Month: September 2016
HPD Activity Log Sept. 12
The Hays Police Department responded to 18 traffic stops and 13 animal calls Monday, Sept. 12, 2016, according to the HPD Activity Log.
Driving While Suspended/Revoked–2700 block General Lawton Rd, Hays; 1:49 AM
Mental Health Call–1400 block E 29th St, Hays; 2:08 AM
Drug Offenses–1000 block E 41st St, Hays; 2:35 AM
Theft (general)–300 block W 48th St, Hays; 8:39 AM
Counterfeit currency/documents–1100 block E 27th St, Hays; 9:17 AM
Welfare Check–2900 block Canal Blvd, Hays; 9:23 AM
Animal At Large–600 block Oak St, Hays; 10 AM
Abandoned Vehicle–1300 block Steven Dr, Hays; 10:04 AM
Theft (general)–2700 block Vine St, Hays; 9/11 6 AM; 9/12 12 AM
Animal At Large–2900 block Vine St, Hays; 10:52 AM
Theft (general)–2200 block Canterbury Dr, Hays; 9/9 6:45 PM; 9/10 8 AM
Welfare Check–2200 block Canterbury Dr, Hays; 11:48 AM
MV Accident-Private Property–2300 block E 13th St, Hays; 12:18 PM
Phone/Mail Scam–1000 block Reservation Rd, Hays; 12:57 PM
Burglary/business–2400 block Vine St, Hays; 9/11 1 PM; 11:30 PM
Found/Lost Property–300 block W 13th St, Hays; 2:34 PM
Theft (general)–3200 block Vine St, Hays; 3:02 PM
Animal At Large–3300 block Hillcrest Dr, Hays; 4:51 PM
Violation of Restraining Order/PFA–1200 block Vine St, Hays; 5:12 PM
Animal Call–1200 block Haney Dr, Hays; 6:12 PM
Animal Call–2900 block Hillcrest Dr, Hays; 6:14 PM
Suspicious Activity–2000 block Canal Blvd, Hays; 6:43 PM
Suspicious Activity–100 block W 6th St, Hays; 7:09 PM
Animal Call–2400 block Main St, Hays; 7:12 PM
Criminal Damage to Property–1500 block Main St, Hays; 7:13 PM
Animal At Large–2000 block Patio Dr, Hays; 7:29 PM
Animal Call–1300 block Haney Dr, Hays; 7:43 PM
Disturbance – Fight–400 block E 8th St, Hays; 9:44 PM
Hays Area Board of Zoning Appeals meets Wed. morning
City of Hays
The Hays Area Board of Zoning Appeals will meet Wed., Sept. 14 to consider a variance request by Eric Augustine to construct a detached garage at 404 W. 20th Street.
Board members will also review an update on the rewrite of the Unified Development Code (UDC).
The meeting begins at 8:15 a.m. Wednesday in Hays City Hall. The agenda can be seen here.
Moran’s hearing to stop ticket scalpers features Big 12 Commissioner
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), chairman of the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance, and Data Security, will convene a subcommittee hearing titled “Examining the Better Online Ticket Sales Act of 2016” on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m.
Witnesses scheduled to testify include
Bob Bowlsby, Commissioner, Big 12 Conference
Jeffrey Seller, Producer, “Hamilton”
Tod Cohen, General Counsel, Stubhub
Jeremy Liegl, Associate General Counsel, Pandora and Ticketfly
“Scalpers have long been driving up ticket prices and harming consumers, but their methods are becoming increasingly sophisticated,” said Sen. Moran. “It’s hard enough to get tickets to high-profile events without the added struggle of having to battle bots online. My legislation seeks to put an end to this practice, and I plan to chair a hearing on this important legislation next week as we work to protect consumers from fraud and level the playing field for all Americans.”
The hearing will examine the growth of “ticket bot” software that circumvents fair access to concert, theater, and sporting event tickets for consumers.
These bots allow ticket scalpers to purchase mass quantities of tickets for resale through third-party brokers at a much higher price to consumers. Witnesses have been asked to testify on the impact of ticket bots on consumers, and on pending legislation before the Commerce Committee that would prohibit the use of ticket bots.
HaysMed CEO named winner of 2016 Visionary Award
Kansas Hospital Association
The Kansas Hospital Association announce this week the 2016 winner of the Donald A. Wilson Visionary Award is John Jeter, MD, president and CEO of Hays Medical Center.
KHA established the award to recognize outstanding, innovative contribution to health care delivery, health care financing or other initiatives that improve the health and clinical outcomes in a community. The Donald A. Wilson Visionary Award provides members of KHA the opportunity to recognize individuals who have been a change agent in the hospital industry.
“Dr. Jeter has a keen interest in forming and improving the lives of Kansans as a whole. He has made numerous contributions to HaysMed, the region and the state. He is a true visionary when it comes to identifying and implementing health care needs, it is hard to think of anyone who has transformed Kansas health care more,” said Tom Bell, president and CEO of the Kansas Hospital Association.
Jeter joined Hays Medical Center in 1996 as vice president of medical services. He successfully led a joint venture project between Hays Medical Center and the Kansas Medical Society in physician practice management and physician network development.
In 1997, he became the president and CEO of Hays Medical Center, and, over the next 20 years, has made numerous innovative contributions to health care delivery, financing and clinical outcomes than can be listed.
Jeter’s vision led HaysMed to be the first hospital to change from JCAHO accreditation to DNV and ISO 9001 accreditation. He was instrumental in creating one of the largest Critical Access Networks in the country, and in developing the largest rural information systems network in the United States – the High Plains Medical Information Network.
His leadership in changing culture was implemented with physicians and staff. He led a cultural change with approximately 100 active physicians many of whom transitioned to employed physicians under the creation of Hays Medical Group. He also led a change in associate culture at HaysMed through the creation of a Culture Committee. This lead to HaysMed being named to Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work in Healthcare in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.
He was instrumental in the development and opening of The Center for Health Improvement, a hospital-based fitness center. The facility also houses a sleep lab, cardiac and outpatient rehab, occupational health, complementary medicine, orthopedic, plastic and general surgery clinics, and a for-profit orthotics business. The facility can serve up to 3500 members in general fitness activities including cardio, strength and aquatics.
Jeter was instrumental in promoting “exercise as medicine” and overall making the community of Hays a healthier place through all the “healthy” initiatives combined. He led HaysMed in being the first hospital in the state to eliminate smoking on hospital property for staff and visitors. Influenza vaccine became a condition of employment in July 2005 and the drive through flu vaccine program has immunized over 25,000 citizens to date.
Members of the Kansas Hospital Association awarded Jeter with the Donald A. Wilson Visionary Award at the KHA Annual Convention and Trade Show in Overland Park on Sept. 8.
The Kansas Hospital Association is a voluntary, nonprofit organization existing to be the leading advocate and resource for members. KHA membership includes 210 member facilities, of which 126 are full-service, community hospitals.
Hays restaurant among the oldest in the state of Kansas
One Hays eatery has made the list of the oldest restaurants in the state of Kansas, according to online ranker OnlyInYourState.com.
Click HERE for the complete listing, which includes long-standing burger joints and more.
What’s YOUR favorite historic restaurant in northwest Kansas? Sound off in the comment section below.
SCHLAGECK: Communication leads to community
I love to eat. And like millions of fellow Americans there’s nothing better than the food grown and produced on this nation’s farms and ranches.
I’ll eat a thick, choice rib-eye steak hot off the grill any time. And make sure it has all the fixings – baked potatoes, steamed green beans, salad, fresh bread and a glass of red wine.
I also like a home-cooked omelet with my Sunday morning paper. You know the kind – three eggs filled with sautéed mushrooms, diced red peppers and onions, cheddar cheese, wheat toast with a couple strips of bacon on the side and a tall glass of cold milk.
Dessert?
Who doesn’t enjoy a great piece of apple pie, with ice cream, all produced by farmers and ranchers across Kansas and this country of ours?
You can’t beat good food, prepared right. There’s nothing like it.
That’s why it’s so hard to stomach hearing about the many ways our Kansas and American farmers and ranchers are under siege these days. Still, every year we expect farmers and ranchers to grow more and more food with less land. And every year they do so.
But the attacks and smear tactics come from all sides. Environmental groups, animal welfare activists, social media hacks – everyone seems to have their own agenda and the national media just can’t seem to tell the whole story.
That’s the reason we in agriculture must tell our story. Consumers are people and people forget.
They forget our farmers and livestock producers make sure we eat the healthiest, most affordable food on the planet. These producers also take care of their livestock because it’s the right thing to do. It is part of a farmer and rancher’s values that embody everything they do.
It’s also up to us in agriculture to expose the Human Society of the United States (HSUS) and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) for who and what they are. In case you haven’t heard, these two organizations are leading the charge to “step up for animal welfare,” while placing a stake through the heart of modern agriculture.
Go to their website and check it out. HSUS and others wants to remove meat, milk and eggs from the human diet, yours and mine.
Most American consumers have never lived or worked on a farm. Still they retain nostalgic visions of their grandparents’ or great-grandparents’ farms.
You know the story where those farmers and ranchers of old grew their own vegetables, milked a few cows, raised pigs for bacon, ham and pork chops and cared for a couple dozen chickens who laid eggs in an old white wooden chicken coop.
Like a lot of things from the past, nostalgia might appear to be better than it really was. Many of our grandparents were barely able to eke out a living while raising a large family.
The days of yesteryear on the farm took a lot of hard work from sunup to sundown. Many still went hungry or broke and times were lean.
Today’s animal husbandry, or care and feeding of livestock, is no accident. Rather, it’s because of the dedicated men, women and children who raise and care for this state’s livestock.
For generations, Kansas farmers and ranchers have watched over and nurtured cattle, hogs, sheep, chickens and other livestock from sunup to sunset – every day of the year. The more comfortable these animal producers make their animals, the more productive they’re going to be and the better opportunity they’ll have to make a profit.
The health and welfare of livestock trumps everything else on the farm, even a producer’s own comfort. That’s been the recipe for success for more than 150 years in Kansas and with any luck it’ll be the same for another 150 years.
Enjoy your food my friends. Eat healthy.
John Schlageck, a Hoxie native, is a leading commentator on agriculture and rural Kansas.
HHS girls’ golf wins Garden City Invitational
GARDEN CITY – The Hays High girls’ golf team won their first tournament of the season Monday. The Indians shot a 318 at the Garden City Invitational at Buffalo Dunes and finished six shots ahead of the host Buffaloes.
The tournament was called after 14 holes due to darkness.
Katie Brungardt was the top medalist with a 66. Talyn Kleweno shot a 73 and finished fourth.
Team Results (14 holes)
1. Hays High, 318
2. Garden City, 324
3. Great Bend, 332
4. Syracuse, 334
5. Goodland, 337
6. Liberal, 341
7. Dodge City, 344
8. Stanton County, 353
Top 15 Medalist (14 holes)
1. Katie Brungardt, Hays – 66
2. Rylie Cook, Stanton County – 71
3. Danielle Gaspar, Garden City – 71
4. Talyn Kleweno, Hays – 73
5. Makena Konrade, Dodge City – 75
6. Sarah Bayouth, Liberal – 75
7. Alison Needland, Great Bend – 75
8. Kerrigan Rudolph, Goodland – 76
9. Corey Mein, Liberal – 76
10. Brooke McCormick, Lakin – 78
11. Torrey Olson, Garden City – 80
12. Katie Plunkett, Syracuse – 81
13. Paige Barnes, Syracuse – 82
14. Caelyn Cook, Stanton County – 82
15. Tayor Hommerzheim, Great Bend – 83
Cloudy, cool Tuesday with a chance for thunderstorms
Fall like temperatures today and scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Today A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 4pm. Cloudy, with a high near 61. North northeast wind 10 to 13 mph.
Tuesday Night A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Cloudy, with a low around 53. Northeast wind 8 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
WednesdayA 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Cloudy, with a high near 69. Northeast wind around 8 mph.
Wednesday NightA 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Cloudy, with a low around 60. South southeast wind around 8 mph.
Thursday A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 79.
Thursday NightShowers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 59. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Friday A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 78.
Offense comes alive; FHSU men’s soccer cruises past UCCS
HAYS, Kan. – The Fort Hays State University men’s soccer team saw their offense come to life on Monday (Sept. 12) with a 7-3 rout of University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. The 20th-ranked Tigers improved to 2-1-1 on the season while the Mountain Lions moved to 1-2-1 overall.
With a favorable wind in the first half, FHSU managed to push four goals across while allowing zero. A corner kick in the 18th minute gave the Tigers the lead as Luis Torres was able to corral the ball from Maurizio Costa and bury it in the back of the net.
In the 24th minute, the Tigers doubled their lead when Mauricio Castorino netted his first goal of 2016. Derick Gonzalez riffled a shot that caught the post, just out of reach of the sprawling Mountain Lion keeper. The rebound landed right at Castorino’s feet, who did not miss the wide open net. 58 seconds later, Torres and Costa connected again on another corner. This time Torres caught the ball in the air and was able to volley it pass the keeper for his second goal of the match. Later in the half, the Tigers made it a four-goal advantage when Tomiwa Olaniran recorded his first goal of the season at the 43:42 mark. Olaniran made a run to the center of the box and athletically volleyed a high long ball from Arsenio Chamorro over the keeper’s head.
In the second half, UCCS used the wind to their favor and struck less than 10 minutes into the period. The Tigers responded in the 65th minute after Costa, Castorino and Luis Mendes executed phenomenal passing with the give and go technique to record Mendes’ first goal of the season.
Dylan Kintner joined the scoring parade in the 82nd minute, recording his first goal of the season. Damion Cooper sent a nice through ball into the box that Kinter possessed before beating a Mountain Lion defender and rifling a shot that beat the keeper diving to the right.
With the game looking like it was out of reach, UCCS once again found the back of the net, but just like earlier the Tigers responded just minutes later. Tyler VanCamp recorded his first assist of the season after sending a long through ball between a defender’s legs to a sprinting Derick Gonzalez. Gonzalez then used some nifty footwork to go around the keeper, making the game 7-2 in the 88th minute.
Hats off to UCCS, however, as they played until the very end, adding another goal with 22 seconds left remaining to make the score 7-3.
Michael Yantz picked up the win for the Tigers, saving three of the six shots on goal and bringing his record to 1-1-1 on the season.
The seven goals and eight assists for the Tigers are both tied for the second most in program history. In addition, Costa’s three assists are the second most in a single match in program history and the most since 2014.
Moving forward, the Tigers will prepare for a trip out west as they head to Washington for a pair of matches starting on Thursday (Sept. 15), with the Tigers dueling with Western Washington and Seattle Pacific.
FHSU Sports Information
Athletics trounce Royals 16-3 behind 17 hits, 10 walks
By DAVE SKRETTA
AP Sports Writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Khris Davis and Marcus Semien hit three-run homers, the Athletics matched a season high with 17 hits while drawing 10 walks, and Oakland trounced the Kansas City Royals 16-3 on Monday night.
Daniel Coulombe (3-1) earned the win in relief of Ross Detwiler, though it was the Oakland offense that led the way. The A’s scored their most runs this season for their largest margin of victory.
Royals starter Dillon Gee (6-8) was battered for five runs on five hits and four walks in 3 1/3 innings.
It was a potentially crippling loss for Kansas City (74-69), which began the day four back of the final wild-card spot with 20 games remaining. The Royals were hoping an eight-game stand against lowly Oakland and the scuffling White Sox would allow them to make up some ground.
There are still five teams they must leap in the wild-card race.
Kansas man, woman hospitalized after SUV rollover accident
SALINE COUNTY – Two people were injured in an accident just after 11 p.m. on Monday in Saline County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2003 Chevy Tahoe driven by Holly J. Cooke, 23, McPherson was southbound on Interstate 135 at the Kansas 4-Assaria Road exit.
The SUV drifted off the roadway to the west and hit a guardrail.
The driver overcorrected. The SUV crossed the median and entered the east ditch of northbound Interstate 135, crossed thru KDOT fencing and rolled in the field.
Cooke and a passenger Alfred E. Bennett III, 26, Wichita, were transported to the hospital in Salina.
Both were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.
Sheriff asks for help after trailer, mower stolen in Hays
NESS COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities in Ness County are investigating a trailer theft.
Employees at S&S Trailer Sales West, 717 North Pennsylvania, noticed a trailer parked on their lot that was not their trailer, according to a social media report.
After calling the sticker on the trailer it was determined that the trailer along with a riding lawn mower had been stolen from Hays, according to the Ness County Sheriff.
While a deputy was taking information it was discovered that another trailer had been stolen from S&S.
Deputies are asking for your help with any information you might have regarding the stolen trailers and lawn mower. Please call (785) 798-3611 with any information.