Gabriel James Brooks, son of Lindsay Snider and Cecil Brooks, both of Russell, Kansas died July 17, 2017, at Hays Medical Center.
Private family services will be held.
Month: July 2017
Gary Helget
Gary Helget of Schoenchen, Kansas passed away Wednesday, July 19, 2017 in Schoenchen.
Arrangements are pending with Brock’s-Keithley Funeral Chapel and Crematory 2509 Vine Hays, KS 67601.
KZ Country Cheesy Joke of the Day 7/20/17
Where do horses live?
In neigh-borhoods.
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Larks blank El Dorado
HAYS, Kan. – The Hays Larks took advantage of a couple of early El Dorado errors and scored five runs in the first inning and shutout the Broncos 10-0 Wednesday night at Larks Park.
Jace Selcor had three of the Larks 15 hits. Trey Ochoa drove in three and Trevor Boone homered for a third straight game leading the Larks (29-13, 29-12 Jayhawk League) to their 29th win.
Dylan Schneider (3-0) pitched six scoreless innings with six strikeouts and no walks for the win. Matt Fish and Brad Sugg closed it out for the Larks fifth shutout.
The Larks close out their league slate with their final home game Thursday night. It’s Sesquicentennial Night sponsored by the Hays Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Downtown Hays Development Corporation.
Mutton Busting at Ellis County Fair Tuesday
Hays Junior Eagles drop state tourney opener
HAYS, Kan. – The Hays Eagles Junior American Legion dropped their opener in the Class A State Tournament 12-0 to Emporia Wednesday night at Hays High. The Junior Eagles will now play the Chapman Irish in an elimination game around 12:30 pm Thursday. The Irish lost 6-0 to the Andover Trojans in their opener.
Wednesday’s results
Kansas Royals 11, Great Bend Braves 1
Andover Jaguars 11, Salina Hawks 8
Andover Trojans 6, Chapman Irish 0
Emporia 12, Hays Eagles 0
Thursday’s schedule
Great Bend Braves vs. Salina Hawks, 10am
Chapman Irish vs. Hays Eagles, 12:30pm
Kansas Royals vs. Andover Jaguars 6pm
Andover Trojans vs. Empporia, 8pm
Hays Monarchs go 1-1 on first day of zone tourney
COLBY, Kan. – The Hays Monarchs Optimist scored four runs in the top of the seventh inning to break a 5-5 tie then held off Colby 9-7 to stay alive in the Colby AA Zone American Legion Tournament.
Cole Zimmerman singled after a walk and an error to give the Monarchs the lead. Eston Brown had a pinch-hit sacrifice fly, Trent Mayo singled and Tate Garcia doubled to drive in the runs in the decisive inning.
Colby scored two in the bottom of the inning and had the tying run at second when Chase Werth induced a ground out to third to end the game.
Werth pitched the final 2 1/3 innings and gets the win. He also drove in three. Garcia had three hits.
The Monarchs (18-10) dropped their tourney opener to Hoisington 3-1, giving up three runs in the first. They will now play Goodland at 3 pm Thursday afternoon in another elimination game.
Now That’s Rural: Clyde Tombaugh, Burdett
Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development
Along Kansas Highway 156 about fifty miles west of Great Bend is the rural community of Burdett. Next to the water tower is a roadside park with a historical marker devoted to a local boy who became the discoverer of the planet Pluto.
Last week we learned about Clyde Tombaugh, the local farm boy whose interest in astronomy would lead to his discovery of another planet. Don Cloutman is one of the citizens of Burdett who is seeking to continue to honor Tombaugh’s legacy.
Don grew up southwest of Burdett in another rural community, the town of Minneola, population 717 people. Now, that’s rural.
Don studied zoology at Fort Hays State where he met his wife who is from Burdett. After serving in the Army, he went to graduate school at Arkansas, became a fisheries biologist at Duke Power Company in North Carolina, and earned a Ph.D. at Mississippi State. Dr. Cloutman became a professor of biology at Bemidji State University before he and his wife retired to Burdett.
They are helping Burdett continue to honor the legacy of noted astronomer Clyde Tombaugh. The Kansas Historical Society website, Kansapedia, provides some background.
Prior to 1781, scientists believed that there were six planets in our solar system. In March of that year, an English astronomer named Sir William Herschel became the first person in recorded history to discover a planet when he located the planet Uranus. This was a remarkable accomplishment. However, Uranus did not seem to conform to the laws of Newtonian physics. Its route through the night sky defied predictability, and no one could explain this erratic behavior.
In 1824, the work of a German astronomer and mathematician suggested that the variability was caused by the gravitational pull of another planet beyond Uranus. In 1846, an observatory in Berlin found such a planet: Neptune.
When additional variability was found, scientists assumed that there must be yet another planet beyond Neptune. However, it was thought to be too distant, too dim, and probably impossible to find.
Astronomers continued the quest, however, at such places as the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. To assist in this search, the director of the Lowell Observatory hired a young amateur astronomer from Kansas named Clyde Tombaugh. In 1930, Tombaugh found the ninth planet.
Clyde Tombaugh went on to a long and distinguished career in astronomy and academia. Besides discovering Pluto, he discovered six star clusters, a cloud of galaxies, one comet and about 775 asteroids.
Tombaugh retired from New Mexico State University as a professor of astronomy. In 1982, the citizens of Burdett honored him with a roadside historic marker describing his achievements. Dr. Tombaugh died on January 17, 1997.
In subsequent years as technology improved, scientists were able to detect increasing numbers of small interplanetary objects such as Pluto. The International Astronomical Union issued an official definition of the term planet in 2006. Pluto was determined to be a dwarf planet and the 10th largest body orbiting the sun. It is located in the Kuiper Belt.
If Pluto is a dwarf planet, perhaps Dr. Tombaugh’s accomplishments are all the more impressive. In any event, Don Cloutman and the other citizens of Burdett continue to honor his achievements and have some fun along the way.
When the miniature golf course in the city park recently needed improvement, it was renovated with a planetary theme. Each of the nine holes was named for a different planet. The course was inaugurated with a community miniature golf tournament. With tongue in cheek, the winner was offered not just a belt buckle, but a Kuiper Belt buckle.
For more information on the community, see www.burdettks.org.
It’s time to leave Burdett, the boyhood home of an historic astronomer. We commend Don Cloutman and the other citizens of Burdett for making a difference by keeping alive Clyde Tombaugh’s historic achievements. The accomplishments of this young farm boy were out of this world.
And there’s more. In the 2000s, Pluto would become the target of a major outer space mission. The man who led this mission also came from rural Kansas. We’ll learn about that next week.
Sisters from Goodland named Ellis Co. rodeo pageant royalty
By CRISTINA JANNEY
Hays Post
Two sisters from Goodland came away with the Miss Ellis County Rodeo Queen and Princess titles Tuesday at the Ellis County Fair Rodeo.
Jamie Nemechek, 18, who is a K-State student in pre-veterinary medicine, was crowned Queen, and her sister, Sara, 10, was honored with the Princess title.
They are the daughters of Jerry and Penny Nemechek.
Jamie’s hobbies include reading, spending time outside and working with her 4-H project animals.
Both girls will be showing sheep at the Kansas Junior Livestock Show and the state fair. They also plan on showing their horses at the state fair.
Jamie exhibited the grand champion lamb at the 2016 Northwest Kansas District Free Fair. Jamie and her siblings also manage a small herd of commercial cows.
“I come from a long line of pageant royalty,” Jamie said. “I really love pursuing and doing pageants. I recommend it to anyone who wants to learn more about rodeo.”
Jamie said her favorite portion of the pageant was horsemanship during which she rode her horse, Skip.
The young ladies competed the weekend of July 8 in horsemanship, modeling, talent or speech, and personal interview. They were also required to take a written test on rodeo and horses and submit photographs in their western wear.
During the horsemanship portion of the competition, the ladies compete in reining. The ladies are given a course that is written on paper and they have to replicate it in the arena. The riders also complete a queen’s run and flag run.
Sara said she wished to follow in her sister’s footsteps. This was her first pageant.
“I thought a pageant would be a lot of fun to do,” she said. “I decided to try it out for the first time.”
Sara also said she most enjoyed the horsemanship portion of the competition, riding her horse, Babe.
The girls who did not win said they also had good experiences. Mariam Towns, 12, Palco, enjoyed the interview portion of the contest. Towns had to overcome a fear of horses to compete in the rodeo competition. She was bucked from a horse at the age of 6.
“I have taken it a little bit at a time, and I work with the horses every day,” she said.
Emma Pope, 16, said she hopes to take her 4-H experiences in public speaking and parlay them into a career.
“I would really like to do something in science. I really like biology, anatomy and physiology. I would like to do something that coordinates the two,” she said.
She said she hoped to inspire other young girls through her participation in the pageant.
“I know when I was little, I was inspired by rodeo queens. They do a lot with the younger kids and in the community, and, of course, they go to a lot of rodeos. I like the atmosphere. Everyone is positive, but it is competitive too.”
Results are as below:
Princess pageant
Modeling: Miriam Towns
Public Performance: Mariam Towns
Interview: Mariam Towns
Horsemanship: Sara Nemechek
Runner up, Justina Merritt, 14, of Plainville
Princess: Sara Nemechek
Queen
Modeling: Leigh Anne Poe, 15, Hill City
Public Performance: Emma Pope
Interview: Jamie Nemechek
Horsemanship: Jamie Nemechek
Runner-up: Emma Pope
Queen: Jamie Nemechek
Queen candidate Hailey Fisher, 16, Plainville, also competed.
The outgoing royalty for 2016 were Queen Jaylinn Pfeifer of Ellis High School and Princess Jaelyn Himmelberg of Lawrence, Nebraska.
The ladies who were named royalty this year will help plan next year’s pageant and assist at fair activities. They are required to travel to at least two other state rodeos and participate in local events as a representatives of the rodeo.
ABBB CPA, Fort Hays State alum selected for industry leadership program
Meagan Wellbrock, Principal at ABBB, was one of only 38 CPAs honored by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) as a member of the Leadership Academy’s ninth graduating class. Wellbrock was selected based on her exceptional leadership skills and professional experience for the four-day Leadership Academy program, which will be held from October 1-5 in Durham, N.C.
Wellbrock joined Adams, Brown, Beran & Ball as a full-time staff member in 2007 after interning during her undergraduate studies. She manages audit engagements and consults on managerial and operational concerns. Additionally, she manages the firm’s Hays office and is the audit and attestation service line leader for the firm. Wellbrock graduated summa cum laude from Fort Hays State University with a Bachelor of Business Administration and also holds a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification.
“Being selected to participate in the AICPA Leadership Academy is a distinct honor,” said Brian Staats, CPA, CGMA, managing partner of Adams, Brown, Beran & Ball. “Meagan is a strong leader within our firm. We look forward to the enhanced leadership skills she will gain from the Academy.”
The AICPA Leadership Academy was designed to strengthen and expand the leadership skills of promising young professionals while they network with a peer group of talented and motivated CPAs.
The Leadership Academy will feature career-development workshops and sessions with some of the accounting profession’s most prominent influencers, including Kimberly Ellison-Taylor, CPA, CGMA, chairman of the American Institute of CPAs and Association of Certified Professional Accountants, Barry Melancon, CPA, CGMA, American Institute of CPAs president and CEO, Association of Certified Professional Accountants CEO, and Mark Koziel, CPA, CGMA, Executive Vice President – Firm Services, Association of Certified Professional Accountants.
Participants are selected from public accounting firms of all sizes, business and industry, education and government. The 2017 class contains a diverse range of ethnicities and is split evenly between females and males.
The 2017 Leadership Academy attendees were recommended by their employers, state CPA societies or both. Candidates submitted resumes which included work history, licensure information, professional volunteer activities, community service and awards and honors. Candidates also submitted a statement explaining how participating in the Leadership Academy would impact them personally and professionally and wrote an essay on the topic “what leadership competencies and characteristics will be essential to successfully lead and advance the CPA profession in 2025?”
To date, more than 270 CPAs have participated in the AICPA Leadership Academy, many of whom have gone on to take on leadership positions in their firms, businesses and volunteer organizations.
More information about the AICPA Leadership Academy is available online.
Adams, Brown, Beran & Ball, Chartered provides a wide range of traditional and non-traditional CPA and consulting services to clients throughout the United States, including agriculture organizations, construction companies, feed yards, financial institutions, governmental and not-for-profit organizations, manufacturers, medical practices, oil and gas companies, professional service firms, real estate companies and small businesses. Founded in 1945, today the firm maintains 15 office locations throughout Kansas. For more information about Adams, Brown, Beran & Ball, visit their website at www.abbb.com.
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This weekend’s Hays-area garage sales
Hays-area garage sales
Made possible by our sponsors: Coldwell Banker Executive Realty, Midwest Energy, Nex-Tech Wireless, Northwestern Printers and RE/MAX Pro.
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: All on East 29th Street: 200, 204, 205, 206, 207, 219, and possibly more!
Multiple family garage sale! Too many items to list, but a few include: furniture; bikes; men’s and women’s apparel; kids clothing & toys; household items; etc! A must see for anyone! No early birds please!
Friday and Saturday, July 21st & 22nd, from 9 am – 1 pm
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Address: 206 E. 29th Street
Items for sale: Some items include but not limited to… boys, men’s, & women’s clothing & shoes; toddler bed, crib, high chair, baby swing, stroller, bedding & accessories for young boys’ room, & lots of toys; furniture, household items, bikes, and so much more! Part of a 6-household garage sale on the 200 block of E. 29th Street, in Hays! No early birds please!
Friday 9-? And Saturday 9-12 (if applicable)
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Address: 2202 Farley Pl. Hays
Items for sale: Furniture, woodworking equipment, tires, DS and Wii games, womens tall (small and medium) scrub pants, scrub tops, girls and boys 7/8 clothing, kids shoes, many boxes of brand new mens shoes size 9-1/2, some 10s, DVDs, kids toys, tons of books, home décor, bedding, NeoFlam cookware, dollhouse, Denver Bronco shirts, Christmas floral pieces, stuffed animals, lots of miscellaneous…..too much to list and new items added Saturday.
Friday 2-7, Saturday 9-12
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Address: 108 W. 38th St., Hays
Items for sale: Multi-family sale. Furniture (armoire, sofa, dressers, etc.), toy train table, children’s and teen brand name clothing, toys, books, Pack ‘n’ Play, umbrella stroller, sandbox, queen comforter set, household items, seasonal decor. Cash preferred.
Fri., July 21, 8 am-6 pm & Sat., July 22, 8 am-Noon
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Address: 201 Skyline Court, Hays
Items for sale: 13 in. Craftsman thickness planer, metal folding ramps for pickup, collectibles, HP Officejet printer fax copy scanner, Restoration Hardware king size duvet cover, solid oak TV stand, 17 in, charcoal grill, 6 x 9 rug – new, women’s clothing – small, women’s shoes- some brand new, hoop skirt – small, teaching materials, children’s books, arts/crafts, wireless keyboard and mouse, plus much more. All items from pet-free, smoke-free homes. No earlybirds please.
Friday, July 21, 2-7 pm Sat. July 22 8-noon
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Address: 2911 Hillcrest Dr, Hays
Items for sale: Huge Moving Sale. A Dobro barely used, a tire with approx 3000 miles on it, a Coleman 5000 & a Honda 1000 generators, used once when I tryed them out new and been in storage shed ever since. Mens clothing 3 & 4X, Womens clothing XL.. Mens & womens shoes, tools, bar-b-que grill, tools, antiques, dishes, books, furniture (recliners), electric range & various other items..
WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCIDENTS
July 21st starting @1pm til 6pm. Saturday July 22nd starting @7:30am til 1pm
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Address: 2212 Henry Dr., Hays
Mult. Family Garage Sale. Furniture, Baby Items, Sm Scrubs, Misc.
Friday the 21st only starting at 3:30
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SUBMIT your free garage sale listing where it will be SEEN! Deadline is noon each Wednesday, but, hey, we’re flexible here at Hays Post. Click HERE to submit your weekend garage sale.
Hot, windy Thursday
Thursday Sunny and hot, with a high near 104. South wind 9 to 14 mph.
Thursday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 75. South wind 8 to 14 mph.
FridaySunny and hot, with a high near 105. South southwest wind 9 to 14 mph.
Friday NightMostly clear, with a low around 73. South southwest wind 8 to 13 mph.
Saturday A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Sunny and hot, with a high near 100.
Saturday Night A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 69.
SundayA 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 91.
Sunday NightMostly cloudy, with a low around 67.
MondayA 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 91.
Gordon’s sac fly in 9th gives Royals win over Tigers
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Brandon Moss doubled off the wall in the ninth to score the tying run, and Alex Gordon drove him home with a sacrifice fly to bail out closer Kelvin Herrera and give the Kansas City Royals a 4-3 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday night.
Moss homered in the third inning before coming through against Tigers closer Justin Wilson (3-4) in the ninth – shortly after Mikie Mahtook’s two-run shot off Herrera had given Detroit the lead.
Moss went to third on the throw to the plate, and Gordon sent a fly ball to center that was just deep enough to give him his sixth career walk-off RBI and the Royals a much-needed win.
They had lost the first two games of the series and seven of eight overall.