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Volume 24 • Number 32

If the USD 466 (Scott County) board of education was to get everything it wants in the way of updated infrastructure it will come with a price tag of about $32 million.

“That’s about what it will cost to solve all your prob-

lems,” the board was informed

by Nick Nemechek, senior project manager with Gibson, Mancini, Carmichael and Nelson of Garden City during a special board meeting.

Now comes the difficult part - getting the project cost down

Thursday, March 16, 2017

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$25M goal for USD bond issue City awards $313,000 in sales tax grants

WKCAC has sights on new location In order to solve its growing pains, Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center could also solve concerns with a major building in Scott City that has been vacant for the past two years.

There’s just one notso-small problem - money.

WKCAC has ambitious plans for the former Heartland Foods store on K96 Highway.

What the non-profit doesn’t have is the money to see those plans become reality.

WKCAC was hoping to take a major step towards filling that funding gap by applying for a $50,000 Scott City sales tax grant. It was awarded $20,000, with most of that earmarked for general operating expenses.

“But, it’s a start,” says WKCAC executive director Kelly Robbins.

The organization has been pursuing longrange plans to renovate and expand their existing site at 103 E. 9th Street.

(See WKCAC on page 10)

project. It would like to have a bond issue on the November general election ballot.

Currently, the district has a levy of 15.737 mills that is dedicated to paying off its bonds. By restructuring bond (See BONDS on page 18)

Look Inside

All-American fan

Sports Lady Beavers finish hoops season with 4th place at state Page 19 State Report: laws to prevent fraud are suppressing the vote Page 2

Scott Community High School junior Reid Brunswig shows his colors while supporting the Lady Beavers during Friday’s action at the Class 4A-DII state basketball tournament at Emporia.

Complete coverage of the tournament begins on page 19.

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Tarango begins duties as Scott County health director Edith Tarango has found her passion in providing patient care, first with the Scott City Clinic and more recently with the Scott County Health Department.

Now she’s adding an administrative role as the new director of county health. Tarango replaces Dana Shapland whose resignation became effective Feb. 20.

“Every day has something new,” says Tarango, who this week was facing a deadline for submitting grants to assist with the funding of health programs. “I’m learning a lot. Fortunately, I have a good staff.”

However, the department could use three more employees in order to be fully staffed.

With the departure of Shapland, Tarango is the only Registered Nurse on staff. In addition to needing another RN, Tarango is also in search of a senior care coordinator and a home care provider.

“We’re in the process of accepting applications. Hopefully, we can fill those positions soon,” she says.

Tarango continues to fulfill her duties as the WIC (Women, Infants and Children) nutrition program and immunization coordinator while learning the administrative ropes. As the only RN, she is also responsible for medication set-ups and blood draws.

“We have a list of people who need our services. We’re continuing to meet those needs the best we can, but it’s also important that

Community Changes planned at 100-year-old hotel to attract new clientele Page 27

Index

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(See GRANTS on page 10)

scope of the project so that it fits under that cap and still addresses building needs resulting from anticipated enrollment growth will be a challenge for the board over the next few weeks.

The board also has a fairly aggressive timeline for their

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Scott County Health Department Director Edith Tarango.

I find the right person to come here,” she says.

Didn’t Plan Health Career A long-time resident of Scott City, originally attending Shallow Water School, Tarango admits that her original career path didn’t include health care. After graduating from Scott Community High School in 1999, she pursued a degree in business administration.

Following graduation from college, Edith and her husband, Armando, moved from Scott City for a year. Upon returning, she began working for the Scott City Clinic which opened up an entirely new opportunity for Tarango.

She remained with the clinic from 2003-14 until deciding to return to Garden City Community College and complete a nursing degree.

“I was very comfortable with what I was doing, but Armando really encouraged me to go back to school,” says Tarango. “It meant a lot of extra work for both of us, but I’m glad that I did it.”

Upon graduation, Tarango worked in the Scott County Hospital emergency room for nearly a year before accepting a position with the health department in August of 2015.

“Coming here was a great decision. I’ve always been a people (See TARANGO on page eight)

Business Hardware store adds a new twist to attract customers Page 11

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Non-profit organizations in Scott County have been awarded $313,000 in grants made possible by a one-half cent Scott City sales tax.

Grants are distributed annually by a Sales Tax Committee following written applications and presentations by individuals representing the organizations.

This year, there were 17 recipients with the largest grant of $50,000 being awarded to the Scott Recreation Commission, $45,000 to the Scott Community Golf Course and $40,000 to the Scott County Historical Society.

While the SRC has several projects on the board, the lion’s share of the funding will be used to make a $37,914 payment on light poles installed at the Sports Complex several years ago.

to a figure which the board feels voters can support.

The consensus of board members is that a bond issue in the range of $20 million to $25 million might have the best chance of being approved by taxpayers. Narrowing the

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Kansas election law suppressing turnout Discouraging voter turnout a bigger issue than fraud Jim McLean Kansas News Service

A report by the Kansas Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights says that the proof of citizenship and voter ID requirements imposed by a 2011 Kansas law impose a “burden” on voters.

Kansas’ “strictest in the nation” election law may have been written with the intent to discriminate against certain groups of voters and should be reviewed by the U.S. Department of Justice to ensure that it doesn’t violate federal

law, a civil rights panel says in a report issued Tuesday.

The report, written by the Kansas Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, says that the proof of citizenship and voter ID requirements imposed by a 2011 Kansas law “may impose a substantially higher burden than that which has been previously challenged in the U.S. Supreme Court.”

Kansas lawmakers passed the Secure and Fair Elections (SAFE) Act at Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s urging to guard against voter fraud.

However, based on testimony received at hearings conducted in January 2016, the advisory committee says that voter disenfranchisement appears to be

Former mental health director arrested in Oregon on child porn A former regional director of mental health services with Compass Behavioral Health has been arrested on child pornography charges.

Kent H i l l , 54, was arrested last Friday by deputies with Kent Hill the Linn County Sheriff’s office in Corvallis, Ore. Hill had been employed with the Area Mental Health Center (later to become Compass Behavioral Health) in Scott City for 30 years.

He had been the regional director since 1997.

He resigned in December to become manager of the mental health services division in the Benton County Health Department. He assumed those duties on Jan. 3.

Scott City Police Chief Chris Jurgens says his department does not have an ongoing investigation into Hill’s activities while living in Scott City, but the department has been contacted by the Internet Crimes Against Children

Task Force in Wichita.

“If anyone has information that would assist in this investigation, or if they have been a victim, we ask that they contact our department,” says Sgt. Joe Conner.

According to published reports, the investigation into the distribution of child pornography online was initiated by the Benton County (Oregon) Sheriff’s office.

When investigators determined that one of the suspects was a Benton County Mental Health Division Manager, the request was made for the Linn County Sheriff’s Office to take over the investigation.

Digital devices, including a computer containing stored child pornography, were seized as evidence during the search, deputies said.

That’s when deputies arrested Hill.

Hill was being held in the Linn County Jail on 10 counts of encouraging child sexual abuse in the first degree, and 10 counts of encouraging child sexual abuse in the second degree.

a much bigger problem than voter fraud.

“The number of eligible voters turned away from the polls in Kansas due to lack of required identification or failure to provide documentary proof of citizenship may far exceed the number of documented cases of voter fraud,” the report says, stressing that errors in voter registration don’t rise to the level of fraud.

“Those who continue to raise concerns regarding voter fraud have cited errors in registration data as evidence that voter fraud may be significantly more widespread that it appears,” the report states, specifically rebutting claims made by Kobach and President Donald Trump that illegal voting is widespread.

Evidence of Suppression The advisory committee report says that research has found that stricter ID and registration requirements can suppress voter participation. It goes on to say that a preliminary analysis of Kansas turnout data “suggests that voter participation declined following the implementation of the SAFE Act.” “Testimony indicated the SAFE Act may disparately

Area Upcoming Events March 24

Hoedown dinner/concert

Bellwether Barn

March 25

RFL Meal Mania

Heartland Foods

April 1

Diamonds and Champagne The Majestic

April 8

Easter egg hunt

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April 17-21 Spring clean-up May 16

SCES boat regatta

City Pool

June 3

Bluegrass concert/BBQ

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Movie in the Park

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June 10

Scott City Stars swim meet City Pool

June 23

Movie in the Park

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June 24

Relay for Life

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July 2

Pence Church social

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July 7

Movie in the Park

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July 22

Beefiesta tasting booths

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impact voters on the basis of age, sex, disability, race, income level and affiliation,” the report says.

Kobach disputes that and other findings in the report, which he calls biased.

“The advisory committee report is not worth the paper that it was written on,” Kobach said in an interview Tuesday, insisting there isn’t credible evidence of voter suppression.

“These advisory committees exist in all 50 states and some do their work pretty carefully and others do not, and Kansas unfortunately did not,” he said, charging that members of the committee “were biased” against the SAFE Act. (See ELECTION on page eight)

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Community Living

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Bake and Take Day is a great way to share Giving a homemade gift is a great way to show someone you care.

The annual Bake and Take Day takes place on March 25.

Kansas Wheat encourages everyone to Carol Ann celebrate this event by baking Crouch Family and something made Consumer from wheat or Sciences wheat products Agent for Scott County and taking it

to a neighbor, friend or relative.

The personal visit to members of the community is as rewarding and important as the baked goods you take them.

If you’d like to share the joy of baking, but don’t feel like you have any baking talent, never fear! You can find great video tutorials on the Kansas Wheat Youtube channel and Facebook page. These videos focus on the basics of baking, and even some step-

by-step instructions on recipes like Smokehouse Cranberry Cheese Bread, Rosemary Cardamom Twisters, Cupid’s Crunch and more.

The Home Baking Association also has some great resources for beginners, as well as seasoned bakers, at their website www.homebaking.org.

Bake and Take Day began in 1970 in Sumner County as a community service event. As the largest wheat-producing

county in the state, the Sumner County Wheathearts, an auxiliary organization of the Kansas Association of Wheat Growers, wanted to share in the celebration of the harvest.

This allowed members of the community to bake their favorite dish and share it with someone special.

Even though the Kansas Wheathearts disbanded in December 2001, Bake and Take Day is still supported by Kansas Wheat.

Petty-Dreiling exchange wedding vows in Oklahoma on March 4 Marissa Lauren Petty and Lakin James Dreiling were united in marriage on March 4, 2017, at the chapel at 81 Ranch, Enid, Okla., with the reception following at the Heartland Place at 81 Ranch, with Mr. Brian Faust officiating.

Parents of the bride are Billy and Jan Petty, Okarche, Okla. Grandparents of the bride are Frank and Betty Borelli, Okarche, and Virginia Petty, Okarche, and the late Max Petty.

Matron of Honor was Meggan Whitsitt, sister of the bride, Enid, Okla.

Bridesmaids were Acacia Strube, friend of the bride, Tulsa, Okla.; Aubrey Weaver, friend of the bride, Charleston, S.C.; Megan Dirks, sister of the groom, Scott City; Jordan Dreiling, sister-in-law of the groom, Scott City; and Keisha Ott, friend of the bride, Enid, Okla.

Parents of the groom are Doug and Denise Dreiling, Scott City. Grandparents of the groom are Dennis and Shirley Huck, Coldwater, and the late Ralph and Anna Dreiling, Larned.

Bestman was Logan Dreiling, brother of the groom, Scott City.

Groomsmen were Aaron Dirks, brother-inlaw of the groom, Scott City; Dylan Glunz, friend of the groom, Scott City; Ross Strube, friend of the groom, Tulsa, Okla.; Ethan Gechter, friend of the groom, Kansas City; and Elijah Petty, brotherin-law of the groom, Fayetteville, Ark. Flower girls were Devon and Micah Dreiling and Maddyn Dirks, all nieces of the groom, Scott City.

Ring bearer was Brogan Dirks, nephew of the groom, Scott City.

Guest book attendant was Katie Morford, cous-

Previously, more than one-third of the states commemorate the fourth Saturday in March by participating in Bake and Take Day. Continue this longstanding tradition by choosing your favorite baked item to share on March 25.

For recipes and more ideas for Bake and Take Month, visit nationalfestivalofbreads.com or like the National Festival of Breads Facebook Page.

Or contact the Scott County Extension office at 872-2930.

Monday-Friday March 20-24

in Scott City Majestic Theatre 420 Main • 872-3840

Lunch Tuesday-Friday • 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Evenings Thursday-Saturday • 5:30-10:00 p.m.

Tuesday Open-faced prime rib sandwich with french fries $11.95

Mr. and Mrs. Lakin Dreiling

in of the bride, Ft. Worth, Tex. Ushers were Brandon Ming, San Antonio, Tex.; Aaron Rosin, Scott City; and Robby Strube, Scott City, all friends of the groom.

The bride wore a vintage pearl and crystal beading on alencon lace appliques over Chantilly lace onto an organza and tulle flounced V-neck mermaid gown with a chapel train. It was complemented by a chapel-length veil tipped in crystal trim.

Her bouquet consisted of a colorful array of spring flowers.

For something old, a lace handkerchief belonging to her great-greatAunt Lucille Bixler was wrapped at the base of the bouquet; something new, the bride’s dress; something borrowed, her sister, Meggan Whitsitt’s veil; and something blue, the bride’s garter.

The chapel was decorated by an arbor made by the bride’s father. Her uncle, David Youngblood, decorated the chapel. The cedar beam arbor was adorned across the top, front and sides with a colorful, fragrant array of spring flowers including

freesia, ranunculas, dahlias, garden roses, spirit roses, oriental lilies, blue hydrangeas, fresh forsythia and other flowers.

A crystal chandelier hung from the center of the arbor.

The bride’s father built a chalkboard easel that welcomed guests to the wedding. A mix of spring flowers decorated the top of the easel.

A four-tiered traditional bride’s cake in vanilla, strawberry and lemon flavors was served with the groom’s chocolate cake, decorated in fondant that reflected the groom’s favorite sports teams, including the Kansas University Jayhawks and the Kansas City Chiefs.

A special treat of blueberry, strawberry, coconut, chocolate, cinnamon and glazed cake donuts were offered to the guests and displayed on silver cake stands with hanging crystals.

A rehearsal dinner was hosted by the groom’s parents at the Oakwood Country Club in Enid.

The couple is planning to honeymoon in Canada in June.

They will reside in Holcomb.

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Wednesday - 2 pc. chicken dinner, includes potato and vegetables $6.25

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Thursday - 4 oz. chicken fry dinner, includes potato and vegetables $6.25 Friday - Fish and chips

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Saturday - Ham and two eggs

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Sunday Buffet 10:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

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The Scott County Record

Editorial/Opinion

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editorially speaking

Pennies add up:

SC has seen tremendous benefit from sales tax grants

One-half of one percent isn’t very much.

When added to the sales tax, it takes a $2 purchase just to raise a single penny. But how those pennies can add up.

During the past year, those pennies accumulated to a total of more than $313,000. That’s how much the Scott City Council’s sales tax committee distributed in grants to 17 different organizations.

Grants range from as little as $5,000 upwards to $50,000. All will enhance life in some way for Scott City residents, whether it be at the golf course, Sports Complex or for those who enjoy the walking trail at Palmer Park.

Most of these organizations have no direct source of tax revenue. Without these grants, the Stepping Up program, Scott County Arts Council, Scott County Historical Society and others would find it much more difficult to provide the services they do. Without grant funding, their existence would be in jeopardy.

Other organizations, such as Golden Rule PreSchool and Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center, are able to consider programs and projects that otherwise wouldn’t be possible with their limited funding resources.

Over the years, millions of dollars in grants have been awarded to local organizations. All of these projects have been approved with a goal of making life better for the residents of Scott City.

As much as we all dislike being taxed, this is one tax that has done a tremendous amount of good over the years. It’s pretty phenomenal how something so little can accomplish so much.

GOP in denial:

We can’t debate health care future by ignoring the facts

Facts and figures have seemingly little value in President Trump’s life, which has been evident in any number of claims that he has made - from the size of the crowd that witnessed his inauguration to his accusation that President Obama wiretapped his residence.

Despite being discredited time and again, the President continues to live in a world of alternative facts.

And among his rabid base of supporters, being a proven liar seems to have no effect. According to the fact-checking website PolitiFact, of 77 statements that were made by Trump during one particular time frame, 76 percent of them were Mostly False, False or Pants on Fire.

Imagine that for a moment. Only one of every four statements made by the President of the United States was true.

It has become a familiar tactic for Trump to attack the credibility of anyone and everything else in order to somehow boost his own shaky credibility. Even before the Republican replacement for Obamacare had been unveiled, Trump began laying the groundwork for what everyone anticipated would be a disastrous rollout by claiming - days in advance - that any analysis offered by the Congressional Budget Office couldn’t be trusted.

The CBO is a bi-partisan group. In fact, CBO Director Keith Hall was appointed by Congressional Republicans. Former Congressman Tom Price, who is now Health and Human Services Secretary, had said at the time that Hall “will bring an impressive level of economic expertise and experience to the Congressional Budget Office.”

That was then. This is now.

The credibility of Hall and the CBO has been under fire by Republicans ever since it determined that their proposed health care plan will result in 24 million fewer people having health insurance over the next 10 years. In addition, millions more, especially senior citizens, would have to pay more for health coverage.

The President and fellow Republicans disagreed with the extent to which people would lose health insurance coverage and lashed out at the CBO. The CBO numbers are based on sound analysis, but they aren’t flawless.

Maybe it won’t be 24 million who lose coverage.

It could be 26 million. It could be 20 million. Lots of things can change over the course of 10 years.

It’s indisputable, however, that millions of people would be adversely affected. Neither Congressman Paul Ryan, who unveiled the plan, nor the staunchest supporters of the GOP plan, nor President Trump have provided any facts that indicate otherwise.

Trump continues to promise a replacement for Obamacare will not cause anyone to lose health insurance coverage, while also achieving the goals of being cheaper and better than Obamacare. These are promises from a President who only recently arrived at the conclusion that “Nobody knew health care could be so complicated.”

Actually, everyone knew.

It’s been confirmed by the CBO’s analysis of the GOP health care alternative. And despite their best efforts, Trump, Ryan and fellow conservatives can’t change that fact.

The doc becomes a politician

No one can accuse Congressman Roger Marshall of being a slow learner.

Less than two months on the job as the Big First representative, Marshall already knows that being a good Republican is far more important than holding to moral principles.

He has, no doubt, been visiting with Sen. Jerry Moran who took a little longer, but eventually came to realize the necessity of not stepping out of line with party ideology.

Marshall’s moment of truth came when the long awaited Republican health care plan was finally rolled out. He showed no hesitation in grabbing onto that bandwagon.

In doing so, Marshall revealed he puts a higher value on being Roger the Republican rather than Roger the Doctor.

One would expect Dr. Marshall to have certain insight into the value of expanding Medicaid and making health care available to more people.

Dr. Marshall even makes a point of his unique perspective with a

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reminder that for about 10 of his 25 years as a physician in Great Bend, “I was the only doctor who would accept Medicaid for OB (obstetrics) patients within about 60 to 70 miles.”

What makes that claim even more significant is that a study by George Washington University School of Public Health revealed that 48 percent of all births in the U.S. are covered by Medicaid.

In other words, a very significant number of families lack access to goodpaying jobs and health insurance.

It’s commendable that Dr. Marshall was willing to fill that crucial role.

A p p a r e n t l y Congressman Marshall never got the memo.

He has thrown his support behind the Republican health plan that will save our democracy and transfer billions of dollars to our wealthi-

est citizens at the expense of mothers and babies who rely on Medicaid.

Many of the 20 million people who gained some measure of insurance coverage under Obamacare will lose it under Trumpcare (or Ryancare, depending on who doesn’t want credit for it). Starting in 2020 (coincidentally, not until after the 2018 mid-term elections), Trumpcare would eliminate expanded Medicaid for the working poor who earn up to 133% of the federal poverty level.

Dr. Marshall, you might recognize these as the people who came to you to have their babies delivered.

Not to worry, because Medicaid will become a program funded by block grants. Ask anyone who has followed the ultraconservative plan for school funding in Kansas the last two years about the wonders of block grants.

Despite promises by proponents, it won’t keep pace with rising costs.

Even House Speaker Paul Ryan has described it as

a way to cap health care costs - which is another way of saying, “This is what you get. Make the most of it.”

If those on Medicaid living within 60 to 70 miles of Great Bend thought it was difficult before to find a physician willing to do OB work, imagine what it will be like when Medicaid funding is capped.

And that doesn’t even begin to address those who are booted off Medicaid under the Republican plan.

Which is why the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics have all expressed their opposition to the repeal of Obamacare and replacing it with Trumpcare.

But, many of their members put the Hippocratic Oath above politics.

Marshall was able to ease his conscience during a recent interview by claiming: “Just like Jesus said, ‘The poor will always be with us.’ There (See POLITICIAN on page six)

Operating behind a veil of secrecy

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson needs to understand that his new job, unlike his old one running ExxonMobil, is a public office, and he owes something other than hard work to the people who pay him.

It’s called transparency, a basic value that democracy requires and commerce prefers to manipulate. Thus, as President Trump’s billionaire appointees take over the major departments of government, Americans can expect to know less and less about how things are going for the government they elected.

Independent journalism, to the occasional discomfort of every holder of public office, is part of the governing dynamic in a free society. Without professional news organizations gathering facts, asking questions, looking

Where to Write

another view by Davis Merritt

into unlit corners, exploring dark corridors and passing it all along to citizens, democracy slowly dies.

Tillerson departed this week on a major diplomatic mission to Asia - China, Korea, Japan - without an accompanying corps of reporters and photographers on his government airplane. Along with that, a little piece of your freedom was chipped away.

The unprecedented banning of the media from the secretary’s flight is not surprising in the first weeks of an administration that unilaterally declared war on legacy journalism - that is, journalism produced and carefully mediated by large, long-standing

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newspaper and broadcast organizations such as the Associated Press, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CBS, etc.

But the break from normal practice should be worrying to every American. Without those legacy organizations, the foreign ministries of the visited countries will control what words American citizens - and the world - read and what pictures they see of Tillerson’s efforts supposedly on their behalf.

It’s popular in certain quarters to mock the “lamestream media” and declare that there are many new places to get “my news” these days. But that naïve view misses a basic reality: virtually none of the thousands of recently developed digital “news” websites and millions of blogs do their own, at-the-

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source reporting. Instead, they aggregate (i.e. steal) the news gathering and investigative efforts of legacy journalism organizations, and apply their own factual standards and ideological spin.

They make money off their consumers’ gullibility while spending nothing on the raw information.

Meanwhile, legacy news organizations invest multi-millions doing what a conscientious citizen would do given the time and money.

The expenditures include very large amounts trailing presidents and other high government officials all over the globe.

Contrary to what you can read on right-wing websites this week, journalists aboard Air Force One on presidential trips pay first class airfare for tiny seats jammed into the (See SECRECY on page six)

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trust factor

Trump, GOP are waging war on the truth tellers

Trump and his White House don’t argue on the merits. They attack the credibility of the institutions that come up with facts and arguments they don’t like.

They even do it preemptively. Last week, White House press secretary Sean Spicer warned that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office couldn’t be trusted to come up with accurate numbers about the costs and coverage of the Republicans’ replacement for the Affordable Care Act. “If you’re looking at the CBO for accuracy, you’re looking in the wrong place,” he said.

So what’s the right place? The Oval Office?

Bear in mind the director of the CBO is a Republican economist and

behind the headlines

by Robert Reich

former George W. Bush administration official who was chosen for his position by the Republican Congress in 2015.

No matter. The White House was worried about what the CBO would say about Trumpcare, so it throws the CBO under the bus before the bus arrives.

Trump could care less about the long-term consequences, but the rest of us should. For more than four decades the U.S. budget process has depended on the CBO’s analyses and forecasts.

The office has gained a reputation for honesty and reliability under both Republican and Democratic appointees. Now, it’s tainted.

This has been Trump’s MO since he first met a fact he didn’t like.

When candidate Trump didn’t like the positive employment numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing the economy improving under the

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Obama administration, what did he do?

He called the official unemployment rate “such a phony number,” “one of the biggest hoaxes in American modern politics” and “the biggest joke there is.”

It’s possible to take issue with the ways the Bureau of Labor Statistics measures unemployment, but why undermine public trust in the Bureau itself?

Of course, when February’s job numbers turned out rosy, Trump’s White House embraced the monthly employment report. But the damage has been done. The BLS looks political.

Spicer tries to wrap Trump’s institutional attacks in populist mumbojumbo: “I think (Trump) addressed that in his inaugural speech when he talked about shifting power outside of Washington D.C. back to the American people because for too long it’s been about stats . . . and it’s been about, what number are we looking at as opposed to what face are we looking at?”

Rubbish. The only way we can understand the true dimensions of the (See TRUST on page six)

Who is being made the fool?

by Sarah Anderson

by Jim Hightower

Some people who attain high public office grow in their position of trust.

Some, however, just bloat.

Bloat has been on spectacular display in the first months of Donald Trump’s presidential tenure. He had a disastrous start, choosing a cabinet and staff mostly made up of ideological quacks, incompetents, and Wall Street grifters.

Yet, buoyed by his explosive ego, Trump pronounced his start historic: “I don’t think there’s ever been a president elected who in this short period of time has done what we’ve done,” he boasted at a recent news conference.

Sadly, he’s right.

For example, they made a reckless, unconstitutional attempt to ban millions of Muslim immigrants from our land. They had to ax the kooky guy Trump chose to be his national security adviser. And they’ve apparently been caught colluding with Russian meddlers in our politics.

Some record!

And now Trump has embraced a GOP replacement of Obamacare, hailing the “Trumpcare” substitute that will jack-up our health care costs, cut benefits and eliminate coverage entirely for millions of working-class and poor people - while also sneaking in yet an-

other underhanded tax cut for the rich.

It’s so awful that even hordes of Republican lawmakers have gagged, refusing to swallow it. Yet, lost in selfdeception, Trump calls it “wonderful.”

We have a president who’s detached from reality, careening from one mess to another.

But who will say: “The emperor has no clothes?”

He’s so far gone that when he read his recent address to Congress straight

off the teleprompter, without his usual pugnacious ranting, Republican enablers of his antics and even the media establishment applauded him for being “presidential.”

Huh? The speech was a nasty wad of lies and right-wing nonsense. If the occasional appearance of sanity is all we ask of Trump, then his reign of insanity will be our fault.

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

bad vs worse

With or without ACA repeal, Republican ‘bloodbath’ is likely

The Trump administration and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan are defending the Republican bill to supplant the Affordable Care Act, while facing criticism from Democrats and fellow GOP lawmakers. (Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post) Last week, President Trump told Republicans in a private meeting that if they don’t succeed in repealing the Affordable Care Act, the 2018 midterm elections will be a “bloodbath.” Paul Ryan was asked for his thoughts on “Face the Nation,” and here’s what he said: John Dickerson: The president has said there will be a bloodbath in 2018 if this isn’t passed through the House and Senate. Do you agree?

Ryan: I do believe that if we don’t keep our word to the people who sent us here, yes.

Look, the most important thing for a person like myself, who runs for office and tells the people we are asking to hire us, this is what I will do if I get

Going after the opioid profiteers

other voices

by Paul Waldman

elected. And then, if you don’t do that, you are breaking your word.

Trying and failing to do what you said you would isn’t exactly “breaking your word,” but you get the point.

Ryan’s main concern, at least as he expresses it here, is with the people who deeply want to see the ACA repealed: the Republican base. He and the rest of his party have been terrified of them for the past eight years, so it’s no surprise that the base’s wrath is still foremost in their minds.

But there’s a problem: 2018 is probably going to be a bloodbath for Republicans whether they pass repeal or not.

To understand why, let’s quickly run through the possible scenarios for the midterm elections as they relate to this effort, which will be the most dramatic and vividly emotional of all the legislative battles of the next few years.

Ryan is almost certainly right that if they fail to pass repeal, the GOP base will be disgusted with its leaders. For eight years, Republican candidates told them, “Turn out to vote, and then as

soon as we get the chance we’ll destroy this law that Barack Obama cast forth from the very fires of hell.”

The base responded, delivering Republicans the House in 2010 and the Senate in 2014.

And yet, 60 or so repeal votes notwithstanding, the law remained in place.

Donald Trump became the party’s presidential nominee largely because of the base’s dissatisfaction with a Republican establishment it saw as ineffectual. And now, if they can’t pass it with complete control of government, it would be even worse.

That’s Bloodbath Version No. 1.

Version No. 2 is just as dangerous, if not more so.

In this scenario, they pass the bill, and what everyone who knows anything about health care is predicting does indeed come true.

Millions lose their coverage, outof-pocket costs rise, premiums go up, the individual market is destabilized, and the kind of security the ACA has offered to those with preexisting conditions vanishes. Not only is the broader public angry, but Democratic voters in particular are enraged.

(See WORSE on page six)

Travis Bornstein never told his friends about his son Tyler’s drug problem. He was too embarrassed.

Then, on Sept. 28, 2014, Tyler’s body was found in a vacant lot in Akron, Ohio. The 23-year-old had become addicted to opioid pain killers after several sports-related injuries and surgeries.

Unable to afford long-term treatment, he ultimately turned to a cheaper drug - the heroin that killed him.

“Now I have no Between choice but to speak 2008 and 2012, out,” the elder for example, Bornstein, president these companies shipped of Teamsters Local 780 million 24 in Akron, told a hydrocodone crowd of thousands and oxycoat the union’s con- done opioid vention in 2016. As doses to West Virginia - 433 he shared the unvar- for every man, nished tale of how woman, and a middle-class, star child in the athlete wound up state. in that vacant lot, Bornstein lit a fire under the 1.4-million-member organization.

The Teamsters pledged $1.4 million for a nonprofit organization the Bornstein family set up to expand treatment for addicts in Ohio. They’re also going after the drug industry CEOs who’ve been profiting off a national opioid problem of epidemic proportions.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, the number of overdose deaths involving opioids (including prescription drugs and heroin) has quadrupled since 1999. In 2015, opioid deaths in the United States hit a record-breaking 33,000.

The labor union is targeting the three largest U.S. prescription drug wholesalers - McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen - for flooding hard-hit areas with the highly addictive pills.

Between 2008 and 2012, for example, these companies shipped 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone opioid doses to West Virginia - 433 for every man, woman, and child in the state. During that time period, 1,728 people in the state overdosed on the painkillers.

The companies deny any wrongdoing, pointing the finger instead at corrupt doctors and pharmacists who sell pills directly to addicts and dealers.

But as West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin recently told the Charleston Gazette-Mail, “Obviously, they had to know, with a state this size, and that many pills coming in, that something wasn’t right.”

The Teamsters are using their clout as pension fund investors to demand that drug wholesalers take responsibility for their role in the epidemic, conduct full investigations of their distribution practices, and hold CEOs accountable.

At AmerisourceBergen, for example, CEO Steven Collis hasn’t (See OPIOID on page six)

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A closer look at Sen. Moran’s so-called ‘fair tax’ Sen. Jerry Moran recently introduced U.S. Senate Bill 18 (aka, the “Fair Tax Act”) in the Senate. This is the “consumption tax” that many have touted as the fairest type of tax reform.

If it becomes law, it would abolish all income tax, particularly, all corporate tax and move our country to draw all revenue from a national sales

tax. This march to zero income tax and its shifting exclusively to sales tax is the same strategy long sought after by our soonto-be former Governor Brownback.

Moran suggests the rate start at a 23% federally imposed sales tax on all spending with flexibility in subsequent years to accommodate revenue requirements. This tax would be imposed prior to all state and municipal

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problems real people face is with data about these problems, from sources the public trusts. But if the credibility of those sources is repeatedly called into question by the president of the United States, there’s no shared truth.

When Trump disagreed with judicial findings about his original travel ban, he didn’t offer any reasons or analyses.

Instead, he called the judge who issued the stay a “so-called judge” and attacked the appellate judges who upheld it as “so political” they weren’t “able to read a statement and do what’s right.”

When he blamed the intelligence agencies for the downfall of his first national security advisor, he didn’t spell out why.

He just attacked them.

When he dislikes press reports, Trump doesn’t try to correct them. He assails the press as “the enemy of the American people,” “dishonest,” purveyors of “fake news,” and “the opposition party,” and questions their motives (they “have their own agenda, and it’s not your agenda, and it’s not the country’s agenda”) When polls show that he has a low approval rating, he doesn’t say he expects the rating to improve. He attacks the entire polling industry, asserting “any negative polls are fake news.”

When scientists come up with conclusions he disagrees with, he doesn’t offer other credible sources of scientific data. He attacks science.

Trump thinks climate change is a hoax. His new head of the EPA asserted that climate change isn’t caused by human activity.

What does the Trump administration do to prove the point? Nothing.

Instead, it tells EPA staffers to remove pages from the EPA’s website concerning climate change, and threatens to review all the agency’s data and publications, and cuts the budgets of all scientific research in government.

Trump’s big lies are bad enough because they subvert the truth and sow confusion. But Trump’s attacks on the institutions we rely on as sources of the truth are even more dangerous, because they make it harder for the public to believe anything.

In a democracy, the truth is a common good.

Trump is actively destroying the truth-telling institutions we depend on.

Robert Reich is a former secretary of labor, is currently a professor at the University of California at Berkeley

is a group of people that just don’t want health care and aren’t going to take care of themselves.”

He further added, “Just, like, homeless people. I think just morally, spiritually, socially, (some people) just don’t want health care.”

Sure they don’t.

We imagine Marshall can give countless examples of people who, when given the choice, prefer to remain sick or in pain.

Moran suggests the rate start at a 23% federally imposed sales tax on all spending with flexibility in subsequent years to accommodate revenue requirements.

This tax would be imposed prior to all state and municipal taxes and would mean a sales tax of over 30 cents on the dollar in many Kansas counties.

taxes and would mean a sales tax of over 30 cents on the dollar in many Kansas counties.

This would likely be imposed on all consumption, including all food and services like rent and utility bills.

In reality, to accommodate current federal spending and not even taking into account the near $20 trillion in national debt and its growing interest, the actual figure would need to be much closer to 50%.

This tax would be the most regressive tax ever implemented. If you are reading this, you likely spend between 90% and 110% of your earned income each year and this bill would require you to spend at least a third of that on a consumption tax!

For folks like Soros, Buffet and Koch, who spend less than five percent of their income annually, this would be the largest windfall in history,

but for everyone else, it results in the largest tax increase ever.

Another consideration is that millionaires and billionaires don’t make the bulk of their purchases locally. Many of their high dollar luxury items are bought overseas and would be shielded from this tax. Not to mention, they’ve mastered every loophole and you haven’t.

that Republicans are united against raising the minimum wage.

If Republicans were to be anything but themselves, it would make the goal of poor people remaining in poverty that much more difficult.

In all honesty, we’re trying to show some measure of compassion for the position that Marshall finds himself in.

How difficult must it be to learn that you can

be a physician, or a partyline Republican, but you can’t be both? How agonizing it must be to know that your loyalty to one contradicts your loyalty to the other?

Or maybe it wasn’t that difficult after all.

Poor people choose to be poor. Sick people choose to be sick.

Your duty is to simply give the people what they want.

(See FAIR on page seven)

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Which prompts the next question, “Why would poor people who don’t care be willing to drive 60 or 70 miles to see an obstetrician?”

And since Marshall so readily brought Jesus into the debate, perhaps he can reference some passage in the Bible where Jesus wanted to heal more of the sick and impoverished, but even He knew that’s not what they really wanted.

Who could have known that Jesus was a Republican?

But, that isn’t the big takeaway from Marshall’s comments. It demonstrates there is no separation between Marshall and the familiar Republican dogma that poor people are poor by choice. That’s why poor people don’t mind it when Republicans increase sales taxes which hit their pocketbooks far greater than the wealthy.

It’s why they don’t mind

Trump now has world record for unconstitutional travel bans

Opioid

coughed up a penny of the tens of millions of press secretary, touted the new world

by Andy Borowitz dollars he pocketed as the record in a press briefing that somefirm was reaping opioid times resembled a victory lap.

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz windfalls - even though Report) - Notching the first major “After the first unconstitutional achievement of his Presidency, the company has paid $16 travel ban, a lot of people questioned Donald Trump has broken the world million to settle a West whether the President could follow it record for unconstitutional travel Virginia case over their up with another unconstitutional one bans, the White House confirmed on so quickly,” a gloating Spicer said. negligence.

Wednesday.

“I think he silenced a lot of doubters The Teamsters are In an official statement announctoday.” demanding that some of ing the new world record, the White In a tense moment, Spicer lashed the CEO’s pay be “clawed House called Trump’s second unconout at a reporter who claimed that, by back,” in the same way stitutional ban “especially impresissuing two unconstitutional travel that Wells Fargo execusive” because it came only thirtybans in less than two months, Trump tives involved in last eight days after his first. had “set the bar too high.” year’s bogus account “In addition to the world record “The travel ban he is planning to scandal had to forfeit for unconstitutional travel bans, sign tomorrow will be more unconsome of their compensaPresident Trump has also smashed stitutional than the first two travel tion. the speed record for signing them,” bans put together,” Spicer snapped.

They’ve made similar the statement read. demands on McKesson, Sean Spicer, the White House Andy Borowitz is a comedian and author where CEO John Hammergren’s compensation has amounted to an astounding $368 million over the past five years. (continued from page five) Part of the problem with accountability at The surge of grassroots acute in rural areas. saying that when they do, McKesson, according to energy we’ve seen on The president’s party it will only be because the Teamsters, is the fact the left gains even more almost always loses seats they chose to go without that Hammergren serves as both CEO and chairmomentum. We know that in Congress in mid- it. what drives turnout in off- term elections. That’s As he put it, “You get it year elections is anger, the baseline from which if you want it. That’s freeand most of the anger is Republicans start. Add in dom.” And if you want it going to be on the left. a catastrophic rollout of but you can’t afford it?

Not only that, the their repeal, and it could Hey, freedom isn’t free.

Republican base won’t be get much worse.

There’s a theory going so happy about the promThere is one scenario around that Republicans rear of that Boeing 747. ise that was kept once they in which Republicans can actually want their bill to Overseas trips with cabisee the results. One of avoid a bloodbath. That’s fail, so they can avoid net members in lesser airthe things that’s becoming if they pass repeal and it the disaster that will come planes, including food and increasingly clear is that turns out to be as great as with implementing it and lodging, can cost news the GOP reform bill is they claim, despite what just move on to cutting organizations $50,000 to going to hit many of their everyone else says. More taxes, which is their top $100,000 per reporter or photographer. key constituencies espe- people get coverage, costs priority anyway.

So why don’t journalcially hard. The bill allows come down, premiums I can’t say if that’s insurance companies plummet, and the free what they’re thinking, but ists plan their own trips?

▪Scheduled airlines to charge older patients market delivers us to the they may come to realize more, while giving them paradise we’ve been wait- that while the scenario in don’t necessarily go where a tax credit that in many ing for. which they fail to repeal and when the official’s cases will be worth far If there’s anyone, even the ACA could produce dedicated plane goes.

▪For overseas trips, less than the ACA subsi- Republicans, who sin- a bad result in 2018, the dies they’re getting now. cerely thinks that’s going real bloodbath will come visas can be a problem if you’re not in the offiWorking-class vot- to happen, I’d be shocked. if they succeed. ers will find it harder to Even Paul Ryan isn’t Paul Waldman is a senior cial “traveling party,” as afford insurance. The suf- promising that no one will writer at The American Pros- can on-the-ground transportation, particularly in fering will be particularly lose their coverage. He’s pect

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man of the company. The union is filing a shareholder resolution urging the board to appoint an independent chair.

Meanwhile, Travis Bornstein is continuing to speak out, telling his son Tyler’s tragic story to students, policymakers and others as he works to expand the availability of drug treatment for communities ravaged by the opioid crisis.

Since Tyler’s death, he’s learned that opioid addiction isn’t a moral failure, but rather a disease, like cancer or diabetes.

“Now my son is my hero for everything he was able to accomplish with such a gut-wrenching disease,” Bornstein said. “I was the fool.”

Sarah Anderson directs the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies

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repressive places such as China.

▪Traveling alone can be iffy, as you would not be guaranteed access to whatever was going on in official buildings and hotels.

In short, if your government officials don’t want you to know what they are doing, they have ways of guaranteeing that happens, starting now.

That’s provided you allow them to do so.

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

We need a united voice for ag I recently had the opportunity of a lifetime in representing my friends and family of Western Kansas during the first field hearing held for the 2018 farm bill.

On Feb. 23, I testified on behalf of Kansas Farm Bureau about issues affecting Kansans and young farmers and ranchers.

As some of you know, I was not raised in the world of agriculture. It wasn’t until I met my husband, Clint, that I began the journey that led me to the opportunities I have today.

Even when Clint and I were first married, I worked off the farm and was pretty disconnected.

Yes, I was the girl who

editor’s mail didn’t know the difference between a cow and a heifer.

Five years ago, I quit my off-farm job and now help on the farm. Being part of the hard work that happens on the farm has ignited a passion inside me. Working side-by-side, caring for one another and helping each other achieve one common goal is an amazing experience.

Today, farmers and ranchers are facing a storm. Prices are low, government regulations are burdensome and duplicative, credit is tight and there is no easy button we can push to make it better.

This, my friends, is

Fair

why I felt, now more than ever, I had to connect with an organization that listens to my concerns and gives farmers a voice at the state and national level. An organization that begins at the county level, that works and advocates on policy that we, the members, write.

When asked to testify, I began to get in touch with local farmers in our area to hear their concerns so I could represent not only France Family Farms, but my neighbors too. This is exactly what Farm Bureau does on a daily basis. They reach out to their members. They want to hear what you are concerned about on your farms and ranches, so they can represent YOU.

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If you are not a member of your county Farm Bureau, join today.

Contact a county board member or your county coordinator and tell them you want to be involved.

If you’re not sure where to start, visit www.kfb.org, click on the “About” link and then “Contact Us” or just click “Join” and become part of a county Farm Bureau. There’s one in every Kansas county.

I was humbled and honored to have the opportunity to speak on behalf of our region’s farmers and ranchers, but we can’t do this alone.

Join Farm Bureau today so it too can be YOUR voice of agriculture.

Amy France Marienthal

Parole is again denied The family of the late Leoti Chief of Police Carl A. Simons would like to extend a heartfelt thank you for the “back-up” regarding the plea for comments on the inmate that murdered him.

Richard McCowan was denied parole again.

He will not be considered again for parole until April 2020.

We know that many of you never knew Chief Simons, but any response you sent helps make a difference and our family deeply appreciates your time.

To all of the people who took the time to send a response to the parole application, thank you.

One of the reasons given for denial was public response, which means the effort given was worth it and made a difference.

Thanks, on behalf of the family of Chief Carl A. Simons.

C.J. Davis Scott City

Have questions about the Scott Community Foundation? call 872-3790 or e-mail: julie@scottcf.org

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Additionally, consumption is the engine of our economy. To tax that engine while it is sputtering (and for the working class, it is) would kill it.

Imagine every local merchant or repairman trying to run their businesses, knowing that every purchase will come with an additional 30-50% tacked on tax.

As every politician loves to say, if consumers have extra cash in their pockets, they will spend it locally and strengthen

the economy. This is antithetical to that and should be obvious.

Sen. Jerry Moran knows all this yet he introduced this ludicrous bill anyway.

It strikes a similar chord with his support of our new Secretary of Education, Betsy Devos.

While she was adamantly opposed by we constituents because she lacked any qualifications in education, she was confirmed by both our Kansas Senators. Her only skill

was in handing over hundreds of millions in campaign contributions and she now has a cabinet seat which will determine the future of our children’s education.

This kind of tax would be wonderful for her and her family. This kind of tax will be the greatest gift in history to the good folks at Goldman Sachs.

This tax, however, would be the single largest shift of taxation onto the middle and working class, a segment of the

population already being overburdened and underrepresented.

I urge each of you to ask Senator Moran why he is being so reckless with our future. You can contact him at (202) 2246521.

Read more about the bill at: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/18 Alan LaPolice is a former candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives for the First District in Kansas

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Attend the Church of Your Choice

USD 466 Track Practice begins

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

VIP Senior Center Dance, 2:00 p.m.

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

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

Red Cross Blood Drive, Wm. Carpenter Bldg., Noon - 6:00 p.m.

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

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Knights of Columbus Fish Fry, St. Joseph Parish Center, 5:30 p.m.

SCMS Site Council, 5:00 p.m.

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

Spring Equinox. The day will be close to twelve hours long today, with daylight gradually increasing each day until the Summer Equinox.

On this day in 1906, John D. Rockefeller III was born. He founded Standard Oil and eventually became a billionaire philanthropist.

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Stepping Up Hoedown, Bellwether Barn (10311 Hwy. 95), 6:00 p.m.

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On this day in 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred at Prince William Sound in Alaska.

The incident leaked more than 11 million gallons of oil into the ocean.

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Brother and Sister Day is celebrated today. If you have siblings, let them know how much they mean to you.

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Election “You could see that in the hearings themselves,” he said. “They obtained testimony overwhelmingly from people who were opposed to the Kansas law.”

Mildred Edwards, chairwoman of the Kansas committee, defended the report, saying members made “every effort” to get differing viewpoints.

“We worked really hard as a committee to find a bipartisan presentation panel to come before us,” Edwards said, noting that Kobach was among those invited to testify.

“We cast our net far and wide and we believe those individuals with the voices that should be heard were present at that hearing,” she said.

A Kansas ‘Poll Tax’ The cost of obtaining documents necessary to prove citizenship is also a barrier, the report says.

While the law makes the documents available from state agencies at no cost, some prospective voters have been charged due to “insufficient training” of state workers. In addition, the report says fees charged to Kansans by agencies in other states constitute what amounts to an unconstitutional “poll tax.”

In addition to urging a Justice Department review of the SAFE Act,

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the report recommends that Congress establish a working committee to study the impact of a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down the section of the Voting Rights Act that authorized federal oversight of election laws in states with a history of discriminating against voters. Congress should use the information generated by the working group to develop an updated formula to identify states that “require continued review,” the report says.

The report also says the congressional working group should study the feasibility of a national voter registration system to replace a state-based system that has resulted in a confusing patchwork quilt of election laws.

“The U.S. is currently the only major democracy without a standard voter registration system at the national level,” the report says.

Kobach said the recommendation is an indication of the committee’s “sloppy work.”

“If they had done their homework, they would know that is actually prohibited by the federal Constitution . . . which says that the states are in charge of the registration of voters and determining who the qualified voters are,” he said.

Tarango person and this gives me the opportunity to work with people of all ages,” she says.

On the Front Line In many ways, a county health department is on the front line when it comes to providing medical care in a community.

The health department is the first stop for many newcomers who are learning what resources are available. They are also the first choice for many families who need to get their young children immunized.

The recent outbreak of mumps in Colby and Garden City has raised concern with whether families are remaining current with immunizations.

“Fortunately, in Scott County, I haven’t seen that as a major problem,” Tarango says.

She emphasizes that

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they must often educate people about the value of immunizations, especially young families who have never experienced measles, mumps or similar outbreaks during their lifetime.

“I’ll hear young parents ask why their kids have to be immunized for something they’ve never heard of,” Tarango says.

“I tell them the reason they haven’t heard of some of these diseases is because kids do get their immunizations.

“Making sure immunizations are up-to-date has always been a priority with me.”

Likewise, Tarango says a number of young families rely on the WIC program.

The health department has found itself filling an unexpected role since Parents as Teachers (PAT) has been unable to fill its staff opening for more than a year. Tarango

and her staff introduce families with young children to the Healthy Steps program that is offered through Russell Child Development Center.

Since the health department and RCDC share the same building, Tarango says she and her staff can easily refer families to RCDC when necessary.

Senior Care In addition to young families, many senior citizens rely on regular visits from health department staff in order to remain in their homes. As the babyboomers continue to age, this need will increase in the community.

“We’re also an important resource for people who may have just returned from the hospital and need help with light housekeeping and other needs while they recoup,” Tarango says.

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Jayhawkers place at 4-H Days

Congratulations to the Manning Jayhawkers on a great job at County and Regional 4-H Club Days held at Syracuse on March 4.

Participants and placings include: •Cally Cramer: junior demonstration, blue.

•Marly Cramer: junior project talk, blue.

•Aden Frederick: junior demonstration, blue.

•Jessica West: senior demonstration, blue.

•Matthew West: junior project talk, first regional blue and first county blue.

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While she’s still becoming familiar with her added responsibilities, Tarango wants to do more that will make her department even more accessible to families.

One of those ideas is to extend hours beyond 5:00 p.m. on certain days in order to assist working households.

Tarango is also hopeful that as she hires additional staff, and possibly with grant assistance, the department can increase their ability to provide in-home care and initiate more programs that can assist families.

She emphasizes that many of the services they provide aren’t limited to low-income families.

“One of the things I really enjoy about this job is that we build relationships with so many people, from young kids to senior citizens,” she says.

“We want their lives to be as healthy as possible.”

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Onions, broccoli on list of early-season vegetables Warm weather is predicted through most of the next week and that will get many gardeners itching to plant something. Onions, cabbage and broccoli are cold resistant plants that can be planted now.

As with other vegetables, be sure to fertilize before planting and work the fertilizer into the soil.

It is best to have a soil test done to determine what is actually needed as many of our soils have enough fertility so that the only needed supplement is a nitrogen only fertilizer.

If you don’t have time to test the soil, use a vegetable fertilizer at the suggested rate.

Broccoli and cabbage are normally started from seed indoors and then transplanted outside at this time. Acclimated plants can take temperatures

down to the mid- to lower 20s without damage.

Plants that are coming out of a protected environment (not acclimated) will need to be gradually exposed to the wind and cold so they develop the toughness necessary to thrive in early spring.

This may take as long as a week if plants start out soft.

When planting, use a root stimulator or transplant solution to water in after the plants are set.

About one cup of solution per plant is sufficient.

Onions are normally grown from either sets (small bulbs) or plants.

Plants are usually better labeled as to variety.

Onions can be planted thickly if young plants are harvested for green onions so remaining onions are thinned.

Those left to develop bulbs will need to be about 4-6 inches apart.

Onions are shallow rooted so be sure to water if the weather turns dry.

Strawberry Production New strawberry plants should be planted early so the mother plants become established. The most appropriate planting time is late March to mid-April.

Early spring strawberry plantings allow the mother plants to become well-established during the cooler spring periods when the plants grow best - when soil temperature is between 65 and 80 de-

grees.

The mother plants establish a strong root system during this cool period. Later, runners and daughter plants are formed.

The earlier the mother plants are set, the sooner the first daughter plant will be formed and take root. These first daughter plants will be the largest plants at the end of the growing season and will bear more berries per plant the following spring.

When planting is done later, the temperatures are higher, stressing the mother plants. This results in reduced growth, weaker mother plants and a delay in daughter plant formation.

Fewer and smaller daughter plants produce fewer berries, resulting in a smaller crop.

Hummingbirds will like new Prairie Star Flower list After years of sometimes harsh tests, the winners have emerged: Kansas State University has unveiled its latest list of recommended annual flowers, including a sweet treat for hummingbirds and a vine that sports purple foliage with contrasting, bright-pink flowers.

The new Prairie Star Flower list includes plants that have been tested for two consecutive years in Kansas and flourished, even with the state’s sometimes temperamental climate.

“Try Cuphea ‘Vermillionaire’ and watch the hummingbirds flock to your patio or garden,” said Robin Ruether, Prairie Star program coordinator based at the K-State Olathe Horticulture Research Center.

“The tubular orange flowers are a favorite nectar source for the birds and pollinators, plus the plants thrive in hot, humid conditions and need little care besides water and fertilizer.”

Plant breeders from around the world send seeds or rooted cuttings

Cheryl Boyer and Robin Ruether maintain the Prairie Star website and write the Prairie Star blog (www.prairiestarflowersblog.com). The 2017 Prairie Star list of annual flowers is online at http://www.bookstore.ksre.ksu.edu/pubs/MF2769. pdf

to Ruether as part of the flower trial program overseen by Cheryl Boyer, K-State Extension specialist.

After getting an early-spring start in greenhouses, the young plants are transplanted outdoors when the weather warms. They’re evaluated throughout the growing season and ultimately judged on their vigor, flowers and foliage.

Another plant, the Coleus ‘FlameThrower Spiced Curry’ made a strong showing over the last two years, Ruether said. The foliage plant’s chartreuse leaves have an eye-catching reddish color on the undersides that provide a unique visual display when the wind is blowing.

“Sweet potato vine is a great choice for a cascading foliage plant.

‘FloraMia Nero’ is a little different in that it has

lots of bright pink flowers in addition to the dark leaves,” she said. “Since it isn’t as aggressive as most other sweet potato vines, it will mix with other plants nicely in container gardens.”

The Prairie Star list includes flower name; cultivar and color; optimal planting location, such as “full sun” or “sun or shade;” and the average height and width of the mature plant. Categories indicate which plants work best for flower display, foliage display and containers.

Prairie Star is not a commercial brand or product line, Boyer said. The list gives gardeners some cultivars to look for which have proven themselves in this region. While more than 500 different flowers are tested each year, there are still many other cultivars available on the market.

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“Research shows that flower gardening improves mental and physical health, both for the gardener and those who enjoy the fruits of their labor,” Boyer said.

“This spring go plant shopping, have fun gardening and brighten the world around you.”

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Another improvement planned this spring is to replace railroad ties and rock around the backstops of the four ball fields with concrete. This area can be used as lawn chair seating for fans.

The golf course has traditionally been one of the largest recipients of grant funding.

A new purchase this year will be a chemical applicator mule and greens roller ($16,000).

Grant funds also assist with annual expenses such as cart path improvements, summer labor and grounds maintenance.

Another major recipient is the historical society which uses most of their $40,000 grant to pay the wages of two parttime employees and a custodian which is approximately $33,000.

The Walking Trail Committee, in association with the Scott Community Foundation, was awarded $23,300 to complete the final phase of the trail in Palmer Park and begin expanding the trail along the old railroad right-ofway.

New Recipients A new recipient of grant funding is the Scott County Fair board which received $25,000 of their $30,000 request so it can update the public address system in the grandstand, rodeo arena and on the Midway.

In order to upgrade its playground area, Golden Rule Pre-School was awarded $15,000. The playground is located immediately north of the United Methodist Church and is also available to the public.

Plans are to extend concrete under all the playground equipment. Mulch will be replaced with a rubberized tile that will be installed by volunteers.

Stepping Up, a program that assists individuals trying to break away from a life of addiction, or who have been victims of abuse, was awarded $15,000 to assist in improvements to the recently acquired Stepping Inn Motel.

Funding will assist with repairs and remodeling of the motel on north US83 Highway. The motel provides temporary housing to those individuals and families who qualify for the program.

The Scott County VIP Center has been awarded $17,300 to assist with building maintenance, custodian wages and bus operations.

Friends of Lake Scott also received a $5,000 boost in their “Save the Arches” campaign. They are rebuilding the arches at the historic Lake Scott Beach House.

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2017 Scott City Sales Tax Grant Recipients

Scott Recreation Commission Request: $60,000 Grant: $50,000 Most of the money ($37,914) will be used to make an annual payment on light poles at the Sports Complex.

Other projects include: $11,500: replace old railroad ties and rock behind backstops with concrete. $8,000-$10,000: bleacher covers Scott Community Golf Course Request: $90,000 Grant: $45,000 $40,000 (annually): cart path improvements $16,000 (one time): chemical applicator mule and greens roller $15,000 (annually): summer labor $12,000 (annually): fertilizer, pest, chemical program $7,000 (annually): tree and grounds maintenance Scott County Historical Society Request: $45,000 Grant: $40,000 Wages for two part-time staff and a custodian cost $33,000; insurance costs $9,000; and the replacement of more than 200 halogen light bulbs with LED lights in the gallery is costing about $3,000.

Scott County Free Fair Request: $30,000 Grant: $25,000 Funding will be used to replace the public address system in the grandstand area, the rodeo arena, west pavilion and the Midway.

WKCAC While that still remains a possibility, Robbins feels the former grocery store offers more opportunity for growth within her agency and can also fill a need in the community.

“We’ve run out of office space,” says Robbins.

“We have eight people working out of one office. We have to do something.”

Tentative plans call for half of the 10,000 square foot grocery store that would accommodate staffing needs for WKCAC in addition to offering larger rooms for team meetings, waiting areas for host families, etc.

The other half of the building could be used as a multi-purpose training

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center for workshops and conferences.

“There are times when we currently bring up to 80 people to Scott City for conferences and we could expand that to 150 or even 200 people if we had the room,” Robbins says. “We could become a regional hub to train social workers and law enforcement officers from across the state.”

While the owners of Heartland Foods have reduced their asking price for the building, Robbins says her agency doesn’t have funding within its budget.

“The Community Foundation has offered to help sponsor a loan, but because we don’t have a

regular source of revenue we aren’t in a position to guarantee loan payments,” she noted.

She also says they have been unsuccessful the last two years when requesting tax credits through the Kansas Department of Commerce.

Whether WKCAC expands at its current location or can acquire the former grocery store, Robbins says the agency’s continued growth demands that it do something.

“It comes down to money. We’ve received some support, but it’s not near enough for us to make a commitment to one plan or the other,” she says.

Scott Community Foundation Walking Trail Request: $23,350 Grant: $23,300 Expenses associated with continued development of the community walking trail.

Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center Request: $50,000 Grant: $20,000 WKCAC planned to allocate $20,000 for general expenses, including salaries, and earmark the remainder toward purchase and renovation of the grocery store on K96 Highway.

Scott County VIP Center Request: $20,000 Grant: $17,300 Most of the funding will go towards maintenance of the VIP Center ($7,600), with other funds to assist with custodian wages ($6,500) and bus maintenance/fuel ($6,000).

Golden Rule Pre-School Request: $29,152.58 Grant: $15,000 $8,325: expand concrete in playground area $20,827: replace mulch in playground with rubberized tile Stepping Up Program Request: $23,000 Grant: $15,000 Improvements to the recently acquired Stepping Inn Motel that include remodeling 23 rooms and an office ($13,000), painting/repairs ($7,000), perimeter fencing ($3,000), signage ($2,000) and video security system ($1,000).

Indoor Arena and Activity Center Request: $11,750 Grant: $11,700 The majority of grant funding ($9,350) will cover the cost of a canopy enclosure that has already been purchased for the easat end of the arena. Another $2,400 will be used for concrete at the “stripping chute” in order to hold down dust in the arena.

Scott City Chamber of Commerce Request: $11,700 Grant: $11,300 The big ticket items on the list are computer software ($3,348) and meals for lunch-and-learn programs ($2,205), along with a variety of office and meeting expenses.

Scott County Arts Council Request: $10,000 Grant: $10,000 This will assist with the salary of the executive director.

Scott County Development Committee Request: $7,325 Grant: $7,300 Projects include: •ADA accessibility to the office (max. cost $500) •Assist local business people in attending a 2-1/2 day “Destination Boot Camp” program •Computer/software upgrades (est. $1,825) Scott County Extension Council Request: $6,142.62 Grant: $6,100 Purchase cameras and photography equipment to be used by county 4-Hers.

Spencer Flight and Education Center Request: $9,700 Grant: $6,000 Programs for which the SFEC requested funding included a fly-in for area pilots to provide community entertainment ($4,500), expenses for an advanced flight instructor ($2,500), expenses for area pilots to attend FAA Civil Aerospace Medical Institute one-day training ($1,500) and continuation of monthly IMC meetings ($1,200).

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Business hometown treasures The Scott County Record

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Hardware store adds consignment booths to build traffic

Joyce Thomas understands the importance of each Main Street business in a small community.

So, when confronted with declining retail sales at Dighton Hometown Hardware, closing the doors was not an option.

Instead, Thomas began brainstorming with friends and family as to what might increase traffic flow into the business.

What she heard was a treasure trove of ideas as in Dighton Hometown Hardware and Treasures.

Thomas has converted about 1,000 square feet of space in the north end of the building to display antiques and homemade crafts.

Thomas is leasing 16 booths and the owners sell their merchandise on consignment.

Grand opening for the Hometown Treasures section of the building will be Friday and Saturday, March 17-18.

“The community response has been overwhelming,” says Thomas.

“People are coming in every day to see how it’s coming along.”

All 16 booths have been leased. Most are already completed with merchandise on display and the remainder will be finished in time for the grand opening.

Ten of the booths are 8x8 feet and the other six are 4x4 feet.

Learning to Adapt Thomas purchased True Value Hardware six years ago from long-time owner Keenan Wall and it remained a True Value franchise until about a year ago.

The store is now an Orgill franchise, which has meant a change in many of the product brand names. However, the lawn and hardware inventory has remained basically unchanged.

The main reason for changing to Orgill, says Thomas, is the company was able to reduce overhead because of fewer requirements when ordering merchandise and

Joyce Thomas, owner of Hometown Hardware and Treasures stands by an organ that dates to the 1800s, along with an antique Victrola. (Below left) The window display features antique dinnerware. (Below right) Dolls and craft items fill one of the booths.

Hometown Treasures in downtown Dighton will have a grand opening on Friday and Saturday, March 17-18, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

reduced shipping costs.

While that has helped hold the line on some expenses, it hasn’t changed the dilemma which is familiar to many small-town businesses.

“Business is slow. It’s easy for people to shop on-line or drive to Scott City or Garden City,” says Thomas. “I’m fortunate that the city, county and Lane-Scott Electric are so supportive.”

Thomas is adapting to the fact that many of their customers are fixit-uppers and contractors looking for plumbing supplies and other quick-fix items.

“We can’t stock everything, but we try to have those things which people need most often,” she says. “And if we don’t have it in stock, we can order it, if they can wait.”

nation with the consignment booths will benefit everyone. Customers who come into the store for one reason may find themselves picking up something from the hardware side or possibly browsing through the antiques and crafts.

The guidelines for selling merchandise out of Hometown Treasures is simple - it must be an antique, collectible or homemade craft item.

No garage sale merchandise permitted.

“Our goal is to carry one-of-a-kind or hard to find items,” says Thomas.

The quality of the merchandise has impressed Thomas. One side of the front window display includes an antique organ from the 1800s and a Victrola record player.

The “kitchen display” in the other window features Something for Everyone an antique stove from the Thomas feels that the 1940s, dinnerware and a hardware store in combi- cream separator.

Antiques, many from former dealers and shop owners, fill many of the booths inside the store.

Thomas says that starting Hometown Treasures was a gamble, but feels it’s important to keep the business open where she

has worked for about 15 years.

“We have such few businesses as it is. I wasn’t going to stand by and lose another one,” she says. “I’m trying to give people a reason to buy what they need locally

The 16 consignment booths in Hometown Hardware and Treasures offer a variety of antiques and one-of-a-kind merchandise.

instead of assuming we don’t have it, or thinking that they won’t find something unique and unusual in their own hometown.”

There may be more treasures in their own back yard than people realize.

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For the Record Kansas experiences 22% jump in traffic fatalities The Scott County Record

Kansas recorded a 22 percent increase in traffic fatalities in 2016 compared with the previous years and some experts say the blame falls on drivers who are looking at their phones instead of the road.

Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Chad Crittenden said he recently watched

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11 of 14 drivers go through a busy Wichita intersection either talking or texting on their cellphones.

“It’s a huge problem,” Crittenden said. “We can drive down the street and see the number of people on their phones, eating food, looking at GPS and manipulating other tech-

Scott County Commission Agenda Tuesday, March 21 County Courthouse 3:00 p.m. County Business 1) Approve March 6 commission minutes 2) Approve accounts payable 3) Request for funding for landscaping and sprinkler system at county annex building 3:30 p.m. Ric Dalke, Compass Behavioral Health Dalke retirement and introducing new director 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

Scott City Council Agenda Monday, March 20 • 7:30 p.m.

City Hall • 221 W. 5th

nology devices. The list goes on and on.”

There were 432 traffic fatalities in Kansas in 2016, according to the Kansas Department of Transportation. Traffic fatalities nationwide increased six percent in 2016, according to the National Safety Council, which said 40,200 people

died in traffic accidents last year - the first time the number exceeded 40,000 since 2007.

Another factor is lower gas prices, which leads to more people on the roads, experts said.

“The economy is always the canary in the coal mine,” said Ken Kolosh, a statistics man-

ager with the National Safety Council. “We have been examining traffic fatalities since 1913, and we know they ebb and flow with the economy. When our dollars improve, our roadways become more dangerous.”

But Kolosh noted the country had a three percent increase in miles

driven and a six percent increase in deaths last year “meaning something else is at play.”

The council said only Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa and New Mexico had a larger percentage increase in traffic deaths than Kansas from 2015 through last year.

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NRA opposes concealed carry restrictions on college campuses Kansas public colleges will have to allow firearms on their campuses starting in July. But they’re still battling with the gun lobby over how people should be allowed to carry their guns.

In preparation for the law mandating concealed carry on campuses, the colleges have proposed some restrictions. For example, people carrying a semi-automatic weapon on campuses would not be allowed to keep a round in the chamber.

But the National Rifle Association wants the Legislature to pass House Bill 2220, which would wipe out any restrictions colleges enact when it comes to owning, possessing, storing, carrying or transporting concealed guns.

Representatives of the NRA and the Kansas State Rifle Association were the only ones to testify for the bill at a hearing last Thursday.

They said some of the colleges’ proposed regula-

tions are overly restrictive and people need to be able to carry weapons unfettered in order to protect themselves on campuses.

Students, faculty members and Kansas Board of Regents Chairwoman Zoe Newton testified against the bill, saying colleges should be able to make rules to reduce the risk of accidental shootings.

Rep. Vic Miller (D-Topeka) said he thought both sides were being overly dramatic.

“The idea that because

you can carry on campus you now have this grand protection you didn’t have before is highly exaggerated,” Miller said. “The flip side is, no I don’t believe that because you’re now allowed to carry that any significant percentage of students are going to.”

Miller said that because concealed carry on campuses will only be allowed for people who are 21 and over, it won’t apply to the majority of students.

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•Call to order •Approve minutes of March 6 regular meeting •Approve farm lease agreement •Request from Les and Danny Spangler for 10- year Neighborhood Revitalization Program for commercial property development •Rodenbeek and Green Insurance Agency 1) City’s policy renewal •Request to use Scott City Airport 1) Family Day on Sept. 9: Spencer Flight and Education Center •Open agenda: audience is invited to voice ideas or concerns. A time limit may be requested Pool Department 1) Recommendation of lifeguards and lifeguard training 2) Approval of dates to use pool: May 16: SCES boat races (morning) May 16: SCES accelerated reader party May 17: SCMS 7th grade field trip June 10: Scott City Stars swim meet Police Department 1) Request to attend NCIC training in Garden City Parks Department 1) Misc. business Public Works Department 1) Spring clean-up week, April 17-21 2) Advertise for seasonal park/street employees Clerk’s Department 1) Misc. business •Financial and investment reports •Mayor’s comments

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., March 16, 2017; last published Thurs., March 30, 2017)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS ISABELLA MICHELLE MYERS, a minor child, by her mother, AMBER ESPARZA, plaintiff vs.

OSCAR HUMBERTO GUTIERREZ, defendant Case No.. 2017 DM 11 NOTICE OF SUIT The State of Kansas to the defendant above named designated and all other persons who are or may be concerned: You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed in the District Court of Scott County, Kansas, by Amber Esparza, Petitioner, praying for sole legal custody of her

daughter, Isabella Michelle Myers. That the defendant is the natural father of the minor child, the address of Oscar Humberto Gutierrez is unknown to this Petitioner and he is a resident of the country of Mexico.

You are hereby required to plead to said Petition on or before April 11, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. in said Court at the Courthouse at the City of Scott City in the County of Scott, Kansas. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon said petition Keen K. Brantley #7160 Attorney for Petitioner WALLACE, BRANTLEY & SHIRLEY 325 Main Street - P.O. Box 605 Scott City, Kansas, 67871 (620) 872-2161 Attorneys for Petitioner

Public Notice (First Published in The Scott County Record Thurs., March 9, 2017; last published Thurs., March 23, 2017)3t IN THE 25TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS in the Matter of the Petition of ANNE FRANCES CRANE to change her name to ANNA TEREASE FRANCES CRANE. Case No. 17-CV-04 NOTICE OF HEARING PUBLICATION (Petition Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60) THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL WHO ARE OR MAY BE CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that Anne Frances Crane, filed a Petition in the above court on the 7th day of March,

2017, requesting a judgment and order changing her name from Anne Frances Crane to Anna Terease Frances Crane.

The Petition will be heard in Scott County District Court, 303 Court St., Scott City, Kansas, on the 4th day of May, 2017, at 10:00 a.m.

If you have any objection to the requested name change, you are required to file a responsive pleading on or before April 20, 2017 in this court or appear at the hearing and object to the requested name change. If you fail to act, judgment and order will be entered upon the Petition as requested by Petitioner.

Anne Crane Petitioner Anne Crane 604 Monroe St. Scott City, Ks. 67871 620-874-1263

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In most places in Kansas, it’s not illegal to talk on a mobile phone while driving - exceptions include those with farm permits and restricted licenses - but it is illegal to text while driving.

The no-texting law can be difficult to enforce because drivers can tell officers they were using phones to get directions, which is not illegal in Kansas. Drivers also aren’t required to allow officers to see their phones.

Crittenden said he would like Kansas to enact a hands-free law that prohibits motorists from holding their phones while driving.

However, the handsfree option does not appear to be safer, according to a 2012 report from the National Safety Council, which said more than 30 studies conducted by scientists around the world found use of hands-free devices did not improve safety.

“We know that handsfree and texting are equally distracting,” said Jim Hanni, spokesman for AAA in Kansas. “It’s a matter of cognitive distraction where a person’s mind is somewhere else.”

For now, Crittenden hopes more drivers put down their phones in their vehicles.

“I don’t think people understand how dangerous it can be to operate that 3,000-pound to 10,000pound vehicle while distracted,” Crittenden said.

NRA

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

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

Recent arrivals at the

Scott County Library Alcatraz: A Story of the Penitentiary Years

by Michael Esslinger - The name alone said it all. When prisoners boarded the boat for Alcatraz, they knew that they had reached the end of the line. Not only was this the toughest of all Federal penitentiaries, but also said to be virtually escape-proof. This prison was the U.S. government’s drastic answer to the lawlessness unleashed under prohibition.

Esslinger thoroughly details the prominent events, inmates and life inside the most infamous prison in American History.

Heartbreak Hotel by Jonathan Kellerman - At nearly one hundred years old, Thalia Mars is a far cry from the patients that child psychologist Alex Delaware treats. What Thalia wants are answers to unsettling questions about guilt and patterns of her criminal behavior. When Alex arrives for their next session, Thalia is dead.

Seeds of Deception by Sheila Connolly - Spending time organizing their wedding, Meg and Seth didn’t have time to plan their honeymoon. When winter arrives they head for Thomas Jefferson’s beautiful apple orchards at Monticello for a late honeymoon.

While they enjoy the sights, their trip is cut short when Meg’s parents discover their handyman dead in the backyard.

A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas - With an inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes never thought she would become a social outcast fending for herself on the streets of London. When the city is struck by a trio of unexpected deaths and suspicion falls on her father and sister, she clearly is desperate to find the culprits to clear the family name.

110 W. 8th Street, Scott City http://scottcounty.mykansaslibrary.org Beloved Poison by E.S. Thomson - Always an outsider, and with a secret of her own to hide, Jem Flockhart observes everything but says nothing. When six tiny coffins are uncovered in the infirmary’s old chapel, the quest begins to understand the meaning of a long-forgotten past with a possible fatal consequence.

The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney - An enthralling psychological thriller, spins one woman’s seeming good fortune, and another woman’s mysterious fate, through a kaleidoscope of death and deception. iPhone for Dummies - So you got tired of being the only one at lunch without pictures of your grandchildren on your phone. Dwight Spivey, an expert on all things Apple with more than 20 years experience, will show you how to download and use apps, play music, how to get driving directions, share photos using Airdrop, Twitter, emojis and so much more.

Setting Free the Kites by Alex George - A powerful story of two teenagers that explores the the glories of youthful friendship and the harsh truths about family, desire and revenge.

The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill Having transferred to the small cathedral town of Lafferton, police detective Freya explores her new community and becomes fascinated

by Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler. Although she fits well within the police department, she still can’t shake an old missing person case on a middle aged spinster.

Fairy Houses by Sally Smith - Sally Smith reveals the secrets behind her amazing fairy house creations crafted exclusively from natural elements.

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Other states that have allowed concealed carry on campuses have seen few problems or benefits, he said.

Rep. Stephanie Clayton (R-Overland Park) thought the bill was retaliation against the colleges for pushing legislation to repeal concealed carry on campuses.

But Rep. Blake Carpenter (R-Derby) who introduced HB 2220, said that wasn’t the case.

The repeal effort stalled last month with an 11-11 vote of the House Federal and State Affairs Committee.

Rep. John Barker (R-Abilene) who chairs the committee, said he has no timeline for a vote on HB 2220.

Under the law that goes into effect in July, colleges and the University of Kansas Medical Center will be able to ban guns only in buildings where all public entrances are secured with metal detectors and armed guards.

The medical center has said that would be too expensive.

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Pastime at Park Lane Church services at Park Lane were led by the Pence Community Church.

On Monday afternoon residents played pitch and dominoes. Those helping were Wanda Kirk, Bert Lucas, Gary Goodman and Lynda Burnett.

Several residents played Wii bowling on Monday evening.

Tuesday morning Bible study was led by Pastor Bob Artz with Doris Riner playing the piano.

Residents made St. Patrick’s Day crafts on Tuesday afternoon.

Mary Webster led Bible study on Tuesday evening.

Rev. Warren Prochnow led Lutheran Bible study Wednesday morning.

Wednesday afternoon bingo helpers were Madeline Murphy, Barbara Dickhut and Mandy Barnett.

Wednesday evening card game helpers were Denton and Karen Berry.

Deaths Minneola, Travis Phillips, Ensign, Kent Mayfield, Denver, Colo., and James Phillips, Ensign; two brothers, Gary Roberts and Major Roberts and wife, Kelli, all of Scott City; and five grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her father and a brother, Jay Roberts.

Funeral service was held March 14 at Ziegler Funeral Chapel, Dodge City, with Rev. Kirk Larson officiating.

Burial was at the Scott County Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials to the Tana Phillips Memorial Fund in care of Ziegler Funeral Chapel, 1901 N. 14th Ave., Dodge City, Kansas 67801.

Condolences may be sent to the funeral home website at www.zieglerfuneralchapel.com.

Keith Albert Conine Keith Albert Conine, 53, died March 8, 2017, at St. Francis Hospital, Wichita.

He was born Aug. 27, 1963, in Scott County to Merlin and Pat Conine.

He is survived by his mother and a sister, Paula.

He was preceded in death by his father.

A private service is planned by the family at a later date.

Marcia Ann Kadavy Marcia Ann Kadavy, 61, died March 10, 2017.

She was born Jan. 18, 1956, at Dodge City to Oscar and Elenore (Bath) Roesener.

She attended Richland Valley School and graduated from Dodge City High School in 1974.

Marcia graduated from Dodge City Junior College in 1976 and completed her college education at Kansas State University in 1978 with a bachelor’s degree in secondary education.

In 1978, Marcia began her career in education as a junior high social studies teacher in USD 427, which later became part of Republic County USD 109. She was a teacher for 38 years before retiring in 2016.

Marcia was an active member of Christ the King Lutheran Church, Dodge City, and the American Lutheran Church, Belleville. She was also a member of Delta Kappa Gamma for many years.

Kreiser who passed away on March 6. She had been a resident for 6-1/2 years.

Visitors of Boots Haxton were Rod and Kathy Haxton.

Louise Crist was visited by Melba Trout and Jerald and Karen Hadley.

Lorena Turley was visited by Tava See, Phyllis See and Neta Wheeler.

Corrine Dean was visited by Ron Hess and Dianna Howard.

Kathy Roberts and Nella Funk were visited

by Gary Roberts.

by Jason Storm

Cecile Billings was visited by Delinda Dunagan, Ann Beaton and Larry Billings.

Lowell Rudolph was visited by Kathleen Moore.

Loretta Gorman was visited by Charlene Becht, Tina Turley, Tava See, Fritzie Rauch, Chuck and Barbara Brobst, and Velda Riddiough.

Doris Riner was visited

by Bill and Sue Riner.

Arlene Beaton was visited by John and Colleen Beaton.

Clifford Dearden was visited by Kirk and Janet Ottaway and Cindy Scheuerman.

LaVera King’s visitors were Velda Riddiough, Carol Latham and Gloria Gough.

Hugh McDaniel was visited by Tom and Karen Roberts, Berniece McDaniel, Mark McDaniel and George Evans.

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

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Tana Phillips Tana Phillips, 64, died March 9, 2017, at Western Plains Medical Complex, Dodge City.

She was born August 28, 1952, at Scott City, to Wayne C. and Kathryn (Lane) Roberts.

She was a graduate of Scott City High School and attended college where she completed requirements to become a certified nurse assistant (CNA).

A resident of Dodge City since 1970, moving from Scott City, she was a homemaker, caregiver and raised foster children.

She attended Grace Community Church, Dodge City.

On Sept. 27, 1969, she married Buck Phillips in Scott City. He survives.

Other survivors include: her mother, Kathryn, Scott City; four children, Shawna Phillips,

The “Over 50 Chorus” led a group sing-along featuring songs from the ‘40s and ‘50s. Singers included Madeline Murphy, Neva Jacobus, Melva Knight and Irma McDaniel.

Trivia games were played on Thursday evening.

Fr. Bernard Felix led Catholic Mass on Friday morning. Rev. Warren Prochnow led Lutheran services Friday afternoon.

Park Lane was saddened by the loss of Vivian

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On Aug. 2, 1980, she married David John Kadavy. He survives.

Other survivors include: two sons, Adam Kadavy, Scott City, and Aaron Kadavy, and fiancé, Michaela Finn, Denver Colo.; and one brother, Donald Roesener, and wife, Jacci, Dodge City.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, Jean Roesener; and a brother, Keith C. Roesener.

Funeral service was held March 14 at the American Lutheran Church, Belleville. Burial was at Tabor Cemetery, rural Munden.

Memorials may be sent to Oaks Indian Mission, RC Jr.-Sr. High or the family’s choice.

Tibbetts-Fischer Funeral Home, 1104 20th Street, Box 566, Belleville, Ks. 66935, was in charge of arrangements.

Condolences may be left at the funeral home website, www.tibbettsfischerfuneralhome.com.

Ready for the Finals State basketball has completed and March MadIf you keep reading in Matthew 25, you hear about ness begins. Several favored teams enter the tourney ten ladies who fall asleep while waiting for the parade with surprise losses. Cinderella stories wait to be told. to come by. No problem to catch some rest while the Who will be in the Final Four? Who will be the champarade makes its way along the streets. However, it is pion? Anticipation has been building as brackets fill in. a problem that half of them run out of oil and have to Now it’s time for tip-off. scurry around to find fuel for their oil lamps.

As I read the Bible about the coming of Jesus for These ladies are part of the ceremony. They have all His followers, it sounds like Jesus expected His foljeopardized the wedding. They did not anticipate havlowers to have a similar high anticipation about His reing to wait. They were not ready when the bridegroom turn. Not having basketball to talk about, Jesus found came by. something else in His culture with a high sense of anLike the brides of old, Christians do not have a ticipation. fixed date for Christ’s return. We only have a sense of * * * anticipation and confidence that Jesus will come for At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten us when everything is ready. Sometimes the watching virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the wears on us and we need to rest in Jesus. Never forbridegroom. - Matthew 25:1 get, in anticipation of the future that God is with us * * * now. The wholeness we will experience in heaven in Jesus talked about the anticipation of a Jewish the future is partially shared with us now on earth. wedding. Unlike our weddings, there was a surprise However, also remember that we have a role to play element included in weddings that Jesus went to. The as history parades toward the coming of Christ. We are bride might have a good guess about when the wedto be the light of the world. Our lives are to be shining ding would be, but she did not have a date. The bridethe truth that Jesus changes lives. Our words are to groom would come for her when everything was ready carry the name of Jesus into conversations. Our anticiand sweep her away to the ceremony. The community pation is something that brings us to action for restorwould join in a big parade to the bride’s house to esing goodness to the world God created perfect. cort the couple to the wedding place.

“Keep watch,” Jesus said. Anticipate. Light the way.

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.

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

Worship every Sunday, 10:15 a.m.

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

Pence Community Church

Community Christian Church

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

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

12th & Jackson • Scott City • 872-3219 Brian Thompson, pastor Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship, 10:45 a.m.

Wednesday Night Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.

Wednesday: God’s High School Cru, 7:30 p.m.

First Baptist Church

Immanuel Southern Baptist Church

803 College - Scott City - 872-2339

1398 S. US83 - Scott City - 872-2264

Kyle Evans, Senior Pastor Bob Artz, Associate Pastor

Robert Nuckolls, pastor - 872-5041

Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.

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

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

Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.

Gospel Fellowship Church

1st United Methodist Church

Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.

5th Street and College - Scott City - 872-2401 John Lewis, pastor 1st Sunday: Communion and Fellowship Sunday Services, 9:00 a.m. • Fellowship, 10:15 a.m. • Sun. School, 11:00 a.m.

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

Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. • MYF (youth groups) on Wednesdays Jr. High: 6:30 p.m. • Sr. High: 7:00 p.m.

First Christian Church

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

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

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

Website: www.fccscottcity.org

Elizabeth/Epperson Drives • Scott City • 872-3666

Scott Mennonite Church

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

12021 N. Eagle Rd. • Scott City

9th and Crescent - Scott City - 872-2334 James Yager • 620-214-3040 Sacrament, 9:30 a.m.

Sunday School, 10:50 a.m.

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

YMYW Wednesday, 8:00 p.m.

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

Franklin Koehn: 872-2048 Charles Nightengale: 872-3056 Sunday School Worship Service: 10:00 a.m.

Sunday Evening Service: 7:00 p.m.

Holy Eucharist - 11:45 a.m.

St. Luke’s - 872-3666 (recorded message) Senior Warden Cody Brittan • (913) 232-6127 or Father Don Martin • (785) 462-3041

What not to do during a tornado There are a lot of tornado safety myths out there, and many of them can put you in danger instead of making you safer.

Here’s what you need to know: Opening your windows doesn’t help, it just makes it more likely debris will fly through them into your house.

Sheltering under a bridge or overpass if you’re on the road is very dangerous, as a tornado’s winds could blow you out from underneath or the structure could collapse on top of you.

No topographic features or the fact that you’re in a big city are barriers against a tornado

strike, as plenty of big cities have been hit in the past and likely will be again in the future.

If you’re under a tornado warning, or see a tornado near you, and you’re in a building, you want to get away from any windows and any shelves or other things that could fall on you.

Basements and cellars are good places to take shelter, but if you don’t have either, an interior space on the lowest floor of the structure is probably your best bet.

Bathtubs can also provide shelter and covering yourself with a mattress is a good tip.

Kansas has a history of F5 tornado monsters

As all know, Kansas is situated in the heart of “Tornado Alley.”

In fact, according to statistics compiled and obtained from the Storms Prediction Center (SPC) in Norman, Okla., Kansas averages 60 tornadoes annually.

Since 1950, Kansas ranks first in the nation in total number of F5/EF5 tornadoes (seven). These are monstrosities that possess rotational velocities of 261-318 mph.

Research conducted by Tom Grazulis in his book “Significant Tornadoes 1880-1990,” F5 tornadoes have been documented striking Kansas as far back as May 1, 1895.

The most recent F5 tornadoes in Kansas include:

March 13, 1990: Counties: Reno, Harvey, McPherson.

Length: 48 miles; average width: 3/4 mile.

Killed: 1; injured: 60.

Damage: $25 million (Harvey County) What became known as the “Hesston Tornado” earned that tag because it reached it’s F5 intensity in Hesston.

It was fortunate that there was only one fatality and 60 injuries.

March 13, 1990: Counties: Harvey, McPherson, Marion.

Length: 22 miles; average width: 3/4 mile.

Killed: 1; injured: none.

Damage not reported April 26, 1991: Counties: Sedgwick, Butler.

Length: 46 miles; average width: 1/2 mile.

Killed: 17; injured: 225;

Damage: $300 million ($62 million to McConnell Air Force Base) This twister fluctuated between F2 and F3 intensity as it tore through Haysville. The twister struck McConnell AFB as an F3 vortex, destroying the base school, hospital and part of the housing. The tornado narrowly missed a line-up of around 10 B1 bombers, each worth around $280 million.

As the twister vacated McConnell, it achieved F4 intensity. The twister reached F5 intensity at 6:35 p.m. as it roared into Andover, drawing a bead on the Golden Spur mobile home park which was devastated. It was at the mobile home park where 13 of the 17 fatalities occurred.

May 4, 2007: Counties: Comanche, Kiowa.

Length: 26 miles; maximum width: 1-3/4 miles.

Killed: 11; injured: 63.

Damage: $250 million This terrifying tornado started in Comanche County and entered Kiowa County at 9:03 p.m. It curved north, then northwest, then made a complete loop 2 miles northwest of Greensburg as it dissipated.

This tornado, which drew, and continues to draw, national attention, leveled or destroyed 95% of Greensburg. So powerful was the twister that, despite adequate warning, 11 people were killed, some of whom were in basements.

In all, 961 homes and businesses were destroyed - 216 sustained major damage and 307 received minor damage.

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KanCare passage likely despite federal uncertainty Proponents feel now is the time to take action

by Jim McLean Kansas News Service

Kansas lawmakers appear poised to pass a Medicaid expansion plan despite objections from Gov. Sam Brownback and uncertainty about the future of federal funding.

Senate President Susan Wagle, a Wichita Republican, doesn’t hesitate when asked if the expansion bill, which passed the House in late February, will clear the Senate later this month.

“I believe the bill passes on the Senate floor,” Wagle says, adding that she believes it will be approved by a wide margin.

“It will be close to veto

proof . . . because the (Kansas) health care community has become very vocal,” she says.

Despite those predictions, Wagle says “the timing is wrong” for expansion because of uncertainty in Washington, D.C., as Congress debates how to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, the federal health reform law better known as Obamacare.

“It could sit there, because what I see the feds doing is winding that program down,” she says.

The American Health Care Act, the GOP federal replacement bill, would continue to provide most of the funding until Jan. 1, 2020, for the 31 states that have expanded their Medicaid programs. That gives Wagle and others pause. She worries that if federal Medicaid sup-

port drops below the 90 percent guaranteed in the ACA, Kansas would no longer be able to cover the low-income adults that expansion would insure.

“We would have to all of a sudden pull them off in 2020,” she says.

But health care providers and others advocating for Medicaid expansion see the deadline in a different light. They say it’s an opportunity to get in

line for a program that Congress might not be able to shut down if all but a few states are relying on it.

“Our read of the bill is that it does not repeal Medicaid expansion,” says Tom Bell, president of the Kansas Hospital Association. “From our perspective, this provides states with some (See KANCARE on page 17)

Town hall crowd gives Jenkins Coping with earful on GOP’s health reform retirement and Jim McLean Kansas News Service

Kansas 2nd District Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins was jeered Monday at a town hall meeting in Lawrence for defending President Donald Trump and the Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act. Jenkins, a five-term Republican who has announced that she won’t run for re-election in 2018, maintained a tight smile throughout the raucous meeting at the Dole Institute of Politics on the University of Kansas campus.

The crowd, estimated around 350 people, regularly interrupted her with

boos and shouts of “that’s not true” as she attempted to defend the American Health Care Act, the ACA replacement bill backed

by Trump and GOP congressional leaders.

It was clear from the outset that Jenkins was in for a rough afternoon.

The crowd waved red signs that read “disagree” as she mounted her opening defense of the GOP replacement legislation.

“The intent is to provide transition rules so that no one who has health care is thrown off their health care and folks that don’t have coverage are able to get coverage,” Jenkins said.

As she was speaking, members of the crowd

were searching their cell phones for a just-released Congressional Budget Office report that estimated the Republican bill would increase the number of uninsured Americans by 14 million in the first year and by 24 million over 10 years.

When Jenkins questioned the accuracy of the report, Chris Johnston of Ottawa confronted her for echoing the talking points being used by White House officials and Republican congressional leaders.

“I want to hear you and every other person tell the truth about the Congressional Budget Office,” Johnston said.

In response, Jenkins

pivoted to a criticism of the ACA, saying that it failed to live up to promises made by President Barack Obama and its supporters.

“From the very beginning we were sold some lies,” Jenkins said to an escalating chorus of boos.

“The lie of the year was, ‘If you liked what you had, you could keep it,’ and that was proven not to be the truth.”

Rising premiums and the diminishing number of insurance companies willing to offer plans in the ACA marketplace are proof that the health reform law commonly known as Obamacare isn’t working, Jenkins said.

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Mental health advocates urge lawmakers to prioritize services Scores of Kansans concerned about inadequate mental health resources in their state visited the Statehouse on Wednesday, urging lawmakers to take heed of the problem.

The effects of cuts to Medicaid providers, lack of access to Osawatomie State Hospital and staffing cuts at community mental health centers were among concerns raised by advocates who believe Kansas could do much more to help people experiencing

mental illness.

“I wanted to talk to somebody in the Legislature,” said Theron Flanders, explaining why she traveled from Sumner County to join the annual advocacy push for the first time.

Flanders, who receives counseling, case management and psychosocial rehabilitation services in Sumner County, indicated she is concerned funding cuts have affected services in her area.

“Therapists are so overworked because the mental health centers can’t afford to hire more,” she said. “And we the clients, if we’re in crisis, we can’t even get in to see a therapist.”

The advocacy day featured a morning rally with speeches from policymakers including Tim Keck, secretary of the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, who highlighted the importance of speaking openly

about mental health.

Asked after the event about advocates’ concerns that mental health services are underfunded and under-resourced, Keck said, “we can always do more.”

“We just need to identify the places where we can do the best good,” he said.

Keck pointed to ongoing efforts to identify needs and seek solutions through projects such

loss of identity by the American Counseling Association

Recent studies report that about 78 million Americans of the Baby Boomer generation are at or near retirement age. While some may continue in their jobs for a few more years, for many retirement may be looming large and with it a number of questions.

Yes, many worries have to do with financial issues related to savings, Social Security and future health care concerns and costs.

The financial questions of retirement are certainly important, but there are also additional retirement issues that have to be faced. These include basic questions about being able to handle the psychological aspects of no longer being part of the work force.

We live in a society that places a great deal of value on “doing” things. We’ve been taught to be busy, productive citizens and, for many of us, our lives revolve around that thing we “do” for a living. We’re usually known to others as a nurse, teacher, accountant, or whatever career we’ve been working in. Then, suddenly, one day we no longer hold that title but are simply “retired.” We’ve lost that identity of being a “doer” and, unfortunately, many of us judge people who are not “doing” things as being of less value.

That’s why someone who is facing retirement will often be asked, “What are you going to do?”

It seems an innocent query but carries with it the implication that now that the defining job will be gone, what can possibly be of value in the person’s life?

For someone approaching retirement, it’s necessary to accept that he or she is heading into a new life stage with different meanings and a new status. It requires understanding that there are many changes to be faced and many questions, a lot more important than, “What are you going to do?” to be answered.

If retirement is near or recent, take the time to really evaluate how it’s going to affect you, not just financially but in all aspects of your life.

(See COPING on page 17)

(See MENTAL on page 17)

Specialty Care, Hometown Service

The Outreach Services Clinic at Scott County Hospital If you need a medical specialist, Scott County Hospital offers a variety of options for your care.

Talk with your physician about a referral to meet with one of our visiting specialty doctors.

Dr. Mohammed Janif Cardiology

Dr. Rashmi Thapa Cardiology

Dr. John Ferrell Cardiology

Dr. William Freund Cardiology

Dr. Julie Munson Ear, Nose and Throat

Dr. Jerod Grove General Surgery

Dr. Charles Schultz General Surgery

Dr. John Faraci Immunology/Allergy

Dr. Rafael Baracaldo Nephrology

Dr. Matthew Henry Neurosurgeon

Faith Ediger, ARNP Neurosurgery

Dr. Restituto Tibayan Oncology/Hematology

Dr. Alex DeCarvalho Orthopedics

Dr. James Gluck Orthopedics

Cameron Snell, PA Orthopedics

Dr. Jeffrey Rosensweig Pediatric Gastroenterology

Dr. Marcel Junqueira Pulmonology/Sleep

Dr. Craig Shapiro Pulmonology/Sleep

Call (620) 874-4854 for more information or to schedule an appointment.

Dr. Ernesto Lopez Urology

Dr. Kevin McDonald Urology

Scott County Hospital 201 Albert Avenue, Scott City, Ks. • (620) 872-5811 www.scotthospital.net

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Panel hears testimony on hemp oil for seizures Topeka resident Tiffanie Krentz wonders whether therapeutic use of a nonintoxicating hemp extract could have saved her son the agony of a life dominated by seizures.

Years later, she has become an advocate for House Bill 2152, which would legalize medicinal use of oil with low psychoactive ingredients for treatment of debilitating conditions, on the chance that Kansans like JJ Krentz might benefit.

“Nothing can cure our son,” Tiffanie Krentz

told the House Health and Human Services Committee. “But to take that opportunity away for desperate families is something we as Kansans are better than. The opportunity for any improvement in any part of life for children like our JJ is worth it.”

Kirk Thompson, director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, opposed the legislation legalizing Kansas hemp oil treatment for people afflicted with seizure disorders because

KanCare encouragement to actually expand their programs prior to that January 1 of 2020 date.”

David Jordan, executive director of the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas, a nonprofit advocacy group that supports expansion, expects that the number of Republican governors pushing to save Medicaid expansion will pressure Congress into preserving the program in some form.

“There is just as much urgency because we cannot afford to be left

Mental as a pilot program with Shawnee County that attempts to fill a gap between services offered at crisis centers and state hospitals.

“There’s a lot of other work that can be done to identify places in the continuum of care that work,” Keck said.

Richard Cagan, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Kansas, sees as a positive the fact that policymakers are talking about continuums of care. But implement-

Reform Access To Insurance Several people in the audience challenged that assertion by talking about the importance of their ACA coverage and criticizing the decision by Gov. Sam Brownback to reject Medicaid expansion.

Janella Williams said she wouldn’t have been able to overcome her health problems, start a small business and become “a contributing member of society” without the coverage she was able to purchase in the ACA marketplace despite her pre-existing conditions.

“I have a medical condition that I’ve had since 1995, when I was 29 years old, and if I don’t get treatments every seven weeks, I will lose the use of my left hand, my left side and my right foot,” Williams said.

Jenkins, like fellow Republicans, including Kansas 1st District Congressman Roger Marshall, said restoring state-based high-risk pools would ensure that

of possible law enforcement, public health and regulatory implications.

The bill would bypass safeguards established by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to protect the public from dangerous drugs, he said.

“Marijuana is illegal and should remain illegal in our state,” Thompson said. “Marijuana is classified as a Schedule I drug, which means it has a high potential for abuse and lacks any accepted medical use in the United States.”

Krentz’ son suffered his first seizure as an infant in 2004. It lasted 45 minutes.

By nine months of age, he was having three to five uncontrollable seizures per day.

“On top of the ‘big’ seizures, JJ suffered hundreds of ‘smaller’ seizures,” she said.

Testing finally revealed a diagnosis of Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy of Infancy, also known as Dravet syndrome. It is a catastrophic, genetic form of epilepsy that is difficult to control.

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behind,” Jordan says.

“Expanding KanCare puts us in line to be one of the states that has expanded before any changes to the ACA are made.”

KanCare is the name of the state’s privatized Medicaid program administered by three managed care organizations.

“There is just as much urgency because we cannot afford to be left behind.”

Currently, KanCare eligibility is limited to children, pregnant women,

people with disabilities and seniors in need of long-term care who have exhausted their financial resources. Parents are eligible only if they earn less than a third of the federal poverty level, or about $9,200 annually for a four-person family.

Single adults without children currently are not eligible no matter their income.

Expansion would make all Kansans who earn up to 138 percent of FPL eligible, or $16,642 annually for an individual and

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ing effective support systems takes commitment, he said, and the state’s mental health system is dealing with “years of neglect” and underfunding.

“We’re at a point where you’re more likely to get a bed in jail or prison or be homeless or end up in the E.R. than to get the out-patient treatment you need,” Cagan said.

Kansas is not treating enough people at the primary level, he said, and the result is that many reach a crisis point.

“If you had cancer, would you wait till you got to stage 4 before seeing the doctor?” he asked.

“That’s essentially what we’re doing with mental illness. We’re waiting ’til the person is a risk to themselves or others.”

Among their concerns about underfunding, mental health and health advocates have urged the Legislature to restore a 4 percent cut in Medicaid reimbursements that health care providers receive.

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people with pre-existing conditions could continue to get coverage.

However, Jean Hall, a University of Kansas professor who has written extensively about high-risk pools for several national health policy organizations, said they didn’t work when 35 states, including Kansas and Missouri, operated them prior to the ACA. “What we found in Kansas was that premiums were very high and coverage was very limited,” Hall said. “So, you have people with chronic conditions who don’t have access to very comprehensive care.”

Unconventional Style While health care dominated the discussion, it wasn’t the only point of contention. Several people also expressed anger at Trump for making false claims, attacking the media and being unwilling to criticize Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Trump’s love affair with Putin and Russia is treasonous in my opinion,” said Chad Smith of

Lawrence, while asking Jenkins to “put country ahead of politics” by supporting the creation of a bipartisan commission to investigate a series of allegations about Russian involvement in the presidential election.

Jenkins said she would support the establishment of an independent commission, but only if investigations by the House and Senate intelligence committees determine the need for one.

More generally, Jenkins defended Trump.

She said while he wasn’t her pick for the GOP nomination and that she doesn’t “agree with his early-morning tweeting,” his unconventional style is what appealed to many voters, including a majority in the congressional district that she represents.

“I guess I’m not particularly concerned if we get results, if we get the economy moving, people back to work, fix the health care system,” she said before getting drowned out by boos.

He has been on 16 of the 26 classes of antiepileptic medications, but many produced harsh side effects. He still takes three of these prescriptions and resides at Parsons State Hospital.

“We have done everything in our power to ensure JJ has the best quality of life possible. There isn’t anything we haven’t tried,” Tiffanie Krentz said. “We can’t help but wonder if CBD would have helped JJ. Would he still be at home?”

The House bill is a

$33,465 for a family of four.

It’s estimated that approximately 300,000 Kansans would qualify for coverage under expansion, though only about half that number initially would enroll.

The Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee has scheduled two days of hearings on the expansion bill, starting March 20. If the measure passes out of committee, as expected, the full Senate could vote on it the following week.

product of three years of effort by Rep. John Wilson (D-Lawrence) to enact regulated access to highcannabidiol (CBD) and low-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) oil from the hemp plant. Under the so-called Otis’ Law, patients would be able to consume an oil with almost no intoxicating effects.

“The carefully crafted components of Otis’ Law balance the need for positive health outcomes with the need to protect public and patient safety,” Wilson said.

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Check out some of the many books, videos and websites now available with suggestions for better handling the challenges retirement can bring.

But if retirement seems like an overwhelming black hole in your future, consider making an appointment with a professional counselor who can help you with the issues you are facing. You can find one through the “Find A Counselor” tab on the American Counseling Association home page (www.counseling.org).

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Bonds payments, Supt. Jamie Rumford says the district can target about $15 million in projects without a mill levy increase.

With a 25-year payout, the district would need 18.11 mills for a $20 million bond issue; 20.487 mills for a $25 million bond issue; and 24.362 mills for a $30 million bond issue.

Reducing the length of the bonds to 20 years would result in overall savings for the district, but the mill levies would also be higher.

A $20 million bond issue spread over just 20 years would require a 19.555 mill levy; $30 million would require 28.237 mills.

“Doubling the levy isn’t an option,” noted Rumford.

Over the past few months, Rumford and board members have been giving community members tours of the attendance centers in order to demonstrate why the district needs to upgrade its facilities. While most of the response has been positive, Rumford says a comment he’s heard many times is, “You can’t raise taxes.”

“If that’s the case, we’re limited to $15 million,” Rumford told the board.

“There are solutions to all your problems in different price ranges,” noted Nemechek. “But, at some point, hard decisions will

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have to be made. There “I want to make sure are things that won’t get we’ve ruled out every done.” possibility before we move the gym to the midCommunity Center dle school,” he noted.

The big ticket item Nemechek told the that could be the toughest board their architectural decision is the communi- staff has looked at the ty center and gymnasium situation “a lot of differwhich is estimated at $13 ent ways.” He said one million. option could be to build “Our community needs a practice gym near the a community center. high school.

That’s something we’ve Robinson pointed out been hearing from a lot of that when the last bond people,” says board mem- issue for renovation of ber Lynnette Robinson. SCHS was approved in “And a new competition 2003, there were plans on gym is really important.” the board to build a new However, preliminary gym in the parking lot plans are relocating the on the west side of the community center/gym to school. Nemechek said the south end of Scott that could still be done, City Middle School. That but the district would lose property is already owned a lot of parking. by the district and there As it is now, any event would be ample parking. which draws more than Robinson said she would prefer keeping the 200 vehicles forces peoprimary gym next to the ple to park up to three high school. In order for blocks from the high that to happen, Nemechek school. According to prinsays the district would cipal architect Stewart need to acquire all of the Nelson, a 300-car parking property north of the high lot requires an area the size of a city block. school.

“We already own all He said the geothermal that land at the middle units located under the parking lot immediately school,” said Rumford. east of SCHS “really “That area can become a hub for community activhandcuffs you.”

“I just want to make ity. I struggle with pursure that moving the gym chasing more land (near to the middle school is the the high school).” right move,” Robinson $20 Million Consensus said.

When given the opporBoard member Jon Berning said that, for tunity to vote for the size years, he has wanted to of bond issue they could see a new gym located support, the consensus east of the high school. of most board members

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was to cap the project at $20 million, though a $25 million limit received the second most support.

It was felt that as some community bond issues are paid off, such as the Law Enforcement Center, that perhaps the district could push the school bond issue as high as $25 million.

“I know we’re talking about a lot of money, but I’ve had a number of phone calls from people who said they were against the (last community center project), but they do support the improvements we’re talking about now and the competition gym,” Robinson said. “I feel we’re on the right track.”

If a community center is involved, Rumford says the city and county have both offered financial support.

“Perhaps we could get one mill of support from both over the life of the bond issue,” Rumford said.

“The gym will be a hard sell without the community center,” noted board member Mark Davis.

Nemechek said his staff would return to the drawing board and come up with a $25 million plan.

“At that time, we can see what tough decisions have to be made,” he said.

“We can put together three or four options in this price range.”

Sports SC girls are 4th

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Beavers rally from early deficit, fall short in consolation finals There’s something to be said for a team that seemingly always finds itself in close games.

W h e n you’re in those situations often enough it becomes second- Andale 57 Scott City 54 nature.

You don’t panic.

On the other hand, there’s little opportunity for fans or coaches to relax.

That, in a nutshell, describes the season finale - and the season - for the Scott Community High School girls.

In the consolation finals of the Class 4A-DII tournament on Saturday, the Lady Beavers fell behind by double digits early, battled back to take the lead, but didn’t have quite enough down the stretch to avoid a seasonending 57-54 loss to Andale.

It was still a remarkable finish for Scott City (14-11) in its first-ever state basketball appearance.

And if not for digging themselves into a 13-0 hole in the game’s first 4-1/2 minutes, the history-making season very likely would have ended with the Lady Beavers bringing home their first state basketball trophy.

“We put ourselves into a bad situation,” says senior Kiana Yager. “After the loss last night (in the semi-finals) I think we were down a little bit and it took awhile to come back from that and realize we had another game to play. It would have been nice if we hadn’t put ourselves in that hole at the beginning, but I was proud of how we got out of it.

“We’ve been in a lot of close games. It’s all about staying calm and we’re good at staying calm.”

“I was worried the Girard game would take a lot of energy from our girls and it did,” said head coach Sarah McCormick.

“We came out tired, but we saw the girls weren’t ready to be done. Unfortunately, it takes a lot of energy to climb out of a big hole.”

ing the next 19-1/2 minutes, SCHS was the better team on the floor.

Having missed their first six shots from the field, and despite hitting just two of their first 10 field goals, the Lady Beavers regrouped for a 15-2 scoring blitz.

They scored eight unanswered points during a stretch that began with a Bailey Latta field goal to close out the first quarter and resumed with a three-pointer by Latta to open the second period.

Junior guard Macie Price tied the game at 15-15 when she drove coast-to-coast in traffic.

Price, who finished with a game high 23 points, gave SCHS its first lead of the night, 18-17, following a three-pointer at the 5:29 mark.

“Coach told us during a timeout that we guards needed to drive more and do a better job of getting the ball to the post,” noted Price. “Once we started doing that there were more openings and it created more scoring opportunities.”

Scott City’s biggest lead of the game was five points on two occasions - 23-18 following a putback by Yager and with 2:53 left in the first half when Yager hit a pair of free throws to put her team on top, 25-20.

Andale regained the lead when they scored seven consecutive points, but Yager answered with a basket and Price again weaved her way through the Lady Indians’ defense on a coast-to-coast drive that ended with a floater just ahead of the buzzer to put SCHS back on top at the intermission, 29-27.

Fouls Favor Scott While rallying from their early deficit, the Lady Beavers were effective in attacking the basket. Two Andale starters 5-foot-10 senior Jill Bergkamp and junior guard Tyler Winter each had three fouls in the first half and were limited to just nine and seven minutes of playing time, respectively.

“In the first half the refs were calling it tight. We needed to keep pressure on their big girls Scott City Rallies and get them out of the game,” After a very rough start, dur- noted Yager.

(Top) Junior guard Macie Price shoots a floater in the paint during first half action against Andale in the consolation finals.

(Center) Scott City senior Paige Winderlin stretches for a rebound between two Andale players.

(Right) SCHS players and coaches on the fourth place team in the Class 4ADII state tournament are (front row, from left) Lyndi Rumford, Macie Price, Kaitlyn Roberts, Jacy Rose and Madison Shapland. (Back row) head coach Sarah McCormick, Nancy Wiebe, Kiana Yager, Emily Smith, Paige Winderlin, Emily Weathers, Katie McGonagle, assistant coach Jim Turner, Bailey Latta and assistant coach Erin Myers.

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That didn’t happen as Bergkamp and 5-foot-11 junior Morgan Geist each finished the game with four fouls while combining for 20 points and 15 rebounds.

“We kept reminding the girls that (Andale is) in foul trouble.

We had to attack,” said McCormick. “Andale was a completely different team than the one we played the day before. They didn’t have a big shot-blocker.

We needed to attack inside and force the issue and we didn’t until real late in the game.”

Andale was called for 12 fouls in the first half, but added just seven more in the second half.

Second Half Drought Latta opened the second half with a basket that extended Scott City’s lead to four points, 31-27. However, the Lady Beavers wouldn’t score again from the field for the next five minutes while Andale put together (See SC GIRLS on page 20)

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Section C • Page 19

No reason for SC girls to be a one-hit wonder It was a memorable season for the Scott Community High School girls.

After years of futility - far too many - the Lady Beavers made a first-ever trip to the state basketball tournament.

They didn’t just show up with eyes as big as basketballs, but they showed up with a purpose.

And they won.

Which now begs the question: What do you do for an encore?

There’s no reason that the Lady Beavers should be thought of as one-hit wonders. With Sarah McCormick a driving force behind this team, it’s impossible to imagine that will occur.

Reason for optimism is even more elevated given the returning players with

varsity experience, especially the freshmen who played significant minutes this season.

However, the Scott City girls do find themselves in some uncharted territory in terms of expectations.

Junior guard Macie Price - a big reason behind this team’s success - feels the Lady Beavers already have a head start on next season.

“Our confidence level is going to be so much higher compared to where we were at the start of this season,” says Price, who transferred from Dodge City.

“I feel we’ll get back here again next year because now we know what it feels like and we’re not satisfied with how this season ended. Our

SC Girls a 12-2 scoring run that extended their lead to 39-33 with 3:17 left in the period.

“We got away from what was working. We quit penetrating and we didn’t get the ball to the post,” McCormick says of the costly stretch during which Scott City’s only points were a pair of Latta free throws. “We were too content with shooting on the perimeter.”

Price gave her team hope for yet another rally when she turned a steal into a three-point play and in the final minute added a three-point basket that cut the deficit to 41-39 heading into the final quarter.

SCHS refused to go away, cutting the lead to a single basket on two occasions before Andale again stretched their cushion to six points, 50-44, with 4:45 to play. Junior center Emily Smith, who finished with nine points and nine rebounds, brought a roar from the Scott City crowd when she converted a three-point play and followed with a putback that left Scott City trailing, 50-49, with 2:32 on the clock.

Free throw shooting was the difference down the stretch with Andale

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hitting 7-of-10 in the final 1:41. Charity tosses were enough for Andale to extend its lead to 55-49 with 21.9 seconds to play.

Smith added a field goal with 6.2 seconds to play and Price closed out the SCHS season with a three-point buzzer beater for the final three point margin.

Price felt the team may have missed its opportunity to gain momentum early in the fourth quarter when “it felt we were on cruise control and we should have been pushing it more than we were.”

And shots simply weren’t falling late in the game that the Lady Beavers typically expect to make.

After shooting 45 percent (10-of-22) in the first half, SCHS was just 8-of27 (30%) from the field in the second half.

Scott City was a very solid 6-of-15 from threepoint range in the game, including a 4-of-6 performance by Price.

“Some of the shots we had late in the game simply weren’t falling. We were getting good looks, but we needed a couple of those to go in,” adds McCormick.

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goals are going to be even higher and we’re going to work hard to make that happen,” said Price following Saturday’s fourth place finish at state.

Confidence isn’t going to be McCormick’s biggest concern during the off-season.

Her primary focus will be to develop players who are smarter and stronger.

Smarter in terms of understanding game situations.

“We’re so much farther ahead of where we were a year ago, but we still have a lot to learn,” she says. “At the end of the SCHS head coach Sarah McCormick gives instructions to her girls durAndale game we allowed ing state tournament action.

(Record Photo) three seconds to run off the clock before we fouled tween winning and losing.

We’ve seen that for Beavers.

Andale. That may not Successful programs years with the SCHS boys.

McCormick also feels seem like a big deal, but pay attention to the de- Now that same standard is the team needs to continit can be the difference be- tails. being applied to the Lady (See ONE-HIT on page 23)

district qualifiers

Sixteen members of the Takedown Kids Wrestling Club have qualified for the Kansas Kids district tournament on Saturday in Garden City after finishing in the top four at the sub-district tournament in Pratt. Qualifiers are (front row, from left) Easton Eisenhour, Cooper Irvin, Trenton Frank, Matthew Wheeler and Cayden Couchman. (Middle row) Case Armendariz, Alex Rodriguez, Lance Miller, Brodey Rohrbough and Waylon Ricker. (Back row) Blaze Gossman, Collin McDaniel, Caleb VanDegrift, Zach Rohrbough and Houston Frank. Not pictured is Jarron Gregory.

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a tall order

Girard’s inside game finally takes it’s toll in tournament semis Scott City knew it faced a monumental challenge in the semi-finals of the Class 4A-DII tournament.

Not only were they facing No. 1 Scott City 19 seeded Girard, Girard 43 but they also had to contend with 6-foot-4 senior Ashley Ray who has signed with Kansas State University.

Girard’s inside game proved to be too much in a 43-19 loss that bumped the Lady Beavers (14-10) into the consolation finals.

Entering the game, Scott City knew that their best hopes rested with a tenacious defense that contested shots on the perimeter and limited Ray’s touches in the paint.

For the first 16 minutes they were effective in carrying out that strategy, trailing only 1510 at halftime.

“I liked where we were at the half,” says head coach Sarah McCormick. “That was probably the best defense we’ve played the whole year.

“So many times we find ourselves out of position or we forget who we’re guarding, but I didn’t see a lot of that. Our effort was there and it took every bit of it to keep us in the game.”

Offensively, the presence of Ray in the paint, along with six-foot senior Calea Augustin, were more than Scott City could overcome. The Lady Trojan duo combined for 25 points and 21 rebounds. And while Ray commanded most of the attention because of her size, it was Augustin who did the most damage with 15 points and 15 boards.

Scott City’s trio of Kiana Yager, Emily Smith and Emily Weathers combined to hit just 1-of-18 in the paint, and that lone basket was a breakaway layup by Yager that gave the Lady Beavers their only lead of the game, 2-0.

As a team, SCHS was just 6-of-37 (16%) from the field, including 0-of-9 from threepoint range.

“They were so big inside that it was difficult to penetrate, but we still shied away from it more than I wanted,” says McCormick. “Just because you penetrate doesn’t mean you have to shoot it. You can still pass it to someone.

“We settled for passing around the perimeter and tak-

ing the outside shots. When those shots aren’t falling you have to do something different and we refused to do that.”

After Scott City had grabbed the quick lead, Girard (23-1) threatened to slowly put the game beyond reach by scoring nine unanswered points.

SCHS refused to go away, cutting the deficit to four points, 11-7, on a basket by senior guard Nancy Wiebe with 4:49 remaining in the half.

Three free throws by junior guard Bailey Latta in the final minute pulled the Lady Beavers to within three, 13-10, before they gave up a final second basket.

In the first half, Scott City’s defense was very effective in leading Girard’s two big girls to just 2-of-9 from the field.

Ray had managed just four points on 2-of-7 shooting.

“I don’t think she’d seen anyone defend her this season like we were,” McCormick says. “On film, I hadn’t seen anyone fronting her. We wanted to deny her the ball.”

While the Lady Beavers were effective with their game plan in the first half, they struggled to keep the ball away from Ray and Augustin in the second half. The Lady Trojans gradually began to establish their inside game with a 10-1 scoring run to open the second half that opened up a 25-11 advantage.

Senior center Paige Winderlin accounted for Scott City’s only field goal of the third period with 3:18 on the clock.

By the end of the quarter, Girard had taken control of the contest with a 30-13 lead.

After hitting just 6-of-29 from the field in the first half, Girard was 12-of-19 in the second half.

“The defense we were playing tonight is physically demanding and mentally demanding,” noted McCormick, who felt her team wore down in the second half.

“It wasn’t just tough on our big girls because of (Girard’s) size, but Bailey had a big job tonight guarding their best guard and I feel that affected her on offense.”

Latta and Emily Smith led the Lady Beavers with only three points each - all of those coming at the charity stripe.

As would be expected with Girard’s size, the Lady Trojans held a 40-27 edge under the boards which included 17 offensive rebounds.

(Above) Bailey Latta (left) and Emily Smith (21) wrestle for possession of a loose ball during first half action against Girard during Friday’s semi-final round action. (Below) Smith attempts to shoot over the outstretched arms of Girard’s 6-foot-4 senior Ashley Ray.

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Growing up with a love for the outdoor life I get occasional emails from readers about stories I write, so seeing the email Sunday in my “inbox” was not unusual.

The sender said he was 87-years-old, and that was impressive, but what really got my attention was the caption at the bottom that read “Sent from my iPad.” That told me volumes about the sender.

Keith Kimple grew up

Outdoors in Kansas by Steve Gilliland

east of Lyons, and in the fall of 1940, when he was about 10, he accompanied his dad to visit a cousin in Iowa who was a coon hunter. They hunted coons for several nights, and in those days it was with the

aid of a carbide light.

Although they got no raccoons, the cousin’s dogs caught a wild mink each night by digging them out of their dens.

Keith had been bitten by the hunting and trapping bug and when they returned home he began experimenting by skinning skunks and opossums dragged into the yard by his dog Skip.

He had a couple old double-spring traps and set one in front of what he thought was a badger den in the pasture. As a young kid he was scared to death the morning he found a coyote in that trap.

He managed to get the coyote skinned and stretched on a homemade stretcher he fashioned from a board; all following directions found in the

back of a 1944 trap supply catalog from a company called FC Taylor Fur Company in St Louis (Keith still has that catalog.)

FC Taylor also bought fur, so Keith bundled up his coyote pelt and spent 23 cents to mail it to St Louis. His reward was a check from FC Taylor for 25 cents!

Kimple’s introduction

to fishing also came at a young age using a novel ice fishing technique.

When he was six or seven he remembers often going with a group of kids and their dads to Cow Creek when the ice was safe enough to walk on. With a hand saw, the grown-ups would cut a long, narrow notch in the ice across the creek.

(See OUTDOOR on page 25)

Competitive SC sets sights on returning to state The Scott Community High School boys had some unexpected time on their hands this past week.

For the first time in seven seasons the Beavers weren’t competing in a state basketball tournament.

It provided only a small bit of consolation knowing that the team they lost to in the sub-state finals went on to win the Class 4A-Division II state title.

While the end result was not what the Beavers had hoped for, or what fans have come to expect, it would be unfair to say the program took a step back. Even by the most optimistic standards, this was a team that was expected to win 14 games . . . maybe 15 with a break or two.

In reality, their 13-9 record wasn’t too far off the mark.

“Obviously, we want to continue the tradition of going to state, but we also knew that was going to be a difficult task,” says firstyear head coach Brian Gentry. “My expectations were to be competitive against every team that we took the floor against and I feel we did that.

“We had our ups and downs, but this team did show they were more than capable of competing against anyone. Hopefully, we earned the respect of some teams who may have overlooked us in the beginning of the year.

Gentry would be the first to acknowledge that his first year as a head coach was a learning experience.

“It’s tough to judge yourself. You always second-guess things you wish you’d have done differently,” he says. “Early in the year, I was probably a little too stubborn in trying to run a two-post offense. I knew that wasn’t something we were going to be comfortable doing, but I thought that would give us the best chance to win.”

Maybe we could have switched earlier to the offense we were running late in the season.

Looking Ahead While his plans for the offense didn’t work out as hoped this year, Gentry fully expects a different result next season - even though the Beavers will

SCHS head coach Brian Gentry gives Justin Faurot a hug as the senior leaves the basketball court for the final time in a sub-state championship loss to Holcomb.

(Record Photo)

once again be undersized in the post.

The head coach feels the Beavers can still be a two-post offense with Joe Evans ((6-3, soph.), Zach Carson (6-3, jr.) and possibly Reid Brunswig (510, jr.).

Success in the post, however, relies a great deal on guard play.

“Ball handling is always critical. If a couple of our guys can work on that over the summer it will take their game to another level,” emphasizes Gentry. “If Marshall

(Faurot) becomes an elite ball handler the sky is the limit because he’s very athletic, can shoot and he can get to the basket. Better ball handling will open up his game and open up the game for other guys on the court.”

And while having a 6-foot-9 player on the roster is a luxury that any coach would enjoy, teams can be successful without that kind of post presence - as the Beavers have proven in the past while winning state titles.

Gentry doesn’t see a rea-

son why the players on this roster can’t enjoy that same level of success.

“With two guys in the paint that allows us to be more balanced,” says Gentry. “If you run your offense and are effective at thinking the game, you can get position.”

The key he says is to get angles rather than trying to shoot over taller players.

“If we can run our motion sets and our post guys can work the angles, the lack of height is negated a little. And if we can cre-

ate that offensive balance in the post that keeps us from being so reliant on the three-point ball,” he says.

Varsity Competition With five seniors leaving this year’s team that should create a very competitive atmosphere for next year’s varsity positions. During summer camps and tournaments, Gentry says it will be a constant audition to see who is ready to return the Beavers to one of the elite (See SIGHTS on page 23)

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Underrated WSU will have something to prove in tourney Wichita State (30-4) is seeded 10th in the South Regional of the NCAA Tournament and will play seventh-seeded Dayton (24-7) at Indianapolis on Friday.

Dayton got the short end of the stick.

If Wichita State wins the opener, by they likely will have to play secondMac seeded Kentucky on Sunday. Coach Stevenson Gregg Marshall’s team is playing their best basketball of the season and - if they play - the Shockers will give Kentucky all they can handle and maybe more.

Wichita has talented depth and skill at all positions and guards Conner Frankamp and Landry Shamet, in particular, are playing at a high level.

In addition, most of Wichita’s players have NCAA Tournament experience which is vital.

Wildcats Get Impressive Win Kansas State (21-13) looked very impressive during their play-in game against Wake Forest.

That game had a little added interest for Kansas fans since former Jayhawk Danny Manning is the Wake Forest head coach.

The Wildcats played some outstanding ball in the Big 12 Tournament and kept that momentum going against Wake Forest. However, if K-State hopes to pull off a major upset against Cincinnati on Friday they will need strong play in the paint which has been a problem.

Kansas State is formidable when Dean Wade plays stellar basketball. The problem is Wade’s inconsistency, which shows a lack of maturity. That will come in time, but it needs to come sooner rather than later. Isaiah Maurice (6-10, 225), a redshirt sophomore, has added valuable depth in the pivot with improved play in recent weeks.

KU Opens With UC-Davis KU is the number-one seed in the Midwest Regional and will face UC Davis on Friday.

Barring a major upset, that will set up a Sunday game against the winner of Miami-Michigan State.

It has become all too frequent for something to distract Coach Bill Self’s teams just before the band starts playing at the Big Dance. This time it’s freshman Josh Jackson’s immature and foolish misadventures with the law in Lawrence.

Jackson hasn’t committed any serious offenses compared to the many criminal acts perpetrated by college and professional athletes across the nation.

But he has made some typically stupid decisions by a college freshman.

This NCAA Tournament will conclude Jackson’s career at Kansas and he will be off to the NBA to collect big money. And the issue of his immature transgressions will quickly fade from memory. That’s the way it goes with today’s pampered athletes.

KU was sailing before the loss to TCU in Kansas City. Their defense was awful in that one. The worst offender was Svi Mykhailiuk.

His costly mistake in fouling at the buzzer in the TCU game wasn’t the main issue. Mykhailiuk’s overall defense is substandard. Time after time against TCU, the man he was guarding drove the baseline and either scored or created easy baskets for a teammate. His fundamentals are poor and the coaches are responsible for that.

Kansas has a good chance to do well in the tournament. The Jayhawks are healthy and should be able to put the outside distractions aside.

When Lagerald Vick replaces Mykhailiuk and aligns with Frank Mason, Devonté Graham, Landen Lucas, and Josh Jackson, the Jayhawks are an exceptionally quick and effective team on offense and defense.

Mason, Jackson, and Graham are a formidable threesome when they are in sync. This Kansas team - at their best - is capable of beating any team in the field. However, that would have to include a solid game from Carlton Bragg as the main reserve on the inside.

Bragg is a crackerjack player - a surprise (good and bad) in every game.

The NCAA men’s basketball tournament is the most exciting and entertaining sporting event of the year. Every game is nationally televised, so no team is left out.

One-Hit ue developing a “winner’s mentality - the difference between hoping we will win instead of expecting to win.”

Perhaps the biggest lesson that McCormick hopes her Lady Beavers take away from the state tournament is the need to get stronger - which means more time in the weight room.

“We have a lot of skinny girls who need to get in the weight room,” she says.

“Just being tall isn’t enough when you get to state. We got pushed around a lot. We had trouble holding inside position and getting rebounds,” McCormick says. “We aren’t going to have girls as big as some that we went up against, but they can still be fighters and become a force in the block. You can’t think that you’re always going to be able to score by getting lob passes.”

That means being stronger and learning how to get better position for passes. Likewise, it means guards have to be confident enough to get the ball into the post.

“Our girls have good post moves, but it doesn’t help if we can’t get them the ball,” observes McCormick. “Our post play-

Sights basketball programs in the state.

“They will be basically in tryout mode all summer because we have so much competition for varsity time,” says the head coach.

“The kids who do it on their own are the ones who separate themselves from their competition.

You can attend camp and play in MAYB tournaments, but if you really want to separate yourself the difference is going to be the work you do behind closed doors when nobody else is watching,” Gentry says. “I believe we have some kids who will do that and I think it will be evident with the kids who get the bulk of the minutes going forward.

Junior guard Jordan Horn and Faurot are the two returning Beavers with the most varsity playing time.

That creates greater opportunity for players moving up from the JV ranks, including a number of freshmen.

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ers are good enough they should get a touch every possession. That will force the defense to react, collapse and open things up on the outside.”

Given the returning experience, and with the opportunity to improve their play during the off-season, McCormick sees no reason why the Lady Beavers can’t pick up where they left off at Emporia.

The Lady Beavers have had a full season to adjust to Price’s ability to distribute the ball everywhere and anywhere on the court.

She will be complemented by a strong guard tandem of Bailey Latta and Madison Shapland.

Post players Emily Smith and Emily Weathers have gained valuable experience and should be a force offensively and defensively.

McCormick is anxiously awaiting the return of a healthy Kaitlyn Roberts as a perimeter player and continued contributions from junior guard Katie McGonagle.

Making the move from junior varsity to the varsity lineup will be freshmen Lyndi Rumford and Jacy Rose.

Yes, the future is looking very bright for the Lady Beavers.

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“Next year’s sophomores are a group that plays well together. They know how to read each other and what each other is good at. They’re also a group that will spend time in the gym,” Gentry says.

“I see them creating some pretty intense competition for varsity spots.”

While they will definitely have a new look with so many different players on the floor, one thing isn’t expected to change. The Beavers will be motivated to succeed and once again return to the state tournament.

“We may not always be the prettiest team to watch, like this year, but you can accomplish a lot when guys are willing to play hard,” he adds. “I feel that sometimes you can be judged by how hard your players compete - not just for the coach, but for personal pride, for their teammates and because they have pride in their community and don’t want to let anyone down.”

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The Scott County Record • Page 24 • Thursday, March 16, 2017

SC has a ‘fan’tastic time

A loud and rowdy Scott City student section showed their support for the Lady Beavers at the Class 4A-DII state basketball tournament in Emporia.

Some of the students in the cheer section and pep band were (top left) Hunter Yager, (lower left) HaileyJo Leonard and (center right) Justin Hundertmark.

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Takedown Kids Wrestling Western Kansas Classic March 4, 2017 6-Years and Under 46A: Noah Wheeler dec.

by Xzander Donner (Russell) 7-5 OT; tech. fall Cooper Johnson (Lincoln County) 16-0; pinned George Guebara III (Greater Gold) 1:27; pinned Simon Watkins (Hoxie) 1:15. Second Place 52A: Drake Metzger tech fall Linken Schmitt (Colby) 16-1; pinned Jeriah Crowley (Quinter) 0:59; maj. dec. by Braigan Dinkel (Russell) 153. Second Place 8-years and Under 52: Cooper Irvin dec. by Warric Eakins (Con-Kids) 7-0; dec. Trenton Grubb (Hoisington) 4-2 OT; maj. dec. Brody Schmitt (Colby) 9-0; pinned by Warric Eakins (Con-Kids) 1:26. Fourth Place 58A: Trenton Frank maj. dec. Adan Vazquez (Lakin) 10-0; dec. Elliott Williams (Dodge City) 7-0; dec. Carter Johnson (Lincoln County) 5-4. First Place 58A: Kasey Rohrbough pinned by Carter Johnson (Lincoln County) 0:40; dec.

by Carter Delzeit (Hoisington) 8-6.

61A: Drew Metzger maj. dec. by Kingston Matchett (Maize) 12-0; dec. by Matthew Wheeler (Scott City) 7-0.

61A: Matthew Wheeler dec by Tyler Ashbaugh (Renegades) 4-0; dec. Drew Metzger (Scott City) 7-0; dec. Griffin Hall (Salina) 6-2; dec. Preston Hittle (Ulysses) 6-0. Third Place 64A: Cayden Couchman pinned by Tristen Cox (Brawlers) 0:28; dec. by Theron Davis (Ulysses) 9-5.

67A: Easton Eisenhour maj. dec. by Knox Karnowski (Wamego) 13-2; maj. dec.

Treiton Ryan (Russell) 102; pinned by Rade Morgan (Derby) 0:46.

70A: Blaze Gossman dec.

by Aaron Samson (WaKeeney) 4-2 OT; pinned Brett Egan (Derby) 1:56; maj. dec.

by Aaron Samson (WaKeeney) 8-0. Fourth Place 73B: Brodey Rohrbough pinned Tyson Younger (Hays) 2:26; pinned Boone Mcdonald (Greensburg) 1:25; dec.

Conner Holladay (Oberlin) 2-0. First Place 10-years and Under 76B: Alexander Rodriguez dec. Nathan Euler (Liberal) 7-0; dec. by Israel Zimmerman (Hays) 7-2; dec.

by Ian Giancola (Hoxie) 7-0; dec. Fardis Hossinei (Derby) 3-2. Third Place 90: Houston Frank pinned Jason Najera (Dodge City) 0:20; maj. dec. Brayden Suchy (Russell) 10-2; dec. by Luke Fischer (Jr. Indian) 1-0.

Second Place 95: Case Armendariz pinned by Dane Cleveland (Salina) 0:30; dec. by Jeremiah Hansen (Norton) 11-9 OT. 12-years and Under 80: Collin McDaniel pinned Trenton Riedel (Quinter) 0:15; pinned Dayton Bell (Hoxie) 2:45; pinned Jesse Mackey (Plainville) 1:16; dec.

by Keton Patterson (Maize) 6-2. Second Place 84: Dylan Metzger pinned Kooper Wright (Scott City) 1:01; pinned by Daniel Vines (Con-Kids) 3:00; pinned Preston Maier (Hays) 3:20; dec. Knowlyn Egan (Derby) 9-5; pinned by A.J. Furnish (Brawlers) 2:08.

84: Kooper Wright pinned

by Dylan Metzger (Scott City) 1:01; pinned by Tayke Weber (Goodland) 0:55.

88: Zach Rohrbough pinned Breckin Sauvage (Oberlin) 0:16; maj. dec.

Clayton Bowers (Maize) 100; maj. dec. Wyatt Weber (Great Bend) 16-2; dec. by Troy Allen (Derby) 7-2. Second Place 150: Lance Miller dec.

by Brennan Walker (Beloit) 6-2; dec. by Draven Pipkin (Spring Hill) 6-2; pinned by Nicholas Rehmer (Colby) 3:39. Fourth Place 14-years and Under 115: Kale Wheeler pinned Alex Eskew (Oberlin) 4:19; dec. Cesar Macias (Hays) 4-2; maj. dec. by Ethan Guebara (Greater Gold) 10-0.

Second Place 155: Caleb VanDegrift pinned Shadryon Blanka (St. Francis) 3:26; dec. by Cole Amlong (Norton) 6-2; won by injury default Michael Mendoza (Hugoton); pinned Jamie Opat (WaKeeney) 2:55.

Second Place

205: Jarron Gregory pinned Brendan Tripp (ECKW) 2:44; maj. dec. by Arturo Chavez (Junction City) 13-5; pinned Keaton Thompson (Jr. Indian) 0:38.

South Sub-District March 11, 2017 • at Pratt 8-Years and Under 52: Cooper Irvin dec. by Haegen Hartman (Southwest Grapplers) 4-3; pinned Adam Hawkins (Sublette) 0:50; dec. Kameron Cox (Pratt) 5-0; dec. Josiah Guebara (Greater Gold) 8-3. Third Place 58: Trenton Frank dec.

Adriel Camacho (Hugoton) 7-0; pinned Triston Tomlinson (Great Bend) 1:45; dec.

by Jaxsen Salinas (Ulysses) 3-0 OT. Second Place 58: Kasey Rohrbough pinned by Jaxsen Salinas (Ulysses) 0:31; dec. by Brody Brown (Greater Gold) 8-2.

61: Matthew Wheeler pinned Carlos Araiza (Lakin) 0:45; dec. Preston Hittle (Ulysses) 6-4; dec. by Tyler Ashbaugh (Renegades) 4-2.

Second Place 64: Cayden Couchman pined Albert Sandoval (Liberal) 0:45; tech fall by Theron Davis 17-0; dec. by Juan Ortiz (Southwest Grapplers) 13-12. Fourth Place.

67: Easton Eisenhour dec.

Evan Monterroza (Dodge City) 6-0; pinned by Jacob Gonzales (Ulysses) 1:09; pinned Wyatt Inslee (Pratt); pinned Owen Otsberg (Southwest Grapplers) 0:06. Third Place 70: Blaze Gossman dec.

Ethan Taylor (Southwest Grapplers) 10-3; maj. dec.

Jackson Mead (Pratt) 120; pinned Garrett Surman (Dodge City) 0:04; maj. dec.

Blake Stein (Great Bend) 9-0.

First Place 73: Brodey Rohrbough pinned by Max Heilman (Great Bend) 2:00; pinned

by Kale Kern (Jr. Cardinals) 0:29; pinned Brode Bachman (Lakin) 1:23; pinned Dylan Brozek (Pratt) 0:23.

Third Place 10-Years and Under 70: Ryland Price dec.

Jaden Amaro (Dodge City) 3-2; pinned by Josiah Ball (Jr. Cardinals) 3:31; dec. by Jose Calleja (Hugoton) 7-0; dec. Jaden Amaro (Dodge City) OT 6-4. Fifth Place 73: Waylon Ricker pinned Timmey Johnson (Sublette) 2:16; dec. by Kaleb Otero (Greater Gold) 6-1; dec.

Jaiden Olvedo (Greater Gold) 6-0; dec. by Ethan Stimatze (Junior Indians) 10-6. Fourth Place 76: Alexander Rodriguez maj. dec. by Taye Wilson (Pratt) 12-0; dec. Saben Herrera (Greater Gold) 2-1; dec.

by Xavier Redetzke (Jr. Cardinals) 4-0; pinned Nathan Euler (Liberal) 1:48. Third Place 90: Houston Frank dec.

Luker Fischer (Junior Indians) 4-2; maj. dec. Jacob Cutshall (Liberal) 10-0. First Place 95: Case Armendariz maj. dec. by Nathaniel Dold (Renegades) 17-4; pinned by Ethen Allen (Greater Gold) 0:47; pinned by Damien Quint (Pratt) 1:10. Fourth Place 12-Years and Under 80: Collin McDaniel dec.

Dillen Hook (Junior Indians) 4-0; pinned Frio Vontress (Dodge City) 1:04; pinned William Hawkins (Sublette) 0:34. First Place 88: Zach Rohrbough pinned Ryan Heiman (Greater Gold) 1:16; dec. by Luke Barker (Ulysses) 7-0. Second Place 150: Lance Miller pinned Carmelo Orosco (Ulysses) 0:22; pinned by Logan Erway (Junior Indians) 0:03.

Second Place 215: Jarron Gregory pinned Ricardo Levario (Ulysses) 1:01; dec. by Ricardo Levario 5-1; dec. by Ricardo Levario 6-0. Second Place 14-Years and Under 120: Kale Wheeler dec.

by Iziah Cook (Pratt) 3-0; dec. Kade Lovelady (Lakin) 6-1; dec. by Owen Ridgeway (Great Bend) 6-5; pinned by Iziah Cook (Pratt) 3:35. Sixth Place 155: Caleb VanDegrift pinned Abraham Garcia (Hugoton) 4:22; pinned by Joshua Ball (Jr. Cardinals) 2:29; pinned Storm Flores (Gray County) 2:50. Second Place

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Outdoor Ground up oyster shells, which were used in chicken feed and are very white, were sprinkled onto the creek bottom, making it easier to see fish when they swam under the hole. The kids would all walk onto the ice a long way away from the hole and begin stomping and jumping to scare the fish toward the hole where the dads would be waiting with steel spears as they swam beneath.

Kimple said they had a forge at home used for shoeing horses, and when he was in high school, he used that forge to make his own fishing spear out of a five-tined pitchfork.

That homemade spear once snagged him a 10 pound carp that was laden with two pounds of eggs.

In 1951, Keith married his sweetheart Marilyn, and told me, “She’s always been a better fisherman than me.”

Marilyn introduced

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Keith to bass fishing, having learned on her family’s pond. He also enjoyed catching channel cats and flatheads on limb lines set along Cow Creek. They heard tales of unbelievable fishing in Minnesota’s innumerable lakes, so after harvest in 1958, with three young kids, they packed up and headed to Ruth Lake in Minnesota where they fished for northern pike from a boat handmade by a local Swedish man.

Fishing at Ruth Lake became an annual event and, years later bought a cabin.

“That was the best thing we ever did for our family,” says Kimple.

In the early 1950s, Kimple did a stint in the Marine Corps and was stationed at an air base near Santa Anna, Calif.

The base had a hobby shop for GIs and, “I began going there when I wasn’t doing something impor-

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tant like walking guard duty,” Kimple said with a grin.

That’s when he got hooked on leather working and purchased a $6 leather tool kit. He ordered leather and supplies from the Tandy Leather Co., so by trial-and-error and by following instructions supplied with various kits, he became a skilled leather worker. Over the years Kimple has also made many knives, grinding and polishing old files into blades, using deer antler and various woods, including Osage Orange for handles and making leather sheathes for each.

One of his most recent projects is a full-length leather scabbard for an old Henry .22 caliber rifle he owns. In 1980 he heard a “log cabin camp” in Lyons was selling out, so he bought one of their little 12x14 foot Sears and Roebuck cabins for just over $100 and moved

it to their present home northwest of Hutchinson.

These days he spends most mornings working on leather and other projects of some sort.

The Kimple’s son and grandsons, several of which are medical doctors, all enjoy the outdoors as much as their parents.

Kimple says their living room becomes a deer camp for a week every season as they all come there knowing grandma will cook for them.

When I asked Keith and Marylyn if I could do this story, he replied “Well we are a little shy, but if you think it worthwhile after seeing our stuff, we will agree. We all have to have our hobbies, and mine kind of run to the outdoors.” I couldn’t agree more.

Continue to Explore Kansas Outdoors!

Steve can be contacted by email at stevenrgilliland@ gmail.com

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earning respect Lady Beavers play like veterans in first-ever state game Scott City was truly the unknown factor in this year’s Class 4A-DII state tournament.

It was the team’s first-ever trip to state.

No one in the state field had Scott City 44 ever seen them, Burlington 40 except perhaps on video.

“I doubt that Burlington had bothered to scout us,” says SCHS head coach Sarah McCormick. “I can’t blame them.”

While the Lady Beavers were state tournament newcomers, they refused to act like it - or be treated like they didn’t belong.

Instead, SCHS played like a veteran team down the stretch in a 44-40 upset of No. 4 seeded Burlington (17-6) in opening round action last Thursday.

“These girls could have very easily been overwhelmed and lost their focus, but they played with confidence you don’t expect to see from a team who hadn’t been here before,” noted McCormick. “They didn’t play scared at all.”

That was evident from the opening moments when junior guard Bailey Latta hit a three-pointer on her team’s first attempt from the field. Emily Weathers and Macie Price each followed with baskets as the Lady Beavers were 3-for-3 while opening an early 7-3 lead.

That quick start was huge for the Lady Beavers.

“I knew that I was wide open and that play works out pretty good for me,” said Latta, who was 2-of-3 from beyond the arc in the first half and finished the game with 10 points. “It was so amazing to see it go in.”

Latta scored seven of her 10 points in the first quarter and added an assist to Weathers with just 4/10 of a second left in the period that put SCHS on top, 15-8.

Burlington Rallies After the quick start, Scott City struggled during a 3-1/2 minute stretch in the second period when they committed six consecutive turnovers without

a shot attempt. That allowed the Lady Wildcats to pull even at 17-17 with 3:40 on the clock.

“They played a little different zone defense than we’d seen before. We had to make some adjustments and remind the girls to trust your teammates,” noted McCormick.

Burlington didn’t own their first lead of the night until they converted a three-point play that put them on top, 27-26, with 5:18 left in the third period. The lead changed hands three times before freshman guard Madison Shapland scored a basket off the glass and Price, who finished with 10 points, added a threepointer with :31 on the clock to open up a 33-29 advantage.

Senior guard Kiana Yager came up big in the fourth quarter when she scored seven of her nine points. Two baskets were part of a 5-0 scoring surge early in the period that saw the Lady Beavers building their largest lead of the half, 38-32, with 4:38 to play.

The Lady Wildcats pulled to within one point, 40-39, with 2:17 remaining and SCHS caught a break 40 seconds later when a Burlington lay-in attempt hung on the rim for a moment and then fell off. Scott City grabbed the rebound and then set about protecting their one point lead.

“During a timeout we reminded the girls they don’t have to rush. Let’s take care of the ball, force them to foul and we’ll win it at the line,” said McCormick.

Shapland had the first opportunity to make that happen when she hit a pair of free throws with 1:10 on the clock. The freshman had shown similar composure when she made a free throw to give her team the lead late in the sub-state title game.

“I felt more confident in myself this time,” she says.

Yager would add a free throw 34 seconds later. Following a rebound, Yager was again fouled and sent to the line where she hit another free throw to put Scott City on top, 44-39, with just 18.8 seconds remaining and

Senior guard Nancy Wiebe drives into the paint for a basket during the opening round win over Burlington at the state basketball tournament.

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all but assuring the Lady Beavers of their first-ever state tournament win.

McCormick says that while her team seems to be in close games every time they hit the floor, she feels that experience also prepared them for arguably the biggest win in the program’s history.

“We knew we had to be calm because this was such a huge game,” noted Latta. “We’ve been in a lot of close games this year which helped a lot.”

With a win guaranteeing the Lady Beavers two more games in Emporia, Latta said she

couldn’t resist the urge to do some scoreboard watching.

“I didn’t want to look at it, but it was about the last 30 or 45 seconds that I had to look at it,” she says. “I was getting pretty nervous.”

While Burlington held an 18-9 scoring edge from beyond the three-point line, SCHS was able to offset that by scoring in the paint. They held a 36-26 rebounding edge, which included 11 offensive boards.

Weathers and Emily Smith led the team with seven rebounds each while Latta grabbed six rebounds.

McCormick was pleased with how well her team responded on the biggest stage of their careers and with their composure down the stretch.

“Watching film is important.

When you know your competitor really well, what their strengths and weaknesses are, then we know what’s coming,” she explains. “When you know what to expect you’re going to be confident.

“I told the girls that we deserved to be here and that this is March Madness. Anything can happen.”

(Left) SCHS senior Kiana Yager drives to the basket on a fastbreak opportunity early in the second half against Burlington. (Above) Scott City players begin the celebration as the final seconds tick off the clock during their state tournament win last Thursday. Starting the celebration are (from left) Emily Weathers, Kaitlyn Roberts, Katie McGonagle and Lyndi Rumford.

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Record Xtra celebrating a century The Scott County Record

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New owner still sees bright future for Heritage Hotel Paul Horvath appreciates history . . . and perhaps ghosts.

He definitely has the former with his purchase of the century old Heritage Hotel in Dighton.

He’s still waiting to see if he has the latter.

Horvath saw both history and opportunity when he purchased the landmark hotel in late 2014.

“I saw historic value in the building,” says Horvath, who learned about the hotel from an on-line auction site. “This is a good structure and I felt the hotel had more potential than people realized.”

While the building has included other businesses over the years, including a lawyer’s office and barber shop, it has remained in continuous operation as a hotel since opening on July 26, 1917.

Horvath would like to see the building listed on the Kansas Register of Historic Places which he feels would help in the process of acquiring grants for renovations.

Conversion to Hostel Those renovations aren’t just with an eye on maintaining the grandeur of a building that was built nearly 100 years ago.

While Horvath appreciates the hotel’s history, he also sees this as a business venture. Horvath is pursuing the opportunity to increase overnight guests by converting part of the building into a hostel - a type of lodging that has long been popular in Europe. In a hostel, guests pay for a bed and there are several beds in a large room.

“They’re gaining in popularity because it’s an economical way for people, especially cyclists, to travel across the country,” says Horvath. “Plus, it’s a way to reach an entirely different group of customers who enjoy traveling from hostel to hostel.”

Horvath is in the process of remodeling an unfinished wing on the second floor where he will add single beds in addition to providing separate bathrooms for the male and female guests.

“Our long-range plans are to have a 42-bed hostel,” says Horvath, who is being assisted in that renovation by temporary hotel manager Danelle Goodrick.

This year, however, Horvath and Goodrick will likely only have enough renovation completed for a mini-hostel, which will include about a half dozen beds available for $25 each.

Hotel owner Paul Horvath and manager Danelle Goodrick at the main entrance inside the nearly 100-year-old business.

friendly establishment. Horvath says they are popular in the area during family reunions and other events that bring people to Dighton for a weekend.

The hotel also fills an important need during times of the year when harvest and work crews are in the area. Their accommodations include kitchen and laundry facilities, along with a patio that includes a grill.

“Most of our customers are business people who are staying overnight,” says Goodrick.

The hotel includes 27 rooms, 15 of which are furnished and currently operating. Another 12 rooms are being prepared for renovation.

Is it haunted?

After purchasing the hotel, Horvath was informed of some local history . . . that the building is haunted.

That prospect intrigues Horvath, who was told a similar tale when he purchased the former Woodward (Okla.) Hospital. In order to satisfy his curiosity and address concerns for future owners - he brought in ghost hunters to check the hospital.

According to the hunters, no unearthly visitors were present.

Hovarth is considering doing the same for the Heritage Hotel, though Goodrick says she has “never seen or heard any ghostly activity” since she started working in December.

Family Hotel However, Goodrick adds the At its heart, however, the Heritage Hotel is a family, pet- previous hotel manager claimed

to have “heard someone vacuuming upstairs.”

Then again, it just adds to the rich history of the Dighton landmark.

A ‘Relay Team’ Horvath, who is originally from the East coast, has been a resident of the Lawrence area for the past 30 years. When purchasing the property nearly 2-1/2 years ago, he felt it was “undervalued.”

“I saw this as an opportunity to help the community and try to add value to the hotel,” he says.

At the same time, Horvath admits that while he’s making improvements to the property, he’s also “looking for the right buyer.”

“When I do get ready to sell it’s going to be to someone who appreciates the history of this building and what it means to the community,” Horvath emphasizes. “If you don’t have an attachment to this place and its history, then don’t bother inquiring. It’s not for you.”

Ideally, says Horvath, the owners would also want to live in the hotel.

“I guess you could say that Danelle and I see ourselves as a relay team,” Horvath says.

“We’ve taken responsibility for this place from one owner and we’re looking to pass it off to the next.”

Any ghosts, of course, go with the sale.

(Right) The hotel in downtown Dighton.

(Below) Goodrick walks through a dark hallway in a wing of the hotel that is being renovated.

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(Above left) The main lobby in the historic hotel and (right) one of the single-bed rooms.

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The Scott County Record

Farm

Page 28 - Thursday, March 16, 2017

Look at your playa lake as more than just a low spot In this part of the state we are truly the Saudi Arabia of playa lakes because there are over 23,000 in Western Kansas - the most in the world.

We have mixed emotions about the playas. I don’t know how many times we’ve had to pull tractors or combines out of them. And I can’t count the number of crop failures we’ve had because of them.

But on most days we’re thankful for them. If all we had were flat, Harney silt loam soils, we’d lead a pretty plain life. But with the playas, we enjoy a lot of scenic and aesthetic breaks along with a greatly diversi-

Wheat and more . . . or less

by Vance Ehmke

fied flora and fauna.

This past spring, Louise and I and Jen got to see a trumpeter swan on one of the playas west of the house. Not only that, but we’ve also seen pelicans, American avocets, snow and Canada geese, Sand Hill Cranes, mallards, pintails, teal, tadpoles, fairy shrimp, and huge shore birds with long, bony legs eating fish!

Where did those fish come from?

Also bald eagles and

golden eagles. And the best swimmers of all . . . snakes!

Out in the country you’ll see these low spots in fields.

They’re all over. On our farm, for every 1,000 acres, there’s roughly 40 acres of playa lakes.

Farmers call them ponds, lagoons and buffalo wallows. They can range in size from several acres up to 100 acres or more. On our farm we have probably the largest playa lake in the county and it’s 136 acres.

The playa lakes are probably 130,000 years old and originated from subsurface salt deposits being dissolved. In our semi arid climate, these lakes are dry

most of the time, but during wet periods, they’ll fill and hold water for several weeks or months. Our big playa lake will hold water up to a year.

Variety of Benefits We think these playas offer a lot of private benefits: aesthetic and recreational value. Social benefits: improved water quality as well as aquifer recharge.

Potential benefits: recently French researchers were here on the farm looking for hydrogen gas coming up out of the playas as a new energy source.

Moisture sensor field demo near Holcomb Tuesday Moisture sensors have shown to improve water productivity on irrigated crop fields and assist producers to make data driven water management decisions. A soil moisture sensor field demonstration will be held for producers to see these tools in the field for consideration in their own operations.

The one-of-a-kind demonstration opportunity will be held Tues., March 21, 10:00 a.m., located four miles northwest of Holcomb at the Roth/Garden City Company Water Technology Farm, 5631 N. Ritchel Rd. The field day will include demonstrations by multiple soil moisture sensor vendors to show installation, operation techniques and data interpretation.

“I have found at the farm soil moisture probes do make a difference both

(See PLAYA on page 29)

(See DEMO on page 29)

Comparing nutrient uptake in wheat varieties ies have shown that wheat breeding in Kansas and many other regions of the world has increased the potential yields of wheat varieties with every released generation, and it will likely continue to increase with generations to come,” said Lollato, who is leading this research project.

“However, we don’t know if we’re indirectly switching when and

how much plants need to uptake their nitrogen or any other nutrients they need, and how varieties partition those nutrients within the plant into leaves, stem and grain.”

Because the nutrient uptake process is critical for fertilizer application, this research will help Lollato and his team determine what type of nutrient management practices farmers should

be using for current wheat varieties. However, this means that they need to first know the timing of the nutrient uptake and nutrient translocation in modern wheat varieties in order to make accurate recommendations.

“Most of our recommendations were developed in the 1980s, for the varieties widely used back then. Now, for today’s

Global trade of U.S. meat

Market Report

Weather

As the times change, so does the wheat crop and the practices needed to help it thrive.

What may have been cutting edge management for wheat 20 years ago could be vastly outdated due to today’s technological advancements.

Thankfully, Romulo Lollato, Kansas State University wheat and forages Extension agronomist; Allan Fritz, wheat

John Schlageck Kansas Farm Bureau

The increased role of trade in the last decade for beef, pork and poultry highlights the importance of trade to all the meat markets. While trade of the meats individually is the focus of each industry, it is apparent that all meat sectors are increasingly affected by the trade of each meat.

This is especially the case when trade policies that will affect all meats are considered. Changes or disruptions in trade of individual meats often has impacts on other meats in

Wheat Scoop Hannah Schlapp Kansas Wheat

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breeder in KSU’s agronomy department; and Dorivar Ruiz Diaz, KSU associate professor and nutrient management specialist in agronomy, have started a study to help Kansas farmers maintain budget-friendly cutting

various international markets and has impacts on domestic meat supplies, consumption and prices in U.S. markets.

Net exports of combined beef, pork and poultry have increased over time. Imports of all meat have been relatively constant at about 4.7 percent of domestic meat production since 1960.

The first year in which meat exports exceeded imports was 1992, resulting in positive net meat exports. Exports of meat have averaged 12.3 percent of production since 1992 compared to 1.3 percent from 1960 to 1991.

edge nutrition management practices.

This research will help determine whether modern varieties differ in their nutrient uptake compared to historic varieties, while also vetting two separate nutrient management programs. Interest in this research was sparked due to the rise in yields throughout the past generations.

“Some previous stud-

Exports of meat exceeded five percent of production for the first time in 1992 and grew rapidly for beef, pork and poultry in the 1990s with total meat exports exceeding 10 percent of production by 1996. Total meat exports have exceeded double-digit percentages of production since 1996, except for 2004 which dropped briefly to 9.5 percent of total production (largely due to reduced beef exports as a result of BSE).

Net meat exports are expected to continue improving year over year in 2017 with exports

increasing and imports declining year over year.

Net meat exports are projected to approach 12 percent of production in 2017 assuming no unexpected changes or disruptions.

The top five countries for total meat exports in 2016 were: Mexico (23.6 percent), Japan (12.9 percent), Canada (8.3 percent), South Korea (6.3 percent) and Hong Kong (5.4 percent).

The top five countries accounted for 56.5 percent of meat exports with the NAFTA market accounting for 31.9 percent and the three Asian markets (See MEAT on page 29)

Closing prices on March 15, 2017 Bartlett Grain Red Wheat............ $ 3.32 White Wheat ....... $ 3.32 Milo .................... $ 2.53 Corn ................... $ 3.08 Soybeans (new crop) $ 8.73 Scott City Cooperative Wheat.................. $ 3.32 White Wheat ....... $ 3.32 Milo (bu.)............. $ 2.54 Corn.................... $ 3.09 Soybeans ........... $ 8.73 Sunflowers.......... $ ADM Grain Wheat..................

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

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

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

Sunflowers..........

$ 3.32 $ 2.55 $ 3.09 $ 8.73 $ 12.00

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Pasta is one of America’s favorite foods. Last year, 1.3 million pounds of pasta were sold in American grocery stores. If you lined up 1.3 million pounds of 16 oz. spaghetti packages, it could circle the Earth’s equator almost nine times!

Playa We’ve had many others from all over the country coming here to look at the playas on our farm and elsewhere in Western Kansas. Archeologists, geologists, biologists, engineers, geomorphologists, geochemists, hydrologists, soil scientists and petrophysicists.

And a lot of just regular people who want to see these places.

They’re looking for artifacts, pulling soil samples, radio carbon dating, drilling to shale, putting in observation wells, collecting subsurface gases, as well as counting and

Wheat modern wheat varieties, we want to figure out if the wheat has increased the need for nutrients and if we should be applying more. Or maybe it’s using nutrients more efficiently, and maybe we should be applying less.

But, we don’t know. We don’t have that data yet,” says Lollato.

When the data is analyzed, the research team will also know the most efficient timing and the correct rate for nutrient application so they can make up-to-date application recommendations.

At the conclusion of the

Meat accounting for 24.6 percent of total meat exports.

These five countries accounted for 82.6 percent of beef exports; 74.7 percent of pork exports and 32.2 percent of poultry exports.

All five countries were important markets for beef, pork and poultry in 2016, with the exception of no poultry exports to Japan and less than five percent of total poultry

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identifying all sorts of water fowl and every living plant on the farm.

The University of Kansas just started a long-term study here to document the contribution made in Ogallala recharge.

Playas have always been important - even to the earliest Lane County people who were here over 10,000 years ago.

Once filled, these naturally occurring low spots held rain and snow melt which attracted prehistoric animals like mammoths, horses, camels,

bison and all sorts of water fowl. They were followed by mammothhunting Clovis. Then later nomadic Hell Gap and Logan Creek Indians and more recently, Apaches then Comanches and finally Sioux, Cheyenne, Kiowa and Arapahoe.

The Ehmkes have been here four and five generations, but the archeologists tell us there were 400 to 500 generations here before us. Here we are today, separated from these early people by hundreds and thousands of years - all of us with wildly different cultures

Playa lake conservation program

New Playa Lake Conservation Program Kansas FSA has a new practice under the Continuous Conservation Reserve Program specifically aimed at playa lakes.

This initiative is part of an established effort known as State Acres for Wildlife Enhancement (SAFE).

The practice focuses on enrolling playas into CRP to improve habitat for migratory birds, butterflies and pollinators.

The purpose of the new practice is to restore the functions and values of a playa wetland hydrology ecosystem; to improve habitat for migrating and wintering waterfowl; and to maximize habitat for pollinators and priority species of monarch butterflies.

See your local FSA for more information. and languages and looks. for the same things.

And we thought they And yet, we still come to the same places looking were just lagoons!

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study, researchers will have a more accurate set of recommendations for nutrient applications, something that may save farmers money towards their input costs.

The research started in July 2016, so at this point, there are no absolute results. The study will put both modern and historic varieties through two different nutrient fertilization programs.

The first program is called “common practice,” a top-dress nitrogen application during Feekes GS stages 4-5. The second

program involves a “balanced nutrition” where researchers take K-State’s recommendations for maximum yield, based off soil test recommendations.

Researchers are using nine varieties from different generations (from 1920s releases like Turkey Red, until modern releases such as “Larry”) and putting them through the balanced nutrition program and through the common practice program to maintain consistency and accurate comparisons.

The team will also be sampling the biomass

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exports going to South Korea.

Other important markets tend to be dominated by individual meats. For example, 85.7 percent of Caribbean meat exports are poultry (4.7 percent of total meat exports); China, 99 percent is pork (3.5 percent of total meat exports); and Taiwan, 87.7 percent is beef (1.1 percent of total meat exports).

Meat imports are heav-

ily dominated by beef imports, which accounted for 71.1 percent of meat imports in 2016. Pork accounted for another 25.8 percent of meat imports.

Beef trade is much more complex than other meats with many diverse product markets and the massive impact of the ground beef market.

In 2016, it is estimated that 45 percent of U.S. domestic beef consumption was ground beef.

from each plot throughout the growing season and sending it to the KSU Soil Fertility Laboratory for nutrient concentration analysis. Once the data is collected, they will be able to determine the micro- and macronutrient concentration and partitioning between the leaves, stems and grain.

Once the crop has reached harvest maturity, yield and yield components will be measured.

Comparisons will be made among varieties between the fertilization practices that were used.

Funding for this research has been provided by Kansas wheat farmers through the Kansas Wheat Commission’s two penny wheat assessment. The completion of this research will benefit the farmers in more ways than one.

“After completing the research, if we do find out there’s been a shift in timing of nutrient uptake and partitioning, as well as nutrient amount, ultimately we can improve our management recommendations so the crop will be more successful,” Lollato says.

economically and with water savings,” said Dwane Roth of the technology farm. “This has shown there is hope for the future and sustainability can be achieved for the next generation.”

Ten dealers will be participating in the demonstrations and there will also be a raffle for two moisture probes. The 10 different soil moisture sensors that will be shown represent about 90 percent of the major manufacturers of these devices used in agricultural application.

K-State Extension will also provide tips in selecting and using the probes, allowing producers to see how these tools can assist with their own water management decisions.

For more information visit: http://www. southwest.k-state.edu/ program_areas/water_ management/extension_ programs.html or email Jonathan Aguilar, jaguilar@ksu.edu.

County Plat Maps • Finney • Gove • Greeley • Kearney • Lane • Logan • Ness • Scott • Wichita • Wallace Pick them up today at:

406 Main • Scott City 620 872-2090

$

7

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Call 872-2090 today!

Per Week

The Scott County Record Professional Directory

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

Agriculture

Preconditioning and Growing

• 45 Years Experience • Managed and owned by full-time DVM • 2,000 Head capacity Office - 872-5150 • Scott City Stuart Doornbos Home - 872-2775 Cell - 874-0951

Berning Tree Service David Berning • Marienthal

620-379-4430

Tree Trimming and Removal Hedge and Evergreen Trimming Stump Removal

Fully Insured

Pro Ex II

Over 20 Years Experience

Professional Extermination Commercial & Residential

• Termites • Rodents • Soil Sterilization • Pre Treats • Lawn Care • Fly Parasites

John Kropp, Owner • Scott City 874-2023 (cell) • 872-3400 (office) • prox2@live.com

Sager’s Pump Service • Irrigation • Domestic • Windmills • Submersibles

Cell: 874-4486 • Office 872-2101

Construction/Home Repair

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

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

RT Plumbing

ELLIS AG SERVICES

Rex Turley, Master Plumber

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

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)

Call Brittan Ellis • 620-874-5160

Automotive

CHAMBLESS ROOFING Residential

All Types of Roofing

Commercial

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

Landscaping • Lawn/Trees

Faurot Electric, Inc. Office • 620-872-5344 Jeromy Lisenby • 620-214-3247

P.O. Box 14 • Scott City

SPENCER PEST CONTROL RESIDENTIAL – COMMERCIAL Termite Baiting Systems • Rodents Weed Control • Structural Insects Termite Control Box 258, Scott City • (620) 872-2870

$

7

Call 872-2090 today!

Per Week

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Professional Directory Continued

Medical

Charles Purma II D.D.S. P.A. General Dentistry, Cosmetics, and Insurance Accepted

We welcome new patients.

324 N. Main • Scott City • 872-2389 Residence 872-5933 Tuesday-Saturday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

www.reganjewelers.com

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

Brent Rogers

Sales Consultant b.rogers@officesolutionsinc.biz

Dr. Jeffrey A. Heyd Optometrist 20/20 Optometry

Treatment of Ocular Disease • Glaucoma Detection Children’s Vision • Glasses • Contact Lenses

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

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.

Help Wanted

Misc.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. Kansas Contractors Assn. Seeking candidate with lobbying experience at the state/national level.

Well versed in planning and conducting networking activities for membership; communicating with board of directors and association members; planning and executing public relations campaigns; overseeing office operations. Qualifications include: experience with advocacy, knowledge of transportation issues and ability to communicate in verbal and written forms.

College degree preferred.

Vacation, 401k and health insurance. Interested candidates submit cover letter and resume by March 15, 2017 to: Bob Totten, Executive Vice President Kansas Contractors Association, 800 Jackson, Ste. 100 Topeka, KS 66612.

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.

Complete family eye center!

Medical

106 W. 4th • Scott City • 872-2020 • Emergencies: 214-1462

Pro Health Chiropractic Wellness Center (Scott City Chiropractic) “TLC”...

Technology Lead Chiropractic

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

Services

Horizon Health Berning Auction For your home medical supply and equipment needs!

We service and repair all that we sell.

1602 S. Main • Scott City • 872-2232 Toll Free : 1-866-672-2232

“Don’t Trust Your Auction to Just Anyone”

For all your auction needs call:

(620) 375-4130

Russell Berning Box Q • Leoti

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.

––––––––––––––––––––– 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.

––––––––––––––––––––– 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.

––––––––––––––––––––– 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.

Is your subscription paid?

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.

For Sale 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.

Sports/Outdoors OUR SPORTSMEN will pay top $$$ to hunt your land. Call for a free base camp leasing info packet and quote.

1-866-309-1507. www.

BaseCampLeasing.com.

Homes SAVE YOUR HOME! Are you behind paying your mortgage? Denied a loan modification?Is the bank threatening foreclosure? Call Homeowner’s Relief Line now for help!

855-401-4513.

––––––––––––––––––––– LENDERS OFFERING special government programs for mobile homes and $0 down for landowners. Promo homes with reduced down payments.

Use tax refund for additional incentives. Singles from $39,900. Doubles from $59,900. 866-8586862.

Retail

Gene’s Appliance Over 200 appliances in stock!

COMPARE OUR PRICES!

We have Reverse Osmosis units in stock.

Remember us for parts in stock for all brands of all appliances.

Sales and Service Days • Mon. - Sat. Deliveries • Mon.-Sat.

Largest Frigidaire appliance dealer in Western Ks. 508 Madison • Scott City • 872-3686

Networktronic, Inc.

Computer Sales, Service and Repair Custom computers!

Networking solutions!

Mon. - Fri. 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

402 S. Main, Scott City • 872-1300

Northend Revcom Electronics Your RadioShack Dealer Disposal All Under One Roof

Two-way Radio Sales & Service

A garbologist company.

Locally owned and operated since 1990

1104 Main • Scott City • 872-2625

Scott City • 872-1223 • 1-800-303-3371

Dining

Classifieds

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Buy, sell, trade, one call does it all 872-2090 ot fax 872-0009

Classified Ad Deadline: Monday at 5:00 p.m.

Classified Ad Rate: 20¢ per word. Minimum charge, $5.

Blind ad: $2.50 per week extra. Card of thanks: 10¢ per word. Minimum charge, $3. Classified Display Ad rate: $6.00 per column inch.

Classified advertising must be paid in advance unless business account is established.

If not paid in advance, there will be a $1 billing charge.

Tear sheet for classified ad will be $1 extra.

Agriculture

WANT TO BUY. Stored corn. Call for basis and contract information.

1-800-579-3645.

Lane County Feeders, Inc. 32tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– WANT TO BUY. Wheat straw delivered. Call for contracting information.

Lane County Feeders, 397-5341.

44tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– BLACK ANGUS BULLS, Registered, Tested, 2 year olds, Yearlings, Heifer Bulls, Delivery, Conformation, Performance. Call: Black Velvet Ranch, Aaron Plunkett, Syracuse 620-384-1101. 3217t20c

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.

4515tfc –––––––––––––––––––– SUNNY DAZE cleaning, cooking, assisting with all your daily needs! If you need help, call Linda at 360-355-4085. Affordable and satisfaction guaranteed.

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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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HOUSE FOR RENT

in Scott City - Available April 1st - 3 + 1 bedroom, 2 bathrooms, basement, and single attached garage. Central heat and air.

NO SMOKING and NO PETS! Water, trash and lawn paid for. Must have references.

Rents for $900. Call 620-874-8014 for more information.

––––––––––––––––––––– PRIME RETAIL SPACE AVAILABLE in Downtown Garden City.

309 N. Main, 1,800 sq/ ft. $1,400 per month. Call 620-276-0891.

––––––––––––––––––––– NICE, 2-BEDROOM home for rent. Central air.

All new appliances. No pets. Call (620) 872-5844.

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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Garage Sale MULTI-FAMILY Saturday, March 18 • 8:00 a.m. to noon 1602 Church • Scott City

Clothes, shoes, toys (inside and out), dolls and tractors, ride on toys, kids’ bikes, holiday decorations, power wheels dune buggy, old wooden windows, and much, much more!

County Plat Maps Scott

Logan

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Wichita

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Wallace

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Finney

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A Place In Time

406 Main • Scott City 620 872-2090

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

Gorgeous remodeled older home, one of a kind! 3 bedrooms, close to downtown, PLUS a Bed and Breakfast that has a small cottage and 2 more bedrooms and living area above the garage. Great way to make some extra cash to help with your payment!! $225,000

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

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!

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Employment Opportunities Best Western El Quartelejo Inn and Suites

Destiny Supports Come join our devoted team of caregivers and earn a competitive wage enriching the lives of others.

is accepting applications for:

Guest Services Agent 7:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Must be able to work weekends and holidays Please pick up application at: 1610 S. Main St. Scott City

Part-time position available in Scott City.

Call 620-272-0564 ext. 3# (push pound sign after 3) for more information 3217t2p

Scott County Health Department

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is accepting applications for a Full-Time RN Applicants must: • Have a nursing license in Kansas Position offers: • 40 hour work week (8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., M-F) • Excellent benefits • Vacation time and sick days accrued • Paid holidays • Competitive salary Applications may be obtained at and returned to: Scott County Health Department 204 S. College Scott City, Ks. 67871

Casey’s General Store Casey’s General Stores is looking for friendly and energetic individuals for the positions of: Sales Associate/Food Service Specialists Scott City Kansas, Starting Pay $10.00

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Qualified applicants will possess excellent customer service skills, knowledge of convenience store operations including prepared foods and have team building abilities.

Scott County Hospital Has Openings for the Following Positions PATIENT CARE Acute Care RNs Physical Therapist - FT PACU/Circulating RN - FT Operating Room Supervisor RN - FT Full Time CNA Clinic Receptionist - FT Dietary Aide - FT

Apply online at www.caseys.com/careers

Wheatland Electric Is accepting applications for a: Billing Specialist Garden City Office

Applicants for these positions are required to be able to read, speak and understand English. Pre-employment physical, drug/alcohol screening, immunization titer, physical assessment and TB skin test required. We are a tobacco free campus.

We offer competitive pay and great benefits.

Applications are available on our website at www.scotthospital.net or call 620-872-7772 for more information.

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Wheatland Electric is looking for a person with strong attention to detail. This position is responsible for helping members with billing questions and backup for monthly billing process.

Must have an Associate Degree in Accounting or related field or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience. The successful applicant must be able to meet deadlines, have excellent organizational and communication skills, and be knowledgeable in Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and Outlook.

We offer competitive wages and excellent benefits.

Please send cover letter and resume to resumes@weci.net by April 4th at 5:00 p.m.

To view full job description log onto http://www.weci.net/content/careers

E.O.E.

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Park Lane Nursing Home Has openings for the following positions: RN/LPN - PT/PRN CNA/CMA - FT

EVENING SHIFT CNA - FT

CMA - PT 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”

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State colleges told to increase grad degrees The Kansas Regents have given every state run university and community college in Kansas a tall order: vastly increase the number of degrees and certificates they award.

Every Regents school has to graduate 20 percent more students in the next three years and then maintain that level.

That’s 13,000 more associate degrees, four year degrees and certificates a year across the system.

The state’s community colleges figure prominently in the mission and at the state’s largest, Johnson County, is ratcheting up its already highly studentcentric approach to higher education.

“I taught at three other places, two of them universities, where basically the idea was, this is college, if you can make it, you can make it,” says JCCC history professor Vincent Clark. But, he says that “sink or swim” thing is not at all how JCCC operates.

Clark has been teaching history at Johnson County since the 1980s. Oftentimes community college students need to first learn how to learn.

“They don’t know how to read a textbook, for example, in some cases and respond to a test on that.

They don’t know how to get ready for an essay exam. So I try to teach them how to do that,” Clark says.

At JCCC they call these “wraparound” services. Second-year history student Ryanne Pritchard from Olathe says the services are essential. “If I need the help I can get the help. Sometimes I’ll go to the writing center where, say you don’t do really well writing synthesis essays, you can go to the writing center and they can help you with that step by step.”

There are three main ways to increase graduations.

One is recruit more kids to universities and community colleges. Second, lure some of the 185,000 Kansans with some college credit back to campus.

Third, and the one that could be most important, is helping students stay in school and succeed.

Clark is big on individual attention. He has many students who work or who are single parents. “The gamut of human problems that they have. I mean, I’ve got kids whose cars break down, they can’t get here.”

JCCC’s goal is to award

284 more degrees and certificates by 2020.

So it’s hired more people to deliver wraparound services.

“We reorganized what we call our student success advocates. We took our cohort of first time, full time freshmen in the fall and did some wraparound and some intervention support for them,” says Randy Weber who is Vice President for Student Success and Engagement.

Weber says that change pushed the fall-to-spring persistence rate from 82 to 87 percent.

“That’s 70 more students who are on campus this spring than would have been last year under the same persistence rate.”

Across the system, the retention rate has gone from 66 percent in 2011 to 70 percent last year.

The theory is obvious: the more students schools keep, the more who graduate.

The Kansas Board of Regents says that 71 percent of high school graduates in the state will need some kind of post high school education by 2020 to meet the needs of businesses in the state.

Which is why clearing the path for that educational journey is so crucial.

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s d e n n o g m mpa a i D Cha d n Live Auction a Diamond Giveaways

7th Annual

Saturday, April 1 6:00 p.m. - Cocktails 6:30 p.m. - Dinner Majestic Theatre 420 S. Main, Scott City

50

$

per ticket

Limited seating, call now!

620-872-3706 for tickets or email wkcac@wkcac.com for more information

Fundraiser for Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center

Box 377 • 406 Main St., Scott City • 620-872-2090 • www.scottcountyrecord.com