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Thursday, October 13, 2016

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Heberlee sentenced to 38 months

Sports A winning combination qualifies for state tourney Page 19 State Brownback warns of tax hike if court orders more funding Page 2

Published in Scott City, Ks.

Rick Heberlee answers questions during Wednesday’s sentencing hearing at Scott County District Court. (Record Photo)

During a sentencing hearing on Wednesday afternoon, Rick Heberlee told the court that he is a “changed man” following the drug overdose death of Sherree Smith.

Heberlee said that he no longer uses drugs and has left that lifestyle behind.

An employer and family member testified to the difference they have seen in the Scott City resident over the past 16 months.

But, District Judge Wendel Wurst wasn’t convinced and sentenced Heberlee to 38 months with the Kansas Department of Corrections. That was only slightly less than the 41 month maximum sentence sought by Assistant Attorney General Lyndzie Carter.

Heberlee was sentenced to 30

months for distribution of methamphetamine. The maximum penalty was 32 months. He was sentenced to eight months for interference with a law enforcement officer. The maximum was nine months.

Heberlee will be credited for 116 days already served in the Scott County jail.

A five-day jury trial that concluded on Sept. 22 had found Heberlee innocent in the distribution of a controlled substance (meth) that resulted in the death of 20-year-old Sherree Smith on Jan. 17, 2014.

Acquittal Denied During the initial proceedings, defense attorney J. Scott Koksal, (See HEBERLEE on page 10)

Sports Youth day at Lake Scott introduces 225 to the outdoors Page 27

Index Opinions...................4-7 Calendar...................... 7 Youth/Education........ 11 Public notices.......12-13 LEC report................. 12 Church services......... 15 Health care...........18-19 Sports...................19-26 Farm section.........28-29 Classified ads.......31-33 Pigskin Payoff............ 34

Deaths

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Agriculture The math behind today’s beef packing industry Page 28

The chalk formations long-known as Little Jerusalem have been an iconic part of the landscape in southern Logan County.

The rugged spires, separated by finger-like canyons, are the largest Niobrara Chalk formation in Kansas. They served as a landmark for travelers along the Smoky Hill Trail, which later became the Butterfield Overland Dispatch Trail, located just north of the Smoky Hill River.

However, except to those in the area who are familiar with Little Jerusalem by name if not actual location - the unique geological feature is largely unknown.

That is about to change with the acquisition of the 332-acre site by The Nature Conservancy. It is now part of the Smoky Valley Ranch which includes more than 17,000 acres within the Smoky Valley River basin.

“This is an opportunity to see that (Little Jerusalem) stays this way for-

ever,” says Matt Bain, project coordinator with Smoky Valley Ranch. “We want future generations to enjoy this place and its unique resources.”

When the Conservancy originally purchased the Smoky Valley Ranch in 1999, it had hopes of eventually acquiring the site known as Little Jerusalem.

“It was felt that this could add a lot to the overall scope of what we’re doing here,” explains Bain, who noted that the sale was finalized on Oct. 5. “I believe the seller also felt that the Conservancy was best suited to help them achieve a long-range vision, which means having public access to this place and, at the same time, protecting it.

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Community Additional pediatric care now available at Scott City Clinic Page 16

Iconic Little Jerusalem site is acquired by Nature Conservancy

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Health Kansas hospitals reducing the rate of acquired infections Page 16

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(Photo above) Matt Bain, project coordinator with Smoky Valley Ranch, talks about the diverse biological and geological features at Little Jerusalem. (Record Photo)

“It is our hope that, on a broader scale, this will increase tourism to the area.”

Of the 332.5 acres sold to the Conservancy, only about 75-100 acres are grassland. The chalk formations account for the remainder.

A Hidden Treasure “I’m amazed at the number of locals who have explored the canyons and stood on the chalk tops and gazed in wonder at these formations for years and years. It’s an awe-inspiring place,” says Bain.

His goal, and that of the Conservancy, is for more people to share in that wonder by making a “hidden treasure a little less hidden.”

“This is the type of enhancement to the Western Vistas Byway that can attract people to Scott City, Oakley and the surrounding area,” he says. “The Conservancy’s goal, as with their sites (See CONSERVANCY on page eight)

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Tax hike likely if state loses funding case Brownback issues warning as state Supreme Court weighs ‘adequacy’ Gov. Sam Brownback, known for his famous 2012 experiment to slash away at taxes, said Kansas would have to raise taxes if it loses an education funding fight in the state supreme court.

The court heard oral arguments last month in Gannon v.

Kansas, in which four of the state’s poorest districts argued

that Kansas doesn’t adequately support their school systems.

Based on several studies, the districts argue that they need $800 million to $900 million more from the state in order to provide students with the services necessary to meet the state’s academic standards.

“You’d have to look at major tax increases to do that,” Brownback told The Wichita Eagle late last month.

After a series of income-tax cuts in 2012 and 2013 - reductions Brownback pushed for the state has fallen far short of its revenue projections. It faces a $45 million budget shortfall

in October alone, according to local reports.

The Sunflower State lost a separate part of the school funding case dealing with equity earlier this year and was ordered to provide its poor districts with $38 million more.

The state answered that ruling by taking money from other state agencies and handing it to poorer districts. The state spends around $6 billion a year on K-12 education.

If Kansas loses the other part of the case, the adequacy ruling, it would require the state to provide more money to all its districts. The justices are

expected to issue a ruling in late November, after Election Day. At least five of the justices are up for re-election.

Kansas’ supreme court justices last week expressed deep concern with the amount of money the state has provided its public school districts, as the state sought to challenge a lower-court decision that found the state’s funding system inadequate.

show judges that budget cuts have directly affected academic results.

That’s a legal maneuver used by a growing number of lawyers for districts across the country with overwhelmingly large populations of black, Hispanic, and poor students.While the argument got mixed results before 2001, the No Child Left Behind Act provided district lawyers with reams of test-score data.

Separately, state legislatures Funding and Test Scores in recent decades adopted stateDuring the hearing that took wide academic standards - in place in September, the plain- Kansas, they are known as the tiffs used the state’s learning Rose Standards. standards and test scores to (See FUNDING on page nine)

RC Bloodmobile to visit area communities; in Scott City Oct. 19 The American Red Cross urges eligible donors to give blood to support cancer patients and other patients during Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October.

More than 1.6 million new cases of cancer are expected to be diagnosed in the U.S. this year and 246,600 of them will be invasive breast cancer, according to the American

Cancer Society. Cancer patients may need blood products during chemotherapy, surgery or treatment for complications.

The Red Cross must collect about 14,000 blood donations every day to help patients, and volunteer donors are the only source of blood products for those needing transfusions. Donors of all blood types are needed.

To make an appointment to give blood, download the Red Cross Blood Donor App, visit redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-RED CROSS (1800-733-2767). Donors are encouraged to make appointments and complete the RapidPass online health history questionnaire at redcrossblood. org/rapidpass to save time when donating.

Working group offers changes to state’s revenue estimate process

A working group appointed by Gov. Sam Brownback has unveiled a host of recommendations for changing the way Kansas officials estimate the amount of tax revenue the state will receive each year.

The recommendations include overhauling the group that makes the estimates and making a controversial change to the way monthly tax revenue is reported.

The governor’s office and the Legislature use the tax revenue estimates as a guide to the amount they can spend for all services, including education, health care and transportation.

The current process has been in place for decades. But, state revenues have consistently failed to meet estimates since 2012, when Brownback and the Legislature approved significant income tax cuts and then followed with increases in other taxes in subsequent years.

Missed revenue targets have forced Brownback and legislators to make several midyear budget cuts.

Sam Williams, a retired accountant tapped to lead the working group, said the inability to adapt to the tax changes shows the revenue estimating process needs improvement.

“When there’s a significant tax policy change, the system breaks down, and that’s exactly what we’ve been through in the State of Kansas the last four years,” Williams said.

A consensus revenue estimating group makes tax revenue projections twice a year. The group includes representatives of the Division of the Budget, Kansas Department of Revenue and Kansas

Legislative Research Department and one consulting economist each from the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Wichita State University.

Controversy Over Reports Williams’ group also recommended that revenue estimators: •Gather additional data from more diverse sources for the twice-annual revenue forecasting meetings, including macroeconomic reports and information from experts in industries important to Kansas, like agriculture.

•Buy new computer software to form economic and revenue models.

•Use statistical methods that focus less on past trends.

•Estimate capital gains separately from individual income tax receipts.

•Remove monthly projections from Department of Revenue reports and report only actual collections compared to the same month of the prior year.

Democratic leaders immediately voiced concerns about the proposal to scrap the reports that compare actual collections to monthly projections.

Sen. Laura Kelly of Topeka, the top Democrat on the Senate budget committee, said that would make it more difficult for legislators to know if the state was on track to fund its budget or if the budget needed to be adjusted.

Kelly said the monthly missed revenue targets have become a political embarrassment for Brownback.

“Clearly this is an effort to get that out of the news,” Kelly said. “Because it has been bad and will probably continue to be bad.”

Bloodmobile stops in the area include: Tues., Oct. 18: Lane County Fairgrounds, Dighton, 1:30-6:00 p.m.

Wed., Oct. 19: Wm. Carpenter 4-H Building, Scott City, county fairgrounds, noon to 6:00 p.m.

Thurs., Oct. 20: Wichita County High School, 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

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Community Living

Page 3 - Thursday, October 13, 2016

Know how you will respond if bullying occurs Many of us might think we know what bullying is based on what we experienced as kids, but we are so far Carol Ann behind the curve. Crouch Family and We often think Consumer of bullying as Sciences Agent for physical intimidations, but with Scott County social media it is so much more than that, and it never goes away.

That is why prevention is so crucial.

With social media, bullying can have a much longer and far more negative impact.

October is Bullying Prevention Month

Bullying often includes the following: •Behavior that hurts or harms another person physically or emotionally.

•Victims have difficulty stopping the behavior directed at them, and struggle to defend themselves.

•An individual will demonstrate more “power” - physically, socially, or emotionally which can make them intimidating.

First of all, children need to know that if the behavior of another student hurts or harms

them, emotionally or physically, it’s bullying.

At the same time, it’s also important to recognize when a child has a self-confidence issue and perceives others as being hateful.

Harassing behaviors may include: •Unwelcome conduct such as: verbal abuse, name-calling, epithets, slurs.

•Graphic or written statements.

•Threats or physical assault.

•Other conduct that may be humiliating.

Know the Facts If your child feels they are

being bullied, it is important for parents to approach the situation in a calm manner and keep a record of the facts. It is helpful if parents and school staff work together to resolve the issue.

Work with your child to understand what is going on.

Never ask them to handle it by themselves, they are already feeling isolated. Thank your child for telling you about their situation.

Tell your child that the bullying is not his or her fault.

Talk with your child about the specifics of the situation and ask: •Who is involved?

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•When and where did it occur?

Find out if other children or adults might have observed the bullying.

Keep a written record of this information.

Practice possible ways for your child to respond to bullying. There are helpful hints on the internet with how to help your child respond to those who might be bullying them.

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Editorial/Opinion

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editorially speaking

Out of sight:

State’s solution is to hide dismal tax revenue reports

The best way to deal with bad news is to simply pretend it didn’t happen.

Or, in the case of our state government, keep others from finding out.

For more than three years, there has been considerable angst within the Brownback Administration over the miserable monthly revenue reports. Coincidentally, the problems began when the income tax cuts championed by Gov. Brownback and ultraconservatives in the legislature went into effect in January 2013. In the 45 months since, state collections have fallen short of projections 32 times.

The problem, according to Administration officials and ultraconservatives, must be with the process that’s used to project tax revenue. Here’s a piece of information that those same people won’t tell you. According to the Kansas Center for Economic Growth, the consensus revenue estimating process that was used from 1975 to 2013 has missed actual revenue totals by only 0.2 percent.

The process not only worked, but was remarkably accurate.

It’s only been since the Brownback tax cuts went into effect that projections have failed to hit the actual targeted receipts with any accuracy. In fact, in most months, actual receipts have fallen short of projections by millions of dollars. In just the first three months of the current fiscal year (July-September) state revenue is about $60 million less than had been projected.

In the first fiscal year that the income tax cuts were in effect, state general fund revenue was down $700 million, according to former Kansas Budget Director Duane Goossen. Lawmakers were warned to expect a $600 million state budget surplus in 2012 to become a $2.5 billion deficit within five years.

Warning shots were fired. Lawmakers were told there is no way to cut revenue this dramatically and imagine there wouldn’t be negative consequences.

Yet, lawmakers still refuse to accept reality.

The problem, according to them, is with the consensus revenue estimating group and how it predicts tax collections. Their solution is to do away with the monthly projections-vs-actual revenue reports and replace them with reports that compare this year’s revenue to last year’s.

That is somehow supposed to make the loss of tax revenue less painful. How absurd.

The problem is not with the process, but with a disastrous tax policy that has gutted the revenue stream needed to operate state government.

Keeping information out of the public’s eye is only a good solution for those with something to hide.

Trumped again:

Republicans revealing lack of moral character

Some Republican governors and Republicans in Congress are finally dropping their endorsement of Donald Trump as their party’s presidential nominee. It appears the final straw was an 11-year-old audio tape of Trump describing how he likes to grab women in very inappropriate places.

Yes, that’s what it took to decide that Trump was not fit to be President in terms of moral character or mental stability.

Referring to Hispanics as killers and rapists wasn’t a problem. It’s been okay to suggest that more countries should be armed with nuclear weapons.

Building a massive wall on the border with Mexico and promising that Mexico will pay for it didn’t raise any red flags.

Neither was there a problem with the scam known as Trump University, his four bankruptcies, three marriages, insulting Fox News host Megyn Kelly, a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the country nor threats to have protestors beaten up at his rallies.

None of these actions - which represent only a small sample - were enough to keep prominent Republicans from endorsing their party’s nominee.

It wasn’t until he talked about groping women that some - but not all - party officials decided they’d had enough.

At least we’re finally gaining a clearer idea of what does, and doesn’t, pass for moral leadership within the Republican Party. It’s more disturbing that none of this matters to millions of people who voted for him in primary elections and millions more who will support him in the general election.

Kansas political leaders - and that’s using the term very loosely - don’t get a free pass. Gov. Sam Brownback and Secretary of State Kris Kobach have not withdrawn their endorsement and continue to serve as advisors to the Trump campaign.

Sens. Jerry Moran and Pat Roberts don’t like what he said, but they continue to support Trump. Roger Marshall, Republican nominee for the First District says “this race is not about values.” That’s too bad, because Trump’s lack of values is a reflection of those who support him.

Trump hasn’t just exposed his own shortcomings, but the hypocrisy that is rampant within the GOP.

Dancing to the Wagle Wiggle Susan Wagle, president of the Kansas Senate, says she’s open to some changes in the state’s tax law.

Wagle wasn’t quite clear whether this revelation for change came to her in the form of a burning bush, whether she was basked in the glow of a bright light from heaven, or whether she simply looked at the calendar and saw there was a general election on November 8.

For the past four years, Wagle and her ultraconservative colleagues in the Kansas Legislature have defended the tax cuts at every turn.

The possibility that a dramatic loss of income tax revenue - Brownback’s “march to zero” - would have an equally dramatic effect on revenue needed to continue basic operations was apparently more than these lawmakers could comprehend.

Economist Arthur Laffer guaranteed that tax cuts would lead to greater revenue. It’s the same promise that has been made by disciples of Reaganomics for more than 30 years. Surely, this

time it would really happen.

It didn’t.

But, the loss of revenue to the state’s treasury wasn’t the fault of tax cuts.

As Wagle and those within the Brownback Administration have reminded us time after time, month after dismal month, budget cut after budget cut, it’s not their fault.

Blame the overall economy. Blame declining oil and natural gas prices. Blame low agricultural market prices. Blame Hillary’s e-mails. Blame illegal immigrants. Blame whatever and whomever you want, but don’t blame the tax cuts.

Every month, when the state has announced that tax revenue has failed to meet projections, just like clockwork this newspaper and every other media outlet across the state

could expect an e-mail from Wagle offering an explanation as to why the state’s dire financial situation isn’t getting any better.

Reacting to the December 2015 revenue report, Wagle said “. . . obviously shoppers are going online seeking competitive pricing” and that elected officials in Kansas “need to tighten our belts.”

No mention of tax policy.

In response to the February shortfall, Wagle said, “The time has come to cut every government funded entity.” She added, “Taxpayers are not in the mood for another tax increase; we must further reduce spending.”

Over the past four years, while ultraconservatives in Kansas felt they were firmly entrenched in power, they have refused to acknowledge that their failed tax policy has been responsible for the need to borrow about $1.3 billion dollars from the Bank of KDOT, to enact a four percent cut to public university spending, for a

freeze on public school spending, for funding cuts to early childhood programs and for a four percent reduction in the reimbursement rate for KanCare providers.

These are just a few of the belt-tightening moves that Kansans have had to endure.

The problem, according to ultraconservatives, is with Kansans expecting too much from government. We must learn how to do with even less.

Four years later and with the carnage of a primary election fresh in her mind, we’re seeing the Wagle Wiggle. She’s trying to wiggle off the hook for tax policies that she and fellow ultraconservatives voted for, which Gov. Brownback signed into law and which all of them have repeatedly defended.

Wagle and her likeminded colleagues want voters to think they’re taking a tough, new stance on tax policy and the budget.

Don’t be fooled. These Republican lawmakers are survivalists who saw (See WIGGLE on page six)

Big tent now a house of horrors What is the Republican Party?

Suddenly, this has become one of the central questions of the 2016 campaign. It’s not simply a matter of whether the GOP is the party of Donald Trump or the party of Paul D. Ryan.

It is also an issue of whether Republican congressional leaders have any connection with the seething grass roots whose anger they stoked during the Obama years but always hoped to contain. Trump is the product of their colossal miscalculations.

And then there are the ruminations of millions of quiet Republicans - local business people and doctors and lawyers and coaches and teachers. They are looking on as the political institution to which they have long been loyal is refashioned

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another view by E.J. Dionne, Jr.

into a house of bizarre horrors so utterly distant from their sober, community-minded and, in the truest sense of the word, conservative approach to life.

This election has been transformed. Its trajectory will now be divided between Before the Video (BV) and After the Video (AV). Hillary Clinton was always likely to win, but BV, it seemed she would have to scratch out a normal, and perhaps even narrow, victory. AV, Republicans all the way down the ticket are running for their lives.

Clinton has already started to divert some of her rhetorical energy to helping Democrats in Senate and House races,

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and Democratic money sources are moving to try to make Nov. 8 a day of victory at all levels.

Taking control of the Senate is well within the Democrats’ reach.

Winning the 30 seats they need in the House is still a long shot because of partisan gerrymanders and the concentration of Democratic votes in big cities.

Still, the fact that the possibility is even being discussed is a sea change, and the success of many of those gerrymanders for the GOP depended on large suburban margins. It is precisely suburban voters, Republican and independent, who are Trump’s nemesis.

And for those running on the ticket headed by Trump, there are no good options. Logic would dictate abandoning him, and that’s what the party’s

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candidates did in droves following the video’s release. But, Trump has engendered deep loyalties among core Republican voters, and dumping him carries a price - a price that Trump was happy to raise sky high.

“Disloyal R’s are far more difficult than Crooked Hillary,” he tweeted on Tuesday.

“They come at you from all sides. They don’t know how to win - I will teach them!”

His unloading on Ryan after the House speaker said he would no longer defend or campaign with Trump underscored that there is no middle ground.

Ryan did not withdraw his endorsement, after all.

But, if you are not wholly with Trump, you are against him.

The flip side of this calculation is also bad for (See HORRORS on page six)

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Trump the best and worst files for Tax fairness changes with elected leaders moral bankruptcy

by Sarah Anderson

by Richard Cohen

Over the weekend, Donald Trump did what he always does when things go south for him.

He walked away. He announced he is not the man at 70 he had been at 59 when he had boasted of sexual assault, and he pledged “to be a better man tomorrow.”

With that, he effectively declared moral bankruptcy, paying about a dime on the dollar of sincerity.

It was, of course, what Trump had done six times in business, only this time the crisis was not about his finances, but his character. He had been caught talking trash about women. He has been caught boasting about committing the sort of sex crimes transit cops are always on the lookout for.

He said he had hit on a married woman soon after he himself had been married. For all of that, he had “regret.”

Then, like the angel he thinks he is, he took flight. He left his own body and, looking down, pronounced in his videotaped apology that the Donald Trump who said all those repugnant things, the Donald Trump who managed to break centuries of newspaper tradition against using certain words, the Donald Trump who issued a casting call for the alleged victims of Bill Clinton, the Donald Trump who often talked about women in the most despicable terms, the Donald Trump who listened to Howard Stern take apart his daughter’s physique like she was a Lego creation, the Donald Trump who went vile on Megyn Kelly and who has called women “dogs” and “pigs” and who berated a former Miss Universe for gaining weight and who made a tabloid spectacle of his extramarital affair with Marla Maples, that Donald Trump doesn’t exist anymore. The man erased his own past.

Anderson Cooper, one of the two moderators at Sunday night’s debate in St. Louis, begged to differ. “You bragged that you have sexually assaulted women.

Do you understand that?”

“No, I didn’t say that at all,” Trump replied. “I don’t think you understood what was - this was locker-room talk. I’m not proud of it. I apologize to my family. I apologize to the American people. Certainly I’m not proud of it. But, this is locker-room talk.”

And then, forsaking segues and showing contempt for his audience, he veered into the blood-soaked Middle East.

“You know, when we have a world where you have ISIS chopping off heads, where you have - and, frankly, drowning people in steel cages, where you have wars and horrible, horrible sights all over, where you have so many bad things happening, this is like medieval times. We haven’t seen anything like this, the carnage all over the world.”

Bill Clinton was in the audience. He smiled from time to time, but God only knows what he was thinking. It has been almost two decades since his affair with Monica Lewinsky was revealed and yet the scandal stalks him like a vagrant cat looking for a handout of milk.

We have become inured to all this - the sex, the lying, the slippery definitions of sex, the bouncing tenses - is, is, was, was - the tawdriness of it all, the erasure of the line between private and public. Two men in that debate room had much to account for.

(See MORAL on page six)

With all the debate over Donald Trump’s tax-dodging, I’ve been wondering how taxes have played into presidential politics in the past.

For some answers, I turned to Bob McIntyre, head of the nonpartisan research and advocacy group Citizens for Tax Justice. For 40 years, McIntyre has been on the frontlines of efforts to make our tax code fairer.

When asked what American president he considers the worst on tax fairness, his initial response was “Yipes, there are so many.”

After some consideration, he bestowed that honor on Ronald Reagan, whose 1981 tax act slashed taxes on the rich.

The top marginal tax rate dropped from 70 percent to 50 percent (before being cut even further to 28 percent in 1986). And, even more harmful, according to McIntyre, was the bill’s vast expansion of corporate tax loopholes.

Ironically, though, when I asked what president has done the most to advance tax fairness, Reagan’s name came up again — not as number 1, but as the runner-up.

While Reagan is a big hero of antitax Tea Partiers, later in his presidency, he agreed to raise taxes several times to address mounting budget deficits.

McIntyre was particularly involved in the fight over Reagan’s 1986 reform, after cranking out reports for a decade that documented rampant tax-dodging among America’s largest corporations and wealthiest individuals.

Theodore Roosevelt on the campaign trail.

The loophole-closing 1986 reform was still not enough to solve the problem of insufficient revenue to pay for federal spending. But, by creating a broader tax base, Reagan set the stage for President Bill Clinton’s increases in the tax rates on the highest earners.

The top marginal rate rose to 39.6 percent in 1993, where it stands today.

The combination of the 1986 and 1993 reforms was essential to the balanced federal budgets that occurred in the late 1990s, according to McIntyre.

But of course, then President George W. Bush blasted a cruise missile-sized hole through all that fiscal responsibility with a new round of tax cuts and a spike in war spending.

So who was the best president for the cause of tax fairness?

Again, the answer was surprising: Teddy Roosevelt, but not because he was a strong advocate of progressive taxes (which indeed he was). Instead, McIntyre says TR deserves the honor because of the unintended consequences of his pettiness.

To understand his argument requires a bit of a history refresher.

In 1912, Roosevelt, who’d held the nation’s highest office from 1901 to 1909, decided to throw his hat back in the ring because he was dissatisfied with the presidential performance of his former protégé, William Taft.

When TR failed to beat Taft for the nomination, he founded his own party the progressive, so-called “Bull Moose” Party - and while he didn’t win the elec(See FAIRNESS on page six)

Revolutions don’t end on election day

by Jim Hightower

Bernie Sanders’ truly revolutionary campaign for president ended in August after the last Democratic primary election.

Corporatists, cynics, and most of the media assumed that the grassroots populist revolution he inspired was over as well.

They couldn’t imagine that the diverse mix of young people, working-class voters, independents, progressive mavericks, and millions of others whom Bernie energized as an independent political group could stay together, much less mount any serious challenge to the business-as-usual elites.

But, far beyond the little (See ELECTION on page seven)

Making a deal with the devil Evangelicals have destroyed their credibility The late Jerry Falwell, leader of the Moral Majority and founder of Liberty University, built the religious right into a major political force.

His son Jerry Jr. is well on his way to destroying it.

Falwell, now Liberty’s president, was among the first and most prominent evangelical Christian leaders to embrace thrice-married, foul-mouthed casino mogul Donald Trump, declaring in January that Trump had lived his life in the spirit of Jesus. This endorsement validated Trump’s character for millions of evangelicals, helping to propel Trump to the Republican nomination. Falwell continued to campaign for Trump, spoke at the Republican convention and likened Trump to Winston Churchill in an August op-ed in The Post.

Now the “Access Hollywood” video, in which Trump boasts in vulgar terms about sexually assaulting women, has caused late defections from Trump by Republican officeholders and conservative thought leaders.

But, Falwell is standing by his man.

He speculates that the leak of the video

behind the headlines by Dana Milbank These religious political leaders’ continued support of Trump undermines their claims to speak for traditional morality.

And their political calculation - that they’re supporting Trump because he’d appoint conservative justices to the Supreme Court - appears to be backfiring, as well.

“might have even been a conspiracy among the establishment Republicans,” including House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wisc.). Falwell allowed that what Trump said in the video was “reprehensible,” but he argued on New York’s WABC Radio that “we’re all sinners” and dismissed Trump’s words as “dumb comments on a videotape 11 years ago.”

Trump is creating a lot of wreckage as his campaign founders and he lashes out on Bill Clinton’s sexual misdeeds and even the late Ted Kennedy’s 1969 Chappaquiddick scandal. One of Trump’s victims is likely to be the religious conservative political movement, as many of its leaders have averted their gaze from Trump’s misogyny, hoping ends justify means.

Ralph Reed, formerly of the Christian Coalition, claims that for evangelical voters, “a 10-year-old tape of a private

conversation with a TV talk-show host ranks pretty low on their hierarchy of their concerns.”

Tony Perkins, who runs the Family Research Council, told The Post’s Sarah Pulliam Bailey that he’s sticking with Trump because his support is “built upon shared concerns.”

And Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network, dismissed Trump’s lewd video by saying the candidate was only “trying to look like he’s macho.”

These religious political leaders’ continued support of Trump undermines their claims to speak for traditional morality. And their political calculation - that they’re supporting Trump because he’d appoint conservative justices to the Supreme Court - appears to be backfiring, as well.

Trump’s woes are putting the Senate (and perhaps the House) in jeopardy for Republicans, potentially depriving them of whatever defenses they would have had against Hillary Clinton’s nominees and policies.

Ryan has belatedly located his moral and political compasses and is making clear that his only goal now is to protect the House Republican majority. Though not for Clinton, few conservatives are willing to advocate for Trump other (See DEVIL on page five)

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Nobel winners were not educated in America

by John Schrock

All seven of this year’s Nobel Prize winners in science were born and educated outside of the United States - a growing trend. And while last year’s prizes went to applied research, this year’s awards went to mostly abstract “pure” research.

Yoshinori Ohsumi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology was the sole winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or

Medicine for his basic work with yeast cells, discovering how cells digest wastes by “autophagy.”

This will be important in understanding a variety of diseases.

David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and John Kosterlitz, all born and educated in the United Kingdom, share the Nobel in Physics “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter” - important theo-

Moral Hillary Clinton had the chance to put away Trump. She failed. He was able to pivot, to move on to other subjects, some of which, like her emails, were awkward for her. She did not dwell on the odious tape, 11 years old and stinking with rancid sexism, a dialogue between morons, two men frozen in their adolescence, and she may not have done so because of those Bill Clinton accusers sitting in the audience and who had been all over TV just an hour or so earlier.

They seemed so pleasant, middle-aged like Hillary. She could not possibly attack them.

The whole subject must bring her pain. Best to talk

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about something else.

And so Trump’s diversion worked. He lives to fight another day, to continue to bring embarrassment and shame to the Republican Party and the political careerists who would risk a debacle of a presidency rather than take a stand on principle.

Lies spill from Trump’s mouth and he exudes bigotry, yet he learned long ago that only suckers pay their debts and take responsibility for what they’ve done.

He simply moves on.

If he succeeds this time, then we are not his creditors, but as morally bankrupt as he is.

Richard Cohen is a columnist for The Washington Post

Fairness tion, he succeeded in splitting up the Republican Party.

This, McIntyre points out, led to Democratic takeovers of previously Republican state legislatures, which was critical to delivering the threequarters of states necessary to ratify the 16th Amendment.

“Without Teddy’s petulance,” McIntyre told me, “the amendment authorizing a federal income tax would almost certainly have failed to be adopted.”

So how does one stay

Horrors Republicans who took a principled stand against Trump from the beginning ought to fare better, but many of them may get hurt anyway because they represent districts and states where Trump will get swamped.

Trump’s fiasco, in the meantime, has eased coordination problems on the Democratic side. A top Democratic campaign official said there had been some tension earlier in the year over Clinton’s focus on casting Trump as uniquely ill-fit for the presidency.

D o w n - b a l l o t Democrats worried that a narrow focus on Trump’s deficiencies might not be helpful to the rest of the party.

Now, Democratic candidates and the Clinton camp are united in calling out Republicans who have either endorsed Trump or refused to disown him.

This creates pressure for

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motivated to keep fighting for fair taxation for 40 years? “Perhaps I have Sisyphus as my hero,” McIntyre said.

Trying to stop big corporations and billionaires from rigging the system does indeed seem like pushing a rock up a hill over and over. But, until we elect public servants willing to stand up to these powerful forces, we have no choice but to keep pushing.

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

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vulnerable Republicans to defect, which helps Clinton, but also ties the entire Republican ticket to Trump, which helps her party’s Senate and House candidates. There is, said the Democratic official, “no lack of harmony.”

For years, Republicans managed an exceptional acrobatic act: to mobilize right-wing populist anger and white working-class voters behind a program whose benefits flowed to the economic elites. The assumption was always that the base would get the noise and the elites would get the policy.

Now the noise is deafening, a dangerous and profoundly flawed man leads the party, and its candidates cannot move one way or the other without falling off the wire. No one expected an implosion this spectacular.

E.J. Dionne, Jr., is a political commentator and longtime op-ed columnist for the Washington Post

retical work with future applications.

And Jean-Pierre Sauvage (French), Sir Fraser Stoddart (United Kingdom) and Bernard Feringa (Netherlands) will share the physics prize for the design and synthesis of machines on a molecular scale.

While none of these scientists were born or educated in the United States, four of them now work at American universities. So the U.S. news media claims them as

Americans. Indeed looking back over a century of science Nobels, the U.S. has benefitted from foreign born and educated scientists for many of “our” Nobel Prizes.

One factor was the massive flight of intellectuals from the Third Reich before World War II. Since then, the U.S. has been able to attract foreign born and educated scientists with state-ofthe-art research facilities at our research universities.

However, how long we will be able to lure foreign scientists is questionable as the living standards, research money and research facilities improve greatly in the European Union and in Asia.

Yet we hold an illusion that American K–12 science education must be fairly good because “we” keep getting Nobel Prizes. The press just forgets to mention that many of these “American” scientists were not educated here.

There is much to praise in American classical science education where the science teacher conducted lab work and field trips to make the science “meaningful.” And it was the American science teacher who was free to design lessons for the interests of local students.

And American teachers were trained to avoid rote questioning and recitation, and to ask questions that required students to analyze data, interpret (See NOBEL on page 7)

Trump is now going after George Clinton

by Andy Borowitz

YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO (The Borowitz Report) - Unveiling a strategy that some Republican insiders deemed unwise, Donald Trump on Tuesday unleashed a blistering attack on George Clinton.

In a furious tirade at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio, the Republican Presidential nominee seemed to take his audience by surprise by tearing into Clinton, the founder of the legendary funk ensembles known collectively as Parliament-Funkadelic.

Wiggle the first wave of voter outrage during the primary election in which at least 11 ultraconservative lawmakers were defeated.

In an effort to avoid a similar fate, Wagle and other ultraconservative Senate candidates recently issued a statement calling for low tax rates and tax fairness. Specifics, however, were noticeably absent.

Wagle further promises - in the wake of a $60 million shortfall in just the first three months of the current budget year - that when the next legislative session is completed the shortfall will be resolved with a “long-term fix.”

Devil than the likes of Rudy Giuliani and Fox News’s Sean Hannity, who defended Trump by saying, “King David had 500 concubines for crying out loud.”

In the past, as Pulliam Bailey has chronicled, religious-right leaders claimed to care about personal morality. “We will not rest until we have leaders of good moral character,” Reed said back in the Monica Lewinsky days.

Evangelical leader James Dobson advocated Bill Clinton’s impeachment in 1998 because he set a bad example about “respecting women.”

But, Dobson supports Trump, excusing

“Anyone who is knocking me for my locker room banter has never heard ‘Atomic Dog,’” Trump told his audience. “It’s disgusting.”

“If I went around saying, ‘Why must I feel like that, why must I chase the cat, it’s the dog in me,’ the media would kill me,” he added.

As many members of his audience shifted uncomfortably in their seats, Trump escalated his attack on Clinton by impugning the musician’s most celebrated asset: his funk.

“George Clinton says he has funk, but he has terrible funk,”

he said. “I have better funk than he does.”

The billionaire continued his attacks later on Twitter, where he referred repeatedly to Clinton as “Unfunky George.”

On Capitol Hill, House Speaker Paul Ryan bemoaned the latest tactics of his party’s mercurial nominee.

“At a time when he should be talking about jobs and terrorism, he’s saying, ‘Do the dogcatcher, baby, do the dogcatcher,’ ” Ryan said. “It’s counterproductive.”

Andy Borowitz is a comedian and author

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Again, we’re left to guess how that will happen.

Long-term fixes can come in a variety of ways.

We’re seeing that now in the form of reduced funding for highways, schools, children and our poor.

A long-term fix doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a fix that is in the best interests of Kansas and its people.

Of course, the news conference by Wagle and other ultraconservatives was not intended to offer specific policy details.

The purpose of this news conference was to convince voters that the problem these lawmakers

have refused to acknowledge for the past four years is real, it needs to be fixed and they’re the ones to fix it. They want voters to believe that, in just two months since the primary election, they’ve had some type of nearreligious conversion in their tax philosophy.

House Appropriations Chairman Rep. Ron Ryckman, Jr. (R-Olathe), also a supporter of current tax policy, has offered his own get-tough approach to balancing the budget by stating a desire for “. . . open dialogue acknowledging the necessary complexity and balance

required of the solutions we seek.”

As intended, that statement means absolutely nothing.

Once you get past the double-speak and gibberish, Wagle and her colleagues have offered no attempt to solve the budget disaster they have created or any remorse for the hardship that’s been inflicted upon the people of Kansas.

The Wagle Wiggle is just another dance step to the same old, tired song.

She’s hoping voters won’t notice until Nov. 9.

Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com

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his behavior because the candidate is a “baby Christian.”

Franklin Graham, though formally neutral, draws equivalence between Trump’s “crude comments” and Democrats’ “godless” agenda.

There are a few evangelical leaders, including Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention and Christianity Today executive editor Andy Crouch, who have tried to maintain their integrity. Theologian Wayne Gruden, who had endorsed Trump as a “morally good choice,” now says, “I cannot commend Trump’s moral character, and I strongly

urge him to withdraw from the election.”

And James MacDonald, who has been on Trump’s evangelical advisory council, called Trump’s words on the video “the kind of misogynistic trash that reveals a man to be lecherous and worthless . . . the guy who gets a punch in the head from worthy men.”

But, where are the high-profile figures in the movement, such as Reed, Robertson and Falwell?

In January, Falwell said Trump “lives a life of loving and helping others, as Jesus taught.” He likened Trump to his father.

And now, no regrets.

Falwell said that years

from now, “I don’t think anybody is going to be sitting around thinking about whether Donald Trump said this or that on the videotape in 2005.

I think they’re going to be sitting around saying, ‘Gosh, I wish we had different Supreme Court justices.’ ” Or maybe they’ll be wondering how differently things might have turned out if Falwell, with his ends-justify-themeans logic, hadn’t made a deal with the devil and destroyed the moral credibility of the movement his father built.

Dana Milbank is a Washington Post staff writer and author

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Election negative bubble where those scoffing prognosticators dwell, something called “Our Revolution” is rising across America’s political horizon.

That’s the name of the new organizational structure Bernie’s forged to continue his electoral storm. As civil rights leader Ben Jealous said when he joined the board, “Bernie’s transformative campaign was just the beginning.”

Not only will the revolution continue, but it’s going to spread throughout the country, grow, and gain strength by bringing the populist issues, grassroots methods, and smalldollar funding of Sanders’ presidential run to local and state politics.

Nobel

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Our Revolution (on the board of which I also serve) will be an independent political network of 50 interconnected state networks. Each state group will recruit, train, and support candidates, as well as run state and local issue campaigns.

The Revolution’s goal isn’t just to run and raise issues, but to rally America’s workaday majority to win, govern, and transform our society from plutocracy back to democracy.

Those who join can help inspire a nation of social, racial, and environmental justice.

graphs, and generate new questions.

That is, until No Child Left Behind came along.

The rote teaching-to-thetest that has been imposed, along with the earlier outcomes-based movement has produced two decades of decline in American student creativity.

It takes time for the importance of discoveries to be assessed and the most recent American Nobel prizewinners in science were educated before the great standardization of teaching occurred under No Child Left Behind. Meanwhile, many other countries have moved toward adopting

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our earlier Americanstyle questioning and lab inquiry.

A second factor involved is the pureversus-applied research dichotomy. Fifty years ago, poorer foreign countries had to focus their scientists and resources on solving applied problems. America had faith in “pure science” that explored fundamental principles that might have no immediate consequences in medicine or industry.

Being the country with more pure research also gave us an edge in Nobel Prizes.

This year’s science prizes went to mostly pure research that is only beginning to show applications. On the other hand, the 2015 science prizes went to some very applied research.

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to William C. Campbell (Irish, but working at Drew University) and Satoshi Omura (Japanese) for discovering a treatment against roundworm parasites, and to Youyou Tu for developing a treatment for malaria.

This last award was also the first science Nobel prize awarded to a

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Meanwhile, research universities brag that their “pure” research mission makes them superior. However, it was no less than the great Louis Pasteur who said that there is no distinction between pure and applied research, but “just science and the application of science.”

Whether in pure or applied science, it is our American educational system that is not getting any recent prizes.

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A view of some chalk formations at Little Jerusalem while looking to the west. (Below) A view from a high vantage point while looking to the northeast.

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Conservancy throughout the country, is to connect people with places like this. We want people to appreciate the prairie out here.”

Just how that will happen is still in the planning stages. In the past, public access to the site has been by owner permission only, and that has been very limited.

“We’re coming up with a plan for managed public access. We need to consider public safety, first and foremost, but also protection of the unique resources here,” Bain notes. “We’re trying to figure exactly how we can achieve all those objectives before we open the gates.”

Vehicle traffic will be allowed only to the extent that “visitors can see the chalk formations without having to walk a half mile,” says Bain.

“There are a lot of examples where the natural history and the human history of this place come

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together. We want to tell that story,” he points out.

Plans are to have an information kiosk at the south entrance to Little Jerusalem that will tell the story of the Nature Conservancy, not just on the Smoky Valley Ranch, but from a larger perspective throughout the state.

Fossil Collecting Over the years, those who have been granted access to Little Jerusalem have used it as an opportunity for fossil hunting.

Those discoveries have primarily been shark’s teeth and easy-to-find oyster beds.

The Conservancy, however, has a “no collection” policy.

“What we’ve done at other sites is mark discoveries so that we can take people to them and it becomes more of a learning experience,” Bain says.

If a significant paleontology discovery should

occur, the Conservancy has a working relationship with museums, such as the Sternberg Museum in Hays, so that fossil finds can be collected and preserved.

Biological Diversity Bain, who has worked with Smoky Valley Ranch the past four years, also likes to inform visitors about the unique biological characteristics of the area as well.

“We want this place to be the best possible example of the convergence of the short and mixed-grass prairie,” says Bain.

Only 20 percent of the native prairie still exists in Western Kansas. On that remaining land, Bain says ranching is “critically important in maintaining the prairie, both in terms of keeping grass in grass, and keeping the prairie healthy.”

That’s why, on 90% of the ranch, the primary objective is to increase

Great Plains Wild Buckwheat (lower right) is found only in the Little Jerusalem landscape. The native plant in the upper left is Winterfat.

What is Little Jerusalem?

The 332.5 acres in Logan County known as Little Jerusalem is the largest Niobrara Chalk formation in Kansas. Today, these formations are host to 85-million-year-old fossils of clams, mosasaurs, bony fish and shark’s teeth.

They also provide important habitat for ferru-

ginous hawks, cliff swallows, rock wrens, green toads and many other native amphibians and reptiles.

Little Jerusalem is home to the single largest population of great plains wild buckwheat, an endemic plant that is found in the chalk bluffs prairie

of Western Kansas and nowhere else in the world.

When The Nature Conservancy acquired the larger Smoky Valley Ranch in 1999, it was the largest private land purchase for conservation in the history of Kansas. The ranch is situated between Oakley and Scott City, west of US83 Highway.

forage production and improve range conditions. In order to do that effectively, it operates as a working ranch. This year, the ranch was stocked with the equivalent of over 1,000 cow-calf pairs, including 100 buffalo.

“Buying land on this scale is incredibly expensive. It’s not a strategy for large-scale conservation,”

Bain emphasizes. “At the end of the day, privately owned, profitable ranches are the key to maintaining intact prairie. A major goal at the ranch is to keep native habitat intact and still maintain a custom grazing operation that works for our neighbors as well.

“People must be at the center of any conserva-

tion strategy because, if it’s not good for people, if it’s not helping them to pay the bills, then it’s not going to last.”

In order to improve those strategies and develop better grazing systems, the Conservancy serves as a research site for several universities, including Kansas State and Fort Hays State.

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Kansas’ Solicitor General Stephen McAllister told justices during the equity hearing that there is not necessarily a correlation between test scores and funding and that “perfection” shouldn’t be the goal, a position the justices openly scoffed at.

“I don’t think you really should worry about the input if the output is doing

How to Respond Kids need to know ways to safely stand up to bullying and how to get help.

•Encourage kids to speak to a trusted adult

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well,” said McAllister.

Justice Dan Biles indicated that he may push to have the legislature provide more money only for those students whose academic struggles are significant, about a third of the state’s students.

Other State Action The state also regularly cited a recent ruling out of Texas where its elected Supreme Court justices said that while the state’s public school sys-

Bullying •Ask what can be done so your child feels safe at school.

•Mention how you are working with your child regarding the situation.

•Mention how the situation is impacting your child.

Keep a written record of what happened at this meeting, including names and dates.

Ask if the school has a written policy on bullying and harassment. If so, ask for a written copy.

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tem was clearly in need of deep reform, it wasn’t the court’s role to tell the legislators how much they should spend on education.

Meanwhile, in Washington state, Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee, said that his office has tried its hardest to respond to a state Supreme Court ruling there that ordered the state to provide millions more in funding. The court last year imposed a $100,000-

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if they are bullied or see others being bullied.

•Talk about how to stand up to kids who bully. Give tips, like using humor and saying “stop” directly and confidently.

Talk about what to do if those actions don’t work.

•Urge them to help kids who are bullied by showing kindness or getting help.

The best thing that you can do is to keep the lines of communication open.

Sometimes spending 15 minutes a day can reassure kids that they can talk to their parents if they have a problem.

Start conversations about daily life and feelings with questions like these:

•What was one good thing that happened today? Any bad things?

•What is lunch time like at your school? Who do you sit with? What do you talk about?

•What is it like to ride the school bus?

•What are you good at? What do you like best about yourself?

It is important to encourage kids to be honest and that they are not alone in addressing any problems that arise. Many kids will refuse to do something about the bullying if they are a victim for fear it will get worse - and it might.

But, standing up for what’s right is never wrong.

a-day fine until the state’s school funding formula is overhauled.

The Washington state legislature, during its last session, approved a “plan for a plan” to have a new funding formula in place by next spring.

Educators have said that the governor and legislature have acted too slowly to respond to the ruling and last month asked the court to amp up its threats to get the state to move faster.

Last week, the state’s Supreme Court gave the state another legislative session to come up with a way to increase school employees’ salaries, a process that will likely require tax increases.

“If we design our lives based on wishes, yeah, I wished that we’d solved everything an hour after I took, you know, my oath of office in 2013,” Inslee told The Seattle Times.

“But, these are challenging issues.”

Heberlee Garden City, had filed a motion for acquittal, which was denied by Judge Wurst.

With respect to the distribution of meth, Wurst felt that evidence presented during the trial was not contradicted. This included the presence of a “30 bag” of meth which Heberlee had acknowledged leaving at his residence for Kevin LaPlant, who confirmed that statement during the trial.

In addition, the judge says there was no evidence presented that would dispute the role Heberlee and LaPlant played in hiding personal items that belonged to Smith from law enforcement.

“The evidence clearly established a basis for conviction beyond a reasonable doubt,” he concluded.

Character Witnesses Prior to sentencing, Koksal recommended the court consider a rehabilitation program for Heberlee rather than prison time. He then put individuals on the witness stand to explain why the court should consider that option.

Frank Rebarchek, a long-time friend, vouched for Heberlee’s performance as an employee over the past 10 months.

Heberlee has worked for him processing cattle and had become an assistant manger in the operation.

“This case has shook him up. He wants to change his life,” Rebarchek said. “He’s 100 percent different over the last 10 months.”

Rebarchek asked that the court “give him a chance on probation rather than put him back in the same environment he’s been in before.”

“Were you aware of his five prior drug convictions when you hired Rick Heberlee 10 months ago?” asked Carter.

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Rebarchek said he was.

“So you’re asking the court to give him a sixth chance?” she asked.

“Yes, I am,” replied Rebarchek.

Norman Scott, an uncle to Heberlee, referred to himself as the “family contact through this ordeal.” He also put up the property bond which allowed Heberlee’s release from jail.

When called to give testimony, Scott recalled a visit with Heberlee while he was still in jail. During that conversation, he said the defendant commented, “Uncle Norman, just know that I tried to help that girl.”

He added that when visiting with a landlord who was cleaning out a house that Heberlee had rented from him, the individual said, “He’s the most polite drug dealer I’ve ever been around.”

“I’m not here to preach,” said Scott, “but I don’t think prison sentences change lives for the good. We need to treat drug problems as a health problem.”

He asked the court to consider probation because “it’s better than prison.”

Carter asked Scott if he had been present during the trial and he replied that he was.

She asked if he had recalled when Heberlee described Smith, on the evening of Jan. 16, as acting “frantic and erratic.”

Scott responded only that he had been present.

Referring to the statement by Heberlee’s former landlord, Carter asked if it was commonly known that Heberlee was a drug dealer and Scott answered, “I don’t know if it was a known fact.”

“You’re talking about giving the defendant a second chance. Are you aware this would be his sixth chance?” Carter asked.

“Yes,” Scott replied.

Heberlee Testifies In his own defense, Heberlee acknowledged his prior drug convictions, but said that since the time of Smith’s death, and particularly since his arrest on Feb. 19, 2015, “I’ve turned around 180 degrees from what I’ve been in the past.”

“I’ve stayed away from the drug crowd. I’ve spent time with my family,” he said.

Heberlee said he hadn’t failed a drug test from the time they began in June of 2015.

In the years leading up to Smith’s death, Heberlee acknowledged his involvement in the local meth drug culture and that he used meth “almost daily.”

“Most of us didn’t have jobs. We’d just float around and get high all day,” he noted.

“How did you live?” asked Koksal.

“I lived in my father’s house so I had no bills.

The money I had could go into drugs,” he said.

According to Heberlee, many of the people that he associated with while involved in drugs are still living in Scott City.

Koksal asked if that didn’t create a temptation, and opportunity, for Heberlee to once again associate with those individuals.

Heberlee said that the time away from those individuals has “opened my eyes to how things can be.”

It was noted that Heberlee’s first conviction for meth distribution occurred in 2005 and that his second conviction was two years later. Heberlee, now 33, attended the drug rehabilitation program at Valley Hope, Norton, as a 17-year-old. The 30-day program didn’t prevent Heberlee’s return to drugs.

“I was young and dumb,” he said.

“Treatment will help when you really want it to

District Judge Wendel Wurst listens to testimony from Frank Rebarchek, Scott City, during the Rick Heberlee sentencing hearing on Wednesday afternoon.

(Record Photo)

help you. I’m at that turning point.”

Heberlee said he has been in conversations with Pastor Kyle Evans, Scott City, about attending a faith-based drug rehabilitation program in Colorado Springs. He was informed that a bed is immediately available for the 60-day program if it was granted by the court.

“Do you want to do this just to stay out of prison?” asked Koksal.

“I need it,” Heberlee replied. “I want to stay on the path I’m on. I want to do better in life.”

“This case has affected me a lot,” he continued.

“I know it’s affected the family of the deceased.

I know it can’t bring her back . . . but I’m sorry.”

Prison is Recommended Carter was not persuaded by Heberlee’s claim that he has changed since Smith’s death.

“There’s nothing to show that rehabilitation will be better than prison,” she said.

Since Heberlee has been clean for more than a year, based on drug testing, she questioned what further benefit would come from being in the drug rehabilitation program.

Koksal disagreed, saying that Heberlee is “living a remarkably different lifestyle than he did before this happened.”

“Does that mean that he won’t benefit from rehab?” Koksal asked.

“Anyone who has been immersed in drugs or the drug culture can benefit from this treatment program.”

The defense attorney said that, in response to an earlier question raised

by Carter, Heberlee does deserve a sixth chance.

“A person who is involved in something this tragic can go one of two ways,” noted Koksal.

“He has gone in the right direction. He’s cognizant of what happened and he’s made the effort to change his behavior.

“What’s best for Mr. Heberlee is to get out of this culture. He can give something positive back to this community.”

Carter again reminded the court of Heberlee’s repeated convictions over a 13-year period.

“This is not an error in judgement,” she said.

“It wasn’t until he was faced with a serious situation that he showed signs of wanting to change his lifestyle. Don’t give a known drug dealer probation after six drug convictions.”

Following 75 minutes of testimony, Judge Wurst went into his chamber and 10 minutes later returned with his sentencing decision.

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Judge Wurst didn’t feel that Heberlee had shown an appropriate level of concern for Smith, who was hallucinating at his home when he decided to leave for Garden City and her condition continued to deteriorate throughout the night leading to her death the following morning.

Even while he was on probation, Judge Wurst said it had no effect on Heberlee’s behavior or his decisions.

“It’s commendable that you have turned things around, but I don’t know if that was for fear of a conviction on the primary charge of (Smith’s) death that could have resulted in life in prison,” he said.

The judge also questioned whether rehabilitation would be more effective than prison in reducing the likelihood of Heberlee returning to the drug culture.

Heberlee has 14 days from the October 12 sentencing to file an appeal. He is currently being held at the Scott County Law Enforcement Center awaiting transfer to the Department of Corrections.

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KU honors area scholars

seaworthy ships

Students from nine Kansas high schools were honored Oct. 5, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment.

Seventy-three seniors from high schools in Finney, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Lane, Scott and Wichita counties were recognized for their academic achievements and named Kansas Honor Scholars at a dinner and program at Garden City High School.

Among the honored students were: Dighton: Sara Cramer Scott City: Krystal Appel, Karen Gonzalez, Taylor Goodman, Bo Hess, Katie Nowak, Clarissa Ratzlaff, Kylee

Trout, Paige Winderlin and Kiana Yager.

Leoti: Morgan Budde, Abbey Fischer and Abigail Ridder.

Since 1971, the Kansas Honors Program has recognized over 125,000 scholars who rank in the top 10 percent of their high school senior classes.

Community volunteers collect reservations, coordinate details and serve as local contacts for the event. Kristi Schmitt, of Scott City, is the coordinator for Scott, Lane and Wichita counties.

The Kansas Honors Program is made possible by KU Endowment and proceeds from the Jayhawk license plate program.

Scott, Texas Tech are eastern national judging champions Scott City Elementary School third graders Kade John (left) and Treysonn Wallace see if their newly constructed ships are seaworthy during the annual Columbus Day ship building activity.

Students and adults get together each year to build ships from a variety of materials and then cast them off in pools set up outside the school.

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KASB releases ‘key facts’ about education Because many claims are being made about state education funding during this election season, KASB has developed a set of Key Facts about Kansas Education to provide accurate information.

The facts show that Kansas ranks 29th in per pupil spending among the 50 states and has been dropping in recent years.

The facts also show that school funding, when adjusted for inflation and other costs, has decreased

1.1 percent per year from 2009 to 2016.

Many debates center on how much of school funding goes into the “classroom.” The fact is, it depends on what is counted as classroom expenditures.

Sixty-four percent of operating funds are spent on teachers, special education paraprofessionals, classroom aides and classroom materials.

Student supports, such as counselors, nurses,

social workers, make up 5.4 percent; teacher supports, such as libraries, media centers and professional development, total four percent and principals and school offices personnel are 5.6 percent.

If all those are added together, along with operation and maintenance costs of school buildings, the cost of transporting students to school and food service programs, is over 90 percent.

Central administration, which is essentially the

staff outside the school building who manage and operate the district, makes up about five percent of school funding. And since 1998, the number of superintendents and principals has decreased while the number of students, teachers and other support staff have increased.

KASB hopes these Key Facts will help during the election season and beyond as policymakers try to develop a new school finance formula.

Kiersten Scott, a senior from Scott City, was a member of the Texas Tech meat judging team that captured first place honors at the Eastern National competition.

Following up on a strong spring, the defending national champion Texas Tech University won the competition held in Wyalusing, Penn.

Texas Tech outpaced rival Texas A&M University by 11 points, finishing with 4,183 points to capture

the overall team crown, while Big 12 Conference rival Oklahoma State University was third with 4,150 points.

Texas Tech’s strong team showing was led by its first-place finishes in the specifications and reasons/questions categories as well as second-place finishes in beef judging, lamb judging and overall beef.

Texas Tech also took third in pork judging and fourth in beef grading.

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For the Record AG reports on impact of Colorado marijuana The Scott County Record

When Oklahoma and Nebraska filed a lawsuit in 2015 against Colorado for legalizing marijuana, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt wanted to see whether it was a problem before signing on.

He would need to prove that Kansas had suffered harm from Colorado marijuana to have a case.

But law enforcement

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was reporting fewer - not more - marijuana-related offenses. This was confusing to Schmidt, who said he’d heard from law enforcement that Colorado marijuana was king.

So he invoked a 19thcentury law to survey law enforcement agencies. And he received a huge response: 390 law

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Administration Building • 704 College

enforcement agencies and district attorneys painted the first large-scale picture of the impact of Colorado’s legalization on Kansas.

Early results suggest it is having a big impact, but it may not all be negative.

The amount of marijuana being confiscated appears to be dropping quickly. But the poten-

cy of the marijuana is increasing.

And for the first time, edible marijuana is being confiscated, which Schmidt worries could pose a greater public health concern for young users.

The 390 responses from across the state show that the legal system has been swept up by chang-

Scott City Council Agenda Monday, October 3 • 7:30 p.m.

City Hall • 221 W. 5th

•Comments from public

•Call to Order

•Recognition of persons/delegations present 1) Board representative reports 2) Administrative reports 3) Additional

•Approve minutes of Sept. 19 regular meeting

•Financials •Consent agenda 1) Approve previous minutes 2) Approve building site councils 3) Approve special Visioning meeting on Sept. 20, 6:00 p.m., at SCHS 4) Transportation surplus

•Approval of Ordinance No. 176 (Conditional Uses of Central Business District) •Approval of application for grant funds Kansas Moderate Income Housing •Mayor’s appointment of Ward 1 council member •Open offer for purchase of lots 10 and 11, Block 6, Eastman’s Addition

•Consider items pulled from consent agenda

•Request demolition of mobile home

New business 1) BCS utility savings report 2) Bus fleet discussion 3) Wrestling mat bids 4) Kansas Education Systems Accreditation

•Registration for League of Kansas Municipality regional supper on Oct. 20 at Bryan Conference Center

•Executive session 1) Non-elected personnel •Resignations/Hires

•Open agenda: audience is invited to voice ideas or concerns. A time limit may be requested Police Department 1) Misc. business Parks Department 1) Misc. business

•Additions, if any •Adjournment

Public Works Department 1) Misc. business

Scott County Commission Agenda Monday, September 19 County Courthouse 3:00 p.m. Approve Sept. 6 minutes

Approve policy on weapons in the

workplace Redemption of 2009 courthouse bonds 3:30 p.m. Scott County Sheriff Glenn Anderson

Establish cash fund

Implement new VINE program

Clerk’s Department 1) Request to attend Kansas/IIMC Certification Institute in Wichita 2) Discuss Christmas party •Mayor’s comments

Scott Co. LEC Report

Scott City Police Department Oct. 4: J. Guadalupe Gonzalez Cerda, 60, was arrested for possession of hallucinogenic drugs and 4:00 p.m. Public Works Director Richard Cramer speeding. He was transported to the LEC. Oct. 4: Mason Wright reported the theft of property/ Agenda may change before the meeting. Contact County services.

Clerk Alice Brokofsky for an updated agenda (872-2420) or Oct. 8: Alan Bruner was southbound in the 700 visit www.scott.kansasgov.com block of Court Street when he struck a legally parked vehicle.

Oct. 7: Roy Fairleigh was westbound on Alice Street Public Notice and approaching the Main Street intersection when he was struck by Shandi Westergard who was southbound.

(First published in The Scott signs of any person alleged County Record, Thurs., Oct. to be deceased, and any Oct. 8: Ivor Debusk was arrested on an out-of-coun13, 2016; last published person claiming an interest ty warrant and transported to the LEC. Thurs., Oct. 27, 2016)3t in a 1998 BARE CT TRAILER Scott County Sheriff’s Department IN THE DISTRICT COURT VIN #1B9L53206W1014637, Oct. 5: Evan Cardenas was arrested for stealing a OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS DEFENDANTS. CHARLES GRIFFITH,

Case No. 16 CV 13 hand gun from Holterman’s Veterinary Clinic.

PLAINTIFF VS. AMIGO CARRIERS, LLC, THE CITIZENS STATE BANK AND KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, DIVISION OF MOTOR VEHICLES; and their assigns, stockholders and creditors; and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, and assigns of any deceased defendants; the unknown spouses of any defendants; the unknown officers, successors, trustees, creditors, and assigns of any defendants which are existing, dissolved, or dormant corporations; the unknown executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, successors, and assigns of any defendants who are or were partners or in partnership; the unknown guardians, conservators, and trustees of any defendants who are minors or are under any legal disability; and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, and as-

NOTICE OF SUIT THE STATE OF KANSAS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS, 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 Charles Griffith, Plaintiff, praying for a decree quieting the title to the following described trailer: 1998 BARE CT TRAILER VIN #1B9L53206W1014637 You are hereby required to plead to said petition on or before the 7th day of November, 2016, at 9:30 a.m., in said court, at Scott City, Scott County, Kansas.

Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon said petition.

Charles Griffith Plaintiff K. Mike Kimball KIMBALL LAW FIRM, LLP. P.O. Box 527, 204 E. Grant Ulysses, Kansas 67880 Phone (620) 353-8288 FAX (620) 356-3098 Attorney for Plaintiff

ing attitudes about marijuana. In some jurisdictions, law enforcement are no longer enforcing marijuana laws much, and even when they do, it has become difficult to win convictions.

Users may receive a fine in one county, probation or jail in another and told to move along in

others.

“The criminal justice system is moving in the direction of what appears to be changes in public attitude,” Schmidt said.

“Obviously not moving as far as some people would like, but there is obviously an evolution or a change, and this showed that it has reached the enforcement (See REPORT on page 13)

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., Oct. 13, 2016; last published Thurs., Oct. 27, 2016)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS In the matter of the Estate of Margaret E. Surprise, Deceased Case No. 2016-PR-26 NOTICE OF HEARING AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS You are hereby notified that on the 11th day of October, 2016, a Petition was filed in Court by Lloyd Surprise, an heir, devisee and legatee, and Executor named in the Last Will and Testament of Margaret E. Surprise, deceased, dated November 27, 2001, praying that the Will filed with the Petition be admitted to probate and record; that he be appointed as Executor without bond; that he be granted Letters Testamentary.

You are required to file

your written defenses thereto on or before the 9th day of November, 2016, at 3:00 o’clock p.m. in said Court, in the city of Scott City, in Scott County, Kansas, at which time and place said cause will be heard. Should you fail therein, judgement and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

All creditors are notified to exhibit their demands against the Estate within four months from the date of the first publication of this Notice, as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, they shall be forever barred.

Lloyd Surprise Petitioner Wallace, Brantley and 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., Oct. 6, 2016; last published Thurs., Oct. 20, 2016)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS In the matter of the Estate of June C. Shuler, Deceased Case No. 2016-PR-7 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR FINAL SETTLEMENT (Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 59) THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are notified that a petition has been filed in this Court by Judith Winderlin and Sharron L. Brittan fka Sharron L. Storm duly appointed , qualified and acting Co-Executors of the Estate of June C. Shuler, deceased, requesting that Petitioners’ acts be approved; account be settled and allowed; the heirs be determined; the Will be construed and the Estate be assigned to the persons entittled thereto; the Court find the allowances requested for attorneys’ fees and expenses are reason-

able 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 Co-Executors of the Estate of June C. Shuler, deceased, and the Petitioner be released from further liability.

You are required to file your written defenses to the petition on or before the 2nd day of November, 2016, at 10:00 a.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, judgement and decree will be entered in due course upon the petition.

Sharron L. Brittan Co-Executor Judith Winderlin Co-Executor JAKE W. BROOKS Attorney at Law P.O. Box 664 Scott City, Kansas 67871 Attorney for Co-Executors

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Kansas road fatalities climb 25% in 2015 Half of victims weren’t using a seat belt Fifty percent of traffic fatalities in Kansas involve people who were not buckled up. About a third involve people who are driving while distracted, and a third involve

driving while drunk or otherwise impaired.

On Monday, the message to the public from state officials and law enforcement who gathered at the Statehouse was effectively this: Basic actions can reduce fatalities.

Examples include buckling up oneself and one’s children, putting

one’s cellphone away while driving, and staying out of the driver’s seat after drinking alcohol.

According to Chris Bortz, traffic safety manager at the Kansas Department of Transportation, Kansas saw a 25 percent yearon-year increase in traffic fatalities in 2015, when the total death toll hit 356.

This year to date, 307 people have been killed, which is 16 percent higher than the death toll over the same period last year.

Bortz said the upward trend is a national phenomenon and said he believes distracted driving is one of the causes.

Many drivers are convinced that using a cellphone while driving is

Public Notice

Public Notice

(First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., Oct. 13, 2016; last published Thurs., Oct. 27, 2016)3t DELINQUENT PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX UNCOLLECTED TAX WARRANTS FROM SCOTT COUNTY SHERIFF OCTOBER 1, 2016

(Published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Oct. 13, 2016)1t

Warrant Name Address 1 Alco Store No. 348 751 Freeport Parkway

Coppell, Tex. 75019

Amount 932.19

4 Mary Lynn Becker

4105 Benedict Canyon Sherman Oaks, CA. 91423 73.96

7 Steve Brite

9500 Yuma Drive Knoxville, Tenn. 37931

10 Max Burgess

1312 Elizabeth Street Scott City, Ks. 67871

81.90

11 Jesse J. Carlson

P.O. Box 101 Rexford, Ks. 67753-0101

71.55

23 Dale Farr, Jr.

3559 N. Stewart Mountain Rd. Golden Valley, AZ. 86413-6967 75.41

110 Shane Geist

1002 Elizabeth Street Scott City, Ks. 67871

71.19

112 David Heinrich

255 W. Road 160 Scott City, Ks. 67871

89.48

170 (2014) David Heinrich

255 W. Road 160 Scott City, Ks. 67871

89.93

148 (2013) David Heinrich

255 W. Road 160 Scott City, Ks. 67871

88.71

39 Tom Jenkins

908 Elizabeth Street Scott City, Ks. 67871

62.29

40 Tom Jenkins

908 Elizabeth Street Scott City, Ks. 67871

65.38

69 Mary Alice Moore

507 W. 8th, No. 6 Scott City, Ks. 67871

231.61

61

811 S. College Street Scott City, Ks. 67871

74.07

62 Glenn Nonnamaker 811 S. College Street

Scott City, Ks. 67871

122.36

Bronwyn Hunt Nonnamaker

114.56

68 Gretchen Sue Paul 1914 Harding Ave., Apt. 1

Garden City, Ks. 67846 151.40 71 Pitney Bowes Global 5310 Cypress Center Dr.

Financial Services Ste. 110

Tampa, Fla. 33609

239.20

72 Pitney Bowes Global 5310 Cypress Center Dr.

Financial Services Ste. 110

Tampa, Fla. 33609

65.36

75 Mike D. Redburn

209 Downing Road Scott City, Ks. 67871

85.62

79 Maria Rodriguez

106 Church Street Scott City, Ks. 67871

189.42

84 Craig A. Smith

4721 S. Quiviera Road Scott City, Ks. 67871

127.56

86 Eric Sommer

314 W. Jefferson Howard, Ks. 67349-9117

85.62

88 Jon R. Stewart

P.O. Box 907 Derby, Ks. 67037

64.86

91 David Suri

603 N. Washington St. Scott City, Ks. 67871

122.77

93 Ramon Villarreal

712 E. 5th Street, #8 Scott City, Ks. 67871

149.53

Grand Total

$3,525.93

Lark Speer, Scott County Treasurer

Report level as well.”

Four states - Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington - have legalized marijuana, and five states will vote on marijuana legalization this fall: California, Arizona, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada.

This study shows legalization can have a large impact on neighboring states. In March, the

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Supreme Court ruled that Oklahoma and Nebraska didn’t have legal standing to sue Colorado, so Kansas joining the lawsuit is off the table.

But Schmidt thinks there is harm being done.

So although he’s still studying the new information, he hopes to decrease some of the health risks of more potent and easily digestible marijuana.

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He noted that driving while texting does not just affect the driver doing it, but also others on the road.

Last month, the Kansas Department of Insurance unveiled a campaign to gather #ItCanWait pledges from 40,000 to 50,000 Kansans indicating they won’t text and drive.

Public Notice

SCOTT COUNTY COMMISSIONER’S PROCEEDINGS SEPTEMBER 2016 GENERAL FUND SALARIES ............................................ $ 93,579.24 COMMODITIES .................................... 19,799.22 CONTRACTUAL SERVICES ................. 55,438.27 CAPITAL OUTLAY..................................

28.00 OTHER...................................................

0.00 COUNTY HEALTH FUND SALARIES ............................................. 18,334.63 COMMODITIES ..................................... 27,503.61 CONTRACTUAL SERVICES .................

986.52 CAPITAL OUTLAY .................................

142.00 OTHER...................................................

0.00 NOXIOUS WEED FUND SALARIES............................................... 5,542.89 COMMODITIES ...................................... 13,868.85 CONTRACTUAL SERVICES...................

65.00 OTHER ...................................................

0.00 ROAD AND BRIDGE FUND SALARIES .............................................. 34,133.41 COMMODITIES....................................... 33,778.76 CONTRACTUAL SERVICES.................... 4,273.57 CAPITAL OUTLAY....................................

0.00 OTHER ....................................................

0.00 FIRE DISTRICT FUND SALARIES ..............................................

COMMODITIES ......................................

CONTRACTUAL SERVICES....................

CAPITAL OUTLAY ..................................

389.28 0.00 925.24 95.34

TREASURER’S SPECIAL FUND SALARIES ...............................................

COMMODITIES .......................................

CONTRACTUAL SERVICES ....................

CAPITAL OUTLAY.....................................

OTHER .....................................................

3,997.38 0.00 136.48 0.00 470.83

JAMES M. MINNIX Chairman

safe, but even looking down for what seems like a short amount of time is not so short in the context of driving.

“At 70 miles an hour, four seconds is a lifetime,” said interim transportation secretary Richard Carlson, speaking at a news gathering to draw attention to Put the Brakes on Fatalities Day.

ALICE BROKOFSKY Scott County Clerk

(First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., Sept.

29, 2016; last published Thurs., Oct. 13, 2016)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS in the matter of the Estate of Harold Steele, aka Harold Dale Steele, aka Harold D. Steele, Deceased Case No. 2016-PR-000024 NOTICE TO CREDITORS (Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 59) THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are notified that on September 19, 2016, a Petition for Probate of Will and Issuance of Letters Testamentary was filed in this Teresa Saxbury and Dale Steele, heirs, devisees and legatees, and co-executors named in the “Last Will and Testament of Harold Steele

aka Harold Dale Steele aka Harold D. Steele,” deceased.

All creditors of the decendent are notified to exhibit their demands against the Estate within the latter of four months from the date of first publication of notice under K.S.A. 59-2236 and amendments thereto, or if the identity of the creditor is known or reasonably ascertainable, 30 days after actual notice was given as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, they shall be forever barred.

Teresa Saxbury Co-Executor Dale Steele Co-Executor JAKE W. BROOKS ATTORNEY AT LAW P.O. BOX 664 101 E. 6th SCOTT CITY, KS. 67871 620-872-7204

Attention Voters!

Deadline to register for the Nov. 8 general election is Tues., Oct. 18.

Advanced voting will begin at the Scott County Courthouse on Wed., Oct. 19, at the county clerk’s office. Advanced voting will end at noon on Mon., Nov. 7.

Pastime at Park Lane The Scott Mennonite Church led Sunday services.

Residents played Wii bowling on Monday evening.

Pastor Bob Artz led Bible study on Tuesday morning. Doris Riner and Elsie Nagel led the hymns.

Residents made Halloween crafts on Tuesday afternoon.

Russel and Mary Webster led Bible study on Tuesday evening.

Residents played bingo on Wednesday afternoon.

Helpers were Madeline Murphy and Mandy Barnett.

Residents played pitch on Wednesday evening.

Ladies received manicures on Thursday morning.

Residents enjoy pitch, dominoes

Residents played pitch and dominoes on Monday afternoon.

Game helpers were Madeline Murphy, Joy Barnett, Gary Goodman, Lynda Burnett, Dorothy King, Hugh McDaniel and Mandy Barnett.

4-Hers make centerpieces

Thanks to the Country Cousins 4-H Club for making the pumpkin centerpieces for the dining room tables.

Margie Stevens and Arlene Cauthon entertained everyone with music on Thursday afternoon.

Residents played trivia games on Thursday evening.

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

services on Friday afternoon.

Residents enjoyed vanilla ice cream cones.

Dottie Fouquet was visited by Jon and Anne Crane, Mark Fouquet and Nancy Holt.

Jim Jeffery was visited by Carson, Veronica, Brady, Jeffery, Nathella, and Libbie Joles.

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

Darlene Richman was visited by Carol Ellis.

Yvonne Spangler was visited by Les Spangler.

LaVera King was visited by Velda Riddiough, Marsha Holloway, Toni Wessel, Carol Latham, Harold Erskin from Mulvane, and Gloria Gough.

Louise Crist was visited by Jean Burgess, Gloria Wright, Patsi Graham, Debbie Dirks, Don and Tara Williams, Terry and Cindy Crist, and Heidi Stevens.

Doris Riner had Sunday lunch with her girlfriends.

Deaths David E. Lauber Turley, Park City, and Mary Comba, Scott City; one brother, Tom McCoy, and wife, Melba, Bel Fourche, S.D.; one sister, Many Ann Jones, Wichita; 11 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband and one sister, Jeannie Spresser.

Visitation will be Fri., Oct. 14, 9:00 to 11:00 a.m., at Price and Sons Funeral Home, Scott City.

Graveside service will be Friday at 2:00 p.m. at M. Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Leoville, Ks., with Rev. Robert Nuckolls presiding.

Interment will be at Mt. Calvary Catholic Cemetery.

Memorials are suggested to the Edith Criswell Memorial Fund in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 401 S. Washington Street, Scott City, Ks. 67871.

Condolences may be sent to the family through the funeral home website at www.priceandsons. com.

William ‘Bill’ Huddleston William “Bill” Huddleston, 72, died Sept. 18, 2016, at Northwest Texas Hospital, Amarillo, Tex. H e was born March 24, 1944, in Eva, Okla., the son of Roy Bill Huddleston Joe and Juanita Mildred (Wright) Huddleston.

Bill attended the Texhoma school system, graduating with the class of 1962. He then attended Panhandle State University, Goodwell, Okla., and earned his degree in animal husbandry in 1966.

Bill was a farmer, rancher and horse trainer.

He worked at Sunny Slope Horse Farm for Billy Allen, Scott City.

He was a member of the Texhoma United Methodist Church.

Bill married Eletha Belle Clark.

Survivors include: one daughter, Nanine Harper, and husband, Barry, Hugoton; step-mother, Nadine Huddleston, Amarillo, Tex.; one brother, Donnie Huddleston, and wife, Valerie, Texhoma;

Cloide Boyd was visited by Bill and Barbara Miller, Roberta Smith, and Dick and Jackie Boyd.

Lowell Rudolph was visited by Tom and Kathy Moore, Steve and Mary Grigg, Rev. Don Martin, Larry and Connie Knobbe, Holden Rowton, Brandan Everett and Chris Everett.

Elsie Coleman was visited by Janice Lockman and Sharon and Holly Holifield.

Arlene Beaton was visited by Margie Stevens, Albert and Linda Savolt, William Beaton, Jean Davis and Donna Eitel.

Vivian Kreiser was visited by Caitlin O’Dea and Larry and Sharon Lock.

Bonnie Pickett was visited by Gloria Wright and Larry and Philene Pickett.

Boots Haxton was visited by Rod and Kathy Haxton, Nancy Holt and Donna Eitel.

Jeanie Rowton was visited by Phil and Susan Escareno and Chuck Rowton.

Joe Beaver was visited by Sheri Rapier and Margie Stevens.

Lorena Turley was visited by LuJauna Turley, Rex Turley, Gary Turley, and Bob and Neta Wheeler.

Clifford Dearden was visited by Kirk and Janet Ottaway from Hays and Jean Davis from Kingman, Ariz.

Loretta Gorman was visited by Charlene Becht, Velda Riddiough and Fritzie Rauch.

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Edith M. Criswell Edith M. Criswell, 89, died Oct. 10, 2016, at her home in Scott City.

S h e w a s born on Oct. 28, 1926, in Sheridan County, the daughter Edith Criswell of John Thomas and Delma Emma (Fortin) McCoy. A resident of Scott City since 1973, moving from Medicine Lodge, she was an elementary school teacher in Kansas and Texas, surgical assistant, legal secretary, medical clinic receptionist and caregiver.

Edith was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church and St. Joseph Altar Society, Scott City.

On May 19, 1949, she married Darrel Leroy Criswell in Hoxie. He died Jan. 18, 1997.

Survivors include: four daughters, Diane Simpson, and husband, Doug, San Antonio, Tex., Carolyn West, and husband, Tom, Scott City, Cheryl

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three sisters, Cathy Evans, Lago Vista, Tex., Shirley Clark, and husband, Sonny, Amarillo, Tex. and Sandi Dunstan, and husband, David, Amarillo, Tex.; three grandchildren, one great-granddaughter and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his grandparents, Roy and Helen Huddleston and Earl and Oma Wright; an infant daughter; one grandson, Austin Harper; and one niece, Misty Inman.

Funeral service was Sept. 22 at the Texhoma United Methodist Church with Rev. Mike Enright officiating.

Interment was at the Texhoma Cemetery.

Memorials are suggested to the OPSU Livestock Judging Team, OPSU Scholarship Foundation or the Texhoma United Methodist Church, all in care of Bunch-Roberts Funeral Home, Box 1112, Guymon, Okla. 73942.

Condolences may be sent to the family through the funeral home website at www.bunchroberts. com.

David E. Lauber, 57, died Oct. 3, 2016, at St. Catherine Hospital, Garden City.

He was born June 28, 1959, in Leoti, the son of Dolores “Stogie” and Gladys Marie (Dean) Lauber.

A resident of Scott County and Finney County since 2006, he was a truck driver.

He was a member of the Church of the Nazarene, Scott City.

Survivors include: three sons, Chad Lauber, and wife, Carla, Oakley, Dustin Lauber, Dodge City, and Kristofor Lauber, Scott City; three

Virgil D. Stratton Virgil D. Stratton, 68, died Aug. 9, 2016, in West Plains, Mo. H e was born July 6, 1 9 4 8 , in Scott City, the son of George S t r a t t o n Virgil Stratton and Rita Marie (Lauber) Stratton Nickel.

He served two tours in the Vietnam War. Survivors include: one son, Matthew Stratton, Wichita; two sisters, Vicki Wright, and husband, Wilbur, Scott City, and Deanna Russell and husband, Lynn, Brandsville, Mo.; one brother, Darrell Nickel, Sydney, Nebr.; one granddaughter and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, two nephews, one great-nephew and one great-niece.

Graveside service will be Fri., Oct. 21, 1:00 p.m., at the Scott County Cemetery with military rites.

brothers, Gary Johnson, Shreveport, La., Danny Johnson, Hiawaii, and Randy Lauber, Emporia; and six grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

A memorial service will be held at a later date.

Inurnment will be in the Scott County Cemetery.

Memorials are suggested to the David E. Lauber Fund in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 401 S. Washington Street, Scott City, Ks. 67871.

Condolences may be sent to the family through the funeral home website at www.priceandsons. com.

Week of October 17-21 Monday: Chicken and noodles, mashed potatoes, broccoli, whole wheat roll, cinnamon apple slices.

Tuesday: Chili or potato soup, carrots, mixed fruit, cinnamon roll, mandarin oranges.

Wednesday: Oven fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, brussels sprouts, whole wheat roll, strawberries and bananas.

Thursday: Breaded pollock fillet, macaroni and cheese, green beans, whole wheat roll, plums.

Friday: Barbeque ribette, sweet potato fries, tossed salad, whole wheat bread, pears. meals are $3.25 • call 872-3501

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Deaths Peggy Jo Pfannenstiel Peggy Jo Pfannenstiel, 54, died Oct. 11, 2016, surrounded by family at her home in Lawrence after a brief, but bitter, battle with cancer.

S h e was born Feb. 14, 1 9 6 2 , in Scott C i t y , Ks., to Todd and Peggy D o n i t a Pfannenstiel Steele.

The youngest of four children and the only girl, Peggy was doted upon by her father and mother. She was simultaneously cherished by her older brothers and terrorized by their antics. She loved and admired them each dearly.

Peggy graduated from Scott Community High School and later moved to Hays where she attended college and fell in love. Within six months of meeting Pat L. Pfannenstiel, the two were engaged. They married July 21, 1984.

Through all of life’s challenges and blessings, they loved each other fiercely and without reservation.

In 1988, Peggy gave birth to their first child, Brianne. Jake followed in 1991.

Peggy was the kind of wife and mother who, in many ways, knew her husband and kids better than they knew themselves. She had a way of understanding each of them, building bridges and ladders for them so they could safely navigate through life.

Peggy was also a thoughtful and selfless friend, and she made

friends everywhere she went - through her work at Sallie Mae and the KU Endowment Association, through her church choir, at KU gameday tailgates, and at countless piano lessons, soccer games and band concerts.

Peggy was special. And she was loved beyond measure.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Todd and Donita Steele.

Survivors include Pat Pfannenstiel, her husband of 32 years; one daughter, Brianne Pfannenstiel and Joe Preiner of Des Moines, Ia.; one son, Jake Pfannenstiel, and Jessie Davidson, of Lawrence; three brothers, Mike and Sharri Steele of Scott City, Ks., Pat and Joanne Steele of Lowell, Mich., and Keith and Linda Steele of Ulysses, Ks.; six nieces, seven nephews and four grandpuppies.

A rosary recitation will be held at noon on Sun., Oct. 16, at Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 6001 Bob Billings Parkway, in Lawrence. Visitation will follow until 4:00 p.m.

A memorial mass will be held Mon., Oct. 17, 11:30 a.m., at the church.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials be made to support the Corpus Christi Catholic Church Choir, for which Peggy loved to sing, or to support neuro intensive care nursing at The University of Kansas Hospital in care of Warren-McElwain Mortuary, 120 W. 13th St., Lawrence, Ks. 66044.

Online condolences may be sent to warrenmcelwain.com.

Norman G. Medina Norman G. Medina, 58, died Oct. 2, 2016, at the Scott County Hospital.

H e was born Jan. 26, 1 9 5 8 , in Scott City, the son of Jess and D o l o r e s Norman Medina (Torrez) Medina.

He had been a resident of Scott City since 2013, moving from Garden City and was the owner and operator of his trucking company, Pure Country.

He worked for CHS for the past six years.

Norman was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Scott City. He was also a member of Vets for Veterans and the Patriot Guard.

On May 16, 2010, he married Cynthia Bitner in Reno, Nev. She survives.

Other survivors include: three sons, Justin Medina, and wife, Kristy, Jacksonville, Fla., Jared Medina, and wife, Glenda, of Hawaii and Steven Medina, and wife, Leslie, Belleville; two daughters,

Jennifer Medina, Lake Michigan, Mich. and Audrey Medina, Scott City; his mother, Dolores Medina, Great Bend; one brother, Jess Medina, and wife, Carmen, Sublette; two sisters, Rita Smith, and husband, Dennis, Weskan, and Sara Pletcher, and husband, Gary, Great Bend; and 12 grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his father and one sister, Celia Jane Medina.

Memorial service will be Tues., Oct. 11, 10:30 a.m., at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Scott City, with Fr. Bernard Felix presiding.

Inurnment will be at the Weskan Cemetery at 3:00 p.m.

Memorials are suggested to the Heartland Cancer Center in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 401 S. Washington Street, Scott City, Ks. 67871.

Condolences may be sent to the family through the funeral home website at www.priceandsons. com.

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The Privilege of Voting I am so highly honored to share in the devotional thoughts for the month of October. Never in my life of 76 years has an election been so heavy on my heart. I am devoting my thoughts about the deep significance of this election to Christians and the protection of our Christian heritage.

Pam Pryor, faith director for one of the two candidates for president said, “The government could decide how we get to practice our faith.” We don’t want that. (I encourage you to google “Obama Administration Condemns Religious Liberty” by Edmund Kozak.)

The assault against Christianity is strongly under way.

Our subject this week, “The Privilege of Voting.”

I continually tell those under my ministry that we must be aware of the times and know what to do about them. With that, I remind them of something I read once that spoke to my heart as a pastor. “I cannot tell you what to do, but I can tell you who you are. IF YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, THEN YOU WILL KNOW WHAT TO DO.” Do we care which values will reign supreme? What we do on November 8th will show if we care or not.

Our Biblical Christian heritage has been under assault for years and many who call themselves Christian have accepted that as the norm.

As a result, secularist liberals over the last several decades have imposed through the court system their “godless agenda” on our nation resulting in 55 million babies dead, redefinition of marriage, transgender bathrooms, etc.

True spirituality touches all of life, including things of government, such as voting. Some Christians argue that we are citizens of heaven and thus should not get

Pastor Ed Sanderson, Assembly of God 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.

120 S. Lovers Lane - Shallow Water Larry Taylor, pastor Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

First Christian Church

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

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

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

Website: www.fccscottcity.org

Elizabeth/Epperson Drives • Scott City • 872-3666

Scott Mennonite Church

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

12021 N. Eagle Rd. • Scott City

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

Sunday School, 10:50 a.m.

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

YMYW Wednesday, 8:00 p.m.

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

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involved at all in politics. But, we are also citizens of the earth. Since we are given a say in who rules over us, NOT TO VOTE IS TO ALLOW THE UNGODLY TO WIN; it’s surrender. A George Barna report for the 2012 election showed that out of an estimated 89 million evangelicals, 12 million did not register to vote; 26 million who registered did not vote. Thirty eight million (about 40%) Christians did not vote!

God cares about the spiritual direction of our country. I believe the Lord wants every qualified Christian (millions!) to vote. When Jesus commanded us to be salt in the world, He was encouraging us to influence our culture rather than isolating ourselves. To vote is a God-given privilege! We can’t separate personal beliefs from personal responsibility as Christians to our country. Romans 13:1 says governing officials “are established by God.” Leaders are an extension of God’s rule so we as God’s people have the privilege of influencing the selection of leaders in our country as we vote; especially for leaders who will advance righteousness.

How about it Scott County people? Can we have the largest registration and voter turn-out than ever?

Let’s work hard in our churches to see that every person who qualifies will register and will vote! Let’s pray and work toward 100% participation in our churches!

Can we be a county with the history of helping to turn our nation in a different and godly direction? I believe we can and we will - if Jesus is Lord of all life to each of us. Pray, seek God’s wisdom about who to vote for - Then vote for Biblical values to reign supreme!

Sunday Evening Service: 7:00 p.m.

Holy Eucharist - 11:45 a.m.

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

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Pediatric gastrointestinal specialist at SCH Children who are suffering from gastrointestinal issues can now be diagnosed and treated by at the Scott County Hospital by Dr. Jeffrey Rosensweig.

Dr. Rosensweig currently operates Colorado Pediatric Gastroenterology in Denver, but one day each month is one of the specialists who sees patients at SCH. He is scheduled to be in Scott City the second Monday of each month.

The specialist said the prospect of extending his practice to Scott City came up one day while

visiting with Dr. Robert Ballard, another specialist who works with the hospital’s sleep disorder center once a month.

Expanding his practice to Western Kansas made sense, says Dr. Rosensweig.

“I figured if I could see patients here and spare them having to drive four hours to Denver every month or every few months it would be a benefit to them,” he says.

While Dr. Rosensweig says his interest in health care came about while attending college, it was while taking a sociology

State’s hospital network cut the rate of acquired infections

Friends are the key to long, happy life by the American Counseling Association

Women, in general, tend to be more sociable than men and tend to make more and deeper friendships. But for men, developing close friendships with other men often seems difficult to do.

And yet, according to researchers, this matters.

The Australian Longitudinal Study of Aging found that family relationships had little impact on longevity but that friendships appeared to increase life expectancy by as much as 22 percent.

So why is it harder for men to undertake something as seemingly pleasant, and apparently health promoting, as making good friends? Experts cite a number of reasons.

One is that men traditionally tend to be more caught up in their careers. Today they may also want to be more involved with their children than their own fathers were. The result can be little time left to develop close friendships with peers. And as men get older and leave the work force, they also tend to leave behind most of the work friendships they have enjoyed.

Another problem is that men seem to have been taught, whether consciously or otherwise, that talking about personal matters with other men simply isn’t “manly.” In our society, women are more at ease drawing other women out, talking about feelings and emotions, and sharing their inner lives.

Men tend to avoid the personal and instead base friendships on common interests such as sports or work.

The bottom line is that men certainly can develop good and strong friendships, but it may take a bit more effort as well as overcoming some of the traditional barriers.

One starting point, especially for older men, is to get into situations where they can meet other men and where the atmosphere is right for making conversation and sharing experiences. It might mean participating at a senior center, taking courses at a local college, or volunteering with a local charity.

Book clubs, walking groups, exercise classes (See FRIENDS on page 17)

course that he began to narrow that interest.

“That’s when I began thinking that perhaps I should be in another country, maybe an environment totally different from where I was raised,” he notes.

With a background in French, his first choice was to experience health care in developing nations which took him to the Ivory Coast, Mali and Egypt for a year.

“When I returned, I Dr. Jeff Rosensweig is a gastroenterology specialist now coming to SCH monthly.

(Record Photo) started medical school, but that year overseas made it of medicine for me,” says ize in pediatrics gastroen- training while in Madison, terology was formed dur- Wisc. clear that pediatrics was Dr. Rosensweig.

The decision to special- ing his general pediatric (See SPECIALIST on page 17) the most interesting part

Information on specific hospitals still hard to find Meg Wingerter Kansas Health Institute

As part of a federal quality improvement effort, Kansas hospitals are reducing the odds that patients will get certain types of infections.

And while that effort provides information on hospital quality throughout the state, finding information about the quality of care at indi-

Area Hospitals Participating Include Gove Co. Medical Center Greeley Co. Health Center Lane County Hospital Logan County Hospital St. Catherine Hospital Scott County Hospital Wichita Co. Health Center

vidual hospitals remains a challenge.

The Kansas Healthcare Collaborative runs a hospital engagement network that includes 106 of the state’s 133 hospitals. Through a federally funded program, hospitals in the network are working to reduce patient harm and hospital readmissions by sharing their best prac-

tices.

Network hospitals aimed for a 40 percent reduction in instances of patient harm from September 2015 to September of this year, said Michele Clark, the collaborative’s hospital engagement network program director. While hospitals in the network weren’t able to reduce all types of patient harm by that much, infections related to central lines that deliver medication and fluids fell 55 percent and urinary tract infections from catheters were down 28 percent, she said.

Early scheduled births

without a medical reason also were down, reducing the odds of infants developing health problems from being born too soon.

The collaborative estimated that Kansas hospitals avoided about 230 instances of patient harm, along with about $1.6 million in costs related to treating those patients if they had become infected or been harmed in another way.

“Overall it was deemed a great success,” Clark said.

The Next Round The efforts were part a (See NETWORK on page 17)

Working group will leave Medicaid expansion to legislature Bryan Thompson Kansas Health Institute

A working group charged with finding “Kansas solutions” to the problems surrounding health care delivery in rural Kansas still hasn’t settled on a direction.

Near the end of Rural Health Working Group’s meeting last week in Salina, Rep. Jim Kelly of

Independence asked the other members to at least consider what he called “the 800-pound gorilla” in the room: Medicaid expansion. Kelly thinks expanding eligibility for Medicaid might help other communities avoid the hospital closure that occurred in Independence.

“I don’t want another community to be in that position, and I don’t want

rural communities all over Kansas to have difficulty accessing health care,” said Kelly, a Republican who is one of nine members appointed by Gov. Sam Brownback to the group.

But Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer, who leads the group, said Brownback wants its members to find solutions that don’t involve expanding eligi-

bility for Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program people with low incomes or disabilities.

“The charge of this commission was to discuss issues regardless of whether or not you have Medicaid expansion,” Colyer said.

Colyer said he wanted the group to look for (See EXPANSION 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

Sharon Burgoyne Dietitian

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 Rosenswieg Pediatric Gastroenterology

Dr. Robert Ballard Pulmonology/Sleep

Mark Love, PA-C Sleep

Dr. Ernesto Lopez Urology

Dr. Kevin McDonald Urology

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

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

Network nationwide push involving 3,700 hospitals, which federal officials estimated prevented about 34,000 instances of harm and saved about $288 million.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that infections patients pick up in hospitals cost anywhere from $28 billion to $45 billion annually. Those amounts vary widely because the CDC must estimate direct costs of treating infections and indirect costs like lost productivity when a patient can’t return to work.

of sepsis and C. difficile, Clark said. Sepsis is a life-threatening condition when the body’s attempts to fight an infection can cause organ failure, and C. difficile is a notoriously hard-to-treat intestinal infection.

The hospital engagement network’s emphasis on hospitals working together to reduce harm to patients has led to broadbased improvements, Clark said.

“The whole purpose of the (network) is to make sure that patients receive the best and safest care

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wherever they go,” she said. “I think the work we’re doing in each facility is floating the boat of our health care system.”

Little Local Data Despite the promising results from the hospital engagement network, Kansans don’t have an easy time finding out if the quality of care at their local hospital has improved, particularly if they live in rural areas.

Not all hospitals participating in the hospital engagement network reported all measures

Friends

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“Among those which are chronic conditions, we are very adept at managing them to help the individual to have a normal life,” he says.

During his second visit to SCH on Oct. 10, Dr. Rosensweig traveled with outreach physician liaison Isidro Morales to visit with physicians in Leoti, Lakin and Deerfield. In September, the two also met with physicians in Garden City.

Building a relationship with area physicians who can refer patients to the Scott City Clinic is essential, says Dr. Rosensweig.

Because there has been no pediatric gastroenterologist in the area, young patients have been referred to specialists in

Expansion other ways to address those issues and leave the Medicaid expansion discussion to the Legislature.

That discussion is likely to be more robust in the 2017 legislative session. In previous years, Brownback allies in legislative leadership man-

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Many of hospital engagement network participants, including the Kansas collaborative, also will participate in a hospital improvement innovation network as part of the next round of quality improvement projects.

The goals for the round starting this fall include decreasing instances when patients are harmed by 20 percent over the next two years and reducing hospital readmissions by 12 percent.

Hospitals also will work to reduce their rates

Specialist “I loved the day-today work of seeing kids and doing whatever we needed to do in order to make them better. It was very gratifying,” he says.

“I knew that was the field for me - where people get better.”

Following his Fellowship training at Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Dr. Rosensweig was in Philadelphia before moving to Denver 18 years ago.

As a specialist. Dr. Rosensweig deals “with a lot of everyday, common things such as infants with reflux, infants not growing, having irritability and pain, bloating and a whole spectrum of things. Most of them are not life-long conditions.”

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Kansas City, Denver and Wichita.

“In fact, Dr. Rosensweig has been seeing patients from Scott City and Western Kansas,” says Morales. “A couple of places we visited had been sending their patients elsewhere, but now they can send them to us, which is a lot more convenient.”

“Even if the procedures have to be done in Denver, at least the follow-ups can be done close to home,” he says.

While he specializes in pediatric care, Dr. Rosensweig says his treatment of patients doesn’t necessarily end at age 18.

“I have a lot of kids who see me up to age 30,” he adds with a grin.

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aged to block debate on the issue.

But Rep. Dan Hawkins, a Wichita Republican who is a member of the working group and chairs the House Health and Human Services Committee, said the political environment has shifted.

“The Legislature fundamentally changed during the primary,” Hawkins said. “The electorate spoke, and we need to be listening, and anybody that isn’t listening is tone deaf. I’m certainly not tone deaf.

all are places where men can meet other men like themselves.

It then also means being willing to open up and share one’s feelings and emotions. A man may have to make a real effort, at least at first, to share what he’s feeling or concerned about, but when he does so that’s when he’s building the foundation for a real friendship.

Put in a little effort and sharing and you’ll create friendships that will enrich your life, and maybe even prolong it.

Counseling Corner” is provided by the American Counseling Association.

- primarily because they don’t all perform the same procedures, said Janie Rutherford, spokeswoman for the collaborative.

The state and federal governments also don’t collect data from all hospitals.

The Kansas HealthcareAssociated Infections Advisory Group, which is made up of Kansas Department of Health and Environment officials and experts from private organizations, receives monthly reports on hospital infections from the

CDC, state epidemiologist Charlie Hunt said.

It then uses that data to identify hospitals that need help addressing infections. The advisory group recently succeeded in helping hospitals bring down their rates of C. difficile, he said.

“If we see a significant increase in infections in a particular hospital, we would contact that hospital and see what’s going on,” he said. “It’s a classic principle that you manage what you measure.

The CDC reports also are voluntary.

Friendship ‘Meals to Go’ available from the VIP Center Individual frozen/sealed trays • Good for special diets only $3.25/meal • Call 872-3501

Kansas lawmakers announce plans to extend session 10 days Republican legislative leaders on Tuesday approved increasing the budget for the 2017 legislative session from 90 days to 100 days.

Senate President Susan Wagle (R-Wichita) said more time was needed because of the state’s budget problems, the need to approve a new school finance law and the influx of many new legislators.

The vote by the Legislative Coordinating Council was 5-2.

Republicans voted for it, while Senate Democratic Leader Anthony Hensley, of Topeka, and House Democratic Leader Tom Burroughs, of Kansas City, voted against.

Burroughs said the Legislature owed it to Kansans to try to con-

‘Boo! At the Zoo’ is October 22

Friends of Lee Richardson Zoo will host their annual “Boo! At The Zoo,” on Sat., October 22.

Gates open at 4:00 p.m.

Lee Richardson Zoo will be closed all day on October 22 for preparations.

The evening includes a trick-or-treat trail with ‘spooktacular’ treat stations, creepy creature encounters with zoo docents and a journey through a ghoulish graveyard.

“Boo! at the Zoo” advance discount tickets are $5 and can be purchased from El Remedio, Ward’s Garden Center and Lee Richardson Zoo. Children ages two and under are free.

Tickets may also be purchased online at www. folrz.org until Mon., October 17, to ensure delivery.

Admission at the gate is $10 per person.

In addition to general admission, guests will also have the opportunity to visit the wizarding world of Harry Potter by purchasing passage on the Hogwarts Express.

Witches and wizards are invited to travel through the Dark Forest while warding off dementors with their magic wands as the train makes its way back to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters.

Hogwarts Express train passes are $5 each and can only be purchased at the event.

Sponsorships are still available. Contact Friends of Lee Richardson Zoo for more information: 620276-6243 or email director@folrz.com.

clude its business within the traditional 90 days. He said giving legislators 100 days before the session even started was setting a bad precedent. Hensley said the LCC had never before made such a move.

Three of the Republicans voting to accommodate a longer session won’t be in office when the session starts in January.

House Speaker Ray Merrick, of Stilwell, and House Speaker Pro Tem Peggy Mast, of Emporia, did not seek re-election.

Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce, of Abilene, was defeated in the Republican Party primary.

The other two votes for the longer session were House Majority Leader Jene Vickrey, of

Louisburg, and Wagle.

Vickrey has been mentioned as a possible candidate for House speaker.

The state’s budget is in disarray. For the first three months of the fiscal year, revenue lags projections by more than $60 million.

With a projected ending balance of just $5.6 million next year, that means the state general fund is already facing a deficit after just one quarter of the year.

In addition, the state faces a possible ruling from the Kansas Supreme Court that could require hundreds of millions in additional funding for schools.

The 2015 session lasted a record 114 days but 2016’s was only 74 days.

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Eikenberry qualifies for state tourney With identical rounds of 51-51, Scott City’s Lizzy Eikenberry qualified as a medalist for the Class 4A state golf tournament to be played at Hesston on Monday.

Eikenberry, a SCHS senior, tied for 14th place with a 102, but because some medalists qualified with their team, she earned a spot among the top 10 individual qualifiers.

The regional placing was the latest in a strong, late-season run for Eikenberry who shot a 96 at Goodland to finish fourth in the Great West Activities Association tournament on Oct. 3.

She followed with a 103 and a ninth place finish at the Syracuse Invitational.

Lady Beavers are third in home invite With a Crusader hanging onto his leg, SCHS senior Kevin Aguilera reaches for the end zone to finish off a nine yard scoring run during the first half of Friday’s non-league win at Wellington.

(Record Photo)

SCHS crusade extends win streak to four games In their final game before district play, Scott City didn’t want any surprises from Wellington.

The Crusaders didn’t provide any.

SCHS scored on their first two possessions and were firmly in control from start to finish in a 41-0 non-league win on Friday.

“You always wonder how the boys will handle a long road trip, especially against someone you aren’t that familiar with,” says head coach Jim Turner.

“The older kids showed they were ready to play as soon as we stepped off the bus. We took them out of the game early, especially with the way we were playing defensively.”

It was Scott City’s first shutout of the season, but it also continued to reflect the team’s con-

tinued improvement on defense.

The Beavers have allowed only three touchdowns over the last four games.

“Everyone’s doing a really good job of playing their positions, paying attention at practice and focusing hard on making our reads,” says senior linebacker Kyle Cure.

“The coaches emphasize a lot that we need to trust the guy next to you to do their job, you do yours and don’t try to do too much. If everyone does their job we’ll be fine.”

Everyone was doing their job against the Crusaders who were limited to just 57 yards of total offense - and 35 of those came on their final possession against the junior varsity defense.

(See CRUSADE on page 26)

Multi-purpose Schippers a test for SCHS defense A district title will be on the line when Scott City travels to Colby on Friday.

Week No. 7 Even though it will be the District Play opening round of district play, Scott City (4-2) at both teams are strong favorites Colby (3-3) to advance into the state play7:00 p.m. kickoff offs.

After a quick 3-0 start and climbing briefly into the state rankings following a win over Hugoton (24-21), the Eagles (3-3) have hit a three game skid with losses to Ulysses (35-21), Holcomb (27-13) and Norton (52-41).

Whether or not the Beavers (4-2) can extend their four game win streak and put themselves in position to be district champion will depend on (See DEFENSE on page 22)

When Jalynn Habiger rolled her ankle in the third game of Saturday’s match against Lakin, Scott City head coach Megan Gentry feared the worst.

Habiger’s absence did cost the Lady Beavers a chance to beat Lakin for a second time this season, but that wasn’t Gentry’s biggest concern.

“When you see something like that happen this late in the season you worry about whether you could lose someone for substate,” said Gentry.

Habiger did return to action later in the day in a win over Wheatland/Grinnell and a loss to powerhouse TMP-Marian, giving Scott City a third place finish in Saturday’s home invitational.

Scott City (20-8) finished 3-2 in the round-robin format with wins over Oakley (25-13, 25-9), Norton (25-14, 11-25, 25-17) and W/G (19-25, 25-22, 25-23).

The Lady Beavers lost in a tie-breaker against Lakin (2523, 22-25, 20-25) to split with them this season. Their other loss came in the final round against a powerhouse TMPMarian squad (18-25, 23-25).

“Even though we lost, I was (See SPIKERS on page 21)

Price, Appel prove to be winning combination Krystal Appel and Emma Price didn’t start the season as a doubles team, but they’re certainly glad that’s how they’re finishing the season after qualifying for the Class 4A state tennis tournament.

In a last minute decision that saw Scott Community High School switched into what was arguably the toughest regional, the senior duo finished in sixth place to earn the final qualifying berth in tournament action at Pratt last weekend.

Despite an impressive 23-3 record entering regional action, the Lady Beavers could earn no better than a No. 6 seed in a field that included perennial powerhouse Wichita Collegiate and Wellington. Those two programs

accounted for four of the top five qualifiers in doubles.

Scott City’s losses came against teams from Collegiate and Wellington.

It’s the second consecutive year that Appel has been a state qualifier, having earned a berth a year ago in the 3-21A state tournament as half of a doubles team. After losing her partner to graduation, Appel had made up her mind to compete in singles during her final season.

Price even approached the fellow senior about teaming up, even for just one tournament.

“But, she wasn’t ready at the time,” Price says.

A rocky start, however, had Appel rethinking the prospect (See TENNIS on page 21)

Class 4A state tennis qualifiers Emma Price (left) and Krystal Appel. (Record Photo)

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Lady Beavers nudge Hugoton for Lakin title Even with one of their top runners sidelined with an injury, the Scott City girls still had enough to claim championship honors at the Lakin Invitational last weekend.

SCHS (58 points) was able to nudge Great West Activities Conference rival Hugoton (60) for the team title.

Makaela Stevens (2nd, 20:43) led the Lady Beavers, finishing behind Stanton County standout Rebeka Avelar (20:20).

Missing from the Scott City lineup was Olivia Prieto who has a knee injury and head coach Kevin Reese decided to rest the junior in preparation for regional.

“She has a strained IT band, but I think we caught it early enough,” says Reese. “If we rest her and give her some pool workouts, hopefully we can limit the loss of conditioning and have her ready for regional.

“We need everyone running well at regional or we’re going to have a tough time getting to state.”

Dulce Ayala (7th, 21:51) helped pick up the slack, followed by Trella Davis (14th, 22:28), Paige Winderlin (21st, 23:06) and Samantha Aguilar (26th, 23:37). Close behind, but not figuring in the team standings, was Kodi Rogers (30th, 23:53).

“Samantha and Kodi have been bringing their times down,” says Reese.

“They’re running with more confidence and can hopefully help us over

Team Standings Girl’s Division Scott City 58 Hugoton 60 Stanton County 92 Goodland 105 Lakin 109 Ulysses 113 Syracuse 121 Girl’s Division Hugoton 53 Stanton County 61 Scott City 78 Ulysses 100 Meade 139 Wichita County 170 Goodland 191 Lakin 193 Greeley County 218 Syracuse 224

the next couple of weeks.

Given our overall lack of depth we need everyone to be running well.”

SC Boys are Third For only the second time this season, Jack Thomas didn’t claim an individual gold medal.

Then again, that didn’t surprise Reese. Since Thomas and Jess Drohman are also on the football team, both made the trip to Wellington on Friday and didn’t return home until about 2:30 a.m., only to get up a few hours later and compete at Lakin.

“We knew that when Jack and Jess doubled up with football and crosscountry that it would catch up to them at some point. With the long trip to and from Wellington, it’s not surprising they didn’t have much left in the tank today,” says Reese. “I don’t know of any other runner in that same situation who wouldn’t show a little wear-and-tear.”

SCHS junior Conner LeBeau nears the top of a hill at the Lakin Invitational on Saturday.

(Record Photo)

Thomas still finished third in 17:02 - just seven seconds out of first place.

He was followed by teammates Conner LeBeau (10th, 18:11), Droh-

man (18th, 18:41), Austin Rios (24th, 19:01) and Theron Tucker (27th, 19:09).

“It was good to see Conner perform well on

Members of the GWAC champion seventh grade volleyball team are (kneeling, from left) Paige Hoelting and Brook Zielke. (Back row) Kennedy Holstein, coach Lauren Robinson, Brynn McCormick, Alivia Noll, Ally Patton, Amber Latta, Payton Goodman, Ella Rumford, Madison Westergard and coach Kelly Eisenhour.

7th grade Jays finish 28-0; claim league volleyball title Putting together the best season in school history, the Scott City Middle School seventh grade volleyball closed out a perfect season with a Great West Activities Association championship.

The Lady Bluejays were 28-0 following their sweep through the league tournament at Holcomb.

SCMS rolled through their first four matches in round-robin play with wins over Hugoton (21-

16, 21-11), Ulysses (218, 21-11), Colby (21-9, 21-7) and Goodland (218, 21-9).

That set up an anticipated showdown with Holcomb for a league title and the chance at perfection. Earlier in the week, Holcomb had threatened to end the win streak, pushing SCMS into a tiebreaker game.

In a rematch in the GWAC finals, Scott City won the opening game, 21-14 and looked like

they would breeze to a win in the second game after grabbing a 7-0 lead.

However, missed serves and bad sets allowed Holcomb to come back and take a 19-14 lead.

In dramatic fashion, the Lady Bluejays scored seven unanswered points for a 21-19 win.

Scott City’s impressive season included wins over a number of larger schools such as Dodge City, Garden City, Great Bend, Hays and Liberal.

With the exception of the one match against Holcomb, they swept every opponent in two games. In the tiebreaker against the Lady Longhorns, Scott City came away with a 15-12 win on the home floor.

The eighth grade “A” team finished third in the league tournament and posted a season record of 16-12.

The seventh grade “B” team ended their season 20-3 while the eighth grade “B” team was 16-6.

a windy day when his allergies typically give him problems,” Reese said.

He added that Tucker continues to perform well, giving the Beavers added

depth.

“I’m looking for him and Austin (Rios) to have a break-through meet, like Austin had last year at state,” Reese added.

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Early lead doesn’t hold up for Bluejays

Spikers (continued from page 19)

real proud of the way we played against TMP. If we can play consistently at that level we have a great chance of winning our sub-state,” says Gentry.

First things first, however.

Scott City will be traveling to Ulysses for the Great West Activities Conference tournament on Saturday where they will see each of their potential sub-state opponents one final time.

They recently swept Goodland (25-19, 25-27, 25-23) and Colby (25-19, 25-13). They were swept in their last match against Holcomb. All three will be in the Class 4A sub-state to be played at Holcomb on Oct. 22.

“From a confidence standpoint, I’m sure it will help the girls if we can beat them this weekend,” says Gentry. “But, with volleyball it always comes down to how you’re playing on that particular day and who has the momentum. We want to use this weekend to build for sub-state. That’s the one which matters most.”

During Saturday’s tournament, the Lady Beavers were pushed to tie-breakers in three of their five matches, winning two of them. They posted another impressive win against W/G, bouncing back from a first game loss.

Senior middle hitter Macy Berning (9 kills) and senior outside hitter Clarissa Ratzlaff (7 kills) led the offense against the Thunderhawks. Emily Smith and Berning each added four blocked shots.

Against the Lady Monarchs, Berning and Smith had six and five kills, respectively. The Lady Beavers struggled to slow down the TMP offense with only four blocked shots - three by senior Kiana Yager.

Scott City junior Taylor Goodman tips the ball across the net in action against Syracuse on Tuesday.

(Record Photo)

Stop Cowgirls Despite a strong defensive effort by the Cowgirls, Scott City was able to complete a sweep of Colby (25-19, 25-13) and Goodland (25-19, 25-27, 25-23) in a triangular last week.

“Give Goodland credit. They

Tennis

were picking up just about everything we hit at them,” says Gentry.

Ratzlaff and Berning led the offense with seven and six kills, respectively. Smith had three blocked shots.

“One thing we have to focus on is our mental errors. It’s not

the first one that hurts so much, but when we commit three or four in a row that they become a factor,” says the head coach.

The Lady Beavers coasted to a pair of easy wins over Wichita County (25-10, 25-10) and Syracuse (25-7, 25-5) in action on Tuesday at Cimarron.

need to switch we can make it work.”

And, of course, there are the lob shots that Scott City is famous for - much to the frustration of their opponents.

“One of our killer assets is our continuous lobs,” Price says with a laugh. “It throws everyone off because no one in Kansas likes to lob except for Scott City.”

Appel says she’s added it to her arsenal this season.

“I’ve gotten pretty good at

hanging the ball in the air for awhile,” adds Appel.

While Appel has prior state experience, this is Price’s first trip. It appeared she might qualify in singles a year ago before she had to withdraw from the regional tournament with a hamstring injury.

She says that disappointment gave her added motivation.

“I’m proud of how we played and I’m ecstatic about going to state,” Price says. “It took four years, but with a good doubles partner I finally got there.”

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of playing doubles.

“I figured if I played doubles with a strong player like Emma that we could be successful,” says Appel. “I felt that was definitely the best chance of getting to state.”

They quickly proved to be a strong force. After losing their very first match to the defending Class 3-2-1A state champions, the pair reeled off 17 consecutive wins.

“Considering we didn’t have any experience together going

into the first tournament, things clicked right away,” Price says.

“It became obvious that we could work really well together.”

Their strengths complemented each other well.

“Emma’s really good with the deep shots because she’s played a lot of singles. I’m good at playing the net. I got a lot of experience there last year,” Appel says.

“She’s phenomenal at the net.

She goes for the kills,” Price says of her partner. “And if we

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When Damian Estrella broke loose for a 44 yard run on the first play from scrimmage and Conner Armendariz punched the ball into the end zone one play later, it appeared the Scott City Middle School seventh graders were ready to snap their losing skid.

Instead, the night ended in another heartbreaker with Scott City losing to Ulysses, 20-16.

A stiff north wind was a factor which made it difficult for either offense to move in that direction.

“We were able to complete a couple of long passes when going south, but we couldn’t exploit that when going north,” says coach Shane Faurot.

Scott City’s early 8-0 lead disappeared later in the first quarter when Ulysses tied the game. The Tiger Cubs added a second quarter touchdown for a 14-8 halftime edge.

Ulysses extended their lead to 20-8 in the third period on a punt return.

With the wind to their backs in the third period, the Bluejays were able to take advantage of their passing game for completions of 28 and 32 yards to Carson Faurot. That set up a one yard touchdown run by Estrella for the final score of the game.

“Damian is a hard-running back. He’s hitting the line much harder on the bases and traps up the middle,” says Faurot.

“He’s the premier back in this offense.”

Estrella finished with 132 yards on 23 carries while Faurot added 24 yards.

However, the Bluejays have struggled to develop an outside running game.

“Our blocking has been inconsistent which has led to some losses when we try to get to the edge,” says Faurot. “The open field blocking has been a little harder for these boys to master.”

Near perfection in Pigskin Payoff Notre Dame’s loss to North Carolina State was the only blemish on two Pigskin Payoff entries this week.

Jacob Rios and Larry White each had 15 correct picks, with Rios claiming top prize on the tie-breaker.

Claiming third place money with 14 correct picks is Preston Wright.

Results of the last four weekly Pigskin Payoffs can be found on page 25.

Defense their ability to contain allpurpose offensive threat Jordan Schippers (soph., 6-1, 181). He is a dual threat as a runningback (461 yards) and a receiver (553 yards).

“They use him more as a receiver than a runningback, but they put him all over the place - in the backfield, in the slot in the trips set and in twinset receiver packages he lines up on the outside,” says SCHS head coach Jim Turner. “If there are two backs in the backfield, he’s usually one of them.”

Even though he’s averaging just 77 yards rushing per game, he still leads the team with nine touchdowns. As a receiver, he’s averaging 92 yards and has another seven TDs. When Schippers does appear in the backfield,

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the GWAC champion sprinter likes to get to the edge.

However, he seems to be more effective - and dangerous - as a receiver who the Eagles like to get in space where he can utilize his speed and power.

“He’s a similar runningback to (Ian) Rudzik,” says Turner, referring to the All-State back from Ulysses who is now at Kansas State University.

“The difference is that we knew where Rudzik was going to line up every play. Shippers has the same kind of speed, but they move him all over, which creates a challenge.”

Schippers is often a target for quarterback Zach Hart (jr., 6-0, 170) in the flats, though Hart will also throw deep. Another

dangerous runningback and receiver is Donte Whitfield (sr., 6-3, 190).

“Once in awhile (Hart) will throw to someone other than Schippers or Whitfield. Sometimes they will use Schippers as a decoy,” Turner says.

“In the Holcomb game, when Schippers went in motion you could see two defenders going with him.

When that happened, they would sometimes run in the other direction.”

Turner says it will be important for the defense to stick to their fundamentals.

If defensive ends pursue too deep into the backfield, the Colby backs have a tendency to cut back into the spot where they are supposed to be for big yards. Likewise, the Beavers will likely

rely on their smaller package of defensive tackles in order to bring pressure on Hart, who has been susceptible to mistakes.

In six games, he has 987 yards passing, but has completed just 53 percent (56-of-106) of his attempts.

Hart tends to put a lot of air under his deep passes and allow his two athletic receivers to make a play. While that has met with some success, it’s also contributed to nine interceptions, including four in last week’s loss to Norton.

“There will be a situation or two when we adjust our defense based on where Schippers is in the formation,” says Turner. “But, for the most part, we’re just going to line up and play.”

Stretch the Defense One goal of the offense is to stretch the Colby defense across the field in hopes of opening up the running game.

The Eagles will initially show a 3-4 defense, but that often times turns into a 4-3 as they walk up a linebacker (often times Whitfield) so that he can blitz from one side or the other of their noseguard.

“If a linebacker blitzes and we pick it up, that puts Wyatt (Hayes) on a free safety on a trap and I’ll take that matchup any time,” says offensive coordinator Brian Gentry.

“But, of course, we have to block it right.”

With film now available from six games, Gentry says they’ve begun adding some new plays that teams haven’t had a chance to prepare for.

“We’re getting a little deeper into the playbook,” he says. “We’ve added a twist here or there, but overall, very little changes. What we’re doing works and it’s worked for years.”

In that respect, he says there are no major surprises. Defenses still have to line up and figure a way to slow down the SCHS offense.

Gentry also puts a lot of confidence in quarterback Bo Hess to recognize what the defense is doing and make adjustments.

“We’re putting more decision-making into Bo’s hands,” Gentry says.

“The defense can line up however it wants and you count on your quarterback to make the right decision.

Bo’s been doing a much better job of that over the last four weeks.”

Super Saturday is next for YMCA teams Scott City’s YMCA tackle football teams wrapped up their regular season with a pair of wins last Sunday in Garden City.

The teams will be competing in the season-ending Super Saturday tournament this weekend.

The Vulgamore Family Farms team completed an undefeated season with a 12-7 win over Leoti in the fourth grade division.

Scott City trailed for most of the game.

A 40 yard run by Brody Strine on the first play of the second half cut the deficit to 7-6 and it was Strine’s 12 yard touchdown run late in the third quarter that proved to be the difference.

Western State Bank Western State Bank scored two quick touchdowns and then held on for a 12-6 win over Bors Law in the fifth grade division.

Collin McDaniel scored the first touchdown on a 17 yard run and Avry Noll added an 11 yard reverse for the second TD and a 12-0 halftime lead.

Harris Chiropractic Harris Chiropractic struggled offensively in a 20-6 loss to Regency Auto in the sixth grade division.

Jace Thomas scored on a nine yard run early in the second half for Scott City’s only score, cutting the deficit to 7-6.

Regency added two late TDs to pull away.

Scott City’s Collin McDaniel stiffarms a defender as he gets to the outside for a 17 yard run during Sunday’s action in Garden City.

(Record Photo)

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Offense takes a big step forward in Tech win What a difference a week makes. Kansas State’s football team is close, very close, to becoming another in the long line of Bill Snyder-coached teams that is extra special. by In the 44Mac 38 win over Stevenson Texas Tech which wasn’t nearly as close as the score indicates - K-State’s offense was so much smoother than it was in the West Virginia game.

There was none of the hurry-up anxiousness in the Wildcats’ huddles that’s been so prevalent.

Coach Snyder said, “I was pleased offensively . . . we played well. Defensively we struggled, but they are a talented, very good football team.” K-State’s defense did not struggle in the second half; they held Texas Tech to just 10 points.

The Wildcats’ defense has been outstanding from the start and now the offense is beginning to click.

K-State’s offensive line is showing significant progress; numerous preseason predictions that the OL would be a weakness are being exposed as media mistakes.

Next up for fast-improving Kansas State is a Saturday road game with Oklahoma; this one will be televised from coastto-coast on ESPN with an 11:00 a.m. start. It’s the biggest game of the season, so far, for the Wildcats.

The Sooners slaughtered K-State (55-0) last year in Manhattan, but Snyder has a much better ballclub this time around. OU is coming off a 45-40 win against Texas and the Sooners are loaded with talent.

Kansas State will have to play a superb game to have a chance, but an upset could happen. Snyder’s best teams have always played well in big games on the road.

More often than not the Sooners haven’t met expectations under the coaching of Bob Stoops. OU will be overconfident and they could be in for an unpleasant surprise.

Hawks Make Progress If KU football fans are looking for progress, they saw it last Saturday even though the Jayhawks fell (See OFFENSE on page 25)

iSportsman daily hunt permits PRATT - Kansas hunters should be aware that iSportsman Electronic Daily Hunt Permits are required on 24 wildlife areas (check the2016 Kansas Hunting and Furharvesting Regulations Summary or kdwpt.isportsman.net for a list).

The electronic permit system has been in place for two years, and is normally fast and efficient. However, the software company that manages the host servers experienced technical difficulties this week that slowed the check-in procedure.

Hunters utilizing iSportsman may experience slow processing or may find the system entirely down for the next few days. iSportsman replaces the old paper permits and allows hunters to conveniently check in and out using a telephone, smartphone or home computer.

As with the old paper system,

information gathered helps area managers tailor management practices specific to an area and hunter preference.

The paper system was inconvenient for hunters and labor intensive for managers.

However, hunters who experience difficulties this weekend with iSportsman are encouraged to check wildlife area offices and kiosks and use paper forms where available.

Repairs should have the iSportsman system fully functional soon, and KDWPT staff want all hunters to enjoy hunting this weekend. If technical problems persist, KDWPT encourages hunters to go hunting but keep trying to check in with iSportsman or check with area offices and kiosks for paper cards.

Turkey Season The Kansas Wildlife, Parks and Tourism Commission will conduct a public meeting on

Thursday, Oct. 20, in Liberal at the Seward County Event Center, 810 Stadium Road.

The afternoon session will begin at 1:00 p.m. and recess at 5:00 p.m. The evening session will convene at 6:30 p.m.

The public is invited to attend both sessions and time will be set aside for public comment at the beginning of each for discussion of nonagenda items.

The afternoon session will begin with a report on the agency and state fiscal status and a preview of the 2017 Kansas Legislative Session. The general discussion portion of the meeting will include a report on the Powderhook mobile app and its digital mentor feature, antelope and elk regulations, public lands regulations, and an update on the Blue Ribbon Panel for wildlife conservation funding and signing of a resolution.

The evening portion of the meeting will convene at 6:30 p.m. for the public hearing.

Commissioners will hear and vote on recommendations for fall and spring turkey seasons and bag limits; motor vehicle permit fees in state parks; camping and utility fees; authorized motorized vehicles in state parks; and regulations concerning commercial sale of bait fish, tournament black bass pass, and fishing methods of take, and creel, size and possession limits.

If necessary, the commission will reconvene at the same location at 9:00 a.m., Oct. 21, to complete any unfinished business.

Information about the Commission, as well as the Oct. 20 meeting agenda and briefing book, can be downloaded at ksoutdoors.com/KDWPTInfo/Commission/UpcomingCommission-Meetings.

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defensive domination Beavers force 3 turnovers; limit GC to 116 total yards Scoring two touchdowns just 17 seconds apart, Scott Community High School seized control of Monday’s “C” game against Garden City and rolled to a 46-6 blowout on the home field.

It was a rare opportunity for Scott City’s freshmen to get Garden City 6 on the field for Scott City 46 an entire game this season.

“A few of the boys were playing positions they weren’t real familiar with, but they adjusted and they played well,” says coach Todd Richardson.

Garden City repeatedly challenged the SCHS defense in the first half without success.

Two of Scott City’s first three touchdowns was set up after the defense stopped the Buffaloes on a failed fourth down conversion.

SCHS needed to cover just 44 yards to score their first touchdown, capped by a one yard run by freshman fullback Cale Goodman.

Freshman cornerback Hunter Yager then picked off the first of his two interceptions on the night, returning it 31 yards for a touchdown.

In the span of only 17 seconds, the Beavers had opened up a 14-0 lead.

“Hunter made a good read and a good break on the ball,” says coach Todd Richardson.

“Plus, he had a couple of nice catches. He had a real nice game.”

Early in the second period,

Freshman cornerback Hunter Yager grabs an interception and returns it 31 yards for a touchdown during first quarter action against Garden City on Monday.

(Record Photo)

the Beavers again got the ball back on downs and they struck quickly for another touchdown.

Freshman runningback Parker Gooden took a pitch to the right side and raced down the sideline for a 69 yard touchdown with 4:24 left in the half.

And the Beavers still weren’t done.

A deflected pass in the secondary was grabbed by Yager who returned it 26 yards to the Buffalo five yard line. On the next play, freshman Sterling Wright scored.

Garden City gambled once again on fourth down deep in their end of the field, giving the

ball back to the Beavers with just 41 seconds left in the half.

That was more than enough time for the Beavers to put together a five play drive that ended with Gooden’s one yard touchdown run that gave SCHS a 34-0 halftime cushion.

Garden City’s only score came early in the second half after a blocked punt set up a 10 yard scoring drive.

The Beavers responded with an impressive 69 yard drive that took 11 plays and six minutes off the clock. Wright finished off the series with a nine yard run.

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down a pair of passes for 28 yards.

Garden City was limited to just 116 yards of total offense, including 97 on the ground.

“We moved the ball real well in the first half. Our running game was effective and we controlled the clock,” says Richardson.

The big difference in the two teams, which was evident in the defensive stats, was physical play, says Richardson.

“We were the more physical team. You could see it in the way our defensive ends and outside linebackers sealed the corner,” he says.

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attempt by the Buffaloes set up a final 41 yard drive early in the fourth quarter.

The Beavers finished the night with 291 yards rushing that featured the three-headed monster of Gooden (5-for-101), Wright (11-for-92) and Goodman (18-for-91).

“That’s a pretty impressive trio of backs,” says Richardson.

“They play hungry and they want to get better every week.

“When you have three boys who can run like they do that gives you a lot of options as an offensive coordinator.”

They added another 44 yards passing, with Yager pulling

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Offense (24-23) to TCU. Kansas is better than the 2015 team.

KU’s offense is improving, however there’s plenty of room for an upgrade in the offensive play calling. KU was deep in TCU territory twice in the second half and called a QB draw on third down and long both times and then settled for field goal tries.

On a third series, they had the ball first-and-goal on the two and tried three runs up the middle that didn’t even come close to gaining yards and settled for a field goal.

QB Ryan Willis played well at times; he also made way too many sophomore

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the goose that laid the golden egg. Professional football isn’t what it used to be.

In the late 1940s and 1950s, many of us waited in a state of excitement on Sunday afternoons to see if the weekly Chicago Bears’ game would come in on our black and white TVs without too much snowy interference.

Now you have your pick of three or four NFL games on Sunday, the Monday Night game, and Thursday night’s offering. It’s become too much of what was once a good thing.

NFL’s Golden Goose The players’ salaries They’re going to kill are so ridiculously high mistakes. But his play is encouraging; it appears that Willis has the talent to be the QB that KU needs to move the program forward.

Coach Beaty’s strategy of recruiting speed is working; KU’s overall team speed is the biggest area of physical improvement.

After the game, Beaty said, “They’re showing improvement in a lot of different things . . . if we continue to do that, I think we’ll continue to play competitive football and give our fans something they can be proud of.”

that every game is loaded with commercials to pay the bills. If you don’t have digital video recording on your TV, you’re out of luck because it will seem that you’re watching more advertising than football.

If you have a DVR, you can record the games and fast forward through the interminable commercial breaks, but you’ll risk spraining your forefinger from punching the remote.

It’s evident the owners have no control over the personal appearance of many of their highly paid players; with their tattoos and ratty hair and beards, they look like Halloween spooks.

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If that isn’t enough, Correct Tiemany of the players can’t Breaker 15 40 make an outstanding catch Jacob Rios Larry White 15 56 or tackle or run without Preston Wright 14 35 mouthing off to the op- Rondo Switzer 14 43 52 ponents or doing an im- Adam Kadavy 14 promptu dance that ends Week 5 up costing their team a Correct Tie Breaker penalty.

Barry Switzer 14 49 And we would be asClint Shapland 14 41 tounded to discover the Jon Berning 14 40 extent of drug usage Walter Johnson 14 39 among the camp followWeek 4 ers and players alike. It’s Correct Tiea mess.

Breaker 12 42 Pro football is an ex- Rick Wright Tom Shirley 12 42 ample of what’s happened Amelia Ramsey 11 42 to so much of our country. Landon Tucker 11 39 The sustaining values are Mandy Kropp 11 36 Larry White 11 35 gone and they aren’t comWalter Johnson 11 44 ing back anytime soon.

David Perry 11 47 But we don’t have to Jon Berning 11 47 watch it.

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Discontinue trout stocking at Cedar Bluff CEDAR BLUFF RESERVOIR - For more than 40 years, trout have provided winter fishing fun in select Kansas waters, and the Cedar Bluff stilling basin has been a part of that program from the beginning.

However, the stilling basin below Cedar Bluff Dam won’t be stocked with trout in 2016. Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism Fisheries Division staff considered several factors before

making the decision to discontinue stocking trout at the Cedar Bluff location.

Poor water quality has been a hindrance to trout welfare in the stilling basin for many years. Recently, the problem has become more acute due to lack of flow.

Late seasonal turnover, brought about by prolonged warm weather in the fall, delays water quality improvement and

limits the basin’s ability to provide a suitable environment for trout.

Economics also played a role in this decision. In the last two years, the cost of trout increased from $1.50/lb. to $4.00/lb. Revenues from trout permit sales did not keep pace with this increase, necessitating a statewide reduction in the number of trout stocked.

To maintain acceptable angler catch rates in the face of this reduction,

it will be necessary to reallocate trout regionally.

Some trout, originally destined for Cedar Bluff, will go to Webster stilling basin, which receives nearly twice as much trout angling pressure as Cedar Bluff.

For more information, contact district fisheries biologist, Dave Spalsbury, at (785) 726-3212, or visit ksoutdoors.com to learn where trout will be stocked this fall.

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Breaker Nov. 1, and more than 30 Aaron Goodman 13 59 locations across the state Tim McGonagle 13 49 will receive regular stock- Jon Lippelmann 13 42 ings until the season ends Walter Johnson 13 42 Chad Griffith 13 42 April 15.

42 Anglers 16 and older Chris Rodriguez 13 Rick Wright 13 33 are required to have a Ron Sinclair 13 38 $14.50 Trout Permit, in addition to a Kansas fishing license. The daily creel limit, unless posted otherwise, is five per day.

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Wrong turn doesn’t end Hopkins’ streak Even a wrong turn wasn’t enough to keep Clare Hopkins from extending her unbeaten streak.

The Scott City Middle School seventh grader was able to recover from her mid-course mistake and pull away for an 11 second win at the Lakin Invitational last Saturday.

Hopkins was in first place until the wrong turn cost her about 20 seconds and nine spots on the one mile layout.

“I wasn’t sure whether I’d have enough time to recover,” said Hopkins, who has yet to lose a race this season.

She posted a winning time of 6:45.05, followed by teammates Kairae Berry (10th, 7:30.52) and Evelyn Gonzales (13th, 7:53.43).

“I kind of thought I could be pretty good at cross-country, but I didn’t think I’d do this good,” said Hopkins.

Her strategy has been pretty simple.

“I try to start out fast and take the lead and see who can stay with me,” she says.

The only time that Hopkins’ streak was seriously threatened came at the Garden City Invitational where she found herself in second place for most of the race before pulling away late with a career best of 6:17.5 just four seconds ahead of the runner-up.

“It was good experience for her to learn how to race from behind and find a way to win,” says head coach Jay Tedder.

Ivey is Fifth In the eighth grade division, Lisa Ivey (5th, 15:29.1), led the Lady Bluejays on the two mile course. She was followed by teammates Megan Vance (8th, 15:42) and Taia Waldrop (9th, 16:11).

Lopez is Second In the seventh grade boy’s division, Julian Lopez (6:13.16) finished in second place, 11 seconds behind the winner.

Close behind were Jaxson Kough (5th, 6:17.53) and Eric Shapland (6th, 6:21.46).

Roberto Apodaca (3rd, 13:17.03) and Mythius Yeadon (4th, 13:23.62) led the SCMS eighth grade boys.

Garden City Invite Despite competing on the difficult Buffalo Dunes course, eight SCMS runners ran the fastest times of their career at the Garden City Invitational.

Among the seventh grade Lady Bluejays, that included Hopkins, Kairae Berry (7:20.5), Bella Myers (8:26.7), Tori Ford (8:40) and Diane Willette SCMS eighth grader Robert Apodaca competes at Lakin (Record Photo) (8:49.7). In the eighth grade on Saturday morning.

SCMS boys who had their (12:30.6) and Peyton Samms division it was Olivia Wagner fastest times were Apodaca (19:19).

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Lackluster first half costs ‘Jays

SCHS junior runningback Jarret Jurgens cuts inside a block and finishes off a seven yard run for a touchdown during Friday’s game at Wellington.

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Crusade Field position was also a big factor.

Six SCHS possessions started at midfield or closer. It wasn’t until their final two possessions of the game that the Beavers had to begin a drive from inside their 40 yard line.

Wellington’s average starting field position for the night was their own 21.

After a three-and-out by the Crusaders on their first drive of the game - a familiar theme on the night - the Beavers enjoyed great starting field position at the Wellington 40.

Sophomore fullback Wyatt Hayes blasted his way up the middle for a 24 yard gain and the brief, three-play drive ended with a seven yard run by halfback Jarret Jurgens.

Hayes pounded the Wellington defense for 131 yards on 19 carries - averaging 6.9 yards per carry - for his fourth 100-yard rushing game of the season.

Scott City’s next possession began at the Crusader 44, but the Beavers took more than three minutes off the clock before Hayes scored from the one yard line. Senior wideout Justin Faurot, who finished the night with 33 yards, had catches of 11 and 14 yards on the drive.

That drive typified Scott City’s offense for the night.

“Methodical would be a good way to describe how we

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Key Stats •8 of Wellington’s first nine offensive possessions were 3-andouts.

•Scott City’s average starting field position on their first nine possessions was the Wellington 47 yard line.

•Wellington’s average starting field position for the game was their own 21.

•Scott City didn’t commit its first penalty until just over 9-1/2 minutes left in the game on an illegal block that erased a punt return

by Justin Faurot for a touchdown.

•In first down situations, the Beavers gained five yards or more 14 times.

played,” says offensive coordinator Brian Gentry. “There weren’t a lot of big plays, but for the most part we were able to consistently move the ball.”

“It helps to avoid penalties and avoid the turnovers. When we can do that we’ll usually put ourselves in good situations.”

The Beavers committed just one turnover and only two penalties. Their first penalty didn’t occur until early in the fourth quarter.

Beavers Pull Away Scott City, which scored on four of their five first half possessions, once again took advantage of a short field for a 33 yard drive following a Wellington punt early in the second period.

Jurgens scored his second

TD of the night, this time from a yard out, to put the Beavers on top, 20-0, with 7:12 left in the half.

The Beavers’ longest scoring drive of the night came late in the half when they had to start from their own 40. The big play of the series was a 20 yard fingertip catch by sophomore wideout Marshall Faurot on the Wellington sideline. The 3-1/2 minute drive ended with senior halfback Kevin Aguilera pulling a defender who was clinging to his leg as he extended for the end zone to complete a nine yard run.

At halftime, SCHS owned a 27-0 lead.

Scott City added two more touchdowns in the second half in the span of just three minutes.

Hayes capped another short 43 yard drive with a two yard touchdown run and the Beavers quickly regained possession following a Crusader fumble at midfield on the kickoff return.

Senior Jess Drohman finished off the drive with a three yard run.

Scott City had another touchdown taken off the scoreboard shortly afterwards when a punt return by J. Faurot was waived off by the Beavers’ first penalty of the night.

The Beavers found a little more balance in their ground game with Aguilera and Jurgens

collecting 72 and 55 yards, respectively, on a combined 23 carries.

As a team, they had 297 yards on 55 carries - an average of 5.4 yards per carry.

The carries by Aguilera and Jurgens are part of an effort to establish a running attack on the edge to complement the running by Hayes between the tackles.

“We’re inconsistent with our blocking on the edge,” says Turner. “If our backs will learn to hold their blocks a little longer it’s going to create more opportunity.”

“Our tight ends didn’t seal off the edge like they need to either,” adds Gentry. “But, they were still able to get a big enough piece of the defender that we were able to get a lot of five and six yard gains.”

Overall, Turner felt the offense performed well with the loss of offensive tackle Mikennon Donovan for another 2-3 weeks due to a fractured tibia. Reid Brunswig (jr., 5-11, 175) stepped into the starting role.

“There were some issues with knowing who to block, but Reid did a really nice job considering he didn’t have much time to prepare,” Turner says.

“Where Mikennon is bigger and better with the base blocking, Reid has more quickness and can get to the linebackers.”

Scott City Middle School eighth grade coach Skip Numrich didn’t look at last week’s rematch with Ulysses as a revenge game.

“We saw it as a chance to see how much we’ve improved since the first time we played,” says Numrich, remembering the overtime loss on their home field.

That game hurt. Last week’s game hurt even more after a 2214 loss at Ulysses.

The biggest disappointment was not coming out ready to play in the first half when the Bluejays fell behind 22-0.

“We came out soft and there was no excitement,” says Numrich. “It was very disappointing, but I put that on us as coaches.

It’s our job to have them ready and we weren’t.”

That 22 point deficit was too much to overcome, especially with a stiff north wind that made it difficult for offenses to move in that direction. SCMS didn’t help themselves any early in the second half when they stopped Ulysses and had a chance to get the ball back in great field position.

Ulysses didn’t even attempt to punt into the wind, but still managed to get 12 yards for a first down.

“They were pretty much able to use up most of the clock in that quarter,” says Numrich.

Scott City did get the ball back in time to score on a 25 yard pass from Harrison King to Kevin Serrano with only :12 remaining in the third period.

They added another touchdown with 3:30 left in the game that cut the lead to 22-14.

The defense stopped Ulysses and gave the Bluejays one final opportunity to possibly tie the game and force overtime, but an interception on the first play ended any hope of a comeback.

“At least we were competing in the second half. If we’d have played like that to start the game we’d have won,” says Numrich.

“I’ve been beaten worse and not felt as bad as I did after that game. Ulysses is a very good team. Give them credit for beating us twice this season,” added the head coach.

“But, we had a team that was good enough to be undefeated this year and we came up a couple of games short.

“I know that’s setting the bar pretty high every year, but given the success we’ve had, that’s what we’ve come to expect.”

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225 attend annual youth day at Lake Scott From snakes to shotguns, the annual Outdoor Youth Day at Lake Scott State Park had something of interest for all of the nearly 225 youngsters attending this year’s event.

Sponsored by the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT), the event offered tips and instruction at the archery range, trap shooting and BB gun shoot.

“It’s a great opportunity for kids who haven’t done these things before to get an opportunity to shoot a shotgun for the first time, or learn how to shoot a bow and to do it in a safe environment,” says Manuel Torres, region supervisor with KDWPT. The activities and the hamburger feed afterwards are free.

“I’ve heard it’s a good time so I wanted to be here this year,” said 15-year-old Ayden Heinitz, Lakin, who was attending his first youth day.

It was his first opportunity to shoot at clay targets with a shotgun.

“That was the most fun,” he said. “I’d like to do it again.”

Dakota Green, Scott City, was a threeyear veteran of the event and knew immediately what his favorite event was.

“It’s the archery,” he answered without hesitation.

He especially liked the opportunity to shoot at the 3D animals set up on the range.

“I like coming here every year,” he added.

Maylee Recce, 6, also of Lakin, couldn’t decide on a favorite activity.

“I liked all of them,” she said following the archery shoot.

It seemed that the live snakes that were provided by Brent Schulze of the Sternberg Museum, Hays, were popular with everyone.

“I wasn’t scared,” said Reece.

That’s what Schulze likes to hear as he uses outdoor education opportunities like this to dispel myths and fears that people have of snakes.

For example, not all snakes that “hiss” are poisonous. For example, bullsnakes are the only non-venomous snake that will hiss, “which is why they are often confused for rattlesnakes,” notes Schulze.

Contrary to popular myth, he says rattlesnakes will avoid people when possible and won’t bite unless threatened.

“Venom is a very expensive resource,” he said. “Rattlesnakes don’t want to bite if it can be avoided.”

He also showed a coach whip to the youngsters, explaining to them that they can travel 10-12 mph, which makes them the fastest snake in North America.

All the snakes he had in his traveling exhibit are indigenous to Kansas, Schulze added.

(Top) Dakota Green, 9, Scott City, takes aim on the archery range.

(Above) Getting instruction from a KDWPT wildlife officer on the trapshooting range is Ayden Heinitz, 15, of Lakin.

(Left) Maylee Recce, 6, Lakin, tries to see if the snake will blink before she does (she lost).

(Below) Sawyer Kough, 5, Dighton, reaches out and touches a bullsnake during the youth day at Lake Scott.

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The math behind today’s beef packing industry Fewer cattle are being processed in fewer plants Cassie Fish, livestock marketing analyst

Between 2005 and 2014, the U.S. beef packing industry took just under 90,000 head of weekly kill capacity out of the market by closing plants. Forced to do so

as the U.S. cattle herd dropped to modern historical lows, big financial losses resulted in shuttered plants and laid off workers. It’s hard to believe that it was just 28 months ago the last plant closed.

Packing plants are designed to run 48 hours per week, if the economics support it. The last time plants ran that hard consistently was 2003, when

ag briefs

Contact FSA of changes in ownership Producers are reminded to report to the FSA office any change to their farming operation that would affect the status of that farm so the change can be effective for the current fiscal year.

A farm, as defined by FSA, is generally made up of tracts that have the same owner and the same operator. A sale of land in the farm or a tract of land within the farm is an instance that requires notifying the FSA so a farm reconstitution can be initiated.

A special provision exists that would allow contract acres to be divided in a manner agreed to by all sellers and buyers.

The designation by landowner method of division may be used when: •Part of the farm is sold or ownership is transferred •An entire farm is sold to two or more persons •Farm ownership is transferred to two or more persons •Part of a tract is sold or ownership is transferred •A tract is sold to 2 or more persons •Tract ownership is transferred to two or more persons The designation by landowner method can only be used when requested and if all buyers and sellers agree in writing.

CSIP names advisory board

The Collaborative Sorghum Investment Program, a partnership of the Kansas Grain Sorghum Commission, United Sorghum Checkoff Program and Kansas State University, has named its first advisory board. The CSIP was formed in early 2016 to increase demand, yield and value for the domestic sorghum industry.

The board includes Larry Lambright, Chromatin consultant; Florentino Lopez, Sorghum Checkoff executive director; Stephen Bigge, Kansas Grain Sorghum Commission chairman; Gary Kilgore, K-State agronomy professor; Gary Pierzynski, head of the K-State Department of Agronomy; Cassie Jones, assistant professor and coordinator of undergraduate research of the K-State Department of Animal Sciences and Industry, and Sarah Sexton-Bowser, managing director of the Center for Sorghum Improvement.

Additional advisory members can be appointed with approval from the Advisory Board and contributions of $500,000 to the program.

the U.S. blew through fed cattle at a record speed, filling the void left when Canada’s beef industry was crippled by BSE. The current fed cattle slaughter capacity at 48 hours per week is about 552,000 to 562,000 head, way more than enough to handle current fed supplies. But, the years of being forced to run reduced hours of 32 and 36-hour work weeks

resulted in the loss of skilled labor at most if not all plants.

Today’s labor limitations in U.S. packing plants has limited the fed kill to around 500,000 head per week so far this year. There were zero weeks in 2015 of a 500k per week fed kill, it occurred twice in 2014 and 15 weeks in 2013.

Packer margins are running black between

$100 and $200 per head and this year will go down as a record. This would be the first time in history when such economics did not incentivize running maximum hours.

But, the plants are not staffed to run 48 hours.

The industry is currently averaging between 42 and 43 hours per week.

Furthermore, labor isn’t always as skilled as they used to be nor line speeds

as fast.

Packing companies are making an effort to add staff and improve plant efficiency. But, it is a complicated and challenging process, even more so nowadays, and it takes time to both hire and train people.

Cattle feeders are routinely and understandably frustrated by having little if any leverage in (See PACKING on page 29)

Ag workforce survey available MANHATTAN - A lack of a skilled agricultural workforce is a top inhibitor of growth and expansion for many Kansas agriculture businesses.

In an effort to link employees to agribusiness enterprises, KDA conducted the first Kansas Agriculture Workforce Needs Assessment Survey in 2016, assisted by Kansas State University.

The survey goal was to gather information about the ag industry’s current and future workforce needs and the types of skills required to sup-

port economic growth. A total of 250 responses from farmers, ranchers and agricultural businesses were received from across the region, representing almost 12,000 employees.

In total, the agriculture, food and food processing sectors employ more than 234,000 Kansans, or 12.4 percent of the Kansas workforce.

The survey indicated that a number of vacancies exist in the agricultural industry, including a significant number which are considered entrylevel positions, requiring no advanced degree (e.g. carpen-

ter, elevator worker). Over half of the current job openings are in the fields of agriculture mechanics, agriculture business and animal science.

Employers indicated that basic skills such as written communication and applied mathematics are lacking in applicants, along with “soft” skills such as motivation, time management and dependability and “hard” skills such as critical/analytical thinking and basic communication/writing.

The findings will be used along with action items developed at the Kansas Summit

on Agricultural Growth in August. By working with secondary schools and postsecondary educational institutions, the agriculture industry can develop beneficial partnerships that will help schools teach the skills and content needed by employers and will help the industry gain access to trained applicants.

To view the survey reports go to: agriculture.ks.gov/workforce. For more information, please contact Russell Plaschka, KDA workforce development specialist, at 785-564-7466 or Russell.Plaschka@ks.gov.

Repetition: the name of the game Say something enough times, with enough conviction, and no matter how farfetched, it begins to seep into the public consciousness.

Case in point? Meat causes climate change.

Advertisers long ago discovered something about the way the human brain functions.

After a certain amount of repetition, a set of “facts” become lodged so securely in popular consciousness that they become accepted as conventional wisdom - statements that require no further analysis.

Because everyone knows they’re true.

When products are advertised as offering “world-class

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(engineering, design, quality),” nobody asks, what exactly constitutes “world-class,” and who makes that call?

When marketers brag about offering “the lowest prices and the best (selection, quality, value),” hardly anyone questions the inherent impossibility of a business successfully doing both, while actually staying in business.

Or my favorite, the “improved” product that’s “Now 25% (or even higher) more effective/faster-acting/ longer-lasting.” If making huge gains in quality and/or

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Food Facts The Big First Congressional district averages 1.9 million acres of planted sorghum worth $536 million, according to the USDA.

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efficacy were that easy, the question then becomes, “Why didn’t you do that years ago?

Why are we only getting an ‘improved’ product now?”

But, we don’t ask those questions, because after literally billions of repetitions in multi-millions of ads, we accept that there’s at least some truth in all of those statements.

The same phenomenon occurs with regard to animal agriculture and meat consumption. Consider these statements pulled directly from various media: “Meat causes more global warming than cars.”

“Eating meat is linked to heart disease, cancer, obesity, type 2 diabetes and premature death.”

“About 30% of the world’s land area is devoted to meat production.”

You might not have seen or heard that last assertion as frequently as the first two, but get used to seeing and hearing it, because it takes repetition to cement an idea in the public consciousness.

Equally important, when certain themes lose their effectiveness, the consumer and advocacy group strategists who plot to leverage the fear and loathing necessary to get people to reach into their wallets simply change course.

Remember “Save the Whales?” When was the last time anybody rolled out that phrase?

(See REPETITION on page 29)

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No magic bullet will save cattle market It’s been a stressful time for cattle producers trying to keep their heads above water in the last several month’s volatile market conditions.

Recently, Ag Day Anchor Clinton Griffiths sat down with Chip Nellinger, a risk man-

agement consultant and futures market specialist for Blue Reef Agri-Marketing, coming off the last week of September when live cattle futures dipped below a dollar.

The big question: Where are cattle producers at in the markets?

“It’s been a rough several months in cattle,” Nellinger says, with new contract lows being set.

“It’s been a long time since we’ve been under $100 live cattle.”

According to him, packers hold the upper hand right now with the

ability to buy cash cattle at steady to lower prices almost every week.

“There’s been a lot of equity given back the last six months here. So there’s a real problem out there. We need to see cash cattle stabilize.”

However, he is hopeful the market will begin

to fix itself once producers make it through fall, but cautions there is no “magic bullet” and it is going to take time to correct.

“I think as we get past fall that starts to fix itself.

Not immediately. But the problem is that it’s been

Is NAFTA really the worst trade deal signed?

During a presidential debate, Republican candidate Donald Trump cited NAFTA, signed by then President Bill Clinton.

Trump called it “the worst trade deal ever signed,” especially in regard to manufacturing.

This hallmark of Bill Clinton’s presidency went into effect in 1994. Since that time, agriculture exports to both Canada and Mexico have more than quadrupled, jumping

from $8.9 million in 1993 to $38.6 billion in 2015.

The largest destination for U.S. ag products in 2015, and the top buyer of U.S. fresh fruits and vegetables was Canada.

Mexico is the top export market for U.S. corn, soybean meal, and poultry.

On Wednesday, Mexico agreed to one of the largest corn purchases ever, being more than 1.5 million metric tons of corn.

“Because of that free

Repetition The whales are doing okay now, so Greenpeace shifted over to bashing GMOs. Among the anti-meat community, the foodsafety angle played itself out, as packers and processors invested billions in microbial intervention technologies. The threat of foodborne outbreaks hasn’t been eliminated, but such events happen infrequently enough now that they make for a lousy fund-raising appeal.

Likewise, the animal welfare attack line has proven to have limitations as a tactic to convince people to abandon meateating. The reality is that people are disconnected from virtually all food production, livestock as well as plants. Dig deep into the anti-industrial farming campaigns, and the over-application of fertilizers and widespread use of mono-cropping are portrayed as huge problems.

It’s similar to the underground videos showing abusive treatment of animals at packing plants or growout sites. They resonate with people already committed to vegetarianism, but have only a temporary impact on the other 90% of the public.

negotiations with packers.

But, with long-term cattle supplies on the rise in this current market environment, feedyards being anything less than current has a greater negative impact on the market than any other time in history.

There is no other way to restore a semblance of bargaining position to the feeder than by the feeding industry regaining full currentness in all cattle feeding regions.

The process of adding packing plant staff just as the process of retailers lowering beef prices is happening, but the positive effect of these actions

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Two for One That’s why environmental threats now comprise the platform antiindustry activists are constructing to convince people that meat is a fourletter word. Certainly, the disease angle - eat meat, and you’ll die a few years earlier - isn’t going away, but how many of us are thinking about the end of our lives as we sit down to dinner? Or while we’re waiting in the drive-thru line, to suggest an equally common occurrence?

Here’s the “new” attack line, excerpted from the website Observer.com, which styles itself as a fashion-forward, cutting-edge destination for thought leader wannabes: “Too much meat and not enough vegetables is a problem from a health and an environmental standpoint. According to Johns Hopkins (and many, many others), a ‘strong body of scientific evidence’ links meat consumption to heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, obesity, certain cancers and earlier death, (while) the (livestock) industry drives 15% of global greenhouse-gas emissions.”

Two for one. Meat will

Packing

trade agreement, (the U.S.) has a market share in those two countries of about 65 percent,” said Veronica Nigh, an economist with American Farm Bureau Federation.

While those are impressive numbers, not every ag group is a supporter of NAFTA. In a 2015 report, the U.S. Commerce Department determined Mexico was subsidizing its sugar imports. That

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is not being felt today and the cattle feeder continues to absorb the full brunt of the imbalance.

Only dramatically lower cattle replacement costs are left as a way to push the imbalance of money flow further down the line.

After years of live cattle futures carrying huge discounts to cash and locking limit down at the drop of a hat, it appears that cash and futures are trading places, with cash now under attack, while futures find trading par to slightly premium more to their liking.

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kill you - if it doesn’t kill the entire planet first.

Which means either way, you’re dead.

A huge part of any food product’s overall carbon footprint is tied up in production, harvesting, storage, transportation, processing, distribution and wholesale and retail marketing - not to mention the impact of food waste.

Nothing in the cultivation/harvesting/processing/distribution chain gets eliminated when the commodity is soybeans, rather than meat. And if animal foods were eliminated, there would need to be a substantial increase in production of plant foods, tree fruits, produce and nuts, all of which could not be accomplished without expanding acreage, inputs, and energy impacts.

The contention that 15% of all greenhouse gases could be eliminated just by choosing a soyburger, rather than a hamburger, is far from realistic.

But, to the purveyors of such messaging, it’s just a matter of repetition until it becomes reality.

Dan Murphy is a veteran food-industry journalist and commentator

allowed exporters to dump products into the U.S. 40 percent below market prices.

In turn, Mexico signed a suspension agreement with the U.S., limiting Mexican shipments.

However, sugar beet growers say the product is still coming in under the radar, making it a challenge to growers.

“We’ve had sugar come in under the cost of production,” said Duane

Maatz, executive director of Red River Valley Sugar Beet Growers Association. “The world market is really a dump market. It’s not the real true market that growers sell it to. The government is simply recovering a part of their cost.”

While other segments of agriculture benefit from NAFTA, Maatz believes pieces of the trade agreement should be reevaluated, not thrown out.

kind of a blood bath for a lack of a better term.

“I guess the one takehome, the one bright spot is that feeder cattle prices have dropped a little bit quicker than fed cattle prices. That’s been needing to get back in line and it has more room to go,” he adds.

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Pro Ex II

Agriculture

Preconditioning and Growing

Over 20 Years Experience

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

Professional Extermination Commercial & Residential

• Termites • Rodents • Soil Sterilization • Pre Treats • Lawn Care • Fly Parasites

John Kropp, Owner • Scott City 874-2023 (cell) • 872-3400 (office) • prox2@live.com

Stuart Doornbos Home - 872-2775 Cell - 874-0951

Walker Plumbing, Inc.

Sager’s Pump Service

Backhoe & Trenching services • Irrigation & gas leak repairs • Full-line irrigation parts T-L center pivot dealer Floor heat systems Pump & install septic systems Boring equipment

• Irrigation • Domestic • Windmills • Submersibles

Cell: 874-4486 • Office 872-2101

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

Construction/Home Repair

RT Plumbing Rex Turley, Master Plumber

Residental and Commercial Plumbing Water Systems, water lines, sewer cleaning faucets and fixtures, garbage diposals and more

Marienthal, Ks.

620-909-5014 (H) • 620-874-4128 (C)

ELLIS AG SERVICES • Custom Manure Conditioning • Hauling and Spreading • Custom Swathing and Baling • Rounds-Net or Twine • Gyp and Sand Sales • Custom Harvesting Call Brittan Ellis • 620-874-5160

CHAMBLESS ROOFING Residential

SPENCER PEST CONTROL All Types of Roofing

Commercial

Cedar Shake and Shingle Specialists Return to Craftsmanship Attention to Detail and Quality Guaranteed

RESIDENTIAL – COMMERCIAL Termite Baiting Systems • Rodents Weed Control • Structural Insects Termite Control Box 258, Scott City • (620) 872-2870

620-872-2679 • 1-800-401-2683

Automotive

Faurot Electric, Inc. Office • 620-872-5344 Jeromy Lisenby • 620-214-3247

P.O. Box 14 • Scott City

Landscaping • Lawn/Trees

Berning Tree Service David Berning • Marienthal

620-379-4430

Tree Trimming and Removal Hedge and Evergreen Trimming Stump Removal

Fully Insured

Red

Specializing in

all coatings t Paint i or any other color

Paint inside and out residential, commercial, and industrial.

Free estimates and 16 plus years of experience.

PC Painting, Inc. Paul Cramer 620-290-2410 620-872-8910 www.pcpaintinginc.com

Medical

Charles Purma II D.D.S. P.A. General Dentistry, Cosmetics, and Insurance Accepted

We welcome new patients.

324 N. Main • Scott City • 872-2389 Residence 872-5933

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Medical

Horizon Health For your home medical supply and equipment needs!

We service and repair all that we sell.

Brent Rogers

Sales Consultant b.rogers@officesolutionsinc.biz

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

1602 S. Main • Scott City • 872-2232 Toll Free : 1-866-672-2232

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

All Under One Roof

Revcom Electronics

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

1104 Main • Scott City • 872-2625

Dr. Jeffrey A. Heyd

Services

Optometrist 20/20 Optometry

Treatment of Ocular Disease • Glaucoma Detection Children’s Vision • Glasses • Contact Lenses

Complete family eye center!

201 Albert Avenue (620) 872-2187 • www.scotthospital.net

Christian Cupp, MD

Thea Beckman, APRN

Elizabeth Hineman, MD

Megan Dirks, APRN

Matthew Lightner, MD

Joie Tedder, APRN

William Slater, MD FACS

Ryan Michels, PA-C

Melissa Batterton, APRN

Caley Roberts, PA-C

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

For all your auction needs call:

(620) 375-4130

Russell Berning Box Q • Leoti

Retail

Gene’s Appliance Over 200 appliances in stock!

COMPARE OUR PRICES!

We have Reverse Osmosis units in stock.

Remember us for parts in stock for all brands of all appliances.

Sales and Service Days • Mon. - Sat. Deliveries • Mon.-Sat.

Largest Frigidaire appliance dealer in Western Ks. 508 Madison • Scott City • 872-3686

Networktronic, Inc.

Computer Sales, Service and Repair Custom computers!

Networking solutions!

Mon. - Fri. 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

402 S. Main, Scott City • 872-1300

Northend Disposal A garbologist company.

Scott City • 872-1223 • 1-800-303-3371

Dining

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

www.reganjewelers.com

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

Medical

Sporting Goods

LIFE ALERT. 24/7. One press of a button sends help fast. Medical, fire, burglar. Even if you can’t reach a phone. Free brochure. Call 800-605-3619.

––––––––––––––––––––– PORTABLE OXYGEN concentrator. May be covered by Medicare.

Reclaim independence and mobility with the compact design and longlasting battery of Inogen One. Free information kit.

Call 800-731-1968.

––––––––––––––––––––– STOP OVERPAYING for your prescriptions.

Save up to 93%. Call our licensed Canadian and International pharmacy service to compare prices and get $15.00 off your first prescription and free shipping. 1-800-981-6179.

GUN SHOW. Oct. 15-16.

Saturday, 9:00-5:00; Sunday 9:00-3:00. Kansas ExpoCentre (19th and Topeka Blvd.), in Topeka.

Buy-Sell-Trade. For info: (563) 927-8176.

Homes LENDERS OFFERING $0 down for landowners.

Roll your new home and land improvements into one package. Discount national pricing on Breeze II doublewide and our 60th anniversary singlewide. Trade-ins welcome.

866-858-6862.

Education

106 W. 4th • Scott City • 872-2020 • Emergencies: 214-1462

SCOTT CITY CLINIC

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.

ENTRY LEVEL heavy equipment operator career.

Get trained. Get certified.

Get hired. Bulldozers, backhoes and excavators.

Immediate lifetime job placement. VA benefits.

1-866-362-6497.

Truck Driving 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.

––––––––––––––––––––– DRIVER TRAINEES needed. Become a driver for Stevens Transport.

Earn $800 per week. Paid CDL training. Stevens covers all costs. 1-888749-2303. drive4stevens. com.

For Sale DIRECTV. NFL Sunday Ticket (Free) w/choice of All-Included Package. $60/mo. for 24 months.

No up-front costs or equipment to buy. Ask about next day installation. 1- 800-261-7086.

Have questions about the Scott Commnity Foundation?

Call 872-3790

Classifieds

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Buy, sell, trade, one call does it all 872-2090 ot fax 872-0009

Berry Realty • 872-5700

Classified Ad Deadline: Monday at 5:00 p.m.

Classified Ad Rate: 20¢ per word. Minimum charge, $5.

Blind ad: $2.50 per week extra. Card of thanks: 10¢ per word. Minimum charge, $3. Classified Display Ad rate: $6.00 per column inch.

1102 S. Main, Scott City, Ks 67871 www.berryrealtyonline.com

Charles Berry, Broker • 874-0738 Brett Berry, Sales Assoc. • 316-258-3387 Tracy Chambless, Sales Assoc. • 874-2124

Classified advertising must be paid in advance unless business account is established.

If not paid in advance, there will be a $1 billing charge.

Tear sheet for classified ad will be $1 extra.

Help Wanted

Agriculture

EXPERIENCED PET SITTER wanted. Call for appointment at 1-620872-1532.

0916t2 ––––––––––––––––––––FA R M W O R K D E R , 11/15/16-3/31/17, Vulgamore Land & Cattle, Scott City, KS. Two temporary jobs. Construct, maintain fence; haul hay and feed; monitor animal health; maintain equipment, lots, feeding areas; monitor, maintain water system; remove, spread manure; clean lots; operate truck, tractor, loader, spreader.

Driver’s license, clean MVR, employment references, 3 month experience, CDL required. $13.80/hr, ¾ work guarantee, tools/ equip/housing provided at no cost, transportation and subsistence exp reimbursed. Apply at Kansas Works, 620.227.2149.

1016t2 Job #10175375.

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, 44tfc 397-5341. ____________________ CERTIFIED SEED WHEAT: TAM 204, TAM 112, Oakley Cl, Byrd, T158, Mint, Joe, Antero, Turkey Red. Also, top grazing and hay/silage triticale varieties. Vance Ehmke, Healy, Ks. Call 5216t9 620-397-2350.

For Sale ONE LEVEL HOME WITH THREE BEDROOMS FOR SALE. Two recently remodeled bathrooms. Completely remodeled kitchen with new appliances and flooring. Bonus room and pantry in laundry room. New siding going up, new roof, fenced in yard with two garden sheds, larger one set in 2015. Covered patio and single attached garage. Move-in-ready, listed at 129K. Call for more information and showing, 620-214-3679 or 620214-3682. Please leave a message if we don’t answer.

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Rentals

HIDE AND SEEK STORAGE SYSTEMS. Various sizes available.

Virgil and LeAnn Kuntz, 41tfc 620-874-2120. ________________________________

PLAINJAN’S RENTAL houses and duplexes. Stop by the office or call 62005tfc 872-5777. ________________________________

PLAINJAN’S RENT-ASHOP New Introductory Pricing! We can build an office to suit your needs.

This includes AC and heat if wanted. Each Rent-AShop comes with 110 and a 220 electric, overhead lighting, full concrete floor, exterior dawn-dusk lighting, insulated roof and exterior walls. ONLY 2 LEFT! Call today at 4516tfc 620-872-5777.

Livestock

REGISTERED ANGUS BULLS. Crooked Creek Angus, St. Francis, Ks. Call 785-332-6206. www. crookedcreekangus.com.

0916t13

Services COMPUTER SERVICES for PC and Mac computers. Computer repair and virus removal. Call or email Josh at OsComp to schedule an appointment. 24-hour help line 620-376-8660 or email josh_4974@hotmail.com.

––––––––––––––––––– WANTED: Yards to mow and clean up, etc.

Trim smaller trees and bushes too. Call Dean Riedl, (620) 872-5112 or 34tfc 874-4135.

–––––––––––––––––––– FURNITURE REPAIR and refinishing. Lawn mower tune-up and blade sharpening. Call Vern Soodsma, 872-2277 or 4015tfc 874-1412.

–––––––––––––––––––– MOWER REPAIR, tune-up and blade sharpening. Call Rob Vsetecka 4515tfc at 620-214-1730.

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 GARAGE SALES 1307 Glenn Street Scott City Fri., Oct. 14 • 1:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Sat., Oct. 15 • 9:00 a.m. - ???

Skill power saw; Bench grinder; Other small tools and garage items; Bar stools; Electric guitar and amp; Refurbished bicycles; and misc. household items Bad weather - Will cancel!

Hide and Seek Storage Unit No. 39 Scott City Fri., Oct. 14 • 3:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Sat., Oct. 15 • 9:00 p.m. - ???

Livingroom furniture and household goods New stuff coming out on Saturday!

Yard Sale 1025 S. Main Sat., Oct. 15 • 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

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

The Scott County Record • Page 34 • Thursday, October 13, 2016 Topeka Hayden vs. Holton

New Orleans vs. Kansas City

TCU vs. West Virginia Pratt vs. Holcomb

Support Your Local Food Bank!

“Help Us CRAM THE VAN” at select events and you may *win a free night’s stay at the Hotel at Waterwalk in Wichita!

*(See schedule below for eligible events indicated by*)

“Cram the Van” at this upcoming event

Saturday, October 15 Harper Fall Fest/Bullseye BBQ* Harper Drop off non-perishable food items at your Wheatland Electric office anytime!

Garden City vs. Great Bend

Watch for the BIG RED Wheatland Electric Van in your community!

Mississippi vs. LSU

Weekly Prizes - 1st • $15 2nd • $10 3rd • $5

Pigskin Payoff Season Prizes

Grand Prize = $300 • Second Place = $150 $ 75 to first perfect entry of the season

Play of the Week Wednesday, Oct. 12 - Tuesday, Oct. 18

Sandwich Bread 24 oz. White or Wheat

Week 8 - Pigskin Payoff Entry Form Find the Ad

Pick the Winning Team

AgMax Crop Insurance

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Bartlett Grain

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Chambless Roofing

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Faurot Heating & Cooling

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Heartland Foods

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Iron Horse Tavern

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Leoti Ag, Inc.

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Pioneer Communications

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Richards Financial Services, Inc.

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Spencer Pest Control

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State Farm - Michael Trout

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The Green Haus

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Trophy Wine & Spirits

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Turner Sheet Metal

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Western Kansas Chiropractic

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Wheatland Electric/Broadband

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Texas vs. K-State

1314 S. Main Scott City 872-5854

www.heartlandfoodsstores.com

New England vs. Pittsburgh

Tie-Breaker - Goodland vs. Scott City ___________________ (Guess the combined score of the game)

Phillipsburg vs. Norton

Name: ____________________________________ Address: __________________________________ Phone: ____________________________________ Email: ____________________________________ Contest Rules 1) Entry forms must be left at The Scott County Record or postmarked by 5:00 p.m. on the Friday prior to each week’s contest. Entry forms can be clipped from The Scott County Record, or a copy of the entry form can be made.

2) Only one entry per person, per week.

3) Entries with the highest number of correct picks will be awarded first, second and third place prize money each week. Prize money can be picked up at The Scott County Record office any time after Tuesday. In case of ties, the tie-breaker will be the closest to the total score without exceeding the total.

4) Total number of correct picks during the 14-week period will determine the grand prize winner. In case of a tie, the final week tiebreaker will determine the winner.

5) Anyone can enter the contest, including the sponsors.

Colorado vs. Stanford

Topeka Seaman vs. Washburn Rural

Go Beaver s!

Michael Trout, Agent 112 W. 3rd St., Scott City 620.872.5374 Texas A&M vs. Alabama

6) The judge’s decision will be final.

TCU vs.

West Virginia

New Orleans vs.

Kansas City

Topeka Hayden vs.

Holton

Texas vs.

K-State

New England vs.

Pittsburgh

Topeka Seaman vs.

Washburn Rural

Texas A&M vs.

Alabama

NY Giants vs.

LA Rams

Arkansas vs.

Auburn

Colorado vs.

Stanford

Phillipsburg vs.

Norton

Pratt vs.

Holcomb

Washington vs. Detroit Lions Hodgeman Co. vs. Dighton

Hodgeman Washington County vs. vs.

Detroit Lions Dighton Ole Miss vs.

LSU

Garden City vs.

Great Bend

Fertilome Winterizer - Two bags for $3499 Arkansas vs. Auburn

The Green Haus Nursery & Garden Center 507 Ora • Scott City • 872-5309

NY Giants vs. LA Rams