The work to select the next Pope continues in Rome. Just after 5 a.m. CDT, more black smoke was seen in St. Peter’s Square. The Cardinals have taken three votes.
Many Clergy members are hinting that the secret conclave could have a decision later today. One Cardinal must receive 77 votes, in this centuries old tradition, to become the next Pope. If a new Pope is not chosen by Friday, Cardinals will hold a day of prayer and reflection on Saturday before resuming the vote.
Bob Schmidt, long time President and CEO of Eagle Communications will be recognized with the Pioneer Award by the Broadcasters Foundation of America.
The award will be presented at the Foundation’s annual breakfast on April 10, during the National Association of Broadcaster’s Show in Las Vegas. In addition to Schmidt, four other individuals with highly distinguished careers will also be honored for their contributions to the broadcast industry. They include Charles Osgood, CBS News; Skip Finley, Former executive with Inner City Broadcasting; David Kennedy, former President and CEO of Susquehanna Broadcasting; and Mike McKinnon of McKinnon Broadcasting.
Schmidt’s former leadership positions have included:
Past Chairman of the CBS Television Network Affiliates Association
Past Chairman of the National Associated Press Broadcasters Association
Past Chairman of the Kansas Association of Broadcasters
Past Chairman of Kansas State Chamber of Commerce
Past Chairman of the Political Action Council of Kansas
Community Leadership: Hays United Fund, Smoky Hill Country Club, Ellis County Coalition for Economic Development, and many others
Schmidt served in the Navy in the Philippines in WWII. He then began a career in Radio while in college as a sportscaster. Upon graduation from Fort Hays State University in 1950, he was appointed General Manager of KAYS Radio. He was elected Vice President and Director in 1952 of KAYS, Inc. In 1989 he purchased control of the corporation and was elected President/CEO. While leading the corporation, the company built or purchased 24 Radio and Television stations and 12 Cable Systems in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Texas. The company currently owns and operates 28 “Award Winning” community radio stations and serves 30 communities with broadband service including internet, video, and voice service. The company also offers wireless broadband service in many of the rural areas they serve. Schmidt retired as President/CEO of Eagle Communications in 1998 and sold the majority interest in the company to its employees through a Employee Stock Ownership Plan. Nearly 300 Eagle Employee Owners continue to build the company and share in the value of ownership. Bob Schmidt maintains his office in Hays and supervises the management of Sweetwater Ranch near Hays, and is actively involved in numerous business projects including real estate, stocks/bonds, and oil and gas development.
Among the leadership award Schmidt has received:
“Distinguished Service Award” – Kansas Association of Broadcasters (1972)
“Kansas Broadcaster Hall of Fame” – Kansas Association of Broadcasters (2000)
“Broadcaster of the Year” – University of Kansas (1964)
“Outstanding Young Man of the Year Award” – Hays Chamber of Commerce (1956)
The Pioneer Awards are given annually in recognition of career contributions to the broadcast industry and the community at large, and are named in honor of iconic broadcaster Ward L. Quaal.
After some morning cloudiness, skies will become mostly sunny today with high temperatures in the upper 40s to lower 50s. It will be mainly dry through the weekend. There is just a slight chance of rain saturday night and sunday night.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 66. Breezy, with a south southwest wind 7 to 12 mph increasing to 17 to 22 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 38. South southwest wind around 8 mph.
Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 74. West southwest wind 9 to 11 mph becoming north northwest in the afternoon.
Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 42. North wind 6 to 9 mph becoming south after midnight.
Friday: Sunny, with a high near 80.
The Kansas House is preparing to debate two measures backed by gun rights advocates.
One bill on the House’s debate calendar Wednesday would allow school districts and state colleges to designate employees who could carry concealed firearms inside their buildings, even if such weapons were banned for others.
The measure also would expand the number of public buildings where people with a state permit could bring concealed weapons. State law now generally bans concealed weapons in courthouses and other public buildings where officials post notices.
Another bill up for debate declares that the federal government can’t regulate firearms manufactured, sold and kept in Kansas.
The measures are a reaction to discussions about new gun-control measures by federal officials in the wake of December’s mass school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
A Kansas House committee has approved a plan from its Republican chairman to cut sales and income taxes. Now the entire House will get to debate the issue.
The proposal approved Tuesday by the Taxation Committee rejects key elements of GOP Gov. Sam Brownback’s plan for following up on individual income tax cuts enacted last year.
The proposal from Chairman and St. Marys Republican Richard Carlson allows the state sales tax to fall to 5.7 percent in July, as scheduled by state law.
Brownback wants to keep the sales tax at its current 6.3 percent rate to stabilize the budget while pursuing further income tax cuts.
The governor wants to phase in fresh cuts in income tax rates over four years. Carlson’s plan is less aggressive.
The committee’s voice vote sends the measure to the entire House for debate.
Paul Seib Jr., Ness City, will be inducted into the Kansas Cooperative Hall of Fame March 20, 2013, during the annual meeting of the Kansas Cooperative Council and Kansas Farmers Service Association.
Seib has served as a board member for local and regional cooperatives for more than 30 years.
In addition to serving on the board of his local co-op, Lane-Scott Electric Cooperative, Inc., he joined Hays-based Sunflower Electric Power Corporation’s board in 1979. Seib also served as Sunflower’s representative on the Western Fuels Association Board of Directors.
He was one of the original members of the board of directors for the Washington, DC, based Western Power Producers, a cooperative organization of generation and transmission cooperatives formed in 1989 that worked to help its members find operational efficiencies and advocated for rural electric power.
The Kansas Cooperative Hall of Fame was formed in 1999 by the Kansas Cooperative Council to recognize Kansans who have been instrumental in developing and spreading the cooperative philosophy on the state, national or international levels.
All inductees are honored in a permanent display at the Kansas Cooperative Hall of Fame exhibit, located in the Pride of Kansas Building on the Kansas State Fairgrounds in Hutchinson.
Fort Hays State picked up a doubleheader sweep in non-conference play at Newman University in Wichita, Kan. on Tuesday. The Tigers won game one in come-from-behind fashion, 5-3 in eight innings, and then won game two 6-2. Fort Hays State improved to 15-3 overall heading into MIAA play.
Fort Hays State 5, Newman 3 (8 inn.)
The Tigers held the early advantage after a RBI single by pitcher Paxton Duran in the second, but Newman took advantage of a bases loaded situation with no outs in the fifth and scored three runs in the inning.
Tori Beltz kept the Tigers alive with a two-out, two-RBI double in the sixth to tie the game, which would eventually force extra innings.
The game was decided by the international tiebreaker in the eighth as Danie Brinkmann was placed on second to start the inning. Amanda Vaupel immediately gave the Tigers the lead with a RBI double and two batters later, Beltz drove home Vaupel with her second double of the game to put FHSU up 5-3.
After starter Paxton Duran struggled at the beginning of the fifth, Maddie Holub entered with one out in the inning and shut the door on the Jets the remainder of the game. She allowed just one hit and one walk, while striking out seven in her relief appearance of 3.2 innings. She moved to 8-0 on the season with the win.
Fort Hays State 6, Newman 2
Maddie Holub started game two of the doubleheader and held the Jets scoreless over the first two innings, not allowing a hit and striking out two.
Once Fort Hays State exploded for five runs in the third, head coach Erin Kinberger went with Jordan Jones the rest of the way in the pitching circle to give Holub rest entering conference play this weekend. Jones allowed two runs the rest of the way, just one earned, as she picked up the win in 5.0 innings of relief. She allowed seven hits and struck out four, moving to 2-0 on the season.
Holub broke a scoreless tie in the third with a RBI double. Amanda Vaupel knocked Holub in with a RBI single. Paxton Duran immediately followed with a two-RBI double and then she later scored on a throwing error by the Newman catcher. Courtney Dobson drove home the final run for FHSU in the fourth with a RBI groundout. FHSU led 6-0 before Newman picked up single runs in the fifth and seventh.
Fort Hays State opens MIAA play at Emporia State, the defending conference champion, on Friday, then make the short trip up to Topeka for another conference doubleheader at Washburn on Saturday.
– FHSU Sports Information –
An election will be held Thursday in Ellis County to elect a representative for the Silver Haired Legislature. Anyone 60 years of age and older and registered in Ellis County may vote.
Candidates include Bob Fairbank, Alberta Klaus and Janis Schwab, all of Hays.
To vote in the election, you must be registered as a Kansas voter in Ellis County, be 60 years of age or older, and provide proof of ID.
The election will be at the following locations:
* Ellis Nutrition Site, 103 W. Eighth, 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
* Hays Senior Center, 2450 E. Eighth, 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
* Victoria Nutrition Site, 601 W. 10th, 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
* Northwest Kansas Area Agency on Aging, 510 W. 29th, Ste. B, 8:30 a.m to 4:30 p.m.
The Fort Hays State women’s golf team finished third at the two-day Central Missouri Invitational in Branson. The Tigers shot a two-round 778, 42 shots behind first-place Missouri Western. Northwest Missouri State finished one-shot back of the Griffons.
Carmen Thompson and Samantha Hobson led the way for the Tigers, both shooting a 187 to tie for seventh, 21 back of the lead.
On April 27, a special
day for the birds at the Kansas Wetlands Education Center, a branch of Fort Hays State University’s Sternberg Museum of Natural History, will begin with the first-ever 5K Wild Goose Chase and end with a lecture on helping birds.
The 5K, at KWEC, 592 NE K-156 Highway, Great Bend, will begin with registration at 7:30 a.m. The race, beginning at 9 a.m., will take runners through Cheyenne Bottoms and end near the KWEC. A one-mile walk will also be available.
Anyone can participate. Prizes will be awarded in age divisions for men and women. The registration fee is $25 until April 15. The fee is $35 after that, and late registrants are not guaranteed a T-shirt.
To pre-register, go to wetlandscenter.fhsu.edu. or For more information, contact Curtis Wolf, manager of the KWEC, at 1877-243-9268 or [email protected].
Chris Young is one of country music’s top stars, so it’s hard to imagine him getting really excited to meet any other country artist at this point. For Chris, the top songwriters in Nashville are the real superstars. That’s why he was so excited to work with his co-writers on his new single, “I Can Take It from There.”
He says, “I’ve always wanted to write with ’em, and one of ’em being Rhett Akins, who I’ve known Rhett forever. It was exciting just to get in the room with him and hang out, him and Ben Hayslip.”
Once they finished writing the song, Chris added it to his set list almost immediately. He knew he had something good judging from the fans’ reaction.
Chris says, “That’s one of the things that I’ve kind of kept as a hallmark of when I love something, just listening to it recorded, and then when it also works live, that’s a really, really good sign.”
“I Can Take It from There” is the latest single from Chris’s current album, Neon.
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In recognition of the state’s largest industry, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback declared March 12-19 Kansas Agriculture Week. One event highlighted during Kansas Agriculture Week is the Neighbor to Neighbor statewide food drive, which began Feb. 18 and will conclude on Kansas Agriculture Day, March 19.
Each day of Kansas Agriculture Week will focus on a different agricultural theme, including nutrition, food safety, animal care, education and technology, environmental stewardship, serving the world and economic growth.
Secretary Dale Rodman encouraged Kansans to follow the department on Facebook and Twitter to engage in an online conversation about these issues.
In an effort to educate Kansans about agriculture, a “Dialogue on Kansas Agriculture” will take place on Kansas Agriculture Day, Tuesday, March 19 at 3:30 p.m. at the Kansas State Capitol.
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