HPD

On Tuesday, August 2, 2016 from 5-8 p.m. at the Hays Aquatic Park, the Hays Police Department will be hosting a Community Night Out with FREE admission to swim.

FREE hot dogs and hamburgers will also be served for the first 1,000 people in attendance.

This event is in conjunction with National Night Out, which is an annual community-building campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie to make our neighborhoods safer, better places to live. Together, we are making that happen.

The Hays Police Department would like to thank our sponsors that helped make this event possible:

Fraternal Order of Police Hays Lodge 48, Pepsi, Crawford Supply, Phaze 2, Walmart, Dillons, City of Hays, Eagle Communications, and Hays Recreation Commission.

Join the Hays Police Department for some community fun August 2nd at the Hays Aquatic Park.

Highs today will be anywhere from 3 to 12 degrees cooler compared to the highs on Sunday

Today Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 7am. Partly sunny, with a high near 90. East northeast wind 8 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Tonight A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 70. South southeast wind 6 to 10 mph.

TuesdayA 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 93. South wind 6 to 14 mph.

Tuesday NightA 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 71. South southeast wind 7 to 14 mph.

WednesdayA 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 93.

Wednesday NightShowers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 1am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 68. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

ThursdayA 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 92.

Thursday NightA 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 67.

FHSU University Relations and Marketing

Applications are open for businesses to participate in the third year of the internship pairing service of Fort Hays State University’s Management Development Center.

The program matches northwestern Kansas businesses and entrepreneurial startups with interns from the university’s College of Business and Entrepreneurship for the fall 2016 semester. Funding is provided to cover the bulk of the cost of the paid internships.

“Thanks to funding from the Dane G. Hansen Foundation and from Peter and Pamela Werth, the program is extremely affordable for business owners and allows students to gain valuable experience in their field of study while being paid,” said Sabrina William, director of the MDC.

On the application, businesses identify their needs and decide what responsibilities would fall under the interns’ duties. Student applicants from tourism and hospitality, marketing, accounting, and management and from other colleges and departments are welcome to apply.

Examples of projects may include, but are not limited to:
• Managing social media marketing efforts.
• Planning and executing a promotion or event.
• Establishing a recruitment and selection process.
• Developing a marketing plan.
• Building a competitive analysis strategy.
• Developing a training program for a specific set of operational procedures.
• Analyzing operation processes to determine efficiency.

Business owners are expected to work with the intern by setting initial expectations, revising expectations if necessary, and providing guidance and insight over the course of the internship. They are also expected to complete an evaluation form at the end of the semester.

Students will gain valuable experience completing the project and will learn about the operations, challenges and rewards of business. Students, in some cases, may also choose to register for course credit for the internship.

Full internships are expected to be approximately 240 hours in length. Students will work an average of 15 hours per week over the course of the 16-week semester. Selected businesses are required to provide $500 towards the internship, which will be matched with $2,000 in grant funding. Students will be paid and have tax withholding and workers’ compensation paid by FHSU.

For more information, contact Nicholas Schmidt, MDC graduate assistant, at (785) 628-4739. Businesses interested in this opportunity can download the application online at www.fhsu.edu/cob/mdc/Internship-program and then email it to [email protected].

The priority deadline for business applications is Thursday, July 28.

With limited funding, businesses and students will be selected through a competitive selection process. All businesses are encouraged to apply, but priority will be given to either northwest Kansas businesses or individuals who are in the startup process or in their first one to three years of business.

Interested students can check JobX after Aug. 1 to view available internships.

NCK TECH

The Pharmacy Technician program at NCK Tech in Hays has received accreditation by the American Society of Health Systems Pharmacies (ASHP) and The American Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE).

The mission of the ASHP and ACPE is to ensure and advance excellence in education for the profession of pharmacy.

Congratulations to Brian Dechant, Department Chair of the Pharmacy Technician Program, for achieving and maintaining this standard in education.

NCK Tech’s Pharmacy Technician program offers personalized, hi-tech education in a positive and innovative environment. To find out more about our program visit www.NCKTC.edu.

SHERMAN COUNTY – Three people from Colby were injured in an accident just after 5:30p.m. on Sunday in Sherman County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2004 Toyota Sequoia driven by Isabel Marie Rosales, 17, was eastbound on Interstate 70 just east of the Edson exit.

The SUV blew a tire. The driver lost control, overcorrected and the SUV rolled into the median.

Rosales and passengers Alex Rosales, 44, and Ian Rosales, 15, were transported to the hospital in Goodland.

A fourth occupant was not transported for treatment.

All four were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP

By DIANE GASPER-O’BRIEN
FHSU University Relations and Marketing

Kevin Huser is on a mission to rebuild the livestock judging team at Fort Hays State University.

Judging from the response to participating in a summer project he offered to students interested in joining the team, the Ellis County native is well on his way to accomplishing that goal.

Five FHSU students showed up at the Ellis County Fairgrounds Friday morning, July 22, to help with the 4-H judging contest at the annual county fair.

One of those was Michael Dix from Stockton, who decided to return to college when he heard about the return of Fort Hays State’s judging team.

Dix had attended Colby Community College right out of high school and was a member of its judging team for two years. He received scholarship offers to judge at four-year schools, but they were all out of state. So Dix, a biochemistry major, tried one semester at another Kansas university before returning home to the family farm.

“The more I was away from the farm, the more I missed it,” said Dix, who laid out of school for a semester.

However, Dix’s mom, Andrea, is a junior high math and science teacher in Stockton, “and she’s pretty big on education,” he said, “so I knew I would probably finish college.”

That opportunity came earlier than he expected when his high school FFA advisor told him this spring about the return of FHSU’s livestock judging team.

So Dix got in contact with Huser. Come fall, Dix will be back in college, at Fort Hays State, with a new major — animal science — and plans to be part of the livestock judging team.

“I’m really looking forward to judging again,” said Dix, who grew up judging in FFA and in 4-H, where he was a member of the Livewire 4-H Club in Rooks County, then went to college for more of the same.

“We have a number of students who want to judge,” said Don Benjamin, interim chair of the FHSU agriculture department. “We want to satisfy that need and give them the opportunity to compete.”

Fort Hays State’s ag department had a long history of livestock judging teams until the last couple of years when there weren’t enough students interested to field a team of five.

Last spring, Benjamin had asked Huser, an FHSU alum and former livestock judging coach, to teach livestock judging at his alma mater.

Once on campus, Huser — a Victoria farmer who owns his own construction company — set the wheels in motion for resurrecting the livestock judging team.

He recruited several students on campus and got the word out. The response was so positive that Huser has a full slate of contests scheduled for the 2016-17 judging team.

“In the fall, we will go through livestock evaluation courses and get ready to compete in the spring,” Huser said. “As an alum, I’m excited with what they’re trying to implement at Fort Hays State.”

Fort Hays State already has about a dozen students interested in joining the team this fall.

“I am so looking forward to this,” said Sarah Bellar, an agriculture business major from Howard. Bellar, like Dix, grew up around 4-H and FFA, where she judged for many years.

Bellar is working at FHSU’s swine unit at the University Farm for the summer and was glad to help out at this week’s fair.

“I miss showing animals, so I’m glad to get back into it,” said Bellar, who, in addition to Friday’s livestock judging, also helped out with the 4-H beef show the night before.

“I thought this would be good experience for our students,” Huser said, “and be a good thing, helping out the 4-H’ers, at the same time.”

Getting the livestock judging team back up and running at FHSU, Benjamin says, is a win-win situation for everyone involved.

“Our department is going to be up 20, 25 students this year,” Benjamin said. “Besides being very economical, and a great education, one of our strong points is the experience they receive here. You can’t teach experience. The only way to get them experience is to get their hands dirty. And they can do that here. Having a livestock judging team will add to that experience.”