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Month: September 2013

So You Think You Can Cook Chili…

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Get your taste buds ready! Kansas Cooks will be hosting a chili cook-off Monday, September 30 in the HaysCooking 001 Public Library.  The event will begin at 12:00 p.m.  Patrons will have the opportunity to taste different chili recipes throughout the day and vote for their favorites.

For those interested in participating in this fun and tasty event, register on the online calendar at www.hayspublib.org or call Luci Bain at 785-625-9014.  Participants may bring a crock pot of their chili along with one copy of their recipe to share with other Kansas Cooks!  The chili should be ready for tasting by Noon on September 30 in the Schmidt Gallery of the Library.

Kansas Cooks meet on a quarterly basis downstairs in the Kansas Room of the Hays Public Library.  There is a theme for each meeting in which members prepare the themed item to share with group.  It is a fun meeting to swap recipes and fill up on scrumptious treats and conversation.  For more information, or to join, contact Luci Bain at 785-625-9014.

At food-filled Farm Aid, music isn’t only focus

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(AP) — Farm Aid is more than a family of musicians banding together to help the small farmer. It’s also a family meal.Farm Aid

This year’s concert is taking place Saturday in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. A key component is the food that comes through Farm Aid’s Homegrown Concessions. It was started six years ago to create new market opportunities for family farmers.

Vendors include local food-service outlets and national brands such as Chipotle and Amy’s Organic. They must meet Farm Aid’s criteria for sourcing the ingredients in their food.

Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Dave Matthews and John Mellencamp lead the star-studded lineup at this year’s concert. It goes through Saturday night.

 

Kansas Man sentencing in Child Porn Case UPDATE

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UPDATE   A 45 year old Hutchinson man was sentenced Friday to 32-months in prison. .Hegner

Judge Trish Rose ruled that Wayne Hegner shouldn’t be given any type of probation even though the case falls in a border box which means she had the option of prison or probation.

Defense Attorney Sarah McKinnon argued for probation saying there are treatment programs available and believes that would be more effective for her client then prison. She says her client was depressed and admits what he was doing was wrong. She says he has been attending treatment through Horizon’s.

But, Senior Assistant District Attorney Steve Maxwell described the videos and pictures in graphic detail saying there were as many as 500-downloaded or exchanged with others on the internet. Maxwell called them a series of acts and says the videos were “graphic, vile and reprehensible.” McKinnon fired back that he didn’t share with anyone else, merely downloaded the pictures.

Hegner admitted that when he learned of a search warrant was being served on his home and computers, he attempted suicide but failed. He admitted that what he did was “stupid, immoral and immature.” He told the judge that he would stop at different times, delete the file, but then a few weeks later would load it again.

 

 

Friday      A 45-year-old Hutchinson man arrested in August of last year for allegedly downloading child porn is scheduled for sentencing Friday.

Wayne Hegner had been charged with two counts of sexual exploitation of a child, but entered a plea to just one count while the state dropped the other. By entering the plea, he avoided a trial in the case.

The case started with police investigating Hegner allegedly downloading the pictures using a website, “Peer-to-Peer” file sharing. It’s a website where people exchange and send each other this kind of material. This activity was allegedly going on for over a year.

Police Detective Scott Carlton told the Post at the time of the arrest that he had been investigating the case for a couple of months prior to the arrest.

Groundbreaking for New College Dorm

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(AP)-Dodge City Community College is building a new men’s dormitory.

Picture courtesy of Pierre Dumont, Dodge City Daily Globe
Picture courtesy of Pierre Dumont, Dodge City Daily Globe

The new 120-bed building is scheduled to be completed by July 2014, with students moving in by fall of that year.  The groundbreaking ceremony was held the morning of Friday, September 20th.

The new dorm at the community college comes after the recent completion of Jackson Hall, a women’s dormitory.

The new building will be three stories high and will include social lounges, study areas, large TV viewing areas and laundry facilities in each wing of the hall.

Beverly Temaat, dean of student services, says the decision to build the new structure came from increased housing demand as well as demand for newer facilities. The building will be entirely paid for using money from student fees.

Commission Discusses Road Reconstruction

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At the Hays City Commission’s work session Thursday night, the commission discussed improvements to 13th13TH AND MILNER Street from Main St. to Milner. At this time, city staff is asking for permission to solicit proposals for engineering to come back with various designs for the reconstruction.

City Manager Toby Dougherty explained at the meeting why this street was being considered.

“When we ranked the reconstruction projects, we looked at how bad of shape the street was in, the traffic on it, and the visibility.  And this ranked the highest.  There’s probably streets out there in worst shape, but they don’t have the traffic or the visibility.  There’s probably streets with more traffic that maybe aren’t as bad.  So this ranked the highest in our minds as far as bang for the buck.”

He also clarified that at this time the city is asking for proposals at this time, and will come back to the commission with contracts for recommendation at a later date.

Founding Father Coming to FHSU

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Benjamin Franklin, aka Fred Krebs, Johnson County Community College history professor, talks to Ellis County 5th graders last year

More than 300 area fifth-grade students will gather on Fort Hays State University’s campus on Monday, Sept. 23, for an educational day featuring the life and times of one of America’s prominent Founding Fathers, Ben Franklin. The campus American Democracy Project (ADP) sponsors the event.

The students will hear from Ben Franklin himself, through an impersonation by Fred Krebs, Johnson County Community College professor of history.

Two original letters written by Ben Franklin and copies of Franklin’s newspaper, The Pennsylvania Gazette, are the featured attractions. In addition, students can have a snack at the “Boston Tea Party.”

“The goal of this event is to allow as many people as possible to see Ben Franklin’s papers, starting with the young minds of the Hays community,” said Anne Drees, Hays senior and student coordinator of the ADP. “This event is a great way to engage children in activities that reflect the life of Ben Franklin.”

BEN FRANKLIN PAPERS
Forsyth Library houses two original letters written by Ben Franklin and copies of Franklin’s newspaper, The Pennsylvania Gazette

 

2nd Kansas Obesity Summit Scheduled

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(AP) — Gov. Sam Brownback and top state health officials will host the 2nd annual Kansas Obesity Summit on Sept. 30 in Topeka.Brownback

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says the focus will be on identifying the best strategies to address rising obesity rates, and on the health and economic effects of obesity.

Topics include ways to make physical activity part of Kansans’ daily life. Speakers will also address an expanded role for employers, insurers and health care professionals in preventing obesity.

Brownback held a weight-loss challenge for state and local government employees from January through May as part of his efforts to encourage Kansas residents to get healthier.

 

FHSU joins global MOOC movement

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Dr. Keith Campbell, FHSU Sociology and Social Work Department
Dr. Keith Campbell, FHSU Sociology and Social Work Department

what-is-a-moocDistance education at Fort Hays State University will dip into the MOOC world on Oct. 16 when Dr. Keith Campbell’s course “Social Entrepreneurship” begins.

MOOC — massive, open, online course — is a development in distance education that seeks to reach a large-scale audience of learners by offering the course material free online. The list of universities participating in the MOOC experiment includes some of the largest and most prestigious universities in the world.

The key features of MOOCs are no tuition, online delivery and a global classroom.

Campbell, a professor of sociology at FHSU, said his course “is for people who want to make a meaningful difference in their community, state or country.”

“It’s for people who have a category of other people who they care about. They want to help them but are perhaps unsure of how to go about it. This is a free opportunity to learn how to make a positive impact on people’s lives.”

Campbell has more than 20 years experience in social entrepreneurship — the use of innovation to find new ways to help people in need. He oversees a master’s program in social entrepreneurship at FHSU and is a recognized authority in this field.

Whether the concern is about the homeless, abandoned children, the elderly, the addicted, or teens considering suicide, the five-week course provides a step-by-step guide for building a social entrepreneurship project. A project could be aimed at helping people on another continent, or the target group could be people in the local community. The choice is for each participant to make, he said.

“They can learn how people all over the world are stepping up to start projects to help others in need,” said Campbell.

Fort Hays State has been a leader and innovator in distance education since first offering correspondence courses in 1911, when it was still the Western Branch State Normal School in Hays, charged with producing teachers for the rural schools sprouting up all across the Kansas plains.

Those first distance courses at FHSU shared one of the key features of MOOCs today: They were free. Drought had devastated the wheat crop all over the region that year, and teachers in rural schools throughout the region could not afford to come to Hays for the summer courses required by law. The Hays faculty voted to conduct free correspondence courses.

In the distance education world of a hundred years later, Campbell said that “Social Entrepreneurship,” his online academic course, is part of a broader “social entrepreneurship revolution” in which people living everyday, normal lives step forward to help others in need.
 
MOOCAll the information needed to get started, including a week-by-week course guide and a link to the enrollment site, is at https://gotmooc.net.

Larned Blasts TMP

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LARNED  41    TMP  8

Larned scored early and often en-route to a 41-8 demolition of TMP on Friday Night.  TMP had to punt on their first possession and Larned scored 1 play later on a 73 yard touchdown pass.  The Monarchs would get a safety midway through the 1st Quarter and then scored on a 52 yard touchdown pass from Max Megaffin to Ryan Mayorga to take an 8-6 lead.  Larned would go on to score the final 35 points of the ball game to pick up the win.

TMP drops to 1-2 overall and 1-1 in the Mid Central Activities Association.  They will be on the road next Friday at Ellsworth.  Larned is now 3-0 and 2-0 in the MCAA and they will host Ellis on Friday.

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Kansas woman sentenced for cattle fraud

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(AP) – A central Kansas woman has been sentenced to two years of probation for embezzling more than $211,000 from a feedlot where she worked to pay off losses Feedlot 001from her own cattle trading.

The U.S. Attorney’s office says 37-year-old Carrie L. Frederick, of Sterling, must also pay about $80,000 in restitution under the sentence she received Friday in federal court.

Frederick pleaded guilty in June to wire fraud.

She admitted stealing the money from Sellers Farms, a Lyons feeding operation where she went to work in 2007. She owed more than $150,000 to her previous employer, Golden Belt Feeders in St. John, for losses from cattle transactions she financed while serving on Golden Belt’s board.

Frederick used the money stolen from Sellers Farms for personal expenses and to repay Golden Belt.

Football Score Sheet Week 3 – September 20th

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Western Athletic Conference

Hays   52   Liberal   38

Great Bend   28   Garden City   25

*Dodge City   3   Wichita Heights   32

Mid-Central Activities Association

Larned   41   TMP-Marian   8

Hoisington     OPEN

Central Prairie League 8-Man

NessCity   14   Victoria   42

St. John   8   Central Plains   54

*Hoxie   56  Otis-Bison   6

 

Central Prairie League 11-Man

*Minneapolis   14  La Crosse   54

 

Mid-Continent League 8-Man

*Trego   0   Hodgeman Co.   46

*St. John’s/Tipton  58   Stockton  24

*Northern Valley   56   Hill City   22

 

Mid-Continent League 11-Man

Norton   28   Plainville   8

*Ellinwood  16   Ellis  36

 

North Central Athletics Association

Ellsworth   38  Republic Co.  0

Beloit   68  Russell   8

*Sedgwick   48   Sacred Heart   62

*Whitewater-Remington   6  Southeast of Saline   54

 

 

Northwest Kansas League 8-Man

Dighton   24   Quinter   22

 

Northwest Kansas League 11-Man

*Phillipsburg   14   Oakley   6

*Smith Center   38   Decatur Com.   8

*Stanton Co.   0  St. Francis   28

*Syracuse   6   Wichita Co.   25

 

Northern Plains League

*Hanover   50  Lincoln   0

Wilson   6   Natoma   55

 

Western Kansas Liberty League

*Western Plains   22   Weskan   62

 

Other Games of Note

*Salina Central   42   St. Thomas Aquinas   40

*Blue Valley   35   Salina South   28

*Wray CO.  21   Goodland   46

Ulysses   52   Colby   16

Scott City   31   Holcomb   28

 

8-Man-1 District 4

*Lakeside   6  Osborne   54

*Linn   24    Rock Hills   20

*Clifton-Clyde    48  Pike Valley   0

 

8-Man-1 District 6

*Kiowa Co.   70   Macksville   32

*Kinsley  36   Fairfield  81

 

8-Man-2 District 2

*Chase  0   Hope   50

*Southern Cloud  54   Goessel   6

*Burrton  8   Tescott   54

 

 

8-Man-2 District 5

Thunder Ridge   54   Logan-Palco   12

Cheylin     Wheatland-Grinnell

 

*Non-League Game

 

AP-FBH–Kansas Prep Scores, 4th Ld-Writethru,0846
Friday’s Scores
By The Associated Press
PREP FOOTBALL
Abilene 34, Clay Center 20
Andale 37, Clearwater 7
Andover 28, Goddard-Eisenhower 0
Andover Central 34, Goddard 0
Atchison County 14, Doniphan West 13
Attica/Argonia 44, Norwich 32
Baldwin 56, St. James Academy 18
Beloit 68, Russell 8
Bishop Miege 45, BV Northwest 14
Blue Valley Stilwell 35, Salina South 28
Bonner Springs 41, KC Bishop Ward 13
Buhler 35, Mulvane 28
BV Randolph 48, Marmaton Valley 0
Cair Paravel 48, KC East Lions 20
Caney Valley 49, Burlington 6
Canton-Galva 72, St. John’s Military 24
Center, Mo. 28, Arkansas City 6
Central Plains 54, St. John 8
Centralia 61, Washington County 0
Chanute 63, Parsons 3
Chaparral 29, Bluestem 14
Chapman 25, Marysville 0
Cherryvale 41, Fredonia 20
Chetopa 64, Pleasanton 18
Cimarron 46, Sublette 14
Clifton-Clyde 48, Pike Valley 0
Coffeyville 40, Iola 10
Columbus 26, Girard 7
Commerce, Okla. 48, Oswego 16
Conway Springs 64, Wichita Independent 6
Council Grove 27, Chase County 20
Derby 62, Maize 13
Dighton 24, Quinter 2
Douglass 44, Medicine Lodge 24
Ell-Saline 36, Moundridge 8
Emporia 60, Highland Park 13
Eudora 7, DeSoto 0
Eureka 38, Northeast-Arma 12
Falls City Sacred Heart, Neb. 50, Axtell 12
Galena 28, Frontenac 14
Garden Plain 43, Belle Plaine 12
Gardner-Edgerton 48, Blue Valley Southwest 17
Glasco/Miltonvale-Southern Cloud 54, Goessel 6
Goodland 46, Wray, Colo. 21
Great Bend 28, Garden City 25
Hanover 50, Lincoln 0
Hays 52, Liberal 38
Hesston 55, Haven 33
Hiawatha 38, Royal Valley 8
Hillsboro 35, Nickerson 28
Hodgeman County 46, Trego 0
Holton 63, Sabetha 6
Hope 50, Chase 0
Horton 36, Troy 6
Hoxie 56, Otis-Bison 6
Humboldt 41, Neodesha 20
Independence 46, Labette County 7
Ingalls 42, Satanta 36
Inman 14, Hutchinson Trinity 7
Jackson Heights 36, Valley Falls 14
Jayhawk Linn 38, Immaculata 30
Junction City 21, Shawnee Heights 12
Kapaun Mount Carmel 45, Wichita North 7
KC Schlagle 24, KC Harmon 0
KC Turner 26, Lansing 6
KC Washington 24, Atchison 20
KC Wyandotte 50, KC Sumner 21
Kingman 37, Pratt 0
Kiowa County 70, Macksville 32
LaCrosse 54, Minneapolis 14
Larned 41, Hays-TMP-Marian 8
Lawrence Free State 28, Olathe East 26
Lebo 36, Centre 18
Linn 24, Rock Hills 20
Little River 46, White City 34
Louisburg 21, Ottawa 9
Lyndon 55, West Franklin 25
Madison 55, Hartford 6
Maize South 34, Valley Center 10
Manhattan 19, Topeka Seaman 7
Marion 46, Bennington 0
Maur Hill – Mount Academy 14, Riverside 4
McPherson 45, Rose Hill 20
Mill Valley 38, Basehor-Linwood 0
Newton 48, Wichita Campus 7
Northern Valley 56, Hill City 22
Norton 28, Plainville 8
Olathe North 62, SM North 14
Olathe South 18, Leavenworth 16
Olpe 49, Jefferson North 7
Osage City 53, Herington 7
Osawatomie 42, Central Heights 28
Osborne 54, Lakeside 6
Oxford 52, Flinthills 6
Paola 42, Spring Hill 12
Peabody-Burns 52, Burlingame 6
Perry-Lecompton 28, Santa Fe Trail 20
Phillipsburg 14, Oakley 6
Pittsburg 33, Fort Scott 20
Pittsburg Colgan 48, Anderson County 0
Pleasant Ridge 44, Oskaloosa 14
Riverton 46, Erie 6
Rockhurst, Mo. 41, Hutchinson 7
Rolla 46, Goodwell, Okla. 0
Rossville 40, Wabaunsee 0
Salina Central 42, St. Thomas Aquinas 40
Salina Sacred Heart 62, Sedgwick 48
Scott City 31, Holcomb 28
Sedan 44, Central Burden 12
Shattuck, Okla. 48, South Barber 38
Silver Lake 41, Riley County 0
SM East 27, Olathe Northwest 22
SM South 28, SM Northwest 21
SM West 14, Lawrence 13
Smith Center 38, Oberlin-Decatur 8
Smoky Valley 14, Halstead 3
Solomon 74, Wakefield 52
South Central 38, Pratt Skyline 28
South Haven 50, Cedar Vale/Dexter 12
Southeast 47, Baxter Springs 28
Southeast Saline 54, Remington 6
Spearville 80, Fowler 54
St. Mary’s 30, Rock Creek 18
Stafford 58, Hutchinson Central Christian 8
Tescott 54, Burrton 8
Tonganoxie 28, KC Piper 0
Topeka 69, Topeka West 16
Ulysses 52, Colby 16
Uniontown 45, Crest 0
Valley Heights 60, Onaga 16
Victoria 42, Ness City 14
Wallace County 53, Triplains-Brewster 0
Wamego 30, Concordia 7
Washburn Rural 21, Topeka Hayden 18
Waverly 54, Yates Center 38
Wellington 19, Augusta 10
Wellsville 32, Prairie View 12
Weskan 62, Western Plains/Healy 22
West Elk 42, Udall 22
Wichita Bishop Carroll 57, Wichita South 14
Wichita County 25, Syracuse 6
Wichita Heights 32, Dodge City 3
Wichita Northwest 16, Wichita East 8
Wichita Trinity 7, Cheney 0
Wichita West 42, Wichita Southeast 14
Wilson 28, Natoma 6
Winfield 42, El Dorado 7

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