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Kraft recalls Knudsen and other cottage cheese brands

Screen Shot 2014-05-17 at 7.21.28 PMNORTHFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Kraft Foods Group is recalling some of its cottage cheese products.

Company officials say some ingredients used in Knudsen Cottage Cheese, Breakstone’s Cottage Cheese, Simply Kraft Cottage Cheese and Daily Chef Cottage Cheese were not stored in accordance with proper temperature standards at a California, manufacturing facility. Kraft says that might have created conditions that could lead to premature spoilage and food-borne illness.

Kraft voluntarily recalled 1.2 million cases of the cottage cheese as a precaution. The products have a date between May 9 and July 23 stamped on them.

Anyone who purchased these products should not eat them. They can be returned to the stores where they were bought for exchanges or full refunds.

For more information about the recall, call Kraft at 1-800-396-6307 between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. EDT.

 

One man hospitalized after Saturday afternoon accident

KHPGREAT BEND— One person was injured in a two-vehicle accident on Saturday in Barton County.

The Kansas Highway reported a 1998 Chevy S-10 driven by Robert A. Grabhorn, 66, Great Bend was southbound on U.S. 281 one mile north of Great Bend. The vehicle stopped and was attempting to make an eastbound turn.

It was rear ended by a 2002 Chevy Silverado driven by Zachary D. Sanders, 19, Hoisington.

The impact pushed the S-10 into the west ditch. It went through a tree row before coming to rest.

Grabhorn was transported to Clara Barton Hospital for treatment.
The KHP reported both drivers were properly restrained at the time of the crash.

Ten arrested in Garden City burglaries

Screen Shot 2014-05-17 at 6.39.22 PMGARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have arrested several teenagers in connection with a string of daytime burglaries in Garden City.

The Garden City Telegram reports that police, the Finney County Sheriff’s Office and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, arrested 10 people Wednesday.

The burglaries cost the victims about $36,000. Among items stolen were electronics, jewelry and cash. Most of the 10 people arrested range in age from 15 through 18. A 39-year-old man was also arrested on drug charges.

Police say about $10,000 worth of stolen goods have been recovered, along with four vehicles police suspect were used in the burglaries.

Police say that in many cases, the suspects would knock on the front door, and when no one answered they would go to the back of the home to enter.

Police investigate fire that destroyed parked cars

fireWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita authorities are investigating after a fire destroyed several parked cars.

KAKE-TV reports that up to 15 cars were destroyed in the fire at an apartment complex Friday night. No injuries were reported.

Battalion Chief Sid Newby says when fire crews arrived they found the carport and cars engulfed in flames. Residents of a nearby building were evacuated after the fire spread, but firefighters kept the flames from getting inside any of the apartments.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Emotional commencement for newest FHSU grads, families

Assistance dog, Indy, graduates alongside Jason Hughes, Rock Springs Wyoming, Geoscience major, FHSU Commencement Ceremony Saturday
Assistance dog, Indy, graduates alongside geoscience major Jason Hughes, Rock Springs Wyo., at Saturday’s commencement ceremony.

By KARI BLURTON
Hays Post

More than 800 graduates attended the commencement ceremony Saturday at Fort Hays State University to honor years of work dedicated to obtaining an undergraduate degree.

Kenton Russell, FHSU faculty member in the Criminal Justice Department, said the ceremony was the eighth one he has attended, but it never gets old. Each evokes many different reactions.

“You will get tears, you will get hugs, you will get excitement and everything under the gamut as far as emotions go, but it is different every year and I like it,” Russell said. “I’m exited for my seniors … they think it has been a long haul.”

Taylor Rice, Ellsworth, said he feels his accomplishment of obtaining a degree in technology science has, indeed, been a long haul.

“I am ecstatic. This is a long time coming, so it is finally good to fulfill the dream,” said Rice, who will be moving to Tulsa, Okla., soon to start his first job as a college grad at a commercial building firm.

Chase Wiggins, Russell, manufacturing technology major, echoed Rice.

“I am feeling excited to get this over with. It has been along time coming. It is time to move on,” said Wiggins, who will be staying in Hays for the summer at an internship for a local construction company.

Elementary education graduates wear decorated hats Commencement Ceremony, FHSU Gross Memorial Coliseum Saturday
Elementary education graduates wear decorated mortarboards Saturday.

While some feel the time at FHSU has been long, others feel the opposite.

“It has gone by too soon, and I can’t believe it’s over,” said Courtney Sargent, Wichita, communications disorders major.

The rite of passage hit others another way.

“I miss (FHSU) already,” said elementary education major Brook Whitmore. “It has hit me at different times that I am actually done. But as I was driving here today I was actually looking at my aunt and uncle and said, ‘You know, I’m ready to get my master’s.’ ”

Proud parents, family members and friends filled the seats to capacity at FHSU’s Gross Memorial Coliseum.

Terri McNeal had tears in her eyes as she anxiously awaited the sight of her daughter, Sierra McNeal, who obtained her degree in social work, as the graduates began to file into the coliseum.

McNeal said Sierra is the first in the family to obtain a college degree.

“I am feeling pretty emotional. … My baby is graduating. I feel very proud,” McNeal said.

FHSU Interim Provost Chris Crawford told the crowd the university recognized 3,347 graduates in all this year, including those who obtained advanced degrees and graduated from the Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Sciences. Those graduates were honored in separate ceremonies.

 

 

Two hospitalized after Saturday Interstate 70 accident

KHPJUNCTION CITY—Two people were injured in a Saturday morning crash on Interstate 70 in Geary County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2011 Camry driven by Grace D. Doering, 82, Overland Park, was westbound on I-70 three miles west of U.S.77. The vehicle went off the roadway into the median and drove over the embankment.

The vehicle landed on the intersecting roadway of E Street under the bridge.

Doering and a passenger in the vehicle Paul O. Doering, 87, Overland Park were transported to Geary County Hospital.

The KHP reported they were properly restrained at the time of the accident.

FHSU prof, Colby teacher will offer workshop for English instructors

FHSU University Relations

Dr. Lorie Cook-Benjamin, assistant professor of teacher education, and Andrea Schuette, sixth-grade English teacher at Colby Middle School, will present “Strategies and Techniques for English Language Arts Classrooms” on June 6 in the nursing building at North Central Kansas Technical College, 2205 Wheatland.

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The workshop is sponsored by the Kansas Center for Innovative Education, an entity of the College of Education and Technology at Fort Hays State University. KCIE provides tools for creative and critical thinking in the fields of manufacturing, technology and education.

The workshop, available for college credit, will present strategies and techniques used in middle and high school English language arts classrooms to help reach the Kansas College and Career Readiness Standards, designed to ensure that students graduating from high school are prepared to go to college or enter the workforce and that parents, teachers and students have a clear understanding of what is expected of them. The standards are benchmarked to international standards to guarantee that Kansas students are competitive in the emerging global marketplace.

Lunch and refreshments are included in the $90 workshop fee, due June 4. Registration for college credit should be completed no later than May 23. Space is limited to 30 participants.

For more information or to enroll in the workshop, visit www.fhsu.edu/kcie/events.

4 men bound for trial in murder of Arkansas man

JailWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Sedgwick County judge has bound over for trial four men charged with killing an Arkansas man during an attempted robbery.

The Wichita Eagle reports  the four men — Corey L. Pollard Jr., Dijon L. Thomas, Orville T. Smith and Dallas D. Guy — will each be tried on one count of first-degree felony murder and other charges in the 2013 death of 27-year-old Paul Danny Khmabounheuang.

Judge Stephen Ternes presided over the men’s preliminary hearings Friday and set their jury trials for June 16. The defendants are being held in the Sedgwick County Jail on $500,000 bond.

The victim was in Wichita visiting a relative when he was killed.

 

Kansas City police say suspect found dead

police.jpgKANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A man who reportedly fired at Kansas City, Kansas, police has been found dead inside a home.

Police and officers from the Kansas Highway Patrol officers surrounded the apartment Friday night after police were dispatched to the area on a reported disturbance.

Police say the suspect shot at them but no officers were injured. Police officers also shot back at the suspect.

Officers later entered the apartment and found the suspect dead. Police say the Wyandotte County coroner will determine the cause of death.

The suspect’s identity hasn’t been released.

Teachers leading protest at Kansas Statehouse

photo courtesy KNEA
photo courtesy KNEA

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas teachers and other education advocates are rallying at the Kansas Statehouse and arguing that the state is still not spending enough money on its public schools.

The American Federation of Teachers and the Kansas National Education Association organized Saturday’s rally. The rally and other events came on the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic Brown v. Board of Education decision declaring segregated schools unconstitutional.

Education advocates suggested during a discussion before the rally that a lack of resources for public schools is preventing the U.S. from living up to Brown’s promise of equal educational opportunities for all children.

Kansas lawmakers recently enacted a plan to boost aid for poor school districts but attached policy provisions favored by conservative Republicans. One encourages corporate-funded, private-school scholarships for at-risk children.

 

Sister Patricia Younger, CSA

Sr. Patricia ‘Pat” Younger CSA, died May 7, 2014, at St. Francis Home, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

Sr. Pat was born to Jacob P. and Catherine (Mader) Younger June 2, 1930, at their farm home near Catharine, Kansas.

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She attended Catharine Grade School and then left the farm for Fond du Lac, Wisconsin where she joined the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Agnes. Sr. Pat made her profession of vows on August 15, 1949.

She received a bachelor’s of education from Marian College in Fond du Lac and a master’s degree in administration with a minor in guidance and counseling from Mary Manse College in Toledo, Ohio.

She was an elementary teacher for eighteen years in Wisconsin, Indiana, Minnesota and Texas. She was a principal for twenty-seven years in Wisconsin, Indiana, Minnesota, New York, and Kansas. She was assistant principal at Hayden High School, Topeka from 1984-87; assistant superintendent for Diocese of Wichita schools in 1987-88; principal-president at Thomas More Prep-Marian High, Hays from 1988-92; and a teacher & librarian at Holy Savior School, Wichita from 1992-2001.

After retiring from teaching, sister spent 10 years in New York at the Leo House, a hotel ministered by the Sisters of St. Agnes, welcoming people to a home away from home.  Sister’s last mission was in Bisbee, Arizona, teaching religion to the Mexican children.

Sister Pat brought her gifts of music and laughter to every place in which she lived and ministered.

Survivors include two brothers, John C. Younger and wife, Ethel and Tom Younger and wife, Det, both of Victoria, KS; one sister, Nadine Pedersen, Winter Springs FL; two sisters-in-law, Jeanette Younger, Victoria, KS; LaVerna Younger, Hays, KS; 15 nephews; 23 nieces and many great-nieces and great-nephews; and by the Sisters of St. Agnes with whom she lived, prayed, and ministered.

She was preceded in death by her parents; four brothers, Richard Younger, Albert Younger, Jack Younger and Bernie Younger; and four sisters, Lucille Miller, Rita Desch, Lietta Niernberger and Catherine Bitterman.

A Mass of Christian Burial for Sister Pat was held at 2:00 P.M. Saturday, May 10, 2014, in the St. Francis Home Chapel, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.  Father Ken Smits, Capuchin, was the presider.

Her final Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10:00 A.M. Saturday, May 24, 2014, at The Basilica of St. Fidelis, Victoria, Kansas.  Burial in St. Fidelis Cemetery, Victoria, Kansas.

A vigil service is at 7:00 P.M. Friday, at Cline’s Mortuary, 412 Main Street, Victoria, Kansas 67671.

Visitation is from 6:00 to 9:00 P.M. Friday and from 8:30 to 9:45 A.M. Saturday, at Cline’s Mortuary Victoria, Kansas.

Memorials are suggested to the Sisters of St. Agnes Development Office, 320 County Road K, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin 54937.

The Sisters of St. Agnes and the Younger family are grateful to the nurses and staff of Nazareth Court and Center/St. Francis Home and the staff of Hospice Hope for their care of Sr. Pat.

Condolences can be sent via email to [email protected]

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