Goodland, Kansas resident Mildred A. (Johnson) Hawkins, 88, died Monday, August 22, 2016, at Wheatridge Acres in Goodland.
She was born September 13, 1927, in Cheyenne County, Kansas, the daughter of Maud (Pettit) and Wilber Johnson. She graduated from high school in St. Francis, Kansas, and then furthered her education at Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas.
On June 5, 1948, she and Donald Ray Hawkins were married at Goodland. She worked as an abstractor and with title insurance. In 2014, she moved from her home in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Wheatridge Acres Care Center in Goodland to be closer to her family.
Preceding her in death were her husband Donald Hawkins, parents, sisters Carol Gattshall and Marvel Pelphrey, and brothers-in-law Bob Wieck, Chuck Pelphrey, and Wayne Gattshall.
Surviving family includes her son Michael Hawkins and his wife Mary of Kansas City, Missouri; daughter Jacque Schields and her husband Dale of Goodland; nine grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and sisters Shirley Wieck of Goodland; and Margie Peter of St. Francis.
The memorial service will be Saturday, August 27, at 2:00 PM MT, at Koons Chapel in Goodland, with Pastor Lyn Linde officiating. Private inurnment will be at the Benkelman, Nebraska Cemetery.
Memorials may be designated to Northwest Kansas Animal Shelter, and may be mailed to Koons Funeral Home, 211 N. Main, Goodland, KS 67735
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The lead elephant in the 1980s film “Smokey and the Bandit 2” is among two new pachyderms at the Topeka Zoo.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the 58-year-old Asian elephant named Cora arrived Wednesday. She was joined by her longtime companion, Shannon, a 34-year-old African elephant.
Topeka Zoo director Brendan Wiley says the pair quickly took to exploring after being unloaded.
Currently, they reside in a special holding area where they’ll be quarantined for a few weeks and have their health evaluated. Within a few weeks, they will join the zoo’s two other elephants — 46-year-old Tembo and 56-year-old Sunda.
The new elephants came from Elephant Encounter, a traveling elephant program based near Tampa, Florida. They’re crucial additions because new guidelines call for herds of at least three elephants.
Hays, Kansas – Eli Joy Stiles, infant son of Derek Alan and Mireya Rosario (Lara) Stiles died August 20, 2016, at Wesley Medical Center Wichita, Kansas.
Survivors include his parents, of the home; grandparents, Darin and Kelly (Gottschalk) Stiles, Hays, KS; Ernesto and Eusebia (Saenz) Lara, Johnson City, KS; great grandparents, Ronald Joy and Josephine (Harr) Stiles, Great Bend, KS; Rosa Lilia (Nunez) Lara, Chihuahua, Mexico; Ralph and Sharon (Wooldridge) Gottschalk, Hays, KS; Juanita Sanchez, Johnson City, KS; two aunts, Kaley Stiles, Hays, KS; and Yasmin Lara, Johnson City, KS.
The family will receive friends from 7:00 to 9:00 P.M. Thursday, August 25, 2016, at Clines’-Keithley Mortuary of Hays, 1919 East 22nd Street, Hays, Kansas 67601. A private burial will be held at St. Joseph Cemetery Hays, Kansas.
Memorial to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Wesley Medical Center Wichita, Kansas.
Condolences can be left by guestbook at www.keithleyfuneralchapels.com or via email to [email protected].
Ruth Pearl Moore, age 91, passed away on Tuesday, August 23, 2016 in Wichita, Kansas. She was born on August 19, 1925 in Burwell, Nebraska, the daughter of Grant and Ettie Backus Marshall. A resident of Scott City, Kansas since 1943, she was a homemaker.
She was a founding member of the Community Christian Church in Scott City, Kansas and was a member of the VFW Ladies Auxiliary in Scott City.
On November 7, 1943 she married Benton Moore in Scott City, Kansas. He passed away on February 2, 1998 in Scott City, Kansas
Survivors Include her Four Sons – Tom & Kathy Moore of Scott City, Kansas, Bill & Glenda Moore of Manhattan, Kansas, John & Debbie Moore of Belle Plaine, Kansas, Charles Moore of Colby, Kansas, One Daughter – Patricia Conine of Eldorado, Kansas, Seven Grandchildren, Ten Great Grandchildren and One Great Great Grandchild.
Funeral Services will be held at the Community Christian Church in Scott City, Kansas at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, August 27, 2016 with Fr. Don Martin presidiing.
Memorials may be given to the Community Christian Church in Scott City, Kansas in care of Price & Sons Funeral Home in Scott City, Kansas
Interment will be in the Scott County Cemetery in Scott City, Kansas.
Visitation will be from 10:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m Friday at Price & Sons Funeral Home in Scott City, Kansas.
MIAMI (AP) – Jose Fernandez pitched seven innings and appeared to avoid a serious injury when he tweaked his right leg on his final pitch Wednesday night, helping the Miami Marlins beat Kansas City 3-0 to snap the Royals’ nine-game winning streak.
Fernandez (13-7) pulled up after striking out Christian Colon to end the seventh, and rubbed his right knee before limping to the dugout.
The Marlins pinch-hit for him in the bottom of the seventh, and no injury was announced. Fernandez was laughing with teammates in the dugout in the ninth inning and joined in the postgame celebration on the field.
His nine strikeouts increased his season total to 213, breaking the Marlins record of 209 set by Ryan Dempster in 2000. Fernandez ended a career-worst three-game losing streak.
He also had the Marlins’ first two hits, hiking his average to .286, and improved to 27-2 at Marlins Park.
Fernando Rodney pitched around two singles and walk for his 25th save and eighth with Miami.
Shaquille Cooper makes a catch during Wednesday’s scrimmage at Lewis Field
HAYS – The Fort Hays State football team closed out their preseason camp with their second and final controlled scrimmage Wednesday afternoon at Lewis Field. The defense shined, holding the No. 1 offense scoreless on their first six possessions which included in interception returned for a touchdown junior college transfer Kamon Clayton.
Shaquille Cooper led the offense with an 82-yard touchdown run and Jacob Mezera hit Andrew Jay of La Crosse on a 39-yard scoring strike.
Backup quarterback Brad Schencker connected with redshirt freshman Charles Tigner on an 81-yard TD pass.
A welcome is in store for parents when they attend the Hays High School annual Very Important Parents’ Night. The event is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 29 in Gym A.
Parents visit each of their students’ classes and hear presentations from teachers. The night will give each parent the feel of a day in a life of a student.
In conjunction with the Open House, there will also be an opportunity for junior and senior parents.
The Post-Secondary Planning presentations will begin at 6 p.m. and are designed to help parents assist their students with navigation of the College and Technical School selection, admissions, and financial aid process.
While all parents can attend, the meeting is especially targeted at junior and senior parents.
Parents of juniors will meet in the Lecture Hall and parents of seniors will meet in the cafeteria. The presentations will end at 6:45 p.m. leaving enough time for the Open House.
Questions can be answered at (785) 623-2608, the Counseling Office.
A 6:40 a.m. weekday flight is scheduled to resume at the Hays Regional Airport in early January.
By BECKY KISER Hays Post
Hays City Manager Toby Dougherty said he “was shocked,” although in a good way, when conformation came last Friday that an early morning flight would be reinstated at the Hays Regional Airport by SkyWest/United Express in early January 2017.
“They are reinstituting the early morning departure with the late arrival,” Dougherty said.
The plane will originate in Hays with the first flight to Denver International Airport at approximately 6:40 a.m. There will be a mid-day turnaround, meaning the plane will come back into Hays, unload passengers and board new passengers, and then head immediately back to Denver. There will be a late arrival in Hays at about 10 p.m. with the plane remaining overnight, then leaving again the next morning on the same schedule.
The Monday through Friday schedule is scheduled to start the first week of January.
Dougherty had not yet seen a weekend schedule. “On the weekends where we only have one flight in and one flight out, I assume it’s going to be a morning departure with a later arrival because I would assume the plane will spend the night in Hays on the weekends as well.”
The schedule change was a SkyWest decision and Dougherty is not aware of their process or strategy leading to it.
He is, however, very happy with the change.
Passenger boardings at the Hays airport have been averaging 8,000 a year since SkyWest service began in Aug. 2014. In Jan. 2015, SkyWest made modifications to its fleet and as a result, dropped the early morning flight out of Hays.
Boardings four, five and six years ago with then-provider Great Lakes, which Dougherty called “an unreliable airline,” averaged 10,000 passengers a year. He hopes SkyWest ridership will increase with the return of the early morning flight out of Hays.
Use of the Hays airport for business trips has fallen off although pleasure flights remain stable.
The city, along with the Hays Area Chamber of Commerce and the Ellis County Coalition for Economic Development, “reached out to the business community to find out why they weren’t using the Hays airport as often,” Dougherty said.
“Feedback showed a lot of people lamented not having that morning flight and claimed that was their biggest barrier. We understand there are times it’s not going to work out, but when it does, we need the business community to use the Hays airport.”
Price was also mentioned in the recent online survey, the results of which was shared with SkyWest/United Express by Hays Airport Manager Nathan Marcucci.
“Evidently, they were listening,” Dougherty said.
“We had reached out to the business community with the message that if you want the morning flight back you’re probably going to have to earn it with higher utilization before they’re going to put it back.
“We didn’t dream they were going to put it back in January. Evidently, SkyWest sees potential in the Hays morning flight and they reinstituted it. Now, I hope our passengers appreciate it and utilize the Hays Regional Airport whenever possible.”
Although “there’s never a guarantee in the airline industry, right now, SkyWest has indicated to us it is their intent for this to be a permanent move. But if we don’t respond as a flying community and enplanement levels stay somewhere to what they are, the next time they need the jet somewhere else overnight, it’s probably gonna get moved. The way we can make it permanent is by utilizing it,” Dougherty emphasized.
Price will always be an issue flying out of Hays, he acknowledged. “We will never be cheaper than Denver, Wichita, Kansas City, Dallas–places like that with many more flights a day.
“It costs a lot of money to fly any plane in and out of the Hays Regional Airport.”
And yet, there’s still more good news for Hays passengers.
“I do know SkyWest has reached out to United and they are in the process of lowering fares for the future. In conjunction with the morning flight, they’re having a lower fare rollout–across the board, if they can.
Dougherty said he’s already aware of some people who booked flights after January 1 finding fares significantly cheaper in some cases as compared to December travel for the same flight.
“All we can ask is for the flying public to check United.com for flights out of Hays first,” he urged.
DODGE CITY – Six members of the Hays Larks have been named to the All Jayhawk League team, announced Wednesday. The group is headlined by Austin O’Brien who was named the league MVP after hitting .406 with 32 extra base hits including 12 home runs and 57 RBIs, the third most in Larks history. The first baseman is joined in the first team by outfielder Nate Olinger, designated hitter Mike Mioduszewski and starting pitcher Augie Gillardo.
Starting pitcher Alex Lopez and reliever Ty Schwaner were both named to the second team.
The Larks won their ninth Jayhawk League title and finished runner-up at the NBC World Series.
All-Jayhawk League team…
MVP—AUSTIN O’BRIEN—HAYS
TOP HITTER—CHASE CALABUIG—DODGE CITY
TOP PITCHER—JAKE HARRISON—LIBERAL
FIRST TEAM
C BRADY COX—LIBERAL 1B AUSTIN O’BRIEN—HAYS
2B IAN DAWKINS—DODGE CITY
3B MASON PIERZCHALSKI—DODGE CITY
SS BEN MAUSETH—DODGE CITY
OF CHASE CALABUIG—DODGE CITY
OF TYLER SUTHERLAND—EL DORADO OF NATE OLINGER—HAYS DH MIKE MIODUSZWESKI—HAYS
UT KYLE KNAUTH—LIBERAL
SP JAKE HARRISON—LIBERAL
SP MATT LOUTZENHISER—DODGE CITY
SP TYSON CAMPBELL—EL DORADO SP AUGIE GALLARDO—HAYS
RP JAKE MOORE—HAYSVILLE
RP LEE BUSTO—LIBERAL
RP SEAN CRUZ—WELLINGTON
SECOND TEAM C JARED MCDONALD—DODGE CITY
1B BRIAN PARREIRA—DODGE CITY
1B BRIAN PARREIRA—DODGE CITY
2B JONATHAN SOBERANES—HAYSVILLE
3B TONY KJOLSING—EL DORADO
SS NEIL LAMBERT—HAYSVILLE
OF ALEX AGUIER—DODGE CITY
OF GAVIN BOURGEOIS—DERBY
OF MIKE LEAL—EL DORADO
DH CALE O’DONNELL—LIBERAL
UT ANTHONY WARD—BETHANY
SP KEVIN TORRES—HAYSVILLE
SP JOHN PENDERGAST—DODGE CITY
SP NICK BURNHAM—DERBY
SP ALEX LOPEZ—HAYS RP J.B. OLSON—LIBERAL RP TY SCHWANER—HAYS
Today A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 2pm. Cloudy, with a high near 72. North northeast wind 8 to 13 mph.
Tonight A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 58. East northeast wind 8 to 13 mph.
FridayA 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 77. Northeast wind 6 to 8 mph becoming south southeast in the afternoon.
Friday NightA 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 62. East wind 5 to 8 mph.
SaturdayA 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 84.
Saturday NightA 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 63.
SundayA 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 86.
FINNEY COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities in Finney County are investigating a kidnapping, phone scam.
Over the last several days reports have been made to the Garden City Police Department about people being contacted by phone and the caller informing them that they have kidnapped their child or family member, according to a social media report.
The caller then requests money wired to the person for safe return of the child or family member.
This is a scam. You should always treat this type of call serious and it is a good idea to confirm the safety of the alleged kidnapped person, but do not send money.
Police indicated, if you feel the they call is legitimate, contact law enforcement immediately.
TOPEKA – Two Kansas men were indicted on Wednesday and charged with one count of conspiring to steal money orders from a post office and one count of stealing money orders, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall.
Harley M. Edwards, 24, Narka, and Ric Meczyor, 27, Belleville, are alleged to have committed the crimes during February to March 2016 in Narka, Kansas.
If convicted, they face a penalty up to five years and a fine up to $250,000 on the conspiracy charge, and up to 10 years and a fine up to $250,000 on the theft charge. The U.S. Postal Service – Office of Inspector General investigated. Assistant U.S. Attorney Christine Kenney is prosecuting.
“Miracles From Heaven” is based on the true story of answered prayer in the most unusual of ways. Starring Jennifer Garner, “Miracles” is showing this Friday at 7:05 p.m. as a part of Radio Station 98.5 The TRUTH’s Free Friday Family Flicks.
Popcorn and pop are also provided at no charge.
98.5 The TRUTH is a ministry of Celebration Community Church, located just north of I-70 at Exit 157. The movie is rated PG.
By ISABELLA BRAUN
Tonight A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 58. East northeast wind 8 to 13 mph.
