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Month: June 2013

Governor will sign Kansas Tax Bill Today

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 (AP) — Gov. Sam Brownback has scheduled two ceremonies to sign a tax bill that makes additional cuts to the Kansas income tax rate while lowering the sales tax Sam_Brownback_official_portrait1rate.

The Republican governor will sign the bill at stops today at a construction site in Overland Park and a business in Wichita.

Legislators sent Brownback the bill on June 2, following massive individual income tax cuts enacted last year. The measure cuts income tax rates again over the next five years.

But those new rate reductions are tied to other revenue-raising measures, including a provision setting the sales tax at 6.15 percent.

The mix of policies in this year’s bill is expected to generate a net gain in state revenues of $777 million over the next five years.

Briggs Named to All-State Team

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Shea BriggsThe 2013 Kansas Softball Coaches Association released their All-State selections this week and Hays High’s Shea Briggs was a 2nd team selection in the infield.

The senior first-baseman led the team in hitting with a .541 average, had a team-high 46 hits and second in runs scored with 27 and doubles with six.

Briggs also led the Indians on the base paths going 24-for-24 in stolen base attempts.

She also started all 24 games at 1st base and committed just three errors all season.

Briggs was also a 1st team all WAC selection this season.

Grant for Gear

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(L to R) John Sjoholm, KPA Gas Compliance Coordinator; Keith Haberer, Russell/Ellsworth Co. Emergency Management Director/Firefighter; Tom Buzzell and Brent Steinle, Russell Co. Rural Firefighters; and Tracey Kuntzsch, Russell Co. Rural Fire Chief and Asst. Emergency Management Director. May 24, 2013

The Russell County Rural Fire Department has a new grant from the Kansas Pipeline Association.

The KPA gives grants to select first responders in each of Kansas’ Homeland Security Districts who attend pipeline training events.

Russell County Emergency Manager and Rural Firefighter Keith Haberer says the group will use the $1,000 to purchase to new safety gear.

 

NASA Voice Now Speaks for Governor Brownback

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Eileen HawleyKansas Governor Sam Brownback today announced the appointment of the office’s new Director of Communications/Press Secretary, Eileen Hawley.  She will join the administration staff on June 24, 2013.

Hawley is a professional communicator with more than 25 years of corporate and government public affairs experience.

Most recently she served as Vice President Operations of the Lawrence Kansas Chamber of Commerce.  Before moving to Kansas in 2008, she led communications and outreach efforts for NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

As the “voice of Mission Control” for more than 40 Space Shuttle and Space Station missions, Hawley led the Johnson Space Center (JSC) communications efforts following the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and subsequent return to flight.  As JSC’s Director of External Relations, she developed and led the center’s media relations, government affairs, education outreach and internal communications programs.  She served as an advisor to senior NASA leadership and received NASA’s Outstanding Leadership Medal in May 2008.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in media studies from the University of Houston, Clear Lake and holds a master’s degree in strategic communication and leadership from Seton Hall University.  Hawley and her husband, Salina native and Shuttle astronaut Steve Hawley, live in Lawrence.

Hawley replaces Sherriene Jones-Sontag who has been appointed Deputy Director of the Kansas Lottery.

 

Possible Hazardous Leak Contained at Good Samaritan Center

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Screen Shot 2013-06-12 at 9.51.46 AM On Tuesday evening  on-duty City of Hays fire crews and police officers were dispatched to an automatic fire alarm at the Hays Good Samaritan Center; 2700 Canal Blvd.

While responding, information was received that there was smoke in the building and a general alarm was sounded for off-duty firefighters and Ellis County EMS to respond.

On arrival, firefighters found that air conditioning refrigerant had leaked and caused a smoke like mist that filled one wing of the building. Air conditioner refrigerant leaking into a confined space may be hazardous if it displaces the oxygen.

Following their emergency plan, Good Samaritan staff promptly relocated residents into safe areas while firefighters used smoke ventilation fans to remove the refrigerant vapors from the atmosphere. Working with the Good Samaritan nursing staff, Ellis County EMS paramedics surveyed the residents for medical concerns and found none.

The refrigerant vapors were quickly removed from the structure allowing the Good Samaritan staff to return the residents to their rooms. The City of Hays Fire Department would like to commend the Hays Good Samaritan staff for their professional response.

KHAZ Country Music News: Brad Paisley Trades in Tricks for Treats on His Beat This Summer Tour

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khaz brad paisley 20130404Brad Paisley hasn’t unleashed any of his legendary pranks on the opening acts on his Beat This Summer just yet. Instead, he’s been treating them to outings to the movies and trips to the go-cart track in the past few weeks. So, why is Brad being so nice to this year’s openers, including Lee Brice, Chris Young and The Henningsens?  

He explains, “This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to tour and only get these acts out one time, and I like to try to make it really hard for another headliner to give ’em a better time, you know?”

Brad still remembers the artists who treated him well on the road, including Brooks & Dunn. The duo would rent out a club near the venue they were playing so they could just chill out and play music with the opening acts, including Brad and Rascal Flatts at the time.

“We would go out and jam,” Brad says. “We would all get up and just do everything from Mellencamp songs to George Jones songs. It was a real camaraderie.”

Brad wants to take his touring buddies out to see Man of Steel this weekend, so fans in Orange Beach, AL may want to head to their local movie theater after his shows there Saturday night.

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Hays Eagles Sweep Great Bend

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American Legion BaseballThe Hays Eagles Senior American Legion Eagles combined for 28 runs in a doubleheader sweep of Great Bend Yesterday in Hays.

 

Game 1 – Hays 20, Great Bend 0 (3 innings)

Hays opened the game with an eight run inning and added 12 in the second inning on their way to the 20-0 win.

Hays starter Brady Bieker allowed just three hits in the three innings for his second win of the season.

Every hitter in the Hays lineup drove in at least one run and eight of the nine Eagles had at least one hit as well.

Jake Sedbrook was 2-for-2 with 3RBI and Dan Bittel was 1-for-2 with 3RBI as well.

 

Game 2 – Hays 8, Great Bend 0 (5 innings)

The Eagles opened game two with five run inning that was highlighted by a John Griffith two-run double. Hays added three more in the second on their way to the 8-0 win in five innings.

Eagles’ starter Chandler Rule allowed just one hit, walked one and struck out three in five innings for his first win of the season.

John Griffith was 2-for-3 with 3RBI.

The Eagles are now 7-6 on the season and they are scheduled to play in a tournament in Canon City Colorado that begins on Thursday.

Winners: Greg Bates Lenora Jubilee Tickets with 99 KZ Country!

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khaz greg bates 20130605Greg Bates will be in concert at the Lenora Jubilee Friday, June 14, 2013.

You could win tickets for the concert with 99 KZ Country.

Listen to Theresa Trapp in the morning Tuesday, June 11 and Wednesday, June 12 for a chance to win a pair of tickets and a CD of Greg Bates’ song, “Did it for the Girl.”

Winner of on air tickets:  Kolin Klozenbucher and Brian Legleiter.

Winners of the online registration are Lucinda Smith and Judy Arnold!

Good luck!  See you at the Lenora Jubilee.

 

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Hays Police Planning Checkpoint

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Police - Hays 001Officers of the Hays Police Department will be conducting a sobriety checkpoint Friday, June 14th, in the 2800 block of Vine Street. The check lane will be held between 11:45 pm and 2:45 am.

The purpose of the lane is to improve the safety of our community by identifying impaired drivers and removing them from the roadway. Those motorists suspected of driving under the influence will be given on-site sobriety tests.

Efforts will be made to minimize the interruption of traffic flow, but many drivers will be stopped as part of this program.

This event is being conducted in accordance with the Kansas Department of Transportation “I.D.D.P.” – Impaired Driving Deterrence Program.

Marlene K. Dinkel

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Marlene K. Dinkel, age 71, died Monday, June 10, 2013, at Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas.  She was born February 18, 1942, in Hays, Kansas, to Andrew J. and Felicitas (Hertel) Dinkel. She married Leland J. Dinkel on September 10,1962, in Ellis, Kansas. She was the Coordinator for the Senior Companion Program at FHSU from 1998 until she retired in September of 2012. She worked at St. John’s Rest Home in Victoria for 23 years, most of that time she was the Activities Director. She was a 1960 graduate of Ellis High School and has lived in Victoria since 1962. She was a member of St. Fidelis

Catholic Church, Victoria, Kansas. She enjoyed quilting, sewing and was an avid supporter of her grandchildren’s ball games.

 

Survivors include her husband, Leland J. Dinkel, of the home; one son, Dale Dinkel and wife, Kris, Victoria, KS; three daughters, Karla Rohleder and husband, Gerald, Colleen Kuhn and husband, Leon, TammyDome

and husband, Stuart, all of Victoria, KS; one brother, Floyd Dinkel and wife Pat, WaKeeney, KS; one twin sister, Darlene Braun and husband LaVern, Victoria, KS; nine grandchildren, Sara Rohleder, Steven Rohleder, Dani Dinkel, Kameron Dinkel, Dylan Kuhn, Nathan Kuhn, Andrea Dome and her fiancé Brenton Hoffman, Ashley Dome and Bryan Dome; and her beloved dog, Molly,

She was preceded in death by her parents, and infant twin brothers.

Services are 10:00 A.M. Thursday, June 13, 2013, at St. Fidelis Catholic Church, Victoria, Kansas.

 

A vigil service will be at 7:00 P.M. Wednesday, at St. Fidelis Catholic Church, Victoria, Kansas. Visitation is from 6:00 to 9:00 P.M. Wednesday, at St. Fidelis

Catholic Church and from 8:30 to 9:45 A.M. Thursday, at Cline’s Mortuary, 412 Main, Victoria, Kansas 67671. Memorials to Senior Companion Program c/o FHSU or St. Fidelis Catholic Church. Condolences can be sent via e-mail to [email protected]

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