City of Hays
Beginning today, August 15, 2016, the Hays Utilities Department will be flushing the 1/2 million gallon north water tower as part of routine maintenance.
The will not affect customer water usage.
If you have any questions please contact the Utilities Department at (785) 628-7380.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a woman has been killed in a Topeka house fire.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that city workers noticed smoke coming from the home early Monday while passing by the area. When fire crews arrived, flames were coming from the roof.
Firefighters found an unresponsive woman inside the house. She was rushed to a
Topeka hospital, where she died. Her name wasn’t immediately released.
Topeka Fire Marshal Mike Martin says the cause of the fire hasn’t been determined.
Gary Dean Hammersmith, age 46, of Kirwin passed away Sunday, August 14, 2016 in Kirwin.
Funeral services will be 4 PM Thursday, August 18, 2016 at St Catherine Catholic Church in Catharine, Kansas.
Visitation will be Wednesday 4 PM – 8 PM and Thursday 2 PM – 3:30 PM at Brock’s-Keithley Funeral Chapel and Crematory 2509 Vine Hays, KS 67601.
A combined parish vigil and rosary service will be Wednesday at 7 PM at the funeral chapel.
A complete obituary is pending.
Wanda Speer, age 80, of Hays passed away Sunday, August 14, 2016 at Hays Medical Center
Arrangements are pending with Brock’s-Keithley Funeral Chapel and Crematory 2509 Vine Hays, Kansas 67601.
Hays, Kansas – Joseph C. Berger, age 90, died Sunday, August 14, 2016, at the Good Samaritan Society of Hays. He was born April 10, 1926, in Kansas City, Missouri to Peter and Caroline (Augustine) Berger. He married Eleanor A. (Lang) on May 24, 1947, in Great Bend, Kansas. She died August 30, 2013.
He was a oil field pumper most of his life and retired from Phillips Petroleum Company in 1986.
He was a WW II veteran of the US Marine Corps and served in the South Pacific and Japan. Joe was a member of Immaculate Heat of Mary Catholic Church, the Schoenchen Council #4166 -3rd Degree Knights of Columbus and a life member of the Hays V.F.W. Post #9076 and Hays American Legion. He enjoyed fishing, playing cards, building lawn furniture, his vegetable gardening and spending time with his family.
Survivors include two sons, Joseph Berger Jr. and wife, Colette, Inman, KS; Dennis Berger, Hays, KS; two daughters; Judy Weigel and husband, Bob, Hays, KS; Connie Schmidt and husband, Melvin, Victoria, KS; six grandchildren, Mike Berger and wife, Christie; Ryan Berger and wife, Allison; Justin Weigel; Trina Proberts and husband, Kevin; Miranda Ashbaugh; Jaclyn Schmidt; 10 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, one son, Kenneth Berger in 1973 and an infant grandson, Joseph Berger III; one brother, Carl and his wife Eloise.
Services are 10:30 A.M. Thursday, August 18, 2016, at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church 18th & Vine street Hays, Kansas. Burial in St. Joseph Cemetery Hays, Kansas with military honors by the Hays V.F.W. Post No. 9076.
A vigil service will be at 7:00 P.M. Wednesday, followed by a Knights of Columbus rosary at 7:30 P.M. Wednesday, both at Cline’s-Keithley Mortuary of Hays, 1919 East 22nd Street, Hays, Kansas 67601.
Visitation is from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. Wednesday and from 9:00 to 10:15 A.M. Thursday, all at Cline’s-Keithley Mortuary of Hays. Memorial to Good Samaritan Society of Hays or Hospice of Hays Medical Center.
Condolences can be left by guestbook at www.keithleyfuneralchapels.com or via e-mail to [email protected].
Karl Edwin Jennison, age 90, died on Saturday, August 13, 2016 at the Scott County Hospital in Scott CIty, Kansas. He was born on August 7, 1926 Scott City the son of Herlan and Katharine Ehmke Jennison.
A lifetime resident of Southwest Kansas, Karl worked as a Farmer and the General Manager of the Healy Coop.
He was a member of the Healy United Methodist Church and the American Legion.
On December 18, 1948, he married Mary Belle Phipps in Healy, Kansas. She passed away on October 25, 2005 in Scott City, Kansas.
Survivors include:
Two Sons Richard and Diana Jennison of Healy, Kansas
Robin and Coleen Jennison of Wichita, Kansas
One Daughter Karla and Tom Bennett of Healy, Kansas
Nine Grandchildren, Seventeen Great-Grandchildren.
Funeral Services will be held on Tuesday, August 16, 2016 at the First United Methodist Church in Healy, Kansas at 2:00 p.m.
Visitation will be from 12:00 – 8:00 p.m. on Monday, August 15, 2016 at the Price and Sons Funeral Home in Scott City, Kansas.
Internment will be in the Healy Cemetery immediately following the funeral service.
Memorials are suggested to the Karl and Mary Belle Jennison Camp Scholarship Fund in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home.
While I’m not much for adventures that involve crowds, loud noise, or frenetic activity, I enjoy out of the ordinary explorations. We unexpectedly hit the magic button on our latest road trip and found ourselves looking through several families’ no longer needed treasures and eating Indian tacos. Even better, a Shoshone grandmother prepared our food under blue Wyoming skies. While we ate, we enjoyed visiting with her husband, a tribal artist whose work hangs in offices and homes around the world.
The key to our unplanned side trip was a garage sale sign stuck along the ditch of a road through a reservation. Once we spied the invite, we said, “Let’s see what they’ve got.” The irony in that comment is that both of us are over sixty and have plenty our own loot we could sell and not miss. Despite knowing we have dust collectors decorating our home, we can’t help but inspect what other people have spent a lifetime acquiring. Heck, who knows when you’ll find a petrified dinosaur tooth or a Made in Occupied Germany teacup?
While we didn’t find dinosaur dental work or rare porcelain, we did find aged buffalo horns, an antique hunting knife, a heavy chef’s skillet, local literature, and homemade Indian tacos made by a professional.
Over decades, I’ve learned garage sales are perfect places to sample local foods. In Northwest Kansas, I’ve bought German bierocks, hertzen, spitzbuben, and Bohemian kolaches. You know when you see the “homemade” sign, you’re in for a treat. There’s something about a woman serving her family recipes that makes her put her best work into what ends up as food for gods.
The lesson learned on this journey was that women everywhere share this tradition. The silver-haired elder shaping a dough ball before frying it in hot oil was every bit as proud of her traditional food as women in Ellis, Rooks, Rush, Russell, and Trego Counties who tempt taste buds with mouthwatering fare. As she swiftly formed an oval, the cook explained she could never make her recipe in batches that served less than 80 people. With that kind of practice, it’s no wonder forming those discs looked so easy.
I like making fry bread myself, but this woman’s was better than mine. As I listened to the bread sizzle on the camp stove, I told her how I mixed my simple ingredients. In a flash, she identified two ways to improve my recipe. Ironically, one of those was the addition of butter flavored Crisco to the flour mixture until it crumbled like pie dough before adding liquid. She also let me know my use of milk darkened and hardened my product. After seeing her golden results, she’s right.
We ate under mid-August rays, savoring chili, lettuce, tomato, and cheese –topped fry bread and discussing Indian art, native colleges, and garage sale bargains. By the end of our meal, we knew one another’s names as well as our preferences for serving this traditional staple.
Following our instincts and turning into that garage sale was the best part of our expedition. We may not have found an ancient fossil, but every time I make fry bread I’ll smile and recall this chance encounter where I learned to cook from an expert.
Native Kansan Karen Madorin is a local writer and retired teacher who loves sharing stories about places, people, critters, plants, food, and history of the High Plains.
NEW YORK (AP) — Hyatt, Sheraton, Marriott and Westin hotels in 10 states and the District of Columbia may have been targeted by hackers for months.
According to the hotel operator HEI Hotels & Resorts, malware put into place in at least 20 locations may have collected names, card account numbers, card expiration dates and verification codes. See response from HEI Hotels & Resorts here.
Data from customers may have been collected from early December, through late June. At some properties, HEI said, data collection may have begun as early as March 2015.
Here’s a look at the specific hotels and locations that may have been compromised:
CALIFORNIA:
Hyatt Centric Santa Barbara
Le Meridien San Francisco
Renaissance San Diego Downtown Hotel
San Diego Marriott La Jolla
The Westin Pasadena
COLORADO:
The Westin Snowmass Resort in Snowmass Village
FLORIDA:
Boca Raton Marriott at Boca Center.
Intercontinental Tampa Bay.
Royal Palm South Beach Miami
Westin Fort Lauderdale
ILLINOIS:
Hotel Chicago Downtown
MINNESOTA:
The Hotel Minneapolis Autograph Collection
The Westin Minneapolis
PENNSYLVANIA:
The Westin Philadelphia
TENNESSEE:
Sheraton Music City Hotel in Nashville.
TEXAS:
Dallas Fort Worth Marriott Hotel & Golf Club.
VERMONT:
Equinox Resort Golf Resort & Spa in Manchester Village
VIRGINIA:
Le Meridien Arlington
Sheraton Pentagon City, Arlington
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
The Westin Washington, D.C. City Center
The company says the incident has been contained and customers can safely use cards at all of its properties.
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) – Bill Snyder has always valued continuity, whether on the coaching staff or in the huddle.
It’s why four of his assistants, including co-offensive coordinators Dana Dimel and Del Miller, have spent at least 18 years at Kansas State. And why relative youngsters on the staff, such as Andre Coleman and Blake Seiler, played for the Wildcats before joining the profession.
The Wildcats have been to six straight bowl games. But as the 76-year-old Snyder enters his 26th season, there are growing rumblings that it may be his last. He needs seven wins to reach 200 for his career, a significant milestone, and the talent returning from an injury-plagued 2015 season means Kansas State could compete for another Big 12 title.
Perhaps such success would make it the right time.
By ANDRES YBARRA
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Paulo Orlando and Lorenzo Cain each got four hits and drove in three runs as the Kansas City Royals won their first road series since late June, beating the Minnesota Twins 11-4 Sunday.
Orlando homered, tripled and scored three times. Cain matched his career high for hits in a game.
Edinson Volquez (9-10) threw six solid innings to snap his five-game winless streak. He gave up two earned runs and five hits.
Chris Young pitched three scoreless innings for his first save.
Orlando hit a three-run homer off starter Hector Santiago (10-7) in the fourth, capping a six-run inning. Orlando is hitting .368 (39 for 106) since the All-Star break.
Brian Dozier hit his 26th home run for Minnesota and Joe Mauer had a pair of hits, including an RBI single in the fifth that pulled the Twins to 7-4.
SALINE COUNTY – A Kansas teen was injured in an accident just before 1:30p.m. on Sunday in Saline County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2008 Pontiac G6 driven by Shyanne Michelle Anderson, 19, McPherson, was westbound on Interstate 70 ten miles east of Salina.
The vehicle went into the median, rolled several times and came to a rest in the median.
Anderson was transported to Salina Regional Medical Center.
She was properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Latest on violence in Milwaukee following the shooting of a man by police (all times local):
1:30 a.m.
Police say they are making multiple arrests in Milwaukee after a second night of unrest over the police killing of a black man.
The arrests follow skirmishes between protesters and police but without the widespread destruction of property that marked the first night after the man’s death.
Protesters earlier threw rocks and other objects at officers and police say shots were fired in a handful of locations. One person was injured by gunfire.
Officer taken to hospital for injury after thrown rock breaks windshield of squad near Sherman & Burleigh. pic.twitter.com/At5HDBOXHm
— Milwaukee Police (@MilwaukeePolice) August 15, 2016
The number of arrests was not immediately known.
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1 a.m.
Police say one person was shot at a Milwaukee protest on Sunday evening and officers used an armored vehicle to retrieve the injured victim during a second night of unrest over the police shooting of a black man.
But there was no repeat of the widespread destruction of property.
Some two dozen officers in riot gear confronted a group who were throwing rocks and other objects at police near where the black man was fatally shot a day earlier. Police moved in to try to disperse the crowd.
Police Chief Edward Flynn said the man whose death touched off Saturday night’s rioting, Sylville Smith, was shot after he turned toward an officer with a gun in his hand.
PHILLIPS COUNTY –Two Northwest Kansas teens were injured in an accident just before 8a.m. on Sunday in Phillips County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2001 Ford Ranger driven by Adrianna M. Boland, 17, Alton, was southbound on County Road E600.
The driver lost control of pickup on a sandy road and it skid broadside into the west ditch.
The driver overcorrected again and the pickup slid broadside across the road into the east ditch and overturned.
Boland was transported to the hospital in Phillipsburg.
A passenger Colton R. Stanton, 19, Osborne, was transported to the hospital in Kearny, Nebraska. They were not wearing seat belts, according to the KHP.
