Hays Fire Department

Beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday, the Northwest Kansas Regional Rescue Team will be conducting a search and rescue training exercise at the Hess Services plant, 230th Avenue and Feedlot Road. The exercise will simulate the coordinated search of a wide area and the rescue of trapped persons after a tornado strike.

The Northwest Kansas Regional Rescue Team is operated by the Hays Fire Department and is cooperatively staffed by specially trained firefighters from the Ellis County Rural, Ellis, Victoria and Hays fire departments. The team serves the 18 counties in the northwest region of the state providing building collapse, confined space, trench cave-in and high elevation rescue services.

In addition to the HFD, the Ellis County Rural Fire Department, Ellis County EMS and Ellis County Emergency Management will participate in the exercise to simulate a full emergency response.

The members of the Regional Rescue Team would like to thank Hess Services for their cooperation and assistance in conducting this exercise, HFD Chief Gary Brown said in a news release.

FHSU University Relations and Marketing

Allen Craven, associate professor of art at Fort Hays State University, will hold the opening reception for his sabbatical art exhibition, “Witness,” from 6:30-9:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 28, in Moss-Thorns Gallery, located on the first floor of Rarick Hall.

The exhibition is a culmination of work begun during Craven’s four-week residency at the Vermont Studio Center, the largest international residency program for artists and writers in the United States.

Craven said he named the exhibit “Witness” because even when he was working alone in his studio, he always felt like someone was there with him.

The exhibit features more than 40 drawings, paintings, encaustic works and hand-carved pipes. Encaustic painting uses heat to melt pigmented wax into layers. Painters can keep the wax flat to create a two-dimensional image, sculpt the wax to create reliefs or use the wax to hold objects in collages.

Craven used oak, bamboo and deer antlers to hand-carve his smoking pipes.

“It’s what I like to do when I get tired of drawing or painting,” said Craven.

Though Craven has carved more than 80 pipes, many of which are in the shape of animals, only a portion of them will be displayed because he sold many of them.

The collection of works in the exhibit is eclectic, but Craven said that if viewers look for it, they will find an under-lying theme of birth and the cycle of life.

Craven’s exhibit is part of the 31st annual Fall Art Walk presented by the Hays Arts Council.

Oberlin native Cammi Williby has joined the staff of Knoll Clinic as an advanced registered nurse practitioner.

Williby completed her undergraduate degree at Baker University in 2005. She obtained her master’s as a family nurse practitioner from Fort Hays State University in 2008. She is certified by the ANCC as a family nurse practitioner and is a member of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

Williby worked at Dreiling-Schmidt Cancer Center from 2008 to 2015 and also currently works at Convenient Care Clinic in Hays.

She has three sons — Treger, Trevon and Tateum — enjoys cooking, traveling with her sons, and spending time with her family.

As a health care provider at Knoll Clinic, Williby is able to perform minor office surgeries/procedures, joint injections, trigger point injections, suturing, ordering and interpreting diagnostic testing, as well as diagnosing, treating and managing acute and chronic medical conditions for all ages. She is accepting new patients.

For more information, call (785) 625-5500.

FHSU MDC

Creating an Advertising Plan: From “Where Do I Start?” to “I Can Do This!” will be the second workshop offered this fall by the Management Development Center at Fort Hays State University. This event will take place at 1:00 p.m. on September 2, 2015, in the FHSU Memorial Union, Stouffer Lounge Rm # 222, and will offer participants the opportunity to learn effective advertising strategies and how to implement them.

Andy Stanton, Marketing Specialist for Eagle Communications, will facilitate the workshop.

“Marketing your product or small business can be challenging when competing with large franchised businesses,” said Sabrina William, Director of the MDC. “Much of the information provided at the workshop is applicable to anyone interested in learning more about beginning or improving an existing advertising plan.”

The half-day workshop is designed to provide participants with a more thorough understanding of how to get more bang out of their advertising buck. Participants will gain exposure on topics such as persuasion techniques, various communication models, effective media strategies, purchasing and differences between marketing, advertising and public relations.

Each person who completes the workshop will receive a completion certificate.

The cost is $119 and registrations received prior to September 1 are preferred.

Hays Area Chamber of Commerce members are eligible for a 15% discount on this workshop.

To register, learn more about this workshop or receive discount codes, contact Conni Dreher by phone at (785) 628-4121 or by email at [email protected]. Registration is also available online at www.fhsu.edu/mdc.

Our area will be under the influence of light northerly winds behind the surface front that brought last evenings storms. Sunny skies through most of the day will give way to some fair weather cloud development by the afternoon. Temperatures this afternoon and Saturday will reach the upper 80s to around 90 degrees with light winds through the period. Following a couple of days in the upper 80s to around 90 degrees, temperatures will trend slightly warmer than normal into next week.

Today Mostly sunny, with a high near 89. West wind 7 to 11 mph becoming north in the afternoon.

Tonight Mostly clear, with a low around 60. North northeast wind 6 to 11 mph.

Saturday Sunny, with a high near 90. North northeast wind 6 to 8 mph.

Saturday NightMostly clear, with a low around 60. East southeast wind 5 to 9 mph.

SundaySunny, with a high near 92. South southeast wind 6 to 14 mph.

Sunday NightMostly clear, with a low around 65.

MondaySunny, with a high near 94.

Monday NightPartly cloudy, with a low around 69.