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Casper J Middlekauff American Legion Auxiliary Unit 173, Hays, will host the Poppy Patch Craft and Gift Fair on Saturday, Oct. 8, at the Hays American Legion Ballroom, 1305 Canterbury. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will feature at least 22 different craftsmen and companies.

The following companies and crafters have signed up to participate: Clever Container, Country Kitchen Crafts, Crafty Nut Hut, Discovery Toys, GA Chainmaille, Goat Bubbles and Bunny Kisses, GrapeVine Ceramics, Jamberry, Kaye Nichols, Keep Collective, LuLaRoe, Origami Owl, Paparazzi, Perfectly Posh, Sassy Sam’s, Scentsy, Signature Homestyles, Stitch’n Knitwits, Tastefully Simple, Usborne, Watkins, and Younique.

The menu for concessions will be green bean and dumpling soup, ham sandwich, pasta salad, and homemade desserts.

The American Legion Auxiliary is the world’s largest women’s patriotic service organization. Its purpose is to provide support to active military servicemen, their families, veterans and the communities that support them. The proceeds from this event will go to projects such as: Annual Scholarships, Girls State Sponsorships, Action Alerts asking for home comforts that are sent overseas, the Fort Dodge Old Soldiers Home Christmas Shop, and art programs at veteran centers across Kansas.

The group also supports area programs including the Community Assistance Center and Ellis County Salvation Army.

The Hays Police Department responded to 20 traffic stops and 4 animal calls Wed., Sept. 28, 2016, according to the HPD Activity Log.

MV Accident-City Street/Alley–100 block E 28th St, Hays; 8:06 AM
Criminal Damage to Property–1300 block Judith Dr, Hays; 8:56 AM; 8 AM
Violation of Restraining Order/PFA–2900 block Skyline Dr, Hays; 9:57 AM
Warrant Service (Fail to Appear)–300 block Mopar Dr, Hays; 10:05 AM
Shoplifting–1300 block E 41st St, Hays; 10:15 AM
Warrant Service (Fail to Appear)–600 block E 11th St, Hays; 11:36 AM
MV Accident-Private Property–1300 block Canterbury Dr, Hays; 11:36 AM
Dead Animal Call–27th St and Donald Dr, Hays; 12:54 PM
MV Accident-City Street/Alley–2500 block US 183 Hwy, Hays; 12:53 PM
Driving While Suspended/Revoked–400 block Riley St, Hays; 2:22 PM
Contempt of Court/Fail to Pay–2800 block E 8th St, Hays; 3:20 PM
Shoplifting–1900 block Vine St, Hays; 4:41 PM
MV Accident-City Street/Alley–2200 block General Custer Rd, Hays; 6:45 PM
Theft (general)–500 block E 6th St, Hays; 9/27 6 PM; 9/28 6:40 PM
MV Accident-Personal Injury–100 block E 43rd St, Hays; 7:51 PM
MV Accident-Private Property–800 block Ash St, Hays; 8:11 PM
Harassment (All Other)–1000 block E 8th St, Hays; 9:14 PM
Lost Animals ONLY–400 block Walnut St, Hays; 9:52 PM
Intoxicated Subject–1100 block E 27th St, Hays; 10:37 PM

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Fort Hays State University student Alyssa Steppe, Clay Center senior, was selected to be a delegate in Dominican University of California’s 2016 college debate. This initiative drew on technology and social media to generate a discussion forum focused on national youth issues.

As a partner of the Commission on Presidential Debates, delegates of Dominican University of California’s college debate brought national youth issues to the attention of the moderators of the presidential debates earlier this September.

Preparation began in June when delegates met on the Dominican campus for a training session to organize issue-focused events and outreach on their home campuses. Training also focused on promoting civil discourse, understanding responsible digital citizenship, and avoiding stereotypes while focusing on the issues as opposed to party politics.

This convention also included a 90-minute moderated Town Hall meeting streamed live to the delegates’ home campuses across the country.

The final product was a memo to the moderators for the 2016 presidential debates that will contain specific questions the college delegates want the candidates to address.

The next presidential debate is Sun., Oct. 9. in St. Louis.

RAWLINS COUNTY – The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks is reporting the 16th confirmed report of a mountain lion in the state.

On social media, the KDWP&T Game Wardens reported a hunter in Northwest Kansas had quite the surprise earlier this month when checking his trail cam photos from 7p.m. on September 16.

A lone mountain lion was caught in a couple frames. The clarity of the shots provides a crystal clear image of the animal’s signature long, upturned tail and the nearby blind serves as a great size reference.

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The University of Kansas Medical Center Area Health Education Center and the Great Plains Nurse Practitioner Society have partnered once again to host the Western Kansas Advanced Nursing Practice Symposium on October 21-22, 2016 at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History, 3000 Sternberg Drive, Hays.

This two-day symposium is designed specifically for Advanced Practice Nurses (APRNs) with the goal of improving the overall quality of patient care through discussions of current and new treatment strategies, enhanced clinical skills and hands-on sessions, as well as current legislative updates affecting APRNs.

The Western Kansas Advanced Nursing Practice Symposium is held as part of the Wheat State Summit for Advanced Practice Nurses. The Wheat State Summit also includes the Eastern Kansas Advanced Nursing Practice Symposium which will be held on December 9-10, 2016 on the campus of Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg. The Wheat State Summit was established in 2014 by the KU Area Health Education Center as a way to expand the Western Kansas Advance Nursing Practice Symposium which had already been established, and to educate more APRNs across rural Kansas.

Registration for the Wheat State Summit is now open. Online registration is available at https://bit.ly/WheatStateWest. Register by Friday, September 30, 2016 to save $50 on the registration fee. A $10 late fee will be assessed after Wednesday, October 12, 2016.

For more information about the Wheat State Summit, visit https://bit.ly/WheatStateSummit, or call the KU Area Health Education Center at (620) 235-4040.

By ANNISTON WEBER
HHS Guidon, Co-Editor-in-Chief

Hays High School instructor Matt Brooks’s Psychology class went to the Sleep Center at the Center for Health Improvement in order to learn more about the importance of sleep.

The lesson was held by Bryan Noone, a manager of the Sleep and Neurodiagnostic Institute at Hays Med.

“By the time you reach your 60th birthday, you should have been asleep for 20 years of your life,” Noone said.

Exercise, nutrition and sleep are the most important factors to living a healthy lifestyle, according to Noone.

“I tell my patients to think of their sleep cycle like they’re charging their cellphone,” Noone said. “If you plug in your phone to charge right before you go to sleep, it should be at 100 when you wake up. But if you plug in your phone for five minutes, it isn’t going to be fully charged.”

When students are scheduling their college classes, Noone suggests not taking any classes in the morning.

“Teens have a natural delayed sleep phase,” Noone said. “Many of you will experience something called an ‘afternoon dip’. People your age will tend to naturally fall asleep later in the night and want to wake up later, too.”

Noone offered tips to the class to help improve their sleeping habits.

“When you go to sleep, your room should be pitch black,” Noone said. “It triggers the melatonin in the brain. In contrast, you should expose yourself to natural light in the mornings if you have troubles waking up.” Noone added that too much exposure to blue light from cellphones prevents sleep as well.

There are mainly two stages to sleep, but the dream stage is most important to process information. “When you dream is when your brain moves short term memory over to your long term memory,” Noone said.

The temperature of the body lowers when a person sleeps. This decrease in temperature usually occurs between the hours of 2-4 a.m. “Ideal sleep temperature is 60 to 65 degrees,” Noone said. “When you reach that dream state, your body naturally produces human growth hormone.”

Along with the general discussion of sleep, Noone presented information regarding different sleep-preventing diseases. “If you snore, you have an obstructed airway,” Noone said. “Sleep apnea is when your airway is so blocked that you actually stop sleeping in the middle of the night.”

Noone also discussed sleep paralysis. “When you’re dreaming, all the bones and muscles in your body are paralyzed,” Noone said. “This is because a dreaming brain is very active. In order to keep you from hurting yourself, your body becomes momentarily paralyzed.”

The class then went into one of the rooms the Sleep Center has to monitor patients who have trouble sleeping.

“We attach a bunch of cords to the head of the patient,” Noone said. “These cords are able to monitor the activity of the patient while they sleep. There are also infrared cameras so we can actually observe the person.”

Senior Austin Gray said he thought the trip was fun.

“Our presenter had a good sense of humor,” Gray said. “It’s really easy to listen to someone talk when they’re funny.”

Junior Tana Herreman agrees. “It was pretty beneficial,” Herreman said. “I enjoyed the video [Noone] showed us with the guy having trouble sleeping.”

Pleasant highs are expected for Thursday in the wake of a backdoor cold front. Upper 60s to mid 70s.

Today Sunny, with a high near 69. North wind 5 to 7 mph becoming east in the afternoon.

Tonight Clear, with a low around 46. East wind 3 to 7 mph.

FridaySunny, with a high near 72. Light southeast wind increasing to 5 to 9 mph in the morning.

Friday NightMostly clear, with a low around 48. East southeast wind 5 to 8 mph.

SaturdayMostly sunny, with a high near 76. South southeast wind 5 to 11 mph.

Saturday NightA 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 53.

 

SundayMostly sunny, with a high near 80.

Sunday NightMostly clear, with a low around 57.

MondaySunny, with a high near 82. Breezy.