVICAL on page 15)
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Lawmakers seek answers to KanCare denial Phil Galewitz Kaiser Health News
Kansas legislators are seeking answers from the Brownback administration after federal officials denied a one-year extension of the state’s Medicaid program known as KanCare. The denial letter outlines a series of concerns
about the state’s privatization of Medicaid under three insurance companies. Federal officials cited poor coordination between the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services and said neither state agency was doing enough to hold the three
insurance companies known as managed care organizations, or MCOs, accountable to Medicaid rules. The lack of oversight puts the health of the 425,000 Kansans enrolled in Medicaid at risk, federal officials said. Sen. Vicki Schmidt, a Republican from Topeka who chairs the Senate
Public Health and Welfare Committee, asked committee members to read the Topeka CapitalJournal’s initial report on the denial letter. Rep. Dan Hawkins, a Wichita Republican who chairs the House Health and Human Services Committee, said he planned to take his concerns straight to Lt. Gov.
Dental provider halts nursing home care due to Ks. Medicaid backlog Andy Marso Kansas News Service
About 350 elderly and disabled Kansans are suddenly without dental care after an Oklahoma City company informed nursing homes that it was suspending services for Kansas residents whose Medicaid applications are pending. The company, Sterling Dental, sends dentists to nursing homes in Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas for on-site care. But, ongoing problems with Kansas’ Medicaid application process have left some residents wait-
ing almost a year for coverage, and Sterling has decided it can no longer wait to be paid. Cindy Luxem heads the Kansas Health Care Association, a nursing home advocacy group in Kansas. She said she heard about Sterling’s decision from another advocacy group, LeadingAge Kansas, and was frustrated that the backlog of Medicaid applications had caused another problem. “This kind of stuff just can’t be happening,” Luxem said. “This isn’t how Kansas operates and this isn’t how we want our folks in Kansas to be
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taken care of.” Luxem and LeadingAge officials have informed the Kansas Department of Health and Environment about the problem. The nursing home advocates learned of Sterling’s decision just hours after Rep. Dan Hawkins questioned KDHE Secretary Susan Mosier about the backlog during a hearing Monday. Hawkins, a Wichita Republican who chairs the House Health and Human Services Committee, recalled during the hearing that Mosier had assured him during an August
meeting that the backlog would be gone by the end of September. Mosier said Monday that the backlog had been reduced to about 2,000 applications from a high of about 11,000. Hawkins responded by saying that to the nursing homes involved, it remained a problem. In a phone interview Tuesday, he said the news about Sterling Dental reinforced that. Hawkins said his comments were motivated not by a desire to criticize KDHE but by “the desire to have a (Medicaid) program that works well.”
Jeff Colyer. Gov. Sam Brownback has made Colyer, a plastic surgeon, the administration’s point person on KanCare. Hawkins said the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services denial of the extension indicates that KDHE does not have enough control over the MCOs that administer
KanCare: Amerigroup, UnitedHealthcare and Sunflower State Health Plan, a division of Centene. He said he would press for hiring an independent KanCare inspector general based out of the Kansas Attorney General’s Office. An inspector general position within KDHE has (See KANCARE on page 15)
Groundhog Day Pancake Supper Wed., Feb. 1 • 1st United Methodist Church, Scott City
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High Risk who previously worked at the insurance department, said there have never been more than 2,000 Kansans in the high-risk pool. Because the state was able to charge higher premiums than private insurers, low-income Kansans were priced out of the pool. Premiums that were capped at $500 from private insurers, for example, could go as high as $750 in the high-risk pool. “It was a viable option for people who had the financial wherewithal to be able to pay those premiums,” Sheppard said. For everyone else, however, the high-risk pool was off-limits. The high-risk pool in Kansas was never selfsustaining, even when it exclusively served those who could afford costly premiums. For every
dollar the state took in through premiums and a fee on private insurers, it paid out more than twice that, Sheppard said. “Is the federal government going to subsidize the pool to such an extent that people are going to be able to afford those premiums to take part in the pool? That’s really the question,” she said. Kansas’ high-risk pool was operated by a third-party administrator, Benefit Management Inc. The company is located in Great Bend, where Marshall lives and where he announced his candidacy for Congress in 2015. BMI founder Dennis Call donated $1,000 to Marshall’s campaign that May.
of Kansas study tracked 42 suburban, middleclass enrollees in the state’s high-risk pool. It found “high premiums and deductibles limit participants’ ability to afford basic health services and access to prescription medications.” Enrollees forewent treatments and employed “potentially dangerous strategies to minimize costs, especially for prescription medications,” according to the study. In the years that followed, Kansas briefly had two functioning highrisk pools. In addition to the state-run pool, there also was a temporary federal pool funded entirely by federal grants. When those funds were tightened, however, the state Results Not Favorable had to restrict enrollment In 2010, a University to cut costs, according to
Cervical HPV infections are usually harmless, though, and most are cleared naturally by the body in a year or two. 3) Vaccination. HPV vaccines can help prevent infection from both high risk HPV types that can lead to cervical cancer and low risk types that cause genital warts. The CDC recommends all boys and girls get the HPV vaccine at age 11 or 12, but vaccination is available through age 26. The vaccine produces a stronger immune response when taken during the preteen years. For this reason, up until age 14, only two doses of the vaccine are required; a full three-dose series is needed for those 15 and older. 4) Transmission. HPV is a sexually transmitted infection. Studies show that male condoms can reduce HPV transmission to females, although they only protect the skin they
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cover. 5) Testing. A Pap test can find cell changes to the cervix caused by HPV. HPV tests find the virus and help healthcare providers know which women are at a highest risk for cervical cancer. A Pap/HPV co-test is recommended for women 30 and over. One HPV test has been approved for use as primary cervical cancer screening for women age 25 and older, followed by a Pap test for women with certain results. 6) Treatment. There is no treatment for the virus itself, but healthcare providers have plenty of options to treat diseases caused by HPV. 7) Relationships. It can take weeks, months, or even years after exposure to HPV before symptoms develop or the virus is detected. This is why it is usually impossible to determine when HPV may have been contracted.
KanCare been vacant since 2014. Organizations that work with KanCare recipients said the extension denial provides an opportunity for the state to address their longstanding concerns. Interhab, a Topekabased nonprofit that represents businesses that provide long-term support services to Kansans with disabilities, released a statement calling on state officials to streamline KanCare reimbursements and increase scrutiny of the MCOs. The rejection letter from CMS gave special attention to long-term support services, which allow Kansans with disabilities to live independently in their homes and communities rather than nursing facilities. The letter said federal investigators uncovered significant infractions of Medicaid rules for those services. The findings came largely from on-site reviews of the MCOs in October that substantiated complaints CMS officials
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heard during a listening tour of the state earlier in the year. Tim Wood, Interhab executive director, said he wished CMS would have stepped in earlier. “What this tells me is that perhaps long-term supports were not a good fit (for KanCare),” Wood said.
8) Pregnancy. Pregnant women with HPV almost always have a natural delivery and healthy babies; it is very rare for a newborn to get HPV from the mother. 9) The Emotional Side. It can be upsetting when HPV is first diagnosed, but remember that having HPV is normal. It does not mean that anyone did something wrong, just that like most others, they were exposed to a common infection. There are 14 million new HPV infections in the U.S. each year alone! 10) Finding Support. The American Sexual Health Association and the National Cervical Cancer Coalition have online support communities at inspire.com that connect patients, partners, and caregivers. These are safe places where thousands of users find the information and support they need.
Sheppard. President Donald Trump has stated his support for high-risk pools, including it on his campaign website as an alternative for people currently covered under the ACA. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) and U.S. Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), Trump’s choice for health and human services director, also support high-risk pools. Marshall expects highrisk pools to be one of five to 10 alternatives to the ACA established by congressional Republicans who have spent much of the past decade railing against and attempting to repeal the 2010 health care law. He said the biggest challenge before Congress right now is “how do we not push people off the edge.”
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Top readers of the week Youngsters who have reached 100 to 1,000 book milestones in the Scott County Library’s “1,000 Books Before Kindergarten” reading program are:
Eliann Rodriguez 100
Ainsley Wiechman 300
Annalese Wills 700
Allyson Wills 700
AmmahRye Haverfield 900
Vincent O’Dell 1,000
232 earn semester academic honors at SCMS
There were 245 students earning first semester academic honors at Scott City Middle School. The list of honor students included 72 who were on the Gold list for maintaining a 4.0 grade point average. Other honor lists are Silver (3.5-3.99) and Bronze (3.0-3.49). Honor roll students include: Gold Honor List Eighth: Allison Brunswig, Marisela Chavez, Connor Cupp, Ryan Cure, Loren Faurot, Brooke Hoeme, Harrison King, Paige Prewit, Joshua Rosin, Claire Rumford, Kevin Serrano Gonzalez, Sawyer Stevens, Isaac Tarango Fernandez, Landon Trout, Megan Vance, Paige Vulgamore, Judy Wiebe. Seventh: Kairae Berry, Cesar Contreras, Melany Duff, Carson Faurot, Payton Goodman, Isabella Gutierrez-Myers, Clare
Hawkins, Natalie Herman, Kennedy Holstein, Brynn McCormick, Nash Nowak, Allison Patton, Zachery Rohrbough, Chelsie Rose, Ella Rumford, Eric Shapland, Rhiley Stoppel, Efren Tarango Fernandez, Giovanni Vichique, Kale Wheeler. Sixth: Gisselle Aguilar, Hailee Amerine, Valeria Bejarano Anchondo, Hannah Eikenberry, Adrian Elder, Gui Griffith, Leslie Macias, Priscilla Peregrino, Wyatt Ricker, Lana Rodriguez, Tara Rose, Nathan Smith, Brooke Strine, Adrianne Talbert. Fifth: Kade Bonville, Valeria Catano, Malorie Cupp, Dylan Duff, Houston Frank, Augustus Hawkins, Kalo Hineman, Emily Kasselman, Jordynn Kough, Erin Massaglia, Peyton McCormick, Alexis Powelson, Ayden Presson, Daniela ReyesReyes, Madison Roberts, Katherine Rogers, Anto-
nio Rojas, Paige Ryan, Brinlie Stevens, Emma Wheeler. Silver Honor List Eighth: Roberto Apodaca-Armendariz, Lizette Bejarano Anchondo, Gabriel Bowers, Kaely Capps, Samantha Castillo, Joshua Culp, Colton Cupp, Justin Davis, Adam Elder, Elisabeth Froese, Daniela Garcia, Taylor Heili, Lisa Ivey, Abby McDaniel, Angel Perez, James Turner. Seventh: Armando Armendariz, Conner Armendariz, Brynna Burnett, Xavier Cluster, Damian Estrella, EvelynGonzalez Lopez, Carter Gooden, Sadie Hermosillo, Ashleigh Hickert, Paige Hoelting, Broderick LaPlant, Amber Latta, Wyatt Lowe. Lance Miller, Tina Neufeld, Alivia Noll, Bethany Prochnow, Tamara Rodriguez, Natalie Rosas, Stryder Sowers, Austin Thon, Ronald Weathers, Madison Wes-
tergard, Misti Wick, Diane Willette, Brooklynne Zielke. Sixth: Lawson Bailey, Brylie Bennett, Ivette Fernandez-Lozoya, John Harris, Treven Jones, Nathan LeBeau, Jaden Lewis, Shelby Lisenby, Breana McPherson, Dylan Metzger. Mackayla Miller, Madison Miller, Jacobed Navarrete Contreras, Elizabeth Nguyen, Aiden Schwindt, Johnna Sowers, Jace Thomas, Hannah Tucker, Emilee Turner, Garrison Turner, Hope Wiechman, Kiley Wren, Alencio Zarate. Fifth: Adrian Alarcon, Daira Areli Araiza, Aaron Armendariz, Ivan Armendariz, Carson Batterton, Bryndan Case, Dayanara Castillo, Tracer Chapman, Phylesha Craft, Logan Cramer, Kevin Dominguez Peregrino, Calli France, Dante Franco, Branden Harkness,
Izabella Hernandez, Arlette Herrera-Aguilera, Cordelle Lane, Jesarella Navarrete, Avry Noll, Cesar Peregrino-Gonzalez, Cesar Ramirez, Fatima Ramirez-Mendoza, Darian Roberts, Jordis Shaw, Stephany Tena, Maxim Tuttle, Cauy Vance, Cody Vance, Izak Venegas, Randy Vichique-Rodriguez, Whitney Wallace, Kennedy Wasinger, Brady Welker, Tatum Wells, Celeste Wolfe, Leland Wright. Bronze Honor List Eighth: Brooke Sherwood, Aamyiah Unger, Olivia Wagner, Taia Waldrop, Mythius Yeadon. Seventh: Kayla Apalategui, Joshua Browning, Ayden Casas, Erick Castillo Morales, Kaelyn Dearden, Victoria Ford, Dawson Fox, Alonso Frances Aguilar, Jarron Gregory, Joshua Jacobson, Matthew Jacobson, Jaxson Kough, Julian Lopez-Arroyo, Susana No-
lasco, Damian Ortiz-Venegas, Dalton Pazdernik, Jorge Ponce-Ledezma, Winsome Worf, Emilio Zarate. Sixth: Henry Aguilar, Samantha Aldaba Flores, Eliana Ayala, Freddy Castillo, Delaney France, Ximena Garcia Rodriguez, Leticia Gonzalez, Haileigh Hickert, Callie Hutton, Jacob Irwin, Manrubio Jimenez-Rojas, Evelyn Lozano, Joseph McCleary, Luis Medellin, Zachery Roberts, Natalia Rojas, Nathan Rosas, Aaron Ruelas, Jensyn Smith, Brandon Smyth, Marquez Wallace, Anthony Wolfe. Fifth: Mariana Aldaba Flores, Lidia Alfonso Barahona, Hannah Faurot, Jeremy Frances Cortez, Bryce Hundertmark, Quinton Jaso, Gage Johnson, Julian Labra, Jerome Lightner, Fernando Marin, Annabell Murphy, Benjamin Resendiz.
Country Cousins donate to holiday Angel Tree For our December and January meetings, everyone was excited for the jolly holidays and disappointed that they were over. Our club s h o p p e d 4-H for the An- Club gel Tree in News December. December’s meeting was called to order by President Chase Rumford. Ella Frank led presentation of flags and flag salute. Roll call was, “What are your plans for Christmas Break?” We decided the County Christmas party would be split. The younger kids would go bowling and the high schoolers would go to El Dos. All said they had a great time. Annie Talbert gave a project talk on photography.
Lake Wide Awake has jr. officer night
The meeting of the Lake Wide Awake 4-H Club was held Jan. 9 at the Wm. Carpenter 4-H Building. Roll call was answered to, “What is your New Year’s resolution?” There were 13 members and four community leaders present. Theme of the meeting was Junior Officers Night, to let all the junior leaders get some experience in running a meeting. A project talk was given by Jenny Erven about her dog. Next meeting will be Feb. 13 at the William Carpenter Building. Abbie Dart, reporter Have questions about the Scott Commnity Foundation? Call 872-3790
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AGENDA • Country Cousins 4-H Club members shopping for Christmas gifts for the Angel Tree were Trenton Frank, Belle Trout and Max Tuttle.
January Meeting January roll call for Country Cousins was, “What is your favorite winter activity?” Annie Talbert led us in singing “Bananas for the Lord.” Our parliamentary procedure was led by Kylee Trout and was about the proper order of business in a meeting. To the general disappointment of our club, we had no recreational activity and the meeting was adjourned. Sawyer Stevens, reporter
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Sports The Scott County Record
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Hayes flatttens Huskers at Lexington Invite When you’ve been around wrestling for as long as Jon Lippelmann, you’ve about seen it all. But, even the Scott Community High School head coach was pretty impressed after seeing Wyatt Hayes roll through a rugged field of competitors at the John Higgins Invitational in
Lexington (Nebr.) last weekend. He didn’t just roll through the 160-pound division. He flattened it. As in three pins that saw the sophomore on the mat for barely more than 2-1/2 minutes. Hayes’ semi-final match lasted just 31 seconds against state medalist Tyler Carstens (Lin-
coln Southwest, 26-5) and in the finals he needed only 1:46 before pinning returning state medalist Pierro Garcia (Lexington, 23-6). “I really thought there might be somebody that would push him a little harder than that,” noted Lippelmann. “Some of these kids looked bigger than
we did. Wyatt isn’t the biggest 160-pounder, but he wrestled like he was.” Hayes (14-0) showed no signs of rust after the team’s two week layoff from competition due to cancellation of the Scott City Classic. The Beavers had two other finalists who saw their unde-
feated seasons come to an end. Kaden Wren (126, 13-1) was top-seeded in his weight class and easily gained a spot in the championship match following an 8-1 decision over Nolan Barry (Adams Central, 27-7) in the semi-finals. In the gold medal match, the (See HAYES on page 20)
jekyll and hyde Beavers avoid huge upset with late free throws On some nights you just have to find a way - any way - to win a game. Tuesday was one of those nights for the Scott City boys. Having squandered numerous opportunities throughout the Scott City 34 night to take control Lakin 33 of their non-league game against Lakin, the Beavers found themselves locked in a slow-down, grind-it-out game which put pressure on every possession. SCHS needed a pair of clutch free throws from senior Jess Drohman with 4.5 seconds remaining to escape with a 34-33 win and avoid what could have been a devastating setback. “This would have been a tough loss,” admitted head coach Brian Gentry. “You could see it on the boy’s faces in the locker room after they game. They weren’t happy. They had that look of ‘What did we just about let happen?’” What just about happened was Lakin ending a losing streak to the Beavers on their home floor that began in 1995. There was no indication in the first few minutes that the game would turn into a nail-biter. (See AVOID on page 21)
Inconsistent play haunts SCHS boys
SCHS senior guard Justin Faurot splits a pair of Lakin defenders while driving the lane during Tuesday’s non-league win. (Record Photo)
Scott City head coach Brian Gentry has come to characterize his team as Jekyll and Hyde because he never knows who will show up on any given night. On some nights they can look like one of the top teams in Scott City 52 the state, as they Hays 50 did in an overtime win against Hays (52-50) at the Orange and Black Classic. On other nights they can look like a .500 team, as they did in an overtime loss to Pine Creek (64-57) in the tournament’s consolation finals. Against the bigger and more physical Hays Indians, the Beavers were fast out of the gate, but fell into a second quarter slump when trailed 30-19. Scott City were still down 32-22 early in the second half when they began to take over the game defensively. “We communicated. That was probably the best job we’ve done all season talking to each other (See HAUNT on page 19)
After rough start, SC pulls away from Lady Broncs
SCHS freshman Emily Weathers shoots a basket over Lakin’s Madison Haney during Tuesday’s non-league win. (Record Photo)
Lakin’s ability to drive to the basket and create some easy opportunities early in Tuesday’s game looked like it would be a problem for the Scott City girls. The problem didn’t last for long. With a few defensive adjustments, the Lady Scott City 63 Lakin 50 Beavers (7-6) were able to quickly turn the tables and 63-50 non-league road win. Lakin was leading 12-10 with 2-1/2 minutes remaining in the first quarter when the Lady Beavers put together a 9-0 scoring run to begin taking control of the game. “We finally began to stop them from penetrating our defense. We gave up the lane too easily, which we can’t allow to happen,” says head coach Sarah McCormick. “They were getting layups and, on top of that, we let them add free throws a couple of times.” In addition to shutting down the paint, the Lady Beavers were able to turn the momen-
tum around under the boards. Two baskets during their nine point scoring stretch came on putbacks by Emily Smith and Kiana Yager. Lakin was able to climb back into the game briefly when they cut the deficit to 19-10 early in the second period. SCHS responded with nine more unanswered points, the first four from freshman center Emily Weathers and capped by a three-pointer from Kaitlyn Roberts - her third of the half that opened up a 28-18 lead. Any hope that Lakin had of a comeback was put aside by a 9-2 blitz that began late in the first half and continued into the third period. SCHS scored the first four points of the second half to build a 38-24 advantage. Lakin could get no closer than nine points the remainder of the night. Roberts led a trio of Lady Beavers in double figures with 15 points, followed by Smith and Bailey Latta with 11 points each. (See BRONCS on page 18)
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Bringing home a river monster in Kansas If you remember, last fall I was given the opportunity to do some nuisance beaver trapping at Turkey Creek Golf Course in McPherson. I’ve been helping a local lad, Jared Austin learn the do’s and don’ts, and the in’s and out’s of trapping as I knew them. He became a constant companion as the very first morning we caught what I hoped was the only beaver left there on the golf course. But, as is usually the case, more
Outdoors in Kansas by Steve Gilliland
damage appeared in the form of chewed trees and shrubs, so our quest was not over. For starters, it’s difficult enough to catch every single beaver on any given property, and when the water source is a stream or a river that obviously runs for miles, it’s nearly impossible.
Turkey Creek Golf Course is named for Turkey Creek which runs completely through the course and for miles in each direction, plus the grounds also sports several acres of pond water to boot, so there can theoretically be a constant supply of predators and beavers. The new chewing was on the opposite end of the creek from where our first beaver was caught, so we began by scouting there. Most beaver dwellings in our part of the
country are dens in the bank of a pond, river or stream, and are often hard to spot because beavers attempt to conceal openings to their dens by placing them where they’ll be under water except during very dry times. We walked the creek bank for a time but spotted no den openings, so a couple traps were placed at points where the creek narrowed down, theorizing the beavers would encounter the traps as they cruised up and down
through their neighborhood. Jared lives just a hop, skip and a jump from the golf course, so he checked the traps each morning, saving me lots of time and miles. After a week of checking empty traps, he was on the phone with me one afternoon as he had donned waders and was in the creek checking under every tree stump and looking under every single wad of overhanging grass, searching for a beaver den entrance (I
vaguely remember when I still had that kind of exuberance.) Catching your quarry the first day like we had that first beaver is great, especially for building enthusiasm in a youthful apprentice like it had in Jared. But it also offers a teaching moment for the mentor to impress upon their students how success in hunting, fishing and trapping is often not immediate. He found a couple likely looking (See MONSTER on page 23)
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“When we can get more people involved like that offensively, it makes us pretty much unstoppable. Not only did we have girls open for shots, but they were taking those shots,” says McCormick. “Sometimes we play too timid. I emphasized to the girls today that we need to attack. Put them on their heels. And we did.”
SCHS sophomore Jaren Berning pulls down a rebound during Tuesday’s action at Lakin. (Record Photo)
JV boys dominate inside against Broncs The Scott Community High School junior varsity boys had a rare opportunity to dominate a game in the paint and took full advantage of it on Tuesday. With their post players combining for 35 points, SCHS rolled to a 59-22 win at Lakin. “We finally got a taste of what it’s like to be the
team with the dominant height for one night,” said coach Alex Hutchins. The Beavers put this game away early, jumping out to a 16-2 first quarter lead and owning a 36-8 advantage by halftime. Zach Carson and Reid Brunswig led the team with 15 and 12 points, respectively.
Dexter Gooden added nine points and Joe Evans finished with eight. “The boys did a good job of getting the ball inside on almost every possession and when we did miss we were able to get the rebound and put it back in,” says Hutchins. “I’m pleased with the way they attacked.”
Sub-State Preview While the sub-state tournament is still more than a month away, Friday’s game at Goodland (5-7) will be important in setting the stage for what could be the sub-state title game. “This is a gauge of where we are as a team and how the two of us match up. They are very scrappy, which reminds me a lot of how we play,” says McCormick. “When the ball isn’t going in for them they will turn up the intensity on defense. “Hopefully, we can bring our scrappiness and our skills to the game on Friday. When we have both of those things going for us we’re capable of playing with anyone.” This is also an opportunity for the Lady Beavers to solidify their position as the No. 2 team in the Great West Activities Conference. “We have a target on our backs now because people see that we aren’t the doormat that we’ve been in the past,” McCormick adds. “That means we have to bring our A game every night - not just against certain opponents. That’s what winners have to do.” Have questions about the Scott Commnity Foundation? Call 872-3790
contributes to zero fatalities in 2016
Thanks to the nearly 1,430 volunteer hunter education instructors who serve Kansas, zero hunting-related fatalities were reported in 2016 - a stark contrast to statistics from just 50 years ago when the state saw seven lives lost, two years in a row. Kansas Hunter Education instructors certified 7,692 students in 2016, bringing the total number of students certified to hunt in Kansas to just over half a million since the programs inception in 1973. Nine nonfatal huntingrelated incidents were reported in 2016, making hunting still one of the safest outdoor activities and Kansas one of the safest places to enjoy it in. While nine incidents is a certainly a low number considering the more than five million hunter-days spent afield each year, it
doesn’t lessen the impact made on the families and communities who may have suffered as a result of these incidents. The majority of the hunting-related incidents reported last year were the result of hunters swinging on game with a shotgun and unintentionally hitting a fellow hunter in the line of fire. According to reports, some of the hunters injured in these incidents were not wearing a conspicuous amount of hunter orange, and as a result, were not easily seen in the field. A minimal number of tree stand incidents were also reported last year, but luckily none were fatal. As in years past, these incidents were typically the result of hunters failing to use a full body harness/fall arrest system attached to the tree.
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Lady Beavers fade down stretch against Pine Creek The Scott City girls have learned to be a very competitive team. Now it’s a matter of learning how to win games down the stretch. SCHS was able to stay with Pine Creek for 29 Scott City 35 Pine Creek 43 minutes. They couldn’t finish out the final three in a 43-35 loss in the consolation semi-finals of the Orange and Black Classic. “In close games it’s the little things that matter and those are things we need to correct,” says head coach Sarah McCormick. “We miss an opportunity to box out, or we miss an easy layup and those are things which cost us against good teams.” Trailing 28-17 early in the second half, the Lady Beavers outscored Pine Creek 13-4 over the next six minutes. They closed out the quarter with a six point flurry that started with a basket by Bailey Latta, followed by a steal and layup by junior guard Macie Price. When Kiana Yager drove the baseline for a basket with only
Haunt on defense,” says Gentry. It was also a breakout game for sophomore guard Marshall Faurot who finished the night with 16 points, including a key three-point play late in the third period that cut the Hays lead to 43-37. Senior forward Bo Hess, who also scored 16 points, converted a three-point play to open the fourth quarter which was part of a 9-0 scoring run for the Beavers. It was a very deliberate and methodical fourth quarter that saw Faurot adding a 10-footer at the 4:12 mark that made it a 43-42 game.
:37 left in the period, Scott City suddenly found itself trailing only 32-30. They cut the deficit to a single point, 34-33, with 2:51 remaining, but could get no closer. Emily Weathers added one more field goal, with an assist from Price, with 1:42 to play, that left the Lady Beavers trailing, 38-35. “We know we can play against quality teams like this and win, but we have to get mentally tough and finish it out,” says McCormick. “We’ve got to accept that challenge without backing away. Sometimes our mentality is not to attack, but to play on our heels and we have to get over that.” Price led the Lady Beavers in scoring with 11 points. Whip LOTUS Scott City closed out tournament action on Saturday with a lopsided 66-18 win over Lotus of Aurora, Colo. Scott City forced seven turnovers in the first five minutes and opened up a 14-0 lead. They led 22-3 at the end of the opening period.
SCHS junior Kaitlyn Roberts drives to the basket during Orange and Black Classic action against Pine Creek on Friday. (Record Photo)
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That was Scott City’s final field goal in regulation. Hess and Faurot each converted on a pair of free throws to give Scott City a 46-43 lead. Despite trailing by three points as the final seconds ticked away, Hays seemed content with playing for a final three-point basket and the strategy worked as they hit a long range shot with only :14 remaining - their only points of the fourth quarter - which sent the game into overtime. The Indians scored first in the extra period, but Faurot answered with a three-point basket from the corner with
2:27 remaining. The Beavers struggled at the free throw line late in the game, missing three consecutive charity tosses before senior Justin Faurot drilled a pair with :21 on the clock to extend Scott City’s lead to three, 51-48. Hays added a late field goal and Hess followed with a free throw with 5.6 seconds left. Fall in Overtime Less than 24 hours later the Beavers were in another overtime game, this time losing to Pine Creek (Colo.). It looked like the Beavers might put this game away after
building a 28-18 first half lead and taking a 30-22 advantage at the intermission. However, the Beavers were outscored 18-9 in the third period and were locked in a tight contest throughout the fourth quarter. Scott City’s biggest lead in the final period was 44-40 following a basket by Joe Evans and the Beavers trailed 49-46 with 4:41 remaining. Senior guard Drew Duff knocked down a three-pointer with 3:02 left in the game to put SCHS back on top, 51-49, but that was their final field goal in regulation. Pine Creek was able to knot the score at 53-53 with
:23 to play which sent the game into overtime. Hess, who finished with a team high 18 points, accounted for all of Scott City’s scoring in the extra period. He hit the first of two free throws with :56 on the clock to cut the deficit to 58-57, but Pine Creek was able to score the final six points to pull away. The Eagles were 9-of-10 at the free throw line in overtime. Scott City was just 12-of19 at the charity stripe for the game. Junior guard Jordan Horn was the only other Beavers in double figures with 11 points.
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SCHS Wrestling John Higgins Invitational Jan. 21, 2017 • Lexington Team scores: Lincoln Southwest 157, Lexington 149.5, Holdrege 143.5, Bennington 139, Scott City 119, Gothenburg 113.5, McCook 113, Hastings 109, Adams Central 95, Sidney 85.5, Beatrice 79.5, Bellevue West 67.5, North Platte 66, Cozad 48, Hershey 36 106: Brandon Roberts (Scott City) pinned by Tanner York (Beatrice), 1:21; pinned by Matthew Coe (Bennington) 3:25. 113: Theron Tucker (Scott City) maj. dec. over Camaron Kort (Adam Central) 10-1; pinned by Jayson Scott (North Platte) 2:51; pinned Trevor Felber (McCook) 2:11; dec. over Brady Fago (Lexington) 14-8. Third Place 126: Kaden Wren (Scott City) pinned Vinny Leibert (Lexington) 4:47; dec. over Brayden Carda (Bennington) 6-0; dec. over Nolan Barry (Adams Central) 8-1; dec. by Bryce Larson (Gothenburg) 8-4. Second Place 132: Alex Depperschmidt (Scott City) pinned Mason Bales (McCook) 2:49; pinned by Oscar Baird (Bellvue West) 1:09; maj. dec. over Cody Barbee (Adams Central) 17-5; pinned by Trystan Berry (Lexington) 1:36. 138: Justin Hundertmark (Scott City) pinned by Jake Cluxton (Bennington) 0:33; dec. over Kanyon Eckard (Cozad) 8-3; pinned Quintin Hartig (Beatrice) 2:13; pinned by Tyler Johnston (Holdrege) 0:23. 152: Jarrett Jurgens (Scott City) pinned Emilio Ramos (North Platte) 1:38; pinned John Goeschel (Bellvue West) 0:45; sudden victory over Logan McDonald (Bennington) 6-4; maj. dec. by Derek Robb (Sidney) 8-0. Second Place 160: Wyatt Hayes (Scott City) pinned Dawson Brannen (Bellvue West) 0:25; pinned Tyler Carstens (Lincoln Southwest) 0:31; pinned Pierro Garcia (Lexington) 1:46. First Place 170: Cale Goodman (Scott City) pinned by Tucker Bassinger (Beatrice) 2:23; dec. by Patrick Peterson (Gothenburg) 2-1. 182: Izaac Miller (Scott City) pinned by Justin Shaw (Lincoln Southwest) 0:50; pinned by Zane Platter (Gothenburg) 1:43. 195: Kyle Sherwood (Scott City) pinned Imanol Munoz (Holdrege) 1:34; dec. over Jack Hinrichs (Sidney) 8-3; dec. by Jaret Matson (McCook) 3-1; dec. over Ethan Mullen (Adams Central) 6-2; pinned by Noah Gugelman (Gothenburg) 2:45. Fourth 285: Luke Wright (Scott City) pinned by Zachary Wioskowski (Adams Central) 0:54; pinned by Colin Giron (McCook) 0:25.
Fishing Report Scott State Lake Updated January 19 Channel cats: fair; most in the 13 to 18 inch range. No recent reports Crappie: fair to good; up to 13 inches. Vertically fishing jigs around the fish attractors. Largemouth bass: fair to good; up to 5.5 lbs. Vertically fishing jigs around the fish attractors. Sunfish: fair to good; up to 8 inches. Vertically fishing jigs around the fish attractors. Saugeye/walleye: fair to good; up to 7 lbs. No recent reports. Rainbow trout: excellent; 1/2 lb. average. Another stocking of Barrel Springs Pond is scheduled for January 2-7. A valid trout permit must be possessed by anglers 16 years and older to fish for and harvest trout. Anglers are catching limits using powerbait and corn. Worms, marshmallows, and artificial lures such as in-line spinners can be effective.
Gentry looking for someone who wants ownership of Beavermobile If Brian Gentry was a car salesman you might find him on the sales lot, leaning against his baby blue Beavermobile “It’s got low mileage,” says Gentry. “Only been driven on Tuesdays and Fridays, along with an occasional Saturday.” As the prospective customer walks around the car and kicks the wheels, he might turn to Gentry and ask, “How many owners?” “None,” Gentry replies. Impossible, you think. Yet, that’s the situation Gentry and his coaching staff are in more than halfway into the basketball season. They have a car with a great set of wheels. Once on the highway it could go a long way . . . maybe all the way to a state tournament. Yet, there’s no one who wants to get behind the wheel. “I’m looking for someone who wants to take ownership of this team,” says Gentry after his team narrowly avoided what would have been a crushing loss to Lakin to climb one game over the .500 mark. “Our lack of communication on defense is costing us.” He says defensive communication was probably at its best against Hays, which was a big factor in defeating the state-ranked Indians. A day later, the Beavers were like a group of mimes on the defensive side of the ball in the loss to Pine Creek. “We were switching screens against Pine Creek so we could stay on their shooters, but if you don’t communicate and you don’t know you’re being screened then you’re late getting back to the ball,” says Gentry. “When that happened they made us pay for it. We emphasize a lot to these guys that in order to be great they have to get out
Hayes SCHS freshman dropped an 8-4 decision to Bryce Larson (Gothenburg, 32-4). Likewise, Jarret Jurgens (152, 14-1) earned a berth in the finals with falls during his first two rounds before posting a 6-4 overtime win against Logan MacDonald (Bennington, 35-2) in the semi-finals. The 152-pound division was arguably the toughest weight class in the tournament with three of Nebraska’s top grapplers in the field. Jurgens defeated one of that trio in the semi-finals, but dropped an 8-0 major decision in the finals to two-time state champion Derek Robb (Sidney, 38-0). “You go far enough and you’ll find some strong, athletic, talented boys and that’s what happened. They stopped us from being able to do what we normally do,” Lippelmann says. “He was able to control us, which very few are able to do. We scrambled pretty well on our feet, but he owned us on the mat. We emphasize that getting off bottom is an attitude, but we also have to provide the tools and the technique to put
of their comfort zone. For us, our comfort zone is not communicating,” says the head coach. And while turnovers may not appear to be a game-changer on the stat sheet, they seem to occur at the most inopportune times during a game. “I know that possessions in the beginning of a game are just as important as those at the end, but when you’re in a situation with a minute left in a game, or 30 seconds, for obvious reasons there’s more emphasis on those possessions,” Gentry notes. “Our guys have to understand that you can’t take the same risks in crunch time that you might in the first quarter.” Just as importantly, a team can’t be willing to give away a possession or two just because they have the lead. After building a 10 point cushion late in the second quarter against Pine Creek, Gentry says the team went through a couple of “nonchalant possessions” in which they didn’t give themselves good looks at the basket. “We could have gotten a post touch and perhaps drawn a foul which would have put us on the line for a couple of points. Instead, we look at the scoreboard, see the 10 point lead and take the shot (on the perimeter) that comes easy rather than working for the better opportunity to score.” Gentry says getting the ball into the paint was an emphasis against Pine Creek and was instrumental in Scott City’s first half success. “But, our guards have to be patient
and our post people have to establish their position,” Gentry says. “We did that early and had some success, but then we began to rush things and the defense was able to deflect five passes into the paint. Part of that is the post not holding their position and part of it is the guards not waiting for them to get into position. “That’s when we started fading away from the paint and playing more guardoriented basketball on the perimeter,” he says. “There are games when we have to do that because we don’t have a size advantage - which is going to be most games. But, when we do have the advantage down low we have to make that something we can do consistently.” Gentry sees glimpses of the pieces coming together for this team. Despite coming out of the Orange and Black with a 1-2 record, he points out they saw three teams with very different styles of play. “Hopefully we’re learning from each of these games,” he adds. And while the team’s 7-6 record isn’t typical - and isn’t where they’d like to be - Gentry remains positive. “Regardless of what our record is in another month, we’re in the March Madness Tournament. We’re in sub-state no matter what,” he says. By then, perhaps Gentry will be able to hand the keys off to someone who wants to get behind the wheel. And, should that happen, this team could be in for quite a ride.
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yourself in position to escape. “Those are things we definitely have to work on with our best kids. That’s a good thing to see this time of year,” he says. “Another great thing about this tournament is that we can learn from our losses and not worry about having to see these same kids again down the road at regional and state.” Seeing a couple of grapplers fall from the undefeated ranks wasn’t necessarily a bad thing, says the head coach. “Keeping a perfect record is one less thing you have to worry about. Sometimes I worry that it puts a kid in a situation where they are sometimes wrestling not to lose rather than wrestling to win and that’s not how you want to be thinking late in the season. But, these kids have been wrestling for awhile and they keep everything in perspective.” Tucker Wins Bronze Theron Tucker showed that he may not be ready to give up the 113-pound weight class. He dropped from 120 pounds and dropped just one
match to the eventual tournament champion on his way to a third place finish. In the consolation finals he won a 14-8 decision over Brady Fago (Lexington). “He wanted to see how his strengths lined up. With his length, he’s very tough at 113,” Lippelmann says. “Third place is a very good weekend in this tournament.” That could also make challenge matches interesting in the weight room with the expected return of freshman Justus McDaniel who has been sidelined following knee surgery. McDaniel is expected to resume practice within the week and compete in the Great West Activities Conference dual tournament on Feb. 4. Prior to surgery, McDaniel had earned a varsity spot at 113 pounds. Sherwood is Fourth Sophomore Kyle Sherwood also put together a very good weekend with a fourth place finish in the 195-pound division. He dropped a tough 3-1 decision in the semi-finals to
Jaret Matson (McCook) and in the consolation finals was pinned by Noah Gugelman (Gothenburg, 35-9). “We saw that conditioning became a factor. When you’re wrestling other big, strong boys by the time we got to the third period we were turning all sorts of unnatural colors,” Lippelmann says. “We see that we have to push ourselves a little more and that’s the reason behind the morning conditioning. “This was also the first time for some kids to wrestle up to five times in one day and it’s an opportunity to see what your stamina is like.” A pleasant surprise was a fifth place finish by sophomore Justin Hundertmark who was seeded in the No. 16 spot. After a first round loss to the top seed, Hundertmark won four of his next five matches. “To get into the medal round, Justin did a nice rookie roll and put the kid to his back and he kept him there,” says Lippelmann. “It was great to see Justin enjoy some success over the weekend.”
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Still some flaws for KU to overcome to stay on top in league After last Saturday’s 79-67 win against Texas, Kansas faces the most-challenging three-game stretch of their regular-season basketball schedule. KU played at West Virginia earlier by this week, and now travels to SEC Mac power Kentucky on Saturday and Stevenson completes the three-game run versus ranked teams with a home game against Baylor on Wednesday. After the Texas game, KU had won 18 games in a row (7-0 in Big 12) and were ranked No. 1 in the coaches’ poll and No. 2 in the AP Poll. Coach Bill Self has done another magnificent coaching job with KU’s team. These three games will help determine whether or not sophomore center Carlton Bragg (6-10, 240) is going to become a quality player for the Jayhawks. If Bragg develops into a dependable player on offense and defense, KU will be a team that deserves its high national ranking. Bragg’s most obvious shortcoming to date has been bad hands; what isn’t known is what causes the weakness in catching passes - nervousness or lack of hand-eye coordination. Bragg has the size and quickness to be an outstanding pivot player, but he needs to be more aggressive and consistent. Kansas played well while winning their last two games, but a potentially fatal flaw has appeared. The Jayhawks committed 18 turnovers against Iowa State and 16 in the Texas game. Most of the turnovers have been caused by carelessness and the worst offender has been freshman Josh Jackson, who turned it over four times at Ames and six against Texas. After the Texas game, Coach Self recognized the weakness and said, “We just turned it over . . . bad turnovers too. That fragmented the game. I don’t think you can look good when you turn it over that much.” Kansas State notched their most impressive win of the season by defeating West Virginia 79-75 last Saturday. The Wildcats moved their record in the Big 12 to 4-3 (15-4 overall) and greatly improved their chances of making the NCAA Tournament. K-State has been the victim of poor officiating in several close losses and the win in the hard-fought game with West Virginia couldn’t have come at a better time. Coach Bruce Weber’s team is playing solid basketball; when K-State is hitting their 3-point shots they are a formidable ball club. The Wildcats are at Tennessee in the SEC-Big 12 Challenge on Saturday (Jan. 28). National Signing Day The national signing day for college football is February 1. Even though Kansas State coach Bill Snyder never says much about his recruiting prior to signing day, the media always ranks the Wildcats toward the bottom of the Big 12. Nevertheless, Snyder regularly sends several players from each K-State team to the NFL. Through January 21, K-State had 15 commitments and was ranked 73rd in the nation by Rivals. com. Snyder had nine 3-star recruits and six with 2-star ratings. Kansas is ranked as the 62nd best class in the nation with 17 commitments including ten 3-star players, six 2-stars, and one 4-star recruit. Kansas State is going to have an outstanding football team next fall and Kansas should continue their climb toward respectability. But the national recruiting rankings for both schools are far from encouraging. Alabama is ranked as having the best recruiting class with seven 5-star players, 15 4-stars, and two 3-stars. With that vast discrepancy between the top program and teams like K-State, it’s easy to see why just a few schools have a realistic chance to win the national championship in football. Kansas football coach David Beaty, in effect, admitted he made a coaching mistake in 2016. To correct it, he hired Doug Meacham as the Jayhawks’ offensive coordinator for 2017. Meacham has been the OC at TCU for the past three seasons. Beaty assumed that position last season - along with calling the plays from the sideline - and that proved to be a major mistake. After the hiring, Beaty said, “I am thrilled to be adding someone of the caliber of Doug Meacham to our staff and I am incredibly thankful to have him moving forward.” Beaty has stated that Meacham will be in charge of the offense, which includes the play calling. This move will stabilize the KU sideline during tight games and free Beaty to resume the roll of head coach. It’s a much-needed change that will ensure improvement in the coaching strategy.
Avoid The taller Beavers dominated the glass as expected and offensively they had a number of great looks at the basket. What they didn’t have were points. In the first four minutes of the game they had six offensive rebounds and only two baskets. They were just 3-of-12 from the field in the first quarter. “Had we taken advantage of all those opportunities it changes everything. It doesn’t allow (Lakin) to get into the slow-down game they wanted to play - at least not to the degree that they were able to milk the clock on a lot of their possessions,” says Gentry. The Broncs drilled three consecutive treys - two at the end of the first quarter and another to open the second period - and take a 9-6 lead. Another trey gave Lakin their largest lead of the night, 13-8. Despite pulling down 19 first half rebounds, the Beavers trailed at the intermission, 19-17. That set the stage for a second half in which turnovers were critical and baskets were rare. SCHS had just four second half field goals with only one of those coming in the final eight minutes. Lakin’s largest lead of the second half was three points (24-21) while the Beavers never led by more than a point. Scott City’s first lead in the final period didn’t occur until there was just 2:34 remaining when sophomore Marshall Faurot drew a foul in the paint and hit a pair of free throws to make it a 31-30 game. The Beavers were able to get the defensive rebound with 2:02 to play and then it came down to how well they could protect the ball. Gentry had to call two timeouts when ball handlers got into trouble, but the Beavers eventually did commit a turnover with 55.7 seconds remaining. Lakin was unable to capitalize on their next possession with the Beavers forcing a turnover at the other end of the floor. The Broncs were forced to foul and put junior guard Jordan Horn on the line where he hit the first of two free throws with 34.8 seconds to play. Lakin guard Diego Davila brought a roar
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from the home crowd when he drained a threepointer at the 16.2 second mark. “That was another defensive breakdown,” noted Gentry. “If the guy driving inside makes the basket then he only ties the game, but we left their best shooter uncovered and they kick it back out to him for the three.” The Beavers didn’t call a timeout and senior guard Bo Hess was weaving through traffic along the left side of the court. As he was making his way in front of the Scott City bench, Drohman set a screen and was run over by a Lakin player in pursuit. A foul was called against Lakin with 4.5 seconds to play and Hess stepped to the line for a pair of free throws. Immediately, some Bronc players and their bench questioned whether the right player was about to shoot free throws and after a quick discussion the officials agreed that Drohman should be at the line. “I knew I should have been the one shooting free throws, but I figured if they were going to let Bo that was okay,” said Drohman As the two players met near the free throw line Hess made a comment to Drohman that drew a smile.
“That made me relax a little. I really wasn’t nervous,” said Drohman, who hit nothing but net. “It felt good to make the first one.” Lakin called a timeout in an effort to ice the shooter and while on the bench Drohman said he remained focused on making the next free throw. The second attempt caught the front of the rim before crawling into the basket. “I didn’t follow through like I normally do and it came up just a little short,” Drohman said about the game winning shot. “I felt that would give us the win, but the way the game had gone I wasn’t so sure either.” A desperation three by the Broncs just ahead of
the buzzer was well off the mark. Gentry said the ability to hit clutch free throws in that situation is a result of being focused on mechanics during practice. “You just have to let your body take over and do what you’ve trained it to do hundreds of times in practice,” says the head coach. Ironically, Drohman was on the floor because of his defense. “At one point late in the game we had a loose ball on the floor and our guy chose not to go on the floor, so I sent in Jess because I know he’s not afraid to hit the floor,” said Gentry. “So, he gets in there for a couple of minutes and comes up huge at the very end.”
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Takedown Kids Wrestling Gray County Invitational January 21, 2017 6-Years and Under 43: Kale Clinton (Scott City) dec. over Maxton Roths (Dodge City) 6-2; maj. dec. by Braydenn Lucero (Greater Gold) 8-0; maj. dec. by Dominic Sanchez (Ulysses) 10-2; maj. dec. by Michael Hermosillo (Scott City) 12-3. Fourth Place 43: Michael Hermosillo (Scott City) dec. by Dominic Sanchez (Ulysses) 8-2; tech. fall over Kellen Williams (Dodge City) 16-0; pinned by Braydenn Lucero (Greater Gold); maj. dec. over Kale Cllinton (Scott City) 12-3. Third Place 46: Noah Wheeler (Scott City) pinned Malaki Delgado (Ulysses); pinned Maverick Folger (Ulysses); pinned George Guebara Lii (Greater Gold); pinned Maddox Delgado (Ulysses) 1:51. First Place 52: Jaxon Fisher (Scott City) pinned Drake Metzger (Scott City) 1:55; pinned Danyel Arvizo-lima (Dodge City) 0:29; maj. dec. by Josiah Guebara (Greater Gold) 10-2; dec. by Marshall Wise (Ulysses) 10-4. Third Place 52: Drake Metzger (Scott City) pinned by Jaxon Fisher (Scott City) 1:55; pinned by Josiah Guebara (Greater Gold) 0:43; tech. fall by Marshall Wise (Ulysses) 18-1. Fifth Place 58: Sage Kite (Scott City) maj. dec. over Crayton Wright (Dodge City) 13-0; maj. dec. over Edward Ruiz (Dodge City) 13-2; pinned Jacob Romo (SW Grapplers) 0:44; dec. by Oakley Rich (Dodge City) 4-3. Second Place 61-64A: Brody Rios (Scott City) dec. by James Hill (Greater Gold) 9-7; pinned by Beau Porter (Leoti) 0:20; maj. dec. by Christian Guzman (SW Grapplers) 10-0. Fourth Place 8-Years and Under 52: Cooper Irvin (Scott City) dec. by Kolton Whisler (Mulvane) 6-4; dec. by Haegan Hartman (SW Grapplers) 4-0; pinned Isak Mariche (Dodge City) 0:37; maj. dec. over Marshall Wise (Ulysses) 14-4. Third Place 55: Konner Rohrbough (Scott City) dec. by Ethan Wallace (Greater Gold) 6-0; dec. over Jarret Scott (Lakin) 11-4; pinned by Alex Robles (Ulysses) 1:56; pinned Jarret Scott (Lakin) 0:59. Fifth Place 58: Trenton Frank (Scott City) dec. over Jack Myers (Holcomb) 6-0; dec. over Jaxsen Salinas (Ulysses) 4-2; maj. dec. over Elliot Williams (Dodge City) 10-1; maj. dec. over Jayden Maldonado (Lakin) 8-0. First Place 58B: Rylan Wilkinson (Scott City) pinned Carter Sissick (Hugoton) 0:31; pinned Nathan Santana (Dodge City) 0:50; pinned Nathan Estes (Lakin) 0:25. First Place 61: Drew Metzger (Scott City) pinned Blake Latham (Gray County) 1:56; pinned Isaac Day (Lakin) 2:13; pinned Colton Heronemus (SW Grapplers) 1:15. First Place 64: Matthew Wheeler (Scott City) dec. over Preston Hittle (Ulysses) 4-0; pinned Wyatt Mannel (Liberal) 0:44; pinned Tayson Guerra (Leoti) 0:51. First Place 70: Blaze Gossman dec. over Ethan Taylor (SW Grapplers) 8-7; pinned Zim Clark (Leoti) 0:27; pinned Easton Steiner (Dodge City) 0:15.
First Place 88: Max Depperschmidt (Scott City) dec. over Blake Dameron (Dodge City) 4-3; pinned by Brandon Moreno (SW Grapplers) 0:56; pinned by Ben Vogel (Gray County) 1:34; pinned by Kain Unger (Scott City); dec. over Blake Dameron (Dodge City) 6-2. Seventh Place 88: Kain Unger (Scott City) pinned by Giovanni Benitez (Greater Gold) 0:18; dec. by Lane Williams (Dodge City) 11-8; pinned by Yahir Marquez (Ulysses) 1:55; pinned Max Depperschmidt (Scott City); pinned by Yahir Marquez (Ulysses). Sixth Place 10-Years and Under 67: Tyler Roberts (Scott City) pinned Isis Dominguez (Liberal) 0:43; pinned Justin Sallee (Liberal) 0:22; dec. over Devyn Geyer (Leoti) 8-6. First Place 70: Ryland Price (Scott City) pinned by Braysen Salinas (Ulysses) 0:23; dec. over Jayden Amaro (Dodge City) 5-4; pinned by Logan Seifried (Gray County) 2:18; pinned Dylan Wainscott (Dodge City). Third Place 73: Kade John (Scott City) dec. over Saben Herrera (Greater Gold) 8-6; maj. dec. over Timmy Johnson (Sublette) 14-3; dec. by Bryson Rohr (Dodge City) 15-8; dec. by Saben Herrera (Greater Gold) 7-5. Fourth Place 73: Waylon Ricker (Scott City) maj. dec. over Bryson Rohr (Dodge City) 101; pinned Jaiden Olvedo (Greater Gold) 2:26; pinned Camden Bergkamp (Lakin) 0:20; dec. over Saben Herrera (Greater Gold) 7-2; maj. dec. over Bryson Rohr (Dodge City) 12-2. First Place 76-79: Alexander Rodriguez (Scott City) pinned Nathan Euler (Liberal) 1:59; pinned Christoper Beard (Hugoton) 0:52; dec. over Sebastian Heredia (Ulysses) 7-4. First Place 95-100: Houston Frank (Scott City) pinned Valentin Alvarado (Leoti) 0:57; pinned Austin Temaat (Dodge City) 0:11; pinned Ryan Gonzales (Dodge City) 0:39; dec. over Ethen Allen (Greater Gold) 1-0. First Place 110: Jacob Franco (Scott City) pinned by Khris Hermosillo (Leoti) 0: 29; pinned Kyler Robison (Ulysses) 0:26; dec. by Holden Kite (Dodge City) 7-2; pinned by J.J. Altman (Leoti) 0:58. Fourth Place 12-Years and Under 88: Zach Roberts (Scott City) pinned by Javion Ornelas (Greater Gold) 1:07; pinned by Matthew Montoya (Greater Gold) 0:26; pinned by Tommy McClure (Hugoton) 0:36; pinned by Kooper Wright (1:01). Fifth Place 88: Kooper Wright (Scott City) pinned Tommy McClure (Hugoton) 0:34; pinned by Matthew Montoya (Greater Gold) 1:00; pinned Javion Ornelas (Greater Gold) 0:50; pinned Zach Roberts (Scott City) 1:01. Second Place 92-100: Treven Jones (Scott City) pinned by Colin Kleysteuber (Greater Gold); pinned by Adam Mendoza (Hugoton) 1:15; pinned by Kaden Garvalena (Dodge City) 0:44. Sixth Place 14-Years and Under 115-120: Kale Wheeler (Scott City) dec. by Aiden Hurtado (Dodge City) 9-2; pinned Anjelina Serrano (Greater Gold) 1:40; pinned Kade Lovelady (Lakin) 0:33; pinned Marcelino Oteromartinez (Dodge City) 1:18. Second Place
Monster locations, and though I silently thought them “iffy” at best, I encouraged him to move traps there and see what happened (yet another learning opportunity.) The next couple days he caught raccoons but no beavers, then the ice storm happened and the creek became too high to find the traps for a day or so. On Thursday morning I set several traps around the biggest pond on the golf course and the two of us made plans to meet early Friday morning to check them all. Friday morning was foggy with a light mist falling as we commandeered a golf cart to make our rounds. Our first stop was where he had moved traps a few days prior, and we parked the cart beside a chewed-up tree the beaver
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had cut completely down. I think the cart was still moving when Jared dove out and all-but-sprinted down the bank. I was still stumbling around trying to wipe the mist and fog from my glasses when I heard him splashing across the creek, followed by hoots of “Got one, alright, finally!” The traps we use kill a beaver very quickly, so with my glasses still foggy and propped onto my nose, I blundered across the creek to find a kid with a smile on his face the size of the crescent moon holding up a gigantic old beaver. I estimated the old monster to weigh 45–50 pounds with immense front incisor teeth an inch long and as wide as my thumb nails. No wonder it had caused so much damage and was capable of completely toppling trees.
Who knows how long that old rascal had live there and how many of the problem beavers we were after it had apprenticed itself. We continued on, checking traps I had set around the pond and were rewarded with one more average sized beaver. I explained to Jared why I’d put each trap where I had, and he helped me set a couple more. He also got to sense my frustration with not catching as many as I’d hoped in the traps I had set. Beavers are amazing critters that get themselves in trouble just doin’ what they were created to do. Beaver colonies cutting down trees to dam up streams in mountain meadows somewhere create ponds that actually do Nature a favor by providing homes for trout, ducks and other wildlife.
But here in Midwestern farm country, beavers damming up streams and rivers that flood productive farm land, or chewing and cutting down trees on the local pristine golf course are not going to be tolerated. It’s kind of ironic that my apprentice’s first beaver was so big, as the first beaver I ever caught was just as large and required my wife and I hauling it up a steep river bank, through a briar patch and a couple hundred yards to the waiting pickup. I don’t know the average life span of a Kansas beaver, but to be sure the old brute Jared caught had beaten the odds and bested the average! Continue to Explore Kansas Outdoors! Steve can be contacted by email at stevegilliland@idkcom.net
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one more goal
Lady Hornets top Hoxie for NWKL tournament crown Chalk up another goal for the Dighton High School girls. “We met another goal,” said head coach Amy Felker following Saturday’s Hoxie 34 N o r t h w e s t Dighton 47 Kansas League title game in Oberlin. “We’re league champions and we beat Hoxie for a second time.” But, she’s just as quick to point out the team has bigger dreams in mind. “This isn’t where we peak,” she said following the 47-34 win. “Every game is important in reaching our bigger goals down the road.” Nonetheless, this was still a very good win to have on that journey. Except for a brief time late in the first quarter when they fell behind, 10-9, the Lady Hornets (11-0) were in control throughout the night. Having beaten the Lady Indians once this season, DHS seemed to play with another level of confidence which came, in large part, from outstanding defense. Hoxie’s biggest scoring run of the night was 6-0 when they grabbed the 10-9 lead. Only one time the rest of the night did the Lady Indians score consecutive baskets and that didn’t happen until 4-1/2 minutes remaining when they cut the deficit to 41-29. “Our game plan going in was to stop (Rebekah) Castle on the inside and we needed to be sure Members of the DHS basketball team which captured the Northwest Kansas League Tournament title are (front row, from left) Delainey Marsteller, Ella Roberts, Jordan Speer, Sara Cramer, Kenadee O’Brien and Trenedy Beaton. (Back row) assistant coach Kelsey Hubin, Marissa Villarreal, Gentry Shapland, Emily Sheppard, Mallory Dowell, Melanie Whipple, Trinity Pierce and head coach Amy Felker. (Record Photo)
we had hands in the shooters’ faces,” says Felker. “We were very disciplined. Every shot they took there was someone there. We didn’t give up many second chance opportunities.” Led by the scoring duo of Jordan Speer and Sara Cramer with 18 and 17 points, respectively, Dighton gradually pulled away from Hoxie in the second period. Speer’s basket from near the free throw line late in the first half opened up a 24-17 lead at the intermission. Speer proved that was no fluke by stepping away from the basket several times and delivering daggers to the Indians. “They had two girls and sometimes three on Jordan any time she was in the paint, so I told her that her shot will be from the outside,” Felker said. “She’s worked hard on her shot and she has confidence in her ability from the outside.” The senior center added another basket with 4:27 left in the third period for a 30-19 lead, but shortly afterwards picked up her third foul and went to the bench. Hoxie was unable to take advantage of Speer’s absence, scoring just three points over the final 3-1/2 minutes of the quarter. “Every day in practice we work our zone defense really hard and most of the time we have Jordan and Sara on the floor. But, there are times we’ll pull Sara or Jordan out for situations like this so the girls will
Dighton High School senior Sara Cramer is blanketed by two defenders as she puts up a jump shot during Saturday’s NWKL championship game in Oberlin. (Record Photo)
learn how they’re supposed to rotate,” says Felker. “It gives the girls confidence that they can do what needs to be done without those two on the floor.” When Speer returned, she hit a baseline jumper to open the final period and scored her team’s first seven points while
blowing the game open, 41-24, the Lady Indians 31-6 in the with 4:56 remaining. second half. Cramer finished with a game Blow Away Sainty high 25 points (9-of-21 FG), In the tournament semi-fi- while Speer added 14 points nals, Dighton ripped St. Fran- and eight rebounds. Freshman cis, 57-16. forward Ella Roberts finished They jumped out to a 15-3 with 10 points and eight refirst quarter lead and outscored bounds.
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As a photographer, you always want to capture the emotions on full display in the moment. Nothing quite matches the emotion of winning a state championship as the Dighton High School girls did at last spring’s Class 1A-Division II tournament.
sports photo favorites from 2016 Our love of sports has given us a front row seat to many exciting moments watching high school athletes from around the area and throughout the state. If you attend enough events the odds are in your favor that you’ll capture a special moment or something out of the ordinary. The biggest challenge, especially when we become so connected with many of our local athletes, is not just becoming a fan while having the best seat in the house.
Sports photography is a matter of putting yourself in the right position to give yourself a chance at a good photo. And then you still have to be lucky, like we were in capturing this shot of Scott City’s Marshall Faurot as he made a catch against Colby.
The finish line at a state track meet is all but guaranteed to provide a great moment. Scott City freshman Jack Thomas was able to steal a glance to his right as he won the Class 3A 3200m in a photo finish.
Sometimes the moment can be gut-wrenching, such as the Class 3A state finals of the 300m intermediate hurdles. Scott City’s Drake McRae was all but assured of a silver medal until the competitor to his right knocked down the final hurdle which began a chain reaction. McRae crashed on the track only about 10 yards from the finish and settled for seventh place.
Record photos by Rod Haxton
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ag briefs
Water series at GMD annual meeting Thurs. “Water Talk Series 2017” will be featured at four area locations during February. Sponsored by the Kansas Water Office, Groundwater Management District No. 1 and the USDA, the program will discuss a variety of water, insurance and technology programs that impact area producers. Nearby locations and dates include: Feb. 1: 10:00 a.m. (CST), Northwest Kansas Technical College auditorium, Goodland. Feb. 2: 11:00 a.m. (CST), Sharon Springs, fairgrounds. Feb. 14: 9:00 a.m., Finney County Fairgrounds, Garden City. Feb. 21: 9:00 a.m., Grant County Civic Center, Ulysses. Discussion at Sharon Springs will include water use goals for GMD No. 1 and the Wichita County Water Conservation Area. Agenda items at all stops will include: •New limited irrigation crop insurance coverage offered by USDA-RMA. •Regional groundwater changes. •Irrigation technology. •Economic study of water conservation in the Sheridan 6 LEMA. •Kansas Water Technology farm research updates.
KSU workshops on coping with farm economy Negotiating the terms of seed and chemical purchases, keeping detailed farm records and considering the long-term picture are among recommendations made by Kansas State University agricultural economists in response to the historic farm-economy downturn currently occurring across the U.S. “Farm costs are 90 percent of revenue. Can we cut them to 80 percent?” asked Allen Featherstone, head of K-State’s Department of Agricultural Economics, during a recent conference, “Top 10 Considerations to Navigate a Struggling Farm Economy.” Conference presentations will address critical aspects of farming operations which are especially important in this time of low commodity and livestock prices. Upcoming program dates and contact number are: Feb. 6: Hays, K-State Ag Research Center, 1232 240th Ave., (785) 628-9430. Feb. 7: Dodge City, Knights of Columbus Hall, 800 Frontview, (620) 2274542. Feb. 8: Colby, City Limits Convention Center, 2227 S. Range, (785) 4604582. Each program starts with sign-in at 8:30 a.m. followed by presentations beginning at 9:00 a.m. Lunch is included. Registration is requested at least eight days prior to the specific program you plan to attend.
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Kansas ag losses with TPP withdrawal NCBA estimates $400k loss daily due to tariffs President Donald Trump ended United States participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership on Monday, an expected decision that raised concerns for Kansas farm and ranch organizations. Trump said throughout his campaign that he would stop the TPP, and Hillary Clinton seconded that idea, saying it was bad for the country. Supporters and detractors of
the 12-nation deal have been vocal as its particulars were hammered out over almost a decade. But, through the agriculture lens, there is little doubt the TPP would have brought money to Kansas farmers and ranchers, and Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback and Sen. Pat Roberts have been vocal in their support of the pact. Other industries also would have been affected, including aerospace. In 2015, Kansas’ total exports were valued at $10.7 billion, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. “We supported it,” said Kansas Farm Bureau spokes-
man Warren Parker. “We are certainly concerned, to say the least. “But, one of the things that Trump had said in his campaign was that agriculture and the industry would certainly have a seat at the table. Trade is extremely important to us. We are hoping that this does not mean a derail and that trade gets thrown completely off the tracks.” Todd Domer, spokesman for the Kansas Livestock Association, said that while the TPP announcement wasn’t a surprise, it is “pretty problematic” for the U.S. beef industry. “The National Cattleman’s
Beef Association estimates that U.S. beef producers are losing $400,000 every day without TPP, and that is due to the tariff advantage that Australia currently has over the U.S. on beef shipped into just Japan,” he said. Tian Xia, an associate professor and agricultural economist at Kansas State University, said Australia currently sells beef to Japan with a tariff of 19.5 percent for frozen beef and 23.5 percent for chilled beef. That is compared to U.S. ranchers, who face a 38.5 percent tariff to sell in Japan. (See TPP on page 27)
GIPSA administrator reflects on ag battles, lessons learned Tom Parker Kansas Rural Center
Larry Mitchell, fresh out of college and back on the farm, was building fence when the phone rang. His father answered, listened for a minute, said he’d be right back. Got a call, he told his son, some farmers want you to represent them at a parity march in Washington, D.C. Mitchell just shook his head. Tell them I’m busy building fence, I don’t have time for that. His father headed back to the house. A few minutes later he returned. You go on up to the house and call her, he said. She’s mad-
I have met farmers from all around the world, and they will tell you two things: I want to make a fair living with a fair price in a fair market, and I want to be left alone. That’s tough. You can’t do it without regulations. There are reasons for regulations. This tide has been drowning us for a decade and it’s probably going to get worse soon. Larry Mitchell, GIPSA administrator with USDA
der than a hornet. Mitchell went back to the house and called her. He arrived in Washington, D.C. on March 5, 1985, the first of seven trips he would make that year. It was a heady experience for a Texas farm boy. Across the nation the farm crisis was reaching critical mass but here were thousands of farmers just like him marching to the very halls of Congress to demand reform and justice. The protests
were a grassroots outpouring of civil disobedience. It was an effort to keep farmers on the land. And in it were planted the seeds of his future career. Looking back on those early days and all that followed, Mitchell just shook his head and said, “It was a hell of a ride.” Mitchell, currently Administrator of the USDA’s Grain Inspection, Packers and
First farm bill hearing is set for Manhattan The U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry is wasting no time in getting to work on the next Farm Bill. Chairman Pat Roberts and ranking minority member Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) said the first field hearing of the 115th Congress will focus on Farm Bill reauthorization in Manhattan on Feb. 23. The hearing is titled “Hearing from the Heartland: Perspectives on the 2018 Farm Bill from Kansas” and will be hosted in McCain Auditorium, though the time is yet to be announced.
“Our producers have had time to employ the programs in the current Farm Bill, and they have a lot to say. We need clear direction on what is working and what is not working in farm country, and we will be listening to see what needs to be adjusted,” Roberts said. Attendees will hear testimonies from a variety of agricultural producers who have yet to be announced. “I am looking forward to this field hearing so we can craft a bill that continues to strengthen American agriculture as well as small towns and rural communities,” said Stabenow.
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Stockyards Administration (GIPSA), reminisced about his past in a presentation entitled “Reflections of a Plowboy in Purgatory on the Potomac” during the Kansas Farmers Union state convention. The former plowboy is now responsible for programs that facilitate the marketing of livestock, poultry, meat, cereals, oilseeds and related agricultural products, and for promoting fair and competitive trading practices for the overall benefit of consumers and American agriculture. Markets serviced by GIPSA represent a total economic value of about $170 billion annually with exports contributing over (See GIPSA on page 27)
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Market Report Closing prices on January 24, 2017 Bartlett Grain Red Wheat............ $ 3.22 White Wheat ....... $ 3.22 Milo .................... $ 2.58 Corn ................... $ 3.10 Soybeans (new crop) $ 9.28 Scott City Cooperative Wheat.................. $ 3.22 White Wheat ....... $ 3.22 Milo (bu.)............. $ 2.58 Corn.................... $ 3.10 Soybeans ........... $ 9.29 Sunflowers.......... $ ADM Grain Wheat.................. Milo (bu.)............. Corn.................... Soybeans............ Sunflowers..........
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Food Facts In the U.S., broccoli was probably first grown by immigrants from Italy in home gardens in Brooklyn, N.Y. In 1923, a group of Italian vegetable farmers in Northern California started to grow broccoli commercially and in a few years they were shipping fresh broccoli to Boston and New York.
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The TPP would have gradually reduced the tariff U.S. producers paid, immediately to 27.5 percent, then gradually to nine percent over 16 years, Xia said. Although Australia would have seen the same benefit as a TPP participant, he said, the pact would have leveled the playing field. The trade agreement also would have increased opportunities for Kansas farmers in other foreign markets, such as Vietnam and Peru, he said. Estimates expected the U.S. beef industry to increase total exports by about eight percent just by going into the Japanese market, which would have been about $130 million per year. Add in Vietnam, for instance, and benefits would have increased significantly. Along with beef producers, Kansas wheat farmers also lost opportunities with the TPP failure, Xia said. “Kansas accounts for about 20 percent of U.S. wheat production, and half of the wheat production is exported,” he said. Along with increasing exports, Xia said, the TPP was expected to increase ag prices because of increased competition in larger marketplaces. But Xia, who studies international markets, said concerns about lost U.S. jobs as a result of TPP had challenged the deal from the beginning. “I think trade agreements always will, in some ways, benefit certain industries and may hurt other industries,” he said. “There is a concern with TPP and other trade agreements that producers will export a lot of products to our country and eventually we will have to close a lot of factories and lay off workers. That’s a real concern.” From an economic standpoint, though, trade is considered good and there are ways to use the benefits of increased
trade to compensate the employers and employees who are hurt, Xia said. “You have to make lots of changes in order for the winners to compensate the losers,” he said. The leaders in many of the countries who were part of TPP negotiations - including Japan, which recently ratified the agreement - expressed disappointment because of the benefits they were expecting from the agreement, Xia said. It is likely at least some bilateral trade agreements will be made. Trump’s “America First” focus seems to be a shoutout against globalization, which Xia said can offer enormous benefits. “But, as we all can see in society, when we go through the globalization process, then we’ll create what we call income inequality,” he said. “Some groups will benefit much more than the others, and other groups naturally feel hurt from this process.” Xia said it can be good to stop and assess benefits and losses, then look for ways to fix the problems. The solution doesn’t involve stopping trade. “We need to care about people who will be hurt through this process,” he said. Parker said it is too early to assess what “America First” really means in terms of globalization and trade effects on its members. “If that means that these trade pacts are going to represent America, they’re going to be good for business,” he said. “If (that) means something else, that trade is not a priority, then we’ll be very concerned. I think it’s premature to try to predict which way that goes yet. “We’re concerned about where this goes in the future, and we will be very, very vigilant to see what happens in the future.”
GIPSA $28.7 billion to the U.S. economy. Prior to his current position he served as the associate director of the Office of Advocacy and Outreach at USDA, Deputy Administrator for Farm Programs of the Farm Service Agency (FSA), and Deputy Vice President at Commodity Credit Corporation. He has also served in private and nonprofit sectors as well as Vice President of Government Relations for the National Farmers Union. Farm Crisis Explosion Were it not for a Texas banking crisis, he might have remained a farmer. Yet even before he was forced to seek outside employment, the farm crisis exploded and farmers were pushing back. In McAllen, Tex., 230 farmers were caught on the bridge while protesting imported goods from Mexico that were labeled “Product of the United States.” The federales blocked the south end of the bridge, the McAllen police blocked the north end of the bridge, and the protesters were teargassed, beaten and thrown in jail. Two days later, 2,500 farmers descended on the town of 4,000, demanding their release. It was a powder keg, Mitchell said. It was also the beginning of countryof-origin labeling. In Puxico, Mo., when a bankruptcy judge declared that soybeans stored in an elevator would be sold to pay expenses, 300 farmers showed up one morning and “liberated” the soybeans. The act was the beginning of warehouse indemnity programs, he said. The American Agriculture Movement was organic, estimated to have 2-1/2 million people involved from almost every organization in its earliest days, and it evolved quickly. After the first tractorcade to Washington, D.C., in 1978 failed to meet its objectives, a second tractorcade was planned for the following year. This one involved every major farm organization in the nation except one and a
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lot of their members were part of it, Mitchell said. Organizers laid out a map of the United States and marked off rally points at 100 mile intervals. The timing of their arrival in Washington, D.C., had to be planned around an average driving speed of 15 miles per hour, with farmers converging from almost every state in the union. And this was before cellphones or the Internet. Capital Protest On Feb. 5, 1979, 50,000 farmers showed up in Washington, but more than that, support for the protest came from businesses, churches, tractor dealers, banks and common citizens from all walks of life. It was, one commentator said, the AAM’s equivalent to the Martin Luther King movement of the ‘60s. “And it was, because they stood on the shoulders of what we learned in the Civil Rights movement,” Mitchell said. “Occupy Wall Street had nothing on those guys.” In response, Congress opened the farm bill that the president had just signed. Three proposals came out of the Senate, one of which was written by Bob Dole calling for 100 percent parity loan rates for non-recourse loans. Dole was almost certain that the bill would fail as written. He told the farmers that he could get them 90 percent parity, but not 100 percent. The offer fell on deaf ears. It was 100 percent or nothing. The bill passed the Senate, passed the House by voice vote, and failed in a House recording vote. They got nothing. It was a lesson Mitchell never forgot. “You have to give a little to get a little,” he said. By the time the bank collapse took his farm, Mitchell had been organizing for the AAM for a number of years in Washington, D.C., so advocacy work was a logical choice. But, it was a bitter pill to swallow, and he took to it with the enthusiasm of one aggrieved. His family’s farming roots could be traced back to the 1600s
in England, and that proud heritage came to an end in a Texas court. “I was the last,” he said. Farm Aid Farm Aid exploded on the scene in 1985. It was planned in six weeks, and was so successful that it was apparent it needed to continue. Afterward, organizers brought in representatives from every state to Arlington, Tex., where they underwent three days of intense facilitation training. “Then we all went back home and set up town hall meetings to help people figure out the problems, figure out the solutions, draft resolutions and elect delegates and alternates to the farm and ranch congress in St. Louis,” Mitchell said. From that arose the National Family Farm Coalition, an organization that still exists today. Mitchell was instrumental in the creation of the American Corn Growers Association, of which he served as CEO for seven years, and some of his early successes included getting the Renewable Fuel Standard passed; a major class action lawsuit against the Chicago Board of Trade; and the blocking of a pipeline. After leaving AAM, he was hired in 1994 by the National Farmers Union. The organization continues to be the leader in farm issues, he said. “Your strongest asset is your policy making,” Mitchell said. “There is nothing else like it in agricultural organizations. There’s nothing else better.” Change in Ag Policy One of the biggest things to happen during his time there was the 1996 farm bill that followed the longest farm bill debate in U.S. history. NFU opposed the House committee’s proposed Ag Marketing Transition Act which would eliminate all farm programs and pay decreasing amounts of direct payment for seven years, demanding instead a bill based on profitability, sustainability, flexibility, directability, and
accountability, he said. The bill was filibustered, the government shut down, and, eventually, the bill was vetoed by President Bill Clinton. When the farm bill became law on April 4, 1996, it signaled a major change in agricultural policy. Legislation included the continuation of the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), the expansion of the Food Security Wheat Reserve to include rice, corn and sorghum, the authorization of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), the establishment of the Fund for Rural America, and provisions authorizing marketing quotas, marketing certificates, acreage allotments and paritybased support for wheat, feed grains, cotton and sugar, among others. Mitchell’s years in GIPSA cemented the concept that regulations are sometimes good and sometimes bad but always necessary. “I have met farmers from all around the world, and they will tell you two things: I want to make a fair living with a fair price in a fair market, and I want to be left alone,” he said. “That’s tough. You can’t do it without regulations. There are reasons for regulations. This tide has been drowning us for a decade and it’s probably going to get worse soon.” Mitchell’s views of economics and democracy could be traced back to a book his father bought him from a flea market. “Last Train From Berlin,” written by Howard K. Smith in 1942, told of leaving the city when Germany declared war on America. Along the way the author philosophized on the two sides of democracy, political and economic. The idea resonated with him, and his years of working both on the farm and in the government sector only reinforced the idea. “You can’t have one without the other,” he said. “We beat our chests in this country about how we have a strong democracy, but do we have both halves? Three dollar wheat is not economic democracy.”
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Agriculture
Preconditioning and Growing
Over 20 Years Experience
• 45 Years Experience • Managed and owned by full-time DVM • 2,000 Head capacity Office - 872-5150 • Scott City
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
Stuart Doornbos Home - 872-2775 Cell - 874-0951
Construction/Home Repair
Sager’s Pump Service
Walker Plumbing, Inc. Backhoe & Trenching services • Irrigation & gas leak repairs • Full-line irrigation parts T-L center pivot dealer Floor heat systems Pump & install septic systems Boring equipment
• Irrigation • Domestic • Windmills • Submersibles
423 S. Mesquite Rd. • Scott City • 872-2130
RT Plumbing
Cell: 874-4486 • Office 872-2101
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
ELLIS AG SERVICES
Rex Turley, Master Plumber
Residental and Commercial Plumbing Water Systems, water lines, sewer cleaning faucets and fixtures, garbage diposals and more
Marienthal, Ks.
620-909-5014 (H) • 620-874-4128 (C)
SPENCER PEST CONTROL RESIDENTIAL – COMMERCIAL
• Custom Manure Conditioning • Hauling and Spreading • Custom Swathing and Baling • Rounds-Net or Twine • Gyp and Sand Sales • Custom Harvesting
Termite Baiting Systems • Rodents Weed Control • Structural Insects Termite Control Box 258, Scott City • (620) 872-2870
Call Brittan Ellis • 620-874-5160
Automotive
Faurot Electric, Inc. Office • 620-872-5344 Jeromy Lisenby • 620-214-3247
P.O. Box 14 • Scott City
Red
Specializing in
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Paint inside and out residential, commercial, and industrial. Free estimates and 16 plus years of experience.
PC Painting, Inc.
Landscaping • Lawn/Trees
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Medical
Charles Purma II D.D.S. P.A. General Dentistry, Cosmetics, and Insurance Accepted
We welcome new patients. 324 N. Main • Scott City • 872-2389 Residence 872-5933
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Medical
Horizon Health For your home medical supply and equipment needs! We service and repair all that we sell.
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
1602 S. Main • Scott City • 872-2232 Toll Free : 1-866-672-2232
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.
Homes
Truck Driving
LENDERS OFFERING special government programs for mobile homes and $0 down for landowners. Promo homes with reduced down payments. Use tax refund for additional incentives. Singles from $39,900. Doubles from $59,900. 866-8586862.
CONVOY SYSTEMS is hiring Class A drivers to run from Kansas City to the west coast. Home weekly. Great benefits. www.convoysystems.com. Call Tina, ext. 301, or Lori, ext. 303, at 1-800926-6869. ––––––––––––––––––––– CDL A DRIVERS. Mid Central-South Regional. Run between Nebraska and Texas. Stay off both coasts. Home weekends. 2,800 miles/week. Be home Thanksgiving and Christmas. Fremont Contract Carriers, 866641-6914 or visit www. fcc-inc.com.
For Sale
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: 214-1462
Pro Health Chiropractic Wellness Center
Services
40-FOOT GRADE A steel cargo containers. $1,500 in KC. $2,200 in Solomon, Ks. 20s, 45s, 48s and 53s also available. Call (785) 655-9430 or go on-line to Chuckhenry. com for pricing, availability and freight estimates. ––––––––––––––––––––– SAWMILLS from only $4,397. Make and save money with your own bandmill. Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free info/DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills. com 1-800-578-1363 Ext.300N
Sports/Outdoors
(Scott City Chiropractic) “TLC”... Technology Lead Chiropractic
Dr. James Yager 110 W. 4th St. • Scott City • 872-2310 Toll Free: 800-203-9606
Berning Auction “Don’t Trust Your Auction to Just Anyone”
WESTERN KANSAS hunters and trappers. Petska Fur is running weekly routes. Currently seeking: cats, coyotes, fox, deer hides and antlers. Coyote market exceptionally strong. 308-750-0700. www.petskafur.net.
Help Wanted CITY OF MOUNT HOPE has a full-time public works department position available. Please call 316-661-2211 for job details and qualifications. Application deadline January 31.
Education ENTRY LEVEL heavy equipment operator career. Get trained. Get certified. Get hired. Bulldozers, backhoes and excavators. Immediate lifetime job placement. VA benefits. 1-866-362-6497. Is your subscription paid?
For all your auction needs call:
(620) 375-4130
Russell Berning Box Q • Leoti
Retail
Gene’s Appliance Over 200 appliances in stock! COMPARE OUR PRICES!
We have Reverse Osmosis units in stock. Remember us for parts in stock for all brands of all appliances. Sales and Service Days • Mon. - Sat. Deliveries • Mon.-Sat.
Largest Frigidaire appliance dealer in Western Ks. 508 Madison • Scott City • 872-3686
Networktronic, Inc.
Computer Sales, Service and Repair
S E N JOLUB S B C Driving M LA
Custom computers! Networking solutions! Mon. - Fri. 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. 402 S. Main, Scott City • 872-1300
Northend Disposal A garbologist company. Scott City • 872-1223 • 1-800-303-3371
Tuesday-Saturday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
www.reganjewelers.com
412 N. Main • Garden City • 620-275-5142 All Under One Roof
Revcom Electronics
Your RadioShack Dealer Two-way Radio Sales & Service Locally owned and operated since 1990
1104 Main • Scott City • 872-2625
Dining
for the PURPLE!
Jeremy • 620-397-1638 Stefanie • 620-397-8075
Classifieds
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Buy, sell, trade, one call does it all 872-2090 ot fax 872-0009
Berry Realty • 872-5700
Classified Ad Deadline: Monday at 5:00 p.m. Classified Ad Rate: 20¢ per word. Minimum charge, $5. Blind ad: $2.50 per week extra. Card of thanks: 10¢ per word. Minimum charge, $3. Classified Display Ad rate: $6.00 per column inch.
1102 S. Main, Scott City, Ks 67871 www.berryrealtyonline.com
Charles Berry, Broker • 874-0738 Brett Berry, Sales Assoc. • 316-258-3387 Tracy Chambless, Sales Assoc. • 874-2124
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.
Thank You Thanks to the doctors, nurses and aides who took care of Reece while in the Scott County Hospital and Park Lane Nursing Home. Thanks to Pastor Bud Tuxhorn for all the visits and the lovely service; to Chris at Price and Sons Funeral Home for all your help; and to all our friends for the memorials, flowers, food and visits. Your thoughts and prayers were deeply appreciated. God’s Blessings to All of You, The Family of Reece Roemer
Services
Rentals
COMPUTER SERVICES for PC and Mac computers. Computer repair and virus removal. Call or email Josh at OsComp to schedule an appointment. 24-hour help line 620-376-8660 or email josh_4974@hotmail.com. ––––––––––––––––––– WANTED: Yards to mow and clean up, etc. Trim smaller trees and bushes too. Call Dean Riedl, (620) 872-5112 or 8744135. 34tfc –––––––––––––––––––– FURNITURE REPAIR and refinishing. Lawn mower tune-up and blade sharpening. Call Vern Soodsma, 872-2277 or 874-1412. 4015tfc –––––––––––––––––––– MOWER REPAIR, tune-up and blade sharpening. Call Rob Vsetecka at 620-214-1730. 4515tfc
HIDE AND SEEK STORAGE SYSTEMS. Various sizes available. Virgil and LeAnn Kuntz, 620-874-2120. 41tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– PLAINJAN’S RENTAL houses and duplexes. Stop by the office or call 620872-5777. 05tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– 4-BEDROOM, 2-BATH HOUSE FOR RENT. TOTALLY renovated! Over 2,100 sq. ft. ALL NEW appliances plus a dishwasher and garbage disposal. ALL NEW flooring, lighting, central heat and air. House has a large pantry or office area. Call PlainJan’s 620-8725777 TODAY or stop by the office at 511 Monroe. 2517t2 ––––––––––––––––––––– NICE 2-BEDROOM HOUSE FOR RENT with central air. All new appliances. Call 620-8725844. 2517t2
For Sale FRIGIDAIRE STAINLESS STEEL REFRIGERATOR for sale. Tradition top freezer, bottom fridge. Purchansed Fall of 2013. Has been in storage for two years. Works perfectly. $500. Call 316259-4150. 1716tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– LG TROMM BLANK FRONT LOAD WASHER AND ELECTRIC DRYER for sale. Comes with pedestals and stacking kit. Purchased in 2006. Main water pump in washer replaced this year. Sold as set for $600. Call 316-259-4150. 1716tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– HOUSE FOR SALE BY OWNER. Central heat/air. Upstairs has living room, dinning room, kitchen, 1-bedroom, laundry room, bathroom tub and shower, large back room. Downstairs has living room, 2-bedrooms, plus 2 extra rooms, bathroom with shower and no tub. Large back yard, partial fence, 24’x56’ concrete back pad. Utilities available. 402 W. 11th, Scott City. Call 620-8725765. 2517t1
Agriculture WANT TO BUY. Stored corn. Call for basis and contract information. 1-800-579-3645. Lane County Feeders, Inc. 32tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– WANT TO BUY. Wheat straw delivered. Call for contracting informati on. Lane County Feeders, 397-5341. 44tfc
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS If you want to drink, that’s your business. If you want to stop, that’s ours. Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Tuesday nights at 8:00 p.m. at the United Methodist Church basement (use west door). 412 College, Scott City. Al-Anon at same time and location. Contact: 874-0472 or 872-3137. 25tfc
Help Wanted FA R M W O R K E R , 3/15/17-12/1/17, BT Harvesting, Capron, Okla. Eight temp jobs. Operate harvesting machines to harvest crops in OK/KS/ CO/SD/ND/NE. Drive truck to transport produce and haul harvesting machines between work sites. Service machinery/make in-field repairs. Three month experience, employment reference, driver’s license, clean MVR, English required. $11.59/hr-$3000/mo plus R&B, depending on location, ¾ work guarantee, tools/equip/housing provided at no cost, trans and subsistence exp reimbursed. Apply at Kansas Works, 620.227.2149. Job #OK1279384. 2517t1
District 11 AA Meetings
Scott City
Unity and Hope Mon., Wed. and Fri. 8:00 p.m. 807 Kingsley Last Saturday of the month Birthday Night • 6:30 p.m. All open meetings 214-4188 • 214-2877
Dighton Thursday • 8:30 p.m. 535 Wichita St. All open meetings 620-397-2647
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