Listen to Mike Cooper interviewing Dr. Sameh Abuerreish, Medical Oncologist, from the Dreiling/Schmidt Cancer Institute at HaysMed, by clicking the link below
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Month: July 2013
After Big Friday Show, Little River Band Ready for Hays
The Little River Band will be playing some of your favorite music at Saturday night’s Wild West Festival. The band served as the headline performer at Sundown
Salute in Junction City Friday night.
Sharon Glessner, executive director for Sundown Salute told the Post, “I thought the concert went well. I’m a little disappointed on our numbers. I think we’re down from what we were hoping to have, but I think it was a phenomenal crowd and the show was just amazing. They sounded really good.”
Tonight’s Wild West Festival Concert Schedule
The District @ 6:30 PM
Homebrew @ 8:00 PM
The Little River Band @ 9:30 PM
June’s Relay for Life Amazing Accomplishment
The journey to end cancer starts with a single step and big steps are being taken locally. As of this morning, the Ellis County Relay for Life’s 17 teams and 141 participants raised $72,662.79. That is above their original goal.
The work for for next June’s event is already underway. Organizers will meet on Tuesday, and volunteers are needed. For more information on how you can help, please contact Lonny Claycamp at (785) 635-0772.
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Kansas Congresswoman presses for student loan changes (VIDEO)
(AP) — Congressional Republicans are pushing to overhaul the government’s student loan program, as both Democrats and the GOP blame each other for letting
interest rates on the subsidized loans double last Monday.
In the weekly Republican radio address Saturday, congresswoman Lynn Jenkins of Kansas is pressing Senate Democrats to act on legislation that ties the rate to the financial markets, similar to a proposal from President Barack Obama. Senate Democrats unsuccessfully sought a two-year extension of the current 3.4 percent rate.
Jenkins tells students they deserve a more fair approach, one free of politics that allows students to take advantage of lower rates and have more peace of mind.
The White House predicts a deal will be reached before students return to school from their summer break.
Teen injured in Friday night rollover accident
A teenage driver was injured in a rollover accident on Friday night. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, “Fourteen year old Maddison A Peltier of Concordia 
was driving a 2002 Ford Taurus westbound on K9, eight miles west of Concordia. The Taurus left the roadway, rolled into south ditch and landed on its top. Peltier was transported to Cloud County Hospital. She was wearing a seat belt.
Senator Moran in Hays for Holiday Break (Video)
Senator Jerry Moran is in Hays for Wild West Festival. He also toured the Eagle Media Center and visited with the Hays Post news team on a variety of topics including Obama Care.
Kansas Man Injured in I-70 Accident
A Kansas man was seriously injured in a Friday rollover accident on I-70. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, “Eighty-one year old Bill G. Stone of Rose Hill was driving a 2005 Chevy Silverado eastbound on I-70 six miles west of Junction City when the vehicle veered into the median. The Silverado did come back on the roadway and continued eastbound and then veered off the roadway again striking a guardrail in the median and then rolled end over end coming to rest on its top in the median. Stone was transported to Stormont Vail Hospital. He was wearing a seat belt.”
KHAZ Country Music News: The Band Perry’s Grandmother Takes Over Their Teen Choice Awards Voting Campaign
The Band Perry‘s grandmother, Betty Lou, may be a little too old to vote for the Teen Choice Awards, but she’s doing her part to help her grandkids take the Choice Country Group and Choice Break-Up Song categories at the show.
The Band Perry has launched a new series of YouTube clips showing Betty Lou landing in jail for spray painting “Vote 4 The Band Perry” on a wall before using an old school rotary phone to try and cast her Teen Choice Awards vote. In another clip, Betty Lou finally gets the hang of voting online using multiple computers and tablets.
Fan voting is now underway at TeenChoiceAwards.com. The show airs live on FOX August 11 at 8 p.m. ET.
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Cheese Recall
(AP) — Whole Foods Market Inc. is recalling Crave Brothers Les Freres cheese in response to an outbreak of a bacterial infection that has sickened people in several 
states and killed at least one.
Whole Foods says the cheese may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. It was sold in 30 states and Washington DC under names including Les Freres and Crave Brothers Les Freres. The company is posting signs in its stores to inform customers about the recall.
Public health officials in Illinois say one resident became sick after eating contaminated cheese in May. Minnesota officials say one elderly person in the state died and another was hospitalized after illnesses linked to the cheese.
Listeria can lead to severe illness for women who are pregnant or people who have weakened immune systems.
The Cleverlys Perform at WWF
The Cleverly family comes from a remote part of the Ozark Mountains, near Cane Spur, Arkansas. They worked on the family farm and at night and weekends, had a picking session.
The Cleverlys family band was born from those sessions.
The group appears tonight at the Hays Wild West Festival, prior to country artist headliner Neal McCoy.
The Hays Post News crew got to talk to the guys before they hit the concert stage. Band members are: brothers Digger, Miles and Vernon Dean, nephew Harvey D. and cousin, Otto.
Digger has been a guitar tech for Leif Garrett and a flute tech for Jethro Tull. Mike plays bass guitar and is road manager. Vernon Dean is on the banjo, Otto lays fiddle and mandolin and Harvey D. is the drummer.
Be sure to tune in Monday to Hays Post News, Eagle Community TV Channel 14, as Amy Baltodano interviews The Cleverlys.
Mishap Temporarily Shuts Down Hays Airport UPDATE
5 p.m. update The Kansas Highway Patrol described Friday’s airport accident this way. ” The pilot, Trevor James Shaw, age 27 of Granada, Colorado, landed the
plane southbound on runway 16. As he was rolling to a stop, a gust of wind caught the left wing of the aircraft, lifted the left landing gear off the ground and turned the airplane sideways. When the gear touched back down, it collapsed under the weight of the aircraft and came to a rest right there. Passengers on the plane included 28 year old Toby Dale Kandt of Holly, Colorado and 26 year old Taylor Jordan Kandt of Walsh, Colorado.
2:55 p.m. Nobody was injured during a mishap involving a single engine airplane Friday afternoon at Hays Regional Airport. Bob Johnson, Airport Manger, told Hays Post,
“About 12:30 p.m. a small plane experienced trouble as it landed. The plane’s landing gear was crushed and the propellor hit the runway. The accident shut down the main runway for approximately 2 hours. A pilot and two passengers on the plane were not injured.” The aircraft was licensed in Colorado.
The scheduled Great Lakes Airline flight had to be diverted to Great Bend and arrived later. “We are now back on the regular scheduled,” said Johnson. The FAA will conduct an investigation.
Rural Water Line Damaged, Repairs Underway UPDATE
6: 55 p.m. Hays Post has confirmed with John Maeder, the maintenance director for Water District 1C, and he said the water line repair is complete and Water District 1C is back to normal for the weekend.
1: 12 p.m. The main water line for Ellis County Rural Water District 1C, that services the Anotonino and Yocemento Road regions of Ellis County has been accidentally cut. The water has been shut off in an attempt to make repairs. Residents in the Antonino
area, south and west of Hays will not have water until it is fixed. John Maeder, the maintenance director for the district 1C, told Hays Post a contractor cut the line and there is no estimate on when service will be restored.