Country music and patriotism go hand in hand. Real Country, 99 KZ Country, will salute both Memorial Day Weekend. We’ll feature number one songs of the last 50 years and play patriotic songs every hour as we honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.
This programming made possible by Hays Aquatic Park, G & H Worx, Home Steel Siding and Windows of Hays, Golden Plains Credit Union, Cathodic Systems Company, State Farm Agent Matt Lyon, Zinszer Oil Company, Walk In Chiropractic in Hays and Remax Pro of Hays.
Listen to 99 KZ Country for our salute to country music and patriotism.
TOPEKA—Two people were injured in an accident just before 10 a.m. on Friday in Shawnee County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1998 Chevy Lumina driven by Catherine Koslover, 59, Topeka was westbound on Interstate 70 between Gage and MacVicar in the right hand lane.
The driver lost control of the vehicle, crossed both lanes of traffic and struck the inside wall.
Koslover and a passenger Eldon Mzhickteno, 57, Topeka, were transported to St. Francis Health Center.
The KHP reported they were both properly restrained at the time of the accident.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) â Thrill seekers looking forward to trying two new massive rides at Kansas City-area amusement parks will have to wait awhile.
Worlds of Fun announced Thursday that its new SteelHawk ride will not open Saturday as scheduled. The ride, which spins people around a 301-foot-tower, is likely to open in a few days.
Worlds of Fun spokeswoman Rachael Murie said high winds this week prevented crews from working on the SteelHawk.
Last week, the Schlitterbahn water park in Kansas City, Kan., announced that the opening of the world’s tallest water slide would be delayed from Friday until June 5. The Verrückt, at 168 feet 7 inches, was still undergoing testing.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two more “Hard 50” prison sentences have been vacated by the Kansas Supreme Court and sent back to the lower courts, including one that was at the heart of a 2013 legislative special session.
The rulings issued Friday by the court dealt only with whether the prison sentences of Matthew Astorga and Joaquin DeAndra were constitutional. The prison terms were for life without possibility of parole for 50 years.
Both convictions were for murder, one in Finney County and the other in Leavenworth.
In both cases, the court says the men must be resentenced because their prison terms were decided by a judge not a jury, a process deemed unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2013 in an unrelated case from Virginia.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) released the following statement regarding the decision by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to revise previously proposed rules regarding 501c4 organizations:
“I applaud the decision by Commissioner Koskinen. I have said repeatedly that in order to help restore the public’s trust in the IRS, this rule needed to be scrapped immediately and permanently. The IRS exercises great authority over the taxpayers of this country, and all Americans have the right to believe that the agency is operating in a fair, neutral and appropriate manner. No matter one’s political affiliations, the First Amendment rights of Americans and their ability to participate in the political process must be respected and defended.”
In February, Sen. Moran joined Sens. Flake, Roberts and more than 30 of his Senate colleagues in introducing legislation to put a stop to the blatant political targeting by the IRS. The bill would return the IRS standards and definitions to exactly how they were written on January 1, 2010 – the date prior to when the agency’s inappropriate targeting began.
PALCO — As the Rooks County community of Palco prepares for its 125th anniversary celebration, Mayor Freda Lambert feels fortunate for the growth the community has seen in the last 25 years.
Palco will honor the milestone with a two-day celebration beginning Saturday morning with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new McKenna Youth Center, which features a movie theater, fitness center and rec room.
Lambert said the activities center was made possible by Everett McKenna, who left a large part of his estate to the city of Palco to build and operate the center. The center features a 3D-capable theater that seats 72, a community center with pool tables, foosball and game tables, a fitness center and all-purpose room, kitchen and lounge. Lambert said they will be soon adding a new playground at the youth center.
Also on Saturday, there will be a car show beginning at 11 a.m., with the trophy presentation at 3 p.m.
Other events include a quilt show, painting class and drone demonstration in the afternoon, with all of the activities in the downtown area except the drone demonstration will be at the practice field at the high school.
Three free movies will be shown over the weekend, two on Saturday at 4 and 8 p.m. and one Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m.
Saturday also marks the Palco High Alumni Banquet at 6 p.m. and a street dance Saturday night at 8 p.m.
Sunday morning, the Lions Club is hosting a breakfast at 7 a.m. with gospel singing at 9 a.m. The Palco Fire Department will provide lunch at noon, and the weekend will wrap up with a Sunday movie matinee at 2 p.m.
Lambert said the community is excited to host the weekend celebration and said the community continues to grow. Between 1,500 and 2,000 people are expected to attend the celebration.
“We have really built our community up (in the 25 years since the 100th anniversary celebration),” Lambert said.,
The community has added a number of new businesses including a new cafe, filling station and doctor’s office.
Alan LaPolice, R-Clyde, 1st District Congressional CandidateEllinwood attorney Kent Roth has withdrawn from the 1st Congressional District race and endorsed Alan LaPolice.
ELLINWOOD–Ellinwood attorney Kent Roth announced in a news release Friday morning he has withdrawn from the race for Congress in the 1st District of Kansas and endorsed a challenger.
“The risk of splitting the opposition vote makes it imperative to present a united front as the incumbent Congressman (Tim Huelskamp) advanced to the General Election in 2010 with less than 35% of the vote. We should not make that mistake again,” Roth said.
“My goal remains seeing Tim Huelskamp defeated in the August 5 Republican primary election. Alan LaPolice of Clyde, Kansas is the best person to win this election. Alan LaPolice and I appeared before a Republican Central Committee open meeting in Salina where I was so impressed with his performance as to post a video of LaPolice on March 12.
” LaPolice is a Gulf War Veteran who earned my respect by his return to his family farm near Clyde, where he is actively engaged in farming after a successful career as a high school administrator in California. We need to encourage more native born Kansans to return to their hometowns.”
Roth concluded his statement with ” Please vote for Alan LaPolice in the August 5 Republican primary election.”
WICHITA (AP) — Planned Parenthood will be closing its Hays health center to save its larger Wichita clinic in wake of an appeals court ruling that let Kansas strip federal family planning funding.
The organization also said Friday it will no longer be able to provide free contraceptives and other no-cost medical services to low-income patients in Wichita without the federal money.
The Hays clinic will close its doors on June 30. The clinic manager and a nurse practitioner will lose their jobs.
No staff cuts are planned at the Wichita clinic.
An appeals court panel in March overturned a federal judge’s ruling that had temporarily kept Planned Parenthood’s funding intact. Planned Parenthood then dropped its legal challenge.
More than 5,700 people receive health care services at the Hays and Wichita clinics.
DENISON, Kan. (AP) â A small-town Kansas mayor is under fire for a possible open meetings violation and not getting along with city council members, but she says the town of roughly 190 residents just doesn’t like change.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports a petition to recall Denison Mayor Audrey Oliverius needed only 12 signatures but got 29 to force an August vote.
The petition states Oliverius called an executive session on March 10 at the end of a regularly scheduled City Council meeting and emailed the city clerk nearly four weeks later telling her what to add to the March 10 minutes.
The petition says a vote was taken during that executive session to appoint someone to a vacant city council seat, which is not allowed under the state’s Open Meetings Act.
MANHATTAN — In a news release today, the Kansas Farm Bureau said it has delivered a water vision statement to Gov. Sam Brownback in response to Brownback’s call for a 50-year vision for the Ogallala Aquifer and Kansas reservoirs. The vision was developed after statewide meetings to gather grassroots Farm Bureau member input.
The vision is: “All Kansans support adjustments to preserve and enhance the quantity and quality of the waters of the state through conservation and economic means to secure our future, recognizing the value of water and taking into consideration the diverse use and availability of the resource.”
“This is a defining moment in our state’s history,” Kansas Farm Bureau President Steve Baccus said. “We must establish a water legacy that serves agriculture and future generations of Kansans. KFB members understand if we don’t help define the vision for these precious water supplies, others, who will not be friendly to rural Kansas and agriculture, will do so for us.”
Kansas Farm Bureau represents grassroots agriculture. Established in 1919, this nonprofit advocacy organization supports farm families who earn their living in a changing industry.
BRIDGEVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Several students will be disciplined for releasing hundreds of crickets in a western Pennsylvania high school as a senior prank.
Chartiers Valley School District tells KDKA-TV that the students involved in Thursday’s prank at the high school in Bridgeville have been identified and will be disciplined. The district spokeswoman, Kara Droney, didn’t say what that would entail.
School officials aren’t saying how many Chartiers Valley High School seniors were involved, though the television station says it was about six.
School janitors and teachers were enlisted to help round up the bugs. Some of the prank was caught on school surveillance cameras.
Eagle Radio of Hays presented Kiwanis of Hays board member Jerry Ubert, front row, left, with a donation Thursday to support the Kiwanis U.S. flag project and other community projects.
By KARI BLURTON Hays Post
A group of 42 volunteers will be waking up at the crack of dawn Monday to ensure nearly 900 flags will be flying high throughout the community of Hays this Memorial Day.
These particular flags are part of the Kiwanis of Hays U.S. Flag Project, which started 14 years ago.
According to Kiwanis board member and flag project co-chairman Jerry Ubert, for a $30 donation, Kiwanis volunteers will not only provide a 3-by-5-foot U.S. flag, pole and bracket “for proper display of the U.S. flag.” Kiwanis members will erect and take down the flag at sunset on Memorial Day.
The $30 donation also means volunteers will come back on four more holidays throughout the year to do the same thing: Flag Day, Independence Day, Labor Day and Veterans Day.
Ubert admitted the process takes hours of commitment, and many members “are not morning people at all, but are willing to roll out of bed at least five times a year to help get the flags up.”
Ubert said the program is rewarding.
Sternberg public relations intern Marcella McCluskey and Sternberg volunteer Jackson Stanton practice video games at “Be the Dinosaur” exhibit at Sternberg.
“When you see the flags out there waving, it is all worth it,” he said. “What it boils down to is good ol’ patriotism. Patriotism never goes out of style.”
While the deadline to receive the Memorial Day flag is past, the community is welcome to sign up for the project at any time of the year at a prorated price.
Eagle Communications has supported the Kiwanis and its U.S flag project for years.
In fact, the streets adjacent to Eagle Communications at 27th and Hall Street will be lined with American flags Monday.
To help keep programs such as the U.S. flag project alive, Eagle Radio of Hays on Thursday presented Ubert with an $850 donation to support Kiwanis of Hays.
Ubert thanked Eagle for the funds, noting the money goes “right back into the community” by supporting not just the the flag project, but all the community projects Kiwanis helps fund, such as the annual Easter Egg Hunt on the Fort Hays State University campus, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ellis County, CASA, Boy and Girl Scouts, First Call For Help, Special Olympics, Ellis County Ministerial Alliance and more.
For more information on the flag project or Kiwanis, call Ubert at (785) 625-3481 or visit the Kiwanis of Hays website.
Country music and patriotism go hand in hand. Real Country, 99 KZ Country, will salute both Memorial Day Weekend. We’ll feature number one songs of the last 50 years and play patriotic songs every hour as we honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.
