2016 – Page 394 – Hays Post Archive

Kansas facing steep turnover of school superintendents

Posted on August 5, 2016August 5, 2016

John Thissen Superintendent of Schools, USD 489 in Hays — John Thissen
Superintendent of Schools, USD 489 in Hays

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — More than 20 percent of Kansas’ school districts, including some of the larger districts will have new superintendents this fall.

Dale Dennis, deputy education commissioner of Kansas, said 61 Kansas school districts, including Hays, Topeka, Olathe, Lawrence and Manhattan, have new leaders this year. Some veteran superintendents in rural districts are also going elsewhere.

The departures follow at least two straight years of record-breaking turnover, which Dennis and others said has taken a toll on districts and the state.

The Wichita Eagle reports that the average tenure for a superintendent in Kansas is about five years.

The Kansas Association of School Superintendents recently stepped up its efforts to mentor superintendents, pairing veteran or retired leaders with new ones and hosting a monthly “Phone a Friend” video conference to share strategies.

Police investigate fatal Kansas shooting

Posted on August 5, 2016

Location of fatal Friday morning shooting in Topeka- google image

SHAWNEE COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities in Shawnee County are investigating a Friday morning shooting.

Just before 2:30 a.m., police in Topeka were dispatched to the emergency room at St. Francis Hospital where a man had arrived by private vehicle and had suffered a gunshot wound, according to a media release.

The victim identified as Dante M. Fields, 24, Topeka, died.

Police interviewed witnesses who reported that Fields had been shot in the parking lot at Quinton’s 4121 SW Huntoon in Topeka.

Police established a crime scene in the parking lot.

No additional details were released early Friday.

This weekend’s Hays-area garage sales

Posted on August 5, 2016August 5, 2016

Hays-area garage sales

Scroll to the bottom for a map of garage sale locations. Hays Post offers FREE garage sale listings weekly. Having a sale next weekend? Click HERE for details.

Address: 2213 Virginia Drive, Hays
Fri Aug 5 4-8 & Sat Aug 6 8-12

Items for sale: MOVING SALE. LOTS OF MISC ITEMS!!!

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Address: 1304 W. 45th, Hays
Friday 5th 12-4, Saturday 6th 8-1

Items for sale: Household goods, furniture including headboards, table and chairs, dresser. Camping gear, designer purses, clothes and does. All priced to sale! Tons of stuff!

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Address: 1103 Fairway Drive, Hays
Fri 12:00-7:00 pm & Sat. 8am-noon

Items for sale: 4 family- Home decor, pictures, furniture, ceiling fans, bedding, kitchenware, lamps, baby items, clothing, Harley Davidson/Coca cola items, lots of misc.

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Address: 1711 Wheatland, Hays
Friday 1:30-7:30. Saturday 8-11

Items for sale: Children’s clothes, toys, tools, household items
Christmas decor, video games, scooters and much more.

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Address: 1309 Washington Circle, Hays
Friday 3-7 PM

Items for sale: Hide a way bed, Harley Davidson helmet, kids clothes ranging from 12 months to 7 in girls and 12 months to size 4 in boys. Kids kitchen set, a girls bike, scooters, shoes, bedding, bread machine, antique sad iron, lots of infant and kid toys. Priced to sell.

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Address: 1325 Golden Belt Drive, Hays
Aug 4 and 5 (Thurs and Fri) 2-9

Items for sale: Inflatable pool, printer, full headboard, sewing machine cabinet, dresser, microwave, paper shredder, high chair, earth tone area rug, pfaltzgraff dishes over 100 pieces), Jeans-like new, assorted sizes (Buckle brands), other like new clothing; New and like new jewelry and purses from local retailer, home decor, new in box-Tomtom, LG Converse Nextech phone, Books, movies, 15″ R35 tire, craftman skill saw, Craftsman zigsaw, 15 gal sprayer tank with pump (needs switch), 2 new window well covers, handheld rotary seeder, heavy duty pickup mats, window AC, electric mower, lg. dog house, camouflage dog carrier cover, lots more!!!!

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Address: 110 E. 28th, Hays
Friday 8:00 to 8:00 and Saturday 8:00 to 11:00

Items for sale:
•Original Kettcar – Made in Germany
•Women’s Clothes
•Jewelry
•Purses and Shoes
•Air Compressor
•Ladders
•Old Avon Bottles
•Books
•DVD’s
•Antique Trunk
•Barbie Ice Cream Shoppe
•Antique Pictures
•Antique J C Higgins Bicycle
•Antique Push Lawn Mower
•Vacumn Cleaner
•Misc. Decor

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Address: 502 W 31st, Hays
Friday 3-8pm, Saturday 8-1pm

Items for sale: Kitchen items, bedspreads, rocking chair, storm door, kids games and toys, jewelry, purses, trampoline upper bounce and springs, rooster collection, Elvis collector plates, pictures, home decor, books, clothing, patio table, 2 old school desks and lots of misc.

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Address: 409 East 22nd, Hays
Saturday, 8:30 to ?

Items for sale: Cleaning out the storage unit! Clothes, Tools, Bedding, Dishes, old records, and much more.

Hays church launches Olympic-themed message series

Posted on August 5, 2016August 5, 2016

With the 2016 Summer Olympics upon us, Celebration Community Church is launching a new message series called “Run the Good Race,” comparing the training, discipline and perseverance of a world-class athlete to that of a Christian striving to run the race of life with power and purpose.

The services will feature multimedia movie clips to inspire us to push ourselves to achieve goals.

Services at C3 are on Saturdays at 5pm and Sundays at 8:30, 10, and 11:30am.

For more information, visit www.celebratejesus.org.

Catholic Charities mobile outreach to be in Ellis Monday

Posted on August 5, 2016August 3, 2016

SUBMITTED

ELLIS–The Catholic Charities Mobile Outreach Unit will be at the Ellis Family Care Center parking lot, 1000 Washington St., Monday, Aug. 8, and Monday, Aug. 29, 10-11:30 a.m. both days.

Available services will include:

Clothing for men, women, children and infants
Food bags, hygiene items, bathroom tissue
Diapers and baby wipes
Blankets
Emergency Assistance applications
Kansas Loan Pool Project applications
Information and applications for other services

Catholic Charities ministers to families and seeks to reduce poverty for the vulnerable, regardless of their religion.

For more information call the Hays office at (785) 625-2644.

FHSU women’s basketball named to WBCA academic Top 25 team honor roll

Posted on August 5, 2016

FHSU Athletics

ATLANTA – Fort Hays State Women’s Basketball was named to the WBCA Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll for the sixth time in the last seven years. The Tigers ranked 22^nd in team GPA among NCAA Division II schools in 2015-16.

The WBCA Academic Top 25 annually recognizes NCAA Division I, II and III; NAIA; and junior/community college women’s basketball teams across the nation that carry the highest combined grade point average (GPA) inclusive of all student-athletes on their rosters for the entire season.

Fort Hays State ranked 22nd among the top 25 schools, carrying a team GPA of 3.559. FHSU was one of just seven schools in the top 25 to be selected to the NCAA Tournament, showing they are among the best both on the floor and in the classroom.

Fort Hays State was one of just two programs from the MIAA among the top 25. Lindenwood ranked eighth in Division II with a GPA of 3.649.

FHSU ranked No. 24 in the final WBCA national poll of 2015-16. The Tigers join four other programs that finished in the final top 25 and are among the WBCA Academic Team Top 25.

Nine of Fort Hays State’s players had a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher and six had a GPA of 3.7 or higher. Taylor Menkehad the highest GPA on the team at 3.98, while seniors Paige Lunsford (3.95) and Beth Bohuslavsky (3.89) were close behind. Also posting GPAs above 3.5 were Rachel Doll (3.80), Sarah Pimentel (3.77), Elle Stein (3.71), Jill Faxon (3.69),Carly Heim (3.62), and Payton Hoeme (3.59).

This is the sixth time in Tony Hobson‘s eight years as head coach at Fort Hays State that the women’s basketball team earned the WBCA Academic Top 25 honor. The team ranked 14th in 2009-10, 12th in 2010-11, 4th in 2011-12, 14th in 2012-13, 23^rdin 2014-15, and 22^nd this year.

NCAA Division II

Rank	Institution	Head Coach	GPA
1	Upper Iowa University	Carol Russell	3.731
2	Ohio Dominican University	Lynsey Warren	3.720
3	Seton Hill Uniuversity	Mark Katarski	3.711
4	Minnesota State University, Mankato	Emilee Thiesse	3.675
T5	Northwood University	Jeff Curtis	3.672
T5	University of Findlay	James Wiedie	3.672
7	University of Sioux Falls	Travis Traphagen	3.656
8	Lindenwood University	Tony Francis	3.649
9	Michigan Technological University	Kimberly Cameron	3.645
10	Lee University	Marty Rowe	3.627
T11	Rockhurst University	Larry Park	3.616
T11	Barry University	William Sullivan	3.616
13	University of the Sciences	Jackie Hartzell	3.604
T14	Ashland University	Robyn Fralick	3.603
T14	Winona State University	Scott Ballard	3.603
16	Drury University	Molly Miller	3.593
17	Lubbock Christian University	Steve Gomez	3.591
18	Texas Woman’s University	Beth Jillson	3.589
19	Augustana University	Dave Krauth	3.583
20	Minnesota State University Moorhead	Karla Nelson	3.570
21	Western Oregon University	Holli Howard-Carpenter	3.566
22	Fort Hays State University	Tony Hobson	3.559
23	Holy Family University	Mark Miller	3.553
24	Gannon University	James Brunelli	3.530
25	Lake Erie College	Robert Booher	3.517

🎥 City selects alternate site for westbound Welcome to Hays sign

Posted on August 5, 2016August 4, 2016

By BECKY KISER
Hays Post

The original location proposed for the westbound I-70 Welcome to Hays marker must be changed after the Federal Highway Administration told the Kansas Department of Transportation it cannot be placed in the KDOT right-of-way.

Convention and Visitors Bureau Director (CVB) Rick Rekoske told city commissioners Thursday night two alternate placements were considered. Rekoske recommended placement of the 18′ by 10′ limestone monument on private land on the north side of I-70, “just 11-hundred feet east of the original location” and outside of the KDOT right-of-way.

The city would have to purchase a permanent easement to use the private land. “John Braun (assistant public works director) reached out to the landowner about this and he was actually pretty excited about having the welcome sign on his property,” said City Manager Toby Dougherty. ” A kind of hometown pride,”added Commissioner James Meier.

Although the city owns the land for the alternative site on the south side of I-70, Meier and the other commissioners prefer the north site.

“I think to put it in this other location, you’d have to enlarge the sign to make it actually clear and visible which would add more cost than gaining the easement,” Meier said. “I think we’ll still have better visibility on the north side.”

Utilizing the private property on the north side of I-70 will require the acquisition of a permanent signage easement at a one-time cost of $1,645, plus the cost to erect a barbed wire fence around the sign to keep livestock away from it.

The monument project was approved by the commission in March.

Dougherty explained to the commission he can enact the easement purchase for the north location.

“We have money in CVB to handle the added costs for it so we don’t need to go back and do another action item. It’s all within my spending authority,” said Dougherty.

There are no changes to the eastbound sign planned near Arnhold Park on the south side of the interstate.

Rekoske said the monument project, to be done by Tobin Rupe Stoneworks of Wichita, should be completed by Oct. 31. Total project cost is about $57,000. The money comes from the CVB budget and is generated by the guest bed tax.

Commissioner Henry Schwaller was absent from the work session.

Cloudy, cooler Friday and a chance for thunderstorms

Posted on August 5, 2016

A stalled front near the Oklahoma…Kansas border will bring cooler temperatures & chance for additional rain through tonight

Today A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 81. North northeast wind 10 to 13 mph.

Tonight A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 65. East northeast wind 6 to 11 mph.

SaturdayA 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 82. East wind 9 to 11 mph.

Saturday NightA 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 65. East northeast wind 9 to 13 mph.

SundayA 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 85.

Sunday NightA 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 66.

MondayA 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 92.

Kansas woman dies, teen driver hospitalized after crash

Posted on August 5, 2016

OTTAWA COUNTY – A Kansas woman died in an accident just after 7p.m. on Thursday in Ottawa County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1995 1500 Pickup driven by Austin Thomas Roth, 15, Minneapolis, was southbound on 130th Road at Quartz Road on mile west of U.S. 81.

The pickup struck an eastbound 1997 Ford Ranger driven by Addison Lee Roth, 22, Minneapolis, on the drivers side in the intersection.

Both drivers were transported to the hospital in Minneapolis where Addison died.

Both drivers were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.

2 Kan. men arrested for robbing Kan. Walmart customers at knifepoint

Posted on August 5, 2016

HUTCHINSON –Law enforcement authorities in Reno County are investigating suspects in connection with two robberies.

Ryan Reed and Stephen Howard are both jailed on bonds of $101,000 for aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon and possession of drugs. A third suspect was arrested but not jailed.

The suspects are alleged to have pulled a knife and robbed four young men of their money in the parking lot of Walmart in Hutchinson early Thursday morning, according to Police Lt. Marty Robertson.

The suspects were drinking and smoking marijuana and decided they needed more cash, according to Robertson.

They allegedly went to Walmart and tried to break into vehicles, but then spotted the young men on the side of the store.

Robertson says the suspects may have also committed a second robbery but the victims have not come forward.

Police are also investigating a break in at Walgreens, 30th and Plum.

Robertson says the burglar or burglars may have stolen prescription drugs and other items.

Cargill picks architect, considering locations for Kan. protein facility

Posted on August 4, 2016

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Agribusiness giant Cargill has chosen an architect for a new Wichita facility to house its protein operations.

The Wichita Eagle reports that Kansas City-based HOK has been selected. Wichita is home to the company’s beef business and its turkey and cooked meat business, which includes deli meats. Its processed-protein services, such as its North American egg business and food distribution, also are located in Wichita, where Cargill employs about 900 workers.

Cargill spokesman Mike Martin says multiple sites within the city limits are being considered.

Smoky Hill Air National Guard to hold open house

Posted on August 4, 2016August 4, 2016

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SALINA–Military aircraft will take to the sky for aerial gunnery demonstrations and public displays Saturday, Aug. 6, at the Smoky Hill Air National Guard Range, 184th Intelligence Wing, Kansas Air National Guard.

Saturday’s events serve to recognize local support of the training missions taking place at Smoky Hill.
Gates will open to the public at 8 a.m. with flying activities beginning at approximately 10 a.m. The aerial displays are tentatively scheduled to include the following aircraft from the Kansas Army National Guard, Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve: KC-135 Stratotanker, A-10 Thunderbolt, F-16 Fighter Jet, B-1 Bomber, UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter and B-52 Bomber.

Static displays will include a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, HMMWV, a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicle and other equipment.

There will also be support from the 284th Air Support Operation Squadron, as Joint Terminal Attack Controllers providing close air support with the aircraft.

Entrance is free; food and refreshments will be available for purchase. Visitors are welcome to bring in coolers. However, no alcohol is permitted on the premises. Lawn chairs are encouraged as seating will not be provided. No pets are allowed; only service animals will be permitted.

Directions to Smoky Hill: Take Hwy 140 west out of Salina. Turn left onto South Link Road head south then left on Farrelly Road headed east to Smoky Hill main gate. For visitors coming from the south, the east Falun Road gate located 9 1/2 mi west of 135 on Falun Rd will be open, weather permitting.

For up-to-date information go to https://web.salinakansas.org/events/OPEN-HOUSE-Smoky-Hill-Air-National-Guard-9146/details.

Amtrak chief heralds Southwest Chief route in Kansas

Posted on August 4, 2016

NEWTON, Kan. (AP) — The head of Amtrak celebrated the salvation of Newton’s passenger rail service and said there’s a possibility Wichita could get passenger rail service.

Joe Boardman, Amtrak’s president and CEO, was in Newton on Thursday and called the Southwest Chief, which runs through Newton, a “critical link.” The Southwest Chief carries about 350,000 people a year from Chicago to Los Angeles. The route was threatened in Kansas by aged track.

The Wichita Eagle reports (https://j.mp/2axdsXj ) Boardman said Amtrak has invested about $40 million on area rails, which are owned by a railroad. He says Amtrak is also considering the possibility of restoring rail service from Newton through Wichita to link up with Oklahoma and Texas trains.

But he says that depends on whether states and communities are willing to support it.