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When Dru Vondracek was born with a cleft palate, her parents had no idea where they could turn for assistance.

Fortunately, Dr. Josiah Brinkley did.

Brinkley, who was the delivering physician at the Scott County Hospital, called Russell Child Development Center (RCDC) the same night that Dru was born.

“I’d never heard of them before,” says Dru’s mother, Ashley, “but, they were right

there the same day that Dru was born and they’ve been helping us ever since. They’ve been amazing.”

RCDC, which is based in Garden City, offers early childhood services in Scott County and surrounding counties. It relies on state funding, including the Childrens Initiative Fund which is supported by the tobacco settlement funding.

“The earlier we can help a child the bigger the impact,” says

Nancy Goodman, Scott City, who is with RCDC’s Tiny-K program.

It is through Tiny-K that Goodman works with children, through age three, who have disabilities or medical issues.

“We can help kids who are experiencing a language delay or don’t yet have the words to communicate,” Goodman says.

And the agency has been available to the Vondraceks to help Dru overcome her cleft pallet and improve her speaking skills.

“I couldn’t believe all they’ve done for us,” says Vondracek.

Following Dru’s birth in 2011, she required special nipples on bottles of milk.

It wasn’t until Dru was 16-months-old that the first surgical procedure was conducted to repair the roof of her mouth. She recently underwent her second surgery in Wichita to extend her palate.

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A musical with a message for all ages Production on SCHS stage November 3, 6 Almost everyone can remember a time in their lives when they felt alone . . . that they couldn’t relate to anyone in their lives.

The answer for 10-year-old Emma Katz was to become the fiercest Viking in Swarthmore, Pa., and create her own adventures. The story of Emma will come to life on the local stage with the Scott Community High School musical production of “Yo, Vikings!”

“It’s a story I can relate to and I think even most adults can,” says SCHS senior Emma Price, who is cast in the lead role. “The story can make you smile and make you cry - but in a good way.”

“Yo, Vikings,” was originally written to be performed for a young audience, but “it’s not children’s theatre,” emphasizes director Shairlyn Wasinger.

The musical is one that few people are familiar with, which isn’t unusual for the SCHS mu(See MUSICAL on page two)

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Ollie Katz (Emily Smith) shows her dissatisfaction with how her sister Emma (Emma Price) has signed a letter she plans to mail in hopes of purchasing a Viking long boat. (Record Photo)

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Veterans Choice expands health care options Could put credit records for Kansas veterans at risk Meg Wingerter Kansas Health Institute

A program designed to ease access to health care for veterans has led to millions of dollars in uncompensated care for a Topeka hospital and paperwork snarls that have jeopardized the credit records of some Kansas veterans.

Musical sic department. Over the years, they’ve introduced audiences to productions that aren’t typically performed on high school stages.

“With a more traditional musical, the audience comes in with a preconceived idea of what they expect to see,” says Wasinger. “I love the unknown musical because it doesn’t restrict us creatively.”

That’s not the only reason the director will look at less traditional productions. There simply aren’t enough male voices available, which limits what they can present.

“I know the community often prefers attending a musical where they can practically sing along with the tunes, but we don’t have the cast for that,” Wasinger notes.

“When we began looking for a show that had more female parts, this one popped up. I really, really liked the music,” Wasinger says. “It has all genres - from Viking chants, to Celtic rhythms and even some rock and roll.”

“The music is more challenging than anything we’ve done in the past,” says Carson Haupt, who says he enjoys presenting a musical that the audience probably hasn’t seen before.

Representatives of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs heard those comments and others during a town hall meeting on the Veterans Choice program earlier this week at the ColmeryO’Neil VA Medical Center in Topeka. The Veterans Choice program was born in 2014 out of a scandal at the Phoenix VA facility, where some veterans died while waiting for care.

Baligh Yehia, deputy undersecretary for community care in the Veterans Health Administration, didn’t try to dismiss the complaints. Some

can be solved by better coordination within the system, he said, while others will require Congress to change the law that allows veterans to seek care at non-VA facilities.

Veterans Choice was designed to allow veterans primarily those living in rural areas - to receive some care from community providers if they live more than 40 miles from a VA facility or would have to wait more than 30 days for an appointment.

The law will expire in August

2017 unless Congress acts to in Veterans Choice. extend or reform it.

The VA estimated veterans had about five million appointAbout Veterans Choice ments through the program as Veterans who are on a waiting of mid-October, and that about list for an appointment should 350,000 providers nationwide be contacted to schedule a com- were participating in its netmunity appointment. Veterans work.

Yehia said the program has who are eligible for Veterans Choice based on distance must opened care options for vetcall the U.S. Department of erans, who now make about Veterans Affairs, (866) 606- one-fifth of their appointments 8198, to ensure their appoint- with providers outside the VA. But, the Veterans Choice misment will be covered.

They can check an online sion overlaps with some other directory to determine if their VA programs, and that has cre(See VETERANS on page 16) preferred physician participates

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“It’s a fun story. I think people will really like it,” he says.

The musical is dealing with Emma’s inability to connect with those around her, “which is something I think everyone can empathize with,” says Wasinger. The story is based on a book by Marcus Stevens, who also wrote the lyrics.

The music is written by Sam Willmott.

Since Emma doesn’t feel accepted by her peers, she decides to accept a quest given to her by Vikings. During the play, the living room of her home is gradually transformed into a Viking ship.

“It’s a story about a girl who’s being picked on because she’s trying to be herself and 500 other things,” says Price, who is appearing in her fourth SCHS production. “She wants people to accept her, but they don’t because they think she’s too weird.”

Price says that along with music that’s fun to perform, the musical offers something extra . . . a great lesson about life and about being yourself.

“This is the kind of musical that makes you feel like you’ve accomplished something - that maybe you’ll change the life of some young person in the

Classmate Lilly Pepper watches as Emma Katz (Emma Price) pretends to be an amoeba.

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audience,” she adds.

Scott City Middle School vocal music director Jodi Reese is also making a significant contribution to the production by writing the musical score.

It was originally written for only a piano accompaniment, but SCHS wants to utilize the community pit orchestra. Wasinger says they received permission from Willmott to write music for the other instruments and Reese has

been coordinating her efforts with him.

Because there is growing interest in this production from high school and college departments, Willmott is also in the process of writing a musical score, but Reese’s version will be performed by local musicians.

In addition, SCHS took their production on the road to Oakley earlier this week. They have additional performances

scheduled for Dighton, Holcomb, Plymell Elementary School (Garden City) and Buffalo Jones Elementary School (Garden City).

“We had more schools wanting us to perform, but these were all we could work into our schedule,” Wasinger says.

The musical will be presented on Thursday and Sunday, Nov. 3 and 6. A matinee performance will be held on Nov. 2.

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Take precautions with approach of flu season No one can say what’s in store for this year’s flu season as it depends on which strain of influenza circulates and how strong that virus is.

Fortunately, there’s plenty of flu vaccine for everyone. Those at high risk for complications from the flu are Carol Ann Crouch urged to get a Family and shot as soon as Consumer Sciences possible.

Agent for They are Scott County available from your physician or the Scott County Health Department.

The flu is a respiratory infection of the nose, throat and sometimes lungs caused by any of three strains of viruses - A, B or C. It causes aches, fever and coughing. The flu season typically runs from

November to March. A person can catch the flu by breathing in virus-carrying droplets that have been sneezed or coughed by an infected person or by touching objects on which droplets land and then putting their hands to their nose, eyes or mouth. The virus can linger in the air for as long as three hours and can live for up to two hours on surfaces like sinks, doorknobs and stair railings.

If you can’t get a flu shot, several good health habits that can help prevent the flu include: •Avoid close contact with people who are sick. When you are sick, keep your distance from others to protect, too.

•Don’t share everything.

Use a paper cup dispenser in

your bathroom and use disposable towels when someone in the family has a cold or flu.

•Stay home when you are sick to help prevent others from catching your illness.

•Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing.

•Clean your hands often to help protect yourself from germs, especially after you sneeze or cough, but also before eating. Aim for at least four hand washings a day.

•Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth to help prevent the spread of germs.

•Wipe down often-touched surfaces such as stair railings, doorknobs and sinks with a cleaning agent that contains alcohol to kill the germs.

•Get plenty of sleep. Take time to relax to avoid stress build-up.

•Avoid smoking since it makes the immune system weaker.

•Keep physically active, but don’t overdo it or you could increase your risk for infection.

Steps for Good Nutrition Good nutrition can help ward off colds and flu. Here are some nutrition facts from Mary Meck Higgins, Ph.D., R.D., assistant professor at Kansas State University: •Eat and drink plenty of fluids such as water, soup or juice. You need more fluid because of dry indoor heat and loss of fluids from fever, mucous production, diarrhea, or vomiting. Choose beverages without caffeine.

Alcohol impairs the immune system and therefore weakens the body’s ability to fight off

Alpha Omega discusses an even better Whimmydiddle Alpha Omega, Epsilon Sigma Alpha, met Oct. 13 at the home of Nora Burnett. Kate Macy was hostess and Paige Vallejo was co-hostess with 14 members answering roll call to “What did you buy at the Whimmydiddle?”

Paige Vallejo, president, presided over the meeting. Diana Burr, chaplain, gave a moment of meditation.

The success of Whimmydiddle was discussed with ideas being presented to make it a better arts and crafts show for next year.

The “Adopt a Child’s Photo” was shown by the Heartspring Committee with ideas of how to re-

infectious disease.

•Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables in order to get plenty of vitamins and minerals.

If you take a supplement, be sure to read the label carefully and not consume more than the daily value. Citrus fruits are high in Vitamin C and are antioxidants that help heal tiny cuts and keeps the immune system healthy.

•Liver, fish oil, eggs and orange and yellow fruits and vegetables are high in Vitamin A. Vitamin A protects the skin and mucous membranes.

•Vitamin E is an antioxidant in vegetable oils, margarine, wheat germ, whole grains, nuts, peanut butter, seeds and salad dressings.

•Selenium works with Vitamin E in the immune system and can be found in seafood, liver and other meats.

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member him during the holidays and birthday.

District G meeting will be Oct. 29, in Garden City with several members planning on attending.

The educational program was given by Suzanne Beaver with her topic being “how to order flowers by phone or internet.”

The October social, Mask Afraid, invitations were handed out. It will be held on Oct. 27 with Kate Macy, Annette Orr and Paige Vallejo the hostesses.

The meeting was adjourned with the closing ritual. Next meeting is Nov. 10, at the home of Mikayla Wiechman.

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Editorial/Opinion

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‘Yes’ for Justices: A simple decision if you care about your schools

Politics in Kansas has taken a predictable and disturbing turn with more-than-the-usual amount of pressure to oust four state Supreme Court justices from office.

This isn’t a surprise because the retention battle has been brewing for several years with ultraconservatives amping up their base a little more during each election. While they have yet to remove a justice from office, they have had success in closing the approval gap.

For decades, retaining Supreme Court justices in Kansas was a formality. The vast majority of Kansans couldn’t name even one Supreme Court justice (and still can’t), so why remove any from office? That’s why it wasn’t unusual to see justices retained by margins upwards of 7-to-1.

In fact, no judge has ever been voted out of office.

But, that has become a real possibility in recent years as ultraconservative Republicans have put one of their own in the governor’s office while gaining control of the legislature. In order to complete their trifecta of power in Kansas they want to control the judicial branch of government.

That’s why the far right wing of the Republican Party, when talking about the Supreme Court, will almost always add such descriptive language as “overreaching” or “liberal” to the point one begins to imagine that when the state constitution was drafted it called for the establishment of a legislative branch, executive branch and overreaching judicial branch.

The propaganda against an independent judiciary has been effective as Brownback and ultraconservatives - with the help of the Koch brothers money machine - have put the future of an independent judiciary at risk. In 2014, two justices narrowly survived the right wing propaganda storm by a 52-47 percent approval margin.

This year, ultraconservatives feel that the grand prize is within their grasp.

The Carr brothers have gained celebrity status in an effort to portray the Supreme Court as a bunch of liberal judges who, if given the chance, would have released two convicted murderers from prison and put them back on the streets. The right wing machine is also citing other so-called examples of a liberal judiciary that’s run amok by siding with killers, rapists and all-around bad people.

Of course, none of that is true.

And, quite honestly, the Carr brothers and other judicial cases cited by ultraconservatives are meant to be a distraction from the bigger issue - school funding.

This growing animosity with the Supreme Court is directly tied to the long-running battle between right wing lawmakers and the judiciary regarding the definition of “fair and equitable” when it comes to funding public education in Kansas. In short, right wing lawmakers have never seen eye-to-eye with the courts as to what can be considered adequate funding for our schools.

While Gov. Brownback and fellow conservatives have been wrecking the state budget, they have staved off even greater fiscal disaster by shortchanging infrastructure needs, social programs and public education. The block grant funding program that’s been in effect the past two years has capped spending for public education at the 2014 level.

Because of increasing enrollment, the Scott County school district has lost about $810,000 in funding that it would have received under the old school finance formula, according to Supt. Jamie Rumford. The impact of that loss has been softened when the state awarded the local district $140,000 in “extraordinary needs” funding a year ago and has promised another $149,000 this year - contingent upon the Bioscience Authority selling for at least $25 million.

Even if the state does follow through with all of its promised funding, Scott County students - and taxpayers - have been denied more than $500,000 in state funding. That’s money that would have been received under a funding formula that was far more fair and equitable than whatever right wing Republicans in the legislature are willing to consider without considerable prodding from “activist” judges.

It’s money that school districts across the state won’t receive if Brownback and ultraconservatives in the legislature are successful in appointing likeminded judges to the Supreme Court.

Brownback and his cohorts aren’t interested in an independent judiciary. They are interested in a judiciary that shares their philosophy. Conservative lawmakers have declared as much by saying only the legislature has the authority to determine state spending. The judiciary’s input is not needed.

This isn’t about the Carr brothers, abortion, Obamacare, global warming or whatever other issue that ultraconservatives choose in an attempt to distract voters. This is a battle over school funding and preserving rural communities in Kansas.

If you care at all about an independent judiciary as envisioned in our constitution and if you care at all about the future of public education in Kansas, vote “yes” to retain the Supreme Court justices.

It’s that simple.

Kansas voters still don’t get it If you want to know what’s wrong with the perception of government in Kansas look no further than a recent SurveyUSA poll.

It found that 68 percent of likely voters don’t like the 2012 law that exempts the owners of limited liability companies and other business structures from paying taxes on their business income.

Given the state’s deteriorating fiscal health, the only surprise is that 32 percent of Kansas voters are apparently okay with the tax law.

But, maybe that can be explained in another survey result. While twothirds of Kansas voters say, on the one hand, they want to reinstate taxes on businesses, 48 percent said they would prefer spending cuts over higher taxes.

That reminds me of the Yogi Berra quote, “Baseball is 90 percent mental, the other half is physical.”

We can find humor in Berra’s math. It’s not so humorous when we see the disastrous conse-

quences of such conflicting math as it relates to voters and our state government.

While 68 percent are okay with changing the 2012 tax law so it raises taxes for some, only 36 percent actually say they want higher taxes in response to ongoing revenue shortfalls. And 100 percent of those surveyed want to see taxes increased on somebody other than themselves.

The problem with this math is voter ignorance.

Credit politicians for taking advantage of that ignorance by promising the impossible.

Republicans, for their part, have spent the last 30 years selling the idea of Reaganomics whereby we can cut taxes on everyone - especially our wealthiest citizens and corporations - and those tax cuts will lead to more revenue with

which to operate government.

That Utopia has yet to arrive.

It didn’t happen under Reagan or in the reincarnations of trickle-down economics that have continued to resurface over the years, including the infamous Brownback tax cuts. Kansas is a perfect example of the consequences when Reaganomics is carried to the extreme.

While repealing the 2012 tax cuts won’t solve all of the state’s fiscal woes, it would be a start.

What’s troubling is that given the well-publicized budget disaster we’re experiencing, one-third of Kansas voters are content with keeping the exemptions in place.

These are people who shouldn’t be trusted with a sharp object in their hands and yet we still trust them to pick up a pencil and cast a ballot in the upcoming election.

Lower taxes without a corresponding loss in government services is a fact of life. Contrary to the myth that’s been per-

petuated by Brownback and ultraconservatives for decades, government doesn’t operate in a fiscal reality any different than your household or business.

If you have a sharp loss in personal income, you’d better prepare for a major lifestyle change. The same is true in Topeka, as we’ve been learning.

As a consequence of Brownback’s tax cuts, more than $1.4 billion has been stolen from the Kansas Department of Transportation.

Simple math overruled tax cut hyperbole.

The good news?

Kansas still has some of the best roads in the country . . . according to a 2013 report. Melika Willoughby, Brownback’s chief liaison between the world of reality and fantasy, sent an e-mail to media statewide telling us that we have it all wrong.

Roads haven’t suffered at all as funding has been sucked from KDOT to fill holes in the state budget.

Obviously, that report ignores the lack of new (See VOTERS on page six)

Brownback coalition is a failure With the approach of upcoming elections I am reminded of a private conversation five years ago with Gov. Sam Brownback’s chief of staff, who mused: “The real issue is whether conservatives can govern.” At that time I held out hope that the relatively new governor and his legislative allies could govern effectively. I was wrong.

The Brownback coalition dominated by farright ideologues has left Kansas government in a state of despair. Their fanatical vision of boosting the economy by eliminating the state income tax, cutting taxes on the wealthy and exempting businesses from taxation has not worked.

Their delusion has wrecked state finance and caused grim repercussions for most state services.

Brownback and his

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allies were foolhardy to believe from the start that handing big tax breaks to a few of the highest-income taxpayers would magically trigger an “adrenaline shot” to the $150 billion Kansas economy.

That has not happened.

The economy has fallen behind in job and income growth. Indeed, recent numbers suggest we may be going backward.

The radical tax policy has left formerly wellmanaged state finances in shambles.

This far-right faction claims to be “conservative” but has repeatedly adopted unbalanced budgets, spending more than is taken in. A budget balance of $700 million only a few years ago has been

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depleted, leaving not a penny in the state’s pocket.

Last spring lawmakers had the audacity to adopt a budget $100 million out of balance and then adjourn. Our state now behaves like a deadbeat by not paying bills on time.

Tax policy now benefits the wealthy to the detriment of other taxpayers. Business owners pay no income tax while their employees do. Lawyers pay no income tax but their secretaries do. Two sales tax increases have made the state’s sale tax on food the highest in the nation, a heavy burden on lower-income Kansans.

Over this period property taxes have risen by $550 million statewide, not counting the bills taxpayers will see later this year.

A conservative posture in the use of debt has been

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abandoned, as current obligations are pushed onto future generations.

State taxpayers have been saddled with new, longterm liabilities, and the state’s debt load has ballooned to an all-time high of $4.5 billion, a jump of 50 percent in two years.

Statutory caps on borrowing were suspended to issue $400 million in highway debt, which was immediately swept from the highway fund to pay for tax cuts. Financial mismanagement has resulted in repeated downgrades of the state’s credit rating.

As a consequence of this financial mess public schools have been shortchanged, highway maintenance has been deferred, and university budgets have been cut, forcing hefty increases in student tuition, fees and debt.

Support for our state’s (See FAILURE on page six)

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Free trade: time to retake the English language

by Dean Baker

The proponents of the TransPacific Partnership (TPP) are planning to do a full court press in the lame duck session of Congress following the election.

We will be bombarded with speeches and columns from President Obama and other illustrious figures telling us how it is important to approve the TPP for a variety of reasons.

We can be certain that one of the reasons will be the inherent virtues of free trade. They will not be telling the truth.

The TPP is not about free trade. It does little to reduce tariffs and quotas for the simple reason that these barriers are already very low. In fact, the United States already has trade deals with six of the other 11 countries in the TPP. This is why the non-parti-

san United States International Trade Commission (ITC) estimated that when the full gains from the TPP are realized in 2032, they will come to just 0.23 percent of GDP. This is a bit more than a normal month’s growth.

In fact, the TPP goes far in the opposite direction, increasing protectionism in the form of stronger and longer patent and copyright protection. These forms of protection for prescription drugs, software and other products, often raise the price by a factor of a hundred or more above the free market price.

This makes them equivalent to tariffs of several thousand percent.

These forms of protection do serve a purpose in promoting innovation and creative work, but we have other more efficient mechanisms to accomplish this

goal. Furthermore, the fact that they serve a purpose doesn’t mean they are not protectionist.

After all, protectionism always serves some purpose.

The bigger point to be made about free trade and protectionism is that our push for free trade has always been very selective. NAFTA and other trade deals were explicitly designed to make it as easy as possible for U.S. corporations to manufacture goods in the developing world and ship them back to the United States.

This pattern of trade had the predicted and actual effect of reducing jobs and lowering pay for manufacturing workers. This pattern of trade has been an important factor in the wage stagnation seen by workers without college degrees over the last four decades.

But, there was nothing inevi-

table about this process. While manufacturing workers in the developing world are willing to work for much lower pay than manufacturing workers in the United States, so are doctors in the developing world.

Unlike manufacturing workers, doctors are powerful enough

to get protection. It is not generally possible for a doctor trained in another country to practice medicine in the United States unless they pass a U.S. residency program - for which there is a strict quota on foreign trained students.

(See RETAKE on page six)

An appetite for action on tax reform

by Josh Hoxie

For the moment, let’s set aside the question of whether Republicans would really be winning with a different nominee (I think the race would be closer, but Democrats would still have the advantage).

What this hypothetical alternative would bring is the skills, experience and knowledge you gain by being active in politics, exactly what Trump lacks. He’d know how to run a proper campaign. He’d have a grasp of substantive policy issues, and know how to communicate Republican positions to voters in a persuasive way.

He’d understand how not to alienate key groups of voters. He’d be in control of his emotions, able to give a speech or participate in a debate without damaging outbursts.

In other words, he’d be a politician. You may notice that no Republicans are saying this election would be a lock if only Ben Carson or Carly Fiorina had been their nominee.

In a few short weeks, this election will be over, and the task of governing will fall on the winning candidate and the reshuffled Congress.

At the top of the list of issues to address in the early months of 2017 should be reforming our broken tax code.

Why should tax reform take center stage among the many issues plaguing the country?

Because Americans desThe . . . perately want to see rising most profitinequality addressed. Concern able corporaover the issue drove the insur- tions . . . have gent Bernie Sanders presi- dropped their federal income dential campaign and is top tax rate to among issues of importance to zero. Plenty Democratic voters. of these corLest one think Sanders’ pri- porations are mary loss gave the green light exploiting offshore tax shelfor inaction on inequality, note ters to avoid that the socialist senator from paying over Vermont is currently the most $700 billion in popular politician in the coun- taxes. try.

The growing divides between the rich and the rest of us rank consistently among the most pressing issues facing all voters, not just Bernie supporters. In short, the public’s appetite for action is high, and the next president as well as Congress would do well to listen to them.

There are a number of drivers of inequality, but none are so obvious and so fixable as the deeply unfair tax code.

A review of tax returns by the New York Times last year showed the top 1,000th of one percent - the richest of the rich - pay just 17.6 percent of their income in taxes. For context, the top tax rate in the country, intended to tax these very people, is 39.6 percent.

Perhaps the most egregious poster child for the broken tax code is Donald J. Trump. The billionaire appears to pay zero federal income taxes. In other words, the major party presidential candidate has contributed nothing to the development of our roads and bridges, our schools and public parks, or any of the other essential public services that taxpayers make possible.

But, Trump’s far from the only offender.

Wealthy households and their armies of lawyers and accountants are able to dodge paying their fair share through loopholes they helped put in place. The same goes for the most profitable corporations, many of which have also dropped their federal income tax rate to zero.

Plenty of these corporations are exploiting offshore tax shelters to avoid paying over $700 billion in taxes.

Meanwhile, working and middle class families, who don’t have millions to spend on lobbyists or “creative” accountants, are left to fill the hole.

The solutions to fix the tax code and thus make a dent in reversing inequality are straightforward.

Close the expensive loopholes and offshore tax havens that only exist to encourage tax evasion. Update the tax code to ensure those who make their money via investments or inheritance pay taxes on their income the same way people who punch a time clock do.

(See LISTENING on page six)

(See REFORM on page seven)

Wells Fargo rotting from the top down

by Jim Hightower

Just when you thought that, surely, big banker greed had bottomed out with 2008’s Wall Street crash and bailout, along comes Wells Fargo, burrowing even deeper into the ethical slime to reach a previously unimaginable level of corporate depravity.

It’s one thing for these finance giants to cook the books or defraud investors, but top executives of Wells Fargo have been profiteering for years by literally forcing their employees to rob the bank’s customers.

Rather than a culture of service, executives have pushed a highpressure sales culture since 2009,

demanding frontline employees meet extreme quotas of selling a myriad of unnecessary bank products to common depositors who just wanted a simple checking account.

Employees were expected to load each customer with at least eight accounts, and employees were monitored constantly on meeting their quota - fail and you’d be fired.

That’s why the bosses’ sales culture turned employees into a syndicate of bank robbers. The thievery was systemic, and it wasn’t subtle.

Half a million customers were secretly issued credit and debit cards they didn’t request, fake email accounts for online services were set up without customers’ knowledge, depositors’ money was moved

from one account to another, signatures were forged, and - of course Wells Fargo collected fees for all of these bogus transactions, boosting its profits.

CEO John Stumpf was recently forced out because of the scandal, but what about the other top executives and the board of directors - all of whom were highly paid partners in this crime?

Stumpf wasn’t the only rotten apple at Wells Fargo. This isn’t a case of a few bankers gone rogue, but of a whole bank gone rogue, rotting from the head down.

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

The GOP base was listening Republicans said politics is evil and Trump is the result As the prospect of Donald Trump’s defeat becomes more real, Republicans are assembling an explanation for what went wrong.

It says that even if Trump overstated the degree to which the system is “rigged,” there was still lots of voter fraud; that the media first elevated Trump to the nomination then destroyed him in the general election; and perhaps most importantly, that Hillary Clinton was such a terrible candidate that if only they hadn’t been tricked and manipulated into nominating Trump, they would have won the White House.

Mike Pence would have beaten Clinton. Or Marco Rubio would have. Even Jeb Bush might have.

Peggy Noonan writes that a “sane” version of Donald Trump “would have won in a landslide.”

She then goes on to describe

behind the headlines

by Paul Waldman

this imaginary candidate who is absolutely nothing like Donald Trump, but is instead a thoughtful, informed, inclusive candidate with well-thought-out positions and impeccable political instincts.

This is the real lesson of their lament: Though they’d never put it this way, the Republicans’ biggest mistake was that they failed to nominate, guess what, a politician.

But, this didn’t happen by accident. Instead, it was the logical end point of everything they’ve been telling their constituents for years.

Republicans set the stage for Trump not only by stoking Tea Party anger, but by convincing their constituents that the very idea of politics is repugnant, and only someone untainted by it could lead their party.

And then they’re amazed when the political neophyte they nominated turns out to have no idea what he’s doing.

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Public education’s path to ‘impossible to fail’

by John Schrock

It is almost too good to be true! The United States has seen an increase in high school graduation, from under 70 percent before 2000 to over 82 percent last year - a new record high in students earning a diploma on time. Everyone from the President to state and local superintendents are bragging about this massive improvement in classroom education.

If only it was true.

First, I have no intention of demeaning the work of dedicated teachers; I have seen discrete cases where education is improving. Unfortunately, the bulk of this “improvement” reflects much wider actions occurring at many public schools across the country.

One egregious case was a student who was borderline incorrigible and did absolutely no class work or homework.

The school, now empowered with a grade man-

agement system, had the counselors scan grades before the nine-week period ended and pulled this student from class. Using a programmed-learning system, the student “happy clicked” through the course content, guessing and re-guessing the answers until getting them all correct by chance.

This student, who knew nothing of the class content, not only passed but received a high score!

And the school had the programmed learning

print out showing the student had (eventually) gotten every answer correct (after many random attempts).

This is educational malpractice. But, when national and state leaders are calling for improved educational outcomes, there is no shortage of administrators who are willing and able to provide that success.

When I learned of this administrative override of teacher professionalism, I spammed my bank of for-

Retain an independent Supreme Court

I am writing to express my concerns about the assault on our Kansas judicial system by Gov. Sam Brownback and others.

The governor, Americans for Prosperity and other groups are attacking the current judges of the Kansas Court of Appeals and the justices of the Kansas Supreme Court.

They ignore the fact that the judicial branch of government is a separate, but equal, branch of government. The governor has had complete control of the executive branch and the legislative branch of government in Kansas.

Now he wants control of the judicial branch.

Until recently, the Court of Appeals judges and Supreme Court justices were selected and appointed the same way. A ninemember nominating commission was responsible for interviewing and evaluating candidates for both courts. They then would submit three names to the governor, from which he was to select his choice.

In 2013, the Kansas Legislature passed legislation, at the governor’s request, to give him an unrestricted ability to

Voters construction and maintenance that the state has failed to make over the last couple of years due to lack of highway funding.

And it ignores the high cost of construction and repairs that will eventually hit taxpayers because of long-term neglect to our infrastructure.

Not to worry, reminds Willoughby. Just think back to how great it was in 2013.

It’s not just highways that are suffering because of tax cuts and delusional lawmakers.

The Brownback Administration and Republican leadership have delayed payments to KPERS, cut funding for

Retake As a result of this restriction, doctors in the United States earn, on average, twice as much as doctors in Canada, Germany, and other wealthy countries. This protectionism costs the United States roughly $100 billion a year (around $700 per family) in higher health care costs.

If our trade negotiators actually were interested in “free trade,” they would have constructed a system whereby foreign trained doctors could be certified as meeting U.S. standards.

They would then have the

editor’s mail . . . appoint anyone he wants to the Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court justices are still required to be submitted by the nominating commission, because it is constitutional.

The governor appears to want to get rid of all of the Appeals Court judges, except those he appointed. He also wants to eliminate all of the Supreme Court justices, except the one he appointed.

The governor has four appointments to the nine-member nominating commission, and a fifth member is one of his supporters.

Because the governor currently has five of the nine votes on the nominating commission, he will be able to appoint the people who will be friendly to his agenda.

Keep in mind, the governor made his intentions clear in a March 2012 discussion with thenchairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Tim Owens.

Gov. Brownback wanted more control of the way Supreme Court justices are selected. Sen. Owens

recalled the governor, in the presence of staff members and another senator, saying, “Tim, why can’t you go along with us on this judicial selection issue and let us change the way we select judges so we can get judges who will vote the way we want them to?”

That was a telling statement.

And now, the governor and others are trying to convince voters not to retain current members of both courts, so that he can appoint members who are friendly to his policies.

The current system has worked very well for several decades.

The current judges and justices are good and honorable people.

It is very important for us to vote to retain all of the judges and justices.

To not retain and turn the judicial system over to this “power hungry” governor would be disastrous.

Please vote “yes” to retain on Nov. 8.

Steve Morris Hugoton

Steve Morris represented Kansas’ 39th Senate district from 1993 to 2013, including the last eight years as Senate president

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early childhood programs that benefit from the Childrens Initiative Fund, underfunded public education and cut Medicaid reimbursements for hospitals and nursing homes.

These are the consequences of willful ignorance.

There are too many Kansans who choose to believe that the stretch of highway that’s not being repaired exists somewhere else.

They want to believe that cuts in early childhood programs will affect someone else, until it’s their child who can’t receive services from Russell Child

Development Center due to lack of funding.

Eventually, state budget cuts will affect our community, our school and our family.

Voters - whether in surveys or at the ballot box - will say they want lower taxes and less government as long as it affects someone else. And ultraconservatives in our state government are more than willing to feed that delusion.

Which brings us to one final set of numbers in the SurveyUSA poll. It found that 58 percent of Democrats in Kansas support increasing taxes compared to just 21 percent of Republicans.

In other words, the majority of Democrats understand there’s a price to be paid for doing what makes us a better state and a better people. Taxes are an investment in our state, just as we invest in our business or our home.

If we aren’t willing to make that investment in our own state and our people, why should we expect other businesses and those who move here to do otherwise?

Perhaps we should ask that of the 79 percent of Kansas Republicans who are satisfied with the disastrous course we’re currently traveling.

Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com

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same freedom to practice as any doctor born and trained in the United States.

Note that this is a trade issue, not an immigration issue. Foreign doctors could probably get away with working in restaurants or construction in the U.S., they just can’t get away with working as doctors.

These barriers are not removed in trade deals because the people negotiating them all have parents, siblings, and/or children in these professions.

They want to protect

their incomes; they don’t care about the income of autoworkers and textile workers.

So let’s be clear.

President Obama and other proponents of TPP are protectionists. This matters in public debate because most educated people have a Trumpiantype commitment to anything labeled as “free trade.” They think they have to support it or be labeled as bad people.

The real story here is that the TPP is a deal about redistributing more income upward. It’s

imposing more competition on those at the middle and the bottom while maintaining and increasing forms of protectionism that benefits those at the top. When reporters call the TPP a “free trade” deal, they are acting as advocates, not reporters.

The TPP is a protectionist pact for those at the top who are worried that free trade will undermine their income - like it did for those at the middle and bottom.

Dean Baker is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

mer student teachers who teach in classrooms across the country. The majority of respondents indicated that they had not been coerced or overridden on grading. But, a substantial number described subtle-to-blatant tactics that inflated grading and graduation rates.

You can keep your 90-80-70-60 cut-off grade scale for A-B-C-Ds, one teacher was told, but zero performance starts at 50 percent. That means that a student getting 10 percent

right passes with a “D” and 20 percent (easy to get by randomly marking a multiple choice test) gets the student a “C”.

But, by far, the most common inflationary tactic - and it is fairly widespread - is to have all students who received a “D” or “F” on their work repeat the test or exercise, often using the exact same test until they achieve a “C” or better.

While that does not inflate the upper grades, it does (See FAIL on page seven)

Failure most vulnerable citizens has suffered from inattention and poor management: •The state is failing to ensure the safety of children in foster care according to auditors.

•A state hospital decertified last year for failure to protect patient safety continues to cost the state $1 million each month in lost federal funds.

•Private contractors hired by the state have backlogged thousands of applications from eligible clients for health care services over the past year.

•State cuts in Medicaid

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have diminished services by health care providers throughout the state and resulted in the loss of tens of millions in federal funds.

The list goes on and on.

Brownback and his legislative backers have failed at governing. In the upcoming elections our state desperately needs new leaders who can break out of the ideological fog, address state issues with an open mind and govern with realism and common sense.

H. Edward Flentje is a professor emeritus at Wichita State University

Listening Yet for years, Republicans have been running against “Washington,” an irredeemable Sodom of corruption and malfeasance.

Anyone who wants to actually make government work is immediately suspect, an “insider” whose motives can only be nefarious.

They look for “outsiders” who can tell voters, “Elect me because I’m not a politician, I’m a businessman.”

If you hired a carpenter to build you a deck and you didn’t like the way it turned out, you wouldn’t say, “What we need to fix this deck is someone who’ll think outside the box. Like a computer programmer, or a librarian.

Just as long as it’s not another carpenter.”

A rational person would hire a better carpenter.

There’s an old saying that Republicans claim government doesn’t work, and then when they actually get power, they set out to prove it. They do it in ways that seem reasonable at the time, but have the effect of making things much worse, all with the goal of taking the politics out of politics.

For instance, after they took control of the House in the 2010 election, they banned “earmarks,” budget items targeted to specific members’ districts (this was a move many Democrats also supported at the time). Earmarks never made up more than a tiny portion of the federal budget, but they did, on occasion, produce less than worthy projects (you may remember the “Bridge to Nowhere“), and even some opportunities for corruption.

But, what everyone discovered after they were

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eliminated was that earmarks were also a critical tool in greasing the wheels of legislation.

Congressional leaders could say to a wavering member, “Support us on this spending bill, and we’ll throw in a new wing for that hospital in your district.” Most of the time the projects were perfectly useful, and the horse-trading enabled the process to keep moving.

Without earmarks, leaders don’t have that carrot they can use to convince members not to gum up the works in order to make a symbolic stand against Washington.

When you spend all your time denigrating not only “Washington” but everything about politics - complex legislation, compromises, deal-making, substantive expertise - and make ridiculous promises of revolutionary change, you set yourself up for failure. And in the most extreme case, you nominate Donald Trump for president.

Can Republicans actually understand this problem and do something to change it? As it is so often, the key force constraining the GOP from making the necessary change is its own constituents, who have bought what Republican leaders sold them. After hearing this message for so long, they’ve been convinced to see politics this way, and it’s going to take a long and difficult effort to persuade them otherwise.

Republicans had better try, unless they want their party to keep getting hijacked by “outsiders” who bumble their way to defeat and destruction.

Paul Waldman is a senior writer at The American Prospect

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Reform

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elevate the students who would have flunked out.

It helps achieve an image of school improvement that brings accolades from higher administrators, politicians and the community at large.

Another change from 20 years ago is the rise of “alternative schools” where students are sent when they can no longer function in the regular school setting. These operations often sit the student in front of a computer and utilize less-

structured “anytime” learning programs, thus graduating students who were formerly suspended or expelled.

These anecdotal examples stack up into sizeable numbers. To this, add the observations by some professors at nonselective public universities that confirm that there has been no increase in college-ready students.

Indeed, the percentage of college degrees in the cohorts that would have recently graduated col-

lege has gone down, not upward.

And with a genuine increase in academic performance that would be expected with a 13 percent higher graduation rate, there should be a significant rise in scores on the NAEP, SAT and ACT tests. To the contrary, those scores have not gone up nor remained level, but have fallen during the same time period schools are reporting this surge in graduation rate.

Even National Public Radio has cautioned that

while some improvement may have been made by “stepping in early to keep kids on track,” this new data likely reflects “lowering the bar...” and “gaming the system by moving likely dropouts off the books, transferring or misclassifying them.”

Put simply, at more and more American schools, it is becoming nearly impossible to not graduate - short of the student dying.

Of course, the simplicity of a solution doesn’t imply it’ll be easy.

Powerful forces aligned to create the unfair tax code we have now, and they’ll go to great lengths defending it. An equally powerful movement will be required to overcome this, on par with the social movements required for all the major steps for-

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The conservative anti-tax activist Grover Norquist famously said, “You win the tax issue, you win all the issues.”

On this point, he was right.

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RCDC RCDC has assisted with the cost of travel and motels connected with the doctor visits and surgeries.

“We felt guilty about accepting their financial help. We felt there were others who could use the help more than us, but they insisted,” Vondracek notes.

Goodman was the speech therapist who would visit the Vondracek home every couple of weeks.

“As a result of her surgery, Dru had tubes in her ears and Nancy would check on that. She would also give us projects that we could do in between visits and we’d set goals,” says Vondracek.

“I honestly don’t know what we’d have done without Russell Child. A cleft palate is fixable, but we needed help in knowing what to do and to help Dru learn how to talk so that others could understand her,” Vondracek says.

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They changed our lives completely. If they were to lose their funding and not be able to provide help to families like us, it would be a terrible thing.

Raquel Trejo

More recently, RCDC returned to the Trejo home again to assist Briana with speech therapy “because she was refusing to talk.”

“They changed our lives completely,” Trejo says. “If they were to lose their funding and not be able to provide help to families like us, it would be a terrible thing. The help they provided us will affect our children for the rest of their lives.

“It’s a whole team of wonderful people. They have registered nurses, therapists, everyone you need for help and advice,” she adds. “As working mothers, we don’t always see things in our kids the Measuring Progress RCDC was invaluable way that someone else in assisting Raquel Trejo can.” once her daughter, who was born premature, was Impact of Budget Cuts RCDC’s ability to proable to come home. The vide services in the region RCDC staff explained have been restricted by what developmental budget cuts at the state milestones her daughter, level. It lost $312,488 Briana, should be reachin funding in the current ing and at what age. budget year which began “We noticed that Briana July 1. was having some physical Funding cuts have therapy issues, so (physiaffected four positions, cal therapist) Nichole but RCDC executive Navarro began meeting director Deanna Berry with us twice a month says they’ve tried to to make sure she was limit the impact so that meeting goals. We went it doesn’t affect services through physical therapy being provided directly to for about six months,” families. says Trejo. “When she “A lot of what we do was one month old she helps young families who was only turning to her often have nowhere else right. She wouldn’t turn to to turn,” says Berry. “We her left. They said that’s bring services into their quite common with prehome at no cost to them.” mie babies.”

Youngsters receiving RCDC provided exer- services have a wide range cises that the Trejos could of needs, says Goodman. do with their daughter.

For example, if a child “The exercises were so isn’t developing mobilimportant. She couldn’t ity skills as they should, sit upright, so she couldn’t RCDC will evaluate the eat solids at all,” notes need and determine which Trejo. “They started on team will work with the exercises to build her youngster. muscles so she could sit “Typically, if a child up and we could feed her doesn’t walk, they don’t solids.” talk. The motor delays go Now, Briana is ahead in hand-in-hand,” Goodman terms of physical develop- points out. ment for a child her age.

Referrals will usually “They are an extra set come from physicians, of eyes. As parents, we health departments and, don’t always know what on occasion, daycare proto expect when a child viders. reaches a certain age. And “Most of the time we’ll even if we feel they aren’t call a parent and tell them as far along as they should we’ve had a referral. be, we tend to think they’ll They’re usually aware of figure it out.” it, but it can take a little In addition to work- time for them to decide ing with Briana, now it needs to be done,” two, RCDC also provided Goodman says. assistance with her older Of course, RCDC brother, Ulises, 4. emphasizes that the soon“Our son started hav- er they can provide help, ing behavioral issues the better. when his sister was born.

“We stress there’s a I think he felt left out, and window, from birth to age they worked with him,” three, where brains are says Trejo. elastic and we can make

a difference. As children get older that change is more difficult,” Goodman notes. “If they have the language and cognitive skills, it will make a big difference in that child’s life as they enter school.”

Empowering the Parent Goodman says the inhome visits, which are usually scheduled twice each month, are an opportunity for RCDC staff to give parents ideas on how to help their child throughout the day.

“My being there twice a month isn’t going to do near for a child what a parent can do on a daily basis,” she says. “We’re helping to empower the parent. Sometimes it takes awhile for parents to buy into what we’re doing.

Some are on board right away.”

Goodman, who works part-time with RCDC, will see about 20 families each month from Dighton to Tribune.

Goodman says it’s gratifying to see how the program has benefited young people.

“The other day, while at the grocery store, I saw kids who we’ve worked with and it’s fun to see how they’ve developed.

What we taught them at an early age has paid off,” she says. “Or, sitting at a high school graduation or an eighth grade promotion I’ll remember our home visits and it’s rewarding to see how far they’ve come.”

“When these kids are little and we’re trying to teach them to speak, I’ll have a mom tell me, ‘I didn’t think they’d ever talk.’ I tell her to remember that because there will come a time when you wish they didn’t talk so much,” Goodman says with a laugh.

On a more serious note, she is concerned about ongoing state budget cuts and how they threaten RCDC’s ability to provide needed services to area families.

“We’ve been able to limit the impact on our families, so far,” she says.

“But, eventually the cuts have to come from somewhere. If we can’t provide services to youngsters when they need them, we’ll be paying a much higher cost on down the road.”

As Ashley sees the excitement on Dru’s face, and hears her correctly identify the image on another picture card during one of their speech therapy exercises, she also worries about what life might have been like without RCDC. “Through a group on Facebook I see so many families who cry for help. They don’t have insurance and they don’t have the finances,” says Vondracek.

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Reese has an ear for writing score for SCHS musical

Scott City Middle School vocal music director Jodi Reese wrote the pit orchestra score for the high school production of “Yo, Vikings.”

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When deciding what musical production would be performed this fall at Scott Community High School, director Shairlyn Wasinger discovered one problem.

Because “Yo, Vikings” was originally written for a young audience, the musical score called only for piano accompaniment.

That simply wasn’t going to work with the SCHS production.

“We have a great community pit orchestra and there was no way we were going to have a musical without utilizing their talents,” says Wasinger.

The solution was to write a musical score that could be adapted to the local orchestra, which is how Scott City Middle school vocal music director Jodi Reese spent most of her summer.

“The composer was overjoyed at our request,” says Reese. “Through him and the publishing company they gave us access to the piano score, which is on a computer file, and we were able to add the other instrumentation from there.

While listening to other instruments on CDs that accompanied the piano score, Reese had to extract what she could hear and create a score that could be adapted for each instrument in the pit orchestra.

When SCHS decided to perform “Yo, Vikings” there was very little interest from other schools. Since then, it’s become so popular that the composer has decided to write the score for an orchestra. However, it wasn’t going to be done in time for the SCHS performance.

“I can see this becoming a very popular high school production,” says Reese. “I just wish he’d decided to do this several months earlier.”

showing their Beaver pride

Youngsters who participated in the week-long Little Beaver Cheer Camp performed at halftime of the SCHS-Goodland football game last Friday evening. Future cheerleaders showing their support for the Beavers are (from left) Madyson Brooks, Brooklyn Wiechmann and Anessa Wells.

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Minnix is KSU Legacy Scholar Luke Minnix, Scott City, was among 146 children and grandchildren of Kansas State University alumni who are recipients of a K-State Alumni Association Legacy Scholarship.

Recipients of the $1,000 scholarships were recognized during a presentation earlier this fall in Manhattan.

Scholarships were awarded to K-State alumni for the 2016-17 academic year. K-State students receiving the scholarship are incoming freshmen as well as current and transfer students.

Applicants are considered if at least one parent or grandparent is a K-State alumnus.

The scholarships are made possible through funds generated by the K-State License Plate program, administered by the Alumni Association for the university.

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Kansas has spent at least $300k to fight lawsuit The state of Kansas incurred nearly $300,000 in legal fees in just three months to defend a lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood challenging the state’s decision to boot

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the organization from the Medicaid program.

Outside law firms representing the state billed it $282,477 in legal fees and $2,725 in expenses between May 29 and Aug. 31.

The invoices were provided by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment in response to a Kansas Open Records

Act request. KDHE Secretary Susan Mosier is the defendant in the lawsuit, which seeks to overturn her decision in May to block Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood.

The invoices provided

by KDHE did not include billings for September and October. But, at the current burn rate of

about $100,000 a month, the state is likely to have incurred about $500,000 in legal fees and expenses by now.

Moreover, if Planned Parenthood prevails in the lawsuit, it will be entitled to recover its own legal fees from the state. Those could add up to tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars more at a time

KCC’s cold weather rule to begin for Kansas residents The Cold Weather Rule, designed to help Kansans who are behind on their utility payments avoid disconnection during the winter months, begins November 1 and remains in effect through March 31.

“The Kansas Corporation Commission encourages Kansans who are past-due on their utility bills and at risk for disconnection to prepare for the colder weather by contacting their utility company to make the necessary payment arrangements,” said Commission Chairman Jay Scott Emler.

The Cold Weather Rule, first enacted by the Commission in 1983, prevents or limits utility companies from disconnecting a customer’s natural gas

or electric service during during winter months. The periods of extreme cold.

KCC also recognizes the customer’s responsibility Disconnection to make arrangements to Conditions: pay for that service.

•Utility companies may Any residential cusnot initiate disconnection tomer with a past due baluntil temperatures are ance will qualify for payforecast to be above 35 ment arrangements under degrees for the next 48 the Rule. However, it is hours. the customer’s responsi•Utility companies bility to contact the gas or must contact the customer electric company to make by phone or in-person 24 those arrangements. hours before disconnecting service.

•Utility companies are Payment Plan prohibited from discon- conditions to maintain necting a customer’s ser- or restore service: •Customers must convice when temperatures are forecast to be at or tact their utility company below 35 degrees over the and inform them they cannot pay their bill in full. next 24 hours.

•Customers must agree The KCC wants to pay 1/12th of the total Kansans to have the electric and gas service needed amount owed, 1/12th of to keep their homes warm the current bill, the full

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 (Published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Oct. 27, 2016)1t PUBLIC TEST OF VOTE COUNTING EQUIPMENT A PUBLIC TEST of the vote counting equipment to be used in the General Election held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, will be demonstrated in the Scott County Clerk’s office, 303 Court Street, Scott City, Ks., on Friday, November 4, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. in accordance with KSA 25-4610.

Public Notice (Published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Oct. 27, 2016)1t 2016 SCOTT COUNTY EXTENSION COUNCIL ELECTION TO: The voters of Scott County, State of Kansas, election at-large.

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given in accordance with K.S.A. 2-611, as amended, State of Kansas, that on the date and at the time and place mentioned below, the citizens of voting age of Scott County shall meet for the purpose of electing 12 members, three members for Agriculture Pursuits, three members for Home Economics Work, three members for 4-H Club and Youth Work, and three members for Economic Development Initiatives, as representatives to the Scott County Extension Council.

Scott County Sunday, November 6, 2015, 2:00 p.m.

Wm. Carpenter 4-H Building Scott County Fairgrounds Consideration shall be given to the Extension Program for Scott County.

Gayla Nickel, Chairman

amount of any disconnection or reconnection fee, plus any applicable deposit to the utility.

•Customers must agree to pay the remaining balance in equal payments over the next 11 months, in addition to their current monthly bill.

The Cold Weather Rule applies only to residential customers of electric and natural gas utility companies under the KCC’s jurisdiction. For a complete list of utilities regulated by the KCC visit: http://kcc.ks.gov/pi/jurisdictional_utilities.htm.

For more information Kansans may contact their local utility company or the KCC’s Office of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection at (800) 662-0027.

Scott Co. LEC Report Scott City Police Department Oct. 15: David Suri, 34, was arrested for criminal threat, disorderly conduct and pedestrian under the influence of drugs/alcohol. He was transported to the LEC. Oct. 18: Misty Rinke, 36, was arrested for driving under the influence and transported to the LEC. Oct. 22: An accident occurred in the 1100 block of South Main when Nancy Farr was backing out of a parking stall and struck a vehicle owned by Kacie McKinney as she was backing out.

Oct. 23: James Wills, 34, was arrested for violation of a protection order and transported to the LEC. Oct. 24: Nicholas Lute was backing out of a parking stall at Casey’s and struck a vehicle parked at the gas pumps.

Oct. 25: Joe Zapata, 25, was arrested on an out-ofstate warrant.

Scott County Sheriff’s Department Oct. 19: Donald Graham, 26, was arrested on a Scott County warrant and transported to the LEC. Oct. 25: James Wills, 34, was arrested for violation of a protection order and transported to the LEC.

when the state is facing budget shortfalls.

That’s what happened to Missouri in August, when it was ordered to pay Planned Parenthood $156,000 in legal fees after it lost a court battle over its attempt to revoke Planned Parenthood’s abortion license in Columbia, Missouri.

KDHE did not immedi-

ately respond to a request for comment on its legal fees.

Brownback Vow Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri (now Planned Parenthood Great Plains) sued Mosier in May, one day after her agency notified the organization of KDHE’s deci(See DEFUND on page 11)

Scott County Commission Agenda Tuesday, November 1 County Courthouse 3:00 p.m.

Approve payroll, accounts payable.

Resolution for delinquent real estate tax, library request to transfer funds for air conditioner update

3:30 p.m. Solid waste meeting 3:45 p.m. Public Works Director Richard Cramer 5:00 p.m. Sheriff Glenn Anderson to discuss

updating cameras at LEC Agenda may change before the meeting. Contact County Clerk Alice Brokofsky for an updated agenda (872-2420) or visit www.scott.kansasgov.com

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 CHARLES GRIFFITH, 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-

signs of any person alleged to be deceased, and any person claiming an interest in a 1998 BARE CT TRAILER VIN #1B9L53206W1014637, DEFENDANTS.

Case No. 16 CV 13 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

Support Your Hometown Merchants!

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Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Oct. 20, 2016; last published Thurs., Oct. 27, 2016)2t REQUEST FOR CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT Notice is hereby given that the Scott City Planning Commission will hold a special meeting on Thurs., Nov. 10, 2016, at 7:00 p.m., at the Scott City Council meeting room at City Hall, 221 West 5th Street, Scott City, Kansas, to consider the following agenda items: 1. Application for conditional use permit by Stepping Up, Inc., for operation of a Boarding Care Home as a structured living home for clients of applicants program, on the following described property, to wit: Lots One (1), Five (5), Eight (8), and eleven (11) in Block Four (4) and the South Half (S/2) of Lot Seven (7), all of Lots Nine (9), Ten (10), Twelve (12), Thirteen (13) and Fifteen (15) in block Four (4) in the Original Town of Scott City, Kansas (104 S. Main Street).

All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard at such hearing.

Dated: October 19, 2016 Rodney Hogg, Chairman Scott City Planning Commission

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sion to end its participation in Medicaid.

KDHE’s decision was expected; in his State of the State address in January, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback had accused Planned Parenthood of illegally selling “baby body parts” and vowed to strip the organization of state funding.

Brownback was reacting to the release last year of heavily edited undercover videos made by an anti-abortion group showing Planned Parenthood Public Notice officials in other states (First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., Oct. 13, discussing the use of fetal tissue for research.

2016; last published Thurs., Oct. 27, 2016)3t DELINQUENT PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX Planned Parenthood UNCOLLECTED TAX WARRANTS FROM has vehemently denied SCOTT COUNTY SHERIFF that it sells fetal tissue for OCTOBER 1, 2016 profit, and a grand jury in Warrant Name Address Amount Houston later found no 1 Alco Store No. 348 751 Freeport Parkway evidence of illegal activ

Coppell, Tex. 75019

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

932.19

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

Lark Speer, Scott County Treasurer

ity. The Kansas Board of Healing Arts came to a similar conclusion in January about Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri.

Kansas has actually incurred more than $300,000 in legal fees so far defending Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit. The state Attorney General’s Office briefly defended Mosier and then transferred the case to KDHE’s legal office.

In response to a separate Open Records Act request, the AG’s office said it incurred $19,820 in legal fees before its contract with Thompson Ramsdell Qualseth & Warner, a Lawrence law firm that frequently represents Kansas agencies in court, ended May 17.

Laura McQuade, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains, said she’s not surprised by the amounts the state has incurred. Over the last 15 years, she said, “the state of Kansas has conducted a very expensive, targeted campaign against one organization, that being Planned Parenthood.”

Separately, the Associated Press reported nearly three years ago that Kansas had paid private law firms more than $1 million to defend antiabortion laws enacted in the previous three years.

That amount included $179,000 in attorneys’ fees and expenses to defend various lawsuits challenging abortion restrictions enacted in 2013.

Expensive Law Firms KDHE has been represented in the Planned Parenthood lawsuit by two high-powered Washington, D.C., law firms: Norton Rose Fulbright, a global law firm with 3,800 lawyers on six continents, and Consovoy McCarthy Park, a boutique law firm that includes two lawyers who clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and another who clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.

Norton Rose billed KDHE $137,314 for 279.25 hours of work between June 1 and July 29, according to its invoices. That equates to an average of nearly $492 per hour.

114.56

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

Garden City, Ks. 67846 151.40

Grand Total

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$3,525.93

Haunted House 1 1/2 blocks north of the railroad tracks on the west side of Main Street, Scott City

Three Weekend Nights Only

October 28 • 10:00 p.m. to Midnight October 29 and 30 • 8:00 p.m. to Midnight $

10 per person

Matinee for Elementary Kids

Saturday, October 29 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

5 for children accompanied by parents $

For more information, contact Lindsay at the Scott City Area Chamber of Commerce 620-872-3525, ext. 1 We apologize for the inconvenience, but this event is not wheel chair accessible.

Pastime at Park Lane The Assembly of God Church led services on Sunday.

Residents played pitch and dominoes on Monday afternoon. Game helpers were Madeline Murphy, Wanda Kirk, Bert Lucas and Cathy Wright.

Residents played Wii bowling on Monday evening.

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

Naomi Teubner entertained everyone with a music program on Tuesday afternoon. Russel and Mary Webster led Bible study on Tuesday evening.

Rev. Warren Prochnow led Lutheran Bible study on Wednesday morning.

Residents played trivia on Thursday evening.

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

Trick-or-treaters are welcome

Halloween trick-or-treaters are invited to stop

by Park Lane Nursing Home on Halloween night between 6:00-8:00 p.m.

The residents look forward to seeing all the trick-or-treaters.

Honor five with Oct. birthdays

The High Plains Study Club hosted the October birthday party on Thursday afternoon. Guests of honor were Harold White, Ruth White, Florence Daubert, Stanley Pearson and Jim Jeffery.

Hostesses were Madeline Murphy, Patsi Graham, Shirley Griffith, Barbara Hutchins, Joy Cole, Thelma Miller, Celia Fouser, Karen Compton, Barbara Dickhut, Kami Rosin, Dorothy Hutchins, Marvel Hopkins-Keyse, Dorothy Spitzer, Jean Ann McClellan, Ivadelle Cotton, Sue Pammenter and Cozette Buckner.

After playing bingo games everyone enjoyed angel food cake with pudding sauce.

SCHS music groups perform

Several groups from the Scott Community High School music department performed on Wednesday afternoon. The groups were the jazz band, the Leftovers, Encore, and Sugar and Spice.

Band students are under the direction of Suzette Price and vocalists under the direction of Amanda Kennedy.

Western Ks. Alzheimer’s conference is November 1 MULVANE - The Alzheimer’s Association of Central and Western Kansas will host a Professional and Caregiver Education Conference on Tuesday, Nov. 1, at the Kansas Star Event Center from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Currently there are over 5.4 million Americans diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, 51,000 living in Kansas.

“It is important families affected by Alzheimer’s and related dementias and receive support, education and

resources in order to be healthy caregivers and provide quality care to their loved ones.” stated Breana Jones, Director of Programs, Alzheimer’s Association.

This educational opportunity is aimed for family caregivers, health care professionals and anyone interested in receiving the latest information about Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.

Discussions will include best practices in care and support, the latest research findings, the opportunity to expand

skills, and hope for the future of dementia treatment and care. Speakers include local specialists as well as national speakers.

Continuing education contact hours are available for nurses, social workers, nursing home administrators, activity professionals, therapists, and adult care home staff.

The cost for attending is $45 for family caregivers.

For more information or to register for this event, call 316-267-7333 or visit the website alz. org/cwkansas.

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Prochnow led Lutheran services on Friday afternoon.

Residents enjoyed chocolate ice cream cones on Friday afternoon.

The Wright family played a variety of country songs on Friday evening. Wanda Wright furnished refreshments.

Dottie Fouquet was visited by Mark Fouquet, Jon and Anne Crane, and Anita DeWitt from Wamego.

Delores Brooks was visited by Charles Brooks and Cheryl Perry.

Lawana Rothers was visited by by Cecile and Kathryn Rothers.

Corrine Dean was visited by Dianna Howard, Carol Ellis, and Aaron and Mandy Kropp.

Darlene Richman was visited by Phebe Unruh.

Yvonne Spangler was visited by Mona Spangler, Yvette Mills and Les Spangler.

by Jason Storm

Doris Riner was visited

by Bill and Sue Riner and Kaitley Edwards.

Lowell Rudolph was visited by Tom and Kathy Moore, LuAnn Buehler and Rev. Don Martin.

Lucille Dirks was visited by Dorothy Hutchins, Anita DeWitt from Wamego, and Vicki Dirks.

Boots Haxton was visited by Rod and Kathy Haxton.

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

Jeanie Rowton was visited by Phil and Susan Escareno, Becky Rowton, Chuck Rowton, Sharilyn Wilken and Harlen VanCampen.

Lorena Turley was visited by Sharilyn Wilken, Emily Hess, Neta Wheeler, Tracy Hess, and Alexzandrea Wills.

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

Vivian Kreiser was visited by Larry and Sharon Lock; Kai, Dennies and Sage Wilkinson; Spenser Beaton, and Caitlin and Liam O’Dea. Clifford Dearden was visited by Kirk and Janet Ottaway from Hays.

Arlene Beaton was visited by Ann Beaton.

Elsie Coleman was visited by Janice Lockman.

Loretta Gorman was visited by Charlene Becht and Vela Riddiough.

Louise Crist was visited by Virgil and LeAnn Kuntz, Patsi Graham, and Jean Burgess.

LaVera King was visited by Gloria Gough, Randy and Harrison King, Christopher Paul, Velda Riddiough, Carol Latham, and Stormy and Tatum Wells.

Dona Dee Carpenter was visited by Roger and Jackie John.

Jim Jeffery was visited

by Jimalene Haddon.

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Deaths

Sr. Citizen Lunch Menu

Wayne Myer Bush Wayne Myer Bush, 92, died Oct. 16, 2016.

H e was born Nov. 11, 1 9 2 3 , in Scott City, the son of Marshall and Rho- Wayne Bush dia Bush.

Wayne was a World War II veteran and served with the Army Corps of Engineers in France.

For most of his life he worked in commercial construction as a carpenter.

He was a member of

VFW posts in Denver and Englewood, Colo.

Survivors include: his wife, Dorothy E. Bush, Englewood, Colo.; one son, Jim Bush, and wife Fae, Colorado Springs, Colo.; one daughter, Judy Peak, and husband, Gary, Minneapolis, Minn.; eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters and one brother.

Memorial service was at Olinger Moore Howard Chapel, Denver, Colo.

A celebration service was at Ft. Logan National Cemetery.

Week of October 31-November 4 Monday: Parmesan chicken, broccoli rice casserole, tossed salad, garlic bread, rosy applesauce.

Tuesday: Meat loaf, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, whole wheat roll, pineapple tidbits.

Wednesday: Chicken pot pie, asparagus, whole wheat roll, mandarin oranges.

Thursday: Baked ham, sweet potatoes, corn, whole wheat roll, cranberry crunch.

Friday: Baked cod or smothered steak, baked potato, broccoli and cauliflower, whole wheat roll, tropical fruit salad. meals are $3.25 • call 872-3501

Attend the Church of Your Choice

Has the body of Christ become soft?

Donald Trump met with a group of leading evangelicals. He challenged the spiritual leaders saying, “I really think America’s turned against Christianity in the last decade in a way that is not healthy, and I think you guys have gotten soft in terms of taking your ground and holding it.”

Have spiritual leaders and the body of Christ become soft? Matt Barber, an attorney, said, “We have abandoned our constitutional republican form of government, and we are entering into a “soft” despotism (a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator NOT restricted by a constitution, laws or opposition).

Christian courage is a requirement if we are to be found faithful in this election. Even the early persecuted church prayed for an increase in boldness. The various crises we face in America should cause us to do the same. We can’t lose the character of Jesus Christ and can’t avoid the fruit of the Spirit, but we must rise up bold and confident and take our stand to halt the war on Christianity.

The defining issue of this election is religious freedom; this alone is motivation to vote. The question before us is, “Will he or she restore religious freedom, the freedom to believe, and live according to those beliefs in America.”

We usually vote for the person who aligns with what we stand for and one of the candidates, with a conservative platform, holds many areas that line up with our faith. We must pray and look for that candidate who will be an honest and able leader who will stand for justice and morality and will seek God’s will in all they do in bringing restoration to our country. Our next leader must be humble enough to admit he or she does not have all the answers, and bold enough to put their trust

in the One who does! No leader who thumbs their nose at God and God’s word will succeed.

As we approach the ending of the present administration, we need to pray for his heart to be softened and his ideas to be conformed to God’s word. We need to pray that all his efforts to implement policies contrary to God’s word will be confused, frustrated and defeated. Gov. Mike Huckabee said, “A president who believes that America is the result of God’s providence and that it is sustained by dependence on Him will create a very different atmosphere from one who has a ‘form of godliness but denies the power thereof.’”

It has been my pleasure and joy to share this month some thoughts that may help us to think Biblically about the election. Let us be gracious as we take our stand on issues that concern us. It is His will that we desire to see done. As believers, we cling to the cross for it is the basis of blessing and the source of all wisdom. We must pray for God’s best choice for America.

A historian recently said, “It is not enough to just elect a ‘Christian’ president. We have done that in the past and continued to lose our culture to secular godlessness.” We must pray for God to have mercy on our country and for a national spiritual awakening.

We must turn from the brink of compromise which perhaps has made us “soft” and remember who we really are: I Peter 2:9 says we are “a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that we may proclaim the praises of Him who called us out of darkness into His marvelous light’; Ephesians 6:10 says we are to “be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.”

There is nothing “soft” about that! Pray, vote, and leave it in the hands of God Almighty! May Jesus be the Lord of all life to each of us!

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.

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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State’s treatment of those with 69% of Kansans mental illness a ‘study in neglect’ can get coverage Many have been left at the mercy of criminal justice system Jim McLean KHI News Service

America has a long history of criminalizing mental illness.

Well into the 20th century, courts, not clinicians, committed people with mental disorders to state hospitals, where too often they were warehoused and received little if any meaningful treatment.

A report written in 1948 for the Kansas Board of Health titled “A Study in Neglect” concluded

that “a seriously mentally ill person (in Kansas) is almost a criminal before the law.”

The report - written by Harry Levinson, a psychologist of national stature who began his career at the Menninger Clinic, and two colleagues - also noted that more than onethird of the approximately 46,000 Kansans who had entered state mental health hospitals between 1866 and 1946 had died in them.

The Levinson report and another issued about the same time by a special commission formed by former Kansas Gov. Frank Carlson that included Dr. Karl Menninger prompted

the first of several sweeping reforms of the state hospitals and the mental health system in Kansas.

Today, the system is inarguably better as a result. But as this series of stories, “Mental Health on Lockdown,” to be published over the next several days illustrates, many Kansans with mental illness continue to find themselves ensnared in a criminal justice system largely ill-equipped to provide them with the treatment that they need.

zine, Jane Wiseman, director of a nonprofit government and management consulting firm, recently asserted that “America’s jails are the central address for the mentally ill.”

She and co-author Stephen Goldsmith, a former Indiana district attorney and deputy mayor of New York who now teaches at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, provided evidence to back up their assertion.

“There are 10 times more people with mental illness in the criminal justice system than are Financial, Human Cost The criminalization of being treated in psychiatmental illness is both a ric hospitals,” Wiseman national and state issue. and Goldsmith wrote.

In Governing maga- (See NEGLECT on page 16)

for less than $75 With the November 1 start of Open Enrollment just days away, Kansas consumers can now visit HealthCare.gov to check out their options for 2017 coverage.

A new report shows that 69 percent of Kansas Marketplace consumers will be able to find a plan with a premium of less than $75 per month, and 74 percent will be able to find plans with premiums below $100. The report also shows that Kansas consumers who come back to shop will have options, with an average of 13 plans to choose from.

“Thanks to financial assistance, the large majority of current Marketplace consumers in Kansas will be able to find plans with premiums between $50 and $100 per month,” said HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell.

“Many uninsured Kansans could also qualify for financial assistance, as could 28,000 Kansans (See COVERAGE on page 15)

Feds question Kansas disability support policies Andy Marso KHI News Service

Federal officials Monday opened their regional office in Kansas City to take feedback on several changes to disability support policies in Kansas - including one they’ve instructed state officials to put on hold.

The Centers for

Medicare and Medicaid Services told leaders of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services earlier this month they cannot implement a change to the “capable person” policy - one of two changes to home and community-based disability support services made

in May to help balance the state budget.

Federal officials also have instructed the state to provide more information about the elimination of a waiting list for Kansans with physical disabilities who requested such services. KDADS announced in August that the list was eliminated, but CMS officials

say they have questions about whether Kansans were dropped from the list improperly.

Angela de Rocha, a spokeswoman for state agencies including the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, said the agency will abide by CMS requirements for the capable person policy after

it receives more federal guidance.

“The agency has requested a technical assistance call with CMS to discuss the process,” de Rocha said.

De Rocha said the agency has also provided CMS “extensive documentation” about the waiting list for services for Kansans with physical

disabilities.

The inclusion of home and community-based services in KanCare was one of the most controversial aspects of the state’s 2013 switch to managed care Medicaid administered by three private insurance companies.

Legislators and Gov. Sam Brownback agreed (See DISABILITY on page 15)

Parents seek right medication mix for children with disabilities Andy Marso KHI News Service

Judy Talbot says a “medication washout” could help improve the condition of her daughter, who has autism and post-traumatic stress disorder. Talbot’s daughter is receiving nursing care at the Kansas Neurological Institute, but has been unable to get the kind of specialized attention needed to adjust her medication regimen.

Judy Talbot is trying to get her daughter out of a state facility for Kansans with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

A medication washout might be the right call in some cases. But it’s not a decision that should be taken lightly.

The question is, is it appropriate to clear the slate and see how one functions without any medication. That is always a very individualized decision between the patient and/or their caregivers and the treatment team.

- Eric Atwood, phychiatrist, Family Service and Guidance Center, Topeka

Zack Zbeeb is trying to get his son into one.

But, both ultimately have the same goal: to do a “medication washout” to determine whether the prescription drugs their autistic kids take are helping to control their recent dangerous psychotic episodes or actually causing them.

Zbeeb, from Wichita,

wants his 15-year-old son to be weaned off his medications at a place like Parsons State Hospital and Training Center.

“We felt this was an appropriate place for my son to be in a 100 percent structured setting,” Zbeeb said.

Talbot got her 32-yearold daughter into a state facility, the Kansas

Neurological Institute, in August after her daughter spent a week strapped to a bed in a hospital emergency room.

She thought KNI might be able to do a medication washout. Instead her daughter has received mainly nursing care, not the kind of specialized attention needed to adjust her medication regimen.

“She’s been there all this time and hasn’t seen a psychiatrist,” Talbot said earlier this week.

Talbot and Zbeeb’s children both fall into a care gap for Kansans with a combination of develop(See PARENTS on page 15)

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Disability to “carve out” the disability support services for one year to conduct voluntary pilot programs, but since 2014 those services have been included in KanCare.

Brownback has said including the support services in the same plan as medical services for Kansans with disabilities allows for better coordination of their care and leads to improved health and lower Medicaid costs, which in turn means more services can to be provided to Kansans on waiting lists.

Tim Keck, interim secretary of the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, said in a Wichita Eagle opinion column published Monday that some criticisms of KanCare are politically motivated.

Keck said the state is providing 36 percent more home and community–based services since switching to KanCare and the program’s care coordinators are helping Kansans with disabilities receive the proper level of medical services and daily

Parents mental disability and mental health issues.

Providers on both sides say they’re ill-equipped to care for people with that combination of ailments, especially given cuts to Medicaid, which is one of the main sources of health insurance for people with developmental disabilities and mental illness.

Advocates for Kansans with developmental disabilities say they’re often excluded from mental health treatment facilities based on assumptions that they won’t be able to participate in counseling.

Zbeeb and Talbot both say the default treatment has been to medicate their children with various antipsychotic drugs, and both believe the drugs may be

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currently paying full price for off-Marketplace coverage. I encourage anyone who might need 2017 coverage to visit HealthCare. gov and check out this year’s options for themselves.”

The share of Americans without health insurance is at its lowest level in history, and the share of Kansans without health insurance stands at 9.1 percent, down 35 percent since 2010.

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supports.

“Individuals with disabilities who are on the KanCare waiver programs are receiving all the care and services for which they have a demonstrated need,” Keck said. “If they or their families don’t believe that is the case, there is a robust, multilevel appeals system in place to allow them to challenge such decisions.”

But providers of the support services say the change has led to service cuts, and some legislators have predicted new talks next session on removing them from KanCare.

Meanwhile, the state is preparing to submit its application to CMS to renew KanCare amid new levels of federal scrutiny.

Capable Person Change The state announced the capable person policy change as a small part of $56 million in budgetbalancing Medicaid cuts.

It and another change to how the state reimburses those who provide disability support services were expected to save the state $1.3 million each.

A state spokeswoman said the change would make for stricter enforcement of an existing federal rule limiting what reimbursements are allowed for routine daily tasks like cooking and laundry done for people with disabilities if they have another person living in their house capable of doing them.

Providers said they were concerned about how the change would be implemented.

James Scott, associate regional administrator for CMS, told state officials in a letter dated Oct. 12 that after reviewing the change his office “found a number of corrections and improvements we would like to suggest.”

Scott said his office found “inconsistencies” between how the state had changed the policy and the waiver agreements Kansas had signed with federal officials to implement KanCare.

Scott said the state must put the change on hold until it fixes the inconsistencies.

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doing more harm than good at this point.

Eric Atwood, a psychiatrist at the Family Service and Guidance Center in Topeka, said that’s possible. Medications often are added during times of acute psychosis, he said, so as people begin taking multiple drugs “you end up with a complicated regime and it’s very difficult to know what’s doing what.”

A 2011 study found that people taking more than one antipsychotic medication were less likely to have a bad reaction to a medication washout than they were to the addition of another antipsychotic.

A medication washout might be the right call in some cases, Atwood said.

But it’s not a decision that

should be taken lightly.

“The question is, is it appropriate to clear the slate and see how one functions without any medication,” Atwood said.

“That is always a very individualized decision between the patient and/ or their caregivers and the treatment team.”

A New Approach Zbeeb said his family and his son’s caregivers have agreed that he should try a medication washout and that Parsons is the right place to wean his son off the medications and try a new approach.

But Parsons, KNI and the state’s two mental health hospitals in Osawatomie and Larned are considered providers of last resort.

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Veterans ated confusion for health care providers and veterans, he said.

“We don’t need seven programs. We need one program of buying care,” he said.

Ray Lumb, a physician practice liaison with Stormont-Vail HealthCare in Topeka, said it has been difficult to get timely authorization for payment when the hospital provides emergency care to eligible veterans, and that reimbursements are slow.

VA employees are doing their best, he said, but the complex program makes it difficult.

“The amount of unpaid bills has increased,” he said. “It’s in the multiple millions of dollars.”

Denise Scott, community health services coordinator with the VA Eastern Kansas Health System, said home health agencies are having particular difficulty with Veterans Choice. One has stopped accepting veteran clients, and three others have threatened to do the same thing, she said.

“They’re not getting

Neglect “As a society, we pay an extremely high financial and human cost for criminalizing behavior better addressed by diversion into mental health treatment. Incarceration costs for those with mental illness run from 60 percent to 20 times higher than those for other inmates.”

Kansas taxpayers are helping to foot that bill. Medical and mental health care spending made up $53 million of the $194 million Kansas Department of Corrections fiscal year 2015 budget.

An estimated 37 percent of inmates in the state prison system have a mental disorder, up more than 120 percent since 2006, according to Viola Riggin, director of health care services for KDOC. The number of inmates diagnosed with severe and persistent mental illness also is going up, Riggin said, noting that the treatment they receive has improved greatly since inmates brought a series of lawsuits against the state in the 1970s seeking better mental health care.

“There was a tendency to simply lock them down,” said Bill Rich, a professor at the Washburn University School of Law

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the authorization promptly, and they’re not getting paid,” she said.

Dave McIntyre, president and CEO of TriWest Health Alliance, said the health benefits company processes about 95 percent of veterans’ claims in 30 days but sometimes gets held up when the VA is slow to react. TriWest handles the claim and pays the provider, then is reimbursed by the VA, he said.

James Bunker, executive director of the National Gulf War Resource Center in Topeka, said he has worked with some veterans in western Kansas who ran into trouble because TriWest’s boundaries aren’t the same as the VA’s. In those cases, the VA filed their cases with TriWest but should have filed it with another company, so the bill doesn’t get paid and goes to collections, he said.

McIntyre promised to look into the matter.

Some problems are being solved within the current framework, Yehia said, but others will require Congress to act.

For example, the Veterans Choice law requires that veterans’ insurance be billed before the VA would pay, requiring the veterans to pay co-payments and deductibles they wouldn’t have at a VA facility, he said.

Another problem is that the VA can’t pay for emergency room care under the Veterans Choice program if veterans have other insurance and are being seen for a condition that isn’t connected to their service, creating headaches for veterans and hospitals when their claims get rejected, Yehia said.

Ideally, Congress will allow the VA to pay for all emergency care so veterans don’t have to worry about surprise bills - though it would cost $2 billion annually to do that, he said.

Despite the problems, Yehia said he hopes Congress decides to continue the program, though with significant reforms.

“We’ve made a lot of progress,” he said. “We don’t want to start all over again.”

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who represented inmates in some of those lawsuits.

Today, county jails in Kansas also have become de facto mental health treatment centers. About 20 percent of the inmates serving time on any given day in the Johnson County jail have some kind of mental illness, according to Sheriff Frank Denning.

“I have been running the largest mental health hospital in the state of Kansas,” he said in an interview about mental health courts for this series.

Sheriffs in several smaller counties say they don’t have the resources to emulate Denning. They’re struggling to handle the increasing number of people with mental illness in their jails.

In addition to county jails, many hospital emergency rooms have become repositories for Kansans with severe mental illness waiting for an open bed at Osawatomie State Hospital, which was forced to restrict admissions in 2014 due to staff problems and to reduce its capacity in 2015 to make renovations ordered by federal inspectors.

At the same time, millions of dollars in state

budget cuts over successive years have hindered the ability of community mental health centers to respond to the growing crisis.

History of Neglect Complaints of underfunded and overcrowded facilities date to the establishment of the first state asylums in Kansas. The 1948 report for the state board of health briefly recounted the history, noting that Kansas policymakers “grudgingly” appropriated $500 in 1866 to build the state’s first asylum in Osawatomie.

But from the day it opened, the six-room facility lacked the space to care for the growing number of “broken” Kansans in need of help, according to the report.

“Slowly the state stirred to meet its responsibilities - always slowly, always too late,” the report said of the construction a second asylum in Topeka in 1879 and a third in Larned in 1913.

Eventually, the report said, “the state belatedly agreed its institutions should not be asylums, but hospitals, and that a determined effort should be made to cure the mounting number of patients.”

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Goodland fumbles lead to 3 TDs as SC locks up district Two fumbles resulted in a pair of touchdowns in the span of just 21 seconds as part of another outstanding defensive effort by Scott Community High School in a 56-0 romp over Goodland on Friday that earned the Beavers their eighth consecutive district title.

SCHS (6-2) added a fumble return for a touchdown in the second half to go along with a pair of interceptions against an Goodland 0 Scott City 56 outmanned Cowboy squad.

Goodland was limited to 149 yards of total offense - 80 rushing - but more than half of those rushing yards came on a 44 yard run on the first play of the game.

“Baron (Strine) and I were able to shut down the trap for the most part after that first play,” said junior defensive tackle Nic Cheney.

Six of Goodland’s next eight possessions in the first half were three-and-outs. In the second half, the Cowboys had minus-three yards rushing.

“There were a couple of things that Goodland ran at us which we hadn’t seen in awhile and it caught us on our heels,” said head coach Jim Turner. “We’ll fix those this week.”

SCHS sophomore defensive end Wyatt Hayes races 51 yards with a fumble recovery for a touchdown during second half action against Goodland on Friday night.

(Record Photo)

4 Quick Scores Most of Goodland’s success came on the first three plays of the game before the defense dug in and stopped the Cowboys on third-and-one at the (See FUMBLES on page 18)

Beavers are ready for anything in district finale When a Week No. 9 team is hav- Concordia (1-7) ing a rough at season and Scott City (6-2) their playing 7:00 p.m. kickoff their final game, SCHS head coach Jim Turner has one bit of advise for his players.

“You have to be ready for anything because they have nothing to lose,” says Turner as his team prepares for their

regular season finale against Concordia.

It will also be Parents’ Night with the recognition ceremony to begin at 6:30 p.m.

The Panthers (1-7) are coming off a 28-27 loss to Colby.

Their only win came against Chapman (30-14).

Offensively, they feature two formations and generally run the same plays out of each, says

Turner.

Defensively, they are in a 3-4 which often times transitions into a 5-2 with pressure coming off one edge or the other.

The Beavers have seen five-man defensive fronts against Ulysses and Goodland.

Concordia will shift to a four man front if Scott City spreads the field.

“Looking at what they do

defensively, we feel we can have success running the ball,” says Turner.

However, a team with nothing to lose can be dangerous, he cautions.

“They could decide to throw everything at us. We have to be ready for anything - fake punts, on-side kicks, which we haven’t been very good at recovering,” he says. “We need to be ready to

3 qualify for state

SCHS girls 4th, boys are 5th in Class 4A regional

Kevin Reese couldn’t have asked for more from his Scott Community High School cross-country team.

Eight runners ran their fastest times of the season during Saturday’s Class 4A regional meet at Victoria. One school record fell by the wayside.

But, it still wasn’t enough to qualify either the boy’s or girl’s teams for the state meet this weekend in Wamego.

The Lady Beavers finished fourth and the boy’s fifth with only the top three teams advancing.

SCHS did qualify three individuals, including Makaela Stevens (3rd, 19:37) and Dulce Ayala (8th, 20:22), along with Jack Thomas (2nd, 16:10).

“The effort was there. We had the kids prepared and they were peaking at the right time,” says Reese, referencing the number of season bests over a tough course.

He noted that the results were better than three years ago when SCHS last competed in Class 4A and were completely shutout at the McPherson regional.

The head coach knew that if the results were going to be different this time around the Beavers would have to be performing at the top of their game and, for the most part, that was true. At the same time, there were some health issues heading into regional and that may have had the most impact on the Lady Beavers.

After working through a knee injury for about two weeks, Olivia Prieto (See X-COUNTRY on page 20)

Scott City sophomore Dulce Ayala runs through a wooded area on the Sand Plum cross-country course near Victoria during Saturday’s regional. (Record Photo)

take care of business like we did in the four games before Goodland.”

Turner is hoping the game is a final tune-up for Mikennon Donovan and Jaime De la Rocha who have been battling through injuries. After missing two games, Donovan saw limited action against Goodland while De la Rocha is expected (See FINALE on page 21)

Lady spikers ousted in sub-state finals

Advancing to the finals of the Class 4A sub-state volleyball tournament was almost a given on Saturday.

The Scott Community High School girls, however, had a much bigger prize in mind.

However, if they were going to advance to the state tournament they had to accomplish something they hadn’t done yet during a stellar season - beat Holcomb.

“We knew we would probably have to play our best games of the season,” said head coach Megan Gentry.

The Lady Beavers played good. Holcomb played better, handing SCHS a season-ending 25-21, 25-15 loss.

Having lost four previous matches to the Lady Longhorns, SCHS (27-10) got the start they needed when a kill by junior middle Emily Smith opened a 9-5 lead.

“I liked how we came out aggressive and put pressure on them,” says Gentry. “I felt if we could play like that and win the first game then the pressure would be on them. You could see on their faces that they were worried.”

The game was tied on seven occasions - the last time at 18-18 - before Holcomb put together four consecutive points during a critical stretch.

SCHS sliced the deficit to a single point, 22-21, before Holcomb closed out the win with three unanswered points.

(See SPIKERS on page 19)

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Hornets rout Longhorns for district title Foos, Lingg each score 4 touchdowns With just 52 receiving yards, it might appear that Hodgeman County was able to accomplish some-

thing that no other team had done this year - contain Dylan Foos.

Not quite.

The Dighton High School senior scored touchdowns in four different ways - rushing, receiving, a punt return and an interception return - in a

Fumbles 23 and got the ball back on fourth down following an incompletion.

The remainder of the quarter was an offensive clinic by the Beaver offense. In just 12 offensive plays they scored four touchdowns and just over 10 minutes into the game they were on top, 28-0.

On the second play from scrimmage, quarterback Bo Hess tossed a perfect pass to Jarret Jurgens who was all alone on a fly pattern. Jurgens caught the ball in stride at the Goodland 36 and was untouched as he finished off the 63 yard touchdown.

Turnovers by the Cowboys set up the next two SCHS touchdowns.

Linebacker Eddie Tilton recovered a fumble at the Cowboy 23 and despite a pair of Scott City penalties the Beavers eventually scored on a 13 yard swing pass from Hess to Wyatt Hayes. The short drive took 1:59 off the clock and was Scott City’s longest scoring possession of the first period.

Two plays later, the Cowboys again coughed up the ball and it was recovered by linebacker Nick Nowak at the eight yard line. On the first play, senior runningback Kevin Aguilera scored a touchdown.

The Beavers gained possession one final time in the opening period at their own 34 following a punt. It took just four plays, including runs of 43 and 17 yards by Aguilera before the Beavers again reached the end zone to extend their lead to 28-0.

“We executed well to start the game. We did what we wanted to do and what we needed to do,”

58-8 rout of Hodgeman County that clinched a district title and a first round home playoff game for the undefeated Hornets.

“When Dylan gets the ball in his hands good things will usually happen,” says head coach Ken Simon. “As coaches, our biggest question is

how we can use him so we can get the most of his ability.”

Typically, that’s been as a wideout for the Hornets where Foos is averaging 101 receiving yards per game and has scored 16 touchdowns.

Injuries last Friday

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says offensive coordinator Brian Gentry. “I felt we could run the ball and get to the edge whenever we wanted.”

Scott City finished with 310 yards on the ground, including a career high 133 yards on just six carries by Aguilera.

“Kevin has been running harder and harder each week over the past three or four games. It’s great to see how he finishes off a run. For no bigger than he is, he’s not going down easy,” says Gentry.

Hess was very effective in the passing game, completing 8-of-12 attempts for 143 yards and a pair of touchdowns.

“Early in the game we set up the pass well,” Gentry says. “Other than the one interception, Bo threw the ball well and he’s continued to get better each week.”

Gentry says the passing game is more effective than it’s been all season due to Hess’s ability to check down to different receivers. He completed eight passes to four receivers, led by Jurgens (2 for 64 yards) and J. Faurot (3 for 56 yards).

“Give credit to the line,” Gentry adds.

“They’ve done a nice job of giving him protection and allowing him time to go through his progressions.”

Offense Slows Down Perhaps everything came too easily and too quickly in the first quarter for the Beavers who added just one more score in the second period.

Following a punt that put them at their own 20, along with a penalty that backed Scott City up five more yards, the Beavers quickly moved the ball 85 yards in just seven plays.

Again, they were aided by big plays, including a 27 yard pass to senior wideout Justin Faurot, a 23 yard run by Aguilera and a 34 yard run by Jurgens that would have scored a touchdown if not for a penalty flag thrown at the goal line for an illegal block.

Jurgens did make it into the end zone three plays later on a two yard run for a 35-0 halftime lead.

“Jarret is a back who sets up and reads his blocks very well. He’s got great vision on the field,” Gentry says.

Defensive Domination The SCHS defense again contributed to a pair of third quarter touchdowns.

After Goodland had executed an on-side kick to start the second half, the Cowboys then fumbled the ball on consecutive plays. The second fumble was picked up by sophomore defensive end Wyatt Hayes who ran 51 yards for a touchdown.

A fourth down stop by the SCHS defense at the Scott City 38 led to a four play scoring drive which included a 42 yard run by Aguilera. Jurgens finished off the series with an eight yard run that pushed the SCHS lead to 49-0.

With a running clock for the final 13 minutes, the Scott City junior varsity added a 52 yard scoring drive that ended with a one yard quarterback keeper by Reid Brunswig.

Even after their second shutout of the season, head coach Jim Turner wasn’t pleased with the mental mistakes on both sides of the ball or Goodland’s ability to break four plays of 17 yards or more.

“Eight games into the season we still have

(defensive) tackles running up the field and not fighting pressure across their face,” says Turner. “(Defensive end Sherwood) Kyle does a great job of holding his ground on the edge, but he has to step into the tight end more. He needs to be aggressive and attack.

“There were a couple of things that Goodland ran at us which we hadn’t seen in awhile and it caught us on our heels,” added Turner. “Those will be things that get fixed this week.”

night forced Foos to step into the backfield.

“It’s something we know we have in our back pocket if necessary,” says Simon. “Dylan’s got great field of vision and reads his blocks. It gives us so many more options when we can keep him at end because we still have an

effective running game.”

Because of the switch, Foos’s receiving yards were well below average, but the versatile senior countered with 75 rushing yards to go along with a 54 yard punt return and a 48 yard interception return.

(See HORNETS on page 20)

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2 Pigskin Payoff entries barely miss perfection

When Holcomb fell short of a perfect season with their loss to Pratt last week it also meant that two Pigskin Payoff entries also missed out on perfection.

Clint Shapland and Ryan Roberts each had 15 correct picks. Both failed to pick Pratt to upset the Longhorns.

Shapland won top prize with the tie-breaker.

Alone in third place was Amy Norris with 14 correct picks.

She missed the Holcomb loss and also picked Washington to defeat Detroit.

Tied with 13 correct picks each were Lance Tucker, Tim McGonagle, Keith Shapland, Jan Tucker, Chad Griffith, Jon Berning, Morgan Vogel, Chris Rodriguez and Barry Switzer.

WCHS boys are runner-up in X-C regional

Team members on the SCHS bench celebrate a point during action against Colby in the sub-state semi-finals.

(Record Photo)

Spikers “Late in the first game and in the second game you could see Holcomb relaxing more and that allowed them to be more aggressive,” Gentry says.

The big difference between the two teams, however, was defense.

“You don’t see very many balls hitting the floor on their side of the net,” observed Gentry.

The second game was also tight with the score tied at 10-10 when Holcomb opened up a three point lead. SCHS senior Macy Berning delivered a kill and had a blocked shot that cut

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the deficit to 13-12.

However, Holcomb put the game away with nine consecutive points that opened up an insurmountable 22-12 lead.

“We stayed with them early, but eventually our mistakes caught up with us. We hit too many balls into the net and we were tipping (the ball) more than I’d like to see,” says Gentry.

The Lady Beavers advanced into the finals with a sweep of Colby, 25-19, 25-9.

their first winning season since 2012 and the most wins since 2011 (26-11).

“I’m so happy for the seven seniors on this team. They stuck it out for all four years and they put their trust in me that we could turn things around,” says Gentry. “There are a lot of girls who wouldn’t have gone through the hard times like they did, so I’m glad they were rewarded with the success they had.

“They played a big part of rebuilding this program and now it’s up to the next group of Senior Leadership The Lady Beavers enjoyed girls to keep it going.”

Seniors playing their final match at sub-state were Taylor Goodman, Cami Patton, Macy Berning, Kiana Yager, Brandi Shearmire, Clarissa Ratzlaff and Tyler Vondracek.

That also means there will be a lot of varsity positions open next season.

“These girls will have to put in a lot of work during the winter and summer if we’re to continue this level of success,” Gentry says. “Holcomb will be returning a lot of their girls and if we want to get to state that’s who we’ll have to go through.”

With four runners finishing within the top 11, the Wichita County High School boys were runner-up in the Class 2A regional cross-country meet held at Hill City on Saturday.

The Indians finished with 78 points, behind first place Salina-Sacred Heart (47) and ahead of Ellinwood (107).

Wichita County was led by Jorge Gallegos (4th, 19:00.8), followed by teammates John Biermann (8th, 19:05.6) and Joe Ridder (11th, 19:20.4).

Rounding out the top six finishes for WCHS were Rene Santillana (30th, 20:45), Gabe Hernandez (34th, 21.00) and Lane Wells (43rd, 21.45).

The lone state qualifier for the Lady Indians was Summer Smades (10th, 22:51).

Wichita County will compete in the state meet at Wamego on Saturday.

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The Scott County Record • Page 20 • Thursday, October 27, 2016

Hornets Early Injuries The Hornets pounced on traditional power Hodgeman County for a 22-0 first quarter lead and looked to be in control of the game, but two key injuries late in the first quarter and early in the second quarter forced some changes in the lineup.

Starting linebackers Lake Lewis (ankle) and Max Cummins (concussion) were sidelined.

In response, nose guard Logan Lingg was moved to linebacker and Gunther Shull moved to nose guard. Foos stepped into the backfield in place of Lewis, the starting fullback who had scored the game’s first touchdown on a 23 yard run.

Hodgeman County quickly took advantage of the lineup shuffle to score on a 43 yard run.

“When they scored I was a little worried since we had kids playing in positions where they hadn’t gotten a lot of reps.

They settled down and responded real well to the situation,” Simon says.

Any hopes of a Longhorn comeback were snuffed out when Dighton scored three unanswered touchdowns. Quarterback Tyler Lingg, who finished the night connecting on 14-of-18 passes for 182

Scott City’s Conner LeBeau races down a slope on the Sand Plum course near Victoria during Class 4A regional competition on Saturday.

(Record Photo)

X-Country was slowed by strep throat which had limited her ability to practice in the week leading up to regional. Prieto was able to compete, but not nearly to the level she had been throughout the season.

She finished in 59th place (23:00), well off the pace set by teammates Ayala and Trella Davis (26th, 21:18) who she had run side-by-side with during the year. Had she run a typical race, Prieto could have finished about 40 spots better, which would have been enough to close the gap between SCHS (113) and third placer Buhler (71).

Clay Center (56) and Hays (56) finished first and second, respectively.

Stevens, a state runnerup in Class 3A a year ago, was undaunted by the move to Class 4A with her fastest time of the season.

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“It didn’t feel like I was running a PR (personal record). I pushed myself the entire race and tried to stay with a couple of girls who started out ahead of me,” says Stevens. “I felt a lot more ready for this race than I had the last few.”

Emerging as a pleasant surprise was Ayala, a sophomore, who needed a PR to climb into the top 10 and a state qualifying berth.

“I made myself stay with the 10th girl and in the last 150 (meters) I made myself pass the girls ahead of me,” says Ayala, who climbed into eighth place with her late sprint.

“I knew I needed to do my part. Makaela was running in second and third place for the entire race and I knew she couldn’t do it all herself,” said Ayala.

Thomas Wins Silver Thomas continued his outstanding season with a runner-up finish to Smoky Valley’s Calvin Shannon (15:27).

“I think he was feeling better today,” Reese wryly said about his sophomore phenom. “He was pushing the pace, but he also ran a really smart race.”

“I wasn’t going to get caught up running someone else’s race like I did at Stanton (County),” noted Thomas. “In the last mile, I knew I could finish pretty well, so I pushed it a little harder.”

Conner LeBeau (21st, 17:28), a junior, finished as the team’s number-two runner.

“My ultimate goal was to finish closer to Jack in each race,” noted LeBeau.

“I’ve gotten closer - not as close as I want, but it’s the best I could do in one season.”

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yards, tossed TD passes of 17 and 34 yards to Foos and closed out the half with a six yard scoring strike to sophomore receiver David Cramer that pushed the lead to 44-8.

“Tyler’s getting nice protection and he’s doing a great job of making presnap reads and looking for matchups on his receivers,” says Simon.

Lingg also has confidence in his receiving corps, especially on a night when Foos was drawing consistent double-teams from the Hodgeman County secondary.

“Since they were focusing a lot of attention on Dylan that opened up opportunities for other kids to make plays.

It shows that we have options other than Dylan,” says the head coach.

Cramer finished with five catches for 34 yards and Dalton Hoffman had three receptions for 52 yards.

Foos added a 19 yard run in the third period and closed out the night with

a 48 yard interception return for a touchdown that ended the game on the 45-point mercy rule.

“The line deserves a lot of credit. We owned both sides of the ball,” Simon says.

In addition to L. Lingg and Shull at nose guard, the defensive line includes Isaac Torson and T. Lingg as the defensive ends. Offensively, Shull is the center and he’s joined

by Torson (left guard) and L. Lingg (right guard).

Defensively, the Hornets were able to shut down a Longhorn team that had been averaging 140 passing yards per game. They picked off four passes against a quarterback who had thrown just two picks in his first seven games.

“We worked a lot on coverages. We were in position and we made a lot of good plays on the ball,” Simon says. “Our defense was stout against a team that likes to run the ball. Except for the one touchdown play, we didn’t give up anything big.”

The Scott County Record • Page 21 • Thursday, October 27, 2016

Domination of Horns defines the Snyder era Since Bill Snyder became head coach at Kansas State, his record against mighty Texas is 7-4. That really says it all about Snyder’s career at K-State.

Texas has by everything Mac a big-time Stevenson college football program could desire in order to be successful - financial backing from wealthy alumni; a huge, modern stadium; being the flagship university in Texas; and the best high school football in the nation. Texas has it all.

But the Longhorns have struggled against Kansas State during the Snyder era.

Last Saturday’s 24-21 win almost cinched another bowl game for the Wildcats. K-State (4-3) still has Iowa State and KU on their schedule. Snyder’s team will have a record of at least 6-6 and, more likely, 7-5 or 8-4.

This Saturday’s game at Iowa State won’t be easy for the Wildcats. ISU has been particularly tough at home.

However, KSU should prevail.

Junior quarterback Jesse Ertz played his best game of the season against Texas - 20-of-27 for 171 yards and one TD. He also ran for 78 yards and two TDs on eight carries. Snyder wasn’t doing any back-flips in the locker room.

“Beats the tar out of a loss, but it’s not so much the win as how. If we play and prepare well, start to finish, we’d be better . . . that’s why I’m not jumping up and down right now.”

Snyder used the same plan that has been so successful in the past. He controlled the clock (38:27 to 21:33) and kept the proud Longhorns on their heels throughout the game. Texas coach Charlie Strong would be wise to make sure his resume is up-to-date because his days in Austin are numbered.

Snyder will have the majority of his outstanding players back next season and Kansas State will be in a position to challenge for a position in the top 10 in the nation.

How does he do it with recruiting classes ranked to(See SNYDER on page 23)

Beavers look to regain mental focus for playoffs With the scoreboard still showing Scott City’s 56-0 romp over Goodland last Friday evening, one would have expected the Beavers to feel pretty good about themselves.

After all, they had just locked down a district championship against a league opponent.

But, Kyle Cure was having none of that. A forced smile was the most he could manage in the wake of what he considered a disappointing team performance.

Disappointing?

In terms of preparation, the SCHS senior wasn’t happy with what he saw.

“It doesn’t matter who you’re playing,” said Cure. “It begins with the first day of practice and being mentally focused. You have to have the mindset that we’re going to get better each week.

You have to be prepared to play Scott City football.”

Nine penalties for 70 yards in the first half didn’t set well with Cure and his teammates.

“We didn’t come out prepared during practice on Wednesday and Thursday,” said junior lineman Nic Cheney. “We weren’t focused.

“During halftime, Coach (Turner) got our attention and I felt we played better in the second half.” * * * Not to make any excuses - and Turner and his players weren’t making any after the game - but there were some unusual circumstances at play last week.

By Thursday, word had already spread among the team about several Goodland players being kicked off the team (six two-way starters, according to some reports).

“We can’t blame our lack of focus entirely on the turmoil out of Goodland,”

Finale

emphasizes Turner. “We still have a job to do. Hopefully, we learned that you can’t just show up and play.”

At the same time, Turner wasn’t quite so critical of his team’s unusual number of penalties after seeing the game video.

Some of the penalties were non-existent, such as Chase Cupp’s big block at the goal line that temporarily erased Jarret Jurgens’ touchdown run.

“It was a clean block. He had his head in front of the kid,” says Turner. “He was hustling hard to get downfield and when you have that much weight moving in one direction it’s hard to back off.

“I think the official saw the (Goodland) kid flying toward the track and felt he had to make some kind of call.”

A chop block penalty was the result of a SCHS offensive lineman falling to the ground after making a block and a Goodland player tripping over him as he turned to chase down a runningback.

“The official saw the end of the play, but he didn’t see all that happened,” notes Turner.

“Some of our mistakes were mental and we have plenty of things to clean up, but it wasn’t as bad as it first seemed.”

Still, it says a lot for the Beavers and their coaching staff that they are willing to take a hard look at themselves, even after a 56-0 blowout. After all, there’s a much bigger prize at stake than a district title.

“We have some big games ahead of us and we can’t be making the same mistakes we made tonight,” says Cure.

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to return to action this week after missing all but a couple of games due to a lingering ankle injury.

De la Rocha and Donovan give the Beavers more size and depth at defensive tackle.

Donovan started the season as an offensive tackle, but may find a home on the defensive side of the ball for the remainder of the year.

“Mikennon and Nic (Cheney) are two big bodies that have been pretty effective in stopping the trap so they’re seeing a lot more playing time,” Turner says.

The head coach is keeping his options open, however, and says that Donovan could still be used on offense if necessary.

The sign of a championship program is never being content with where you are, but always looking at ways to get better. * * * The improvement in Scott City’s runing game has been significant over the past few weeks, especially with the ability of Kevin Aguilera and Jarret Jurgens to get to the edge for big yards.

At the same time, quarterback Bo Hess and his receivers have also made nice contributions to a run-oriented offense. Hess completed just 41 percent (26-of-64) passes through the first four games with four interceptions and four TDs. Over the last four games he is 31-of-51 (61%) with eight TDs and only one interception.

The Beavers are averaging 16.8 yards per reception.

However, there’s still room for improvement, says offensive coordinator Brian Gentry.

“The receivers must also be more consistent in running their routes so Bo knows where they’re going to be. We’ve done a good job in practice, but (against Goodland) it looked like we were trying to freelance because we thought we could take advantage of some coverages,” says Gentry. “You can’t do that.

You can’t trick your quarterback and make him try to guess where you’re going to be.”

The Scott County Record • Page 22 • Thursday, October 27, 2016

Congratulations. . .

Class 4A state qualifiers from Scott Community High School Cross-Country • Junior Makaela Stevens, sophomore Dulce Ayala and sophomore Jack Thomas

Golf • Senior Lizzy Eikenberry

Tennis Doubles • Seniors Emma Price and Krystal Appel

We are proud of your success!

Pigskin Payoff Week 8

Correct Tie Breaker Clint Shapland 15 54 Ryan Roberts 15 48 Amy Norris 14 54 Lance Tucker 13 36 Chris Rodriguez 13 54 Morgan Vogel 13 35 Jon Berning 13 49 Chad Griffith 13 52 Barry Switzer 13 42 Keith Shapland 13 45 Jan Tucker 13 45 Tim McGonagle 13 47

Week 7

Correct Tie Breaker First State Bank 14 40 Barry Switzer 14 38 Rick Wright 13 48 Rondo Switzer 13 45 Lance Tucker 13 45 Keith Shapland 13 42 Jan Tucker 13 41 Preston Wright 13 38 Morgan Vogel 13 35

Week 6

Correct Tie Breaker Jacob Rios 15 40 Larry White 15 56 Preston Wright 14 35 Rondo Switzer 14 43 Adam Kadavy 14 52

Week 5

Correct Tie Breaker Barry Switzer 14 49 Clint Shapland 14 41 Jon Berning 14 40 Walter Johnson 14 39

Week 4

Correct Tie Breaker Rick Wright 12 42 Tom Shirley 12 42 Amelia Ramsey 11 42 Landon Tucker 11 39 Mandy Kropp 11 36 Larry White 11 35 Walter Johnson 11 44 David Perry 11 47 Jon Berning 11 47 L. McGonagle 11 47 Tim McGonagle 11 49 Bob Blair 11 51 Sue Rogers 11 58

Week 3

Correct Tie Breaker Aaron Goodman 13 59 Tim McGonagle 13 49 Jon Lippelmann 13 42 Walter Johnson 13 42 Chad Griffith 13 42 Chris Rodriguez 13 42 Rick Wright 13 33 Ron Sinclair 13 38

The Scott County Record • Page 23 • Thursday, October 27, 2016

Snyder ward the bottom of the Big 12 every year?

Snyder and his staff have the ability to recruit the type kids they want in their program and develop their physical and mental capabilities until they can compete with the best in the conference. It’s truly the greatest long-running story in the history of college football.

Houston to Return Kansas City moved their NFL record to 4-2 last Sunday by beating New Orleans 27-21. However, the Chiefs didn’t control the line of scrimmage on either offense or defense. New Orleans lost the game by mistakes, KC didn’t win it.

Regardless of any shortcomings, Kansas City is right in the race in the AFL West Division.

The Chiefs are tied for first with Oakland and Denver with two defeats in the loss column. Coach Andy Reid has KC playing winning football again.

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OLB Justin Houston is practicing with KC and expected to return to the playing field in the next week or two. That’s going to change KC’s defense.

Houston is the Chiefs’ best pass rusher and he’s been sorely missed since his knee injury. In addition, rookie Tyreek Hill is coming on fast on offense with his blinding speed.

He can be a big-time difference maker.

This Kansas City team is coming on fast. If Houston and runningback Jamaal Charles can regain their former effectiveness, the Super Bowl is not an impossible dream.

There’s Hope for KU After KU’s loss (44-20) to Oklahoma State, four factors stand out concerning the rebuilding effort of Kansas football: 1) KU is a better football team than the 2015 ballclub.

2) The Jayhawks’ defense is much improved and a credit to Clint Bow-

SCHS X-Country Class 4A Regional • at Sand Plum, Victoria Girl’s Division Runner Overall Avg.

Placing Mile Finish Makaela Stevens 3rd Dulce Ayala 8th Trella Davis 26th Samantha Aguilar 49th Paige Winderlin 54th Olivia Prieto 59th Kodi Rogers 60th Top 5 Average

6:19.4 6:34.1 6:52.1 7:14.1 7:17.2 7:25.1 7:25.1 6:51.3

Boy’s Division Runner Overall

Placing Jack Thomas 2nd Conner LeBeau 21st Austin Rios 29th Jess Drohman 42nd Eric Frances 55th Theron Tucker 66th Chance Jones 77th Top 5 Average

Avg. Mile 5:12.5 5:38.0 5:40.5 5:47.4 5:58.0 6:06.0 6:11.5 5:39.3

19:37 20:22 21:18 22:26 22:36 23:00 23:00 21:15

Finish 16:10 17:28 17:37 17:58 18:30 18:55 19:13 17:32

en’s coaching.

3) Junior QB Montell Cozart had his best game at Kansas, but the young man is gun-shy about running the football.

4) And Coach David Beaty is doing okay as a recruiter, but he has to give up the illusion that he can be head coach and offensive coordinator at the same time. It isn’t working and it won’t work.

Beaty has to hire a new offensive coordinator - or go back to Rob Likens and then get completely out of the way. Beaty is too emotional on the sideline and he needs a cool gun slinger in the press box who can manage the offense and call the plays.

His most important roles are acting as head coach of the entire team and concentrating on recruiting.

Just because Beaty doesn’t have the right makeup for an OC doesn’t mean he can’t be an effective head coach.

The Scott County Record • Page 24 • Thursday, October 27, 2016

Drohman, Thomas contribute to SCHS football, x-country by pulling

double-duty It’s difficult enough to excel at one sport.

To excel in two sports during the same season would seem a daunting challenge, even for the best of athletes.

Scott Community High School senior Jess Drohman and sophomore Jack Thomas pulled double-duty during the fall season as members of the football and cross-country teams.

Over the years, only a couple of SCHS athletes have tried to compete in both sports, but with limited success.

However, football coach Jim Turner and cross-country coach Kevin Reese felt that Drohman and Thomas could be the rare exceptions. ”Based on what we’d seen from both boys in the past in football, track and cross-country, we knew they could benefit each of our programs,” says Reese. “We thought that if anyone was capable of doing both sports, these were two boys who could do it. Whatever decision they made was going to be fine with each of us.”

It was the two coaches who approached each athlete and told them that if they were interested they would arrange for it to happen.

Neither had to think long about the answer.

“It wasn’t a tough decision,” said Drohman, who decided to skip football his junior year to run cross-country. He went on to earn All-State honors with a 10th place finish at the Class 3A state championship.

But, the year away from football was a tough one, Drohman says.

“I missed it quite a bit. I was glad that the coaches gave me the chance to do both.”

Thomas had never considered the prospect of competing in both sports until approached

by Turner.

“I said yes right away,” says the sophomore, who was a 3200m state champion last spring. “I figured it would get my legs stronger and help with my conditioning for track.”

Two sports, naturally, means double the workload.

Instead of two-a-day practices in the fall, Drohman and Thomas were doing four-adays.

SCHS senior Jess Drohman (above left) and sophomore Jack Thomas compete in both football and cross-country this fall.

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They also had to add 6:00 a.m. cross-country workouts while taking part in football practices after school. It helped that both athletes had someone who could push them during the early morning practices.

“It probably helped me more than Jack,” said Drohman with a grin. “He’s a lot faster than me, so I had to work harder to keep up with him.”

Not for Everyone “It probably affected crosscountry a lot more than it affected us,” said Turner. “The only time we didn’t have them was for Thursday practices. We didn’t have to deal with fatigue or injuries like they did in crosscountry.”

Turner emphasizes that it’s not something he would recommend - or give his endorsement - for just anyone to try.

“This has been pretty tough on both boys. They’re both very hard workers and very dedicated or they wouldn’t have been able to do it,” he points out.

“I’m pretty proud of what they were able to accomplish.”

Reese agreed that not just anyone would be given the chance to compete in both sports.

“You could trust these boys to do the workout that was asked

of them without having to hover over them all the time to make sure they were doing what was expected,” Reese says. “If it’s a freshman wanting to do this, I’ll have my doubts. We had some history with these boys and knew their work ethic.”

In fact, one of the big concerns for both coaches was making sure that both athletes didn’t try to push themselves too hard.

“There are times, such as when you’re preparing for regional and state, that the best thing you can do is let your body recover. That’s hard to do when you’re still playing football and you’re wanting to do what your teammates are doing,” Reese points out.

“I think this season was probably a little tougher on Jess because of the amount of playing time he was getting on offense and defense. I’m sure there were some Saturday mornings it was pretty tough to climb out of bed at 6:00 in the morning.

Once we got to a meet and he began loosening up I think he felt quite a bit better, but it still took a lot of sacrifice on his part to help both programs out.”

didn’t prove nearly as difficult as the Friday football games and the Saturday cross-country meets.

“Saturday mornings could be pretty tough,” says Drohman, who was sidelined with an ankle injury for a couple of meets, including Wamego.

In addition to the sore muscles and possible injuries, both athletes also had to deal with road trips. Following a football game at Holcomb early in the season, Thomas rode in the family RV to Wamego for a cross-country meet the following morning.

Following the Wellington football game, both runners didn’t get home until about 2:00 a.m. and a few hours later made the trip to Lakin for a crosscountry meet.

Despite the long road trip and short night, Drohman was able to post what was, at that point in the season, his fastest time.

“I don’t know how I did it,” he says. “I was racing against a guy who I wanted to beat pretty bad.”

The trip took more of a toll on Thomas who didn’t win a gold medal for only the second time during the season Saturdays Were Tough The morning runs and the and, because of illness, had to afternoon football practices settle for third place the fol-

lowing week at the Great West Activities Conference meet.

“The last couple of weeks before regional were the toughest,” notes Thomas. “I had a chance to play a little more, especially at Wellington, and that can wear you down.”

While competing in both sports extracts a physical toll, Drohman says the mental hurdle was harder to overcome.

“Your body can take quite a bit more than you sometimes think it can,” he says. “It’s a matter of how strong you are mentally.”

After the SCHS boys finished fifth in the Class 4A regional cross-country meet, Drohman can now turn his attention fulltime to football.

Thomas, who was the only member of the boy’s squad to advance to state, was given the week off from football practice to focus solely on cross-country.

“I appreciate all that Coach Turner and Coach Reese have done to make this possible and to give me this chance to do my best at state,” Thomas says. “I want to make the most of this opportunity.”

Thomas hasn’t decided whether he will try to compete in both sports again next fall. He understands that the challenge will be greater since there’s a strong possibility that he will be a varsity starter.

“It’s going to get tougher when he’s playing more varsity,” adds Turner. “If he’s our quarterback or he’s an outside linebacker his body is going to take a lot more punishment.

That’s going to affect crosscountry.”

And he’s also concerned about the prospect of an injury.

“We’d love to have Jack on the football field. He’s a great competitor,” says the football coach. “But, he also has a future as a (Division) I athlete. I don’t want to see something happen in football that would get in the way of that.”

If he has to choose between one or the other, Thomas isn’t ready to make that decision.

“I want to do both, but I haven’t decided,” says the 16-year-old. “I love both sports and I’d hate to give one of them up. If I had to make that decision, I don’t know which way I’d go.”

Record Xtra

The Scott County Record Page 25 • Thursday, October 27, 2016

$133,000 grant awarded to Advocacy Center TOPEKA - Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center (WKCAC) has been awarded a grant by the Kansas Attorney General’s office to support its services for children who may have been victims of crime, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced today.

WKCAC will receive $133,006 to provide forensic interviewers who have been trained to work with child victims.

“Working with children who have experienced terrible crimes requires special skills,” Schmidt said. “Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center ensured these victims have a voice.”

Vehicle tag deadline is Mon. Pastor Brian Thompson of the Community Christian Church in Scott City.

(Record Photo)

Bricks and mortar church a new experience for Thompson For more than four decades, Brian Thompson has been spreading the word of God one person at a time, “like the disciples did,” he explains.

He’s now taking that message to a larger congregation as pastor of the Community Christian Church in Scott City.

“My church was wherever myself and someone could sit down and talk,” says Thompson. “I was with people who would never set foot in a church.

It gave me opportunities that I would have never experienced inside a church.

I’ve found that when you sit down with someone one-on-one they’re more willing to share.

“I feel that ministering to people as I did for about 45 years has given me a lot of practical wisdom and I can share those experiences with others.”

Born and raised in Bridgeton, N.J., in what he refers to as “South Jersey,”

Thompson’s father was involved in manufacturing and eventually went into business for himself.

“Pop had the whole family in church for as long as I can remember,” he says.

“I knew the Lord at an early age and I knew in my teens that the ministry would be my calling.”

Thompson’s path took him throughout the Midwest for 45 years where he traveled while a salesman for a company that manufactured glass products, including bottles, jars and tableware. It seemed appropriate.

“You start with a handful of dirt and end up with a beautiful bowl or pitcher,” he explains. “You purify glass with fire and you polish glass with fire. The Lord works through us in the same way and we come out better for it.”

Thompson, 67, retired about three years ago, but “my spirit was restless.

God had more for me to do.”

When he began looking for churches, Thompson learned of the Scott City opening and began having conversations with representatives of the church.

Thompson says it’s been an easy adjustment to his first full-time ministry.

“When I was involved in business, I was used to leading and speaking in front of a group,” he says. “The only difference now is that I get to talk about the gospel - with no restrictions - which is exciting.”

Thompson is even more excited about his new home.

“God has plans for Scott City and this church,” he says emphatically.

“This is an exciting time.”

Likewise, Thompson and his wife, Kalena, a native Hawaiian, feel that it’s God’s plans which brought them to Scott City.

“I’m anxious to see what he has planned for us,” he says.

Persons whose last name begins with the letter S are reminded that license tags must be purchased by Mon., Oct 31, to avoid a penalty.

Tags are due for autos, light trucks, motorcycles and motorized bikes.

License tags can be purchased at the county treasurer’s office.

Tags must be renewed during November for persons whose last name begins with T, V or W.

SCF Halloween fun run Sunday The Scott Community Foundation is sponsoring a Trick or Treat Halloween Fun Run on Sun., Oct. 30, 3:00 p.m., on the walking trail at Palmer Park, Scott City.

Prizes will be awarded to the best individual and group costumes as well as the top five finishers.

Early registration fee is $25. Fee the day of the run is $35.

To register, contact Brinlee Griffith at the SCF office.

Scott City Chamber of Commerce Haunted House Oct. 28-30 • Sat. matinee for kids 1-1/2 blocks north of railroad tracks

Foundation awards $37,000 in grants The Scott Community Foundation recently awarded $37,350 in grants to local organizations through the General Fund. Traditionally, the Scott Community Foundation awards $30,000 each year through the General Fund. Each year Scott Community Foundation has several individual donors that fund projects which help increase the dollar amount dispersed to local organizations.

Scott County EMS received $2,000 in funding from SCF and $3,000 from the Albert and Dee Hoeme Memorial Fund.

Scott County EMS is in need of EMTs. Purpose of this grant is to assist EMT students with course expenses (tuition, books and fees).

Scott City Elementary School received $2,200 for the Crisis Go Emergency App. The app enables staff members to communicate that there is an emergency.

This will allow all staff members in the school district to have access to the district’s crisis plan on their mobile device.

Scott City VIP Center received $1,500 from Arlene Cauthon for the purchase of a reverse osmosis water treat-

ment system in the kitchen.

Funding will also be used to purchase additional chairs for the sitting area.

Park Lane Nursing Home received $3,400 for their ongoing food services project called “dining choices.” Park Lane will purchase one salad bar and accessories for the dining room to increase the availability of fresh fruits and vegetables.

USD 466 (Scott County) received $1,600 in funding to assist with school counseling at Scott City Middle School and Scott City Elementary School.

The funding will help purchase the Second Step curriculum for each grade level. This curriculum promotes life success while working to prevent problem behaviors.

Scott County Library received $1,000 to continue development of the Story Book Walk on the Scott Community Walking Trail at Palmer Park. It will also fund the “6 by 6” program that focuses on literacy skills. Each child in the program will receive a paperback copy of the book that goes with the theme for each of six early literacy kits.

The SCHS theater department received $1,500 for body microphones to be used in the

auditorium. This will enable them to add one headset of wireless microphones to the theatre inventory.

The Scott County Arts Council received $3,700 for “Touring Artists-Schools.”

Students will be given the opportunity for a hands-on experience to learn more about literature, history, writing, creativity and music.

Thad Beach, through the Kansas Arts Council, conducted a week-long song writing workshop with SCMS fifth graders.

In addition, Robert Bitter, a retired band instructor, will hold an all-day clinic in March for SCHS and SCMS band students in preparation for contests and performances.

SCMS Student Council received $800 to purchase a filtered, refrigerated water bottle refilling station.

SCHS Digital Media received $1,000 for equipment updates. This grant will be used by the digital media classes.

Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center received $1,000 to help purchase new furnishings.

SCHS technology department received $1,000 to purchase a 3-D scanning machine.

SCHS vocational ag received a $1,000 SCF grant and $500 from George and Natalie Armantrout to purchase a plasma cutter.

SCMS instrumental music department received $1,000 for the purchase of instrumental equipment that can be utilized by every student as they learn rhythm and percussion techniques.

The SCHS Family and Consumer Science Program received $600 to purchase quality knives for use in the foods labs.

SCMS Music Theory and Technology class received $1,000 to purchase keyboards, keyboard stands and accessories. This course is designed for students in the middle school as an alternative to choir and/ or band.

The SCHS science department received $1,400 for earth and space science resources.

This is the first year the class was introduced at the high school and it is in need of additional supplies.

The SCHS strength/conditioning program received $800 to purchase a new set of bumper plates.

Friends of Lake Scott received $1,000 to aid in the

purchase of playground equipment at the state park. This is a two-year project with equipment to be installed near the bath house.

THe SCHS athletics department received $1,600 in funding from an anonymous donor to purchase Hudl, an on-line video program. Hudl will be used for football, volleyball, boys and girls basketball, and wrestling.

SCHS Youth Entrepreneurs received $750 in funding for field trips to Wichita and Kansas City and/or Denver.

Scott Recreation Commission received $750 to purchase new equipment bags for all of the youth softball and baseball teams.

K-State Extension received $2,500 to help complete a room in their new location that will be used for 4-H and community events Wichita County Arts Alliance received $750 from Hugh and Berta Binns. The project is a school music workshop and community concert.

Anyone interested in funding a specific project or creating a fund to support local non-profits can contact the Foundation (872-3790).

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Roemer on NSP legislative committee Earl Roemer, Scott City, is among five Kansans named to the National Sorghum Producers legislative committee.

“The sorghum industry needs strong producer voices as discussions on the next farm bill have already started,” says National Sorghum Producers Chairman Don Bloss. “Together the Legislative Committee will work to engage legislative and regulatory authorities under a new presidential administration on the issues most important to sorghum producers.”

The members of the NSP Legislative Committee guide NSP on agricultural policy issues and development in accordance with NSP’s mission to improve the sorghum industry through advocacy and leadership.

Other Kansans on the committee include: Dan Atkisson, chairman, Stockton; Lance Russell, Hays; Jim Sipes, Manter; and Kent Winter, Mount Hope.

The committee began duties on Oct. 1 and will have their first in-person meeting on Nov. 16.

Meetings on veterinary feed directive

Cattle producers have a number of opportunities to increase their understanding of the impact of the Food and Drug Administration’s Veterinary Feed Directive at meetings across Kansas this fall offered by Kansas State University Extension.

“The veterinary feed directive will change the steps producers will need to take to provide antimicrobials in feedstuffs,” said Sandy Johnson, KSU Department of Animal Sciences and Industry associate professor and Extension beef specialist. “Planning ahead will be key to adjusting to the new procedure.”

All of the changes associated with the new regulation will go into effect on Jan. 1. To prepare, producers need to become familiar with the regulation and the associated procedures.

Area meetings are scheduled for: Oct. 31: CAB Building, Sharon Springs, 6:00 p.m.

(MST) - RSVP for meal to 785-852-4285.

Nov. 1: 4-H Building, Goodland, 6:00 p.m.

(MST), RSVP for meal to 785-890-4880 Nov. 15: Ag Research Center, Hays, 5:30 p.m.

Cost of meal is $5, RSVP

by Nov. 10 to 785-6289430, tam3@ksu.edu.

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Crop insurance cuts were a good idea Alan Newport Drovers CattleNetwork

There’s an old joke that asks, “What do you call 100,000 lawyers on the bottom of the ocean?”

The answer: “A great start.”

I tend to think the same way about the entire U.S. crop insurance program. Until just days ago, it was slated for major cuts, although now it appears Congress has decided to fund it, backdoor, through a highway bill.

Crop insurance is one of the top enemies of beef production because it has brought about conversion of many

grassland acres to higher-priced crop land and driven up all land values.

The ethanol boom, which was driven by a direct 50-cent subsidy to fuel blenders for using ethanol, is a prime example of a subsidy-driven boom.

It ran wild 2005-2012, all the time pushing up corn prices, corn acres, soybean prices in sympathy, and land costs.

Research was bought and designed to prove argument for and against, but anytime a “new” industry begins to take 30 percent and more of a commodity, it drives up the price.

To argue otherwise is ridiculous.

Of course, I must quickly admit that farm programs such as crop insurance and crop subsidies are de facto a form of subsidy to beef and other livestock industries because they have historically driven down the cost of feedstuffs.

On the other hand, I could argue that without them beef should actually gain advantage over its chief rivals, pork and poultry, because they are highly dependent on grain and beef can be much less so.

At any rate, I would always choose a market system less adulterated by subsidies, one in which the government in all its wisdom does not pick the

winners and losers. History shows us - if we read history - that the gubmit ain’t so good at it.

In fact, taxation always robs from the winners (the profitable) and gives to the losers (the unprofitable).

Look at the wind energy “industry” as an example, which likely wouldn’t exist at all without massive subsidies and governmental mandates, which are also subsidies. But I digress.

Subsidized crop insurance tips the scales toward crop production on a limited land base because it (See IDEA on page 27)

Cattle placements a record low; cheap beef to continue U.S. feedlots in September brought in two percent fewer cattle than last year, the USDA said on Friday, which fell short of most trade estimates and resulted in a record low for that month.

Depressed profits discouraged ranchers from plucking their animals off healthy grazing pastures and deterred feedyards from buying young calves for fattening, analysts said.

Friday’s placement shortfall does not alter the overall outlook for low beef prices next year when those animals begin arriving at packing plants in early 2017, said analysts.

USDA’s report showed September placements at 1.905

million head, down two percent from 1.941 million last year.

That was well below analysts’ average forecast of 2.011 million and the smallest for that month since USDA began tabulating the data in 1996.

The government put the feedlot cattle supply as of Oct. 1 at 10.266 million head, nearly in line with 10.228 million a year ago.

Analysts, on average, had forecast an increase of 1.3 percent.

The government said the number of cattle sold to packers, or marketings, grew five percent in September from a year ago, to 1.732 million head.

Analysts projected a 6.2 percent rise from 1.642 million last year.

Rich Nelson, chief strategist with Chicago-based Allendale Inc, said the lower volume at sale barns where cattle are auctioned factored in to his placement forecast of 97.4 percent of a year ago.

“We had the cattle (prices) in the tank in terms of pricing.

That discouraged a lot of these guys,” said Nelson, referring to sellers. He cautioned that large numbers of heifers prepared to enter feedlots could again send subsequent placements higher.

The smaller-than-expected placement number might be partly due to the heavier-weight

NCBA: not voting for TPP isn’t an option While politicians on both sides of the aisle have differing opinions of the TPP, cattlemen across the U.S. are hoping to get the trade deal signed as soon as possible.

Colin Woodall, vice president of government affairs for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association spoke on AgriTalk Tuesday, telling host Mike Adams about the $400,000 a day the industry loses because they don’t have TPP. Since the U.S. doesn’t have access into the Japanese beef market, they are losing it to Australia. Australia’s tariff will decrease starting on Jan. 1, 2017, and will result in greater losses for the U.S. According to Woodall, NCBA found this has a “significant impact” on Congress who are seeing a daily quantifiable impact of not having TPP in place.

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For the NCBA, passing TPP is the number one issue during the lame duck session. Woodall said there’s been a lot of time, effort, and resources that have gone into visiting and talking with members of Congress to get a vote. He’s optimistic it can get passed.

“We are not giving up,” said Woodall. “If we do not get this done by the end of the year, we doubt we will ever have the opportunity to get TPP.” The election is a major reason why congress won’t vote on TPP, said Woodall. Even with a new administration or a new congress, he doesn’t believe TPP will have a chance.

“Not voting on it is not an option for the U.S. cattle industry,” said Woodall.

category, which dropped for the first time since July 2014, according to University of Missouri economist Ron Plain.

He added that the decline in those heavier cattle suggests the industry may have caught up with the supply of livestock available to go on feed.

Analysts viewed the report as bullish for CME live cattle on Monday despite the two-day rally in futures prices before the report was released.

Data showed that heifers in feedlots were up four percent year over year, which Plain said implies a slowdown in herd expansion due to low cattle prices.

Weather

Market Report Closing prices on October 25, 2016 Bartlett Grain Red Wheat............ $ 2.73 White Wheat ....... $ 2.73 Milo .................... $ 2.39 Corn ................... $ 2.89 Soybeans (new crop) $ 8.91 Scott City Cooperative Wheat.................. $ 2.74 White Wheat ....... $ 2.74 Milo (bu.)............. $ 2.39 Corn.................... $ 2.89 Soybeans ........... $ 8.91 Sunflowers.......... $ ADM Grain Wheat..................

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Corn....................

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Sunflowers..........

$ 2.83 $ 2.44 $ 2.94 $ 8.86 $ 13.35

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Pasta made its way to the New World through the English who found it while traveling through Italy. The English made pasta by cooking it for about a half an hour and then smothering it with cream sauce and cheese. This was the beginning of macaroni and cheese!

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White House reviewing GIPSA rule After a six year period of dormancy, Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack has sent a draft of rules changes to the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) act to the White House for final review. That suggests USDA is hoping to release them to the public before the Obama Administration leaves office in about 90 days.

In a letter to meat industry groups last week, USDA said the GIPSA

Idea reduces risk. Nothing in the beef cattle realm, neither Risk-ManagementAgency-subsidized options nor drought insurance, can create comparable or competitive rewards to crop subsidies.

Several years ago, the USDA Economic Research Service used an econometric model on a study area that includes 77 North-Dakota and South-Dakota counties. It estimated that crop insurance, marketing loans, and disaster payments increased land in cultivated crops by 686,000 acres (the average effect between 1998 and 2007).

This, ERS said, was roughly 2.9 percent of cultivated cropland acreage. Keep in mind this was mostly before the big corn-price increases beginning in 2005-06.

Put simply, when a farmer and a rancher are bidding on land, the one with the most money

rules include an interim final rule on competitive injury and two proposed rules to address undue preference and the poultry grower ranking system.

Vilsack said USDA is considering leaving out several provisions that were contained in the GIPSA rule proposed in 2010 that many in the beef and pork industries found objectionable.

Still, several meat industry groups object to USDA’s latest GIPSA proposal. Barry Carpenter,

president and CEO of the North American Meat Institute, says the interim final rule will “open a floodgate of litigation, upend the established system for marketing cattle, pork and poultry in the U.S., and add costs at every step along the process.”

The chairman of the Senate Ag Committee, Sen. Pat Roberts, has voiced his opposition to the GIPSA proposal.

He says, “if the proposal is in any way similar

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wins.

In case you’re doubting my land-price claims, a study in 2008 by Don Holfstrand of Iowa State University did a nice job explaining how subsidies always flow through to the most limiting resource, which in the realm of agriculture is land.

Further, Kansas State University economists studied and documented for years that a significant portion of the various farm payment programs were factored into land prices.

To further the explanation of competition from high-priced corn, in particular, let’s look at a 2013 study of changes in land use in the western Corn Belt. One of the researchers, Christopher Wright, a landscape ecologist at South Dakota State University, said crop prices have clearly been the key driver of aboveaverage rates of grass-to-

farmland conversion.

However, he added the evidence is that most expansion is on marginal ground, often class three and worse, and that insurance mitigates the downside risk on such poor soils, which typically are more drought prone.

Perhaps just as interesting is the fact the Census of Agriculture shows that nationally we had a net decline in crop acres since the beginning of the ethanol boom and a net increase in grassland acres from 2007 to 2012.

But, don’t overlook the poignant facts therein.

Only corn and soybean acres increased. Cotton, wheat, rice and more decreased more. However, it’s likely those acres just went into forage crops to wait on the day they can be broken out again, when crop prices are higher and crop insurance will keep the risk to a bare minimum.

to the 2010 GIPSA proposal he believes the U.S. livestock and meat sectors will be tremendously burdened during already difficult times.”

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says he supports the proposed GIPSA rule.

In a conference call with reporters, Grassley said he, “believes the rules will enable family farmers to have more confidence in the market and help ensure that they get a fair price for the efforts.”

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Auction

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Location: 10825 North Hwy. 83, Garden City (7 mi. N. of truck stop/1/8 mi. W.) (Actioneer Note: We’ll be running two rings - This is a partial listing)

Wayne Combs and Kelly Langdon - Owners

Tractors, Combine and Forklift Steiger Cougar II tractor, 4x4, duals, loaded (Ser# 20242) IH 806 L tractor, LP, 3 pt., dual hyd., (no cab) (50 hrs. on motor overhaul) (ser#16949S-Y) JD 6600 combine with header Towmotor forklift, propane, 12’ lift Jet Fork lift, gas motor

Machinery

3-Yard dirt scoop 3 pt. sprayer 3-7’ Noble blade 10’ Buck Scraper 12’ speed mover MF 3 bottom plow, 3 pt.

7’ blade, 3 pt.

7’ mower, 3 pt.

6’ oneway, 3 pt.

New turn buckles for Flex King Sweeps Amy portable disc roller Double implement hitch, hyd.

Implement carrier with hydraulic cylinders Caterpillar G333, irrigation motor, (nat. gas)

Vehicles, 4 Wheelers, Motorcycle

“77 IH L400 cabover, single axle truck 2003 Ford F-150 Triton pickup, XLT, V-8, 4x4 2002 Ford F-150 Triton pickup, XLT, ext.cab, 4x4, V-8 1997 Ford Expedition XLT 1998 Ford F-150 Triton, V-8, 4x4 1985 Dodge Ram 250 pickup

1982 Chevy suburban, 4x4 2002 Polaris 4x4 Sportsman700, 4-wheeler with blade 1996 Polaris 4x4 Magnum 425, 4-wheeler KAZUMA,Meerkat 50-4A, 4-wheeler 2002 Yamaha motorcycle, 1100 V-Star Gas scooter

Guns

Savage .17 HMR Marlin 44 Remington

Trailers

Several 2-wheel and 4-wheel trailers

Shop

Large bench grinder, 220V Central Machinery wood lathe, 12” x 36” (new) Clark Weld 100E wire feed welder New Central Pneumatic 2-cylinder air pump Parts washer Power washer with gas motor Industrial Dewalt radial arm saw Speedway Series spot welder Commercial airless sprayer Snap On roll carts 8” bench grinder High lift jacks Several air compressors: Industrial air compressor, B&S Motor Wood Bench with vice and bench grinder Several new creepers Several tool boxes Space heaters Router table Chain saws Chop saw Craftsman industrial band saw

Coats 700 wheel balancer Lots and lots new and used Hand tools Log Splitter Wood Chipper Industrial buffer Bolt Bins Several ladders, 8’-12’ Steel storage containers Lots and lots shop tools and supplies

Game Machines and Hot Tubs

Commercial poker gaming machine Pinball machine Basketball goals Shuffle board table New eight person hot tub

Household

Antique ice box Commercial copier New cast iron wood stove Misc. household furniture and appliances

Yard

JD 285 riding lawn mower Several lawn mowers Front tine tiller, turf till Craftsman walk-behind Weed Eater 2-wheel yard trailer Several weed eaters Chore master rototiller Garden tools Holland BBQ grill Ice chests

Miscellaneous

MAXA 5000 ER generator Farmhand front-end loader Cement mixer Concrete power skrid Lots misc.

New electric, plumbing, household supplies Misc. iron

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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.

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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

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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

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Landscaping • Lawn/Trees

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Paint inside and out residential, commercial, and industrial.

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We welcome new patients.

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Horizon Health For your home medical supply and equipment needs!

We service and repair all that we sell.

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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”...

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Dr. James Yager 110 W. 4th St. • Scott City • 872-2310 Toll Free: 800-203-9606

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Revcom Electronics

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1104 Main • Scott City • 872-2625

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Services

Optometrist 20/20 Optometry

Treatment of Ocular Disease • Glaucoma Detection Children’s Vision • Glasses • Contact Lenses

Complete family eye center!

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SCOTT CITY CLINIC 201 Albert Avenue (620) 872-2187 • www.scotthospital.net

Christian Cupp, MD

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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:

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Retail

Gene’s Appliance Over 200 appliances in stock!

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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

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www.reganjewelers.com

412 N. Main • Garden City • 620-275-5142

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Classified Ad Deadline: Monday at 5:00 p.m.

Classified Ad Rate: 20¢ per word. Minimum charge, $5.

Blind ad: $2.50 per week extra. Card of thanks: 10¢ per word. Minimum charge, $3. Classified Display Ad rate: $6.00 per column inch.

Classified advertising must be paid in advance unless business account is established.

If not paid in advance, there will be a $1 billing charge.

Tear sheet for classified ad will be $1 extra.

Help Wanted

Services

Agriculture

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.

TRIAL CLERK II (HALF-TIME) wanted!

Located in Lane County District Court, Dighton, Ks. Starting salary $11.51/hour. Must have high school diploma and one year of clerical experience. Computer experience required. Benefits available. Applications available at www. kscourts.org/pdf/application.pdf or the Clerk of the District Court, Lane County Courthouse.

Applications accepted through Nov. 14, 2016.

Inquiries may be directed to Marlene Rupp, P.O. Box 188, Dighton, Ks. Call 620-397-2805.

The Unified Judicial Department is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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WANT TO BUY. Stored corn. Call for basis and contract information.

1-800-579-3645.

Lane County Feeders, Inc. 32tfc ____________________ WANT TO BUY. Wheat straw delivered. Call for contracting information.

Lane County Feeders, 397-5341.

44tfc ____________________ 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 620-397-2350.

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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. ________________________________

1, 2 AND 3 BEDROOM APPARTMENTS for rent. Call 620-874-8353.

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2-BEDROOM HOUSE for rent. Washer and dryer hookups. Water and trash paid. $400 rent. $400 deposit. Call 620-655-3070.

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GARAGE SALES 109 W. Bellevue Ave. Scott City Sat., Oct. 29 • 8:30 a.m. - Noon Lots of men’s clothes; Tools; Kitchen items; Office chair; Bedding; Lots of books; Refrigerator; Two leather motorcycle coats; Saddlebags; and Jeffery Banks bombardier jacket

Berry Realty • 872-5700 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

Storage Unit Sale No. 40 - Last row ET Enterprises 1715 S. Main, Scott City Sat., Oct. 29 • 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Lots of sewing material; TY Beanie Babies; PEZ dispensers; Jim Shore collectibles; Other misc. collectibles and antiques.

A collector’s dream!

1209 Sante Fe Scott City Sat., Oct. 29 • 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Antique furniture; Small appliances; Dishes; Home decor; Tools; Clothing; Floral; Arts and crafts Yard/Moving Sale 403 College Scott City Fri., Oct. 28 • 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Sat., Oct. 29 • 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Mowers; Clothes; Tools Lots of misc.

Everything must go!

For Sale LIFT RECLINER CHAIR for sale. Brown color, like new. Used for very short time. $300.

Call 620-874-4254. 1116t2 ________________________________

CLAW-FOOT, IVORY, FIBER GLASS TUB for sale. $200 OBO. Call 620874-4254.

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Livestock

REGISTERED ANGUS BULLS. Crooked Creek Angus, St. Francis, Ks. Call 785-332-6206. www. crookedcreekangus.com.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

If you want to drink, JONES CLUB that’s your LAMBS business.

If you want to stop, that’s ours.

Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

Jeremy • 620-397-1638 Tuesday nights at Stefanie • 620-397-8075 113 W. Hwy 4, Healy, Ks 8:00 p.m. at the bustn2kick@st-tel.net United Methodist Church basement (use west door).

412 College, Scott City.

Al-Anon at same time and location.

Contact: 874-0472 or 872-3137. 25tfc

District 11 AA Meetings

Scott City

Unity and Hope Mon., Wed. and Fri. 8:00 p.m.

807 Kingsley Last Saturday of the month Birthday Night • 6:30 p.m.

All open meetings 214-4188 • 214-2877

Dighton Thursday • 8:30 p.m.

535 Wichita St. All open meetings 620-397-2647

We have room for you!

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Employment Opportunities

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Play of the Week Wednesday, Oct. 26 - Tuesday, Nov. 1

Philadelphia vs. NY Giants

Shredded or Chuck Cheese

Nebraska vs. Ohio State

2/ 3 $

Holcomb vs. Scott City

Ingalls vs. Dighton

1314 S. Main Scott City 872-5854 www.heartlandfoodsstores.com

Weekly Prizes - 1st • $15 2nd • $10 3rd • $5

Nickerson vs. Clay Center

Pigskin Payoff Season Prizes

Grand Prize = $300 • Second Place = $150 $ 75 to first perfect entry of the season

Week 10 - Pigskin Payoff Entry Form Find the Ad

Carolina vs. LA Rams

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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Holcomb vs.

Scott City

Philadelphia vs.

NY Giants

Nebraska vs.

Ohio State

Ingalls vs.

Dighton

Denver vs.

Oakland

Wisconsin vs.

Northwestern

Detroit Lions vs.

Minnesota

Alabama vs.

LSU

Buffalo Bills vs.

Seattle

Oklahoma State vs.

K-State

Oregon vs.

USC

Indianapolis vs.

Green Bay

Texas vs.

Texas Tech

Pittsburgh vs.

Baltimore

Carolina vs.

LA Rams

Nickerson vs.

Clay Center

Fertilome Winterizer - Two bags for $3499 Denver vs. Oakland

The Green Haus Nursery & Garden Center 507 Ora • Scott City • 872-5309

Wisconsin vs. Northwestern

Tie-Breaker - Oklahoma St. vs. K-State ___________________ (Guess the combined score of the game)

Name: ____________________________________ Address: __________________________________ Phone: ____________________________________ Email: ____________________________________

Detroit Lions vs. Minnesota

Contest Rules Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore

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.

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!

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.

Texas vs. Texas Tech

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.

6) The judge’s decision will be final.

*(See schedule below for eligible events indicated by*)

“Cram the Van” at these upcoming events

Friday, October 28

Wheatland Electric Office - Great Bend

Saturday, October 29

Wheatland Broadband - Scott City* Drop off non-perishable food items at your Wheatland Electric office anytime!

Alabama vs. LSU

Watch for the BIG RED Wheatland Electric Van in your community!

Go Beaver

s!

Buffalo Bills vs. Seattle

Michael Trout, Agent 112 W. 3rd St., Scott City 620.872.5374 Indianapolis vs. Green Bay

Oklahoma St. vs. K-State Oregon vs. USC