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Enrollment growth, aging facilities have USD 466 BOE looking at upgrades Higher enrollment, along with long overdue upgrades to current facilities for grades K-8, have the USD 466 (Scott County) board of education looking at a comprehensive plan that involves major renovations and new construction. Each of the three K-8 attendance centers, including the administrative building, elementary school and middle school would see significant changes and building additions under the preliminary plans being reviewed by the board. In addition, the board has been presented with plans for a new down-feed gymnasium with seating for 2,000 that would be part of the Scott City Middle School expansion. Supt. Jamie Rumford emphasizes that plans being reviewed by the board are “very preliminary.” The ideas included at this point in the process are the result of community and staff input, but are still being
developed. “Everything is conceptual at this point,” Rumford says. “We’ve asked our staff and community for their ideas without respect to the cost. Of course, cost does matter and it will factor into this, but right now we want to know what people think our needs are. We want to know what our teachers and the community feel we need in order to meet our needs right now and into the future.” He says primary concerns for the district are building security, which is an issue that needs to be addressed at each center; the need for a tornado shelter at SCES; lack of gymnasium space; and additional classrooms in response to increasing enrollment. Community Center While new construction will likely be involved at the three attendance centers, the biggest (See UPGRADES on page eight)
Sports 3 SC grapplers among top medalists at Rocky Welton Page 17
State Senators not buying Brownback’s solution for K-12, KPERS Page 2
A preliminary wish list calls for a new gymnasium/wellness center to be added to Scott City Middle School. In the drawing above, the 2,000 seat gymnasium, with a community wellness center, would be built on the south end of the school with parking to the south and west. Tennis courts would be expanded to the west of SCMS. The current football practice field would not be impacted by the expansion. Access to the gym and parking area would be from 9th Street.
Turner is spelling champion
SCMS seventh grader Paige Hoelting pauses as she thinks about how to spell a word during the county bee on Tuesday. (Record Photo)
Emilee Turner admits that she felt “quite a bit nervous” during the Scott County spelling bee. She didn’t show it. The Scott City Middle School sixth grader never hesitated as she confidently spelled her way to the county championship on Tuesday Emilee Turner morning. “I write quite a lot,” said the 12-year-old in explaining why she did so well in the competition. “And I read when I have the chance. If I see a hard word I study it a little to see how it’s spelled.” No words were too hard for (See SPELLING on page two)
4-H youth is stepping outside ‘comfort zone’ with trip to Japan
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Health Supporters still finding support for KanCare expansion Page 14
Community Good chili, good fun at annual Lions Club cookoff Page 25
4-H Exchange Fundraiser Sun., Feb. 5 • noon to 2:00 p.m. First Christian Church, Scott City Free-will donation for chili and cinnamon rolls There will also be a silent auction
ing trips to Japan, Norway, Costa Rica and South Korea. She chose Japan after becoming friends with a Japanese exchange student she had met at KYLF a year ago, along with other Japanese students Fisher has met through 4-H. “Nobody took me seriously when I said I was going to apply for the trip to Japan,” notes Fisher. “I did the application process myself and got accepted.” The trip is from July 12 to August 10.
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Rachel Fisher is going the extra mile as she prepares for a once-in-alifetime trip. The Scott County youth has spent several months learning the Japanese language in preparation for a four-week 4-H exchange trip this summer. “I felt it was important for me to learn to speak Japanese and not assume that everyone will know English,” says the 17-year-old. “I’ve been studying as much as I can.” Fisher first learned of the exchange opportunity four years ago while attending a Kansas Youth Leadership Forum sponsored by Kansas State University Extension. “It’s pretty expensive and I figured it was something I’d never be able to do,” she recalls. When attending the KYLF again a year ago, Fisher learned of upcom-
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Campus safety program for area women Young women who are in college or planning to attend college can learn about campus safety during a program sponsored by the Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center on Tues., Feb., 7 at The Majestic in Scott City. The free program includes dinner at 5:30 p.m., followed by the program at 6:00 p.m. Featured speaker will be former Scott City resident Amy Schaffer, a compliance officer and lead investigator at Fort Hays State University. She will discuss how to reduce the risk of an assault and how Title IX protects the rights of women who feel they have been the victim of sexual harassment or discrimination.
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Rachel Fisher with a poster she has prepared that tells about her upcoming exchange trip to Japan. (Record Photo)
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Senators are wrestling with K-12, KPERS ‘Uncomfortable’ with Brownback’s balanced budget Republicans and Democrats alike on the Senate budget committee said Wednesday that they are uncomfortable with significant parts of Gov. Sam Brownback’s plan for balancing the current fiscal year’s budget, including his plan to delay payments to public school districts and reduce contributions into the state pension plan. “Those are kind of the things we need to stop doing,” committee chairwoman Sen. Carolyn McGinn, R-Sedgwick, said after a hearing on the plan Wednesday. Sen. Laura Kelly, Topeka, the ranking Democrat on the panel, said there is hardly anything in the governor’s balancing plan
that she’s willing to accept. “I think you have to scrap pretty much everything but the borrowing of investment money over at KPERS,” she said. That was a reference to Brownback’s proposal to sell off $362 million from state idle funds that are invested in the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System fund. That includes about $45 million in accrued earnings on those investments. The remaining $317 million would be a loan that the state would have to pay back over seven years. Wednesday’s hearing began amid some good budget news because the Kansas Department of Revenue reported Wednesday morning that state tax collections in January came in $24 million above official estimates. But, that reduced only slightly the size of the budget hole
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lawmakers now must fill to roughly $320 million, the difference between how much the state has budgeted to spend this year and how much revenue it actually expects to receive. Still, Kelly said that means that if revenues continue meeting or exceeding estimates through June 30, the plan for liquidating idle funds held at KPERS could be enough to get the state through this fiscal year without budget cuts or any of the other things Brownback has proposed. Among those would be to “permanently delay” a $75 million payment to public schools, which involves making that payment in early July, after the new fiscal year begins, instead of in June when it is actually due. Budget director Shawn Sullivan noted that the state has done that routinely for
about the last 15 years, and the amount currently rolled over from one year to the next is currently about $200 million. Brownback’s proposal would raise that to about $275 million. Under a law that the Legislature passed years ago to accommodate that practice, school districts are allowed to effectively “back-date” the payment by recording it on their books as having been received in the fiscal year when it was due, even though it was actually received the following year. Another of Brownback’s proposals is to not repay a $92 million quarterly payment into the KPERS fund that was delayed in 2016 and also to cancel one quarterly payment into the fund each of the next two years. Budget officials say that would save the state $85.9 million this fiscal year. But, KPERS officials say the long-
term impact of the whole plan would be to add $1.3 billion onto the system’s unfunded liability, which currently stands at around $8.5 billion. In his State of the State address in January, Brownback urged lawmakers to deliver a budget-balancing bill to his desk by the end of that month. But, Feb. 1, was the day the Senate Ways and Means Committee formally started working on the bill. The House Appropriations Committee is expected to start working on the bill next week. “It’s pretty hard to do that when we can’t get good numbers out of his administration,” McGinn said. “As you know, the House hasn’t started, but I think you’re going to start seeing some activity as early as tomorrow (Thursday), and I think we’ll start seeing (a bill) by next week.”
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Turner in the county bee as she cruised through the first eight rounds. After the fifth round, the competition had narrowed to Turner, eighth grader Lizette Bejarano and fifth grader Tanner Gooden. The three battled it out for three rounds when Gooden and Bejarano who were tackling each word with confidence suddenly stumbled. Gooden slipped up on “mobilize” - spelling it with an “s” instead of a “z” - while “ceiling” stumped Bejarano. Even Bejarano was surprised at the word which eliminated her from the contest. With the correct spelling of “tailor” Turner earned the right to represent Scott County at the regional bee to be held on Feb. 25 at Fort Hays State University. Like Turner, Gooden will have an opportunity to qualify for next year’s bee. “It was pretty nervewracking,” Gooden said, who said he reads 30 to 60 minutes every night. “I was kind of surprised I did so well, but not that surprised.” Friendship Meals to Go at Scott Co. VIP Center only $3.50 • Call 872-3501
In order to learn the language, Fisher has subscribed to several on-line learning tapes. But, even more valuable, has been the opportunity to learn and practice her Japanese skills with other teenagers. Fisher communicates regularly with an exchange student, Mitsuki Sakuma, who is currently living in Ellsworth. In fact, her family will be hosting Fisher during her trip. With the help of an online app, she visits with the exchange student she met a year ago, in addition to other Japanese students.
“They’re trying to learn English and I’m learning Japanese, so we help each other with the grammar and it’s also a chance to learn about each other’s culture,” Fisher says. “I’ve developed some good friendships.” Though she admits that the 15-hour time difference does create some problems. When it’s 3:00 p.m. in Scott City it’s 6:00 a.m. in Japan. “We talk mostly during their lunch break,” she says. Most of her time will be spent with her exchange family at Kofu, a city of about 200,000 located
west of Tokyo. She will spend one day in Tokyo for orientation and she’ll also be attending a weeklong LABO camp, which is the Japanese version of a 4-H camp. The rest of her time will be spent with the Sakuma family, possibly attending school for a week with her friend, and becoming acquainted with other youth from across Japan. Fisher is getting some financial assistance for her trip through the Wm. Carpenter Foundation, which is providing a $1,200 scholarship to cover the initial deposit. She is responsible for
the remainder of the cost, which can range from $3,500 to $4,600, depending on the cost of airline tickets, etc. “I’ve never been outside the United States before. In fact, I’ve never been farther west than Colorado, so this will be quite an adventure,” says Fisher with a grin. “4-H has been great for me in that way, especially since I’m homeschooled,” she adds. It’s given me an opportunity to get outside my comfort zone in ways that wouldn’t have happened otherwise. And now I’m going to Japan.”
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Getting your home ready for potential buyers When a house is for sale, the goal is to make it as attractive as possible to potential buyers. The most cost-efficient way to spruce up the home is to clean it thoroughly. Many potential buyers may Carol Ann not see past Crouch dirt and clutter. Family and If the house is Consumer crowded with Sciences Agent for the owner’s Scott County “stuff,” they
High Plains has annual Beans, Jeans luncheon The High Plains Study Club met Jan. 19 at the home of Sue Pammenter for their annual “Beans and Jeans” luncheon. The Social Committee, consisting of Jan Winter, Karen Compton, Sidney Janzen and Ann Hawkins, served a hearty soup accompanied by bread, relishes and patriotic dessert which reflected the program topic, “First Ladies.” Jean Hardy led the prayer before eating and opened the meeting with devotions. Roll Call was answered by 21 members with the response, “If you knew you could not fail, what would you do?” Dorothy Hutchins won the Lucky Dip which was brought by Betty LaToush. Ivadelle Cotton will provide the next Lucky Dip. Jan Winter presented her Home Life Report which included fun facts and background information regarding the “Beans and Jeans” luncheon. It is always enlightening to hear how traditions began and have evolved over the years. Following the report, members were treated to a program compiled by Patsi Graham on “First Ladies.” The program was informative and humorous. Questions such as “Who was the first woman to be a wife to one president and mother to another” and other fun trivia were answered. (FYI: it was not Barbara Bush!) Next meeting will be held at the home of Barbara Hutchins with Betty LaToush serving as cohostess. Jamie Rumford, USD 466 superintendent, will present the program entitled “Upgrade for USD 466.” Marilyn Dryer will provide the education report.
will assume that the house is too small for their own possessions. A clean, clutter-free environment is more attractive. Pet and garbage odors are also a large turn off to someone looking to purchase a home. To make your home attractive to potential buyers, begin by purging the house, including the basement, attic and garage, of items that are no longer needed. Things that are in good condition can be sold
or donated to a charity. The remainder can be thrown in the trash. Rooms will appear more spacious, closets will look bigger and shelves will look roomier. If you need to keep some of the furniture, make storage arrangements to remove larger items from the home. When cleaning, focus on the rooms that potential buyers are most interested in - living room, dining room, kitchen and bathroom. Look at each
room as a potential buyer might and see what catches the eye first. Cleaning Products Make that the starting point for the cleaning process. Follow the top-to-bottom, leftto-right rule for cleaning each room. That way, no surface is overlooked. Give major attention to the kitchen and bathrooms. Check the labels on cleaning products to make sure they are appropriate for the surfaces to
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Editorial/Opinion
Page 4 - Thursday, February 2, 2017
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Selling the future: ‘Structurally balanced’ budget comes at a cost
Gov. Sam Brownback has provided the state legislature with a blueprint for a budget that he says is “structurally balanced.” In other words, it’s a plan that does little to address the revenue shortfall that his tax policy has created while, at the same time, he’s borrowing extensively from tobacco settlement funds, delaying payments to KPERS and funding the Kansas Department of Transportation at only about 1/10 of its typical budget for highway maintenance. That’s like the household that has seen a 40 percent cut in take-home pay, so they decide to eat just one meal a day, sell the car and send two of the three kids to live with their uncle and aunt in Iowa. The household budget is now “structurally balanced” so the problem has been solved. But, at what cost? While some lawmakers find Brownback’s budget suggestions distasteful, it appears a growing number feel they have been backed into a corner. They may have to accept some of these ideas just to satisfy the short-term deficit of about $342 million. It’s not only troublesome that Brownback and fellow ultraconservatives have created such a fiscal disaster, but that some of them still don’t get it. Brownback has been unwilling to let go of his signature tax cut plan that was passed in 2012 and has put us in this situation. Several of the few remaining ultraconservatives in Topeka seem to agree. And it appears that a big share of the burden for filling the revenue gap and balancing the budget will fall upon public education. Funding for K-12 education has been frozen at the same level for the past two years. With no hint of a new funding plan in the works, there’s a strong possibility that state aid could remain frozen for a third year . . . or worse. Senate Ways and Means Committee Chairwoman Carolyn McGinn says that it’s likely school funding will be reduced by $90 million to $125 million to help close the current shortfall in the state budget. Not to worry, says ultraconservative Republican Jim Denning, who is also the Senate Majority Leader. He says schools could withstand a $200 million cut. He has undoubtedly been spoon-fed those numbers by the Koch-funded and right wing Kansas Policy Institute which insists that school districts are sitting on an untapped source of wealth for the state. This is how we create a “structurally balanced” budget in Kansas these days. We do it on the backs of our children who get assistance from the Children’s Initiatives Fund, we withhold state funding for public education, we let our roads and bridges fall into disrepair and we dispose of the Bioscience Authority. We sell off our assets and our future one child and one brick at a time.
Ideology conflict:
Local input doesn’t matter when it comes to guns
We’ve been reminded a lot about “local control” when it comes to keeping the “overreaching” federal government out of our affairs. From education to agriculture, Republicans like to preach that local units of government are more responsible and more responsive to the needs of their people. Of course, these Republican lawmakers don’t necessarily like to practice what they preach. In Kansas, ultraconservative lawmakers don’t feel that local government officials are responsible enough to answer to their constituents, so they passed a tax lid against the objection of cities and counties. Likewise, state lawmakers are facing a groundswell of resistance to allowing concealed carry on college campuses. Republican lawmakers argue that it’s a Second Amendment issue and that they know what’s best for 18- and 19-year-olds. Administration officials on college campuses, faculty, students and their parents have been objecting to this law since its passage four years ago. Now that it’s ready to take effect on July 1, the call for common sense among our legislators has grown even louder. Former State Rep. Travis Couture-Lovelady, who is now a lobbyist for the NRA, defended the law during a recent hearing as a means of providing “everyone an equal playing field.” That’s not how many parents and college students see it. They recognize that more guns in the hands of more students doesn’t lead to greater safety, but greater risk. If Kansas lawmakers - particularly ultraconservative Republicans - truly believed in the power of local control, they would listen to those who are closest to the situation. They would respect and honor the concerns of parents and college officials who have a better understanding of what’s happening on campuses than do legislators. Ultraconservatives like to pay lip service to their belief in local control, but that takes a backseat when it comes to pushing their personal ideology.
Not all lawmakers are ‘good’
It is said that politics is a “noble calling,” though it’s getting more difficult to identify those who enter politics for that reason. There was a time when we felt that the citizen legislature in Kansas was a barrier to the career politician who put personal gain above public duty. After all, it’s a part-time job that takes away from your business, your family and your personal life. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt made that point recently while addressing high school students. “You’ll find that everyone who serves in the legislature is a good person,” Schmidt said. “Their reason for being there is to do what’s best.” Maybe Schmidt felt like he had to say that as someone who is a former legislator who hasn’t ruled out the prospect of running for governor. As the Attorney General, and possibly as governor, he has to work with these lawmakers. He may need their support. Had he referred to legislators as “clowns and
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idiots whose most notable achievement has been their ineptitude in managing the state’s finances” it might have struck a chord with voters - not so much with Republican lawmakers. Instead, Schmidt paints politics as a noble calling in which everyone shares a similar goal, but will sometimes take a different path in order to get to the same destination. He’s using the same altruistic brush stroke to describe all politicians which many of us know isn’t true. As we’ve witnessed first-hand in Kansas, some people are terrible decision-makers. Some people are just terrible. And sometimes we elect people who are both. For example, trickledown economics is not just a failed theory, but it’s a failure in reality. Following Ronald Reagan’s famous and
well-remembered income tax cut, the former President less-famously raised taxes 11 times. Part of that was to slow the federal debt which soared from $700 billion to $3 trillion during his time in office. That piece of Reaganomics history doesn’t prevent Republican lawmakers - from Sam Brownback to Donald Trump - from making or promising tax cuts as if there will be no consequences. And what of all these “good” people in the Kansas Legislature? They went along with the giant tax cut that, today, has created a $340 million budget hole that must be closed before June 30. That’s on top of another budget hole in the following year that’s projected to be about $500 million. These “good” people refused to change direction in their tax policy despite a tsunami of red ink. Programs were being cut, funding robbed from other agencies, the state’s credit rating was being
downgraded, and assets have been sold off. Yet, in spite of this, the famous income tax cut inspired by trickle-down economics remains intact. Rather than admit they had committed fiscal malpractice on an unimaginable scale, a number of lawmakers responsible for bringing Reaganomics to Kansas decided not to seek re-election. Others who felt they were immune to the public’s discontent, or oblivious to their own failure, were given pink slips by voters last November. These “good” people referred to by Schmidt have made costly decisions which are impacting the lives of tens of thousands of poor families, tens of thousands of students, and tens of thousands of elderly who rely on Medicaid. In order to save money, conservative Republicans reduced the number of families receiving TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) by more than two-thirds. The number of children (See GOOD on page six)
Serial violator of workers’ rights It’s easy enough to think of the Department of Labor as just another distant bureaucracy shuffling paperwork around in Washington. At any given time, in fact, most Americans probably couldn’t tell you who the secretary of labor is. But, the decisions made by the labor secretary directly impact tens of millions of Americans. In fact, the Department of Labor enforces vital federal workplace regulations that protect over 125 million workers in this country. If you like receiving overtime pay, working in an environment free of asbestos and mold, or even being allowed to take a bathroom break during work, you have the Department of Labor to thank. Those basic workplace standards only exist because the government
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forces businesses to treat workers fairly. Many companies toe the line already when it comes to workplace protections. But, if the secretary of labor won’t enforce the laws, then you can bet that many employers won’t hesitate to take advantage of their workers. You might ask: What kind of business owner would force his employees to work in unsafe conditions and refuse to properly compensate them? Fast food CEO Andrew Puzder, who has been tapped by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Labor. It will be his job to enforce these laws. Puzder’s employees
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have repeatedly had to file class-action lawsuits against his companies alleging unpaid overtime. Between 2006 and 2014, his companies were forced to spend over $20 million on overtime lawsuits in California. Unsurprisingly, then, Puzder is no stranger to the department he’s been picked to lead. Over the years, the Department of Labor has opened several investigations into Puzder’s businesses, finding his companies in violation of the law in 60 percent of cases involving wage or overtime issues. His companies were found guilty of workplace safety violations almost as often - a significant number of which were labeled “serious,” which means they could’ve significantly harmed or killed a worker.
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Puzder’s tenure as CEO of CKE Restaurants has also been marked by consistent charges of sexism, most notably in commercials that use scantily clad women to sell cheeseburgers. Puzder’s response to the criticism? “I like our ads. I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis. I think it’s very American.” His personal views of women matter, because as secretary of labor he’d oversee the bureau’s women’s division, which works to eliminate sex discrimination and equal pay. If Puzder’s attitude keeps him from enforcing these workplace protections, then tens of millions of women around the country will suffer. I’ve worked for decades to improve the lives of children, families, and (See VIOLATOR on page 7)
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Ruling by chaos is administration’s strategy by Jill Richardson
As Donald Trump was sworn in, my inbox filled up with concerns about the future of the Environmental Protection Agency. Allegedly, scientists were being censored. References to climate change were being erased. But, all that was just a warmup act. Before we could really act on the EPA, down came Constitution-shredding executive orders against refugees and Muslim immigrants. The problem, for those of
us who care about due process and the rule of law, is that it’s impossible to put out one fire before the next one begins - or to even keep track of everything. For instance, as lawyers worked to ensure that Iraqis who’d put their lives in danger working for the U.S. weren’t deported back to Iraq, Trump removed the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the director of national intelligence from his National Security Council. In their place, he installed the controversial white supremacist
. . . the Trump administration has indicated it might muzzle its environmental scientists, threatening to subject their work to a case-bycase review by political appointees before their findings can be made public. That isn’t normal.
Steve Bannon (who’s stated that his goal is to “destroy the state”) and his own chief of staff, Reince Priebus. With so much going on, some speculate that Trump is trying to create chaos, so Americans are too distracted to uncover and resist what he’s really doing. On the environmental front,
some believe that Trump is holding back on his plans until he can succeed in getting his pick for EPA administrator confirmed by the Senate. That nominee, Scott Pruitt, is a climate skeptic with several pending lawsuits against the agency he’s been picked to lead. If that’s the case, we should re-examine what’s occurred with regard to the environment since inauguration, in preparation for what’s to come. Some changes were part of the normal change of power in Washington, whereas others were not. For instance, any mention of
climate change was wiped from the White House website. This is in part because the entire website turns over with each new administration, removing all of the old speeches and press releases of the outgoing president. However, Trump’s new energy page presents a reality in which climate change doesn’t exist. Moreover, the new administration froze all Obama-era regulations that hadn’t yet been finalized. In itself, this is actually a standard action new presidents take. However, the Trump (See STRATEGY on page six)
Pay attention to the man behind the president
Millions of incompetent outlaw voters
by Kathleen Parker
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Donald Trump seems to think he’s still on his reality TV show shouting, “You’re fired!” while President Stephen K. Bannon is busy drafting executive orders with his favorite black crayon. Such is the surreal universe in which we find ourselves. Those who thought they were electing Trump to the presidency likely have never heard of Jerzy Kosinski - author of the novel and later the movie “Being There,” in which protagonist Chance the gardener, a simpleton who worked for a wealthy benefactor, is mistaken for an aristocrat named Chauncey Gardiner through a grand misunderstanding born of magical thinking. When Gardiner’s employer dies and the gardener is forced to enter the larger world, his body of knowledge consists only of what he has seen on television. When he speaks about flowers and plants, others interpret his simple words as insightful and profound observations on economics and foreign policy. They hear and see what they need to see and hear. Finally, Chauncey is selected as the perfect next president based solely on people’s utterly incorrect interpretation of him. Similarly, candidate Trump shouted nonsense to cheering crowds who decided that he was brilliant and insightful. He’s no simple mind, as far as we know (though one wonders why so much family is constantly in attendance), and the titular president of the United States is currently Trump. But, it’s Bannon who seems to be pulling the levers - running the show - unelected, inaccessible and unaccountable. The rumpled former naval officer and filmmaker must be given credit where due. He obviously has a Soviet’s grasp of the power of propaganda, an admitted mission to restore economic nationalism and a high tolerance for the intolerant. His Breitbart news franchise was a welcoming haven for white supremacists and neo-Nazis. If Karl Rove was George W. Bush’s brain, Bannon is Trump’s conscience. The noted parallels to Kosinski’s inspired character, meanwhile, are almost too on the nose to merit further comment. But, even those who noticed the similarities much earlier in this electoral psycho-saga may be forgiven if they’re surprised by the accuracy with which life imitates art. With little more than a week in office, President Bannon has been operating at a frantic pace. As Trump sits dutifully at his desk, signing executive orders and memorandums - banning mostly Muslim travelers and
Interesting times we live in. The ban on Muslims, which was not a ban on Muslims, except they all seemed to be Muslims who were held up at airports, no Johnsons or Aberystwyths, and they had green cards and visas, including a translator formerly employed in a war zone by U.S. forces, brought massive crowds into the streets because someone at the White House hadn’t read the manual on “Writing Executive Orders” and the executive who signed the order, who couldn’t tell an executive order from a lace place mat, is, for the 20th time in one week, exposed as a dope. Isn’t somebody supposed to be looking after the man? His alt-right strategy guy, now a permanent member of the National Security Council, the one with the Bulgarian movie-star hairdo - where was he? Busy writing the declaration on International Holocaust Remembrance Day that forgot to mention the Jews? Meanwhile, we are dealing with the idea that up to five million people hit the road on Election Day to cast as many ballots as possible for Hillary Clinton, a mass migration not seen except in Godzilla movies, and yet it was so poorly managed that, despite cheating on a scale never before seen in human history, she lost the electoral college. The Illinois Democrats forgot to go up to Wisconsin and Michigan, the New Yorkers didn’t cross over to Pennsylvania. Pathetic! And dead people, too! Democratic precinct workers may have bought the driver’s licenses of deceased voters from corrupt undertakers and smudged the photographs and come to the polls right after lunch when the poll watchers are sleepy and not paying close attention. Five million left-wing outlaws! Eighty-thousand votes in the right places - a dunk shot! she would be Madam President today, but even with five million extra ballots, she couldn’t put the ball in the basket! Sad. It’s like owning a casino and going bankrupt: How do you go broke when you can rig the slot machines? Five million is an alternative fact. Other alternatives would be: (1) There was not much cheating at all. (2) There are five million Syrian refugees in this country whom we know nothing about. (3) That is the president’s natural hair color. Vice President Pence has promised to investigate the five-million-illegals alternative fact, and he is a radical prolifer, the kind who believe that
(See BEHIND on page six)
Uncle Sam wants your SS check by Jim Hightower
Uncle Sam wants you! Not the Uncle Sam who’s the symbolic caricature of our country, but Sam Johnson. Although he’s been a member of Congress for more than a quarter of a century, you’ve probably never heard of him. Johnson’s been what’s known in legislative circles as “furniture.” That’s a lawmaker who holds a congressional seat, but just sits in it, achieving so little that he’s unnoticeable. But, look out! Johnson has suddenly leapt into action. And we all need to take notice, because this Texas Republican has unveiled what he calls his “Plan to Permanently Save Social Security.”
To get you to support the plan, Uncle Sam wants you to believe that our nation’s very popular retirement program is “going bankrupt.” He knows that’s a lie, but he hopes it’s a big enough lie to panic you into doing anything to save the program. To make his plan easy to swallow, he coats it with another lie, claiming that he’s merely “modernizing” and “updating” Social Security, which a big majority of Americans count on to avoid stark poverty in their golden years. But in fact, old Uncle Sam is conniving to “save” Social Security by gutting it. The press release announcing his “Reform Act” doesn’t even mention the key fact that
it’s based on making workers keep paying the same 12.4 percent tax on their wages, but getting drastically less paid back to them when they retire. How much less? Up to 69 percent less, cutting a total cut of $11.6 trillion in benefits promised to America’s workers. Meanwhile, Rep. Johnson has announced his own retirement after 28 years sitting in Congress. And yes, he can draw a Social Security check, but he also gets a congressional pension that will pay him more than $70,000 a year. How about we cut that perk and leave the people’s Social Security alone? Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator, writer, public speaker and author
Surprised? Trump’s doing exactly what he said he would Hey, Republicans: Ready to take him literally yet? Two days after the election, I spoke with Grover Norquist, a conservative tax activist who had made peace with the prospect of a Trump presidency. Expressing confidence that Donald Trump wouldn’t attempt the crazier promises made during the campaign, Norquist said Trump’s supporters knew to take him “seriously, but not literally.” Wrong! That hope comforted Republican officeholders and members of the establishment when they reluctantly embraced Trump during the general election. They averted their collective gaze when Trump made scapegoats of minorities, yielded to reckless impulses and exhibited authoritarian tendencies. Now Trump is president and - who knew? - he is making scapegoats of minorities, giv-
behind the headlines by Dana Milbank
ing in to reckless impulses and governing with an authoritarian style. Trump said as a candidate that he would ban Muslims from traveling to the United States. Now he has done it, even if he doesn’t use the term. Rudy Giuliani, explaining the new executive order, told Fox News that Trump assigned him the task of finding a “legal” way to have a “Muslim ban.” And the son of national security adviser Mike Flynn praised the “Muslim ban” on Twitter this weekend before deleting his account. Likewise, Trump displayed a disregard for the courts during the campaign, threatening to take revenge on a judge, to sic the Justice Department
on his opponents. Meeting with senators, he didn’t know how many articles the Constitution contained. And now? The Trump White House is raising doubts about whether it needs to obey court orders. After parts of the travel-ban order were blocked by federal judges, Trump policy adviser Stephen Miller declared that the order “remains in full, complete and total effect.” During the campaign, Trump often disparaged intelligence agencies for their “bad decisions.” He said, “I know more about ISIS than the generals do” and claimed generals had been “reduced to rubble.” Now he has orchestrated what amounts to a coup at the National Security Council. Out: the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who no longer will attend all meetings (See SURPRISED on page six)
His White House kept Department of Homeland Security lawyers in the dark on the travel ban and then overrode their objections. He has continued to raise suspicion that he’s driven by his financial interests, omitting from his travel ban several Muslim-majority countries where he does business.
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Copy of Constitution gets assistant AG fired by Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) - Donald Trump fired the acting Attorney General, Sally Q. Yates, after learning that she had downloaded a copy of the United States Constitution to her computer, Trump told reporters on Monday night. According to the Trump Administration’s code of ethics, established by Steve Bannon, a counsellor to the President, “possessing, reading, or referring to
the United States Constitution” is a violation that is punishable by termination. Suspecting that Yates was in breach of that rule, Bannon seized Yates’s computer at the Justice Department and discovered that she had secretly downloaded a complete copy of the 1789 document. “Sally Yates was hatching a covert plot to require my actions to be in accordance with the Constitution,” Trump said. “We caught her red-handed.”
Trump said he hoped Yates’s firing would send Justice Department staffers the message that “if you are caught flagrantly obeying the Constitution, you will be out of here.” “The American people deserve an Attorney General who will come to work every day ready to flout the Constitution, and in Jeff Sessions, they will have one,” he said. Andy Borowitz is a comedian and author
Liberals need to look at the scoreboard Now that the 2016 election is over and a new president has been inaugurated, I would hope that all the left wing protesting over all this would calm down for awhile. Let’s compare the past election to the upcoming Super Bowl. The winner of the Super Bowl is not how many fans bought tickets and went to the game. The winner is whose team scored the
editor’s mail most points. In the past election, the “D” team had more voters, but they only scored 232 points while the “R” team scored 306 points. This is pretty easy for me to understand. Why is it so hard for liberals to understand? Max Edwards Scott City
Kansas science teacher shortage is growing by John Schrock
New teaching licenses issued by the KSDE for endorsements in secondary biology, chemistry, physics and earth science remain at levels about one-fourth of what is needed to replace retiring Kansas science teachers, a trend that began with
No Child Left Behind 15 years ago. Not all individuals who acquire teacher training enter the Kansas classroom. Some are sitebound with no vacancy in their local community. Others teach out-ofstate or take another job. And the postponement of retirements during the
Behind doing away with acting attorney general Sally Yates - Bannon grabs a seat on the National Security Council. Though true that previous administrations have approved visits by political advisers, including David Axelrod during the Obama years, there’s at least one significant difference. Within a day of the Friday afternoon blitzkrieg that ultimately deleted Yates, two council members specifically required to advise the president on security matters - the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - were stripped of their regular seats on the NSC’s principals committee.
Now why would this be? Perhaps Bannon needed a little more elbow room and fewer ears during discussions about which American citizens should die in the name of national security. Until now, such targets have been limited to al-Qaeda militant Anwar al-Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico and killed in a CIA drone strike in Yemen in 2011. As, too, was his 16-yearold son two weeks later. As, also, reportedly, was his eight-year-old daughter this past Sunday during a raid that also cost the life of a member of SEAL Team 6. To what end? Was this yet another of Trump’s
ferred from out-of-state and 27 (mostly in small rural schools) added biology by testing out. Kansas needs 120 chemistry teachers per year. Only 15 graduated from teacher programs
measuring schticks? The precedent for killing an American citizen was set by President Barack Obama, to be sure. But, who knows where the lines will be drawn now? Every day is a jack-inthe-box - or a dozen - a fresh page from Hieronymus Bosch’s sketchpad. Even some of the socalled deplorables are beginning to get twitchy. At first they wrote me to say, “I’m slightly terrified,” and, more recently, “I’m downright scared,” as just one example. The smart set says, why are you surprised? Trump is doing what he said he would. He’s a different kind of president. Different rules. The media
Pipeline. Of course, with the Tweeter in Chief now in charge, some of the most interesting developments occurred on Twitter. When Badlands National Park tweeted data about climate change, their tweets were soon removed. Shortly thereafter, “rogue” government twitter accounts appeared, purporting to give citizens the truth from our federal agencies. In short, if this is the warm-up, what’s to come
while 29 current teachers added the field by testingout. Kansas never produced enough physics teachers (again 120, similar to chemistry). Only 13 new physics teachers were college-trained while 14 added physics by test-out. Earth science is usually a high school elec-
Good should sit down and shut up. People who don’t like the president’s policies should get lost. Whatever tiny ray of hope people held out in the belief that Trump ultimately would behave rationally - respectful of protocol, with caution and care, without haste and with wisdom - has been extinguished by a strategy of maximum chaos executed by shock and awe. With heads spinning, if they’re not rolling, most won’t know what hit them until it’s too late. It’s called distraction. Just as President Bannon intended. Kathleen Parker is a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist who writes on politics and culture
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findings can be made public. That isn’t normal. Initially, rumor had it that the EPA would remove its climate change website. This hasn’t occurred yet, but some believe it’s because Trump wants to hold back until he can get Pruitt, a longtime friend of the fossil fuel industry, confirmed. Meanwhile, Trump has taken steps to reinstate both of the nation’s most controversial oil pipelines, the Keystone XL and the Dakota Access
Surprised of the committee that handles top-level decisions. Instead, political adviser Steve Bannon will serve on the committee. Trump at every opportunity said he would build a border wall and force Mexico to pay for it. He spoke often of tariffs on Mexico and specifically suggested a 35 percent tariff on certain imports. Last week - surprise! the White House floated a 20 percent tariff on goods from Mexico to pay for a border wall. The Trump campaign frequently sounded anti-
2008-09 recession has resulted in accelerated retirement rates now. Biology needs over 200 new teachers-peryear. This last year, 36 graduated from college programs, seven trans-
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Strategy administration went further than all previous presidents, also halting all EPA grants and contracts. Another standard practice is to stop agencies from putting out press releases before the new administration has time to get its feet wet. That said, the Trump administration has indicated it might muzzle its environmental scientists, threatening to subject their work to a case-bycase review by political appointees before their
Kansas needs 120 chemistry teachers per year. Only 15 graduated from teacher programs while 29 current teachers added the field by testing-out.
is scary. The “environment” is an abstract concept, but it’s the air we breathe and the water we drink. We all must work to stay informed. Don’t get distracted by chaos when it’s used to cover up even more destructive harm to our nation and the planet it lives on. Jill Richardson is the author of “Recipe for America: Why Our Food System Is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It”
tive but Kansas still needs at least 60 new teachers each year. There were eight new teachers with that endorsement last year while 24 added it by testout. It is unfortunate that KSBE approved adding endorsements by test-out since these teachers can (See SCIENCE on page 7)
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receiving monthly assistance has been slashed from an average of more than 30,000 to just under 10,000. Of the families who were kicked off the program, only 10 percent said they found a job. Those pushed out of TANF who said they have a job are earning an average of only $13,284 annually. But, public assistance roles have been reduced. State spending has been reduced. This is what “good” people in government do. Desperate to find ways to cut spending, the state has robbed millions of dollars from the Children’s Initiatives Fund which provides early-childhood programs to thousands of youngsters. And this governor has proposed stealing hundreds of millions more in tobacco settlement funds in order to save his precious tax cuts. Why? Because this is what “good” lawmakers do. Due to the fiscal incompetence of our lawmakers, it’s projected that the Kansas Department of Transportation will have only $44 million to spend on new projects in the fiscal year that begins July 1. In a typical year, KDOT will budget about
$400 million for preservation projects alone, which includes roads and bridges. This is on top of $1.3 billion which has been stolen from KDOT since 2011 in order to balance the state budget - money that has not gone into new road projects or maintenance. We, and the next generation of Kansans, will be paying a price for this fiscal malfeasance. If this is the new definition of good lawmakers or, for that matter, good people, then MerriamWebster had better start printing it’s “alternate” dictionary because words no longer mean what they used to. Good people don’t wreak havoc on tax law and government budgets to satisfy their own misguided ideology. Those responsible aren’t good lawmakers. They aren’t good citizens. They aren’t good conservatives. They aren’t even good Republicans. The best thing we can say about those no longer in Topeka is “good riddance.” Hopefully, we can soon say the same about the tax policy that created this fiasco. Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com
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Semitic dog whistles. Now? The Trump White House just issued a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement that made no mention of Jews. Trump during the election dismissed concerns about Russia’s meddling in the campaign, even urging Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s email. Now we have Sputnik news, controlled by the Russian government, comparing Trump to puppets of the Soviet Union and proposing Moscow help Trump respond to protests by “deploying professional
Russian journalists as temporary replacement for the Western employees.” Trump is also proving himself to be the same temperamentally unsound figure who appeared on the campaign trail. He makes up extravagant falsehoods about voter fraud and crowd size. He has shown contempt for safeguards in the government, purging the State Department of top nonpartisan leadership. His White House kept Department of Homeland
Security lawyers in the dark on the travel ban and then overrode their objections. He has continued to raise suspicion that he’s driven by his financial interests, omitting from his travel ban several Muslim-majority countries where he does business. And he still shows disregard for detail, as seen in the administration’s confusion about whether the travel ban covers those with green cards, and in an executive order on Obamacare that even opponents of the law warn
could cause health insurance markets to collapse before a replacement is available. Business leaders, including some previously friendly to Trump, have protested the travel ban, and some Republicans in Congress are opposing Trump on it, at least rhetorically. Meanwhile, as The Post’s Matea Gold and James Hohmann reported, conservative donors at the Koch network gathering over the weekend condemned Trump’s travel ban, and Charles Koch,
who didn’t get involved in the presidential campaign, warned of a “tremendous danger” of authoritarianism. Oh, so now they’re worried? Many of these donors, like Republicans in Congress, chose not to take Trump literally during the campaign, looking away when presented with repeated warning signs. Now they have a serious problem - as do we all. Dana Milbank is a Washington Post staff writer and author
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Science pass with a Cliff’s Notestype quick-study. They lack the laboratory and field work critical for a teacher to really understand the science and for a teacher to conduct lab and fieldwork with their students. Taken together there were only 72 new science endorsements issued from college programs while 94 teachers tested out. This trend will not last
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for long because there are a limited number of rural teachers who can add a science endorsement. Not all fields have seen a dramatic decline. But, young science teachers want to excite students with laboratory and field work. The enforcement of teach-to-the-test under NCLB has dramatically curtailed those practices. On Aug. 8, 2016, a “Blue Ribbon Task Force
Outlaw life begins at the cellular stage and that zygotes are people. Meanwhile the Boy President, having campaigned on a platform of greatness, is attempting to leap tall buildings in a single bound and be more powerful than a locomotive: replace Obamacare with something better that insures everyone and that costs less, build the wall, beef up the military, spend a trillion on infrastructure, cut taxes and still balance the budget. Despite promising to do all this, he finds himself distinctly unwelcome. As his son-in-law said, it
on Teacher Vacancies and Supply” gave their report to the State Board. Unfortunately, they did not examine the numbers of new endorsements nor detect the dramatic drop off in student teacher candidates due to the removal of teacher tenure. One program with 15 students in the four-year pipeline saw that number drop to seven overnight, immediately following
the elimination of tenure. One stopgap measure would be hire back up to 500 retired teachers and administrators, a practice currently made difficult and risky by extensive KPERS red tape. A bill scheduled to be introduced in the Senate would simplify this process, allowing schools to reimburse KPERS. I asked my students why they were switching
rights movement, cool jazz, basketball and the love of books, and 45 represents the Hummer, the Whopper, gold-flecked marble and the value of hyperbole, especially among those who don’t know what it means. That’s why he surrounds himself with great, great people, very special people, and has beautiful meetings and was gratified to see millions of people at his inauguration including thousands of women who sent their underwear up to the platform with a note saying, “I’m yours. You say when and where.” All of them totally gorgeous.
But, the fact remains: If you lose an election by 80,000 votes when you have five million to play around with, you are too dumb to be president. Democrats are blaming it on the creaky old electoral college, but the problem is the lack of rapid interstate transit. People needed to cross state lines quickly and couldn’t get there. It’s four hours from Chicago to Waterloo, Ia., and six from New York City to Wheeling, W.Va. High-speed rail could’ve saved our country.
communities, and I know how important workplace protections are - not just for employees, but for everyone else in their lives as well. Trump’s selection of Puzder will cost millions of American workers, including many Trump supporters, dearly. A man who doesn’t care
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if his employees work in a safe environment or are paid fairly simply can’t be allowed to become the primary defender of the American worker. Wendy Wolf is a member of the Patriotic Millionaires and is on the board of the women’s advocacy group UltraViolet
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hard to get rid of an incompetent teacher. But, it merely takes a competent administrator to remove an incompetent teacher. The administrator then has to find a competent replacement. Thanks to the loss of tenure, there is no teacher surplus waiting in the wings.
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is easy to hate him at a distance, and so far he has kept his distance. The word is that he is an indoorsman, watches a lot of TV and when he watches movies, he tends to fast-forward past the dialogue parts to where the cars blow up and the hero runs through the flames to rescue the babe who is taut and tan and a total 10. He does not read so much. That’s fine. We held our election and that’s what Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin voted for. Mr. 44 expressed one side of America, the side that gave us the civil
out of teaching. While the long-term decline was a response to the NCLB teach-to-the-test movement, the precipitous decline was “attitude.” For many, loss of tenure was the last straw. The lack of respect for teachers - evident in many legislative actions - will have to change. Kansas teachers lost tenure because some asserted that it was too
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1788 - Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
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Upgrades project would be a new community center and gymnasium that would be an addition to SCMS. The need for a community center has been discussed extensively during ongoing Vision meetings involving local units of government and community members. Preliminary plans call for the center to be connected to the south end of the middle school. The district owns the acreage south and west of SCMS, which would include parking for about 500 vehicles. A 45,000 square foot community center would include a walking track, wrestling practice room (and tornado shelter), four competition locker rooms and a commons area with a cafeteria. An important feature of the facility would be a wellness center and public access to a weight/exercise area. “That was promised when the high school was renovated. Unfortunately, the district wasn’t able to follow through with that,” says Rumford. Without community access to a wellness center, board member Lynnette Robinson says the district shouldn’t waste its time trying to get support for a bond issue to build the facility. “This is what the public expects,” she emphasized. The gymnasium would be similar in size and design to the facility in Ulysses. Bleachers would be retractable to allow for side-by-side competition on two separate courts. While reviewing plans for each building, Robinson cautioned against being “short-sighted” given the increasing enrollment that the district is experiencing, particularly in the younger grade levels. “I don’t want to do something now and then be looking at this again in 10 years,” she said. SC Middle School Of the three K-8 attendance centers, the middle school “has a lot more problems,” according to Rumford. A major redesign of the building would include relocating and enlarging the cafeteria. A band and choir room would be added to the south. While cost figures are very preliminary at this point, the only estimates revealed during discussion put remodeling of SCMS at $7 million and construction of a new middle school at $18 million.
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“Any cost estimates we’re looking at right now would be on the high side because they include all the extras,” Rumford says. “Our first step is to identify our primary objectives for each building and then we can look at areas where we want to reduce costs.” “Are we looking at something that’s realistic, or are these ideas way out there right now?” asked board member Mark Davis. “These are pretty far out there right now,” acknowledged Rumford. “But, this gives us a starting point.” SC Elementary School One of the major changes in the elementary school design calls for an addition to be built south of the gym which would serve as a cafeteria/commons area for school and community activities. The cafeteria would be constructed as a storm shelter. The larger cafeteria would have room for about 145 youngsters, doubling the space that’s available on the stage where meals are currently served. Better security is a focal point of the new design at SCES, as it is at each attendance center. Tentative plans are for students and others entering and exiting SCES before and after school each day to enter through the main doors at the south, similar to what they do now. Once school has begun, locked doors will route all visitors through a nearby office where they must check in before gaining access to the rest of the building. When reviewing plans, Robinson expressed concern about losing the stage. SCES Principal Shawn Roberts says that area is currently used only as the cafeteria and as additional classroom space when needed. The board was advised that the building is also in need of a new roof and that the mechanical system is nearing the end of its lifespan. In addition, it wouldn’t be adequate if the size of the building were to be increased. Administration Building The south wing of the building was built in 1953 and has “outlived its usefulness,” according to architects. The south wing doesn’t meet ADA standards. Persons in wheelchairs who enter that part of the building, but need access
The interior of Scott City Elementary School would see a big change in how classroom space is utilized. The goal will be to have four classrooms for each grade level. The most significant change for visitors would be a redesigned entrance on the south side of the building. Office space, as well as a security area, would be located west of the cafeteria. Preliminary plans also call for construction of a new cafeteria/commons area in the southeast corner. Adjoining the cafeteria to the east would be new kitchen facilities.
New classroom space would be built for kindergarten and pre-school students at the current site of the administrative building. A small gymnasium would be available for indoor activities in the event of inclement weather and would also be available to the community. Maintaining a kitchen at the current location is an option. Relocating the Scott City Learning Center to the north end of the building is also being considered.
to another area must exit the building and re-enter from the east. Preliminary plans call for construction of an early childhood center to the east with ADA accessibility. The center would include four kindergarten and two pre-school classrooms. Rumford says this would meet the district’s early childhood enrollment projects of about 80 students per class over the next few years. Ideas still being discussed include whether to keep the district kitchen in the same building and provide a cafeteria that would serve lunch to kindergarten students rather than having them go to SCES. It would also be possible to renovate a space on the main floor as a tornado shelter rather than sending students and staff into a basement in the building. Off-street parking to the west and south would make it easier to drop/pick up youngsters at school. “Doing this would
mean committing to remaining in this building for the next 30 to 40 years,” notes Rumford. SC Learning Center The Scott City Learning Center, currently located east of the high school, could be relocated to the north end of the Administration building. This would allow the district to tear down the building where the SCLC
is currently located, as well as the home on the northwest corner of that block in order to create more parking. Sports Complex The board is also looking at the need to update stadium seating and the overall appearance of the football field complex. A tentative goal is to have home seating for about 1,175 people and visitor
seating for about 400. The current stadium would be demolished and the ticket booth and new restroom, concession and Booster Club facility would be located at the north end of the block. The tennis courts would be relocated near the community center at SCMS, which would gain parking for about 100-115 vehicles at the north end of the football complex.
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Youth/Education Debate on campus concealed carry to continue after Senate setback Opponents of allowing guns on university campuses are not giving up their fight despite a setback this week in a Kansas Senate committee. State law says Kansas colleges and universities must allow concealed weapons on campus starting in July. Bills in the House and Senate would exempt higher education institutions from the law, allowing them to continue banning guns on campus. Opponents of allowing guns on university campuses are not giving up their fight despite a setback this week in a Kansas Senate committee. A Senate committee voted Tuesday not to advance the bill to the full chamber. Just a day later, the House Federal and State Affairs Committee had a public hearing on a similar measure. Rabbi Moti Rieber, of the group Kansas Interfaith Action, believes approval by the Kansas House could boost the bill’s chances in the Senate. “We think that if the bill gets to the House floor, it’ll pass,” Rieber said. “It would give the bill momentum to come out of the House with a strong majority, which I think we would get.” University of Kansas professor Ron Barrett told the House committee that guns should not be allowed on campuses. He says many university labs contain chemicals that could cause an explosion - or worse - if they’re struck by an errant bullet. “Some universities even store more dangerous materials, like tens of thousands of gallons of poisonous, carcinogenic flammables right in the middle of campus,” Barrett said. But, for Emporia State University student Megan Hilbish and others who support concealed carry, the issue comes down to constitutional rights, which they say don’t end on a college campus. “We want to be able to conceal carry on college campuses to be able to defend ourselves and feel more safe and secure, especially with the inadequate security measures that colleges have now,” Hilbish said. The overflow hearing on Wednesday appeared to be dominated by supporters of changing the law, but Kathleen Wade, president of the Kansas State Rifle Association, said that didn’t tell the whole story. She said the group has supporters who aren’t able to attend events like the hearing. “We will fight this until the last minute, until the last vote is counted,” Wade said. Travis Couture-Lovelady, a former Republican Kansas legislator who now works for the National Rifle Association, said the group has been mobilizing supporters to contact lawmakers with emails and phone calls. “We’re okay with discussion. We feel confident in our arguments and confident in the people of Kansas, that this is the direction they want to go,” Couture-Lovelady said. Rep. John Barker, (R-Abilene), chairman of the House Federal and State Affairs Committee, said he wants to give members of the committee time to consider all the comments before taking any action on the bill.
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15 area students earn semester honors at GCCC
SCHS winter Homecoming queen candidates are (from left) Paige Winderlin, Nancy Wiebe and KelsiJo Crouch. King candidates are Bo Hess, Hayden Nevills and Drew Duff. (Record Photo)
Crowning of SCHS winter royalty is Fri. Scott Community High School winter Homecoming activities will be held Fri., Feb. 3, when the Beavers host Colby High School. Crowning ceremony will take place during halftime of the boy’s basketball game. The theme is “Home Sweet Home.” Queen candidates are Paige Winderlin, daughter of Chris and Letha Winderlin; Nancy Wiebe, daughter of Abram and Elizabeth Wiebe; and KelsiJo Crouch, daughter of Lance and Carol Ann Crouch. King candidates are Hayden Nev-
Collins, Castillo earn CCC honors
ills, son of Kyle and Melanie Nevills; Drew Duff, son of Julie Henry and Darren and Kristin Duff; and Bo Hess, son of Mike and Tracy Hess. Class attendants are: Juniors: Daniel Nolasco and Macie Price. Sophomores: Kaitlyn Wolkensdorfer and Joe Evans. Freshmen: Emily Weathers and Hunter Yager. The junior attendants are Charlee Berry and Chase Culp. A dance will be held in the SCHS commons area following the game.
The fall semester honor lists at Colby Community College include two area students. Darcea Collins, Scott City, has been named to the President’s Honor Roll which includes full-time students with a 4.0 grade point average. Alexandra Castillo, Marienthal, has been named to the Dean’s Honor Roll which includes students with a 3.75-3.99 gpa.
Fifteen area students earned fall semester academic honors at Garden City Community College. The President’s Honor Roll had 132 students with a 4.0 grade point average. The Dean’s Honor Roll had 401 students with a 3.2-3.9 gpa. The Honorable Mention list had 106 students with a 3.0–3.19 gpa. The 639 students on the three honor rolls represent approximately 51 percent of the 1,254 students enrolled in eight (8) credit hours or more for the fall semester. Area honor students include: President’s Roll Scott City: Ximena Ayala Chanez and Kristal Patton. Dean’s Honor Roll Dighton: Maegan Seifried Leoti: Mason Lobmeyer and Karla Garcia. Scott City: Leah Artz, Kambra Dearden, Alma Martinez Acevedo, Adeline Ramirez and Joshua Yeager. Honorable Mention Dighton: Morgan Shepard. Leoti: Chelsie Linnell and Lizeth Mancillas. Scott City: Idalia Chavez and Cozetta Yeager.
Popp, Becker on BCCC honor lists Two area students have been named to fall semester honor rolls at Barton County Community College, Great Bend. Destiny Popp, Dighton, has earned a place on the President’s List. To be eligible, students must be enrolled in a minimum of 12 credit hours and maintain a 4.0 grade point average. Josh Becker, Scott City, has been named to the Dean’s list. To be eligible, full-time students must maintain a 3.5 to 3.99 gpa.
For the Record Industry groups fight to preserve tax exemptions The Scott County Record
Kansas farmers, homebuilders and a host of other industry groups are working hard at the Statehouse this year to keep in place all the various sales tax exemptions they’ve been granted over the years, but that may be difficult this year as lawmakers look for new sources of revenue to help fill the $755
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million budget hole that’s projected over the next two fiscal years. The House Taxation Committee opened what it called an “informational hearing” Monday to look at just a few of those exemptions. That meeting came as lawmakers in both chambers are preparing to work
Scott City Council Agenda Monday, February 6 • 7:30 p.m. City Hall • 221 W. 5th •Call to order •Approve minutes of Jan. 16 regular meeting and Jan. 17 special meeting •Mayor’s appointments •Elect council president •Designate official newspaper •Designate depository of funds •Airport Commission 1) Request to bid FAA T-hangar project •Request to use airport for SCHS ElectroRally race on April 26 •Open agenda: audience is invited to voice ideas or concerns. A time limit may be requested Pool Department 1) Assistant pool manager recommendation 2) Set assistant manager monthly/hourly wages Police Department 1) Request to hire full-time dispatcher 2) Approve specifications and request to advertise for K-9 vehicle Parks Department 1) Misc. business Public Works Department 1) Discuss infrastructure in Eastridge subdivision 2) Water tower report Clerk’s Department 1) Change next meeting to Tues., Feb. 21, due to observance of President’s Day •Mayor’s comments
Scott County Commission Agenda Tuesday, February 7 County Courthouse 3:00 p.m. County Business 1) Approve accounts payable and payroll 2) Appoint board member for indoor arena 3) Approve 2017 Blue Cross/Blue Shield policy 4) Review estimates to repair storage building 5) Approve/sign Carpenter land lease contracts 3:30 p.m. Scott County Hospital audit 4:00 p.m. EMS Director Brenda Birney EMS update 4:15 p.m. County Health Department Update and changes 4:30 p.m. Public Works Director Richard Cramer Agenda may change before the meeting. Contact County Clerk Alice Brokofsky for an updated agenda (872-2420) or visit www.scott.kansasgov.com
on a “rescission bill” to plug the estimated $340 million shortfall in revenue needed to fund the last six months of this fiscal year’s budget. Among them were exemptions on the purchase of farm machinery and equipment, labor used in residential construction and remodeling, and cer-
tain nonvoice data services provided by telecommunications companies. John Idoux, who lobbies for CenturyLink, a telecommunications company that serves a number of small communities in Kansas, said telephone customers in Kansas are already paying sales tax, not to mention a wide
range of state and federal surcharges and excise fees. “When you add all the taxes up, telecommunications customers are taxed more for their services than cigarettes and alcohol,” he said. Unlike other public utilities like electricity and natural gas, Kansas
does charge sales tax on telephone bills. But, it does not tax phone companies for 800 and 900 service, nonvoice data service, certain kinds of private communications services or carrier access service, which telecom companies buy and sell from each other. (See INDUSTRY on page 11)
Annuities may fit into long-term financial goals With Baby Boomers retiring at a record rate, income for retirement is a topic that generates much discussion in the over-60 population. Included in those discussions could be ideas for buying annuities for long-term financial goals. What often happens, during conversations such as this, is many people do not understand how annuities work or whether they are good products for them to consider. Our staff at the Kansas Insurance Department has put together some basic information that might help fellow Kansans when they are considering those financial products. The information below appears in the KID publi-
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cation “Life Insurance and Annuity Basics,” which can be ordered as a hard copy from our department or viewed online at www. ksinsurance.org. What is an annuity? An annuity is a financial contract in which an insurance company makes a series of income payments to you at regular intervals in return for a premium or premiums that you have paid. Annuities are most often purchased for future retirement income. Only an annuity is designed to pay an income that can be
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
guaranteed to last as long as you live. An annuity is neither a life insurance policy nor a health insurance policy. It’s not a savings account or a savings certificate, and you shouldn’t buy annuities for short-term financial goals. Your value in an annuity contract is the amount in premiums you have paid, minus any applicable charges, plus any interest your premiums have earned. How are premiums paid to an annuity? Annuity premiums can be paid in either one payment for a single premium annuity or in a series of payments for a multiple premium annuity. For example, when you
retire, you may choose to move a lump sum from a pension plan to an annuity in order to collect monthly payments from it. This would be considered a single premium annuity. Conversely, if you decide at a younger age to begin saving for retirement, you might choose to purchase an annuity and make smaller monthly payments into the plan over a period of 20 years. This would be an example of a multiple premium annuity. Multiple premium annuity payments can be made either on a regularly scheduled basis, or in flexible payments, allowing you to pay as much premium as you want within set limits. (See ANNUITY on page 11)
Scott Co. LEC Report Scott City Police Department Jan. 24: Kevin Rodriguez Martinez, 20, was arrested for DUI, possession of a firearm while under the influence of alcohol/drugs, possession of a hallucinogenic drug, transporting an open container and criminal use of weapons. He was transported to the LEC. Jan. 24: An officer responded to a child in need of care case. Jan. 29: An officer responded to a protective custody call. Jan. 29: Tyler Gossman, 32, was arrested for violation of a protection order and transported to the LEC.
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Industry One of the more controversial sales tax exemptions is the one for the purchase of farm machinery and equipment because for many years farmers have not had to pay either sales or personal property taxes on such items. Their real estate is also taxed at a much lower rate than residential or commercial property. Manufacturing machinery and equipment are also exempt from sales tax, but it has only been in recent years that the state has started phasing out personal property tax on that machinery and equipment. Farm Groups Testify But, farm lobby groups such as the Kansas Farm Bureau, Kansas Livestock Association, Kansas Corn Growers Association and the Kansas Pork Association all testified in favor of keeping those exemptions, arguing that the retail sales tax should only apply to retail purchases, not to purchases
used in producing goods such as farm products that are later sold at retail. Josh Roe, an assistant secretary of the Kansas Department of Agriculture, said removing that exemption would eat up about nine percent of the average annual peracre profit for wheat producers and 25 percent of the profit for wheat growers in the north-central region of the state. That was based on the average per-acre return north-central Kansas farmers have seen for last 10 years, he said, which included years when farm profits were at record high levels. “In 2015 and 2016, we were looking at near zero or negative net farm income, and 2017 is projected to be the lowest levels since the farm crisis in the 1980s,” he said. Construction Exemption Home-builders also defended the sales tax exemption on labor used in new construction and
Annuity Consulting with a trusted financial consultant about the best method for you to fund an annuity will be beneficial for your individual needs. When will I begin receiving payments from my annuity? Receiving payments from your annuity depends on whether you’ve chosen an immediate annuity or a deferred annuity. Immediate annuities begin paying within one year of premium payment, though many actually begin paying within one
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or two months of receiving a premium payment. Because of this, immediate annuities must be purchased using one large lump sum single premium. You cannot purchase an immediate annuity with multiple premiums. Deferred annuities delay payment until a later date specified in your annuity contract (for example, 10 or 20 years in the future). Deferred annuities can be purchased with either a single premium payment or multiple premium payments.
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residential remodeling, arguing that it makes housing more affordable for home buyers, which they said helps stabilize the property tax base of the state, cities and counties. “There is absolutely no question that these exemptions have been instrumental in making it possible for more people to become homeowners,” said Wes Galyon of the Wichita Area Builders Association. “ Galyon added that home construction in the Wichita area still has not rebounded to its prerecession levels. Over the next two weeks. the House and Senate hope to pass a rescission bill to balance the current fiscal year’s budget. Gov. Sam Brownback has proposed several measures that many lawmakers have said they find distasteful, but which they may have to accept, such as borrowing $317 million from
Public Notice (Published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., February 2, 2017)1t BEFORE THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS NOTICE OF FILING APPLICATION Re: In the matter of Landmark Resources, Inc. Application for a Permit for Water Injection/Disposal into the Beeson Unit A1-1 located in Scott County, Kansas. To: All Oil and Gas Producers, Unleased Mineral Interest Owners, Landowners, and all persons whosoever concerned. You and each of you are hereby notified that Landmark Resources, Inc. has filed an application to commence the disposal of saltwater into the Lansing/ Kansas City Formation at a depth of 4278’ TO 4386’ in the Beeson Unit A 1-1, located 2562’ FNL and 2586’ FEL of Section 1-17S-34W, Scott County, Kansas, with a maxi-
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SCOTT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION Scott City, Kansas STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITION DECEMBER 31, 2015 and 2014 Assets 2015 2014 Cash and cash equivalents $ 2,458,456.93 $ 666,839.82 Interest and dividends receivable 4,986.40 6,879.21 Building lease receivable 59,167.12 Pledges receivable 536,823.00 817,204.00 Investments 5,822,732.97 7,197,787.20 Property and equipment, less 8,907.52 9,544.67 Totals $ 8,831,906.82 $ 8,757,422.02 Liabilities and Net Assets Liabilities Accounts payable $ 17,895.53 $ 14,760.98 Grant payable 0.00 0.00 Payroll taxes payable 3,666.24 3,676.96 Funds held as organization 28,995.00 28,995.00 Funds held for Wallace County 234,372.63 Total Liabilities $ 284,929.40 $ 47,432.94 Net Assets Unrestricted $ 2,905,679.56 $ 3,150,815.93 Temporarily restricted 2,509,219.19 2,366,624.78 Permanently restricted 3,132,078.67 3,192,548.37 Total Net Assets $ 8,546,977.42 $ 8,709,989.08 TOTALS
state idle funds and repaying it over the next seven years. Their next task will be to tackle budgets for each of the next two fiscal years. For that, Brownback has proposed items that many lawmakers find even more distasteful, such as sweeping hundreds of millions of dollars out of the state highway fund, freezing payments into the state pension system at 2016 levels, selling off the state’s interest in future tobacco payments and imposing big hikes in cigarette and alcohol taxes. House Taxation Committee chairman Rep. Steve Johnson, R-Assaria, said no specific bill is being considered to repeal any of the exemptions. He said the purpose of Monday’s briefing was just to get more information about the exemptions, and that they may be considered further as the panel puts together a larger tax package later in the session.
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Pastime at Park Lane We offer our sympathy to the family of Elvira Billinger who passed away on January 22. We thank her family for the flowers brought to Park Lane in her memory. The Prairie View Church of the Brethren led church services on Sunday afternoon. Residents played pitch and dominoes on Monday afternoon. Game helpers were Gary Goodman, Lynda Burnett, Dorothy King, Bert Lucas, Joy Barnett, Madeline Murphy and Mandy Barnett. Residents played Wii bowling on Monday. Pastor Bob Artz led Bible study on Tuesday morning. Russel and Mary Webster led Bible study on Tuesday evening.
Evans celebrates 100th birthday
A birthday party honoring Christine Evans on her 100th birthday was held on Tuesday afternoon. Her family hosted the party and it was attended by family and friends who enjoyed cake and punch.
Students assist with bingo
Bingo was played on Wednesday afternoon. Helpers were Madeline Murphy, Mary Lou Oeser, and several seventh and eighth grade students from Scott City Middle School. Rev. Warren Prochnow led Lutheran Bible study on Wednesday morning. Residents played pitch on Wednesday evening. Denton and Karen Berry were the game helpers. Ladies received manicures on Thursday morning. Max Moomaw and Jo Fouse entertained with
a musical program on Thursday afternoon. Residents played trivia games on Thursday evening. Fr. Bernard Felix led Catholic Mass on Friday morning. Rev. Warren Prochnow led Lutheran services on Friday afternoon. Chet Quance per-
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formed on Friday afternoon. Thanks to Wanda Kirk for making clothing protectors. Corrine Dean was visited by Ron Hess and Dianna Howard. Darlene Richman was visited by Mary Webster, Tina Turley and Phebe Unruh. Yvonne Spangler was visited by Greg and Yvette Mills. Cecile Billings was visited by Delinda Dunagan, Ann Beaton, Larry Billings and Thurman Dunagan. James Still and Mike Leach were visited by Linda Dunagan and Rev. Don Martin. Dona Dee Carpenter was visited by Norman and Marvel Keyse.
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Louise Crist was visited by Jean Burgess, Anne Crane, Patsi Graham, and Pastor Jon and Debbie Tuttle. Doris Riner was visited by Trudy Eikenberry. Lowell Rudolph was visited by Tom and Kathleen Moore, Rev. Don Martin, LuAnn Buehler, Amanda Dearden and Chris Everett. Vivian Kreiser was visited by Larry and Sharon Lock. Boots Haxton was visited by Rod and Kathy Haxton. Clifford Dearden was visited by Kirk and Janet Ottaway from Hays. LaVera King was visited by Gloria Gough, Velda Riddiough, Marsha Holloway, Toni Wessel and Carol Latham.
Arlene Beaton was visited by John Beaton and Trudi Kuntzsch. Kathy Roberts was visited by Gary Roberts, Tom and Kathy Moore, Damian Ortiz, Aaron and Mandy Kropp, Nancy Holt, and Dean and Pat Burdick. Nella Funk was visited by Tom and Kathy Moore, Damian Ortiz, Aaron and Mandy Kropp, Nancy Holt and Anita Funk. Loretta Gorman was visited by Connie Gruver, Charlene Becht, Velda Riddiough, Lyle and Leta Gillispie from Colby, and Chuck and Barb Brobst. Hugh McDaniel was visited by Berniece McDaniel and Karen Roberts. Jim Jeffery was visited by Libbie Joles.
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Winston Emil Peterson, 93, of Manhattan, formerly of Monument, Ks., and Troy, Ohio, died Jan. 18, 2017, in Manhattan. Winston was born on Nov. 26, 1923, in Logan County, to Arthur and Helen (Gustafson) Peterson. Winston graduated from Page City High School, attended Brown Mackie School of Business, Salina, and served in the Merchant Marines during World War II. He married A. Marie (Theimer) Peterson on August 15, 1948, at Bethesda Lutheran Church in Page City. After moving to Manhattan, Winston and Marie became members of Peace Lutheran Church. Winston and Marie retired to Troy, Ohio, to be closer to grandchildren and later moved to Manhattan. Besides a long and successful career as a farmer, Winston was an active member of the church council at Bethesda Lutheran; a member of the Kansas Wheat Commission; and a former Logan County commissioner. As a longtime member of the Democratic Party,
Forest J. Gilbert, 73, died Jan. 26, 2017, at his home. H e was born Jan. 16, 1944, in Dodge City, the son of Forest Gilbert Forest C. Gilbert and Eilene A. (McCabe) Gilbert. Forest owned and operated Gilbert Insurance Agency and was in the insurance business for over 50 years. On July 23, 1965, he married Mary Catherine Groff in Miami, Okla. She survives. Other survivors include: one daughter, Debra Putman, and husband, Tim; one son, Forest Gilbert II, and wife, Melody; one sister, Patty Hawkins, and husband, Drennon;
Winston worked to help those who do not have the opportunities that many citizens take for granted. He was especially grateful to serve on the board of directors for the Developmental Services for Northwest Kansas and as the chairperson from 1986 to 1987. Survivors include his wife; five children, David Peterson (Ingrid), Kathy Swenson (Daniel), Kristine Polansky (Adrian), Timothy Peterson (Rebekah) and Julie Peterson (Brad Adams); 11 grandchildren and 10 greatgrandchildren. A memorial service was held on Jan. 28 at Peace Lutheran Church, Manhattan. Interment will be at Bethesda Lutheran Church Cemetery at a later date. Memorials are suggested to the Bethesda Lutheran Church, Peace Lutheran Church, Lutheran World Relief, Developmental Services of Northwest Kansas (DSNWK) or the Kansas Democratic Party. Memorials can be sent to YorgensenMeloan-Londeen Funeral Home, 1616 Poyntz Ave, Manhattan, Ks. 66502.
Clarence Leslie Williams Clarence Leslie Williams, 92, died Jan. 28, 2017, in Rogers, Ariz. H e was born May 15, 1924, in Neodesha, Ks., the son of Orrin and Clarence Williams Florence (Bunzel) Williams. Clarence graduated high school in Neodesha and in 1948 from Kansas State Teachers College, earning his bachelor’s degree in elementary education. He earned his Master’s degree in education at the University of Wichita in 1956. Clarence was superintendent of USD No. 466 (Scott County) from 1965-75. On March 15, 1945, he married Harriet (Sharpe) Williams in Florida. She
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survives. Other survivors include: two sons, Robert Williams, Bella Vista, Ariz., and David Williams, Wichita; one daughter, Ann Williams, Bella Vista, Ariz.; four grandchildren, four greatgrandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by five brothers and two sisters. Memorial service will be Sat., Feb. 4, 2:00 p.m., at the First United Methodist Church, Bella Vista, Ariz., with brother Jaimie Alexander officiating. Burial will be at the Williams family plot, Neodesha. Memorials are suggested to the First United Methodist Church, Bella Vista, in care of Bella Vista Funeral Home, 2258 Forest Hills Blvd., Bella Vista, Ariz. 72715.
six grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and many extended family and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents; one sister, Glenna Birzer; and one brother, Steven Gilbert. Funeral service was Jan. 31 at Ryan Mortuary, Salina. Burial was at the All Saints Catholic Cemetery, Salina. Memorials are suggested to St. Joseph Indian Reservation, Chamberlain, S.D., in care of Ryan Mortuary, 137 North Eighth Street, Salina, Ks. 67401. Condolences may be given to the family through the funeral home website at www.ryanmortuary.com.
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Buyers or liquids mixed in a pail of water are more efficient for larger areas, such as walls and floors. Floors can become cloudy from cleaning solution residue, making them look dirty when they’re actually clean. To prevent this, use a norinse product or rinse the floor well after each cleaning. Mold and mildew are especially problematic in bathrooms. Prospective home buyers are more sensitive then ever about its presence. Use liquid household bleach or cleaners with bleach to remove mildew stains from shower doors, shower curtains and grout between tiles. Use a non-streaking cleaning product, such as a glass or glass and multi-surface cleaner, for shower doors and mirrors. A regular routine, including rinsing the tub after bathing, using a small squeegee on shower walls after each use, and drying faucets and handles to prevent water spots, will keep things clean. Also, when you are preparing your home for sale, don’t forget to wash the windows, vacuum carpets and drapes and dust thoroughly. Use a dusting product so that the dust will be trapped and removed rather than dispersed in the air. Vacuum regularly, using long straight strokes. If repainting is not in the budget, carefully clean surfaces to remove dust, grime and fingerprints. Painted surfaces are usually washable, but test the cleaning solution on an inconspicuous area first. Use a non-abrasive, allpurpose cleaner. To avoid
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streak marks when cleaning large vertical areas, start at the bottom and work up, overlapping areas and using a circular motion. A Daily Routine Don’t let newspapers and mail pile up. Sort every day and discard what isn’t needed. Place a few baskets in strategic locations around the house. When the real estate agent calls, the clutter that is an inevitable part of daily life can be quickly scooped up into the baskets and hidden away. And, get in the habit of making a nightly “sweep” just before bedtime. On the night before a showing, quickly wipe away any dust from main or large areas. Use disposable wipes to quick-clean toilet bowls and areas in the kitchen. Make sure all the dishes are done and put away. Clean as you go, wiping up spills as they happen. Vacuum high traffic areas and make sure the glass on front doors and bathroom mirrors are clean. Don’t forget the garage and outside of the home. Remove any “junk” that has accumulated around the yard. Pick up after the pets. Get rid of the clutter in the garage. You want the buyers to focus on what you have to offer, not what they would have to clean. Keeping on top of the cleaning chores will make your home look its best. And, once a buyer is found, it’ll be easy to have the house “broom ready” for that final walk-through before closing day.
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During dark times do you wear a mask? “Let us not grow weary of doing good . . . do good to everyone . . .” Galatians 6: 1-10 When we as God’s children face difficult times or problems we are good at putting our masks on, that is to say we put on a very good impression that all is well. When asked by friends “ how are you doing” we say “just fine, thank you.” The reality is we are hurting, depressed, confused, feeling hopeless, and alone. We are very good at hiding our hurts and problems. We all do this and we all have felt the pain of life at one time or another; most of us more then we would like to admit. The mask we wear is to fool our friends, family, and those we associate with daily. You do not need to feel alone, abandoned, or desperate in your time of trial. I, too, have gone through many hurts, trials, alone times and times where there just seemed to be no answer when some one has listened to God and has come to my aid as an answer to my hurt or need. One case in point, not a big miraculous answer, but it was to me a big deal at the time. I was in Bible school and had limited funds to use. I was trying to attend school, work at the same time and be a father to a little one as well as a good husband to my wife. I had no money and found myself complaining to God about this. The next day I went to my school mailbox and found wrapped in a small piece of paper a twenty dollar bill and the paper said, “God Does Care” written in red ink. That twenty dollars, back then, would buy a
week’s groceries. Someone heard my prayer and reacted on it. Here it is 45 years later and I still remember that blessing, that answer to prayer, that someone acted and helped me. I will never forget that. We as God’s children also need to do more then just say, “I will pray for you,” if there is a need we can meet. Often we do not want to get involved with another and saying you will pray for them is an easy out and a way to feel we have done our part when we indeed have the means to be the answer to their prayer. Do we give them a thirty second prayer and go on with our lives feeling we did our job? There was a fellow that went up a hill and was murdered for us, shedding His blood that was innocent, for our sins, He didn’t have to get involved with any of us, but He did. We didn’t deserve it, but it was His love that kept Him on that cross and to die in our place. Can we not show love to others, deserving it or not, and help them if we can? Can we not love as Jesus did and still does to help people that are in need? This is the second greatest commandment, just behind loving the Lord with everything we are, that we love our neighbor as we do ourselves. God said to help others showing His love to them and in that way we bring a blessing to God. Help the needy and show the love of Christ to them there-by hoping to win the soul from Satan’s grasp. How about it? It’s not about us, but about our mission while here on Earth. See beyond the mask that we all wear at times and seek to help one another.
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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
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Health advocates take another crack at tobacco tax Andy Marso Kansas News Service
Public health advocates pushing for Kansas to increase taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products are running into the same opposing arguments they did two years ago. University of Kansas Cancer Center Director Roy Jensen and others pushed for a $1.50-perpack tax hike in 2015 and were disappointed when the Legislature ultimately settled on a 50-cent increase. Kansas has another budget crisis this year and health advocates are
again urging legislators to fill some of it with a tax increase large enough to make Kansans think twice about smoking. “There is nothing more effective we can do to more directly impact our smoking rate than increase our tobacco tax,” Jensen told the House Taxation Committee this week. The committee isn’t considering a specific bill yet but took public input on Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposal to raise cigarette taxes by $1 a pack and double the current tax on cigars and smokeless tobacco products. The lobbying wings
The A, B, C’s of a strong relationship by the American Counseling Association
Each year, Valentine’s Day brings thoughts of cute greeting cards and heart-shaped boxes of candy, but it’s also a good time to think about longterm relationships. Our romantic Valentine’s relationships actually share many of the same basics as any of our close relationships. Long-term relationships, whether a marriage, a friendship or even a business arrangement, are based on some common foundations and make a number of common demands of us. Building a long-term relationship takes work. We are all different, even the people we are closest to. We are each a product of many different influences and personal choices. This means that there are always times, whatever the type of relationship, when there will be differing opinions. The reason that marriages and friendships survive is because the people involved are willing to work through differences and disagreements. In other words, they value the relationship more than the things over which they may disagree. For a relationship to grow and evolve, it’s important for both members to be honest with one another, even when disagreements come up. Doing so helps build the essential trust that makes a relationship work. One way to look at this could be called the ABC method of sustaining a relationship. The “A” is to “Affirm” the value of the relationship. In other words, agreeing that the relationship itself is more important than either of your views on a particular subject. “B” stands for “Behaving” in ways that, when discussing points of disagreement, reaffirm the value of the relationship. This means letting the other person know that while you may disagree on this subject, it won’t affect the basics of the relationship. It means not setting ultimatums or trying to force the other person to your point of view. The “C” means “Clarifying” issues when there are disagreements. Each person must monitor and control his own tendency to want to “interpret” the words and actions of the other, as opposed to being open and talking with the other person to allow for clarification of his or her intent and meaning. Long-term relationships are important in our lives. But there’s no denying that it takes work to make them grow and last. The key is often finding room in the relationship for the differences that are bound to exist between any two people. “Counseling Corner” is provided by the American Counseling Association. Comments and questions to ACAcorner@counseling.org or visit the ACA website at counseling.org
Sadly, if you don’t increase it by a significant level, the impact on the smoking rates is pretty minimal. Roy Jensen, director University of Kansas Cancer Center
of the American Cancer Society, MS Society and American Lung Association joined Jensen in pushing for even higher tobacco taxes than what Brownback has proposed. But, some legislators seemed skeptical of raising the taxes at all, predicting it would just send buyers to other states or online. “Seems like we’re working really hard this year to see money walk out of the state,” said Rep.
Ken Corbet (R-Topeka). Rep. Kristey Williams (R-Augusta) asked Jensen whether the last cigarette tax increase had reduced smoking rates. “It’s gone down a little bit, although we don’t have great data on that,” Jensen said. He reminded the committee that he and the others had asked for an increase three times higher. “Sadly, if you don’t increase it by a significant level, the impact on the
smoking rates is pretty minimal,” Jensen said. “And that’s where we are after 2015.” Tobacco industry lobbyists lined up to tell the committee members they should not touch the taxes. “This is a regressive tax that targets and penalizes a certain segment of consumers,” said John Federico, who represents smokeless tobacco manufacturers. Federico noted that voters rejected ballot questions to increase tobacco taxes last year in several states, including Missouri, which has the country’s lowest cigarette taxes.
Kurt Diebel, the owner of Diebel’s Sportsmens Gallery stores in the Kansas City area, said cigar sales at his Kansas location would plummet if taxes go up. “I think my customers will run to Missouri,” Diebel said. None of those arguments resonated with Conley Cornell, a Coffeyville woman who told the tax committee about watching her father die of lung cancer. “He had smoked for years and had tried to quit for years,” Cornell said. “It was absolutely a horrific way to die. Painful.”
KanCare expansion supporters tout favorable poll numbers Up to 150K low-income Kansans would benefit Jim McLean Kansas News Service
Advocates of expanding Medicaid in Kansas are trumpeting new poll numbers that show them gaining ground despite what appear to be long odds of success. The poll, conducted in December just before the start of the 2017 legis-
lative session, indicated that 82 percent of Kansas voters supported expanding KanCare, the state’s privatized Medicaid program, according to the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, which commissioned the survey. That marks an increase from the 62 percent of voters who said they favored expansion in a poll done last spring for the Kansas Hospital Association. The timing of today’s release of the results wasn’t an accident. The House Health and Human Services Committee has
Grants help rural towns gain better access to produce Bryan Thompson Kansas News Service
nutritious foods, with residents facing round-trips of an hour just to buy fresh vegetables. Over time, the consequences of families having less healthy diets will be stark.” One example of this trend is the central Kansas town of St. John, in Stafford County. The only grocery store in St. John closed last year. Now the nearest full-service food store is 29 miles away. The Sunflower Foundation is issuing the grants to St. John and other communities to help them determine how to improve local access to fresh food. But, Elizabeth Stewart Burger of the Sunflower
Eight rural communities across Kansas will share $120,000 in grants over the next year to find ways to improve access to fresh produce. Fresh vegetables and fruits can be hard to find in rural Kansas because some grocery stores have closed or are struggling to survive. “We know that access to a full range of nutritious foods is critical for the health of growing children and their families,” said Billie Hall, Sunflower Foundation president and CEO. “Yet more and more Kansas communities are losing ready access to (See PRODUCE on page 15)
scheduled three days of hearings on an expansion bill next week, starting Monday. “This information can help shape the discussion in the coming hearings,” said Hilary Gee, Kansas government relations director for ACS CAN. Expansion opponents say it’s too late for that discussion. With President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans poised to dismantle Obamacare, they say it would be foolish to press ahead. “I don’t want to poison the well by saying
that, but I think that it is,” said Rep. Dan Hawkins, a Wichita Republican who is chairman of the health committee. “Even if it passes, which I think it might, it can’t go anywhere.” But after three years of battling just to get a vote on expansion, supporters aren’t about to give up now that changes in the makeup of the Legislature have strengthened their hand. “Even with the uncertainty in D.C., it’s clear that the overwhelming majority of Kansans support (See NUMBERS on page 15)
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Influenza outbreak is widespread in Kansas Kansas is now experiencing widespread influenza activity, with increased influenza cases seen in most regions of the state. Reports of outbreaks in long-term care facilities, schools and daycares have been made to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE). Five outbreaks have been identified during the 2016-17 season.
Symptoms of influenza include fever, dry cough, extreme tiredness and muscle aches. Complications can include pneumonia, ear and sinus infections and dehydration.
“It is not too late to get your seasonal influenza vaccine,” said Susan Mosier, MD, KDHE Secretary and State Health Officer. “I urge Kansans who have not yet taken this precaution to do so as
Produce Foundation said improving access alone isn’t enough. Part of the job involves increasing demand for healthy produce. “Especially in two-parent working households, people aren’t cooking the way they used to,” Stewart Burger said. “We’ve heard stories from a grocer who will say, ‘You know, I can put an eggplant on the shelf. No one’s going to buy it, because they don’t know how to fix it.’” Stewart Burger said the grants include resources to
expanding KanCare,” said David Jordan, executive director of the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas, noting that Republicans in Congress remain divided on how quickly to repeal Obamacare and what to put in its place. The alliance is a coalition of advocacy and provider groups funded by several health foundations, some of which also provide funding to the Kansas News Service. The expansion bill would extend KanCare coverage to between 100,000 and 150,000 lowincome Kansans - mostly low-income adults - earn-
Complications can include pneumonia, ear and sinus infections and dehydration. Influenza may also worsen other chronic conditions. Depending on the severity of the influenza season, 5-20 percent of the population may get influenza each year. During the peak of the 2015-16 influenza season in Kansas, approximately three percent of all health
care visits in clinics were due to influenza-like illness. Influenza or pneumonia contributed to or was the direct cause of 903 deaths among Kansas residents during the 2015-16 influenza season. Additional ways to avoid spreading influenza include covering your mouth when you cough and sneeze, and washing your hands.
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Area grant recipients include: •Western Prairie Food, Farm and Community Alliance, working with the Western Prairie Resource, Conservation and Development District, representing eight counties in northwest Kansas (Cheyenne, Decatur, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas and Wallace). •GROW Hodgeman, working with the Hodgeman County Economic Resource Development Council. •St. John Task Force for Grocery Store Access, working with Stafford County Economic Development.
help convince people that healthy food is tasty and not impossible to prepare. “That can be done in more consumer-friendly ways, such as cooking demonstrations, displays that are fun, taste-testing at schools and community events, cooking contests,
nurse, the one question that always arose was ‘What can I eat?’”says Dummermuth. “Kitchen Therapy will teach patients how to enjoy food while maximizing the benefits of nutrition.” Kitchen Therapy was originally tested in the Kansas City area in 2013 as a way to help cancer patients cope with changes in diet and appetite. As word spread, others expressed interest in offering the program for patients. Kitchen Therapy is scheduled for the third Thursday of every month, February through November. The program is free, but registration is requested. To participate call Dummermuth at 620-7651443.
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against influenza is especially important for anyone at high risk of complications, for anyone who is caring for children younger than five years of age and for persons caring for those with medical conditions that put them at higher risk for severe complications. Symptoms of influenza include fever, dry cough, extreme tiredness and muscle aches.
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Kitchen therapy to begin at Cancer Center Cancer patients and others with chronic disease can join Heartland Cancer Center for free, monthly cooking demonstrations and tips on ways to choose the healthiest ingredients, make food more appealing and spark appetites. The first session will be held on Thurs., Feb. 16, at noon, at the Heartland Cancer Center, 410 E. Spruce Street, Garden City. During Kitchen Therapy, dietitians prepare and share samples of recipes, provide nutrition advice and answer questions to help patients cook up comfort at home. Viry Dummermuth, oncology nurse navigator, will facilitate the program. “When I worked as a chemotherapy infusion
soon as possible.” This season’s influenza vaccine appears to be a very good match to the circulating viruses. Influenza vaccine is recommended for nearly everyone six months of age and older. Infants less than six months of age are too young to be vaccinated and are more vulnerable to the complications from influenza. Being vaccinated
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ing less than 138 percent of the federal poverty level. That’s a little more than $16,000 a year for an individual and $33,400 for a family of four. Gee said that in addition to providing basic health care to more Kansans, expanding KanCare would be an important step in the battle against the leading cause of death in Kansas: cancer. “Access to quality health care directly affects people’s ability to prevent, detect and survive cancer,” she said. “Too many cancer deaths are attributable to gaps in our system.”
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recipe cards that use the ingredients at the store or in conjunction with what may be at the farmers’ market,” she said. But, rural grocers often don’t have time to manage projects like those when they’re working to keep their doors open. So
improving the availability of fruits and vegetables might mean helping grocery stores partner with schools and hospitals to boost purchasing power. The Rural Grocery Initiative at Kansas State University will provide technical assistance to grant recipients. Sunflower worked with the initiative to identify communities and counties that met the USDA definition of a “food desert” or would meet the definition if a remaining grocery store were to close.
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Bill would require state, not BOEs, to make purchases Fiscal conservatives and Kansas education officials took separate sides Wednesday on the merits of a bill in the House K-12 Education Budget Committee limiting the ability of school districts to purchase items. House Bill 2143 would require school districts to acquire food, fuel and information technology equipment through the Kansas Department of Administration, a process known as strategic sourcing. The bill, if signed into law, would take effect immediately, but not pertain to contracts signed before July 1, 2017. “This is all about having greater volume, great-
er leverage, in contracts,” said budget director Shawn Sullivan at a hearing on the bill Wednesday. School districts currently have the option to procure food, fuel and information technology through the state agency. That is voluntary, for now. Under the bill, it would be mandatory. Darren Muci, operations director for Wichita Public Schools, said his district uses some state purchasing contracts, but also manages its own contracts when that option is more beneficial. Mandating use of the state’s purchasing department wouldn’t save his district - the state’s largest
- money, he told the committee. “For IT service, we would have to contact the state to advise them of our needs. The state would contact our local vendors to solicit pricing and then forward that information back to us. We could have completed the process ourselves,” he said. Sarah Shipman, secretary of the Kansas Department of Administration, spoke in favor of the bill and said her office is prepared to implement its provisions. “Currently, there is no mandated coordinated procurement among the school districts,” Shipman wrote in written remarks.
“Decentralized procurement makes it difficult to leverage buying power and drive down costs.” There are exemptions in the bill. Boards of education can purchase their own food, fuel and IT equipment if the items can be bought locally for an amount within one percent of what the state agency would pay or if they can be obtained at an education service center. There is also an exception for instances in which both the school board and KDA agree items purchased by the state “would negatively impact student performance or outcomes.” The bill stems from an
Weekly legislative review begins on SHPTV Smoky Hills Public Television viewers again have the opportunity to hear from area legislators and ask questions through the local production “The Kansas Legislature.” The first episode of the
new season will air Fri., Feb. 3, at 7:00 p.m. The show airs during the legislative session, which gives the legislators and viewers the opportunity to discuss up-to-date issues. For each show, legis-
lators from the SHPTV viewing area are invited to participate in the live call-in program. Typically a moderator and three to four legislators take part in each show.
Midwest economy improves in Jan. OMAHA, Neb. Results from a monthly survey of business supply managers suggest economic conditions continue to improve in nine Midwest and Plains states. The Mid-America Business Conditions Index report released Wednesday says the overall economic index for the region rose to 54.7
in January from 53.1 in December. It’s the highest figure since February 2015 and the third monthly increase in a row. Creighton University economist Ernie Goss oversees the survey, and he says the increases point to an improving regional manufacturing economy. The survey results are
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efficiency study, which recommended the change after an analysis of expenditure data from the state’s seven largest school districts. Mark Tallman, with the Kansas Association of School Boards, said there are 279 other districts in the state, making estimates of savings unreliable. The bill erodes local control, Tallman said, and harms the connection districts have with local businesses. Rep. Fred Patton, a Topeka Republican and Seaman school board member, agreed. He questioned whether an average of $30,000 in savings for each school district in
Kansas is worth losing the connection between districts and local businesses. “This one-size-fitsall approach fails to take into account the important variables that exist between districts,” said Beloit superintendent Jeff Travis. Representatives questioned whether increases to manpower and technology at the KDA that are necessary to comply with the bill could mitigate any cost savings. “Are we really going to save any money once we have to expand computer systems and things like that?” asked Rep. Ed Trimmer (D-Winfield).
Sports winning the Welton On a roll
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Jurgens bounces back from first loss to win GC tourney After losing his first match of the season in the championship finals at Lexington (Nebr.), Jarret Jurgens was pretty humble about the setback. “I learned that I’m not as good as I wish I was,” he said in reflecting on the loss. But, make no mistake about it, the Scott Community High School wrestler is pretty darn good. He was good enough to bounce back a week after his only loss to win a gold medal at the rugged Rocky Welton Invitational last weekend. In Saturday night’s championship finals, the SCHS 152-pounder posted a 5-1 decision over Holcomb’s Tanner Johnson. A year after finishing as the runner-up in the same tournament, Jurgens was looking forward to the opportunity to put himself at the top of the podium this time around. “A year ago I was just coming off my broken ankle and this was only my second tournament, so I didn’t come in here with high expectations,” notes Jurgens. “This year was different. I know a lot of people in Garden (City) and it’s fun to wrestle in front of them. And since our own tournament got cancelled (because of weather) this was a chance for Scott City people to come down and watch us wrestle.” Jurgens’ loss a week earlier didn’t prevent him from earning the No. 1 seed in the Rocky Welton (See JURGENS on page 24)
Scott City freshman Kaden Wren comes out the back door for a reversal during Saturday’s consolation round fall over George Weber of Great Bend. (Record Photo)
Another frustrating loss for SC girls The frustration was evident following Tuesday’s loss. “We’re capable of being so much better than this,” said head coach Sarah McCormick following a 48-43 non-league loss at Cimarron. Adding to the frustration is that the loss follows a pattern
which has become all-toofamiliar to the head coach. The Lady Beavers fall behind early, battle to get back into the game, only to come up a little short at the end. “We have to know that these teams are going to come at us hard, especially after last year,” says McCormick, referring to Scott
City’s upset win over Cimarron in sub-state. “We talked about the need to be mentally prepared before a game. It has to come from within. They have to learn how to motivate themselves before they’re behind by 10 or 15 points.” A basket by junior guard
Height no problem as SC boys pull away late for win In a matchup of height vs quickness, it was the latter that prevailed on Tuesday when the Scott City boys pulled away in the second half for a 55-49 win at Cimarron. The Beavers have been undersized against most of their competition this season, and the Bluejays were no exception. (See HEIGHT on page 24)
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bombs away
Duff blitzes Pokes with 7 treys in league showdown
Scott City’s Bo Hess drives the baseline for a reverse layin during Friday’s league win at Goodland. (Record Photo)
There’s never been a question of whether Drew Duff can shoot from three-point range. The bigger question is, “Will he?” On Friday night, the Scott Community High School senior shot from beyond the threepoint line and he kept shooting - hitting 7-of-9 attempts - on his Scott City 49 Goodland 29 way to a career high 21 points in Scott City’s 49-29 win at Goodland. “I’ve made it known to Drew that I want him ready to shoot at all times, regardless of whether he’s missed five in a row or made five in a row,” says head coach Brian Gentry. “If he’s open and in rhythm, he needs to shoot.” Duff took that advice to heart. He hit a trey early in the contest and with the Beavers (8-6) protecting an 11-9 lead, the senior guard drained three more treys over the final 4:17 that saw Scott City open up a 20-11 lead when the period ended. “For us to reach our full potential he’s got to have the mindset that he’s going to shoot, which he did tonight,” says Gentry. “He probably hasn’t felt that way in the past because he wasn’t making them - at least not like tonight - but I still want him shooting. He came out with an aggressive mindset and you could see it on his face. When he hits a couple of shots you can see his confidence build.” Duff’s sizzling start was huge for the Beavers who added just four more points in the second (See DUFF on page 24)
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Just what can we see at the sinkhole today? McPherson County sports a big wetlands complex known collectively as the McPherson Valley Wetlands. They are divided into two parts, one a little west of McPherson and the other just a couple miles as the crow flies southeast of Inman. Inman’s share of these wetlands is known as the Farland Lake Marshes, and is comprised of Little Sinkhole No. 1, Little Sinkhole No. 2 and the Big Sinkhole. Known affectionately
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at our house as “the sinkhole,” it’s my go-to place when I find myself at the eleventh hour without a column for the week. A trip to the sinkhole never disappoints - from a chance encounter with a cruising muskrat as I sit in the truck along the water, to a tree overhanging the sinkhole pond so full of
white egrets it looked like a tree of huge white blossoms. Across the road to the west of Sinkhole No. 1 is another sinkhole of a couple acres that is privately owned. I’ve trapped beavers there for a few years, but since it all dried up during the drought three years ago, it has been beaver-free, much to my chagrin. The past summer and fall brought us good rains and the sinkholes and the marshes are all full. But, I
noticed last fall that a few acres of farm land just above the privately owned sinkhole pond were under several inches of water. I discovered fresh beaver signs there, but couldn’t figure out why the farm land was under water. It drains into the sinkhole pond, but the drain pipe in the pond was under water and not allowing the cropland to drain. Consequently, both ponds were swollen with water. Across the road to the
east is a deep drainage ditch that connects the small sinkholes and drains them both a mile to the east into the Big Sinkhole. I walked back there last Sunday afternoon and as I topped the dike along the drainage ditch, I looked to the east and there was merely a small stream of water flowing through the drainage ditch as it was supposed to do. Odd, I thought, since everything it was supposed to drain was flooded. I spun around and
looked toward the small ponds behind me and was face-to-face with an immense beaver dam, ultimately responsible for the flooded field. Although that dam creates deep waterways for the beavers to travel and offers ducks nearly unlimited hidden resting places among the flooded timber and grassy marsh ponds, it will have to be torn out this spring to allow the cropland above it to properly drain. (See SINKHOLE on page 23)
Hornets take control early over Red Devils The outcome of Tuesday’s Northwest Kansas League game was never in doubt. The Dighton High School boys (9-4) dominated from the outset and coasted to a 64-39 win which wasn’t even that close. On a night during which senior Tyler Lingg was recognized for joining the 1,000 point club, he continued to add to that career total with an impressive 27 point performance. Lingg showed the versatility which has made him one of the top scorers in school history, hitting 10-of-15 from the field, including 7-of-10 from beyond the three-point line. Just moments after being presented a 1,000 point “game ball,” Lingg buried back-to-back treys which put the Hornets on top, 7-0. Junior pivot Isaac Torson added a three-point play to finish off a 10 point scoring blitz to open the game. Lingg’s three-pointer early in the second period extended the lead to 21-4. The Hornets closed out the first half with an 8-0 scoring blitz, capped by a three-pointer from senior guard Dylan Foos, which
1,000 Point Club While exact point totals are not known, former Dighton High School players who scored 1,000 or more points during their careers include Dean Cramer, Bart Briggs, Ryan Kuhlman and K.J. Wilkens.
gave them a 31-9 halftime cushion. Junior forward Logan Lingg continues to be an offensive force in the paint with 16 points (4-of7 FG) and nine rebounds. Foos shared rebounding honors with nine boards to go along with seven points. Torson had an outstanding game with 15 points (6-of-8 FG). Lingg reached the 1,000 point plateau against St. Francis a couple of weeks earlier when he finished with 1,019 points. Following his performance against Oberlin, he now has 1,104 points for his career. “For a big man, he is very versatile, which makes him so difficult to guard,” says head coach Ben Wilkens. “We can use him to pound the ball inside and he can also step beyond the perimeter and hit the three-pointer. With his length he’s very difficult to defend on the outside.”
Dighton senior Lake Lewis drives past an Oberlin defender to the basket during Tuesday’s home court win in NWKL action. (Record Photo)
Hornets knock off No. 1 for second time this season If you’re wearing a No. 1 target on your backs, it would be a good idea to stay out of range of the Dighton Hornets. Twice this season the Hornets have faced a No. 1 ranked opponent and
each time they’ve come away with a win. The first time was on January 13 when they defeated St. Francis on the home floor when they were the No. 1 team in Class 1A-Division I. They
accomplished that feat again on January 24 when they traveled to Otis-Bison and handed the No. 1 ranked team in Class 1ADivision II a 47-41 loss. “We’re continuing to get better as our boys that
were injured early in the year are getting more playing time,” says head coach Ben Wilkens. “We’re still building chemistry.” One of those players who wasn’t available earlier because of a broken
bone in his right hand was junior Logan Lingg who has made his presence known in the paint since returning to the lineup. Lingg scored 16 points (6-of-8 FG) and grabbed seven rebounds against
the Cougars. “Logan had a really nice game overall. He was hitting shots in the 16-17 foot range that opened up the middle,” says Wilkens. “And he battled (See HORNETS on page 21)
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Second quarter blitz gives Goodland round 1 in sub-state preview One bad quarter. “Doesn’t it seem to always come down to that?” asked Scott City head Scott City 36 Goodland 45 coach Sarah McCormick following a 45-36 loss at Goodland on Saturday. This was an anticipated matchup between the two Great West Activities Conference schools. Not only was it big in the league standings, but these are the two teams expected to see each other in the sub-state finals in another month. The first quarter lived up to that hype with the Lady Beavers taking an 11-10 lead late in the first quarter on a basket by freshman Emily Weathers. That’s when the offensive floor fell out from under the Lady Beavers. Over the next 5-1/2 minutes, Goodland put together a 14-0 scoring run that put the Lady Beavers into a 2611 hole with 2:41 remaining in the first half. In addition, the Lady Beavers found themselves in foul trouble having committed 10 fouls in the first 11-1/2 minutes. “We have to adjust quicker to the way games are called so we don’t put ourselves in situations like that. We became very passive and quit doing things we typically would have done,” says McCormick. “We can’t stop attacking because we have
a couple of fouls or we’re afraid of what (the officials) might call.” With just over a minute left in the first half, SCHS faced its largest deficit, 30-13, but slowly inched their way back into the contest. They limited the Cowgirls to just three points over the first 11-1/2 minutes of the second half. Senior guard Nancy Wiebe converted a three-point play early in the fourth quarter and followed with a pair of free throws that cut the margin to just five points, 33-28, with 5:09 to play. That’s as close as the Lady Beavers would get. Goodland scored their final 12 points at the free throw line to come away with the win. “The whole game was filled with adversity. We had people in foul trouble, people injured, I had to play people in positions they don’t typically play in, and we still found a way to fight back,” McCormick says. “At the same time, we have to play with the same aggression for an entire game that I saw in the second half. If you aren’t going to bring defensive intensity to every possession - not just when you’re behind it’s going to be difficult to win games, especially when you’re not shooting well.” Weathers finished with a game high eight points while (See PREVIEW on page 21)
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Macie Price gave Scott City it’s final lead of the night, 6-4, midway into the first quarter. Cimarron responded with nine unanswered points before junior guard Katie McGonagle’s three-pointer just ahead of the buzzer cut the deficit to 15-9. The Lady Beavers (7-9) cut the deficit to a single point on a basket by Price to open the second half, but that’s as close as they could get the rest of the game. Once again, Cimarron put together a 9-0 scoring stretch to build a 10 point cushion only to see SCHS chip away at the deficit throughout the half. Cimarron’s biggest lead in the fourth quarter was seven points (38-31) and they were
still protecting a 41-35 lead with 2-1/2 minutes remaining when Scott City made one final run. However, the Lady Beavers had to do it at the charity stripe where they scored six of their final eight points. Free throws by Kiana Yager and Price sliced the deficit to 41-38 with 1:52 remaining and junior center Emily Smith followed with a huge blocked shot that would have given Scott City a chance to possibly tie the game. Instead, SCHS committed a turnover - one of 22 on the night - that allowed Cimarron to extend its lead to five points, 43-38, with :50 on the clock. Junior guard Bailey Latta, who finished with a team high 11 points, drained a pair of free
Scott City’s Emily Smith (left) and Macie Price combine to trap a Goodland player and force a turnover during Friday’s league contest. (Record Photo)
throws just three seconds later. Cimarron, who finished 20-of29 at the free throw line for the game, was 5-of-6 during the final 45 seconds to protect its lead. However, the game still came down to the first eight minutes. “We were on cruise control and we didn’t pick it up until we were losing and that’s backwards from what it should be. Winners are 100 percent ready from the start of a game,” noted McCormick. Mental focus is also a contributing factor to the 22 turnovers. “There were no surprises. We watched film and knew exactly what they were going to do de-
fensively,” McCormick says. “We had situations where the wrong person was throwing the ball inbounds. That’s not what we do. “We had people in the wrong spots against their press. This is February. Those things shouldn’t still be happening. Mental mistakes will get you beat, especially against a good team.” McCormick was also disappointed in their ability to get the ball into the paint where Smith finished with only six points all coming in the second half. “When you can see the player’s number there’s no reason you can’t get the ball to her,” says the coach. “We have to be able to make that pass. Emily’s
not going to take a bad shot. If it’s not there, she’ll kick it back out, but we have to get her involved in the offense.” McCormick also had to rotate McGonagle and freshman guard Madison Shapland into the lineup in place of injured Kaitlyn Roberts who is expected to miss several games due to a calf injury. “They did well. They were in position where they needed to be,” she said. “It’s difficult for them to get into the flow of the game because I’m splitting quarters between the two of them.” Following junior varsity action, each has two quarters of eligibility for varsity play.
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KSU fans will be ready for Jayhawks at Bramlage Mon. Last Saturday, KU solidified its position for the upcoming NCAA Tournament with a prestigious win (79-73) against Kentucky in Lexington. Coach Bill Self was pleased and by said, “I thought we showed extreme Mac upperclassman leadership tonight Stevenson and I thought we played pretty tough. I think our guys are really excited . . . I think they’re excited because we didn’t play great and we fought through it and we ended up winning the game.” Beating Kentucky at Rupp Arena is no small feat, but there’s scarce time to celebrate. Kansas will have to work through the loss of Carlton Bragg due to an indefinite suspension. KU lacks depth in the pivot. However, Dwight Coleby (6-9, 240) and Mitch Lightfoot (6-8, 210) are going to play more minutes in relief of Landen Lucas and will improve with the extra practice and game time. Lucas played a superb second half against Kentucky. KU plays at home against Iowa State on Saturday (Feb. 4) and then travels to Manhattan to play Kansas State in the friendly confines of Bramlage Coliseum. The game will be nationally televised on ESPN’s Big Monday (Feb. 6). Do you think the Wildcats’ crowd will be up for the Jayhawks after K-State was robbed by poor officiating in the earlier game at Lawrence? Look for Kansas to play more of the match-up zone they used against Kentucky; Self said after the game that it kept guards Devonté Graham and Frank Mason from becoming too tired. Josh Jackson is progressing steadily as the Jayhawks strive for their 13th consecutive Big 12 championship. He played his best game as a Jayhawk against Kentucky, making the win possible. Kansas State is coming off two disappointing losses against Iowa State and Tennessee. The Wildcats have a rugged road challenge at Baylor on Saturday (Feb. 4). K-State hurt their chances for a bid to the NCAA Tournament with the two losses last week. However, a win over KU on Big Monday would just about guarantee an invite to the Big Dance. Center D.J. Johnson and small forward Dean Wade have been hampered by nagging injuries that have hindered the Wildcats. Freshman forward Xavier Sneed (6-5, 210) is coming on for the K-State. He could make a big difference during the remaining Big 12 games. Kansas State needs one or two more impressive wins to gain a berth in the NCAA Tournament and that’s the most important factor in whether or not a season is successful. The nonconference games and Big 12 match-ups are exciting and entertaining, but how your team does in the NCAA tourney is what’s important to the fans. WSU Faces Illinois State Wichita State plays their biggest game of the season at home this Saturday (Feb. 4) against Illinois State. The Redbirds lead the Missouri Valley with a 9-0 record while the Shockers are 8-1. Illinois State smacked the Shockers (76-62) on January 14 at Bloomington-Normal and gained first place in the MVC. Coach Gregg Marshall’s team cannot afford another loss to Illinois State. That would likely eliminate Wichita State from the NCAA Tournament. The feeling here is that the Shockers are on the verge of breaking out and becoming an outstanding ball club. Marshall has talent and depth, but it’s a new team with Ron Baker and Fred VanVleet gone to the NBA. Wichita is a formidable foe at home and Shockers will defeat the Redbirds. But it will be far from easy. Give the Edge to New England There’s a big prediction to make for this coming Sunday (Feb. 5): Atlanta and New England are playing in a football game called the Super Bowl. It appears to be an evenly matched game between two exceptional teams. New England’s Tom Brady and Atlanta’s Matt Ryan have had marvelous seasons and both are experienced quarterbacks. Atlanta has youth on their side, which is offset by New England’s experience. It will be a battle royal, but Brady will lead his Patriots to a 34-30 victory.
Preview Emily Smith and Bailey Latta each added six. The Lady Beavers have also lost the services of three-point specialist Kaitlyn Roberts who had to leave the game at halftime with a calf injury. It’s unknown when she’ll return. “Kaitlyn will sit out this week because of the injury. I’ve told her she’s more valuable to us later in the season,” McCormick said. “We need her to be 100 percent for substate. “She is a scorer for us and when she’s not avail-
Hornets under the boards and got some points. “Otis-Bison had some height, but we were able to feed some entry passes to Logan in the post and he was able to score from there as well.” Dighton trailed the Cougars 29-28 going into the final period and that’s when Tyler Lingg took over. The six-foot-five senior had been limited to just a pair of baskets and five points through the first 24 minutes, but closed out the night with 10 fourth quarter points, including 4-of-4 at the charity stripe. The Hornets were 9-of10 at the free throw line in the final period.
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able that puts more burden on others.” The head coach was looking for someone to pick up that burden in the second half against Goodland. “With Kaitlyn not available in the second half and with other girls struggling to score, we need for Macie (Price) to step outside her comfort zone and provide some offense. Sometimes she does that and I have to keep encouraging her to shoot,” adds McCormick.
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“It came down to ball control and controlling the tempo of the game,” Wilkens says. “We had good offensive possessions and took good shots. “We didn’t have a big scoring run. It came down to getting a defensive stop and taking a high percentage shot when we had the ball.” With sub-state tournament action only a month away, the goal during February is to “continue creating team chemistry and building momentum.” “We’ve shown that we’re capable of beating some pretty good teams on any given night,” Wilkens says.
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Late O-B basket ends undefeated season for DHS girls
Most coaches will try to be philosolphical about a loss that ends an undefeated season. Not Dighton head coach Amy Felker. “I can’t think of anything good that came out of that loss,” Felker said after her previously undefeated Lady Hornets were stunned by Otis-Bison, 34-33, in a non-league road loss. Dighton (11-1) was coming off a Northwest Kansas League Tournament championship win over Hoxie and may have been feeling a little carryover, especially on offense. “We couldn’t get shots to fall and we didn’t execute very well,” says Felker. “Defensively, when you only give up 34 points against a pret-
ty good team like OtisBison, that should be good enough to get the win.” Despite their struggles on offense, the Lady Hornets nearly escaped with the win. However, an official’s failure to acknowledge a timeout by the head coach when the the ball was being tied up near the Dighton bench resulted in a technical and two free throws that cut the DHS lead to 33-32. With only 15 seconds remaining, the Lady Cougars were able to force a turnover that led to a game-winning layup. “We had things happen which were very uncharaceristic of how we play,” says Felker. “I thought we might still get away with a win, but it didn’t work out that way.”
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Dighton sophomore Emily Sheppard grabs a rebound during Tuesday’s league win over Oberlin on the home floor. (Record Photo)
Hornets overcome slow start to cool Red Devils
Maybe there were still some lingering effects from their first loss of the season a week earlier. Maybe it was just the knowledge that this was a game they should easily win. Whatever the reason, the Dighton High School girls played very uninspired ball in the first half before regaining their championship form in the second half and rolling to a 40-15 win against Oberlin on the home floor. “The first half we were just going through the motions. No one was attacking,” says head coach Amy Felker. “I told the girls at halftime
we have to pick up our defense and attack more. “We couldn’t be content with making one pass and trying to get a shot off. We needed to pass the ball more.” In the third quarter alone, the Lady Hornets scored more than they had in the entire first half. They outscored the Lady Red Devils 20-6, including six points each from Sara Cramer, Jordan Speer and Ella Roberts. “We had a great, great third quarter,” said Felker, who acknowledge the team was emotionally flat against a team they had beaten easily in the
Northwest Kansas League tournament. What they lacked offensively they made up for with defensive intensity. They led 17-3 at halftime with all of Oberlin’s points coming at the charity stripe. Oberlin’s only field goal during the first 24 minutes came on a three-pointer midway into the third period. Speer and Roberts led the team with 13 points each while Cramer added 12. “Now we need to start building some momentum for the Ingalls game on Friday and for the rest of the season,” added Felker.
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Takedown Kids Wrestling Scott City Takedown Club Tourament of Champions January 28, 2017 6-Years and Under 46: Noah Wheeler (Scott City) pinned Brogan Bammes (MOKWC) 0:21; pinned by Adin Wessley (Kansas Young Guns) 2:22; pinned Ayden Tafoya (Greater Gold) 0:25; pinned Slade Patterson (Maize) 2:56; dec. by Xzander Donner (Russell) 6-2. 58: Kasey Rohrbough (Scott City) pinned Wylie Linn (Salina) 0:54; pinned by Rebel Hays (Bentonville) 0:53; pinned Adam Adcox (Bobcat Wrestling) 1:33; pinned Leolyn Karnowski (Wamego) 0:59. Third Place 58: Kirbey Rohrbough (Scott City) pinned Jarett Adelman (Colby) 0:31; pinned by Archer Webb (Mulvane) 1:55; dec. by Adam Adcox (Bobcat Wrestling) 8-2. 8-Years and Under 55: Konner Rohrbough (Scott City) pinned by Caeleb Hutchinson (MOKWC) 1:00; sudden victory by TaiiVaughnn Walsh (MOKWC) 6-4. 58: Trenton Frank (Scott City) tech. fall over Ethan Worthington (Rose Hill) 17-0; dec. over Lane Jones (Bobcat Wrestling) 6-0; dec. over Caden Garcia (Lion Elite) 6-0; dec. over Tyson Blancarte (Louisburg) 2-0; sudden victory over Emerson Tjaden (De Soto) 14-2. First Place 61: Drew Metzger (Scott City) pinned by Aaron Wyrick (team Grindhouse) 0:22; sudden victory by Logan Stenka (2TG) 14-2. 64: Matthew Wheeler (Scott City) dec. by Michael Furze (Jr. Titans) 2-0; dec. over Issac Nikolas (Team of Hard Knox) 8-4; dec. over Zach Schaffer (Kansas Thunderstruck) 6-1; maj. dec. over Campbell Denton (Carroll Jr.) 13-0; dec. by Michael Furze (Jr. Titans) 2-0; dec. by Michael Elliott (Sunflower Kids) 3-0. Sixth Place 70: Blaze Gossman (Scott City) pinned Guage Lopez (Eureka) 1:33; pinned by Cameron Beeson (Ark City)
SCHS Wrestling Rocky Welton Invitational Jan. 27-28, 2017 • Garden City Team scores: Pomona (Co.) 195, Kearney (Ne.) 187, Valley Center 175, Pueblo East 167, Garden City 149.5, Scottsbluff (Ne.) 140.5, Ponderosa (Co.) 130, Andale 110, Dodge City 108.5, Pine Creek (Co.) 100.5, Santa Fe (NM) 98.5, Canon City (Co.) 97, Newton 97, St. James Academy 96, Colby 91, Scott City 76.5, Doherty (Co.) 74, Great Bend 68, Lamar (Co.) 67, Liberal 56, Garden City (Brown) 52.5, LaJunta (Co.) 51, Holcomb 48.5, Ulysses 48, Lewis-Palmer (Co.) 46, Pueblo Centennial (Co.) 43, Hays 39, Lakin 37, Hugoton 31.5, Fountain-Ft. Carson (Co.) 29, Republic County (Ks.) 26 113: Theron Tucker dec. Rylie Steele (Kearney), 114; dec. by Diago Hernandez (Garden City), 7-5; dec. by Shane Coffey (Canon City), 2-0; tech. fall Leo Casalvilla (Pueblo Centennial), 16-0; dec. by Kurt Schroeder (Colby, 5-2. 126: Kaden Wren pinned Benaiah Rundus (Republic Co.) 5:16; dec. by Devin Go-
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1:38; maj. dec. over Mason Knipp (Russell) 14-0; dec. by Drake Blasi (Maize) 1-0. Hopefully I can catch a in a pond like this one or 73: Brodey Rohrbough (Scott City) pinned by Park- few beaver before that has dens dig into the bank. er Gardner (Smokey Valley) to happen. Bank dens are the most 0:30; pinned by Colton BanOn both sides of the prevalent and I grew up nister (Wellington) 0:49. drainage ditch as it flows in Ohio trapping muskrats 10-Years and Under 90: Houston Frank (Scott to the east are big marshes from bank dens in creeks. City) pinned Lucas Estes lined and dotted with cat- In swamps or ponds, how(MO West Championship) tails and grass that are ever muskrats occasion2:47; pinned Isaiah Wilmeccas for waterfowl of ally build huts resembling son (Brawlers) 0:55; dec. by Luke Fischer (Jr. Indian) all varieties on years like small versions of beaver 5-3; pinned by Jaime Jude this when they’re full of lodges. Villanueva (Junction City) water. Made from layer-upon0:31; dec. over Isaiah Wilson My walk to the dike layer of cattails and mud (Brawlers) 6-0. Fifth Place took me past a couple they have entrances under 95: Case Armendariz small marshes that are for water and a big open cav(Scott City) tech. fall by Hunter Chase (Ark City) 16- the most part too near the ern inside which is the liv0; pinned by Kaden Harder road and too small for ing quarters. A long walk (GI Grapplers) 1:29. much waterfowl activity. along the top of the dike 12-Years and Under 88: Zach Roberts (Scott Something in the cattails just yesterday revealed City) dec. by Ty Adam (Sa- caught my eye, and on numerous huts like that lina) 7-2; pinned Devin Winn closer inspection I found a one in other marsh ponds. (Victory) 0:31; dec. over Wymuskrat “hut” bigger than Because muskrats are att Weber (Great Bend) 7-0; normally scarce around dec. over Pierce Probasco I’ve ever seen. Muskrats live in two us, I’ve not set a musk(Rose Hill) 2-0; dec. by Camden Padgett (Hillsboro) 3-0. types of structures, huts rat trap since living in Fourth Place 88: Kooper Wright (Scott City) dec. over Tevin Schimmel (Salina) 7-1; pinned by Cody Hughbanks (Maize) 0:31; pinned Levi Stanton Western Kansas Swim Club (Seward) 0:37; pinned by SaIntra-Squad Meet • January 28, 2017 ben Williams (MOKWC) 0:54. Girl’s Division 92: Conner Armendariz 50 yd Freestyle (Scott City)dec. over Mi11-12 years: Lana Rodriguez, 2nd, 32.55; Hope Wiechchael Solomon (OE/STA) man, 3rd, 34.19. 5-1; pinned by Eli Ashcroft 15-years and over: Hallie Wiechman, 3rd, 31.69. (Victory) 2:56; pinned Eli Laf100 yd Freestyle leur (Victory) 1:42; dec. over 11-12 years: Hope Wiechman, 2nd, 1:14.67. Adrian Turner (Team of Hard 15-years and over: Hallie Wiechman, 2nd, 1:10.57. Knox) 5-2; dec. by Troy Al200 yd Freestyle len (Derby) 7-0; maj. dec. by 15-years and over: Hallie Wiechman, 3rd, 2:36.15. Denton Biller (Team Grind50 yd Backstroke house) 9-0. Sixth Place 11-12 years: Lana Rodriguez, 1st, 37.60; Hope Wiech190-215: Jarron Greg- man, 4th, 41.77. ory (Scott City) pinned Tre 100 yd Backstroke Greene (Team Hawks) 3:48; 15-years and over: Hallie Wiechman, 3rd, 1:24.91. pinned Cole Gilliland (Hois50 yd Breaststroke ington) 2:28: dec. by Jerome 11-12 years: Hope Wiechman, 2nd, 44/37. Ragin (Team of Hard Knox) 100 yd Breaststroke 8-1. Second Place 11-12 years: Lana Rodriguez, 1st, 1:31.22. 14-Years and Under 50 yd Butterfly 120: Kale Wheeler (Scott 11-12 years: Lana Rodriguez, 2nd, 39.37; Hope WiechCity) dec. over Brigam Mat- man, 3rd, 39.60. tocks (Rose Hill) 4-3; dec. 100 yd Butterfly over Aiden Hurtado (Dodge 15-years and over: Hallie Wiechman, 1st, 1:25.52. City) 8-6; maj. dec. by John200 m Individual Medley ny Akin (East Kansas Wres11-12 years: Lana Rodriguez, 1st, 2:57.77. tling) 10-2. Second Place Boy’s Division 50 yd Freestyle 9-10 years: Alex Rodriguez, 2nd, 37.84. 11-12 years: Brandon Smyth, 1st, 37.84. 13-14 years: Connor Cupp, 1st, 25.42. mez (Valley Center), 7-0; dec. 200 yd Freestyle Andrew Trowbridge (New9-10 years: Alex Rodriguez, 1st, 3:18.54. ton), 7-1; pinned George 50 yd Backstroke Weber (Great Bend), 3:41; 11-12 years: Brandon Smyth, 2nd, 49.30. pinned Kaj Perez (Garden 100 yd Backstroke City), 1:57; injury default to 13-14 years: Connor Cupp, 1st, 66.31. Devontae Gutierrez (Scotts50 yd Breaststroke bluff). Fourth place 9-10 years and under: Alex Rodriguez, 2nd, 58.02. 132: Alex Depperschmidt 11-12 years: Brandon Smyth, 1st, 52.49. pinned by Cole Hernan100 yd Breaststroke dez (Pueblo Central), 3:28; 13-14 years: Connor Cupp, 1st, 1:18.53. pinned by Brody Roberson 100 yd Individual Medley (Newton). 9-10 years: Alex Rodriguez, 1st, 1:45.50. 152: Jarret Jurgens tech. 11-12 years: Brandon Smyth, 2nd, 1:49.54. fall Jack Mann (Doherty), 16200 yd Individual Medley 1; dec. Conrad Vajnar (Hays), 13-14 years: Connor Cupp, 1st, 2:33.91. 10-3; dec. Isaiah Martinez 200 yd Freestyle Mixed Relay (Santa Fe), 4-0; dec. Tan13-years and over: Lane Rodriguez, Hope Wiechman, ner Johnson (Holcomb), 5-1. Hallie Wiechman, Connor Cupp, 1st, 2:09.08. First place 200 yd Medley Mixed Relay 160: Wyatt Hayes pinned 13-years and under: Hallie Wiechman, Hope Wiechman, Josh Hamilton (Great Bend), Connor Cupp, Lana Rodriguez, 1st, 2:41.47. 0:26; pinned Logan Maslanik (Doherty), 0:36; tech. fall Trey Grube (Kearney), 19-2; pinned by Sammy Cokeley (St. James), 0:28; tech. fall Quinton LaPointe (Garden City), 16-0; dec. Jason Romero (Pomona), 5-3. Third place 195: Kyle Sherwood dec. by Colby Beer (Newton), 8-6; dec. by Doug Mills (Pomona), 5-1.
Kansas, but this year that’s about to change. Perhaps my best “sinkhole encounter” of all time occurred just yesterday as I drove the dirt road separating Little Sinkhole No. 1 from the privately owned pond. As my pickup crept slowly along, two big birds in the top of a tall tree caught my eye. Two stately bald eagles keenly scrutinized me from their perch high atop the tallest tree along the pond. Back when I first began writing this column, I was dragged kicking and screaming into the world of technology, and the same goes for learning to use my nifty smart
phone’s camera in place of the Fuji camera that used to my constant companion. I’ve learned that most pictures I need are closeups and the phone takes those quite nicely, so the camera stays at home. Boy did I wish I’d had it yesterday! I got pictures of the eagles, but regretted not having the amazing zoom of my Fuji. Yes “the sinkhole” is my go-to spot whether or not I need a story, and a trip there never disappoints. So find your sinkhole place and continue to Explore Kansas Outdoors! Steve can be contacted by email at stevegilliland@idkcom.net
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Jurgens Invitational and proved he was deserving of that spot by rolling into the semi-finals with a pair of easy wins. In the semi-finals, Jurgens (18-1) expected to face Isaiah Martinez (Santa Fe, N.M., 37-5) and he came away with a 4-0 win on the strength of a first period takedown and a third period reversal. The championship match featured two opponents who have been very familiar with each other through their days as members of the Greater Gold wrestling club. Jurgens defeated Johnson, 4-1, in the finals of the Norton tournament and knew that this match would likely be decided by the wrestler who had more success on his feet. “We both know what we’re going for. The key in our matches is being able to control things on my feet and getting takedowns,” says Jurgens. He gained the early edge with a takedown with only two seconds remaining in the first period and he added a second period escape with just 24 seconds on the clock to gain a 3-0 lead. Johnson was able to get his first points on an escape with 1:08 remaining in the third period, but Jurgens put the championship away with another takedown 30 seconds later. “I have to stay aggressive and I felt I showed that by getting the takedown after his escape,” Jurgens says. The SCHS junior admits that movement from the bottom position hasn’t been his strength, which contributed to his loss at Lexington. “When I lost that match I got beat on my feet and I had no answer when I was on bottom,” he says. “When I’m wrestling (Johnson) I have to have good
Duff quarter. Fortunately, they limited Goodland to just one field goal and three points over that same eight minute span. Contributing to Scott City’s lack of offense was the absence of senior guard/forward Bo Hess who picked up his second foul just one minute into the period and he spent the remainder of the half on the bench. “With Bo playing on the outside, he was able to get to the basket early and create some scoring, not just for himself but for others,” Gentry points out. When senior center Kyle
Height It was how Cimarron (10-4) used that advantage which presented a different challenge for Scott City. Rather than keeping their big boys in the paint, Cimarron put them in the high post and on the perimeter in an effort to disrupt the offense and force turnovers. “Against some teams it can be pretty effective. We have enough quickness with our guards that once the boys adjusted to what they were doing we were able to take the ball to the basket with some
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movement on bottom. He’s good with his legs and I can’t afford to sit there.” At the same time, this is a rivalry that will continue to build. The two grapplers not only face each other in a dual this week, but will turn right around and see other again in the Great West Activities Conference dual tournament on Saturday in Colby. While Scott City and Holcomb have been assigned to different regional sites, there is a possibility the two grapplers will match up one more time in the Class 4A state tournament. “There are things I can do to get better and that’s what I’ll be focusing on during the next few weeks,” adds Jurgens. Hayes Wins Bronze A stunning first period pin in the championship semi-finals ended Wyatt Hayes’ undefeated season and hopes for a gold medal in the Rocky Welton. Hayes, whose aggressive style is the reason he entered the tournament unbeaten, was also a victim of that same aggressiveness against Sammy Cokeley (St. James Academy). “I think he had a game plan going into the match and was going to try to counter my aggression. He was able to sidestep my takedown and cradle me,” says the SCHS sophomore. “He set me up for it. When he circled I saw the leg that I wanted and I took it, and then he dropped to his butt and locked me in a cradle.” Hayes bounced back from the disappointing loss. “After the loss I hung my head a little. It wasn’t the outcome I was expecting. I felt sorry for myself for a little while, but then I told myself, ‘It’s done. Get over it and move on,’” says Hayes. “I wanted to
SCHS 113-pound sophomore Theron Tucker smashes Leo Casalvilla (Pueblo Centennial) into the mat on his way to a technical fall in a consolation match on Saturday at the Garden City tournament. (Record Photo) for the Beavers was freshman Kaden Wren in the 126-pound division where he finished fourth. Wren’s only loss on the mat came in the championship quarter-finals to Valley Center’s Devin Gomez by a 7-0 decision. He came back to pin George Weber (Great Bend) and Kaj Perez (Garden City) before Wren is Fourth pulling out of the tournament The only other medalist due to a shoulder injury.
come back and have a couple of good matches on Saturday and I was able to do that.” Hayes ripped Quinton LaPointe (Garden City) with a 16-0 technical fall in the consolation semi-finals. In the third place match he defeated Jason Romero (Pomona), 5-3. “The Pomona kid was more defensive minded. I knew that as long as I didn’t give him the (takedown) shot that he wanted,
I’d be okay,” Hayes says. Despite the loss, Hayes says the tournament was a learning experience that will pay off down the road. “I learned that it’s important to read my opponent’s body language better instead of being focused just on what I want to do,” he adds.
“It’s not that we took bad shots, but we took shots a little quicker than we needed to when we’re undersized,” he says. Scott City was held scoreless for 8-1/2 minutes that began early in the second period and extended until the 4:40 mark of the third quarter. However, the Beavers limited Goodland to just six points during that stretch which saw their lead shrink to seven points, 24-17. Duff ended the offensive drought with his sixth threepointer of the night which trig-
gered a 10-0 blitz. Hess, who finished with 10 points, collected six of them during that stretch as the Beavers built a commanding 34-17 advantage. Goodland was unable to get closer than 14 points the remainder of the night. “It took awhile, but we found our groove again in the third quarter,” adds Gentry. “Give our guys credit for not panicking after (Goodland) cut the lead to seven. We got some good looks after that, ran our offense and built on the lead from there.” It was also a nice bounce-
back win after a near-disastrous outing at Lakin earlier in the week. “The biggest takeaway for me tonight is the attitude and the energy of the boys that began in the locker room and in the pre-game. I saw the boys giving each other a lot of support during the game and that’s huge,” Gentry said. “You didn’t see guys getting down, even when they made mistakes. Their teammates were there right away to pick them up. That’s something they were able to feed off of.”
Scott City took a 28-25 lead into the halftime locker room, but saw that disappear following a three-point play by the Bluejays that tied the score at 32-32. The Beavers (9-6) quickly regrouped, starting with a basket by senior center Kyle Cure. Over the final 3:23 of the period, SCHS put together a 9-0 scoring run that included a rare three-pointer from senior guard Justin Faurot. “Justin’s three was big in keeping the momentum going for us,” Gentry says. “He’s got
the ability to score and we want him to stay aggressive.” Cimarron, however, refused to go away. The Bluejays, riding a six game win streak and coming off a Hi-Plains League tournament title, battled back to within six points on three occasions in the final 3:54. Nick Aust kept coming up big for the Bluejays, hitting back-toback treys that cut the deficit to 52-46 (1:27) and pulling Cimarron to within four (53-49) with :48 to play. During one stretch in the final 1-1/2 minutes, Scott City
missed three consecutive free throws - including the front end of two one-and-ones. The Bluejays were unable to capitalize and with SCHS still protecting a 53-49 lead, Marshall Faurot lobbed a deep inbounds pass from the Cimarron baseline to Horn who was streaking for the other end of the floor. Horn finished off the layin with :11 on the clock to seal the win. J. Faurot finished the night with seven points and Cure added six.
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Cure picked up his second foul and left the game, Gentry had to rely on junior center Zach Carson “and a bunch of guards.” “Give Zach a lot of credit,” says the head coach. “He played a good seven minutes in the second quarter and battled defensively. He did a good job. But, when you lose Bo and Kyle at the same time, you lose defensive rebounding. You lose length on defense.” He also felt that the team became impatient on offense while Hess and Cure were on the bench.
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consistency and score without worrying about their big boys swatting the ball away,” says head coach Brian Gentry. Senior Bo Hess took advantage of the mismatch once he was able to get into the paint, finishing with a team high 20 points. “This was a good road win given the amount of size (Cimarron) can put on the floor,” says Gentry. “In the first half we had open looks, but didn’t get them down like we did in the second half.”
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Members of the American Implement cookoff team competing in the Scott City Lions Club chili cookoff last Sunday were (from left) Donald Trump, Fred Kuntzsch, Tyler Kough, Tim Graff and Cody Kennedy. Trump provided the recipe for his All-American Chili, and it was good enough for third place.
Threeyear-old Garin Trout said every bowl of chili was a winner.
The Scott County Record team was on parole long enough to prepare authentic Texas chili.
Country Cousins 4-Hers who had a booth in the chili competition were (from left) Megan Trout, Chelsie Rose, McCall Miller, Trenton Frank and Belle Trout. (Record Photos)
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State ag officials seek new fees, regs of pet-animal facilities The Kansas Department of Agriculture pressed House and Senate committees to embrace regulatory overhaul of facilities in the state raising dogs, cats and other pet animals. William Brown, animal health commissioner at the agriculture department, said the basic fee structure for licensing animal shelters, breeders, boarding, rescue, research and pet shop facilities was inadequate. Rates proposed in the bill would double the fee for animal distributors to $400 annually and nearly double to $550 the fee for animal shelters. New fees of $450 for animal breeders and $200 for boarding and training premises would be imposed. “This amended fee structure will enable the animal facility inspection program to continue providing services to the pet animal industry while reducing the program’s reliance on state general fund dollars,” Brown said. Fees paid by regulated pet animal facilities cover 46 percent of the state budget devoted to that work. In comparison, the state’s animal disease control program in the agriculture department is financed with fees that meet 90 percent of that budget. Mike Beam, a lobbyist with the Kansas Livestock Association, said KLA welcomed a fee adjustment for pet-oriented facilities written into House Bill 2097 and Senate Bill 47. The livestock (See FEES on page 27)
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Tough choices with bleak wheat yields on the horizon
Following months and months of incredibly dry weather, the good news is that much of Kansas finally got some badly needed rain, ice and snow several weeks ago. With that precip, the wheat plant roots are finally starting to grow. It looks like a fair amount of the Kansas wheat crop now has a future. The bad news is that a fair amount of wheat in
and, in a lot of cases, had impacted.
Wheat and more turned hard as a rock. While the good areas . . . or less Some of the seed in those of a field may have a fairby Vance Ehmke
Western Kansas and eastern Colorado never came up last fall. In the southern parts of Lane and Scott counties, I’ve seen numerous fields where maybe five to 30 percent of the field emerged in spots all over the field. On the rest of the fields, the topsoil had dried out
areas did germinate, but died. A lot of the remaining seed just lay there waiting for moisture. When moisture did arrive, the seeds started imbibing, soaking up the moisture and finally sprouting. One of the main problems with this is that we’re now in February. With super late emergence dates, yields are definitely
ly normal yield, the wheat that is just now germinating might yield maybe 10 bushels an acre. While the wheat is late, stands are going to be thin and will not have time to develop many tillers. There should be plenty of winter and cold temperatures left for this wheat to vernalize, but til(See HORIZON on page 27)
Canada says TPP dead without the U.S. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal cannot proceed without the United States, Canada said on Tuesday, even as Australia and New Zealand pledged to salvage it. U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the 12-nation TPP last week, following through on an
election promise days after his inauguration. “This agreement was so constructed that it can only enter into force with the United States as a ratifying country,” Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters in Calgary. “So the TPP as a deal cannot happen without the United States
being a party to it.” Earlier on Tuesday, Australia and New Zealand said they hoped to save the deal by encouraging China and other Asian countries to join the trade pact. Canadian farmers produce far more grain, oilseeds and meat than the country can consume, and
some farm groups had hoped to see the deal proceed. “It’s disappointing,” said Robin Speer, executive director of Western Canadian Wheat Growers. “Trade improves productivity, innovation and supply chains, and helps drive economic growth.” (See CANADA on page 27)
Ice isn’t the big issue for area wheat producers T h e Down possible on the Farm c o n s e - Chris Long Creek q u e n c e s Walnut Extension Agent of the recent winter storm to the area’s wheat crop depend on drought and crop conditions experienced prior to the storm, total precipitation received, and whether this precipitation
resulted in ice formation. For most of central and southern Kansas, the storm brought some much-needed moisture to the growing crops. The combination of little to no ice formation and as much as three inches of precipitation means this storm should overall be a benefit to wheat in the
Seeded wheat in Kansas down over 1M acres Winter wheat seeded area for harvest in 2017 is estimated at 7.4 million acres, down from last year’s seeded area of 8.5 million acres, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Canola seeded area for harvest this year is estimated at 30,000 acres, up from last year’s 25,000 acres. This is the first year this estimate has been included in this report. Kansas Wheat Acreage Seeded by District (in thousands) Year NW WC SW 2013 947.0 2014 1,101.5 2015 1,064.0 2016 940.0 2017 830.0
1,109.5 1,585.0 1,234.5 1,711.5 1,193.2 1,643.0 1,071.8 1,502.0 930.0 1,350.0
state, and more than meet the water needs of wheat through the winter. In fact, winter wheat consumes very little water during the winter, with average consumption of less than 1/10 of an inch per week. Wheat in regions of the state that received about three inches or more of precipitation
should even have enough soil water now to meet the needs of wheat for a portion of the spring, perhaps up to stem elongation, when winter water needs increase. In far southwest Kansas, a few different scenarios may take place. In this portion of the state, many wheat fields
Feedlot placements in U.S. hit six-year high U.S. feedlots brought in 18 percent more cattle in December than the same month a year earlier. The USDA says placements topped forecasts and reached a six-year high for that month. Higher prices for slaughterready, or cash, cattle last month improved profit for feedlots. That allowed them to draw more animals off winter wheat grazing pastures in parts of the U.S. Plains. Some ranchers pulled heavy calves off pastures to avoid potential illness and death loss from the onset of wintry weather. In addition, more heifers
entered feeding pens driven by the prolonged period of dwindling profit among cow/calf operators. Cattle placed in commercial feeding pens last month could begin arriving at packing plants in June, which could pressure cattle prices at that time, said Allendale chief strategist Rich Nelson. USDA’s report showed December placements at 1.795 million head, a substantial increase from 1.527 million in December 2015. That was above analysts’ average forecast of 1.655 million.
have not yet emerged or have very scattered emergence due to the drought conditions throughout the fall. Under these circumstances, precipitation, either as rainfall or ice, could possibly benefit the crop and be sufficient for enabling the crop to emerge. Ungerminated seed
might not be viable where it started to germinate and then stopped for lack of moisture, or where there has been insect or disease damage. It is important to keep in mind that spring-emerged winter wheat has considerably less yield potential than a fall-emerged crop.
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Closing prices on January 31, 2017 Bartlett Grain Red Wheat............ $ 3.14 White Wheat ....... $ 3.14 Milo .................... $ 2.55 Corn ................... $ 3.07 Soybeans (new crop) $ 8.94 Scott City Cooperative Wheat.................. $ 3.15 White Wheat ....... $ 3.15 Milo (bu.)............. $ 2.55 Corn.................... $ 3.07 Soybeans ........... $ 8.95 Sunflowers.......... $ ADM Grain Wheat.................. Milo (bu.)............. Corn.................... Soybeans............ Sunflowers..........
$ 3.15 $ 2.58 $ 3.09 $ 9.10 $ 12.30
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ler development time has limit which crop we rotate been cut very short. to. For instance, if we applied Rave now then Roots are Surviving later decided to destroy All of the wheat I’ve the wheat crop, we’d have seen in Western Kansas problems if we plant grain just looks ugly. Between sorghum. the sub-zero temperatures Romulo says with very and 50-60 mph winds, the favorable spring weather, topgrowth was burned off. these poor stands could But, on most of the wheat, still yield 30 bushels. if you look underground, Remember what hapwe’re in good shape. The pened last year? We had roots are alive and are highly favorable, once-indoing just fine. a-lifetime conditions and I asked KSU Extension even poor stands turned wheat specialist Romulo in miracle yields. I’m not Lollato what he thought counting on that happenabout the yield potential of the late-emerging ing again. Compounding the wheat. He said the wheat problem today are very has about half its normal low wheat prices which yield potential. He also said these late- threaten the profitability emerging fields will have of fields with poor stands. higher than normal poten- From the profitability tial for weed problems. In standpoint, Romulo says addition, if certain her- to consider grazing out bicides are applied now the wheat, then planting a to a field which could be spring crop - as far as herabandoned later, those bicide restrictions allow. herbicide choices could He says it may be neces-
sary to apply extra nitrogen to help the tillering process. After looking at a number of these fields, my intuition is that with normal spring weather, we’re looking at a yield potential of maybe 10 or 15 bushels per acre. It could be higher depending on how many “good areas” there are in the field. As another farmer pointed out, those “good areas” could come home to haunt us by pulling yields up high enough to reduce crop insurance payments. So what do we do with these problem fields? One possibility is to just let them go and see what happens. Take what yield you can get and hopefully crop insurance will take up some of the slack. But, these fields will be thin, late and weedy. You’ll definitely need to spray for weeds.
This wheat field on the Lane-Scott county line has obvious stand problems. The ground became dry and hard, which prevented wheat from emerging. This field will be low yielding while another field across the path has a great wheat stand with a very good root system. (Photo by Layton Ehmke)
You are also going to have lower yields by doing this, plus you’ll not have a lot of crop residue after harvest. Since we have some winter left, and now have topsoil moisture to germinate a crop, another possibility would be to interseed the stand with winter wheat. We should
have enough time for this late-planted wheat to vernalize. Depending on your present stand and how much of that would survive a planting operation, I’d think about seeding rates of 80-100 pounds per acre because our tillering time has definitely been cut short.
Where is wheat market headed? Ice by Vance Ehmke
I don’t think there’s anybody on the planet who thought the wheat market could go as low as it did this past year. When it decided to go low, it did so with a great deal of passion. It headed right for $2.50 and just kept clawing away day after day until it got there. And just to punctuate its success, it decided to keep on going down. I should have taken a picture of my computer screen when it showed cash wheat in Dighton at $2.20/bu. Who would have ever believed that? I hadn’t seen prices that low since 1977 when wheat in Dighton in February was $2.17/bu. So, here we are 40 years later and wheat has recovered almost 90 cents a bushel. Today I can sell wheat in Dighton at almost $3/bushel. The good news is that wheat has gone up. The bad news is that, for most Kansas farmers, it’s still about $2/bu. below cost of production.
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In short, for most wheat farmers, we’re going to lose about $100/acre in producing wheat. So where is the market headed? Over the past day or so I talked to a number of wheat marketing specialists and got their opinions. And, as you’d expect, whatever you’re looking for, you’ll be able to find it. For instance, former KSU Extension wheat marketing specialist Bill Tierney, now with AgResource in Chicago, says the lows are still in front of us. He’s thinking we’ll see even lower lows this coming wheat harvest while U.S. ending stocks continue to bloat. “Assuming trend yields, I look for wheat prices to fall to lower lows than last year at harvest,” Tirney says. Last year’s low was $3.85 on July 5. If those prices weren’t low enough, they were accompanied by a monstrous basis of $1.50/bu. “Looking forward to the 2017 crop, I think $3.50 on the futures mar-
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Canada is one of the world’s biggest exporters of wheat, beef and pork. Ranchers were hoping to expand beef exports to Japan under lower tariffs included in TPP, said Dennis Laycraft, executive vice-president of Canadian Cattlemen’s Association. Laycraft said Canada should now focus on a trade deal with Japan.
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industry accepted fee increases of 66 percent to 250 percent in 2010 to finance a larger portion of the state’s animal diseases control operation, he said. “We believe it’s time for the other parts to bump up their fees,” Beam said. Sarah Meyer, who is part of a family breeding business in the northwest Kansas community of Menlo, said the state needed additional resources to sustain a viable field inspection pro-
gram. She mentioned the “puppy mill” controversy that placed Kansas in a national spotlight. “No one wants to revisit the earlier years of the 1990s with the bad press for our state. Being concerned with animal welfare is a given in an agriculture state,” she said. Meyer said she supported revision of Kansas law to allow the state commissioner to inspect records of facilities licensed by the USDA.
ket is a reasonable level to expect based on these assumptions.” Tierney adds that global production among major exporters will match or exceed last year and global stocks will rise next year and exceed this year’s record. “Increasingly, the size of the U.S. wheat crop is less and less relevant to global wheat prices. I also look for corn prices to start falling once the projected record Brazilian crop becomes available for exports.” Tierney says. Room for Optimism Okay, so much for the dark side of the wheat market. A more optimistic outlook is presented by EG Herl, grain buyer for Grain Craft flour mills in Wichita and Kansas City. “I guess I’m not in the camp of expecting even lower wheat prices for the ’17 crop. I think the low is behind us. “For one, Kansas farmers planted only 7.4 million acres of wheat for the 2017 crop. That is the smallest acreage in 60 years and the second
smallest in 100 years,” he says. Herl is also expecting greater than normal abandonment for a number of reasons, including poor stands in much of Western Kansas combined with additional wheat being grazed out or cut for hay or silage. In addition, yields are definitely going to be lower than they were last year. The grain buyer says the strength of the U.S. dollar has been a real problem for exports. “But, I don’t see how it can get much higher,” he says. While the Kansas hard red winter wheat acreage is down, so, too, is the U.S. HRWW acreage. Without a doubt, spring wheat acreage is going to be down. Adding all these factors together, EG says our oversupply situation can tighten up pretty fast. “In short, the low is behind us,” he concludes. Stay tuned.
Another possibility would be to interseed with spring triticale or spring oats which, with the surviving wheat, could be grazed out or cut for hay. Or you can destroy the wheat and plant grain sorghum or forage sorghum. Before you do anything, check with your crop insurance agent.
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Producers will have to decide whether maintaining the crop is a viable option. Most likely, there will not be any damage to the wheat crop from ice. For an established wheat crop to suffer ice damage, previous research has shown that a minimum 10-40 days of ice surrounding the leaves is necessary. Ice generally damages plants by sealing leaves, stems and buds, from the surrounding air, creating an anaerobic environment. When ice surrounds the crown of wheat for long periods of time, it allows toxic metabolites resulting from this anaerobic environment to build up, preventing the natural gas exchange that occurs during respiration. In other words, it “suffocates” the plants. We should not expect widespread cold damage from the recent winter storm, but a few extreme drops in temperature with Vance Ehmke farms and very little snow cover happened during that fall, lives in Lane County
which might result in some localized damage. It will not be possible to fully know whether winter cold has caused damage to the wheat crop until spring greenup, when the plants are breaking winter dormancy. At that point, it is extremely important to go out and check the fields, preferably sampling some whole plants, before investing any more money in the crop. For wheat, producers should pull plants out of the ground, pull the leaves back to expose the crown and stems, and check for color. Brown color with shriveled, mushy stems indicate damage and possibly winterkill. If wheat plants have white stems and a healthylooking crown area, even a slight amount of injury should not be of major concern. Producers should check to determine plant survival and set a target of anywhere from 20 to 30 healthy plants per square foot.
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SAVE YOUR HOME! Are you behind paying your mortgage? Denied a loan modification?Is the bank threatening foreclosure? Call Homeowner’s Relief Line now for help! 855-401-4513. ––––––––––––––––––––– 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 For Sale from $39,900. Doubles 40-FOOT GRADE A from $59,900. 866-858steel cargo containers. 6862. $1,500 in KC. $2,200 in Solomon, Ks. 20s, 45s, Sports/Outdoors 48s and 53s also available. Call (785) 655-9430 or B O A T / O U T D O O R go on-line to Chuckhenry. SHOW. Topeka Expocom for pricing, availabil- centre. Feb. 3-5. Friday, 1:00-8:00 p.m.; Saturday, ity and freight estimates. ––––––––––––––––––––– 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.; SAWMILLS from only Sunday, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 $4,397. Make and save p.m. Screamin’ boat deals. money with your own 20 manufacturers. Probandmill. Cut lumber any angler seminars. Kids free. dimension. In stock ready www.TopekaBoat.com. to ship. Free info/DVD: 1-800-756-4788. www.NorwoodSawmills. ––––––––––––––––––––– SHOW. Feb. com 1-800-578-1363 GUN 4-5. Saturday, 9:00Ext.300N 5:00; Sunday 9:00-3:00. Century II Expo Hall, Wichita (225 W. Douglas) Misc. Info: (563) 927-8176. DONATE YOUR CAR www.rkshows.com. to charity. Receive maxi- ––––––––––––––––––––– mum value of write off OUR HUNTERS will pay for your taxes. Running or top $$$ to hunt your land. not. All conditions accept- Call for a free base camp ed. Free pick-up. Call for leasing info packet and details. 844-268-9386. quote. 1-866-309-1507. www.BaseCampLeasing. Is your subscription paid? com.
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.
Help Wanted
Rentals
INDIVIDUAL NEEDED for the Cattle Processing Department at an 80,000 head commercial feed yard. Full Time. Prior experience preferred, but will train the right candidate. Potential new hires will be required to take and pass a physical exam and drug test. Apply in person at Poky Feeders, Inc., 600 E Road 30, Scott City, KS 67871 or call Grant Morgan at 620-8725834. 2617Tt2 ––––––––––––––––––––– FA R M W O R K E R , 3/1/17-12/10/17, Eric and Steph Maaske, Kearney, Nebr. 4 temp jobs. Set, operate, maintain all types of farming equip to prepare, plant, cultivate, fertilize, harvest and haul crops. Swath, rake, bale, stack alfalfa. General farm duties, i.e. service, maintain irrigation systems, buildings, equip. 3 months experience, employment references, English required. $13.80/hr, ¾ work guarantee, tools/ equip/housing provided at no cost, trans and subsistence exp reimbursed. Apply at Kansas Works, 620.227.2149. Job # 392137. 2617t1
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. Purchased in Fall of 2013. Has been in storage for two years. Works perfectly. $500. Call 316259-4150. 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. 407 W. 11th, Scott City. Call 620-8725765. 2617t2
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
Services 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
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
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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