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A Russell native who died when part of a grain elevator collapsed will have a permanent memorial in his hometown.
Russell High School has named a memorial patio and shelter house for Sean Banks, who graduated from the school.
The 19-year-old Banks died June 24, 2010, when part of the Russell grain elevator collapsed.
The memorial was introduced between the school’s baseball games Monday.
The Sean Banks Memorial Patio and Shelterhouse is between the football field and baseball field. It was built using funds from Banks’ memorial, with some funds coming from the school.
Banks was a three-sport athlete at Russell, competing in football, wrestling and baseball.
It’s almost unimaginable. No one picked the six correct numbers in the latest multi-state Mega Millions lottery game, sending the jackpot to a record $476 million for the Friday drawing.
Tuesday night’s jackpot was $363 million, fed by weeks of drawings without a top winner. The previous record jackpot in the Mega Millions game was $390 million in 2007, split by two winners in New Jersey and Georgia.
In Tuesday night’s game, 47 players came very close, matching 5 of the 6 winning numbers. Each of those tickets is worth at least $250,000.
Mega Millions is played in more than 40 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The winning numbers Tuesday night were: Nine, 19, 34, 44 and 51. The Mega Ball was 24.
Each day during legislative session, Rep. Eber Phelps presents his update here on Hays Post and also on 14 KAYS AM after the noon news, brought to you by the Hays Area Chamber of Commerce.
Rep. Eber Phelps March 28, 2012
Day 71,2012
Daniel E. Pfeifer, age 73 of Hays, passed away Monday, March 26, 2012, at Hays Medical Center. He was born April 15, 1938, in Hays to Eugene and Irene (Dinges) Pfeifer. He graduated from St. Joseph Military Academy in 1955, and he received an Electrical Engineering Degree from Kansas State University. He married Emily Werth August 29, 1959, in Schoenchen.
He was an Electrical Engineer for Honeywell in Minneapolis, MN, a farmer/rancher, and later, a systems manager for the IT department at Fort Hays State University. He was very active in his church: helping with religious education in Fridley, MN; RCIA, CCD and parish council at St. Mary Catholic Church in Ellis; and a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church of Hays.
He is survived by his wife Emily of Hays; three sons, Kevan (Melanie) Pfeifer of Shepherd, MT, Robin Pfeifer of Miles City, MT., and Randall (Deborah) Pfeifer of Hays; two daughters, Stephanie (Leslie) Pedersen of Aurora, CO, and Kimberly (Brian) Weber of Manhattan, KS; and a sister, Kay (Dennis) Stegman of Elkhorn, NE. He is also survived by sixteen grandchildren: Micke’l (Ashley), Janek (Alison) Pfeifer, Breanna (Jesse) Seltmann, Grayson and Christian Pfeifer, McKenna, Mesa and Tristan Pfeifer, Rachel and Jacob Pedersen, Ember, Joseph and Trevor Pfeifer, and Hayden, Keith and Audra Weber, as well as seven great grandchildren: Mason, Elizabeth and Faith Pfeifer, Hudson Pfeifer, Rome, Kyla and Cash Seltmann.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a grandson, Chance Pfeifer, and a brother, William Pfeifer.
Funeral services will be 10:00 A.M. Friday, March 30th at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Hays. Burial will be in St. Joseph Cemetery.
Visitation will be Thursday 4:00 P.M. – 8:00 P.M. and Friday 9:00 A.M. – 9:30 A.M. all at Brock’s North Hill Chapel, 2509 Vine, Hays, KS 67601.
There will be a rosary service at 6:30 P.M. followed by a parish vigil service at 7:00 P.M. Thursday at the funeral home.
Memorials are suggested to Alpha-1 Foundation [2937 SW 27th Ave., Suite 302, Miami, FL 33133], Thomas More Prep Marian High School [1701 Hall St., Hays, KS 67601], or Capuchin Province of Mid-America [P.O. Box 11605, Denver, CO 80211]. Condolences may be sent to the family by guest book at www.keithleyfuneralchapels.com or emailed to [email protected].
A study released at the beginning of the year from the Kansas Association of School Boards looked at several areas of education and found marked improvement from assessment and ACT scores to high school graduation rates. Ads from the Kansas Policy Institute discount those results, but KASB Associate Director Mark Tallman says the KPI analysis doesn’t include the students who are deemed proficient.
Tallman says the KASB knows that they still need to get better, but there should be recognition for how much improvement there has been.
The Wolf Creek nuclear power plant in eastern Kansas has resumed producing electricity.
The plant was brought back on line Tuesday following a shutdown of about two months.
Problems at the plant began Jan. 13 when an electrical circuit breaker failed. Wolf Creek employees tried to switch to power coming in from the electrical grid, but a transformer failed and the plant lost its connection to the grid.
It was the third time in four years that Wolf Creek lost all off-site power.
Wolf Creek is owned by Kansas City Power & Light Co., Topeka-based Westar Energy and the Kansas Electric Power Cooperative. During a shutdown, the companies rely on other generating plants they own or buy electricity from other utilities.
A frontal boundary will stall out across Central Kansas by this afternoon.
However, partly cloudy skies and dry conditions are anticipated throughout the day. An upper level shortwave will move across the plains tomorrow and help push a cold front across parts of western Kansas before stalling out across South Central Kansas. A chance of thunderstorms will be possible across Central and South Central Kansas in the afternoon into the evening.
High pressure will be the dominate feature across the Central Plains Friday through Sunday as the next storm system approaches from the west. This storm system is forecasted to move through Sunday night into Monday and push a cold front through the area. However, no precipitation is anticipated at this time.
Today: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 10am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 78. East southeast wind between 9 and 13 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 53. East southeast wind between 3 and 7 mph.
Thursday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 80. South southeast wind 8 to 10 mph becoming west northwest.
Thursday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 50. North northwest wind between 5 and 11 mph.
Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 78. North northeast wind around 6 mph becoming south southeast.
Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 53.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 81.
The Fort Hays State baseball team earned a split with Washburn on Tuesday in Hays. FHSU dropped game one by a score of 12-6, but held on in game two 9-6 to earn the split. FHSU is now 10-12 overall and 8-9 in the MIAA. Listen to game hightlights and Steve Johnson’s postgame interview below.
Game 1: Washburn 12, Fort Hays State 6
Fort Hays State looked as if it was going to run away early with the first game. Nash Smith led off the bottom of the first with a triple, followed by a Sheldon Howell RBI single and a Mace Krol two-run homer. FHSU led 3-0 before Washburn recorded an out, but could not get more in the inning after a Washburn error, stranding two runners in scoring position.
FHSU starter Sam Thornton was cruising through three innings without allowing a run, until he finally ran into a snag in the fourth. Washburn rallied for five runs, all on two outs, and chased Thornton from the game. Thornton went 3.2 innings in his first game of the season, allowing five runs (four earned) and seven hits with one strikeout. Casey Pierce got the final out of the inning, but Washburn took a lead that it would never relinquish the rest of the way.
Nash Smith pulled the Tigers within one in the bottom of the fourth with a sacrifice fly RBI, but Washburn exploded for four more runs in the top of the fifth to lead 9-4. Pierce could not record an out in the inning before giving way to JJ Jaramillo, who pitched two innings of relief. Pierce allowed three of the four runs in the inning. Jaramillo went on to allow a total of four runs, which included one in the fifth, one in the sixth, and two in the seventh. Andy Hammeke picked up the last three outs in the seventh and was the only Tiger pitcher not charged with a run.
The Tiger offense scored only twice more after falling behind 9-4, that was in the bottom of the fifth with two runs on solo home runs by Ryan Busboom and Brandon Hoefler.
Thornton was charged with the loss. He is now 0-1. Washburn starter Eric Schmid settled in to earn the win in 5.2 innings of work. He allowed all six to FHSU.
Game 2: Fort Hays State 9, Washburn 6
Much like game one, the Tigers got out to a hot start with three runs in the first and second innings to take a 6-0 lead. However, the Tigers would have to hold off the Ichabods in the later innings to earn the win.
Ryan Busboom triggered the scoring in the first with a two-run home run. Brandon Hoefler delivered an RBI single two batters later after a JC Ochoa double.
The long ball helped the Tigers once again in the second as Chris Santoscoy had a solo home run and two batters later, Sheldon Howell hit a two-run homer.
Washburn cut the lead in half in the fourth on a Brad Alberts three-run home run, but FHSU got one run back in the sixth on an RBI single by Nash Smith.
Washburn continued to apply pressure in the seventh with a two-run homer from Tyler Bean, but a solo home run by Mace Krol in the bottom half of the inning pushed the lead back to three for FHSU at 8-5.
Washburn had opportunity thwarted in the eighth as FHSU reliever Brett Macari worked out of a bases-loaded jam. He allowed just one run on a hit batter before getting an inning-ending groundout. An error in the inning led to the bases loaded situation, so the run was unearned.
The Tigers tacked on their final run in the eighth on an RBI single by Howell. Macari worked a 1-2-3 ninth inning to preserve the Tiger win, although when he entered the game in the seventh it was not a save situation.
Kyle Leroy picked up the win in 3.1 innings of relief. He scattered four hits and struck out three, while allowing just one run. FHSU starter Nathan Zimmerman last three innings before allowing all three runs to the Ichabods in the fourth. He struck out three and allowed seven hits. Brett Macari worked the final 2.2 innings, allowing two runs (one earned) on one hit with three strikeouts.
Washburn starter Xavier Lewis took the loss, moving to 0-1 on the season. He allowed six runs in 1.2 innings of work.
– FHSU Sports Information –
Game 1 Highlights:
FHSU Highlights Game 1
Game 2 Highlights:
FHSU Highlights Game 2
Steve Johnson Postgame Interview:
Coaches Interview
A Jackson County judge says he will rule by the end of next week on a motion to dismiss a misdemeanor charge against a Kansas City Roman Catholic bishop accused of failing to report suspected child pornography on a priest’s computer.
Circuit Judge John Torrence says he also will rule on a motion to sever the cases of Bishop Robert Finn and the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. Both face the same charge, and prosecutors want both cases decided in the same trial.
Finn’s attorney, J.R. Hobbs, told the court Tuesday that separate trials are necessary because much of the testimony in the diocese case wouldn’t be pertinent to Finn’s case.
Hobbs also argued that Finn was not his diocese’s designated reporter so the charge should be dropped.
A good start to the season for the Hays High baseball team as they take two from Kapaun Mt. Carmel, 7-3 and 3-0.
Austin Unrein allowed one run on one hit over six innings in the opener, striking out five and walking one. Hayden Hutchison pitched a complete game four-hitter in game two, striking out seven and walking none.
Hutchison and Trevor Henningsen both drove in two in the first game while Unrein had three hits in game two.
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