Two comical Kansas entertainers, Jay Cady and Leslie Cady with Laughing Matters, will perform their “Drop of a Hat” act at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 8, in the Hays Public Library’s Schmidt Gallery, 1205 Main.
“Drop of a Hat is 45 to 55 minutes of wacky juggling, mime, magic and humor routines,” said Brenda Meder, executive director of the Hays Arts Council. “All ages will enjoy this refreshingly fun show.”
Jay and Leslie received the 2010 Lighton Prize for Excellence as Teaching Artists and were nominated for the Best of Kansas City Theater Award twice.
The Hays Arts Council and the Hays Public Library sponsor this free event.
TOPEKA — Holy Family Elementary School’s chess team came from behind in a sixth-round spoiler at Topeka’s Christ the King opening chess season tournament this weekend.
Noah Bruggeman won four games, placing 10th individually in the K-5 division. Jensen Brull also contributed four wins placing 14th overall.
Braydon Binder and Tate Dinkel added three wins apiece at 23rd and 26th place, respectively. All four boys had a sixth round win, which was enough to steal third from Jay Schindeler Academy in a final-round nail-biter.
The Christ the King tournament featured competition from Topeka, Lawrence and the Kansas City areas.
Developmental Services of Northwest Kansas’ Online Sports and Celebrity Auction is now underway.
You can bid on autographed items from a wide variety of athletes and celebrities. For a complete list of all the items that will be up for bid, go to www.dsnwk.org.
All items being auctioned are listed with eBay for a one-week period and will follow the normal requirements of eBay. Each week, DSNWK will select several new items from their list that will be up for bid. All proceeds from the Sports and Celebrity Auction will benefit the special needs of both children and adults with developmental disabilities, such as a winter coat, shower chair or portable ramp.
I love the Kansas state fair and I love talking to people about trapping, so I spend some time each year at the Kansas Fur Harvesters booth at the Kansas State Fair.
That booth is an excellent way to educate people about the importance of trapping here in the U.S.
As people stop by the booth, one of the things we point out is that furbearers in Kansas are very prolific breeders and trapping is a perfect and necessary tool to keep their populations manageable.
Beavers have from one to six young each year, and they do considerable damage by damming streams and ponds that flood farmland, back roads and golf courses. They cut off newly planted saplings with just a couple bites and kill large standing trees by completely chewing off the bark as high as they can reach. Muskrats have three to five litters per year, each containing up to five kits, and even though they don’t chew trees, they can absolutely riddle dikes, stream banks and pond dams with holes for dens. Raccoons birth three or four young each year and their taste for eggs leads them to destroy large numbers of songbird, pheasant and quail nests every spring. Coyotes have six to ten pups each year and even if only three survive, that’s a three hundred percent population increase.
Displayed at the booth are tanned pelts representing every furbearer found in Kansas. Everyone enjoys trying to identify each pelt as they run their fingers through the soft luxurious fur. The skunk pelt is always a good conversation starter, and visitors are usually astonished at how soft and beautiful skunk fur really is; even more surprising to them is the fact that skunk essence is used in minute amounts in perfume as an agent to hold and carry the aroma, making it last longer (ever noticed how long skunk smell hangs around?)
Just next to the skunk pelt in this year’s display was the opossum pelt, which itself is amazingly soft considering the appearance of the lowly possum. I always try to point that out to each visitor that stops, along with the unique fact that most possum pelts are made into felt, and that the felt tops on most pool tables are made from possum fur.
Numerous men who stop at the booth trapped when they were kids and they often ask about fur prices today. Their eyes widen when we tell them that nearly all the wild-caught fur from the U.S. now goes overseas to China, Korea, Greece, Italy and Russia, so the economy of those countries and even the severity of winter in Russia directly affect the prices we are paid for our fur here in Kansas.
As recently as a generation ago, hunting, trapping and fishing were never questioned and were just a part of life. Today, because of seasons and harvest limits there are more game and fish available for harvest than ever before in the history of our country, so it makes no sense to me that hunting, trapping and fishing would be challenged now. I wish every anti-hunter could envision a world without regulated hunting, trapping and fishing, where wildlife died from starvation, rampant disease and indiscriminate shooting; it wouldn’t be pretty! Continue to Explore Kansas Outdoors.
Steve Gilliland, Inman, can be contacted by email at [email protected].
Today will be partly to mostly cloudy with highs in the mid 70s. Winds will be from the south at 10 to 20 mph across far western Kansas, with lighter winds farther east.
Today Partly sunny, with a high near 75. Light southeast wind becoming south 6 to 11 mph in the morning.
Tonight Partly cloudy, with a low around 54. South southeast wind 6 to 9 mph.
TuesdayMostly sunny, with a high near 80. South wind 7 to 15 mph.
Tuesday NightA 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 59. South southeast wind 8 to 10 mph.
WednesdayA 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 80. South wind 8 to 16 mph.
Wednesday NightA 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 58.
ThursdayA 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 77.
Thursday NightA 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 49.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy and a 13-year-old boy have been arrested after police say they stole items from a Wichita residence and set the garage door on fire.
According Wichita police Sgt. Brian Sigman, officers responded to a home at 2 a.m. Saturday. Police say they found the boys in the area with the items missing from the home, including a machete.
Sigman said the suspects used gasoline that was in the garage to set the door on fire the night before the robbery.
The Wichita Eagle reports both boys were arrested on suspicion of burglary and arson.
WYANDOTTE COUNTY- A Kansas teen was injured in an accident just after 10:30p.m. on Sunday in Wyandotte County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2002 Dodge Stratus driven by Alyssa Nichole Prescott, 17, Leavenworth, was northbound on U.S. 73 just north of Leavenworth Road.
The driver swerved to the left to avoid an oncoming vehicle that was going the wrong way.
The vehicle then crossed the median and traveled into the ditch.
Prescott was transported to Overland Park Regional Medical Center.
She was properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is getting nearly $5.6 million from the federal government to help people who are having trouble finding jobs get into work or training.
The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/1PdoakO ) reports the grant from the Workforce Innovation Fund will pay for on-the-job training, job preparation and placement services. It also will go toward developing an online portal for people looking for help with employment and training staff on better customer service.
Kansas Department of Commerce spokesman Matt Keith says the training will emphasize jobs that are in high demand and pay enough for the job seeker to reach self-sufficiency.
He says the programs are meant to help people who have at least one barrier to employment, such as having a low income, prison record, disability or being 55 or older.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a 26-year-old woman was shot in the back when she went outside to check on a disturbance during a house party in Wichita.
Wichita police Sgt. Brian Sigman said the woman was shot in the back twice shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday. According to police, witnesses said the shooter was in a red Dodge Charger with tinted windows and chrome wheels that drove off after the shooting.
The woman was taken to Wesley Medical Center for treatment and released. Sigman said the woman did not appear to be involved in the disturbance and just happened to step outside when the shooting took place.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) – Three finalists have been named for the chancellor’s job at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Two of them are currently based at Kansas universities.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports the finalists for the top job at UA were announced Friday. They are: April Mason, provost and senior vice president at Kansas State University; Jeffrey S. Vitter, provost and executive vice chancellor at the University of Kansas; and Joseph E. Steinmetz, executive vice president and provost at Ohio State University.
UA System President Donald Bobbitt selected the finalists from seven candidates interviewed on September 25th in Dallas by a search committee. The finalists are seeking to replace G. David Gearhart, who stepped down at the end of July.
Each finalist will visit Fayetteville for two days of activities, including a public talk on the morning of the second day.
ELLIS- Two people were injured in an accident just before 6p.m. on Sunday in Ellis County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1999 Chevy passenger car driven by Alexander Shane Boswell, 21, McPherson, was traveling west bound on Interstate 70 at the Kansas 247 exit near Ellis.
The vehicle failed to maintain the lane of traffic. It entered the north bound ditch, slid sideways, hit the embankment and rolled.
Bowswell and a passenger Cassidy Lynn Goering,19, McPherson, were transported to Hays Medical Center.
They were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.
DENVER (AP) — Brandon McManus kicked a 39-yard field goal with 1:51 left and Denver had seven sacks in the Broncos’ 23-20 win over the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday.
Von Miller smothered the loose ball after T.J. Ward’s sack-strip of Teddy Bridgewater in the closing seconds, sealing the win for the unbeaten Broncos (4-0), who got a 72-yard touchdown run from Ronnie Hillman.
Peyton Manning has led his teams to a 4-0 start seven times, most in NFL history by a long shot. Next up at four is Fran Tarkenton. Manning also joined Brett Favre as the only QBs to win 100 home starts in the NFL.
It wasn’t a great day for Manning, who was picked off twice by the Vikings (2-2).
Adrian Peterson ran for a 48-yard touchdown to pull Minnesota to 20-17 and cap a 97-yard drive with 10 minutes left.
