NEW YORK (AP) – Kimberly Schlapman of Little Big Town wants to get into your kitchen. She’s releasing her first cookbook, titled “Oh Gussie! Cooking and Visiting in Kimberly’s Southern Kitchen.” Schlapman will share recipes and stories about her roots in north Georgia, traveling with the band and her life in Nashville. Schlapman is promising the recipes will be “fresh, accessible, nutritious, quick and fun.” “Oh Gussie!” comes out April 14.
To ring in the year of the sheep, the Chinese Student Association at Fort Hays State University will host a traditional New Year performance at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, in the Beach/Schmidt Performing Arts Center in Sheridan Hall on the FHSU campus.
The Chinese Student Association is eager to share its culture through an evening of celebration including traditional Chinese dances, songs and entertainment.
“There will be Chinese traditional Hmong dance, Yong Chun Dance, which is a perfect combination of Chinese modern and classical dance, and the classic love song ‘Almost a Love Story’,” said Claire Fan Zhou, Beijing senior and vice-president of the Chinese Student Association.
Learn how to join the global market place and expand Kansas exports when you attend the Northwest Regional Export Promotion meeting on Tuesday, March 10, 2015.
The meeting, which will be held from 9:00 a.m. to noon at The Robbins Center – Eagle Communications Hall at Fort Hays State University, 600 Park Street, is one of six export promotion meetings offered by Kansas Global Trade Services in partnership with the Kansas Department of Commerce.
The six meetings are part of the ExportNow Kansas Program aimed at local companies with export potential. The program will raise export awareness by connecting communities and companies to export assistance.
Why are these meetings important? Kansas has enjoyed some export success in the past few years, increasing exports by 26 percent between 2010 and 2013. But experts say that 83 percent of global GDP growth will occur outside the U.S. by 2018, and Kansas needs to claim a greater share.
Who would benefit from these meetings?
· Businesses who produce goods and services suitable for export
· Local elected and appointed officials
· Economic development officials
We hope you will consider joining us for this great opportunity. There is no charge for this event, but RSVPs are required. E-mail Ella at [email protected] or call 316-264-5982.
A backdoor cold front will move across the region with a large temperature gradient this weekend. It will be a chilly Valentine’s Day and start to the weekend, with a high temperature of around 40 but falling through-out the day and becoming windy as a cold front enters the area.
Another disturbance, passing through Sunday Night into Monday night, will combine with these colder temperatures and may produce snow across the region.
Today: Partly sunny, with a temperature rising to near 41 by 11am, then falling to around 32 during the remainder of the day. Breezy, with a northwest wind 8 to 13 mph becoming east northeast 17 to 22 mph in the morning.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 13. Wind chill values as low as 1. Blustery, with an east wind 15 to 20 mph decreasing to 9 to 14 mph after midnight.
Sunday: Cloudy, with a high near 28. Wind chill values as low as -1. East wind 7 to 11 mph.
Sunday Night: A slight chance of flurries before 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 19. East northeast wind 5 to 7 mph becoming west southwest after midnight.
Monday: A slight chance of snow between 7am and 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 41. West wind 5 to 8 mph becoming north northeast in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20%
LYONS — A rural Rice County man has been arrested and jailed for suspicion of cultivation of a controlled substance and criminal use of a weapon.
The Rice County Drug task force reported they discovered a marijuana growing operation while investigating an unrelated crime and arrested Ronald Zolman, 49, Little River.
Officers seized over 110 marijuana plants on Feb. 9 at the scene of the indoor marijuana-growing site in the northeastern part of the county.
Zolman was also charged with criminal use of a weapon for allegedly having an illegally modified firearm.
Former Syracuse and NFL quarterback Don McPherson spoke Tuesday at a conference on domestic violence in Topeka. Credit Dave Ranney / Heartland Health Monitor
By Dave Ranney
Last year, more than 25,000 women and children spent time in one of the 29 domestic violence shelters in Kansas. A few men did as well.
“These are just the ones we know about,” said Joyce Grover, executive director of the Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence.
Between 2009 and 2013, law enforcement officials in Kansas investigated nearly 96,000 reports of domestic violence, resulting in 68,000 arrests.
The best way to bring these numbers down, Grover said, is to “stop it before it starts.” And the best way to do that, she said, is to get people talking about changing the long-unchallenged “beliefs, attitudes and behaviors” that condone — or don’t do enough to condemn — violent relationships.
“The big picture we’re all aiming for here is for a world without intimate partner violence,” Grover said Tuesday at the start of a two-day conference in Topeka titled “Reweaving Our Social Fabric: Engaging to Prevent Sexual and Domestic Violence.”
Don McPherson, a 1987 consensus All-American quarterback at Syracuse University who later played in the National Football League and Canadian Football League, gave one of the conference’s keynote addresses.
Now an advocate and educator, McPherson, too, encouraged those in the audience to have public discussions aimed at dissecting the root causes of domestic violence.
“We don’t raise boys to be men,” he said. “We raise them not to be women, and in that process we raise them in a very narrow way in how they see themselves, how they come to understand who they are and how they come to see women as ‘less than.’ That’s an attitude that not only leads to violence against women but also to our collective silence about it.”
Similarly, McPherson said the worst thing a coach can say to a boy is “You throw like a girl” or “You run like a girl.” He also said that adults should stop using the adage, “Boys will be boys.”
Concerning the NFL’s response to Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice’s assault of Janay Palmer, his then-girlfriend and now his wife, McPherson said, “I hope that at some point, as a culture and as a society and as a nation, we get to ask the question: Why do we idolize and lionize men in professional sport who are part of a culture of abuse? And at some point, we have to ask why the NFL continues to give us this product when we know these are not necessarily good people.”
He questioned the media’s stories on why Palmer remained with Rice after he knocked her unconscious in a hotel elevator. “Why didn’t anyone ask why Ray Rice remained in that relationship?” McPherson said. “Think about it. What kind of man would want to stay with someone he’s spit on, someone he assaulted on a public elevator? What does that say about him?”
He welcomed President Obama’s appearance in a video shown Sunday during the Grammy Awards that condemned domestic violence. But the nation’s music industry, he said, has done little to lessen its promotion of “misogamy, sexism and violence against women.”
Laura Patzner, who runs the Family Crisis Center, a 10-county domestic violence shelter based in Great Bend, welcomed McPherson and Grover’s calls encouraging public conversations about domestic violence.
“The biggest thing that people don’t understand, I think, is how pervasive it is,” Patzner said. “This isn’t just about abusive marriages or how many people get arrested or how many people we see (at the shelter). It’s cultural, it’s bullying, it’s about how we get along with others.”
Patzner said her 16-bed shelter in almost always full.
“I tell people we just did an expansion – we bought two blow-up mattresses,” she said. “When we need them, which is a lot of the time, we use them.”
Grover encouraged any civic group or organization interested in hosting a conversation on domestic violence issues to contact the shelter in their region.
Dave Ranney is a reporter for Heartland Health Monitor, a news collaboration focusing on health issues and their impact in Missouri and Kansas.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Does your sweetheart have a milk allergy? You may want to hold off on a dark chocolate Valentine.
A new Food and Drug Administration study released Wednesday says there are traces of milk in some dark chocolate candies.
The agency found that 55 of 93 bars of dark chocolate “without any clear indication of the presence of milk” on their labels contained some level of milk. Two out of 17 dark chocolate bars that were labeled “dairy free or allergen free” also contained milk.
The FDA would not identify the brands that contain milk.
Milk is one of several allergens required to be labeled on food packages. The agency tested dark chocolate after hearing from consumers who said they had eaten it and experienced harmful reactions.
The Hays High Lady Indians won for the first time in 2015 with a 45-41 in over Liberal on Friday night. The Lady Indians trailed after the first quarter 12-11 and 18-16 midway through the second. Hays used a 7-0 run to go up by as many as five in that quarter and led at half time 25-22.
Highlights
The third quarter added the separation the Lady Indians needed for the victory. Hays outscored Liberal 13-3 in the third and led 38-25 entering the fourth. Liberal scored the first seven points of the fourth quarter to get with in six and even closed the gap to five, twice in the final 65 seconds.
Coach Kirk Maska
Hays ends the nine game losing streak with the victory and picks up their first Western Athletic Conference win in nearly two years. Hays is now 4-12 on the season and 1-4 in the WAC. Liberal drops to 3-13 and 1-4.
Audra Schmeidler led the Indians with 16 points, including 8 of 10 from the free throw line.
Boys
Liberal 57 – Hays 54
It literally came down to the last second. Hays unfortunately was not the team with the ball.
Hays scored 17 points over the first 5:40 of the game, taking a 17-11 lead over Liberal. The Indians though would score just two points over the next seven minutes, allowing Liberal to take a 15-19 lead. Liberal pushed the first half lead as high as seven points before Hays closed it to 28-24 by half time.
Highlights
Hays trimmed the lead down to three on three occasions in the third quarter, the final coming at the end of the third at 37-34. Liberal seemed to have an answer every time the Indians made a push in the fourth quarter. Hays fell behind by nine at 52-43 with 2:07 remaining. Liberal would make just 2 of 8 free throws over the final 1:49 allowing Hays to close the gap. Keith Dryden and Isaiah Nunnery combined for three, three pointers in the final 1:34 to tie the game at 54 with :23 seconds remaining. Liberal elected to not take a time out and Cade Hinkle’s 31 foot falling-away prayer was answered when the ball swirled around three times and fell through the net. Liberal took the 57-54 win as time expired.
Coach Rick Keltner
Liberal had the best three point shooting game of the year making 10 of 17 attempts. Hinkle scored a career high 19 for Liberal.
Hays was led in scoring by the 17 of Keith Dryden and 13 of Isaiah Nunnery.
Liberal improves to 10-6 on the year and 2-3 in conference. Hays falls to 10-6 and 3-2. Hays has lost four of the last five games by a total of 15 points.
A buzzer beating three pointer by Phillipsburg’s Mindy Gower sunk the TMP Lady Monarch’s 14 game winning streak. The guarded, deep three came 11 seconds after a TMP turnover. The Lady Panther senior finished with 11 points.
It was a back and forth game the whole way. TMP’s largest lead was four. Phillipsburg’s largest lead was seven. TMP was able to take a one point lead late but could not stretch it out as Phillipsburg constantly had an answer. TMP drops to 14-2 on the season and will play at Great Bend on Tuesday.
ROSE MCFARLAND INTERVIEW
GIRLS HIGHLIGHTS
Boys: TMP 77, Phillipsburg 49
The TMP Monarchs came out of the gates on Friday night with the gas pedal pushed to the floor in their 77-48 win over the Phillipsburg Panthers on Friday night. TMP jumped out 27-11 after the first quarter and put it on cruise control from there. The Monarchs led 44-25 at the break and had a running clock early in the fourth quarter.
Jared Vitztum snapped out of slight offensive funk scoring 20 on the night. 18 of those were in the first half. TMP improves to 10-6 and will play in Great Bend on Tuesday.
Fort Hays State baseball fell by a score of 5-3 to Colorado Mines in the season opener on Friday at Larks Park in Hays. Colorado Mines took a 3-0 lead with back-to-back first inning home runs and held the lead the rest of the way.
The Orediggers (4-0) remained unbeaten on the season by taking advantage of a leadoff walk in the first inning. Connor Lambert followed with a line drive over the right center field wall to make it 2-0, then Nate Olinger hit a solo homer down the right field line to abruptly put the score at 3-0 without any outs recorded.
Starter Justin Hersch settled in from there for the Tigers, recording six consecutive outs before surrendering a walk at the beginning of the third inning. He worked around the free pass to record three more in a row. He also kept the Orediggers scoreless in the fourth, despite two reaching base in the inning.
Meanwhile, the Tigers pulled within a run by the end of the fourth inning. In the first inning Cooper Langley had a two-out RBI single to plate Kevin Czarnecki, who doubled the play before. In the fourth, Nick Hammeke had a two-out RBI single to plate Austin Unrein, who singled earlier in the inning. The Tigers stranded runners at second and third to end the inning, trailing 3-2.
The Tigers had an unfortunate turn of events in the fifth when Hersch could not continue the game with an injury to his leg, not allowing him to get a good push off the mound. Kyle Vogt entered in relief and got the first two batters he faced out before surrendering a solo home run to Connor Lambert, his second of the game to push the CSM lead back to two at 4-2.
Giles Fox had a solid effort out of the bullpen for the Tigers in relief of Vogt, who allowed just the one run over 1.2 innings. Fox threw 2.2 innings and allowed just one hit and struck out five. However, one of the strikeouts was costly in the eighth inning as it came on a wild pitch and catcher Andre Vieyra’s recovery throw down to first was high, allowing a runner to come into score from second. Colorado Mines took a 5-2 lead to the ninth inning.
In the ninth, Vieyra led off with a walk and moved up to second on a wild pitch. With two outs, Caleb Cherryholmesdoubled in Vieyra from third, making it 5-3, but the rally came up short as Connor Ross struck out to end the game.
Hersch took the loss, lasting 4.0 innings. He allowed three runs on three hits with three walks.
Christian Rooney had a great outing on the mound in his start Colorado Mines. He lasted 7.0 innings and allowed just two runs on five hits, while striking out eight. Samuel Reed pitched the final two innings of the game for his first save of the season, allowing just one run and one hit with a strikeout.
Fort Hays State returns to action on Saturday at 1 pm when it hosts Regis University. Regis hit a walk-off two-run homer against Central Oklahoma in the ninth to win the nightcap, 12-10, at Larks Park on Friday. Regis will enter the game at 3-1 overall.
Fort Hays State Softball dropped two contests on opening day of the 2015 season, falling to Minnesota Duluth, 2-0, and No. 13 Missouri-St. Louis, 5-4, on Friday (Feb. 13) at the 8-State Classic.
The Tigers continue the event in Bentonville, Ark., tomorrow (Saturday, Feb. 14) with games against Truman (9 a.m.) and Arkansas-Monticello (11 a.m.). Fans can follow @fhsuathletics on Twitter for updates throughout the day.
Complete recaps of Friday’s games are below…
Minnesota Duluth 2, Fort Hays State 0
Fort Hays State put itself in position for a comeback late but couldn’t follow through, falling 2-0 in its season opener to Minnesota Duluth.
FHSU matched the Bulldogs with five hits on the afternoon, as neither team had an extra base hit and both drew two walks. Kylie Strand was 2-of-2 at the plate with a walk, while Courtney Dobson was 1-of-2 with a walk. Rilee Krier and Samantha Villarreal had the Tigers’ other hits.
In the circle, Kelsey Kimminau (0-1) took the loss despite a strong effort, tossing all seven innings with six strikeouts. For UMD, Cayli Sadler (1-1) had nine strikeouts and also had a complete game.
UMD took an early 1-0 lead in the second when Hailey Lundquist blasted a two-out, solo home run. That lead was extended to 2-0 in the fifth, as the Bulldogs drove home a run on Becky Smith’s single to right field.
Down to its last chance in the seventh, Fort Hays State led off the inning with back-to-back singles from Strand and Villarreal, but a double play and a strikeout ended the game.
No. 13 Missouri-St. Louis 5, Fort Hays State 4
FHSU’s Erin Elmore led the team with a 2-for-3 performance, picking up two RBI with a double. Tory Beltz and Paxton Duran each had RBIs while going 1-of-3.
Duran (1-0) threw a complete game, striking out 10 and walking only three, though four of the eight hits were doubles. For UMSL, Hannah Perryman was tagged early (two earned runs) and threw just into the second, but Brittni Chapman (4-0) picked up the win after limiting the damage and allowing just two runs (both unearned) over the next six innings.
Duran started the game by striking out the side, and FHSU scored its first run of the season in the bottom of the inning. With two outs in the first, Elmore raked a stand-up double to center, rounding the bases after Beltz’s RBI single.
That lead was short lived, as UMSL answered to tie the game in the second. Madison Zbaraschuk led off the inning with a double to center, moving to third on Hannah Wessels’ sacrifice bunt and coming home after Katie Wood singled to center. On that same play, Jennah Perryman was thrown out at the plate for the second out of the inning.
The Tigers took back the lead (2-1) in their half of the second as Strand scored her first run of the year. After leading off with a single, Strand moved to third on Villarreal’s double and came home on a groundout from Duran.
From there, things settled down until the top of the fifth, when UMSL used a two-out rally to take a 3-2 advantage. Katie Rutledge started the flurry with a solo blast, then back-to-back hits from Alex Stupek (double) and Brianna Butler (single) brought Stupek home for the fifth combined run of the day.
Again it was the Tigers who answered to regain control in their half. Duran reached on an error to start the inning and Krier followed with a single, putting runners on first and second with no outs. Later on, with two down, Elmore’s single deflected off the pitcher, and though Duran reached home easily, heads-up baserunning from Krier allowed the Tigers’ left fielder to scamper home on a two-RBI play.
Within an out of clinching the win, FHSU was hurt by a walk and back-to-back doubles from UMSL that saw the Tritons take a 5-4 lead for good in the top of the seventh
Down to its last chance in the seventh, Duran led off with a stand-up double to right, moving to third on Rilee Krier’s sacrifice bunt, but two quick outs for FHSU ended the comeback.
NESS CITY – One man died and one was injured in an accident just after 10 a.m. on Friday in Ness County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a Sterling Tanker Truck driven by Frank Slade Zamarripa Jr., 45, Ellinwood, was westbound on Kansas 96 ten miles west of Ness City.
The truck rear-ended a 2009 Peterbilt semi that was slowing to turn north on G road. The semi rolled.
Zamarripa Jr. was pronounced dead at the scene and transported to Fitzgerald Funeral Home.
The semi driver Anthony Dale Durbin, 58, Ransom, was transported to Ness County Hospital.
The KHP reported Durbin was properly restrained and it is unknown if Zamarripa Jr., was wearing a seat belt.1
NEW YORK (AP) – Kimberly Schlapman of Little Big Town wants to get into your kitchen. She’s releasing her first cookbook, titled “Oh Gussie! Cooking and Visiting in Kimberly’s Southern Kitchen.” Schlapman will share recipes and stories about her roots in north Georgia, traveling with the band and her life in Nashville. Schlapman is promising the recipes will be “fresh, accessible, nutritious, quick and fun.” “Oh Gussie!” comes out April 14.
