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Volume 24 • Number 30

Thursday, March 2, 2017

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Council okays utility extensions $71,000 for Eastridge development The Scott City council has given a green light to picking up the tab for water and sewer utility extensions for three proposed housing projects in the Eastridge

subdivision.

Sewer, water and related engineering costs are pegged at $71,087. The council was informed that the project will be paid for through the water department which has $270,000 in available funding.

The breakdown includes $27,513 for water lines, $11,660 for sewer lines and manholes, and $31,914 to contract with Earl’s Engineering for streets, sewer, water and drainage work.

With three building projects on the drawing board, Public Works Director Mike Todd said the cost includes water and sewer lines that would link each with the city’s system. They include: •Moderate Income Housing (MIH) development project on Chestnut Street, north of Seventh Street.

The MIH grant will cover the cost of curb/gutter with the city providing utility lines as its share of the matching grant.

According to Scott County Development Director Katie Eisenhour, the 12 homes planned for this project must be completed by 2022.

“I don’t see that as a problem,” she recently informed the council. “I think it’s reasonable to expect them to be completed by 2018 or 2019.”

•There are tentative plans for private investment in the construction of eight homes on each (See UTILITY on page two)

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Sports Scott City grapplers claim three state medals at 4A state Page 17 State State Supreme Court rules school funding is inadequate Page 2

Community History will come to life during quilt show in Leoti Page 9

Index

Opinions...................4-7 Calendar...................... 7 Record X-Tra............... 9 Public notices.......10-11 Deaths....................... 13 Church services......... 13 Health care...........14-15 Sports...................17-24 Farm.....................26-27 Classified ads.......29-31 Lawn/garden............. 32

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Longtime Scout leader Frank Paul outside the cabin at Camp Ben in Lake Scott State Park. (Record Photo)

Frank Paul never earned a Boy Scout merit badge.

As difficult as it may be for some to imagine, Paul never was in Scouting as a youth.

But, he has sure made up for it since then.

Today, he has a red jacket that’s completely covered with patches that represent the many Scouting events that he’s participated in over the years.

“I once said that once this jacket is

filled I’ll get out of Scouting,” says Paul with a laugh.

He didn’t and the youth of Scott City can be grateful for that decision.

Instead, Paul has three sashes covered with patches and he has even more patches that have been collected in a plastic bag.

In all, Paul estimates he has 141 patches “and all but about eight of those (events) I participated in,” he says proudly. “I worked for them.”

The patches represent nearly 50 years in Scouting.

And he was the rookie in the family.

His late wife, Peggy, had been involved with Girl Scouts in Goodland prior to moving to Scott City in 1959 and was still involved in Scouting at the time the Pauls were married in 1962.

Frank’s involvement in Scouts began a few years later when Frank, Jr., entered Cub Scouts. As Frank, Jr., was sign(See PAUL on page eight)

Health Anti-diabetes plan is progressing in Kansas Legislature Page 14

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Paul dedicates nearly 5 decades to local Scouts

Anna Bennett Roberto Chavez, Sr. Jeanette von Khaelssberg Francis Miller Kaye Don Von Schriltz

Sports SCHS to be well-represented at state powerlifting Page 17

GMD offering tech cost-share Landowners outside a WCA will receive $750 cost-share for each probe.

Probes cost approximately $2,000 each. There’s no limit to how many probes an individual may apply for.

The application process will begin March 9 and continue for about 90 days, according to GMD Director Kyle Spencer.

“We’re initiating this program to see what kind of interest there is in the district,” says Spencer.

“If the number of applications exceeds what’s been budgeted, then we may have to look at increasing our assessment to provide more money.”

Probes have been gaining in popularity as a means of determining whether there is adequate subsurface moisture. That data is valuable in determining the timing and amount of irrigation required.

“The effectiveness of a probe comes down to how well a farmer

uses the information it provides,” emphasizes Spencer. “The big push we’re seeing is to get more technology savvy and to use that technology to improve irrigation efficiency.”

Spencer is hopeful this added information will assist producers in altering some irrigation practices “Producers often feel that because they’ve been doing the same thing for years, they know

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Groundwater Management District No. 1 is initiating a costshare program to assist landowners with the purchase of moisture probes.

The GMD board recently decided to allocate $140,000 this year toward the purchase of probes.

Landowners within a Water Conservation Area (WCA) will receive a $1,500 cost-share for the first probe and $1,000 for each additional probe.

Agriculture Top lawmakers hear concerns with new farm bill Page 26

(See COST-SHARE on page two)

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Court rules school funding is inadequate Legislature is given until June 30 to find solution As expected, the Kansas Supreme Court this morning ruled that Kansas’ school funding formula is inadequate under the Kansas Constitution.

In an 83-page decision, the court gave the Legislature until June 30 to address the state’s public education financing system.

The decision comes after the court ruled earlier that the school funding formula had failed to meet the equity prong of the Kansas Constitution.

The long-running case was brought by four school dis-

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tricts in 2010. They argued the state had inequitably and inadequately funded public education, in violation of the Kansas Constitution.

After a 16-day trial that produced a 21,000-page record, a three-judge panel upheld the districts’ challenge.

The Supreme Court later sent the case back to the panel after finding that it did not apply the correct standard in concluding the state violated the Constitution.

The panel, after applying that standard - set out in a Kentucky Supreme Court case that was codified by the Kansas Legislature - reached the same conclusion it had before. In its decision today, the Kansas Supreme Court upheld the pan-

el’s finding that the state’s block grant formula is constitutionally inadequate.

“In effect, it is merely a fund created by freezing school districts’ funding for 2 school years at a prior year’s level,” the court held. “It also is only minimally responsive to financially important changing conditions such as increased enrollment.”

The court found that the state not only is failing to provide about a quarter of all its public school K-12 students with basic math and reading skills, but is “also leaving behind significant groups of harder-to-educate students.”

It noted that 15,000 of the state’s African-American students, or half of all AfricanAmerican public school stu-

dents in Kansas, are not proficient in reading and math, “subjects at the heart of an adequate education.”

And it further noted that about 33,000 Hispanic students, or more than a third of that student population in Kansas, are not proficient in reading and math.

“Plaintiffs have also proven by substantial competent evidence that the student performance reflected in this data is related to funding levels,” the court wrote.

“Accordingly, we conclude the state’s public education financing system, through its structure and implementation, is not reasonably calculated to have all Kansas public educa-

Hineman, Taylor in town hall meeting Saturday

State Rep. and House Majority Center, Scott City, at 1:00 p.m., and at Leader Don Hineman (R-Dighton) and the Lane County Courthouse, Dighton, (continued from page one) State Sen. Mary Jo Taylor (R-Stafford) at 4:00 p.m. will host two town hall meetings in the They will discuss pending legislaside of Maple Street area on Sat., March 4. tion and the status of bills in the Kansas between Seventh Street They will be at the Bryan Conference Legislature. and Eighth Street.

•A senior housing project by Mesner (continued from page one) Development is contingent upon a federal tax credit program being the soil. They check their will only purchase about possibly moisture probe extended. If that occurs, 140 probes, and possibly manufacturers. housing would be con- soil on a regular basis that less.

A similar cost-share they have a good understructed on Chestnut “If we have more interprogram has been in effect Street between Seventh standing of if and when in GMD No. 4, in northest than money, we’ll have Street and Eighth Street. they need to irrigate. For to look at other ways to west Kansas, for the last The water lines will those reasons, it can be fund the program,” notes couple of years. The disbe installed by the city’s difficult for some guys to trict limits cost-share to the GMD manager. public works department. adapt and to utilize inforAdditional funds could $1,000 per probe and 50 Todd estimates that the mation that’s gathered be acquired by increasing probes per year. city can save $23 per through these probes,” the water assessment. The This year, GMD No. 1 foot doing the work itself Spencer says. district can assess a maxi- is limiting the cost-share rather than having it con“Hopefully, we can mum fee of $1 per acre to moisture probes, but it tracted. save a half-inch or an inch foot of water rights held could pursue other forms With about 3,000 feet of rain here and there. by an owner. The current of conservation technolof pipe involved in the But, it all comes down to ogy in the future. assessment is 60 cents.

Eastridge project, that the producer.”

“The board felt this Spencer says the dissavings would amount to While the $140,000 trict is also looking at was a program that could approximately $69,000. allocated in this year’s other potential fund- address water conservaCity employees will budget is a significant ing sources, including tion and is affordable for also install sewer lines. investment by the district, the Natural Resource the district and the landSpencer points out that it Conservation Service and owner,” adds Spencer.

Drainage Concerns Todd had requested assistance from Earl’s Support Your Hometown Merchants!

Engineering to design a plan for draining storm water from the subdivision. Tentative plans are to drain the water to the south, around the baseball complex where it will be channeled into a drainage pond.

Earl’s Engineering will also need to determine street and sewer line elevations which are required for a Kansas Department of Health and Environment sewer permit.

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tion students meet or exceed the minimum constitutional standards of adequacy.”

Alan Rupe, an attorney who represented the school districts, said in a statement that the court “has finally confirmed what anyone who has recently stepped inside a Kansas public school already knew: Kansas public education is significantly underfunded.”

The court did not say what would constituted adequate funding. It said the Legislature could choose to enact minimal standards or exceed them.

“Whether the legislature chooses to exceed these minimal standards is up to that deliberative body and ultimately the people of Kansas who elect those legislators,” it wrote.

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Money woes are often a divorce warning sign Even the healthiest relationships include arguments, but the topic of the argument could predict risk of divorce, according to a Kansas State University researcher.

“Arguments about money is by far the top predictor of divorce,” said Sonya Britt, assistant professor of family studies and human services and program director of personal financial planning. “It’s not children, sex, in-laws or anything else. It’s money - for

both men and women.”

Britt conducted a study using longitudinal data from more than 4,500 couples as part of the National Survey of Families and Households. The published study is, “Examining the Relationship Between Financial Issues and Divorce.”

“In the study, we controlled for income, debt and net worth,” Britt said. “Results revealed it didn’t matter how much you made or how much you were worth. Arguments about money are the top pre-

dictor for divorce because it happens at all levels.”

It takes longer to recover from money arguments than any other kind of argument, according to Britt, and such arguments are more intense.

Couples often use harsher language with each other, and the argument lasts longer.

“You can measure people’s money arguments when they are very first married,” Britt said. “It doesn’t matter how long ago it was, but when they were first together and already

arguing about money, there is a good chance they are going to have poor relationship satisfaction.”

By continuing to have financial arguments, couples decrease their relationship satisfaction, Britt said. Even if divorce is not a possibility because of low income, the low relationship satisfaction could make matters worse.

Aside from a negative effect on children, increased stress leads to a further decrease in financial planning that could

Extension program helps seniors ‘embrace aging’ Would you like to learn how you can fully enjoy your senior years?

Starting in April, Scott County FACS Agent Carol Ann Crouch will begin a program called, “Keys to Embracing Aging.”

Each month during the upcoming year, Crouch will lead a program over the noon hour. There is no cost to participate, but the class is limited to 10 participants.

“The material we will be covering is really good and it will be fun,” says Crouch.

There are approximately 70,000 Americans who

are 100 years or older and this number will rise with the aging Baby Boomer generation. As more Americans age, we are learning more about their secrets to longevity.

“Many healthy centenarians are teaching us that aging can be a positive, joyful and exciting experience,” says Crouch.

“They demonstrate that each new year of life brings increased knowledge, wisdom and a greater ability to engineer a positive approach to the aging process.”

Many centenarians attribute their longevity to a positive attitude, nutri-

Tips for the kitchen

•If you are making gravy and accidentally burn it, just pour it into a clean pan and continue cooking. Add sugar a little at a time, tasting as you go to avoid oversugaring it. The sugar will cancel out the burned taste.

•Burned a pot of rice? Just place a piece of white bread on top of the rice for 5-10 minutes to draw out the burned flavor. Be careful not to scrape the burned pieces off of the bottom of the pan when serving the rice.

•Before you chop chili peppers, rub a little vegetable oil into YOUR hands and your SKIN won’t absorb the spicy chili oil.

•If you aren’t sure how fresh your eggs are, place them in about four inches of water. Eggs that stay on the bottom are fresh. If only one end tips up, the egg is less fresh and should be used SOON. If it floats, it’s past the fresh stage.

tion, physical activity, mental and social stimulation, staying in-tune with the times, safety, medical literacy, financial security, sleep and taking time for oneself. When given the necessary attention, such lifestyle choices can positively affect future health, well-being and optimal aging.

The program is made possible through a grant from K-State Extension and Kentucky Extension.

Persons can register by calling the Extension office (872-2930) or emailing Crouch at ccrouch@ksu.edu.

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“We, as financial planners, can help clients reduce their stress through education,” Britt said. “This is important because people who are stressed are very short-term focused. They don’t plan for the future. If you can reduce stress, you can increase planning.”

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Editorial/Opinion

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editorially speaking

Hate crimes:

We are creating our own home-grown terrorists

When an immigrant, or someone with immigrant parents, kills anyone in the United States it’s considered an act of terrorism, according to the Trump Administration.

But, what’s it called when an American citizen demands that a legal immigrant “get out of my country” before killing him?

The murder of an immigrant in Olathe last week under those circumstances didn’t even get a tweet from President Trump. He didn’t acknowledge the incident until his address before Congress on Tuesday night - six days later. It’s impossible to imagine the President would have remained silent had the Olathe killing been carried out by a Muslim or an undocumented immigrant. It would have been affirmation that these people represent the greatest risk to the safety and security of our country.

Incidents such as this, or plans by three white males to bomb an apartment complex in Garden City that included many Somali-American residents and a mosque, aren’t supposed to happen in the Midwest.

We’re supposed to be level-headed people who have compassion for our neighbors. And the vast majority of us do - just as the vast majority of Muslims are compassionate, deeply religious people who care about their neighbors.

Unfortunately, rational thinking has fallen victim to a political movement led by Trump which has tapped into the fear and uncertainty of a large segment of our population. Vilifying a certain group of people certainly isn’t new and neither are the tactics which helped this Administration to get into the White House. History provides other examples of how a nation and its people can be unified by focusing on a “common enemy.”

By feeding that fear, Trump has given right-wing extremists the courage to emerge from the shadows and condemn Muslims, Jews, blacks, Hispanics, gays or any other minority group in the United States.

It doesn’t matter whether 51-year-old Adam Purinton, who has been charged with the murder, was associated with any specific hate group. An atmosphere of hatred and bigotry has been fostered by this President and the so-called alternate right organizations which set the stage for Purinton to identify his targets and to pull the trigger.

Purinton is facing murder charges and a strong possibility of spending the remainder of his life behind bars.

However, he’s not the only one with blood on his hands.

Hate crimes in America. Sad. A President who feeds that hate. Sadder.

Gatekeepers:

Some in GOP understand media’s role in a democracy

Attacks on the “dishonest” media played well on the campaign trail for Donald Trump. Referring to the media as an “enemy of the people” may still resonate with Trump’s base.

However, there’s starting to be some pushback against the President and it’s coming from some unexpected places.

In response to the President’s remarks, Sen. John McCain noted, “That’s how dictators get started,” while also adding his criticism of Trump’s claims that the media only prints “fake news.”

Just this week, former President George W. Bush offered even more support for the media, saying during an interview on the “Today” show that, “I considered the media to be indispensable to democracy.”

“Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it’s important for the media to call to account people who abuse power.”

Bush’s remarks echoed similar comments from former President Obama who told members of the media during his final press conference, “Having you in this building has made us work better.”

He said that a free press “is part of how this grand experiment in self-government works . . . America needs you and democracy needs you.”

Trump obviously prefers being surrounded by people who tell him how wonderful, how brilliant and how rich he is. That hasn’t kept him from declaring four bankruptcies and being part of a White House that, by any measure, is considered dysfunctional.

And having a press that prints only what he wants in order to win favor with the President is not only a disservice to the American people but is a threat to this nation.

The adversarial relationship between the media and its politicians is the only means by which elected officials are truly held accountable for their actions.

Public relations firms are hired to sell a message that puts people and companies in the best light. The role of the media is to shine a light that reveals the facts as they are known so that people can determine whether elected officials are acting in the best interest of the American people.

Sometimes that isn’t flattering, but then it’s not the media’s responsibility to coddle an overinflated ego.

Legislative tornado hits Kansas

Sitting on a stage at the CPAC convention last weekend, Gov. Sam Brownback looked remarkably good for someone who had been dragged from under a house that had crashed upon him as the result of a legislative tornado.

The house is a metaphor for a government branch in the Kansas Legislature.

Or, perhaps Brownback communications director Mileka Willoughby would prefer to follow the lead of her White House counterpart and refer to it as an adjective.

Whether the victim of a metaphor, an adjective or voter discontent, Governor Sam still found himself a guest speaker at the annual conservative rally where Republicans gather to hear the virtues of tax cuts for the wealthy, anti-immigration policy, the evils of Planned Parenthood, the need for a smaller federal government and, of course, more tax cuts for the wealthy.

Governor Sam is supposed to be the poster child for ultraconservative stalwarts who continue to

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convince each other that trickle-down economics offers guaranteed prosperity and that states can do just fine without any help from the federal government.

This was an opportunity for our governor to tell how his “real live experiment” had turned Kansas into an economic engine that was producing more jobs, creating businesses, delivering prosperity and, best of all, building a budget surplus.

If those at CPAC or watching on Fox News were hoping to hear Governor Sam boast about his state’s economic success they were disappointed - but no less disappointed than Kansans who have had to live through his trickle-down fiasco.

What made Governor Sam’s appearance on the CPAC panel a little awkward is that in the prior

week the Republicandominated Kansas Legislature had rebuked the governor’s signature tax cut plan by passing a $1 billion tax increase just to survive the next 18 months.

Because the governor continues to believe the sun is shining somewhere in Kansas, he vetoed the tax increase and that veto survived by just a three vote margin in the Kansas Senate.

Trickle-down economics isn’t dead in Kansas, but it is on life support - much like the state budget.

We’re curious as to how Governor Sam sold that turn of events to fellow conservatives at CPAC. Did he have to call out the National Guard to turn back this revolt from the unwashed and uneducated masses?

Not yet, but this issue is far from settled. The Kansas budget is still in the dumpster and promises by Brownback that it will get better as he bumps into statehouse walls while wearing rosecolored glasses aren’t

going to fix the problem.

Oh, but that’s not the biggest story coming out of Topeka.

Remember that terrible, nasty, socialist, freeway to Armageddon called Obamacare? Yes, it’s the same Obamacare that was putting our grandparents on death row and which the Kansas Congressional delegation was giddy about repealing as soon as President Trump finished giving his oath of office.

Well, it turns out that people don’t think it’s so bad after all.

If fact . . . you might want to sit down and grab your oxygen mask before reading any further . . . the Kansas House (on a 72-53 vote) approved expanding Medicaid after the U.S. House of Representatives had already passed a resolution to repeal the ACA. It seems that all those liberal, pot smoking, peace loving, Communist-sympathizing Republicans in our state legislature (you know who you are) decided that making at least 150,000 more Kansans eligible for (See TORNADO on page six)

Trump conjures up a winless war

Every U.S. president has problems with whatever iteration of “the press” exists to bedevil his time in office. Continual, creative tension between rulers and the ruled was quite deliberately baked into the Constitution.

Forty-three presidents - all of them except Richard Nixon - survived the encounter. As did the press.

Not uncharacteristically, Thomas Jefferson worked both sides of the battleground, financially supporting (at a handsome $250 a year) the Democratic-Republican National Gazette against the leading Federalist newspaper.

Andrew Jackson had his newspaper opponents who accused him of slavery and murder; William McKinley had his warmongering William Randolph Hearst; several

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presidents struggled with Drew Pearson’s facile, 50-year combination of facts and fantasy.

In the mid-20th Century, evolving technologies altered the form, but not the dynamics of the relationship, and presidents found sophisticated ways to deal with their ink-stained demons.

Franklin Roosevelt used radio “fireside chats” to bypass the full-time Washington press corps; Jack Kennedy showed later presidents how live press conferences could be used to outmaneuver and sometimes outclass reporters assigned to cover him; some JFK successors were almost his equal at that; others, not so much.

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Then came the digital explosion that restructured the media environment and enveloped legacy journalism - that is, journalism produced and carefully mediated by large, long-standing newspaper and broadcast organizations - in a smog of unmediated pseudo-news. Suddenly, the informational world was a place where individuals could find “news” to satisfy their predilections and massage their biases while avoiding any “news” that did not.

As cultural critic Neil Postman wrote in an earlier context, our media world became “a neighborhood of strangers and pointless quantity; a world of fragments and discontinuities.”

Barack Obama was the first president in the ubiquitous digital age, but by nature and intellect was

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not inclined to scream against the hurricane nor obsess about things he could not control.

Then came disrupterin-chief Donald Trump, a man persuaded that convictions and fixed positions are for losers, and a believer that truth is irrelevant, so it doesn’t matter if he lies - deliberately or carelessly. For him, only winning counts.

He has chosen legacy journalism as the enemy that all authoritarians must create in order to deflect blame for their failures. He divides the media world into people who write what he thinks they should and those who don’t, and brands the latter “enemy of the American people.”

Professionalism or accuracy do not enter his calculation.

(See WINLESS on page seven)

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‘America first’ really means ‘Americans last’

by Catherine Rampell

For months we pundits have been puzzling over “America first.” The phrase has an ugly history, having once been the rallying cry of Nazi sympathizers. This time around, its meaning is more opaque, perhaps a vague allusion to isolationism and a reconfiguring of the postwar international order.

But now, as more information about the president’s budget proposal comes out, the motto’s meaning is becoming clearer.

“America first” really means

“Americans last.”

On Monday, the Trump administration told reporters that the president’s budget will boost annual defense spending by 10 percent, or about $54 billion. This is part of his commitment to “a historic increase in defense spending to rebuild the depleted military of the United States of America at a time we most need it,” as he said at the National Governors Association meeting.

Trump is nominally a fiscal conservative (with the help of some fuzzy math). So he also promised that his increase

. . . the most recent census data found that about a fifth of Americans participate in at least one of the biggest federal means-tested poverty programs each month. Many of those beneficiaries also happen to be Republicans, believe it or not.

in defense spending would be offset by equivalent cuts to nondefense spending.

And who suffers as a result?

Regular Americans, including millions who voted for Trump.

That’s not how White House officials like to explain things, of course. They’ve provided little detail about the rest of the

budget. But they have nonetheless emphasized that much of the offsets will come from “foreign aid,” with the implication that foreigners will mainly feel the pinch.

One might argue that foreign aid supports our moral and humanitarian values, as well as our own security interests. We allocate such assistance to help strengthen democracies, deter war and contain epidemics.

Perhaps more relevant for this budgeting exercise, though, is the fact that “foreign aid” represents less than one percent of the federal budget, or about

$36.5 billion planned for fiscal 2017.

It also seems unlikely that Trump would completely zero out this paltry spending, given that some categories (such as the $3 billion we’ve committed to Israel) would cause him major political headaches.

Even if Trump does decide to eliminate the rest of our foreign aid, that still leaves tens of billions of dollars of cuts that must be found elsewhere in the budget.

Where is that elsewhere, exactly?

(See AMERICA on page six)

Giving cover to white nationalist movement

Trump sounds a lot like your old uncle

Donald Trump began his recent speech to Congress with a line seemingly designed to appease his critics.

“As we mark the conclusion of our celebration of Black History Month,” he said, “we are reminded of our nation’s path toward civil rights and the work that still remains.”

He went on to condemn “recent threats targeting Jewish Community Centers and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries, as well as last week’s shooting in Kansas City” - and, why not, “hate and evil in all its forms.”

Some pundits, who apparently set a very low bar, applauded Trump for this “presidential” moment.

For context, Trump was referring to a wave of over 100 recent bomb threats that have been called into Jewish schools and community centers all over the country, as well as the vandalism of hundreds of Jewish graves at cemeteries in St. Louis and Philadelphia.

Meanwhile, in Kansas City, a drunken bar patron shouting “get out of my country!” recently shot two Indian immigrants, killing one. The shooter reportedly thought the men were Iranian, which would have put them on the list of banned migrants under Trump’s sevencountry “Muslim ban.”

Investigations are ongoing, but many suspect that racist white nationalists are behind each of these incidents. Yet Trump never named those perpetrators. In the Kansas City case, in fact, he didn’t even name the victims.

Worse still, when talking about the anti-Semitic incidents before his speech to Congress, he even implied they might’ve been a false flag operation - carried out by his opponents “to make others look bad.”

You can be sure this was no accident. Because when Trump talked about other so-called threats, he was extremely explicit.

He gestured for emphasis on every word as he promised to defend the country from “Radical Islamic Terror,” which is capitalized in the speech’s official transcript. And he falsely blamed “the vast majority” of “terrorism-related offenses since 9/11” on immigrants.

(Some factual asides: According to the New America Foundation, virtually all perpetrators were citizens or legal residents, and half of them were born here. And no Americans have ever been killed by refugees from any of the seven Muslim countries Trump has sought to ban.)

Moving on, Trump twice called out “vicious” crimes by

“Maniacal” is not a word you care to hear about the President of the United States, especially not from his close adviser.

Previously, “maniacal” was reserved for the Joker, Doctor Doom, Dr. No, Lex Luthor and the boy Führer of North Korea, but there it was, uttered by Stephen Bannon to the conservatives congregated in Washington - “maniacally focused” - which tells you why Mr. Bannon is not allowed out very often: He would scare the bejabbers out of the good Republican voters in the Midwest.

He is a crusader and out here in flat country, where we don’t have huge boulders to hide behind, we try to get along with the neighbors.

“Maniacal” does not jibe with the sluggish Trump we’ve seen the past month, the placid scowl, the rambling rants against the media, the weary performer going through the motions of a role that doesn’t particularly engage him. Maybe Bannon meant “monotonously focused” or “very focused for a mannequin” or maybe he meant to say “many locusts.”

What the president has going for him, his trump card, is the air of danger he gives off, the chance that he may suddenly come unhinged. Not since 1974 have so many Americans thought the Current Occupant might be wacko. That is what keeps him in the news every day.

But you watch the man do his routine, and the eyes look dead, the face is slack. Everybody used to have an old uncle like him, and Trumpology is simply that old uncle with better lighting.

1) Who are all these foreigners? Where’d they come from all of a sudden? How come they don’t speak English? What’s going on? What the hell is falafel?

2) Newspapers. Bunch of crap. You can’t believe a word you read. Who makes this stuff up?

3) Criminals running loose in the streets. I say, take the handcuffs off the cops. A little brutality wouldn’t hurt, believe me.

4) Everywhere you look, you got government inspectors saying, don’t do this, don’t do that.

It’s ridiculous. Cut the red tape.

5) What’s with the foreign aid to all these countries? Let ’em take care of themselves.

Time to look after Number One. 6) Higher education? Ha. I didn’t need it and neither does anyone else. Get a job.

7) The problem with this country is politicians. Get rid of them and put people in charge who know how to run things: generals and business leaders.

by Peter Certo

(See NATIONALIST on page six)

Garrison Keillor

We don’t need a lecture from Ryan

by Jim Hightower

For nearly half a century now, America’s middle-class working families have been pummeled by corporate greedmeisters and their political henchmen.

Indeed, during the recession, the typical median-income family has lost 40 percent of their wealth. Haven’t they been punished enough?

No, says House Speaker Paul Ryan.

Along with other top Republican leaders of Congress, he intends to slash the Social Security money that middle-class and low-income workers depend on for their retirement, and he ultimately aims to kill it altogether.

Dependence on such public “entitlements,” he preaches,

weakens our nation’s morality.

Entitlements? Social Security isn’t a welfare program regular working people pay a 12-percent tax on every dime of their wages into this public pension fund year after year. They earn their retirement.

Morality? Social Security embodies America’s core moral value of fairness and our society’s commitment to the common good. And it works: Before it was enacted, half of all Americans spent their “golden years” in poverty.

Social Security has saved the great majority of us from oldage penury. Where is the morality in stealing away this earned retirement - and the modicum of dignity that comes with it - from millions?

Besides, a sermon on the

morality of entitlements should never come from a congress critter’s mouth.

Ryan himself wallows in a mud pit of congressional entitlements that working stiffs couldn’t imagine getting: A $223,500 annual paycheck, a free limousine and chauffeur, a maximum-coverage health plan, a tax-paid PR agent, a lavish expense account, free travel - and, of course, a platinum-level congressional retirement program funded by the very taxpayers whose Social Security he’s out to kill.

Yet Ryan wonders why Congress’ public approval rating is plummeting toward single digits.

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

GOP governing like constituents don’t breathe air or drink water

In case you were wondering what Republicans have planned for the environment, it’s now clear.

Some of the ideas aren’t new - like mining and logging our national forests. Or giving the green light to controversial oil pipelines like the Dakota Access Pipeline, which threatens the drinking water and sacred sites of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.

But apparently those ideas came from a more restrained Republican Party which still had to get its laws signed by Democrat Barack Obama. Now the gloves are off.

Why just mine and log our national forests when you can also drill for oil in our national parks, as one bill would allow? Parks at risk under the bill include the Everglades, the Grand Tetons, and the Flight 93 National Memorial.

Or, heck, just get rid of the

behind the headlines

by Jill Richardson

whole EPA. I mean, what was that hippie Richard Nixon doing establishing it in the first place?

Sure, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted with industrial waste that it literally caught fire - but what do we need rivers for, anyway?

Drinking water? Oh, wait.

On that note, the Republican Congress has already overturned an Obama-era rule that banned dumping coal mining waste in streams. Hope you didn’t plan on drinking that water.

The only small victory so far came when Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) withdrew his bill to sell off vast tracts of federal lands. It turned out that a key Republican constituency - hunters - opposed the measure.

We can only hope hunters convince Republicans to nix the other devastating ideas they’ve proposed so far. Because unfortunately, any desire by the rest of us for clean air, clean water, and preserving the most scenic landscapes in our country for recreation is only convincing to them if your preferred recreation involves a gun.

However, one of the best arguments for protecting the environment came recently from Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Facebook page.

Conceding that some Republicans do not and never will believe in climate change (until all of Florida is under water, at which point perhaps some will change their minds), the former California governor made the case that clean energy would be important even if climate change didn’t exist.

(See WATER on page six)

Do you believe it is acceptable that seven million people die every year from pollution? That’s more than murders, suicides and car accidents combined. Do you believe coal and oil will be the fuels of the future? Besides the fact that fossil fuels destroy our lungs, everyone agrees that eventually they will run out. What’s your plan then? - former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger

(See UNCLE on page six)

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U.S. science collapses without foreign students

by John Schrock

I recently sat on an examination committee for a masters student from Saudi Arabia. She was asked to provide the formula for making a certain quantity of 70 percent alcohol from a stock of 95 percent alcohol. In seconds, she turned to the board and rapidly wrote out the exact formula for the requested amount.

An American gradu-

ate student would have taken a minute or two; some would have gotten it wrong.

“When did you first learn algebra?” I asked.

“Fourth or fifth grade,” she replied. I smiled. This is also the time Asian students begin algebra.

American schools of education tell state boards of education that a child’s brain is not developed enough to understand

America Not from Social Security and Medicare, according to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. That’s despite the fact that entitlements are by far the biggest components of non-defense spending, and have been gobbling up an ever-larger share of federal budgets.

Other, smaller programs will face the fiscal guillotine instead.

Cuts are said to be coming for the usual Republican bogeymen, such as the National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. But

those grant-making agencies get peanuts in the grand scheme of things.

Total appropriations for the National Endowment for the Arts in fiscal 2016 were $148 million. Note that that’s with an “m” and not a “b,” the breed of “-illion” that the nondefense spending cuts are supposed to add up to.

What’s left? Reportedly the Trump team plans to slash the budget of the EPA, which was appropriated just $8 billion last year. Making it easier to pollute hardly seems to be in most Americans’ best interest. And again, the

by Andy Borowitz

MOSCOW (The Borowitz Report) - In a stunning rebuke of the Attorney General, Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded that Jeff Sessions resign from the Russian government “at once.”

Speaking at the Kremlin, Putin said that the controversies swirling around Sessions in Washington “no longer make it possible for Jeff Sessions to function as an integral part of the Kremlin team.”

Putin asserted that Sessions had “become a distraction,” and ordered the Alabama native to clear out his desk at the Kremlin “by Friday morning at the latest.”

While Kremlin sources said that forcing Sessions’s resignation was “a necessary measure,” they would not guarantee that he was the only member of the Trump Cabinet who would be expelled from the Russian government.

“We’ve put a dozen of them on notice,” one Kremlin source said.

Andy Borowitz is a comedian and author

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“First,” he began, “Do you believe it is acceptable that seven million people die every year from pollution? That’s more than murders, suicides and car accidents combined.”

Arnold went on: “Do you believe coal and oil will be the fuels of the future? Besides the fact that fossil fuels destroy our lungs, everyone agrees that eventually they will run out. What’s your plan then?”

What is our plan then?

Do we keep drilling and mining until we’ve despoiled our national treasures and made our water too toxic to drink?

Or can we find an alternative now, before some corporation gets a permit to drill in the Grand Tetons?

Obviously, even some

is a saying I would like to put into fortune cookies and hand out to American education schools. But Chinese fortune cookies are another American falsehood.

When American schools delay teaching algebra until eighth or ninth grade, this pushes off physics, chemistry and the portions of other sciences that require algebra, until the last half of high school.

Meanwhile, students in Asia and the Middle East begin to study chemistry and physics well before middle school. As a result, they have much higher rates of students entering engineering, physics, chemistry and molecular biology than in the U.S. Their students take nearly three times the course work in science as U.S. students in K–12.

The science literacy level of the American public is

Republicans - like the hunters that opposed the plan to sell off federal lands - aren’t on board with plundering every square inch of our land until our newborn children come out radioactive.

But why are their leaders for that, then?

We need to send a message now that enough is enough. If Republicans can’t remember that their constituents need to actually breathe the air and drink the water they’re so eager to deregulate, those constituents had better do something about it.

Preferably before our nation turns into a postapocalyptic hellscape.

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

so far behind other developed countries that we must rely on their students to feed our science pipeline.

The National Science Foundation National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics updates and releases data on the numbers of doctoral recipients at U.S. colleges and universities each year.

They break down the doctoral graduate numbers by (See SCIENCE on page 7)

Uncle

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Putin demands Sessions resign from Russian government

Water

algebra until just before high school.

I have lectured at over two dozen Chinese normal universities and I have fun with this remark. When I tell them that the U.S. delays algebra because kids cannot learn it when young, they scoff because their elementary students are learning it quite well, thank you.

“Person who say it cannot be done should not get in way of person doing it”

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EPA budget represents a tiny sliver of federal spending.

By process of elimination, then, the biggest target must be our already frayed social safety net.

That includes meanstested programs such as food stamps, Medicaid, housing assistance and lots of other programs relied on by tens of millions of Americans. In fact, the most recent census data found that about a fifth of Americans participate in at least one of the biggest federal meanstested poverty programs each month.

Many of those beneficiaries also happen to be Republicans, believe it or not.

It’s difficult to argue that reducing Americans’ access to food, health care, housing and other necessities is putting their needs “first.”

Carving billions out of these programs to offset defense increases will be painful, and it’s just the beginning of the suffering to come.

After all, the defense spending spike isn’t the only cost for which Republicans will soon need offsets. Recall that

Nationalist “illegal gang members” before announcing the creation of a special agency to document alleged crimes by undocumented people. Yet numerous studies have confirmed that both documented and undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans.

Make no mistake, Trump’s lies are carefully told to generate hostility toward Muslims and immigrants. Worse still, they conceal a growing threat the man obsessed with calling out “Radical Islamic Terror” won’t even name.

Medicaid services was a moral thing to do.

And there’s also that little matter about Kansas forfeiting $1.7 billion (that’s a “b”) in federal funds since January of 2014 because of its failure to expand Medicaid.

The lack of expansion was cited as a reason that Mercy Hospital in Independence closed in late 2015.

We could also add that the Kansas House voted (72-53) to restore that liberal, pro-union, proteacher measure known as tenure that had been eliminated in 2014 for K-12 public school educators.

Gee, Sam, how was all this going down with your ultraconservative friends last weekend? Were they questioning whether you’d lost your iron grip

Catherine Rampell is a columnist at The Washington Post

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Last month, the Southern Poverty Law Center counted over 1,000 active far-right and white nationalist groups in the United States. Groups like these, Foreign Policy magazine recently reported, “plan and carry out domestic attacks at a greater frequency than foreign terrorist groups.”

Since 9/11, it adds, “anti-government groups have racked up a death toll on par with that of Islamist extremists.”

No wonder authorities polled in a 2015 survey of 400 state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies listed far-right

Tornado

an enormous tax cut is coming down the pike.

We don’t know yet exactly what that tax plan will look like. If it’s anything like Trump’s campaign promises, though, it will cost in the ballpark of $7 trillion over the next decade.

If Republicans plan to pay for any portion of those tax cuts - and these days, admittedly, that’s a big if - expect those cuts to be balanced on the backs of struggling families, too.

groups - not Muslims - as “the most severe threat of political violence that they face.”

You don’t have to read far between the lines to figure out that this speech was no “softer side” of a more “presidential” Trump. It was a barely coded message to the president’s far-right followers that the administration’s going to continue covering for their hate.

And it was a not-sosubtle threat to everyone else.

Peter Certo is the editorial manager of the Institute for Policy Studies

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on the state?

Hopefully, this signals an end to the days when Governor Sam and the Koch brothers can target specific Republicans for defeat and bring in legislative lemmings who will follow whatever marching orders they are given.

Instead, perhaps we’re entering a new era when state lawmakers are listening to their constituents who put value on public education and the well-being of Kansans who don’t benefit from massive tax breaks.

Rather than learning from our massive mistake, it appears that others are determined to repeat it, which explains Governor Sam’s presence at CPAC. There’s every indication that the Trump Administration and

Republicans in Congress still see what’s happening in Kansas as something that should be done nationwide - the failure of similar tax cuts during the Reagan and Bush 43 years notwithstanding.

The success of trickle-down economics is a myth. Every time the curtain is pulled back and the myth is revealed, there’s someone telling us not to believe our eyes. They insist there really is an all-seeing, all-knowing Wizard who will deliver on a promise where all others before him have failed.

Only the delusional continue to make that promise.

Only the naive continue to believe it.

The uncle has the inside dope and what he knows is that we’re on the verge of disaster, thanks to our enemies. It used to be the Jews and the blacks and now it’s the Mexicans and Muslims, but the rant is the same. And now the dotty uncle is in charge of the nuclear code. Ian Fleming couldn’t have dreamed up anything better.

I took my mind off the old uncle by going to the circus last week to see horses gallop around the ring side by side, a man standing on each, a woman with a foot on each man’s shoulder, doing the splits at a gallop. Stupendous! The big cats leap to their stools and snarl at the man with the whip.

Eight men on motorbikes race around a steel mesh globe at top speed, crisscrossing within inches of each other. And high above center ring the aerialists do impossible triple somersaults into the hands of the catcher. And when it is all over, you feel cleansed, all of your anxieties exhausted.

The circus my dad took me to was under canvas, three rings. Yowsa-yowsa-yowsa. And it had a freak show that included, as I recall, the Wild Man of Borneo who stood in the back of his cage going boogeda-boogeda-boogeda and then leaped out screeching and bounced off the bars, terrifying a few small children in the meantime.

He was maniacally focused, and we thought he might bust loose and rip our heads off. He did not.

The old showman who addresses Congress faces a savvier crowd than those at his rallies last summer and fall. His old routines are not exciting anybody, and he’s only been in town a short time.

Maybe he could open an envelope at the podium and announce the total repeal of Obamacare (a disaster!) and then a guy in a tux rushes in - wrong envelope! - and the real winner is universal health care just like in other countries.

Front-page news on Wednesday! He can worry about Thursday when the time comes.

Rod Haxton can be reached Garrison Keillor is an author at editor@screcord.com and radio personality

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Science U.S. citizens versus temporary visa holders.

Data show that the more a science requires a command of math, the more we rely on foreign students in science.

From 1985 to 2015, foreign students earning a biology doctorate at U.S. universities grew from 934 to 3,262 (from 16 percent to 26 percent).

If biology was split into molecular biology versus field biology, the gap would be dramatic with mostly U.S. students in field work and mostly foreign students in lab coats.

Annual foreign students receiving U.S. doc-

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torates in the physical and earth sciences rose from 2,618 to 3,481 (from 21 to 36 percent). In math and computer sciences, the numbers rose from 332 in 1985 to 1,924 in 2015 (from 33 percent to half of U.S. doctoral graduates).

Most alarming are the numbers in engineering, where the U.S. failure to make the metric system a part of out native language is involved. Foreign students made up 1,423, or 45 percent, of U.S. doctorates in 1985 and 5,122, or 52 percent, in 2015.

Walk into a U.S. university engineering classroom

Winless As with so many other conventions and traditions of public life, journalistic realities do not intrude on his fantasy world. That purblindness, for instance, allowed him to call Friday for a ban on journalists using unnamed sources while, a few miles away, White House officials

and it will seat a majority of foreign students.

Stupidly require all foreign-born scientists to leave the U.S. and American science would collapse - engineering and physics immediately, and field biology last.

In the 1940s, American science gained a foreign accent due to the influx of scientists fleeing the Third Reich. A substantial portion of “American” Nobel Prizes were these foreign-born and foreigneducated scientists. Many more-recent winners came to the U.S. for better research facilities.

We do not produce

enough nuclear physicists to run our own labs.

Both American technology industries and our research universities rely on H1B visas to import critical science talent. But some propose to cut the H1B program and “hire Americans first.”

The problem is that the U.S. educational system does not produce anywhere enough scientists.

That problem starts with a K–12 curriculum that teaches far too little science - and teaches science and math far too late.

John Schrock trains biology teachers and lives in Emporia

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were presenting his side of the FBI investigation story to reporters - on condition that the sources not be named.

His obsession with news coverage and determination to demonize and neuter those who do not please him ensure,

tragically, that he cannot even try to unite a bitterly divided country and act like the President of all the people, not just his narrow base.

So long as his concept of unity is everyone agreeing with him on everything, he can only perpetuate - or exacerbate

- disunity, our nation’s most dangerous defect.

He has, calculatingly and unnecessarily, created a phony war that no one can win and only he can lose.

Davis Merritt is a Wichita journalist and author. He can be reached at dmerritt9@ cox.net

Scott Community Foundation estate planning info meeting • Mon., March 6 • 6:00 p.m.

March

Sunday

5

Attend the Church of Your Choice

Monday

6

4th Grade NAEP assessment

TOPS Meeting, First Christian Church, 5:30 p.m.

SCES Team Mtg., 3:30 p.m.

Boy Scout Troop 149 and Cub Scout Pack 66 Mtg., Scout Building, 6:30 p.m.

USD 466 BOE Mtg., 7:00 p.m.

Daylight Savings Time Begins

7

County Commission Mtg., 3:00 p.m.

SCF Estate Planning Workshop, Wm. Carpenter Bldg., 6:00 p.m.

The Boston Massacre occurred on this day in 1770.

Tuesday

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Friends Group of Lake Scott State Park Mtg., Scott County Library, 6:00 p.m.

Thursday

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Class 4A-DII State Basketball, White Auditorium, Emporia

Girl Scout Troop Mtg. (K-3rd grade), First United Methodist Church, 4:30 p.m.

Friday

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Class 4A-DII State Basketball, White Auditorium, Emporia

Class 4A-DII State Basketball, White Auditorium, Emporia

End of 3rd 9 Weeks, Spring Break begins!

Scott City Masonic Lodge Ham and Bean Feed, 5:30 p.m.

Pre-school Parents as Educators Literacy Night, 6:00 p.m.

7-12 Festival Concert, 7:30 p.m.

City Council Mtg., 7:30 p.m.

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Wednesday

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International Working Women’s Day commemorates an 1857 march and demonstration by female garment and textile workers in New York, N.Y. Personal Property Rendition Sheets due

15

Barbie, the popular doll, made her debut in 1959.

Since then, more than 800 million dolls have been sold.

16

World Kidney Day is today. Kidneys act as filters for blood in the human body.

17

On this day in 2011, a devastating magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami struck the Pacific coast of Japan.

SCHS Forensics CFL Qualifier

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Paul

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ing up for summer camp during the first week of Scouting, Chet Fouquet informed them, “When we sign up the boy we sign up the dad.”

That was the start of “a lot of good years and a lot of good memories,” says Frank, who was a leader for many years and a Scoutmaster for about 20 years.

In that first year, he helped oversee the popular kiddie cars sponsored by Scouts at the Scott County Fair. That became a favorite activity for Paul, though he was also a regular at the Scout trailer which provides concessions to the crowd attending grandstand events.

“I’ve seen grandkids and even greatgrandkids of people who rode the cars when they were kids,” recalls Paul.

“We’ve worn out a lot of wheels.”

In the second year of Scouting, Frank accompanied Frank, Jr., on the annual trip to Spanish Peaks Scout Camp. It became an annual tradition for Frank and Frank, Jr., who would go on to become an Eagle, and later, his younger son, Chris.

Frank became Scoutmaster when Harley Sharpe stepped down in the early 1990s. Paul remained as Scoutmaster for about 20 years before passing those duties off to Kevin Hall a few years ago.

Even though he wasn’t a Scout, outdoor camping was an activity that Paul had enjoyed while growing up in Scott City.

He recalled many weekends when he and friends would ride their bicycles while carrying fishing gear to Lake Scott State

Park. They would spend one or two days camping out and fishing and, with some luck, somebody with a pickup would give them a ride back into town.

Quality Family Time “The time we spent in Scouting, especially when we were camping, was quality time I could spend with my kids growing up,” says Paul.

For many years, Spanish Peaks wasn’t the only camping destination for local Scouts. Camp Ben, at Lake Scott State Park, would host a number of events for local Scouts as well as those throughout the Santa Fe Trail Council.

“It’s a great place for kids to run around,” says Paul about the 40-acre site that was deeded by former Scott City banker Ben Christy.

Because Scouting organizations aren’t allowed to own property, the site is owned by Youth, Inc. The organization’s board of directors consist of local Scout leaders.

“There is no charge for Scouts to use the site,” says Paul, noting that it’s a primitive building with no water or electricity.

At one time, he says Scouts also used to host honors programs at the rustic cabin, such as the Blue and Gold Banquet and the Arrow of Light ceremony. And he says one campout was held each month throughout most of the year.

Today, members of Troop No. 149 are able to stage those events in a modern building that’s complete with utilities, a kitchen and a large meeting area for dinners and awards ceremonies.

It’s About the Kids Paul acknowledges that participation in Scouting was on the decline, not just locally but throughout the Santa Fe Trail Council, for a number of years because the youth, particularly when they reach high school age, have so many activities competing for their time.

That seems to be turning around as the number of young boys involved in Cub Scouts has increased significantly in Scott City.

“I hope that’s a good sign for the future,” says Paul. “Every organization that works with kids thinks they do the best job. That’s true with FFA, 4-H or anyone else, but I believe strongly that Scouting does a lot of terrific things that help young boys develop good character and responsibility. That’s one reason Peggy and I were so committed to it for so many years.”

However, that isn’t the only driving factor that kept Paul involved for nearly five decades.

“You do this because you love the kids,” he said. “I was asked once what I got paid for being a Scoutmaster and I told them nothing. I’m a volunteer. My reward comes after we’ve been on a camping trip and a boy comes up to me, shakes my hand and says, ‘Thank you, Mr. Paul.’

“That’s what kept me doing this for so many years.”

Leading up to and following the death of his wife nearly two years ago, Paul was forced to cut back on his involvement in Scouting. Following the loss of vision in one eye, Paul now avoids driving at night, which

Frank Paul is shown with the certificate he was presented during a Santa Fe Trail Council ceremony at which he was named recipient of the Silver Beaver Award.

Paul is recipient of highest Scouting honor in SFT Council Long-time Scott City Scoutmaster and Scout leader Frank Paul was recently recognized as a recipient of the Silver Beaver award by the Santa Fe Trail Council.

It is the highest award presented to a Scout volunteer within the council.

“It’s an honor I never imagined receiving,” says Paul, who was involved in local Scouting for nearly five decades as a leader, including about 20 as a Scoutmaster.

Paul, 74, has received a

number of other Council awards over the years, including the Scouter’s Key, Trainer’s Key, the District Award of Merit and twice been named Scoutmaster of the Year.

“This is an honor that Frank and Peggy both deserved,” says Troop No. 149 Scoutmaster Kevin Hall, referring to the late Peggy Paul who was a leader in Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts for about 50 years.

Even though he stepped down from leadership duties a few years ago,

Paul still volunteers his time at Scout meetings on occasion.

“We want to make sure we keep him involved,” says Troop No. 149 Scoutmaster Kevin Hall.

“Frank’s been very important to Scouting in Scott City.”

Paul became the sixth Scott City recipient of the Silver Beaver, joining John Boyer (1953), Dr. Halcon Kibby (1968-69), Harold Winter (1973-74), Wayne Hull (1975) and Keith Cure (2005).

has kept him from attending Scout meetings during the winter.

But the longer hours of daylight will soon allow

Paul to once again attend Scout meetings.

“I miss the boys. I’m anxious to start going to the meetings again and

helping with what I can,” he says. “And when they have a local campout, I look forward to being out there during the day.”

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Famous quilters are coming to life in Leoti Historic presentations, workshops highlight show Expert quilter and reenactor Debbie Divine will be the featured speaker at a two-day Quilting Appreciation Seminar on Friday and Saturday, March 3-4, in Leoti.

Divine is a researcher who will demonstrate quilting techniques in addition to bringing to life two famous personalities in the quilting world.

Workshops on Friday will include a “3-D Fabric Flower Demonstration” and a “Miniature Quilt Trunk Show.”

The re-enactments will be held on Saturday featuring Marie Webster and Rose Kretsinger.

Divine’s interest in quilting and history combined to inspire her to give the biographical re-enactments.

“Taking on the persona of these two women adds another dimension to quilting,” says Divine.

“You gain a greater idea of

what they had to deal with during the 1920s.”

She is amazed at the knowledge the women were able to gain despite the limited ability to travel and share ideas and information that quilters today take for granted.

“A lot of what they knew and learned came from their mothers, grandmothers and at quilting bees,” notes Divine.

Divine, who lives in Salina, says that while her grandmother was a quilter she wasn’t bitten by the bug until she was 50.

“After moving to Kansas, I became acquainted with a group of women who were quilters and realized it was something I can do,” she notes.

After seeing historical re-enactments of Calamity Jane and Amelia Earhart, Divine decided that’s something she wanted to do. Divine had read a book by quilter Rose Kretsinger but, perhaps more importantly, she read a number of feature stories about Kretsinger that are archived with the Kansas State Historical Society.

“I learned a great deal about her from those stories and I was fortunate to

interview her son, which gave me a lot of detailed information about her which has allowed me to capture her personality,” Divine says.

It was while depicting Kretsinger that she met the granddaughter of Marie Webster. She was able to acquire a copy of the original script that Webster gave while giving her quilt presentations decades earlier.

That has led to Divine giving historical re-enactments of both quilters, though not always on the same day.

“Four shows in two days,” says Divine about her presentations in Leoti.

“That’s going to be a busy weekend.”

Museum Tea Party During a “Tea Party at the Museum,” Divine will tell the story of Webster who is credited with bringing renewed interest and admiration for quilts with her designs that appeared in full color in the Ladies Home Journal magazine in 1911.

She would follow with the publication of a book and starting a quilt pattern business, The Practical

The Scott City Police Department was presented a $3,000 donation by friends and classmates of Colter Berry which was raised during the annual memorial coyote calling fundraiser. Pictured (from left to right) are Brad Ludowese, Michael McEachern, Joseph Conner, Miles Glunz, Brantlee Shearmire, Aaron Rosin, Bryan Murray, Colby Dunagan and Jace Gibbs.

(Photo by Beau Harkness)

KSU sends financial aid notices to help students plan Kansas State University has started packaging federal and state aid for incoming 2017 fall semester freshmen - about two months earlier than past years.

The first round of new, incoming undergraduate freshman who applied and were eligible for aid through the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, received aid packages notifications via their K-State email, and any parent email listed as part of the application, on Feb. 13. Students should respond to the offers in K-State’s Student Information System, or KSIS. “We are sending out notifications about financial assistance earlier than ever before,” said Robert Gamez, director of student financial assistance.

“This gives students and their families more time than in past years to prepare for the costs of a col-

lege degree and help them understand what financial assistance is available to them.”

According to Gamez, the federal government introduced two significant changes to the FAFSA for the 2017-18 academic year.

“The first change is that income/federal tax information can now reference an earlier calendar year, effectively removing the stress often encountered by families who struggled to complete their federal taxes to meet a school’s FAFSA priority date,” Gamez said. “The second change is the FAFSA application is available three months earlier than ever before.”

The two changes allow students and families applying for aid for the 2017-18 academic year to use information from the 2015 tax year in the FAFSA application, meaning they could have completed the FAFSA as

early as Oct. 1, 2016.

“We know that money is very important for students and parents,” said Pat Bosco, K-State’s vice president for student life and dean of students.

“Planning all aspects of a college degree is essential, so the Division of Student Life and the Office of Student Financial Assistance are working together to make that planning possible and a college degree attainable for a variety of situations.”

As students continue to apply for assistance, the university will evaluate students’ needs and organize aid to assist with tuition.

“Kansas State University provides roughly $240 million in various forms of financial aid to students,” Bosco said.

“Approximately 70 percent of our student population has some form of assistance through student (See FINANCIAL on page 12)

Deb Divine portrays Rose Kretsinger during a performance at the Smoky Hill Museum in Salina.

Patchwork Company.

Divine brings Webster back to life in her portrayal using Marie’s own historic quilt lecture and sharing her quilt designs and techniques.

Rose by Any Other Name Divine will portray Rose Kretsinger, a coauthor of one of the most highly celebrated quilting books, “Romance of the Patchwork Quilt.”

Two of her award-winning quilts were named to the top 100 quilts of the 20th Century.

Kretsinger was one of a talented group of quilters

in Emporia during the first part of the 20th century.

Divine will share Kretsinger’s life story as well as her quilting design philosophy and techniques.

Two Workshops The Salina resident will present a motivational/ humorous trunk show of selected miniatures and small wall hangings from her extensive collection, including quilts made by famous quilters such as Caryl Bryer Fallert, Ann Pfahl and Barbara Brackman.

Another workshop will feature 3-D flow-

ers or fabric origami.

The techniques are based on techniques from Elly Sienkiewicz’s book, “Dimensional Applique,” and from Kumiko Sudo’s books, “Fabled Flowers” and “Fantasies and Flowers.”

Sponsoring the event are the Prairie Flower Quilt Company, The Quilt Guild, Wichita County Historical Society, Wichita County Arts Alliance and Cargill Cattle Feeders.

Admission to a single event is $5, or $10 for all events. It will be payable at the door for each event.

The Scott City Fire Department was also presented a $3,000 donation from the Colter Berry fundraiser. Members of the fundraising group and volunteer firemen include (from left) Bryan Murray, Scott Andrews, Jeff Mayer, Karla Stockman, Brent Edwards, Vernon Storm, Marc Ramsey, Brantlee Shearmire, Colby Dunagan, Aaron Rosin, Miles Glunz, Mel Ott and Jace Gibbs.

(Photo by Beau Harkness)

For the Record All 3 KanCare providers show a profit in 2016 The Scott County Record

Meg Wingerter Kansas News Service

All three of the private insurance companies that manage the Kansas Medicaid program made a profit on it in 2016 the first year that has occurred.

UnitedHealthcare was by far the most financially

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successful of the three, with $30.2 million in profits. Sunflower State Health Plan, a subsidiary of Centene, had a $5.5 million profit and Amerigroup made about $3.4 million.

The three companies lost millions in 2013 and 2014, the first two years of KanCare.

Scott City Council Agenda Monday, March 6 • 7:30 p.m.

City Hall • 221 W. 5th •Call to order •Approve minutes of Feb. 21 regular meeting •Approve Ordinance No. 1179 - International Residential Code (2015 edition) •“If I Were Mayor” essay readings by SCMS seventh graders •Scott Recreation Commission Director Jordan Carter and board reps Chris Irvin and T.J. Trout 1) Water conservation plan •Approve updated aerial applicator requirements •Approve 1/2% sales tax grant funding •Requested dates to use Patton Park April 8: Easter egg hunt (Security State Bank) June 3: Bluegrass concert and barbeque June 24: Relay for Life July 2: Pence Community Church ice cream social July 22: Beefiesta tasting booths Aug. 19-20: Lake Scott Rod Run Sept. 30: Whimmydiddle Chamber movies in the park are scheduled for June 3, June 23, July 7, Aug. 18 and Sept. 8 •Requested date to use Palmer Park April 15: Easter egg hunt (First Baptist Church) •Open agenda: audience is invited to voice ideas or concerns. A time limit may be requested Pool Department 1) Recommendation of assistant pool manager Police Department 1) Misc. business Parks Department 1) Misc. business Public Works Department 1) Discuss city connecting link improvement program 2) Discuss fees for utility connects, transfers, re-connects and after-hour calls 3) Request to seek bids for CMA sand Clerk’s Department 1) Misc. business •Mayor’s comments

State officials announced the 2016 results at last week’s meeting of the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell Joint Committee on Home and Community Based Services and KanCare Oversight.

Mike Randol, director of the Division of Health Care Finance at the Kansas Department of

Health and Environment, told the committee members that financial losses are typical in the first years of a managed care program.

For Sunflower, 2016 was the first year it made a profit on KanCare operations. It lost about $12 million in 2015.

The company declined

to offer specific information about why its fortunes had improved, but Chris Coffey, Sunflower’s president and CEO, said he was pleased with the results, which he said would allow more investments in community health initiatives.

After losing millions in 2013 and 2014, the three

insurance companies that operate Kansas Medicaid all turned a profit in 2016.

Amerigroup’s profits were down substantially in 2016 from $24.2 million the previous year, a drop of about $21 million.

A spokeswoman declined to comment on the results.

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Check policy coverage in advance of severe weather Kansans with years of experience watching the weather know that when March rolls around, it’s time to turn our attention to the skies - and to the weather reports.

March is when many residents begin preparing for severe weather problems. That includes checking your insurance policies on personal property to make sure you have the coverage and information you need.

Recent weather data from the National

commissioner’s corner Kansas Insurance

Commissioner Ken Selzer

Weather Service (NWS) in its Severe Weather Awareness Week packet says there were 102 tornadoes in the state in 2016 one more than the 10-year average. In May of 2016 there were 63 tornadoes with 34 occurring on May 24.

But twisters are only part of our potential

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., March 2, 2017; last published Thurs., March 16, 2017)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS In the Matter of the Estate of DONALD DORNON, aka DONALD D. DORNON, aka DONALD DEAN DORNON, deceased Case No. 2016-PR-16 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR FINAL SETTLEMENT (Petition Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 59) THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are notified that a petition shall be filed in the Court by Arron Scott Dornon duly appointed, qualified and acting Executor of the Estate of Donald Dornon, deceased, requesting that Petitioner’s acts be approved; account be settled and allowed; the heirs be determined; the Will be construed and the Estate be assigned to the persons entitles thereto; the court find the allow-

ances requested for attorneys’ fees and expenses are reasonable and should be allowed; the costs be determined and ordered paid; the administration of the Estate be closed; upon the filing of receipts the Petitioner be finally discharged as the Executor of the Estate Of Donald Dornon, deceased, and the Petitioner be released from further liability.

You are required to file your written defenses to the petition on or before the 24th day of March, 2017, at 3:00 p.m. in the District Court of Scott County, Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard. Should you fail to file your written defenses, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the petition.

Aaron Scott Dornon Executor Jake W. Brooks Attorney At Law P.O. Box 664 101 E. 6th Scott City, Ks. 67871 620-872-7204 Attorney for Executor

weather problems. Kansas Insurance Department (KID) statistics through the years indicate that during the spring and summer there is hardly a day when hail damage is not reported somewhere in the state.

Factor in the ever-present wind, and our citizens contend with weather issues almost daily from March through August and sometimes beyond.

According to insurance company estimates, Kansans submitted a

total of 51,708 property insurance claims in 2016 because of severe weather activity. Although the total estimated storm loss was at a 10-year low $107.26 million - that is still a significant number of damaged homes, farms and outbuildings.

Only 12 injuries were reported and no deaths occurred.

The KID staff has compiled the following checklist of questions and statements that consumers and (See WEATHER on page 11)

Scott County Commission Agenda Monday, March 6 County Courthouse 3:00 p.m. County Business 1) Approve Feb. 21 commission minutes 2) Approve accounts payable, payroll 3) Review budget process letter 3:30 p.m. Les and Danny Spangler

Discuss Neighborhood Revitalization

Program 4:00 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

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USD 466 Board of Education Agenda Monday, March 6 • 7:00 p.m.

Administration Building • 704 College •Comments from the public •Recognition of persons/delegations present 1) Board representative reports 2) Administration reports •Financials 1) Treasurer’s report 2) Bills payable 3) Transfers, if needed •Consent agenda 1) Approve previous minutes 2) Approve summer driver’s ed program •Consider items pulled from consent agenda New business 1) Approve 2017-18 school calendar 2) KSDE audit 3) Discussion with Gibson, Mancini, Carmichael and Nelson, architects •Executive session 1) Non-elected personnel

Credit service takes dim view of Brownback veto Moody’s Investor Service has labeled Gov. Sam Brownback’s veto of a proposed tax hike as credit negative, saying the tax increase would have “gone a long way toward resolving Kansas’ fiscal troubles.”

Moody’s, which rates the credit worthiness of the state’s bonds, is concerned about the state’s future financial obligations, particularly its underfunded pension obligations. Moody’s has downgraded the state’s bonds in recent years and gives Kansas an Aa2/ negative outlook, which means it’s more likely

Weather

their insurance agents can review. These can help determine whether your •Executive session (negotiations) coverage is adequate.

•Ask yourself these •Additions, if any questions: Do you have the right •Adjournment homeowners or renters insurance? Do you know what your policy covers?

Public Notice Is the amount of coverage adequate? Does it cover (Published in The Scott County Record Thurs., March 2, 2017)1t TREASURER’S QUARTERLY STATEMENT new additions or recent SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS • AS OF JAN. 31, 2017 remodeling?

Total cash in the Scott County Treasury as of the above date •Check all limits,

$14,088,780.80 including coverage for contents.

FUND FUND BALANCES •Know your policy General .................................................................. $ 3,069,694.41 coverage exclusions: Sheriff’s Department ............................................. 520,540.90 Not all policies cover Community Development Block Grant Loan ........

0.00 the following: Water damMicro-Loan Revolving Loan Fund .........................

97,522.33 age, including flood and Alcohol Program ....................................................

5,003.79 Indoor Arena Fund ................................................

2,396.29 surface damage, whether driven by wind or not; Special Cemetery Equipment .................................

19,644.60 County Employee Benefits ..................................... 1,230,584.35 backup of sewer or drains; County Health - M. Koehn Memorial .....................

122.67 and sump pump failure.

County Health - J. Binns Memorial ........................

391.99 These are the most comCounty Health ......................................................... 225,663.22 County Health - Bio-Terrorism ................................

23,164.71 mon exclusions.

Riders for these probCounty Health - Special Assistance ........................

13,920.00 Home Health ...........................................................

9,200.45 lems may be available to •Resignations/hires

Hospital Maintenance ..............................................

377.91 Ambulance ...............................................................

93.92 Library Maintenance ................................................ 296,018.01 Library Building ........................................................

30,936.75 Noxious Weed .......................................................... 110,066.90 Special Noxious Weed Equipment ...........................

96,817.28 Landfill Special Equipment Sales ............................

65,808.02 Road and Bridge ...................................................... 774,819.41 Fire District ............................................................... 244,847.76 County Public Buildings ........................................... 1,060,088.55 Special Highway Improvement ................................ 650,767.75 Special Parks and Recreation ...................................

1,562.42 Special Road Machinery .......................................... 304,378.49 Equipment Reserve .................................................. 609,721.50 County Bond and Interest ........................................ 1,301,662.14 Hospital Bond and Interest ....................................... 494,985.29 Sheriff Equipment Fund .............................................

294.64 Special Law Enforcement ..........................................

4,021.80 Prosecutor Training and Assistance ...........................

5,307.31 Attorney Worthless Check Fees .................................

575.25 Register of Deeds Technology Fund .......................... 43,592.99 Clerk Technology Fund ..............................................

4,890.51 Treasurer Technology Fund ........................................

3,828.13 Motor Vehicle Operating Fund ...................................

2,365.18 Zella O. Carpenter (S.A.) ............................................ 354,492.19 Zella O. Carpenter .................................................... 508,740.00 M.F. Barnhart Trust ...................................................

0.00 Oil and Gas Valuation Depletion ............................... 1,448,857.29 USD 466 Funds .........................................................

0.00 Keystone General ......................................................

13.07 Keystone Hall .............................................................

13.03 Scott Township General .............................................

537.72 Neighborhood Revitalization .....................................

0.00 Advanced Current Tax ...............................................

17.93 Current Tax ................................................................ 114,338.86 Tax Escrow Accounting .............................................

39,129.13 Current Tax Interest ...................................................

365.43 Delinquent Personal Property Tax .............................

54.74 Redemptions ..............................................................

4,476.43 Commercial Motor Vehicle .........................................

3,197.36 Motor Vehicle Registration Tax ..................................

18,522.09 Recreation Vehicle Tax ................................................

114.22 Rental and Excise Tax .................................................

0.00 911 Tariff ..................................................................... 13,320.27 911 Tariff - Wireless .................................................... 230,265.84 Wildlife and Parks .......................................................

6,168.45 Judgment Fees ............................................................

36.00 Driver’s Licenses ..........................................................

490.00 Motor Vehicle ................................................................

468.00 Vehicle Registration Tax Interest ...................................

15.63 Motor Sales Tax ............................................................. 19,469.50 Total All Funds $ 14,088,780.80 State of Kansas County of Scott

I do solemnly swear that the above statement is complete, true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief, so help me God.

Lark Speer

County Treasurer Subscribed to and sworn to before me this 24th day of February 2017 Alice Brokofsky Notary Public

to be downgraded than upgraded.

The report said the income tax increase approved by both the Kansas House and Senate, but vetoed by Brownback, would have generated more than $450 million of additional revenue annually which would have closed most of the budget gap.

The state’s budget shortfall is more than $600 million - a $350 million general fund shortfall, a $250 million transfer from the highway fund, plus ongoing pension underfunding, according to Moody’s.

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add to your existing policy. Also, check your auto policy. Comprehensive coverage (other than collision) usually pays if damage is caused by wind, hail and/or flood.

•Inventory your personal property: KID can provide you with a “Personal Home Inventory” booklet to help you list the contents of your home. Go online at www.ksinsurance.org, under “Finding a Publication,” to print a personal copy.

Keep a hard copy of your inventory, sales receipts and video or photographs of your personal property in a secure place outside your home.

You can also download the MyHomeScr. APP.book application for your smartphone from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., March 2, 2017; last published Thurs., March 16, 2017)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS In the Matter of the Marriage of JACKIE D. IVEY and CRYSTAL D. IVEY, Case No. 17 DM 07 NOTICE OF SUIT THE STATE OF KANSAS TO: CRYSTAL D. IVEY YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT an action for divorce has been filed in the District Court of Scott County, Kansas by Jackie D. Ivey, captioned In the Matter of the Marriage of Jackie D. Ivey and Crystal D. Ivey, Scott County Case No. 17 DM 07, praying for an order of the court granting a decree of absolute divorce and

dividing various debts and assets of the parties. You are hereby required to plead to the Petition on or before April 13, 2017, in the District Court of Scott County, at Scott City, Kansas, said date being not less than 41 days from the date of the first publication of this Notice of Suit.

If you fail to answer or otherwise defend, the contents of the petition will be taken as true, and judgment will be granted to the Petitioner in accordance with the same.

William I. Heydman No. 13645 HEYDMAN LAW, LLC 1519 East Fulton Terrace P.O. Box 2010 Garden City, Kansas 67846 620-275-7000 Attorney for the Petitioner

County Commission February 7, 2017 The Scott County Commissioners met on Feb. 7.

Members present were Chairman James Minnix, member Gary Skibbe; County Clerk Alice Brokofsky and County Attorney Becky Faurot. Member Jerry Buxton was absent.

•Faurot presented the Zella Carpenter contracts for Berning Brothers and Dwight Koehn who will match the bids from Buehler Grain and Forage. She advised the Commission she had been in contact with Jon Berning who would like bids to become due all at the same time.

He agreed to a revised two year contract on the current lease if the Commission would agree to extend the lease agreements to a five year lease with all leases becoming due at the same time.

Minnix contacted Koehn who also agreed to Berning’s proposal. Commissions took no action.

•Scott County Hospital CEO Mark Burnett, CFO Joe Meyer and board member Danny Spangler joined the meeting. The audit report from June 30, 2015 through June 30, 2016, was presented and discussed.

•Scott County EMS Director Brenda Birney gave an update on ambulance transportation and classes that are being conducted for future EMTs. •The commission approved a $14,645 estimate from Lee Construction for construction of approximately 160 linear foot of 8-inch sewer line on the old hospital site.

•Julie Niehage was appointed to the Scott County Indoor Arena board.

•The county received a check for $4,939.83 from its insurance provider to cover the cost of repairs to the old LEC building.

•County Health Administrator Dana Shapland and Edith Tarango informed the council that Tarango will take over as the new administrator on Feb. 20.

•Public Works Director Richard Cramer discussed pickup bids that were opened at the Jan. 17 meeting.

A bid of $33,475 from J&R Car and Truck Center was accepted.

•Mowing contracts were approved.

•A bid of $7,780 from Brokofsky Construction for concrete work that includes a pad around the well building and a sidewalk to the county office was accepted.

Profit UnitedHealthcare showed little change, with profits increasing from $29.4 million in 2015 to $30.2 million in 2016.

Medicaid is a state-federal partnership in which the federal government pays about 60 percent of the costs. The $3 billion KanCare program provides health care coverage for about 425,000 people most of them low-income children, pregnant women and people with disabilities.

Rep. Jim Ward (D-Wichita) and a longtime KanCare critic, questioned whether the profits resulted from denials of coverage or services.

Some members of the public who spoke at the committee meeting said they were denied services or inexplicably lost coverage, though others praised employees of the insurance companies who helped them navigate the health care system.

The government provides KanCare coverage for people with disabilities because insurance companies couldn’t do so

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and still make a profit, Ward said.

“Medicaid wouldn’t exist if you could provide these services through the private sector,” he said.

Some legislators not ideologically opposed to privatization also wanted more information, however. Rep. Dan Hawkins, a Republican from Wichita, asked KDHE officials to provide more data about the companies’ profit margins but didn’t indicate what he thought was an appropriate amount.

“I would certainly think the MCOs making a profit is healthy,” he said.

The state’s waiver for KanCare ends in December. Federal officials denied a request to extend the program as it is, so Kansas will have to come up with a renewal plan in the next few months. Federal regulators pointed to problems with KanCare, but state officials attributed them to political games by the outgoing administration of former President Barack Obama.

Support Your Hometown Merchants!

Pastime at Park Lane Church services at Park Lane were held by the Gospel Fellowship Church.

Monday’s pitch and dominoes games helpers were Dorothy King, Bert Lucas, Mandy Barnett and Lela Bishop.

Residents played Wii bowling on Monday evening.

Bob Artz from the First Baptist Church led Bible study on Tuesday morning with Madeline Murphy playing the piano.

The Scott Mennonite youth sang for the residents on Tuesday evening.

Rev. Warren Prochnow led Lutheran Bible study on Wednesday morning, Wednesday afternoon bingo game helpers were Madeline Murphy, Barbara Dickhut and Mary Lou Oeser.

On Wednesday evening residents played cards with Denton and Karen Berry and Bob Willman helping.

Some of the ladies got manicures on Thursday morning.

Residents enjoyed ice cream on Thursday afternoon, followed by trivia games.

Financial loans, grants, scholarships or work-study programs.”

For students interested in working a part-time job on campus while attending school, Kansas State University provides about $1 million through the Federal Work Study program, which is targeted at high-need students who have met the university’s March 1 FAFSA priority date and indicated an interest in working.

In addition, the university has historically provided about $16 million in regular, non-Federal Work Study on-campus job opportunities to students who desire an additional

talk through how to handle finances fairly for both individuals.

Britt warns of credit reporting sites that may have a hidden agenda. To avoid these types of websites, she suggests people go to http://www.annualcreditreport.com, which is required by the U.S. government to provide one free copy a year of an individual’s credit report

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means of paying for college, Gamez said.

“The biggest challenge we face is putting students and families in contact with the right resources and that’s really what our office does,” Gamez said.

“We encourage parents and students to let us know if they’ve received their assistance package and the financial outcome still makes a college degree unattainable. Our office is here to make things easier for students and parents as they navigate through the financial aid process, which can be a little overwhelming at times.”

Kansas State University

Warning

Fr. Bernard Felix led Catholic mass on Friday morning and Rev Warren Prochnow held Lutheran services Friday afternoon.

Residents watched a movie on Friday afternoon and Wanda Kirk provided cupcakes.

Kathy Roberts and Nella Funk were visited

by Nancy Holt, Gary Roberts and Judy Kitch.

Arlene Beaton was visited by Nancy Holt and Bill Beaton.

Louise Crist visitors were Nancy Holt, Colten Crist, Jean Burgess and Sue Rose.

also provides several alternative financial assistance services to help with daily challenges such as SALT, a free online program to manage money and student loans, and Powercat Financial, which offers free peer financial counseling for dealing with student debt, budgeting, credit cards, saving, salary negotiations and more.

“It’s important that my students and families know we are working hard to make sure no one falls through the cracks when it comes to being considered for financial assistance at K-State,” Bosco said.

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from each of the three credit reporting agencies.

This site does not provide a credit score, but some sites use advertising as a source of income to provide free services to consumers, she said.

Britt recommends http://www.creditkarma. com, which offers free access to credit scores, a grade based on age and notification emails if the

score changes.

Talking through tough financial situations - payment of student loans or how money will be allotted if one spouse stays home to raise children will help decrease potential arguments, Britt said.

“If money is not being treated fairly in the household, then the relationship satisfaction is going to be lower,” she adds.

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Loretta Gorman was visited by Chuck and Barb Brobst.

Clifford Dearden was visited by Kirk and Janet Ottoway from Hays.

Mike Leach and James Still were visited by Rev. Don Martin and Linda Dunagan.

Lowell Rudolph was visited by LuAnn Buehler, Tom and Kathy Moore, Steve and Mary Grigg, Rev. Don Martin, Larry and Connie Knobbe and Chuck Kirk.

Doris Riner was visited

by Trudy Eikenberry.

Vivian Kreiser was visited by Sharon Lock.

by Jason Storm

Lorena Turley was visited by Neta Wheeler, Rex Turley, LuJuana Turley, LaCinda Griffin and Mike, Tracy and Bo Hess.

Cecile Billings was visited by Linda Dunagan and Ann Beaton.

Yvonne Spangler was visited by Yvette Mills.

Lavera King’s visitors were Gloria Gough, Velda Riddiough, Kay King, Harrison King, Loni Wessel, Carol Latham and Marsha Holloway.

Hugh McDaniel was visited by Mark McDaniel, Tava See, Berniece McDaniel and George Evans.

Rod and Kathy Haxton and Melissa Jasnoch were visitors of Boots Haxton.

They brought peach cobbler and ice cream to celebrate her birthday. Nancy Holt also visited and brought a birthday gift.

Corrine Dean was visited by Aaron and Mandy Kropp, Dianna Howard, Kim Smith, Carol Ellis and Nancy Holt.

Delores Brooks was visited by Fritzi Rauch, Nancy Holt, Cheryl Perry and Charles Brooks.

Harold and Ruth White were visited by Jr. and Sharon Strecker.

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Deaths

Sr. Citizen Lunch Menu

Kaye Don Von Schriltz

Anna Marie Bennett

Kaye Don Von Schriltz, 84, died Feb. 22, 2017, at the Scott County Hospital.

He was born Feb. 28, 1932, in Lane County to Donald and Vio- Kaye Don Von Schriltz let (Painter) Von Schriltz.

Kaye graduated from Healy High School in 1949. He earned his bachelor of science degree in agriculture with minors in political science and sociology from Fort Hays State University in 1953.

He served in the United States Army from 195355.

He returned to Healy and taught at the grade school from 1958-60. He then earned his Master’s degree in education from FHSU and was the principal and a teacher at Healy High School for 28 years.

Following retirement, he farmed in the Healy area for many years.

He was a member of the United Methodist Church, Healy; 7th Calvary of Fort Hays State College; a past Healy Co-op board member; past watershed

Anna Marie Bennett, 65, died Feb. 28, 2017, at St. Catherine Hospital, Garden City.

She was born March 11, 1951, in Dodge City, the daughter of Richard and Rowena (Owston) Wines.

A resident of Scott City since 1981, moving from Dodge City, she was a retail clerk and homemaker.

She is survived by two sons, Scott Bennett, Scott City, and Shane Bennett, Hutchinson; a daughter, Wendy Bennett Kaiser, New Braunsfield, Tex.; eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers.

A memorial service will be held at a later date.

Memorial donations may be given to the Anna Bennett Memorial Fund in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 401 South Washington St., Scott City, Ks. 67871.

district board member; and was a member of Phi Gamma Phi, Phi Kappa Phi, Delta Epsilon and Phi Delta Kappa honor societies.

Aug. 26, 1952, he married Elaine Siegrist in Healy. She survives.

Other survivors include: three sons, Kevan, Eric and Arron, all of Healy; one daughter, Sue Pallister, and husband, Craig, Hays; one sister, Jo Ann Hagans, Dighton; two grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Funeral service was held Feb. 27 at the United Methodist Church, Healy, with Rev Bud Tuxhorn officiating.

Burial was at the Healy Cemetery with military honors provided by the Kansas Army National Guard Honor Guard.

Boomhower Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Memorials may be given to the United Methodist Church or through the funeral home at 145 N. Wichita, Box 891, Dighton, Ks. 67839.

Condolences may be sent to www.garnandfuneralhomes.com.

Roberto Fausto Chavez, Sr. Roberto Fausto Chavez, Sr., 68, died on Feb. 24, 2017, at St. Catherine Hospital, Garden City.

R o b e r t o was born May 22, 1948, in El Toro, M a g u a i c h i , Roberto Chavez, Sr. Chihuahua, Mexico, to Gregorio and Carmen (Hermosillo) Chavez.

He was an employee for Seaboard Foods and a rancher.

He had been a resident of Leoti since 1994, moving from Chihuahua, Mexico.

On April 22, 1969, he married Ascencion Manuela Hermosillo in Chihuahua, Mexico. She survives.

Other survivors include: five sons, Gregorio Chavez, and wife, Irma, Gering, Nebr., Ramon Chavez and wife, Guadalupe, Grinnell, Roberto Jr. Chavez and wife, Doris, Oakley, Reyes Chavez and wife, Monica, Oakley, and Joel Chavez and wife, Natasha, Leoti;

three daughters, Maribel Galaviz and husband, Ramon, Scott City, Rebecca Ortiz and husband, Jesus, Leoti, and Heather Martinez and husband, Victor, Leoti; two brothers, Rito Chavez, Deming, N.M., and Gregorio Chavez and wife, Conception, Guymon, Okla.; three sisters, Juana Torrez and husband, Pedro, Wichita, Rosa Varela and husband, Israel, Alamillo, Chihuahua, Mexico, and Manuela Burciaga and husband, Guily, Gomez Sarias, Chihuahua, Mexico; 23 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Catalina Chavez.

Funeral service was held March 2 at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church, Leoti. Burial was in the Leoti Cemetery.

Memorials may be given to the Roberto Chavez Memorial Fund in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, Box 161, 202 N. 4th Leoti, Ks. 67861.

Condolences may be sent to priceandsons.com.

Francis W. ‘Sonny’ Miller Francis W. “Sonny” Miller, 91, died on March 1, 2017, at the Wichita County Health Center, Leoti.

Price and Sons Funeral Home, Leoti, will announce arrangements.

Jeanette von Khaelssberg Jeanette von Khaelssberg, 80, died Dec. 1, 2016.

She was born March 5, 1936, in Brownell, the daughter of Victor and Elma Filbert.

Jeanette graduated from Ness City High School. She earned a bachelors degree from the University of Denver and Master’s degree from the University of Maryland.

She traveled the world and eventually settled in San Francisco. Jeanette worked for the Veterans Administration at Ft. Miley as an audiologist. After working at Ft. Miley,

she opened Avenue Hearing Aid Center in San Francisco.

Upon retiring, Jeanette moved to Napa Valley, Calif. She was an avid tennis player and golfer.

She supported the local arts including the Lincoln Theater and Napa Valley Opera House.

Survivors include a niece, Annette Briscoe, and nephew, Doug Briscoe, Sparks, Nev. She was preceded in death by her parents and sister, Shirley Briscoe.

A celebration of life for Jeanette is planned for friends and family.

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Can God hear you now?

You have probably read the book (Exodus) or watched the movie. God’s people were slaves to Pharaoh’s people. This injustice goes on for a long time.

Exodus 1:14 says their lives were bitter from the burdens and hardship imposed on them by Egyptian overlords. Then God delivers.

I have found myself in bitter situations. You have probably found yourself in bitter situations. There seems to be no way out. We seem powerless to change things, and possibly are powerless. What can we do when life is like that?

Strangely, it seems Israelis simply went about their bitter lives. They were being worked to death. Their babies were being murdered. And, as far as we are shown in Exodus, they accepted their lot in life.

There were a few isolated efforts at changing the situation, such as Egyptian midwives refusing to drown Hebrew babies. Yet, there seems to be a general view that this injustice was the new normal for a very long time. * * * After a long time the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their slavery, and cried out. Out of the slavery their cry for help rose up to God. God heard their groaning. Exodus 2:23-24a NRSV * * * Something happened in Egypt. Leadership changed. Something happened in Israel. They cried out. Maybe Israel had hoped a new Pharaoh would

stop construction or remember Joseph (see Exodus 1:8). When change did not happen in Egypt, Israel changed. Israel realized finally that deliverance was not coming from Pharaoh or any other human hand.

After the verses above, Exodus starts moving quickly. Moses attempts to be the deliverer, but only ends up a murderer like Pharaoh. Running for his life, Moses ends up in a far off land where he eventually realizes that deliverance will not come by human hands.

Moses pushes back at the call of God on his life because he misunderstands what God calls him to do.

Moses thinks God is sending him to Pharaoh man-onman. Only when Moses realizes that God is sending him to Pharaoh God-on-man does he go to Egypt.

So, back to the earlier question: what can we do when life gets bitter and we are not seeing change?

The answer from Exodus is cry out to God. Nothing changed until God heard Israel cry out.

Lent is a season to cry out. Many of us may be giving up some things for Lent. That will help us realize that life is about more than these things that pass through our hands. Beyond simply denying ourselves, though, Lent is for dedicating ourselves new to God. Make sure that part of your Lenten discipline is giving up more time to God. When he hears from us, God moves beyond our attempts at changing life by our hands and God gets his hands dirty to deliver.

Pastor John Lewis First United Methodist Church, Scott City

Scott City Assembly of God

Prairie View Church of the Brethren

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

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

Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.

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

Pence Community Church

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

Worship every Sunday, 10:15 a.m.

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

Community Christian Church

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

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

12th & Jackson • Scott City • 872-3219 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.

First Christian Church

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

120 S. Lovers Lane - Shallow Water Bill Geurin, pastor • 874-8395 Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

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

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

Website: www.fccscottcity.org

Elizabeth/Epperson Drives • Scott City • 872-3666

Scott Mennonite Church

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

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

Sunday Evening Service: 7:00 p.m.

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

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.

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Anti-diabetes plan progressing in state legislature Andy Marso Kansas News Service

When the Kansas Senate comes back after this week’s midsession break, it may consider legislation to form a comprehensive state plan to fight diabetes.

House Bill 2219 would instruct the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to conduct an analysis of state costs from diabetes, identify best practices to prevent and control the condition, and develop a budget to implement those practices.

It also would require

the agency to report on the plan’s progress every two years.

Just before the break the House voted 117-7 to pass the bill, which is one of the main legislative priorities for the American Diabetes Association (ADA). Four other states passed similar plans in 2016.

Diabetes affects almost 13 percent of the adult population in Kansas and leads to about $2 billion in health care costs annually.

The association’s numbers include an estimated 69,000 Kansans who have undiagnosed diabetes.

Give children the chance to be kids by the American Counseling Association

It seems obvious that, “Children are not little adults.” But we often forget that simple truism in interacting with our children, resulting in unnecessary frustration for both us and them.

The world appears very differently to children than it does to adults. Children do, in fact, exist in their “own little worlds.” They usually can’t react to life the way adults do simply because they haven’t yet had the life experiences we’ve had.

The following examples of adult expectations illustrate how far apart we and our children often are in how we view the world: “Don’t be so messy!” A messy house might embarrass Mom, but not her kids. An adult with muddy slacks might constantly apologize for his appearance; your son with muddy jeans only wants to tell you how it happened stealing second base.

“Realize how busy I am and what pressure I’m under!” Young people aren’t yet experiencing stress and time pressure. What they hear you saying is that they’re only allowed to have feelings or need help when it’s convenient for you, when the outside world isn’t more important.

“Be aware of how dangerous the world is!”

While we want our kids to be safe, instilling unreal fears or passing on our own anxieties doesn’t make that happen. We may be unintentionally making the world feel unsafe and scary.

“There’s so much to do and so little time!”

Young people don’t fill their days with 101 things to do. They usually don’t have the urgent commitments adults face.

They gauge time by whether it’s light or dark, or when they have slept and woken up. Children like wearing watches because the watch is “cool,” not because they care what time it is.

There’s a real benefit in remembering that children are really just children, not smaller adults, and in letting them enjoy that childhood. We shouldn’t expect them to live up to our dreams, understand our problems, or want to spend “quality time” with adults rather than hanging out with friends.

As adults, we sometimes have to impose rules and actions that our children simply don’t understand or relate to (like cleaning up that room before it’s a health issue).

But realizing why they don’t understand, even though they may be doing what is asked, can avoid needless fights and frustration for both parent and child.

about one-third of states education or infrastruc-

Diabetes affects almost 13 percent of the adult have them now. ture and so forth,” Smith population in Kansas and leads to about $2 billion “It has opened the eyes said. in health care costs annually.

Numbers from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that include only those with diagnosed diabetes ranked Kansas at 21st highest in the country, at 9.5 percent.

People with diabetes are unable to produce or properly use insulin, a hormone that turns food into energy.

There are two main forms: Type 1 diabetes, previously known as juvenile diabetes, and Type

2 diabetes, the most common kind. Common complications of diabetes include heart and blood vessel disease, kidney damage, blindness and nerve damage.

Larry Smith is president of the National Diabetes Volunteer Leadership Council, a Kentucky-based nonprofit that testified for the Kansas bill. He said Kentucky was the first state to enact a diabetes action plan and

of the legislature and the government that there is a problem and it’s a big drain on their budget,” said Smith, whose daughter has Type 1 diabetes.

Smith said the push to fight diabetes in Kentucky began with Republican Gov. Ernie Fletcher, a physician who led the state from 2003-07.

“He realized the cost that diabetes put on the state budget was substantial and held them back on a number of things they wanted to do in terms of

A similar bill died in the Kansas House in 2015. But Rep. Susan Concannon (R-Beloit), who brought this year’s bill, said the current version was voted through in part due to testimony from Rep. Blaine Finch (R-Ottawa), and from his teenage daughter who has diabetes.

“It was a little more meaningful for us this year to have one of our colleagues make it more personal,” Concannon said.

Immigrant travel ban impacts rural physician recruitment 15,000 docs from nations named in Trump ban Andy Marso Kansas News Service

Dr. Saeedeh Salmanzadeh became a U.S. citizen at a naturalization ceremony in October 2015.

When the presiding official asked if any of the new citizens wanted to speak, she was one of the first to raise her hand.

By then Salmanzadeh

had spent 15 years in America, after leaving her home in Iran where she was a doctor.

She had spent two years with no pay, studying for exams so she could practice in the United States.

She had spent three years practicing alongside her husband - also an immigrant from Iran in Aberdeen, S.D., where they were the only pediatricians in a town of about 27,000 people.

She had spent a decade practicing in Topeka expanding her patient list, buying a house and putting down roots.

At the naturalization ceremony, Salmanzadeh made the last step in that process, taking an oath to support and defend the laws and Constitution of the United States of America. Afterward she had a few things she wanted to say.

“I just thank(ed) all the American people, all the people who knew me and accepted me as I am,” Salmanzadeh said recently, sitting in a Topeka coffee shop and reliving the moment. “Most of the people after knowing me, they really didn’t care if I am atheist or Muslim

or Christian. They look at me as a human being, and this is something that makes the United States very unique.”

But she fears that might be changing.

An executive order signed Jan. 27 by President Donald Trump barred travelers from her home nation and six other majority Muslim countries because of concerns about terrorism.

The travel ban has since been blocked by a federal judge, but the Trump administration is fighting to restore it or (See PHYSICIAN on page 15)

Kansas nursing home a model for cutting sedation for dementia Andy Marso Kansas News Service

Kansas continues to rank among the worst states when it comes to sedating nursing home residents with powerful antipsychotic drugs.

Janell Wohler and Kate Rieth of the Linn Community Nursing Home told their colleagues this week that it doesn’t have to be that way.

Wohler is the administrator and Rieth is the director of nursing at the facility, which has elimi-

nated off-label use of antipsychotics for residents over the last five years.

Rieth said it’s a matter of educating staff to look for the underlying reasons behind residents’ non-compliant behavior and addressing those, rather than reaching for a phone to call a doctor who can prescribe a “chemical restraint.”

“Doctors are fixers,” Rieth said. “And how do they fix things? With medicine.”

(See DEMENTIA on page 15)

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Officials to decide whether to require 3 MMR shots Study is in response to outbreak of mumps Federal health officials are convening to discuss whether Americans should have three vaccines for the mumps instead of two.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ deliberation is expected to take a full year and is in response to the large number of mumps outbreaks in the

U.S. in recent years - most notably in 2016, when there were more than 5,000 cases, This trend appears to be continuing into 2017, and it’s occurring not in communities with pockets of low-vaccination rates, but instead in areas where vaccine coverage is robust.

ACIP liaison member Patsy Stinchfield, who represents the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, said the workgroup of experts would dive deeper into the mumps situation, “given we have had significant

Physician implement a new version.

The abruptness of the ban caused havoc at the nation’s airports as some people who were en route to the United States or had landed were told they could not enter.

Many industries were affected, including an American medical system that relies increasingly on foreign labor. Health centers nationwide, including some in Kansas and Missouri, have long rolled out the welcome mat for foreign doctors. Rural areas in particular have benefited from a special “J-1 visa waiver” program for immigrant doctors who agree to work in underserved areas.

T h a t ’s what Salmanzadeh did. But others like her are now caught in the middle as a flashpoint debate over national security intersects with a more longrunning discussion about how the U.S. fills its doctor shortage.

“If they want to continue (the ban) I am sure the places like Aberdeen,

But Rieth and Wohler said that when it comes to antipsychotics, the fix can do more harm than good, with side effects that include increased risk of infections, blood clots, stroke and death.

The two led a presentation on “Antipsychotic Reduction in Action” at a conference of Kansas nursing home administrators in Manhattan.

In addition to meeting basic needs like hunger and thirst, they said their facility focuses on keeping residents with dementia busy with activities, including a “Music and Memory” program.

Their message was well-timed, as new research shows that progress on reducing antipsychotic use has stalled in Kansas and the state is slipping behind others.

Antipsychotic medications are commonly used to treat mental illness, but they’re not approved for treating dementia.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a “black box” warning outlining the significant side effects the medications can have if used improperly.

The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched an ini-

Three Colby High School students have been confirmed with cases of mumps.

Thomas County Health Department administrator Emily Strange says her department and the

Kansas Department of Health and Environment are working to find where the students contracted the illness.

Outbreaks of mumps, a contagious disease caused by a virus, are ongoing in

Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas.

In Kansas, five cases were reported in Crawford County earlier in February.

A possible case was also reported more recently at Great Bend High School.

cases of mumps in 2006, 2010 and now again in 2016.”

These virus outbreaks could be a sign that the current two-shot schedule, which is given in combination with vaccines for measles and

rubella between the ages of 12 and 15 months and then when children are between 4-6 years old, may not be strong enough to prevent an infection.

Two doses of the MMR shot protects against mumps 88 percent of the

time, while one shot is 78 percent effective. In contrast, two doses of the vaccine protects against measles 97 percent of the time, and just one shot is 97 percent effective against rubella.

“At present, mumps

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South Dakota, or very underserved area(s) . . . they are going to be affected most,” Salmanzadeh said.

The Numbers According to the Migration Policy Institute, immigrants accounted for 27 percent of U.S. physicians and surgeons in 2010. The Medicus Firm, a company that recruits doctors on behalf of clients like hospitals, says that includes more than 15,000 doctors from the seven countries named in the ban: Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Libya.

The majority of them come from Iran. Some, like Salmanzadeh, left amid growing unrest that included student protests in 1999 and a government crackdown that followed.

Salmanzadeh said that at her house in Topeka the travel ban led to a series of frantic phone calls with family members back in Iran who wondered whether they would be able to see each other.

Dementia

3 cases confirmed at Colby High School

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tiative to reduce their use in nursing homes in 2011, when nearly 24 percent of long-stay nursing home residents nationwide were on the drugs.

At the time, Kansas ranked 41st with 26.1 percent of nursing home residents receiving antipsychotics. By the end of 2016 Kansas had reduced that rate to 20.3 percent, but now ranks 50th, ahead of only Oklahoma.

“Have we had some reduction? Yes,” said Mitzi McFatrich, executive director of Kansas Advocates for Better Care, a group that works on behalf of nursing home residents. “But in comparison to what other states have done, pretty much none.”

McFatrich said her organization continues to get reports of improper use of antipsychotics to sedate residents who may be uncooperative but aren’t mentally ill.

She said the reports sometimes come from doctors who are asked to write the antipsychotic prescriptions.

The solution in these situations, McFatrich said, is more staffing and better training, not medications.

“We try to give them some reassurance that now we are citizens (and) hopefully . . . nothing is going to happen,” Salmanzadeh said. “But this is (the) kind of anxiety this law had on every family and these are normal families (that) had nothing to do with terrorists.”

Salmanzadeh is one of six physicians from countries named in the ban who are employed by Topeka-based Stormont Vail Health. A statement from the company said its physician support services division was in touch with an immigration lawyer to make sure those who are on work visas are able to stay.

“We want to support them in any way we can during this unsettling time,” said Dr. Robert Kenagy, senior vice president and chief medical officer.

Stormont Vail isn’t the only health system in the region affected.

Nathan Miller, a senior vice president of recruit-

ing for Medicus, said the company’s data show that 269 doctors from the seven countries named in the ban are practicing in Kansas and Missouri.

They’re doing everything from primary care to heart surgery, and Miller said they’re generally the cream of the crop from their home countries.

“These are the top performers,” he said.

The doctors from the seven countries named in the travel ban represent only about one percent of the approximately 25,700 physicians in the two states.

But Miller, like Salmanzadeh, said they’re disproportionately working in rural areas.

“We rely on these international physicians to provide this type of care,” Miller said. “Some of these places, if these physicians weren’t available, they would be in even more dire straits than they are now based on the shortage they’re dealing with.”

does not come as a single antigen vaccine and is available only as combined MMR vaccine so deliberating a third dose would also need to consider extra doses of measles and rubella,” said Stinchfield, who is Senior Director of Infection Prevention at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota.

Some of the questions the advisory group will consider include why the outbreaks only seem to be occurring among teens and young adults, but not older adults.

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Sports battling for bronze

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Jurgens, Hayes 3rd in 4A state; McDaniel 4th Jon Lippelmann isn’t accustomed to leaving a state wrestling tournament without at least one wrestler wearing a gold medal around their neck.

The Scott Community High School head coach wasn’t expecting it to be any different this year, even with the move up to Class 4A. However, a pair of unexpected losses in Saturday’s action - one in the quarter-finals and the other in the semi-finals - erased any hopes the Beavers had of bringing home an individual state title from Salina.

While disappointed in not having a state champion, it still turned out to be a very good weekend for SCHS who earned a pair of bronze medals and a fourth place medal while finishing seventh as a team.

Jarret Jurgens (152) bounced back from a tough loss in the semi-finals to earn a third place finish while Wyatt Hayes (160) took a little longer path to his bronze medal after a close loss in the quarter-finals.

Justus McDaniel (113) added a fourth place medal while Kaden Wren (126) was unable to compete on Saturday following an injury during his quarter-finals loss.

“Friday was really tough for our kids. We had some high expectations,” (See BRONZE on page 19)

Scott City sophomore Wyatt Hayes throws Jackson Stafford (Independence) to his back for a first period fall during a consolation round match at the Class 4A state tournament in Salina.

(Record Photo)

Beavers survive shaky start in sub-state opener It’s always good to know that you can win with your leading scorer on the bench in foul trouble.

Scott City head coach Brian Gentry is hoping his team won’t have to duplicate that effort on Saturday.

A strong supporting cast of Beavers erased an early six point deficit and pulled away for a 58-47 win over Goodland in the opening round of Class 4A-DII sub-state action on the home floor Thursday.

It started out pretty ugly for the Beavers who missed their first 10 shots from the field which allowed the Cowboys to grab an 8-2 lead.

“I’m sure nerves had something to do with it,” says head coach Brian Gentry. “But give them credit. They had eight days to prepare and they threw

three different defenses at us.

What was impressive is that they jumped from one to another without a hiccup.”

The Beavers didn’t score their first field goal until Drew Duff, who scored a team high 14 points, drained a three-pointer with just 1:05 remaining in the opening period. He followed with a three-point play that tied the game at 8-8.

“Drew was a catalyst for us when we needed someone to step up,” says Gentry. “He hit a couple of big shots.”

With Bo Hess on the bench for the final 6-1/2 minutes of the first half with foul trouble, SCHS pushed its lead to 10 points, 30-20.

Junior guard Jordan Horn kept the momentum rolling early in the second period when he scored seven of Scott City’s

Scott City’s Bo Hess scoops up a loose ball after it gets knocked away from a Goodland player by teammate Marshall Faurot during second half action on Thursday night.

first nine points. He gave the Beavers their first lead of the night, 13-11, with 6:20 to play.

Goodland cut the deficit to 34-30 with 3:43 left in the

third period before SCHS put together a 12-0 run for a 45-30 cushion. Their biggest lead of the night was 50-31.

Horn finished with 11 points

and Kyle Cure scored a season high 10 points.

The Beavers face Holcomb for the sub-state title Saturday with tipoff at 7:30 p.m.

SCHS taking 36 to state powerlifting

SCHS senior Cami Patton, who placed third at the Class 3A state championships last year, will be among lifters competing in the Class 4A championships on Saturday.

A year ago, Scott City could have packed its state powerlifting team into a Suburban.

Not this year.

Thirty-six athletes have signed up for the Class 4A State Powerlifting Championships that will be held at Clay Center on Saturday.

If not for the sub-state basketball tournament being held on the same day there would have been another four or five lifters.

The Lady Beavers were third in the Class 3A competition last year with just seven participants. While they will be taking 19 lifters to this year’s championship, it remains to be seen what success they will enjoy at the higher classification.

“I don’t know what to expect since there’s no competition during the season that we can measure ourselves against,”

says coach Todd Richardson.

“And we have no idea what to expect from teams in eastern Kansas.”

In addition, the only returning girls from last year’s state squad are Tyler Vondracek and Olivia Prieto, who each finished second in their weight divisions, along with third place finisher Cami Patton.

“I have several girls who are competing for the first time who have a chance of doing pretty well,” says Richardson.

With their higher numbers, the Lady Beavers will have at least one lifter in every weight division but the heavyweight class, which will add to their chances of scoring team points.

After taking only two boys to state last year, the Beavers will have 17 competing on Saturday.

Sophomore Kyle Sherwood is (See STATE on page 18)

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Buyers, sellers come together ‘fur’ love of trapping In the early 1970s, in response to the need for an organization representing trappers here in Kansas, the Kansas Fur Harvesters was born.

For the past 20 years they have sponsored annual fur auctions to help Kansas trappers market their fur from the wild.

I recently attended this year’s action in Abilene.

Fifteen-year-old Caitlin

Outdoors in Kansas

by Steve Gilliland

Cramer from Longford came with her dad, Vance, to help market the fur the two of them caught this year. Caitlin has two siblings and Vance says he took all three with him on his trap line when they

were still so little they had to be carried.

Caitlin has followed her dad around trapping since she was about eightyears-old and continues to go with him because she loves being outdoors and loves helping him trap.

Caitlin, who also turkey hunts each spring, trapped muskrats on her own for the first time this year and caught 21, which

NFWF grant to benefit lesser prairie chickens PRATT - The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) has awarded a $197,309 grant to the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA) to restore lesser prairie chicken habitat.

“Restoration work is key to the long-term survival of the bird and this grant will contribute to the combined efforts to keep the bird off the endangered species list,” said Alexa Sandoval, director of the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish and chairman of the Lesser Prairie Chicken Initiative Council.

The bird was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 2014, but was de-listed in 2016 after a federal judge ruled on a lawsuit and vacated the listing. The judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service did not thoroughly consider active conservation efforts in making the listing decision, namely the activities associated with WAFWA’s Lesser Prairie Chicken Rangewide Plan.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is currently reviewing the status of the lesser prairie chicken across its fivestate range to determine whether it should be listed again.

The NFWF grant will fund restoration work on up to 1,000 acres of private land that will connect

she had with her to sell at the auction.

Years ago, there were fur buyers in most communities and a trapper’s annual harvest of pelts could usually be sold with just a short drive. Today, with decreased interest in trapping and much lower prices paid for fur, a two to three hour drive is common to reach the nearest fur buyer.

This year’s auction attracted 10 fur buyers from all across Kansas, allowing trappers to present their harvest to multiple buyers at the same time in one place and fostering competition for their pelts.

Trappers put their furs together in groups of 10-12 called “lots,” sorting them so that species are grouped together.

Then each lot is given a number.

The lots are displayed on a table and an auctioneer takes bids from the group of buyers until that lot is sold. Buyers look at the size of the pelts, the quality of the fur and in some species, the color.

For example, lighter colored gray and silver coyotes are usually the (See TRAPPING on page 23)

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KDWPT Report larger fragmented pieces of prairie chicken habitat.

Good habitat must be contiguous to benefit lesser prairie chickens.

“The rangewide plan calls for us to focus our efforts as strategically as possible,” said Bill Van Pelt, WAFWA Grassland Coordinator. “By connecting good bird habitat, more acreage will be available for the birds to thrive.”

The rangewide plan is a collaborative effort of WAFWA and the state wildlife agencies of Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. It was developed to ensure conservation of the lesser prairie chicken by providing a mechanism for voluntary cooperation by landowners and industry, and improving coordination between state and federal conservation agencies.

Funding for WAFWA’s conservation efforts comes from voluntary mitigation payments by industry partners that are enrolled in the plan, along with grants from partners like NFWF. The plan allows agriculture producers and industry to continue operations while reducing impacts to the bird and its grassland habitat.

Three members of the Scott City Takedown Wrestling Club brought home hardware from the Kansas Elementary Championships held last weekend in Salina. Trenton Frank (left) finished third in the 55-pound division and has qualified for the Elementary Dual Nationals to be held at Council Bluffs, Ia., on April 14-15. In the six-years and under state championships, Noah Wheeler (center) was fifth in the 45-pound class and Kasey Rohrbough was third in the 58-pound class.

(Record Photo)

State the only lifter with state experience.

SCHS will have participants in eight of the 13 weight classes.

“We’re going to be pretty young, but this should be good preparation for next year,” Richardson says. “Competing at 4A will be an eye-opening experience.”

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Excitement Building Richardson says that participating in last year’s state tournament generated a lot of excitement among the lifters that carried over into summer weights and the following school year.

“I have a lot of kids who have really bought into the program,” he says. “I’ve got some kids

who are lifting three times a day. They come in and lift on their own before school, I have them in class and they took part in winter weights after school.”

The strength coach says he’s had 15-20 lifters who come into the room on Saturdays and Sundays and he averaged 30 or

more participants in winter weights on Mondays and Wednesdays.

The chance to compete at the state championship, he says, is a reward.

“I select the kids who will compete at state,” he says. “It’s not just based on their strength, but their work ethic in class throughout the year.”

Bronze says Lippelmann. “But we came back (Saturday) and wrestled like Scott City which made me proud. They knew it wasn’t the goal they had in mind when they came here, but they made the best of a tough situation.

Jurgens (33-2) was Scott City’s only returning state medalist from last season and the No. 3 ranked wrestler in the state figured to have a very good chance at earning a berth in Saturday’s championship match.

Those hopes ended in the semi-finals where he lost his only match of the weekend to Pratt’s Nick Lucas (37-3) by a 5-1 decision. Both wrestlers decided this match on their feet with Lucas effectively countering Jurgens’ attacks to earn a pair of takedowns.

“I was able to get underneath with both of my shots.

His defense from there was outstanding,” says the SCHS junior.

After giving up the initial takedown, Jurgens was able to escape. He was still facing a 2-1 deficit after being unable to score from the down position in the second period. Lucas quickly increased his lead with an escape early in the third period to take a 3-1 lead.

“I still wasn’t worried because there was plenty of time,” notes Jurgens.

With less than 30 seconds remaining, Jurgens was again able to set up a takedown and, just as he did in the opening period, appeared to be in deep enough to finish it off and score.

“He countered the same way and I went straight down. Once he got around and was able to get the takedown I knew it was over,” he says.

With expectations of competing for a gold medal, Jurgens admits it took awhile to regroup.

“Usually, after a loss, I don’t get that emotional, but I was feeling pretty sorry for myself. It took awhile for me to get back into the mindset I needed for Saturday,” says Jurgens. “Things felt a little better (Saturday) morning and

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I made up my mind that I was going to take third.”

He cruised into the consolation finals with a 16-1 technical fall over Peyton Lane (Clay Center) and in bronze medal match he was a 5-0 winner over Zarek Fewell (Fort Scott).

Hayes Finishes Strong A takedown that the Scott City coaching staff felt should have been awarded, but wasn’t, turned out to be a huge factor in a quarter-final round loss by Hayes.

The SCHS sophomore, ranked No. 3 in state, was facing No. 2 ranked Brandon Miekus (36-2) and trailing 2-1 when the Scott City grappler got a takedown on the edge of the mat in front of the Beaver coaches. “(Wyatt’s) feet were in. I was waiting for him to get the points,” says Lippelmann.

The takedown points never came and the official instead ruled moments later that the wrestlers were out of bounds.

Miekus added two more takedowns in the match - the last one coming with only :24 remaining - to get the win and eventually advance into the finals where he finished second.

Hayes (34-3) barely broke a sweat during his first two matches in the consolation bracket on Saturday, pinning both opponents in less than a minute.

His toughest match of the day came in the consolation semi-finals where he faced Trey Isenhower (LaCygne-Prairie View), the No. 6 ranked wrestler in state. Hayes held a 3-0 lead until giving up a second period takedown with only :04 remaining. Isenhower tied the match, 3-3, with a third period escape.

Hayes was finally able to regain the lead and earn the win on a takedown with :48 left in the match.

The Beaver closed out his state tournament with an impressive 8-0 major decision over Zach Porter (Columbus), who was the No. 4 ranked

Jarret Jurgens elevates the leg of Clay Center’s Peyton Lane while getting a takedown during Saturday’s action at the Class 4A state wrestling tournament.

(Record Photo)

wrestler. Hayes scored with a first period takedown and put the match away with a pair of three-point near-falls in the second period.

McDaniel Claims 4th Competing in his first state tournament, McDaniel also worked his way through the consolation bracket on Saturday for a fourth place finish.

His first loss of the weekend came in the championship quarterfinals by a 15-0 technical fall to Clearwater’s Darryl Rylant, the 106-pound champion last season. The freshman won his first three matches on Saturday, which put him into the consolation finals against Adam Whitson (Buhler).

McDaniel had to come from behind in the third period to earn a decision over Whitson in the regional finals a week earlier. This time he gained the early advantage with a first period takedown and he rode Whitson the entire second period to maintain his 2-0 lead.

To begin the third period,

McDaniel chose to remain in the top position and was in control for more than a minute. However, Whitson was finally able to work loose from McDaniel’s tight waist and in a matter of moments he was not only able to get a reversal, but put McDaniel to his back for a fall with just :40 remaining in the match.

“I lost the tight waist so I had to reach up and grab in order to maintain control. I could tell I was in some trouble,” said McDaniel. “I tried to grab a foot, but it slipped away and he was able to come out from under me.”

Lippelmann said he was pleased with the success that McDaniel had riding Whitson for most of two periods with the tight waist and shoulder pressure.

“Would I have chosen top?

No, but it’s not my match,” said Lippelmann. “I would have taken my chances form my feet.

Worst case scenario, we give up a takedown and it only takes an escape to get the lead back.

I guess that’s my old style of thinking.

“But, as a freshman, he had a really good weekend. I’m looking for big things from him over the next three years and I know he is, too.”

The only other state qualifier from SCHS was freshman Kaden Wren who saw his weekend cut short by a shoulder injury that forced him to injury default on Saturday.

The shoulder had been a concern through most of the season, but became an issue at the Rocky Welton Invitational when he had to injury default from the third place match.

After that, it was just a matter of trying to make it through the end of the season.

After skipping the league tournament, the shoulder was aggravated again at regional and reinjured during the quarter-finals on Friday. Wren had pinned his first round opponent before ending his tournament with a technical fall loss to eventual state champion Tanner Hitchcock (Bonner Springs).

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Rumford, Ruelas first in K of C FT competition

SC grapplers make smooth transition back to 4A state With barely more than three wrestlers, Scott Community High School did remarkably well in its first return to the Class 4A State Championships since 2014.

Had freshman Kaden Wren not been sidelined with a shoulder injury, SCHS likely would have had a fourth medalist and climbed into fifth place . . . which makes you wonder just how good could this team be with a little depth.

Head coach Jon Lippelmann came away from the weekend much more pleased than three years ago when the Beavers had a lone medalist.

Pleased . . . but never completely satisfied.

Lippelmann can tolerate a few mistakes - very few - but one thing that the head coach hates to see is wrestlers who become too defensive.

“You have to be aggressive and always looking to score. If you don’t have enough offense kids are going to get past you,” he says.

The head coach felt that may have cost the Beavers a couple of losses in the quarter-final round on Friday.

“I think our young kids changed their style in the middle. I think they got away from what got them here and became too defensive which cost us. That’s the number one thing I would like them to correct before we come back here next year,” he says.

“Do you feel like you shot the same takedown that you would have shot any other time during the season or did you hold back because it was a big moment?

Those are the things you have to overcome and I thought our kids did a much better job of not holding back on Saturday.”

Another point of emphasis is giving up takedowns, escapes or reversals as the clock is winding down.

“I hate to see us giving up points at the end of a period. I see that happening too often,” he says. “I’m always looking to keep the pressure on offensively at all times, but you also have to be wise enough to know where the clock is, where you are and how not to give up points in the final 10 seconds.”

Showing Character After some tough losses on Friday, Lippelmann said he felt like “Dr. Depression.”

“We had to readjust our goals from what we had in mind when we showed up here. I had to visit with them about that,” he says.

“Life is going to kick you down once in awhile and you have to figure out how you’re going to respond.

You have to learn how to shrug off disappointment because we don’t have much time to gather ourselves and get back on the mat again.

“We came back and wrestled like Scott City which made me proud. We wrestled some more big names the second day, saw some things we hadn’t seen before, and I felt we did pretty well.”

Eastern Kansas Power While Colby won the 2016 Class 4A title, there’s been an unmistakable shift of power to eastern Kansas programs over the last decade.

Depending on where you draw the line between east and west, Scott City (7th, 60) and Colby (10th, 55.5) were the only teams west of US183 to finish in the top 10.

There’s little doubt that higher enrollment is a huge advantage since there is no Division I and Division II breakdown in wrestling. But the ability of eastern Kansas wrestlers to get on the mat throughout the year is perhaps the driving force behind the rise of schools in the east.

“The size of a school and the number of athletes they have hasn’t kept us from being able to compete with them,” says Lippelmann. “But, I do believe we’re seeing the impact of the metro wrestling academies, the amount of clinics they can attend and the exposure to wrestling that these kids have.

“That requires us to be mentally tough in order to know how to beat kids with

Lyndi Rumford, Scott City, won the 14-year-old division in the regional Knights of Columbus free throw shooting contest and has qualified for state competition.

Eloy Ruelas tied for first place in the nine-year-old division, but settled for second place in a shoot-off.

Josh Rosin placed third in 13-year-old division.

SCHS track meeting Monday There will be a meeting of parents who have athletes competing on the Scott Community High School track team on Mon., March 6, 6:30 p.m., in the high school commons area.

this type of wrestling background and understanding what it takes to be successful in these situations.”

He says it’s a big bonus when wrestlers can compete in 50 matches during their high school season and another 40 matches or more during the spring or summer. And they may not have to travel more than 100 miles from home to get that kind of experience.

“During a good year we get 40 or 45 matches during the regular season and, in the event we get matches snowed out like we did this year, we might end up with only about 25,” he says. “If you want to get in another 10 or 20 matches during the spring, you might have to drive 200 or 250 miles. That makes it a lot more difficult for our kids.”

While there may be limits to how much experience his kids can get on the mat, Lippelmann remains hopeful that he can draw more participation in his program.

“I would love to get 30-35 kids in the practice room. We could do some pretty terrific things if we could put two or three boys into every weight class which would also allow us to have different practice partners,” he says.

Then again, that’s not a new issue either.

“I’ve had about 40 years of trying to build up our numbers. I’m always open to suggestions,” he adds.

Conference tourney means little to KU It’s been well-publicized that KU’s basketball team has won the Big 12 championship 13 years in a row, tying UCLA’s national record of consecutive conference titles.

The Big 12 by postseason tourMac nament is next, Stevenson which will mean very little to the Jayhawks.

Kansas has already qualified for a number-one or two seed in the NCAA Midwest Regional Tournament.

The most encouraging change for Coach Bill Self has been the play of reserve pivot players Carlton Bragg (6-10, 240) and Dwight Coleby (69, 240). Bragg had 15 points in the win against TCU and Coleby was impressive with 12 points against Texas last Saturday.

Bragg, however, reverted to his unimpressive self against Texas, while Coleby was exceptional. The added depth these two can bring changes KU’s outlook for success at the Big Dance. Self can play Bragg at the same time with centers Landen Lucas or Coleby. That relieves some of the stress from Lucas and it also gives Self a chance to rest his

perimeter players.

After the Texas game, Self said about Coleby’s play, “I thought he was as good as anybody we had today in the time that he got . . . terrific. He looks a lot more athletic than he did two months ago. Hopefully we’re gonna see that player moving forward.”

Self can give Bragg and Coleby significant playing time in the remaining regularseason games, giving them a chance to become more confident and comfortable in playing key roles for the Jayhawks.

It’s expected that Kansas will be the number-one seed in the Midwest Regional and Wichita State and KU could be in the same sub regional in Tulsa. If speculation holds, both teams could advance to the regional championship game in Kansas City.

Wichita tied for first in the Missouri Valley Conference with a 17-1 record (27-4 overall); the Shockers are peaking at the right time. Wichita State is a hard team to evaluate because of their soft schedule, but Coach Gregg Marshall’s team appears to be talented enough to be a challenge for any foe.

Shooting guard Conner Frankamp jumped ship at KU because of a lack of playing time and he’s been playing superb basketball for the Shockers; imagine how much it would mean to Frankamp to play a key role in ending KU’s season in Tulsa. That matchup may never come, but it could.

League Tourney is Next KU wraps up the regular season at Oklahoma State on Saturday and will play in the Big 12 Tournament on March 9-11 unless the Jayhawks lose one of the first two tournament games.

These postseason tournaments are dangerous because it’s so easy to pick up injuries when teams are playing three days in a row. Kansas has a chance to do well in the NCAA Tournament if they don’t lose any key players with the ridiculous Big 12 Tournament.

Good Riddance to Walton The administrators of the Extra Stupid Planning Network (ESPN) are making a mess of their sports programming. ESPN has been the leading sports network for some time, but that could change.

A perfect example is having Bill Walton as one of their leading college basketball announcers. He had the KU-Texas game last Saturday and did all he could to ruin the game for viewers.

Despite being an unwelcome intrusion, ESPN frequently went to a split screen while play was in progress - to show Walton in various poses that were supposed to be comical. It wasn’t funny.

The game was hard to follow and the various views of Walton were imbecilic, not amusing.

Walton didn’t spend much time describing play on the court. He was too busy trying to impress viewers as to how very smart he is. What an unjustified ego.

Dick Vitale finally has a competitor for being the mostabrasive and unentertaining sports announcer on any TV network. Both boors detract from the enjoyment of the games they broadcast.

But here’s some great news: neither Walton nor Vitale will be doing any of the NCAA Tournament games. That’s as good as it gets.

Crouch 4th in KSU team roping MariKate Crouch and Lane Minihan qualified for the team roping championship round in college rodeo action hosted by the Kansas State Rodeo Club on Feb. 17-19.

Representing the Fort Hays State University rodeo team, the pair finished fourth among 60 teams in the competition.

FHSU will travel to Fort Scott on March 3-5.

Hunter ed class at GC March 11 A hunter’s education class will be held at Garden City Community College on Sat., March 11, 9:00 a.m.

The class is organized by the Finney County Game Warden, Angie Reisch and sponsored

by Garden City Community College, and the Garden City Trap Club.

The afternoon session will be from 2:00-5:00 p.m. at the Garden City Trap Club, 4162 N. 3rd Street, (located just north of bypass, highway 400, on 3rd Street). The afternoon session will include a live shoot.

Transportation to the two sessions will be the responsibility of the participant. The class is free and all materials will be provided.

The course covers topics such as safe gun handling, animal identification for Kansas animals, hunting laws and regulations, and wildlife management. Participants must be 11-years-old in order to obtain certification though the class.

To participate in the class a youngster must first register online at safehunters.com, and complete the free Kansas Hunter Education Student Online Certification Course.

Participants must bring the online exam certificate to prove they have completed the course.

For more information contact Angie Reisch (620-770-6218).

Indians nearly shock Meade

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Fourth quarter lead slips away in sub-state opener As the No. 6 seed, Wichita County entered the opening round of the Class 2A sub-state basketball tournament as the underdog.

They didn’t play like underdogs at Wichita Co. 54 Meade on Meade 62 Monday night.

The Indians led 48-44 with only 6:01 remaining, but could score just two more field goals down the stretch in a seasonending 62-54 loss to the Buffaloes.

“It was a game we should have won,” said a disappointed head coach Haydon Parks afterwards.

“If we finish off a few of our shots under the basket and if we do a better job at the free throw line, it’s probably a different outcome.”

Both were major problems throughout the evening for WCHS. In the first half alone, the Indians had three or four opportunities from point blank range that hung on the rim or rimmed in and out. Late in the game, WCHS had drives to the basket that came up empty, prompting Parks at one point to shout in frustration, “Finish it.”

WCHS (6-15) added to their frustration by hitting just 10-of-26 at the charity stripe. Meade, on the other hand, was 21-of-31.

“Even if we hit just 60 percent of our free throws it changes how the game plays out in the fourth quarter,” says Parks. “You can’t afford to let that many scoring opportunities slip away.”

The Indians were at risk of being blown out early in the second half when a three-point basket and a three-point play on consecutive possessions gave Meade its largest lead of the night, 34-27.

Instead, WCHS rallied behind senior guard Jorge Gallegos and freshman center Sonnie Altman who combined to score their team’s next 19 points.

Altman scored six consecutive points during a two minute stretch in the third period that put WCHS back on top, 39-37.

However, the Indians missed an opportunity to make that cushion even greater by missing six consecutive free throws to open the third period and hitting just 4-of-13 at the stripe in the second half.

Altman, who scored 15 of his team high 16 points in the second half, continued to carry the Indians when he accounted for his team’s first eight points in the fourth quarter. His 12-foot baseline jumper with 6:01 left in the game put the Indians back on top, 48-44, matching their largest lead of the second half.

Some costly turnovers and missed scoring

opportunities in the paint allowed Meade to answer with a 13-2 scoring run over the next 4-1/2 minutes.

A steal and layup by Juan Alvarado, who finished with 12 points, cut the deficit to 53-50 with 2:48 to play. But WCHS followed with a pair of missed free throws that could have cut the deficit to a single basket at the 1:57 mark.

Even more devastating was Meade’s ability to come down with a pair of offensive rebounds following missed free throws which allowed them to get back to the charity stripe again when the Indians were forced to foul.

Meade scored seven of their final nine points at the free throw line to pull away over the final 2:45.

“We outplayed them for the most part until we got down the stretch,” says Parks. “We had some mental breakdowns at the end of the first quarter and at the end of the game.

We played well enough to win, but we didn’t finish the way we wanted.

“When you’re in those situations you learn, adapt and grow as a player.

We haven’t been in tight games enough to know how to play with that kind of pressure,” Parks says.

“We have to learn how to be in close games and win them.”

The biggest frustration for Parks was the inability to finish off scoring opportunities in the paint.

“There was contact, but not enough to keep us from scoring. We needed to be stronger in traffic,” he says.

Off to a Quick Start Wichita County couldn’t have asked for a better start to their night, pouncing on the Buffaloes for a 9-0 lead in the game’s first 2-1/2 minutes.

The Indians were successful in pushing the tempo and getting a number of easy baskets behind the Meade defense.

“Jorge did a good job of pushing the ball up the floor and getting penetration. When he didn’t score, he was able to dish off to someone else,” says Parks.

Gallegos finished with 12 points (5-of-12 FG) to go along with six rebounds, five steals and four assists.

After Alvarado’s basket gave WCHS an 11-2 lead, the Buffaloes answered with a 12-2 scoring stretch to close out the first quarter.

Meade opened up a 22-17 advantage early in the second period, but the Indians responded with seven unanswered points that included a three-point play by John Biermann and a fastbreak layup by Alvarado that put WCHS on top, 24-22.

The Buffaloes were able to regain a 28-27 lead with a basket in the clos-

(Above) Wichita County junior John Biermann (right) wrestles with a Meade player for a loose ball during Monday’s sub-state tournament action.

(Right) Jorge Gallegos and Meade’s Preston Woodruff collide while the WCHS senior drives to the basket.

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ing seconds of the half.

While disappointed in not extending their postseason play, Parks felt his team was playing closer to their potential over the final few games.

“I feel it says something about these boys and that they kept fighting back when it looked like Meade had the momen-

tum and had an opportunity to take control of the game,” says the head coach. “They had scoring runs when we could have collapsed, but we didn’t.”

While the team will have some big offensive shoes to fill with the graduation of Alvarado and Gallegos, along with the departure of Kolton

Sheppard and Matthew Schumacher, Parks is optimistic about the future of WCHS basketball.

“Hopefully, what we saw from Sonnie is a sign of things to come over the next three years.

Next year, he should be a double-double guy,” says Parks. “And John (Biermann) has really

come along over the last few games. He could also be a double-double player for us next season.”

Biermann finished with seven points and eight boards against Meade.

“We can be a competitive team in this league if we are willing to work and improve during the off-season.”

SCHS Wrestling Class 4A State Feb. 24-25, 2017 • in Salina Team scores: Abilene 133.5, Bonner Springs 89, Andale 88.5, Clay Center 79, Andover-Central 73, Pratt 65, Scott City 60, Buhler 59.5, Santa Fe Trail 56, Colby 55.5, El Dorado 53.5, Tonganoxie 52, McPherson 51.5 Basehor-Linwood 47.5, Burlington 47, Spring Hill 47, Goodland 40, Clearwater 37.5, Chanute 32.5, Frontenac 32.5, Maize South 31, Paola 31, Columbus 29, Holton 29, Ottawa 28.5, Mulvane 38, Augusta 27, LaCygne-Prairie View 23, Louisburg 22, Lindsborg-Smoky Valley 21, Holcomb 20.5, Winfield 19, Baldwin 18, Ulysses 17, Fort Scott 12, Independence 12, Wamego 12, Rose Hill 11, Wellington 9, Eudora 8.5, Garnett-Anderson Co. 8, Towanda-Circle 7, Concordia 5, Chapman 1, Hays 1, Iola 1 Meriden-Jefferson West 1, SM-Bishop Miege 1, Labette County 0, Atchison 0, Coffeyville-Field Kindley 0, Nickerson 0, Osawatomie 0, Topeka-Hayden 0, WichitaTrinity 0 113: Justus McDaniel pinned Colton Chapman

(Altamont-Labette County), 0:36; tech. fall by Darryl Rylant (Clearwater), 15-0; dec. Christian Davis (Santa Fe Trail), 6-3; pinned Ethan Totty (Burlington), 2:47; tech. fall Christian Hannon (Andover-Central), 15-0; pinned

by Adam Whitson (Buhler), 4:20. Fourth place 126: Kaden Wren pinned Mannie Gonzalez (Fort Scott), 3:40; tech. fall by Tanner Hitchcock (Bonner Springs), 16-1; injury default remaining matches.

152: Jarret Jurgens pinned Nick Haberkorn (Topeka Hayden), 1:49; dec.

Zarek Fewell (Fort Scott), 5-2; dec. by Nick Lucas (Pratt), 5-1; tech. fall Peyton Lane (Clay Center), 16-1; dec. Fewell (Fort Scott), 5-0.

Third place 160: Wyatt Hayes pinned Chris Clark (Towanda-Circle), 2:52; dec. by Brandon Miekus (Frontenac), 6-3; pinned Scott Harman (Baldwin), 0:45; pinned Jackson Stafford (Independence), 0:48; dec. Trey Isenhower (LaCygne-Prairie VIew), 5-3; maj. dec. Zach Porter (Columbus), 8-0. Third place

Takedown Kids Wrestling Kansas Elementary State Championships February 26, 2017 6-Years and Under 45: Noah Wheeler pinned Brayden Wilson (Pittsburg) 2:58; pinned Gabrial Thomason (Chapman) 0:25; maj. dec. Cameron Grubb (Hoisington) 9-0; dec. by Welch Murphy (Elk County) 9-2; dec. by Maddox Delgado (Ulysses) 2-0; pinned Tristan Benedict (Wichita) 1:46.

Fifth Place.

53: Jaxon Fisher dec. by Tyler Mac (Jr. Vikings) 4-2 OT; dec. by Kooper Hamlin (Russell) 6-4.

55: Kirbey Rohrbough maj. dec. by Elijah Torrez (Jr. Indian) 18-9; maj. dec.

Conrad Winter (Tigers) 13-0; pinned by Braxton Hall (Salina) 0:36.

58: Kasey Rohrbough pinned Jake Pitman (Emporia) 0:58; pinned Elijah Bribiesca (Bobcat) 1:19; pinned Gage Epp (Hoxie) 2:24; dec.

by Cort Campbell (Maize) 4-0; maj dec. Giovanni Finley

(Rose Hill) 14-2; dec. Landon Leatherman (Olathe) 2-0 OT. Third Place.

Kansas Elementary Division 55: Trenton Frank pinned Collin Shockley (Southwest Grapplers) 0:39; pinned Xzephren Donner (Russell) 1:13; dec. by Lou Elsten (Sunflower Kids) 7-2; dec.

Daygen Gawith (Abilene) 8-1; dec. Sebastian Bentley (Rose Hill) 2-0. Third Place.

60: Matthew Wheeler pinned Thomas Holcomb (Ogden’s Outlaws) 0:18; dec.

by Koehn Dietrich (Mulvane) 4-0; dec. by Logan Avalon (Greater Gold) 6-1.

75: Brodey Rohrbough pinned by Colson McIntyre (Herington) 0:20; pinned by Delvon Staley (Hard Knox) 0:30.

90: Houston Frank maj. dec. by Connor McMillen (Bobcat) 9-0; tech fall Christian Hanson (Maize) 16-0; dec. by Trey Dillow (Chanute) 3-0.

Scott City Stars Swim Club Western Kansas Swim Club Intrasquad Pilgrim Plunge February 11, 2017 Girl’s Division 50 yd Freestyle 11-12 years: Lana Rodriguez, 2nd, 32.73; Hope Wiechman, 3rd, 33.40.

15-years and over: Hallie Wiechman, 1st, 31.81.

100 yd Freestyle 15-years and over: Hallie Wiechman, 1st, 1:18.37.

500 yd Freestyle 11-12 years: Lana Rodriguez, 1st, 7:28.40.

15-years and over: Hallie Wiechman, 1st, 7:31.23.

50 yd Backstroke 11-12 years: Lana Rodriguez, 1st, 36.82.

100 yd Backstroke 11-12 years: Hope Wiechman, 1st, 1:29.74.

15-years and over: Hallie Wiechman, 1st, 1:28.71.

50 yd Breaststroke 11-12 years: Lana Rodriguez, 2nd, 41.06.

100 yd Breaststroke 11-12 years: Hope Wiechman, 1st, 1:36.47.

50 yd Butterfly 11-12 years: Lana Rodriguez, 3rd, 39.48; Hope Wiechman, 6th, 42.62.

100 yd Butterfly 15-years and over: Hallie Wiechman, 1st, 1:26.12.

200 yd Individual Medley 11-12 years: Hope Wiechman, 1st, 3:18.97.

Boy’s Division 50 yd Freestyle 9-10 years: Alex Rodriguez, 3rd, 36.12.

11-12 years: Brandon Smyth, 2nd, 36.76.

13-14 years: Connor Cupp, 1st, 25.84.

100 yd Freestyle 11-12 years: Brandon Smyth, 2nd, 1:30.74.

500 yd Freestyle 9-10 years: Alex Rodriguez, 2nd, 8:45.14.

50 yd Backstroke 9-10 years: Alex Rodriguez, 2nd, 45.42.

100 yd Backstroke 13-14 years: Connor Cupp, 1st, 1:07.96.

50 yd Breaststroke 9-10 years: Alex Rodriguez, DQ 11-12 years: Brandon Smyth, 1st, 52.83.

100 yd Breaststroke 13-14 years: Connor Cupp, 1st, 1:16.23.

50 yd Butterfly 9-10 years: Alex Rodriguez, 5th, 58.41.

11-12 years: Brandon Smyth, 3rd, 51.02.

100 yd Individual Medley 11-12 years: Brandon Smyth, 3rd 1:46.95.

200 yd Individual Medley 13-14 years: Connor Cupp, 1st, 2:27.57.

Missouri Valley District Championship Meet Feb. 17-19, 2017 • Wichita Girl’s Division 100 yd Breaststroke 11-12 years: Lana Rodriguez, 3rd, 1:25.73.

Boy’s Division 100 yd Freestyle 13-14 years: Connor Cupp, 5th, 56.37.

200 yd Freestyle 10-years and under: Alex Rodriguez, 8th, 3:10.47.

100 yd Backstroke 13-14 years: Connor Cupp, 1st, 1:02.67.

100 yd Breaststroke 13-14 years: Connor Cupp, 2nd, 1:13.74.

100 yd Butterfly 13-14 years: Connor Cupp, 2nd, 1:02.56.

100 yd Individual Medley 10-years and under: Alex Rodriguez, 8th, 1:46.76.

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Trapping most valuable. The wider, whiter and more spotted the belly of a bobcat pelt the more valuable it becomes.

Prices also depend on which fur is in style.

Dave Sterling from Keats was at the auction to sell his 11 beaver pelts.

In 2004, Dave was a gunner in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle in Iraq when a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) came through the side of their vehicle, taking off his right hand and eventually causing him to lose most of his right arm.

Today, Dave wears a prosthetic arm and is affectionately known by his buddies as “Hook.” A few years back Sterling got some traps from his former employer’s son and that year, in his first attempt at trapping, caught 78 raccoons.

Two and a half years ago Sterling got involved with Wounded Warriors United (not affiliated with the Wounded Warrior Project) and began teaching wounded veterans how to trap. Through contributions of equipment from major trap-

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ping supply dealers and money from individuals, Sterling has been able to give traps, equipment and DVDs to several wounded vets he’s helping.

“When veterans get out of the military there is often a big hole when they don’t feel like they belong anymore. Getting guys (and gals) out of the house, off the couch and doing something is huge and can help greatly with the recovery process,” says Sterling.

“As a wounded vet myself, I have different points of view that can help wounded vets with their recovery. It’s as much therapy for me as it is for them.”

The vast majority of fur from Kansas trappers ultimately ends up at huge auctions in Canada.

Even the fur purchased at Saturday’s auction, though it may be resold a few times in the lower 48, will finally end up at one of the large Canadian auctions houses. Where our local auctions attract buyers from all across the state, those auctions

attract buyers from around the world.

China, Russia, Italy and North and South Korea all buy fur there - some because that’s where the big garment manufacturers are that use fur, some because wearing natural fur in their country is a status symbol and others because they know that real natural fur keeps them warmer than anything else.

The prices they are willing to pay are affected by everything from the severity of their country’s winter to the state of their economy. For example, sanctions placed against Russia by the U.S. have dampened Russia’s willingness to purchase our wild fur at those auctions, and have drastically lowered the prices.

Matt Peak, furbearer biologist for Kansas, says that in some years wild caught Kansas fur can bring around $1 million to the state’s economy.

Fur prices have been very low for a few years now so that number has been much lower. The 1,446 pelts sold at Saturday’s

auction brought a total of $20,512.

Bobcat pelts were the most valuable, averaging nearly $80, and coyote pelts went fairly well, averaging just over $20.

For several years running, beaver fur prices have been some of the lowest.

Sterling’s 11 beaver pelts brought him only $42.

By comparison muskrat prices have been reasonable and Caitlin’s much smaller muskrat pelts fetched her $55, still not much for all the work she put into catching them.

Some people around the country make a good living as damage control trappers, removing lamb and calf killing coyotes, or trapping beavers that flood valuable farm land, but in this day and age, trapping merely for the fur is not a money-making proposition.

But trapping isn’t all about the money. It’s about crisp fall mornings and beautiful orange sunrises. It’s another way to Explore Kansas Outdoors!

Steve can be contacted by email at stevenrgilliland@ gmail.com

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Jurgens puts title quest on temporary hold After finishing third in last year’s state tournament, Jarret Jurgens had his sights set on nothing short of a berth in the championship finals.

Those plans were put on hold for another year following a 5-1 loss to Pratt’s Nick Lucas (373) in the semi-finals on Friday.

After that, it was a matter of readjusting his goals, which didn’t come easily.

“Usually, after a loss I don’t get that emotional, but I was feeling pretty sorry for myself.

It took awhile for me to get back into the mindset I needed to wrestle on Saturday,” says the 152-pound junior. “Things felt a little better (Saturday) morning and I made up my mind that I was going to take third.”

Following a technical fall in the consolation semi-finals, Jurgens again faced Fort Scott’s Zarek Fewell. Jurgens had defeated Fewell by a 5-2 decision in the quarter-finals, but knew that points would come

at a premium in the rematch.

Fewell had won three of his state tournament matches by a single point and a fourth match by just two points.

“He’s a kid who likes to keep every match close. I knew he was going to be satisfied with making it a 1-0 or 2-0 match,” notes Jurgens.

It seemed to be headed in that direction after neither wrestler was able to get a takedown in the opening period, but that didn’t concern Jurgens. He took the lead with an escape and takedown in the second period and seized control of the match with a third period takedown.

“I wanted to take first. That’s what I came here for, but finishing third still feels pretty good,” says Jurgens.

And he accomplished that with four of the top six ranked SCHS junior Jarret Jurgens rolls Zarek Fewell (Fort Scott) to his back during the consolawrestlers on his side of the tion finals on Saturday.

(Record Photo) bracket.

But Jurgens also knows he done if he wants to claim a gold “I feel like I’m pretty good defend my takedown, so it’s an left some unfinished business medal in his next and final trip on my feet, but I learned from area that has got to get better,” in Salina and there’s work to be to the state tournament. the Pratt kid that he was able to he notes.

Hayes refocuses for a third place medal

Sophomore 160-pounder Wyatt Hayes locks up a cradle while taking Baldwin’s Scott Harman to his back for a first period fall during Saturday’s consolation action.

(Record Photo)

Keeping your head when a call on the mat doesn’t go your way is a valuable lesson that Wyatt Hayes will remember following his third place finish in this year’s state tournament.

A takedown late in the first period that would have given Hayes a 3-2 lead over Brandon Miekus (Frontenac) wasn’t awarded by the official, despite the protests of the SCHS coaching staff.

“I didn’t keep my head,” said Hayes afterwards. “I was too worried about what calls the ref was making instead of staying focused on my match. I thought I had two points and he didn’t give them to me which was a little frustrating at the time.”

Hayes says it wasn’t until about 1-1/2 minutes remaining in the match that he regained his focus, but that wasn’t enough time. Desperately trying to overcome a 4-3 deficit, he gave up a takedown with :24 remaining that decided the match.

The sophomore vowed not to repeat the same mistake on Saturday.

“My focus was on keeping my head and wrestling my own match,” he says.

He was able to accomplish that by sweeping through all four of his matches on the back side of the bracket, including an 8-0 major decision over Zach Porter (Columbus) in the consolation finals.

After winning his first match on Saturday, Hayes was asked by his father, “Is third the new first?”

“It’s still third,” he replied matter-of-factly.

“But I was determined to make the most of it and finish the tournament the way I wanted,” he says. “After winning my second match (on Saturday) I began thinking that maybe third isn’t so bad, so I had a different mindset and I wasn’t going to be stopped until I got it.”

Big finish to short season for McDaniel With less than a month left in the season, Justus McDaniel was on the sideline hoping he still had a wrestling season.

Not only did the 113-pound freshman come back from knee surgery two weeks earlier than scheduled, but he finished off his shortened season with his first state medal.

McDaniel (19-3) had a grueling path to the consolation finals that saw him facing four of the top six ranked wrestlers in the state.

His biggest disappointment was losing by a technical fall to top-ranked Darryl Rylant, the defending 106pound champion.

“I was too worried about defending what he was doing and I didn’t attack the way I needed to,” says McDaniel.

He quickly got back in attack mode with a pair of impressive wins during Saturday’s consolation action.

McDaniel decisioned No. 4 ranked Christian Davis (Santa Fe Trail), 6-3, and followed with perhaps his most impressive match of the weekend, a 15-0 technical fall over No. 5 ranked Christian Hannon (Andover-Central).

In the consolation finals he again faced Buhler’s Adam Whitson, whom he had defeated in the regional finals, losing this time by a fall in the third period.

“Missing so much of the season was pretty tough. I feel pretty good about the weekend considering I didn’t get as many practices or matches as I would have liked,” says McDaniel. “And now that I’ve seen the competition from (eastern Kansas) I think that will also better prepare me for next year.”

Scott City freshman Justus McDaniel turns Christian Davis (Santa Fe Trail) to his shoulder for a two-point near-fall in a 6-3 consolation round win on Saturday.

(Record Photo)

Business

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Midwest Energy invest $10M in customer homes Midwest Energy’s How$mart program recently reached a milestone of investing $10 million in energy efficiency improvements in its customers’ homes and businesses.

The How$mart program, which provides up to 100 percent of the funding for energy efficiency improvements, has completed more than 1,710 projects since the program began in July 2007. The average How$mart participant saves about $53 per month on energy bills.

“This program has been a win-win for everyone - for Midwest Energy, our customer-owners who participate in the program, local contractors who perform the work and the environment,” said Brian Dreiling, Midwest Energy’s Manager of Energy Services in Hays.

Dreiling noted that How$mart now saves its participants 3.96 million kilowatt hours of electricity each year (enough to

power 329 homes for a year), and 456,000 therms of natural gas (enough to heat 600 homes).

Since How$mart began, Dreiling’s team of five energy auditors based in Hays, Great Bend and Colby oversee completion of around 17 projects per month.

“We’ve completed How$mart projects in nearly all of the 40 counties Midwest Energy serves,” notes Dreiling.

Each project begins with a whole-home energy audit by a certified auditor who makes recommendations on insulation and air sealing, and improvements in heating and air conditioning systems.

Once the homeowner identifies which projects they’d like to complete, they select contractors from an approved list to make the upgrades.

Midwest Energy pays for all or most of the costs, with customers making up any difference. Customers pay back the funds through a small

Estate planning workshop Monday

Brian Dreiling, Midwest Energy’s Manager of Energy Services, uses a combustion analyzer to measure the efficiency of a new furnace installed in a home.

surcharge, offset by the energy savings.

“We’re able to provide this program thanks to a series of grants and loans through the USDA,” explains Pat Parke, Midwest Energy’s Vice President for Customer Service.

“How$mart allows us to offer our customer-owners real savings, reducing energy

consumption while bringing work to dozens of contractors in central and western Kansas.”

More than 200 local and regional contractors participate in the program.

David Randa, owner of Reliable Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning in Hays, has completed 41 How$mart projects.

“The program has helped us grow by finding customers that may not know anything about us. If we have a customer struggling with the financial side of a new HVAC system due to theirs not working, or if it’s running on its last leg, this program is a great financial resource for them.”

The Scott Community Foundation will host a free estate planning workshop on Mon., March 6, 6:00 p.m., at the Wm. Carpenter 4-H Building, Scott County Fairgrounds.

A free meal will be provided.

Featured speaker will be Ken Wasserman, a Salina attorney.

He will discuss the advantages of having documents such as power of attorney and declaration of natural death and how an Estate Plan can be of benefit prior to and after death.

“Learn how to minimize possible estate taxes and the possibility of establishing a charitable giving legacy,” says Foundation Director Ryan Roberts.

He says, however, there is no obligation to include a charitable gift in the plan.

Participants are asked to RSVP by Fri., March 3, by calling (620) 872-3790 or email julie@scottcf. org.

Kansas is birthplace of the fast food burger chain Ron Wilson, director Huck Boyd Institute for Rural Development, KSU

What was the first fast food hamburger chain in the world, and where did it begin?

You are correct if you answered White Castle in Wichita. This innovative company was begun by a man from rural Kansas.

Walter Anderson was born in 1880 and became a short order cook. In 1916, he opened his first diner in a converted streetcar in downtown Wichita.

Anderson liked to experiment in the kitchen.

According to legend, one day he became so frus-

trated with how his meatballs were sticking to the griddle that he smashed one with a spatula.

With that, the flat patty was born.

Anderson found that starting with a mound of fresh beef, pressing it into a flat square and poking five well-placed holes in the meat meant that he could cook the burger thoroughly without having to flip it. He also found that cooking the patty on a bed of chopped onions on the grill with the bun on top permeated all of the flavors into the bun.

His hamburgers were so popular that he wanted to expand to additional

locations. He enlisted the help of a real estate agent named Billy Ingram. As the men got acquainted, they decided to go into business together by forming a hamburger restaurant.

But, there was a problem. In 1906, Upton Sinclair had published a book called The Jungle which exposed the unsanitary meat processing methods of the time. This book caused consumers to worry about the safety of hamburger.

ahead of its time. They insisted on absolute cleanliness and transparency.

They wanted to make their restaurant sparkling clean and white.

They equipped their restaurant with white porcelain enamel on steel exteriors, stainless steel interiors, and employees outfitted with spotless uniforms. The kitchen was also viewable by the public so it would be clear that the food was prepared under highly sanitary conditions.

For a name, they comSetting a Standard Anderson and Ingram bined two words that sugdecided on an approach gested purity and solidity: to food safety which was White Castle.

For the shape of their building, the two men were inspired by the castle-like look of the water tower in downtown Chicago, so they used similar design features for their restaurant.

In 1921, they built their first building on the northwest corner of First and Main in Wichita. They used Walt Anderson’s cooking style and sold the hamburgers for five cents each. The hamburgers were small and went down so easy that they would later be called “sliders.”

The restaurant was so successful that it expanded to a second location in El

Dorado and then beyond.

In 1923, they expanded to Omaha. Before 1930, White Castle had branched into 12 major cities in the Midwest as well as New York and New Jersey.

Of course, at that time there was no such thing as a fast food chain. The company had to establish centralized bakeries, meat supply plants and warehouses to supply itself.

The company’s business design of multiple locations and standardized products and menus allow White Castle to take credit for being the first fast food hamburger chain in the world.

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Kansas Farm Bureau once again honoring Century Farms Tradition and heritage are a big part of what makes agriculture such an attractive way of life for so many Kansans. The lifeblood of our existence, the farms and ranches in Kansas, provide food, fuel and fiber for the world.

The history of these farms and ranches is rich, with many stories to tell. In that spirit, Kansas Farm Bureau, the state’s leading agriculture advocacy organization, is launching the fifteenth year of its program to honor those family farms that have passed down this heritage for more than a century.

The Kansas Farm Bureau “Century Farm” program will recognize family farms whose current owner/operator is related to the owner/operator of the farm in 1917 or before. Qualifying farms will receive a farm sign designating “Century Farm” status and recognition from Kansas Farm Bureau.

“As farmers and ranchers, we are proud of our legacy and heritage,” Rich Felts, Kansas Farm Bureau president, says. “The Century Farm program helps others better appreciate the strong family ties and tradition we hold so dear.”

Since 2000, more than 2,500 family farms qualified for Century Farm designation.

The deadline for consideration is May 15.

Complete details for qualification and an application can be obtained at county Farm Bureau offices across Kansas or on the KFB web site, www.kfb. org/Get-Involved/Century-Farm-Program.

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Top ag lawmakers hear concerns about farm bill

Kansas farmers and ranchers mired in a tough agricultural economy shared their concerns about the farm bill with two top ag legislators last week in Manhattan.

Concerns centered on crop insurance, international trade and the mechanics of farm programs that don’t always work as intended at the first field hearing for reauthorization of the farm bill.

Sen. Pat Roberts, chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, hosted the hearing along with ranking committee member Sen. Debbie Stabenow. Two panels presented their thoughts on the farm bill, which was last passed in 2014 and is expected to be reauthorized in 2018.

The first panel was made up of farmers and ranchers who represented

organizations that ranged from the Kansas Pork Producers to the Kansas Cotton Association. At a news conference before the event, Roberts honed in on multiple challenges facing agriculture.

“Times are tough today in farm country,” he said.

“This is different than when we considered the past farm bill. We’re in a rough patch. The credit situation’s tightening.

Prices are at historic lows,

the lowest in the last 16 years. Over-regulation is still running rampant.

And trade - trade is on the minds of every farmer, every rancher. And I can assure you that trade is on the minds of my Senate staff and myself. I know the president wants to concentrate on bilateral, good trade agreements.

I don’t know anybody that’s against that. But with TPP (Trans Pacific (See FARM BILL on page 27)

KSU joins effort to increase ag spending Kansas State University is one of 11 research universities that have joined an effort to ask for stronger federal support of the agricultural and food sciences.

Plant pathologist Barbara Valent was in Washington, D.C., as part of the project organized by the Supporters

for Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation, which hopes to encourage stronger funding of agricultural and food science in the 2018 Farm Bill.

Scientists at the 11 universities are currently involved in solving some of the thorniest questions in food production despite the federal government’s

limited research budget for the USDA. All of the projects are funded currently by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), which was established in the 2008 Farm Bill. The universities involved include

Cornell, Iowa State, Kansas State, Michigan State, Nebraska, North Carolina State, Ohio State, Penn State, Texas A&M, the University of California-Davis and Virginia Tech.

Their work covers many topics, including a new process to remove (See SPENDING on page 27)

Ag exports suffer under Administration trade policy Agricultural trade has taken a backseat as the Trump administration signed a memorandum to drop out of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and made plans to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

A panel hosted by the Agricultural Business

Council of Kansas City expressed the importance of trade to agriculture, especially when it pertains to NAFTA. “Agriculture is critically dependent on trade,” says Bob Young, chief economist for American Farm Bureau Federation.

Export value the past few years has accounted

Cattle in feedlots hits 3-year high The number of cattle placed into U.S. feedlots in January rose 11 percent from a year earlier, reports the USDA. It is the largest number in three years and nearly matching analysts’ average forecasts.

Positive January profits for feedlots allowed them to buy more younger cattle for fattening on their way to packers, said analysts.

Periods of low cattle prices resulted in an increasing number of heifers landing in feedlots instead of ranchers retaining them to grow their herds.

Cattle placed in feedyards last month should come to market beginning in July, which could mean weaker cattle prices this summer, according to analysts.

USDA’s report showed January placements at 1.981 million head, up from 1.779 million last year and marginally higher than analysts’ average forecast of 1.977 million.

It was the third largest for that month since 2.014 million head in January 2014.

The government put the feedlot cattle supply as of Feb. 1 at 10.782 million head, up one percent from 10.709 million a year ago.

The government said the number of cattle sold to packers, or marketings, grew 10 percent in January from a year earlier, to 1.751 million head.

Analysts had projected a 9.8 percent rise from 1.589 million last year.

for roughly 30% of the value of agriculture commodities.

Young points out a climb in export value starting in 2006 when total agriculture exports totaled more than $100 billion. In 2014, approximately $150 billion worth of agriculture goods were exported.

Domestically, demand has plateaued Young says as requirements have been met for ethanol, making it vital to continue doing trade with our North American neighbors.

NAFTA has been in existence since 1994, but it could use updates to modernize for changes in the business climate like

Kansas dryland ag values climb $31/acre Farmers across the state will be receiving their 2017 agriculture valuations over the next few days, and will likely notice an increase although commodity prices have been down.

The agriculture values varied greatly county-by-county.

Statewide agriculture valuations are estimated to increase by $31 to $184 per acre of dry land, while Doniphan County in the northeast corner of Kansas increased by $128 to $1,018 per acre of dry land and Grant County decreased by $2 to $57 per acre of dry land.

Agriculture valuations are

set using an eight year average of weighted annual prices received by farmers as reported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This year’s average is based on 2008 through 2015 data when many crops were selling at record levels, so the average is significantly higher than the current prices.

Kansas has used an eightyear average to calculate agriculture valuations since 1989.

The process evens out fluctuations in commodity prices and creates a more stable and predictable valuation for the taxing jurisdictions and farmers.

the rise of ecommerce.

If NAFTA were to be renegotiated it would probably be similar to the updates that were present in TPP, Young says.

Working on his grandfather’s California citrus farm in the 1980s, Neil Herrington saw the impact trade had on the family business as it grew with

the aid of more revenue from exports. Herrington now sees the daily impact of trade as the executive director of the Americas for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Herrington points out that all-industry trade with Canada and Mexico has quadrupled since NAFTA

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Farm Bill Partnership) in the past, NAFTA, I’m not sure what kind of operation wants to be done on that - that’s terribly important for us. Both of us are committed in trying to work with this administration on strong bilateral trade agreements. But the time is now.”

He re-emphasized the importance of trade in response to a question about the biggest danger to the farm industry, which he had termed as on the verge of crisis.

“Trade,” Roberts answered emphatically.

“We need to sell the products. I think that’s the one area where we can quickly turn things around.”

to USDA programs, I’ve heard ‘complex, confusing, burdensome,’ and those are just a few words I can say in front of my children. Although they are intended to help the program, it is obvious the individuals writing and implementing these programs have little hands in the dirt experience.

One can even argue that they’ve caused additional risks on operations.”

France was speaking as a representative of Kansas Farm Bureau.

Concerns that a tight federal budget might force cuts to the upcoming farm bill peppered conversations, as those in the ag business encouraged

Roberts and Stabenow to make sure that didn’t happen.

“Crop insurance for me is the most important segment of that farm safety net,” said Kenneth Wood, of Riverside Stock Farm in Manhattan. “When a natural disaster looms on the horizon, whether it is a drought, flood or, in my case, a tornado, we know that crop insurance will help keep us in business.

“On May 25, 2016, my farm, home, vehicles, most of my machinery and approximately 300 acres of my crops were destroyed by an EF4 tornado. The availability of crop insurance was not the deciding factor but

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the southern border. The top five traded items to Mexico in 2015: Corn, $2.3 billion Soybeans, $1.4 billion Dairy, $1.3 billion Pork, $1.3 billion Beef, $1.1 billion Because of the current political climate, Mexico has been reanalyzing its position with NAFTA and has been looking at alternative trade partners for agriculture goods. Mexico is currently the largest importer of U.S. corn, but is considering Argentina and Brazil.

Navarro-Bernachi says there is a possibility that Mexico looks to “plan B and plan C for different alternatives in a worst case scenario.”

Prior to NAFTA the U.S. was a net pork importer, exporting just 3%. Last year the U.S. was the largest exporter of pork sending more than 30% to other countries, with Mexico being the primary destination.

Spending allergens from peanuts; Bovine Respiratory Disease; diseases and pests that affect such crops as rice, wheat, soybeans and other row crops; and more.

Valent leads a team that includes more than half a dozen researchers from Kansas State University plus scientists from six other universities, the U.S. government and agricultural agencies in Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay.

Valent said the researchers have developed new insight on management of rice blast disease, which is already a problem in the U.S. The devastating wheat blast fungus only occurs in South America and, most recently, in Bangladesh, and the team has developed the tools to quickly detect and try to defeat the fungus if it appears on wheat in the U.S. “We are working on basic understanding of how this fungus affects plants and searching for new sources of resistance,” Valent said. “We’ve succeeded in finding the first resistance gene - called 2NS - for wheat blast.

Breeders have been using a piece of a chromosome from wild wheat that has

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Although farmers and ranchers testifying in the hearing also mentioned trade, their in-depth testimony tended to focus on how the farm bill provided for crop insurance and issues with using key farm safety-net programs, such as the Dairy Margin Protection Program and Agricultural Risk Coverage.

Most urged Roberts and Stabenow to ensure money wasn’t pulled from the crop insurance program.

“We also must have a workable commodity type of safety net,” said Amy France, of France Family Farms in Marienthal.

“Unfortunately, in regard

Trade was implemented with a combined impact of $1.3 trillion annually.

“For all those who are thinking about renegotiating NAFTA, our request is do no harm first and foremost,” Herrington says.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce does not encourage doing bilateral trade agreements with Canada and Mexico because of the added costs to businesses versus a trade agreement like NAFTA. U.S. farmers supply 75% of Mexico’s agriculture imports and 59% of Canada’s share.

“Right now there is a lot of concern with NAFTA and its future,” says Alfonso NavarroBernachi, Consulate of Mexico.

Mexico is the third largest agriculture market for the U.S., but several industry sectors benefit greatly from trade across

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Canada is the fourth largest U.S. pork buyer.

Total pork exports contribute $46 per head to hog producers and NAFTA accounts for $18.

“NAFTA creates continental integration,” says Kevin Smith, assistant vice president of international sales for Seaboard Foods.

Smith points out that Canada raises plenty of hogs on the western side of the country but imports U.S. pork into its more populated eastern side because it makes sense logistically. The surplus pork raised by western Canadian farmers is exported into Asia.

November and December were record months for U.S. pork exports to Mexico despite a weak peso following the election of Donald Trump.

“It just goes to show you that the supply chain is there. They are bringing in that product regardless of the economic factors

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provided rust resistance and nematode resistance.

Our good luck was to find that it also provides some resistance to wheat blast.”

But the fungus is a constantly moving target.

“This fungus is notorious for being able to overcome resistance,” Valent said. “We need more resistance genes and that’s what we’re focused on now. It’s a safety backup; some of the fungus in South America already is able to overcome the 2NS gene.

“We’ve expanded our capacity and developed good collaboration for field tests in South America,” Valent said. “(Farmers in South America) want to know about resistance, they need resistance. They are going to use the things we are finding. Ultimately, the best way to keep this disease from spreading is to control it in South America.”

Funding for that project ends late this year, however, and with funds for agricultural research becoming more scarce, it leaves an important research project in peril.

“We are trying hard to secure funding for 2018 and beyond, so that we

can keep our productive, multidisciplinary team together and not lose momentum on solving the critical problems,” Valent said.

When AFRI was first established, the Farm Bill authorized $700 million for food and agricultural science. But Thomas Grumbly, president of SoAR, noted that the project currently receives only half of that money, despite a growing demand to feed more people on less land.

they face,” Smith says.

Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS Railway) took on the concession of the Mexican railway in 1996 and invested $4 billion in infrastructure to help maintain the capacity, largely for grain export hauling.

KCS Railway executive vice president corporate affair Warren Erdman believes trade is vital to the rural economy.

“We all want to make America great again,” Erdman says. “If you want to make America to be great you better protect your export markets.”

certainly a contributing factor in my decision to rebuild my business.”

Others addressed trade issues; potential disease outbreaks, referring specifically to hoof and mouth disease, and the need for research; and protection of nutrition programs in the bill.

A second panel of businesses, including banks, co-ops and the Rural Broadband Association, discussed their concerns, which closely paralleled those of farmers and ranchers.

“To give you a hardlevel view of credit conditions in the Midwest, generally, the upper 50 to 60 percent of our grain pro-

ducers are holding their own and showing some minor profitability,” said Gena Ott, financial officer at Frontier Farm Credit in Emporia. “The bottom 15 to 20 percent of grain producers are experiencing stress as a result of the combination of higher debt load, higher cost of production and overall lack of profitability.”

Ott and others said the importance of maintaining crop insurance and adjusting other safety network programs to add stability for farmers is critical.

Roberts encouraged others with comments on the farm bill to submit them through the website at ag.senate.gov.

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Agriculture

Preconditioning and Growing

Over 20 Years Experience

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

Professional Extermination Commercial & Residential

• Termites • Rodents • Soil Sterilization • Pre Treats • Lawn Care • Fly Parasites

John Kropp, Owner • Scott City 874-2023 (cell) • 872-3400 (office) • prox2@live.com

Stuart Doornbos Home - 872-2775 Cell - 874-0951

Construction/Home Repair

Sager’s Pump Service

Walker Plumbing, Inc. Backhoe & Trenching services • Irrigation & gas leak repairs • Full-line irrigation parts T-L center pivot dealer Floor heat systems Pump & install septic systems Boring equipment

• Irrigation • Domestic • Windmills • Submersibles

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

RT Plumbing

Cell: 874-4486 • Office 872-2101

Rex Turley, Master Plumber

Residental and Commercial Plumbing Water Systems, water lines, sewer cleaning faucets and fixtures, garbage diposals and more

Marienthal, Ks.

620-909-5014 (H) • 620-874-4128 (C)

ELLIS AG SERVICES • Custom Manure Conditioning • Hauling and Spreading • Custom Swathing and Baling • Rounds-Net or Twine • Gyp and Sand Sales • Custom Harvesting Call Brittan Ellis • 620-874-5160

CHAMBLESS ROOFING Residential

SPENCER PEST CONTROL All Types of Roofing

Commercial

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

RESIDENTIAL – COMMERCIAL Termite Baiting Systems • Rodents Weed Control • Structural Insects Termite Control Box 258, Scott City • (620) 872-2870

Automotive

Faurot Electric, Inc. Office • 620-872-5344 Jeromy Lisenby • 620-214-3247

Landscaping • Lawn/Trees

P.O. Box 14 • Scott City

Medical

Charles Purma II D.D.S. P.A. General Dentistry, Cosmetics, and Insurance Accepted

We welcome new patients.

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Medical

Horizon Health For your home medical supply and equipment needs!

We service and repair all that we sell.

Brent Rogers

Sales Consultant b.rogers@officesolutionsinc.biz

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

1602 S. Main • Scott City • 872-2232 Toll Free : 1-866-672-2232

Dr. Jeffrey A. Heyd Optometrist 20/20 Optometry

Treatment of Ocular Disease • Glaucoma Detection Children’s Vision • Glasses • Contact Lenses

Complete family eye center!

106 W. 4th • Scott City • 872-2020 • Emergencies: 214-1462

Pro Health Chiropractic Wellness Center

Services

(Scott City Chiropractic) “TLC”...

Technology Lead Chiropractic

Dr. James Yager

Kansas Classifieds Ad Network

The classified ads below are appearing in 147 Kansas newspapers with a total circulation of 500,000 the classified display ads appear in 142 Kansas newspapers with a total circulation of 457,000. KCAN line ad is $300 for up to 25 words and $12 each additional word. A 2x2 display ad is $800 per insertion and a 2x4 display ad is $1,650 per insertion. To find out more, contact The Scott County Record at 872-2090.

Medical

For Sale

LUNG CANCER? And 60+ years old? If so, you and your family may be entitled to a significant cash award. Call 866-3272721 to learn more. No risk. No money out of pocket.

––––––––––––––––––––– DIGITAL HEARING aids. Now offering a 45-day risk free offer. Free batteries for life. Call to start your free trial. 877687-4650.

––––––––––––––––––––– OXYGEN. Anytime.

Anywhere. No tanks to refill. No deliveries. The all new Inogen One G4 is only 2.8 pounds. FAA approved! Free info kit: 844-359-3973.

––––––––––––––––––––– LIVING WITH KNEE or back pain? Medicare recipients may qualify to receive a pain relieving brace at little or no cost.

Call now. 855-796-7301.

––––––––––––––––––––– VIAGRA/CIALIS users.

There’s a cheaper alternative than high drugstore prices. 50 pills. Special $99. Free shipping. 100% guaranteed. Call now.

855-850-3904.

40-FOOT GRADE A steel cargo containers. $1,500 in KC. $2,200 in Solomon, Ks. 20s, 45s, 48s and 53s also available.

Call (785) 655-9430 or go on-line to Chuckhenry. com for pricing, availability and freight estimates.

––––––––––––––––––––– HAPPY JACK SKIN BALM. Stops scratching and gnawing. Promotes healing and hair growth on dogs and cats suffering from grass and flea allergies without steroids.

Orscheln Farm and Home. www.happyjackinc.com.

Homes

110 W. 4th St. • Scott City • 872-2310 Toll Free: 800-203-9606

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

For all your auction needs call:

(620) 375-4130

Russell Berning Box Q • Leoti

Retail

Gene’s Appliance Over 200 appliances in stock!

COMPARE OUR PRICES!

We have Reverse Osmosis units in stock.

Remember us for parts in stock for all brands of all appliances.

Sales and Service Days • Mon. - Sat. Deliveries • Mon.-Sat.

LENDERS OFFERING special government programs for mobile homes and $0 down for landowners. Promo homes with reduced down payments.

Use tax refund for additional incentives. Singles from $39,900. Doubles from $59,900. 866-8586862.

––––––––––––––––––––– 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.

Truck Driving CLASS A OTR. Regional, home weekly.

End dump drivers for newly expanded business.

Late model Peterbilts and Raven trailers, Vacation pay, health ins., 401K. (800) 776-5672.

––––––––––––––––––––– CONVOY SYSTEMS is hiring Class A drivers to run from Kansas City to the west coast. Home weekly. Great benefits. www.convoysystems.com.

Call Tina, ext. 301, or Lori, ext. 303, at 1-800926-6869.

Misc.

DONATE YOUR CAR to charity. Receive maximum value of write off for your taxes. Running or not. All conditions accepted. Free pick-up. Call for details. 844-268-9386.

Education ENTRY LEVEL heavy equipment operator career.

Get trained. Get certified.

Get hired. Bulldozers, backhoes and excavators.

Immediate lifetime job placement. VA benefits.

1-866-362-6497.

Support Your Hometown Merchants!

Largest Frigidaire appliance dealer in Western Ks. 508 Madison • Scott City • 872-3686

Networktronic, Inc.

Computer Sales, Service and Repair Custom computers!

Networking solutions!

Mon. - Fri. 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

402 S. Main, Scott City • 872-1300

Northend Disposal A garbologist company.

Scott City • 872-1223 • 1-800-303-3371

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

www.reganjewelers.com

412 N. Main • Garden City • 620-275-5142 All Under One Roof

Revcom Electronics

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

1104 Main • Scott City • 872-2625

Dining

S E N JO UB S CL B Driving M A L

for the PURPLE!

Jeremy • 620-397-1638 Stefanie • 620-397-8075

Classifieds

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Buy, sell, trade, one call does it all 872-2090 ot fax 872-0009

Berry Realty • 872-5700

Classified Ad Deadline: Monday at 5:00 p.m.

Classified Ad Rate: 20¢ per word. Minimum charge, $5.

Blind ad: $2.50 per week extra. Card of thanks: 10¢ per word. Minimum charge, $3. Classified Display Ad rate: $6.00 per column inch.

1102 S. Main, Scott City, Ks 67871 www.berryrealtyonline.com

Charles Berry, Broker • 874-0738 Brett Berry, Sales Assoc. • 316-258-3387 Tracy Chambless, Sales Assoc. • 874-2124

Classified advertising must be paid in advance unless business account is established.

If not paid in advance, there will be a $1 billing charge.

Tear sheet for classified ad will be $1 extra.

Agriculture

Notice

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 information.

Lane County Feeders, 397-5341.

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ACCEPTING BIDS on a 2007 Caterpillar 140H VHP Motor Grader with 6000 hours. If interested contact Scott County Public Works, 620-8722202 for information and bid instructions.

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Rentals 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.

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Help Wanted FARM WORKER 4/3/17 - 11/30/17, Troy Kuck Silage Harvesting, Bertrand, Nebr. 7 temp jobs. Assist with silage harvest. Drive heavy truck to transport produce to storage. Drive truck to haul harvesting machines between work sites.

Service machinery, make in-field repairs. Class A CDL or obtain within 15 days, clean MVR, employment references required.

Pay DOE, $13.79/hr. min., 3/4 work guarantee, tools/equip/housing provided at no cost, trans and subsistence exp reimbursed. Apply at Kansas Works, 620-227-2149. Job 3017t1c #400183.

Why Rent??

Services WANTED: Yards to mow and clean up, etc.

Trim smaller trees and bushes too. Call Dean Riedl, (620) 872-5112 or 874-4135.

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.

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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.

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BY OWNER. 1996 International dump truck.

Only 33,302 miles, DT 4700 Allison, 5 sp automatic, pull down side beds. Dump bed works great and runs great. $12,000. Call 620-3973513. Located in Dighton.

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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

We have room for you!

When you can own this affordable 4 bedroom home for only $65,000? Large shop on corner lot!!

Spic and Span

And ready for your family! 2 bedroom with office, 2 full baths, familyroom and much more!

SA garage plus carport.

Lawrence and Associates

Deb Lawrence, GRI Broker Shorty Lawrence, Sales Assoc.

513 Main • Scott City 872-5267 ofc. 872-7184 hm. lawrenceandassocrealty.com Sheila Ellis, Broker Assoc.

872-2056 Kerry Gough, Sales Assoc.

872-7337 Russell Berning, 874-4405 www.berningauction.com Maranda Cersovsky, 874-8332 Serving Dighton and Healy

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Employment Opportunities Best Western El Quartelejo Inn and Suites

Park Lane Nursing Home

is accepting applications for: Front Desk Agent 3:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.

4 days a week Must be able to work weekends and holidays.

Please pick up application at: 1610 S. Main St. Scott City

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Scott County Hospital Has Openings for the Following Positions PATIENT CARE Acute Care RNs Physical Therapist - FT PACU/Circulating RN - FT Clinic Medical Assistant - FT Operating Room Supervisor RN - FT Full Time CNA Clinic Receptionist - FT

Has openings for the following positions: RN/LPN - PT/PRN CNA/CMA - FT Shift differential pay offered for evening and night shifts!

Great opportunity to serve the elderly of our community!!!

Willing to work with student schedules!

Great benefits package!

Please apply in person at: Park Lane Nursing Home 210 E. Parklane Scott City, KS 67871 Or visit us at our website: www.parklanenursinghome.org “Quality Care Because We Care”

Applicants for these positions are required to be able to read, speak and understand English. Preemployment physical, drug/alcohol screening, immunization titer, physical assessment and TB skin test required. We are a tobacco free campus.

We offer competitive pay and great benefits.

Applications are available on our website at www.scotthospital.net or call 620-872-7772 for more information.

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Field Claim Rep/Ag Underwriting Rep At Farm Bureau Financial Services, we protect what matters most. More than 75 years ago, our companies were founded to meet the unique needs of farmers. From those strong roots we’ve grown to serve people from all walks of life – rural, urban and in-between.

Farm Bureau has a unique opportunity for an individual to make a difference both as a Field Claim Representative as well as an Underwriter. This hybrid position will be responsible for handling property claims, especially storm catastrophe situations. During non-peak storm months this position will have responsibility for farm renewal underwriting efforts. This position will cover the Western Kansas territory.

If you come from a farming or construction background, this is an excellent opportunity you! This position requires a college degree or equivalent plus one year of relevant experience. You must have excellent problem solving, analytical and organizational skills and have strong customer service skills.

If this sounds like you, we invite you to apply today at www.fbfscareers.com.

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Potato planting time is around the corner The traditional planting date for Irish potatoes (St. Patrick’s Day) is rapidly approaching.

Early planting of potatoes is important since they must grow and set tubers before intense summer heat arrives. Planting potatoes in March will improve yields.

It is important to use a fairly large seed piece (1.5 to two ounces) since the larger seed piece will give you a good “insurance policy” in case potatoes are injured by a late freeze.

With the larger seed piece, potatoes 12 inches tall can be frozen to the ground and still recover to produce a normal crop.

However, a larger seed piece is not necessary.

Cut an average sized potato into four pieces or a larger potato into six.

You don’t have to worry about there being an eye in every piece. The eyes on a potato are not located at random but, they are placed in regular geometric progression around the tuber - gradually getting closer together toward the top of the tuber.

It is impossible to cut a potato into seed pieces

and not have an eye in every piece.

It is important to cut seed 2-3 days before you are ready to plant and store the cut seed in a warm, humid location with plenty of air circulation. The cut surfaces will then develop a “corky” surface that has a slightly powdery appearance.

This indicates the presence of suberin, a natural wound healing compound produced in the cut area to protect the seed pieces from rotting.

Don’t plant potato seed pieces too deep. Deeper planting will slow emergence. It is best to plant them one to 1-1/2 inches

Core aeration of Chain cool-season lawns

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If you are planning to core-aerate this spring, reserve your machine now so you can get the job done in March or early April.

Coring early in the spring gives cool-season lawns a chance to recover before crabgrass and other warm-season annual weeds start to germinate.

Waiting until late April or May results in lots of crabgrass seed being brought to the soil surface just at the time it is ready to germinate.

Core-aerating is one of

the best things you can do for your lawn. It relieves compaction, hastens thatch decomposition and helps promote better root growth.

Pay attention to the soil moisture level when coring. The soil should easily crumble when worked between the fingers.

If it is too wet, the machine’s tines will plug and it will merely punch holes in the wet soil, which increases compaction. If it is too dry, the tines will not be able to penetrate very deeply.

In 1933, the company made a transition in ownership. Ingram bought out Anderson’s interest and moved the company’s headquarters to Columbus, Ohio, in order to be more centrally located near the new restaurants that were being built in the east.

White Castle continued to expand and innovate. It was the first fast food chain to reach the landmark of one billion hamburgers sold, which it did in 1961. Eventually, however, other fast food chains would outgrow White Castle.

Today, White Castle has more than 400 restaurants, although none remain in Kansas. Ingram’s descendants still control the company.

It all began with a small-town short order cook who was born in the rural community of St. Mary’s (pop. 2,221).

Anderson was an entrepreneur who changed the food industry.

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deep to encourage rapid emergence.

Then, gradually cover the row with more soil as the plants grow so that an 8-10 inch ridge of loose soil covers the row by the time the potato vines are fully extended.

Use Clean Seed Pieces If you have decided that you want to plant potatoes, remember that a few simple precautionary measures at planting will avoid disease losses later in the season. The most important thing you can do is start off with clean, disease-free seed pieces.

Purchase certified seed (blue tag) from reputable garden centers each year.

Many bacterial, viral and fungal diseases are transmitted through the seed piece. Saving tubers from last year to be used as seed is asking for trouble.

Certified seed has been screened against many of these vegetatively propagated diseases.

Make sure you frequently disinfect the cutting knife in a 10 percent bleach solution or alcohol when cutting seed potatoes into smaller pieces for planting. Some bacterial diseases are easily transmitted by the knife.

tan or thiram) will help suppress seed decay in the soil.

•Try to pick a new planting site within the garden each year and make sure the seed pieces are planted in well drained soil.

•Hill the plants slightly so that water doesn’t puddle around the seed piece.

•Fertilize the plants adequately to maintain vigorous growth.

•Fungicide applications after leaves emerge and during the remainder of the growing season generally are not necessary, but insecticides may be Other Planting Tips •A fungicide dusting of needed to control various the seed piece (with cap- insects.

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