Month: September 2017
Crosspoint Church will celebrate community block party today
By CRISTINA JANNEY
Hays Post
Crosspoint Church of Hays will sponsor its eighth-annual community block party from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Big Creek Crossing.
Pastor Micah Sanderson said the event is a way to give back to the community.
Free food, inflatables, children activities, and a junk food walk–similar to a cake walk—will all be a part of the event.
The Hays Fire Department will be on hand with fire vehicles, and monster truck rides will be offered.
Thanks to local sponsors, $3,500 in prizes will be given away at the event, including a $250 gift certificate to either Walmart or Dillons that is sponsored by the church. Door prizes will be given away to both adults and children.
You must be present to win the door prizes, which will be awarded at the end of the evening at about 7 p.m.
A prayer tent will be set up for anyone who wishes a partner with whom to pray.
Some of the activities will be in the Big Creek Crossing parking lot, and some will be inside of the mall.
Sunday morning, Crosspoint invites the community back to the mall for a worship service at 11 a.m.
Crosspoint is one of 10 churches in a network across the state. It’s goal is to reach 10 percent of each community in which it has planted a church and 10 percent of the state of Kansas.
The church, 1300 Harvest Road, offers a contemporary service at 9 and 11 a.m. Sundays with nursery care and children’s church. Sanderson serves as the local pastor, but the sermons are offered through video from a teaching pastor, Andy Addis, from the church’s Hutchinson site. The worship also includes live contemporary Christian music from a full band.
The church encourages casual attire and many church members wear jeans and T-shirts to services.
If you have any questions, call 785-625-5373, email [email protected] or visit the church’s website at www.crosspointnow.net
Hansen Foundation announces comprehensive reading initiative for NW Kan. children
The Dane G. Hansen Foundation is embarking on a comprehensive initiative to emphasize the importance of reading for young children. As a part of this reading initiative, the Foundation is pleased to introduce or expand three separate programs that will encourage and support literacy for our youngest citizens.
Research shows that reading aloud with a child for just fifteen minutes a day is the single most important activity to help a child prepare for reading and learning. Reading with a child is beneficial for brain development, language development, vocabulary, phonics, comprehension and familiarity with the printed word. In addition, reading with a child offers a time for bonding and instills a life-long love of reading. To facilitate the benefits of these early reading activities, the Dane G. Hansen Foundation is funding the following two programs designed to put age-appropriate books into the hands of every young child in Northwest Kansas.
Dolly Parton Imagination Library
Every child in the Hansen Foundation service area, from birth to age five, is eligible to receive a free book delivered to his or her door each month as part of the Dolly Parton Imagination Library.
The Dane G. Hansen Foundation has committed to provide funding for this program for all eligible children in Northwest Kansas. The Dollywood Foundation, based in Tennessee, funds the postage and administration of the program. There is no cost for families.
In order to participate, children must meet the age requirement, (0 to 5 years) and live in one of the 26 counties served by the Dane G. Hansen Foundation. A list of counties is available at NWKansasReads.org. Children must be enrolled by a parent or legal guardian. Enrollment is available online or by paper registration.
Once enrolled, the child will receive an age-appropriate book in the mail every month until age 5. The books are selected by a committee of professionals from the fields of education, child development, and early childhood literacy. All titles in the Imagination Library are reviewed annually along with new books that could be added for the coming year. Each book will have a label with the child’s name on it, helping to personalize the small library of up to 60 books that every child will receive by the time he or she ages out of the program.
Dolly Parton and the Dollywood Foundation started the Imagination Library in 1995 for the children of her home town of Pigeon Forge Tennessee. Her goal was to encourage a love of reading among local preschool children and their families with the gift of a new book each month.
By 2000, the program had become so popular that Parton announced she would make the program available to any community that was willing to partner with her to support it. Since the initial launch in 1995, more than 80 million books have been mailed to children in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. It is the goal of the Dane G. Hansen Foundation to enroll every eligible child in the Foundation’s 26 county service area. Toward that end, the Foundation encourages parents, grandparents, relatives, teachers, day-care providers, etc., to help make sure that no child is deprived of this opportunity. To learn how to sign up for the Imagination Library and who the partner organizations are in your county, visit NWKansasReads.org.
In addition to getting books to children in their homes, the Hansen Foundation is partnering with the Kansas Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Kansas Pediatric Foundation to expand the successful Turn a Page, Touch a Mind (TAP-TAM) program.
Clinics across the Hansen Foundation service area are eligible to sign-up to participate in this innovative program where young children receive an age-appropriate book from his or her clinician at each well-child checkup.
The Hansen Foundation commitment has further expanded TAP-TAM to include books distributed through the county health departments when children come for their immunizations.
More than 30 new sites have been added to the TAP-TAM program to better serve children in Northwest Kansas. Participating clinicians receive training on how to use the books as they interact with children and encourage reading at home for the entire family.
Why Reading?
The Hansen Foundation Trustees have worked with reading specialists in the area to develop an initiative that will make a significant difference for the families in Northwest Kansas, and they believe that both of these programs have the ability to greatly benefit children and families.
“We are so grateful to the local partner agencies and clinics in each county that have stepped up to make sure these programs are available to all children in our area,” said Hansen Foundation Trustee Brien Stockman. “There is an abundance of research that supports the effectiveness of both the Imagination Library and Turn A Page Touch A Mind programs.”
“Access to good quality, age-appropriate literature for pre-school children has been determined to be a critical element in being ready for the rigors of kindergarten.”
Children who enter kindergarten ready to learn are more likely to be reading at age level by third grade, an important marker for future academic success.
Be watching for future announcements as the Hansen Foundation works to promote literacy and ensure that children in Northwest Kansas have the best possible environment to become successful readers and students.
Open textbooks, grant program at FHSU will help students save money on textbooks
FHSU University Relations and Marketing
The first of several open textbook projects funded by the Open Textbook Grant Program at Fort Hays State University will be implemented in classrooms this semester, saving students from the rising cost of textbooks.
Forsyth Library and the Open Education Resources Committee are awarding faculty grants to create, adapt or add supplementary materials to openly licensed textbooks through the grant program. The library received funding through the FHSU Foundation from donors Robert and Delores Fischli to start the grant program and began accepting faculty proposals in spring 2016.
“Textbook costs have risen substantially for our students over the last decade,” said Deborah Ludwig, library dean, “and we appreciate the Fischlis’ generous donation to help us make college costs more affordable.”
“The program aims to reduce college costs for students, showcase the work of faculty at FHSU and contribute to worldwide availability of open educational resources,” said Claire Nickerson, learning initiatives and OER librarian at Forsyth.
Dr. David Schmidt, assistant professor of informatics, created supplemental materials for an open textbook for his Informatics 101 course, saving students an estimated $36,000 this year. Schmidt created chapter summaries and supplemental materials for the chapters that are useful for his course, which can be found at scholars.fhsu.edu/informatics_oer/1/. Schmidt’s project also included an assignment and grading rubric for each chapter.
Open textbooks and open educational resources (OERs) are an alternative, no-cost option to traditional textbooks. They are free to access and have an open license, allowing users to retain copies and redistribute them as needed. Depending on the terms of the open license, users may also be allowed to reuse the content in a different format, revise the content or remix portions of the content to create a new work.
“The open licensing allows students and faculty the freedom to make improvements to the textbooks without publishing a new edition,” said Nickerson. “Faculty can also customize open textbooks to the course, ensuring that it is relevant to students.”
The benefits for faculty include the grant funding to create or adapt the open textbook, opportunities for author collaborations, and the ability to apply an open style of teaching to allow students to contribute and give feedback about the resources used in class. All grant-funded materials will be made available through FHSU Scholars Repository, which helps increase the visibility of the adaptor or author and provides metrics for the work. Applications for grants will be accepted on a rolling basis.
“The program is off to a good start, and I hope that we will have more applicants as open educational resources gain visibility on campus, especially now that we are moving to a rolling basis for applications,” said Nickerson.
Dr. Elodie Jones, assistant professor of advanced education programs, Dr. Mark Pahls, instructor of health and human performance, and Dr. Janet Stramel, associate professor of teacher education, are also in the process of creating, adapting, or adding supplementary materials from open textbooks for their courses through the grant.
Faculty who have additional questions or are interested in creating, adapting, or adding supplementary materials to an open textbook can contact Nickerson at [email protected].
To learn more about open educational resources, visit www.fhsu.edu/oer.
Warm, dry Saturday
Today
Mostly sunny, with a high near 87. South wind 10 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with a low around 62. South southeast wind 13 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph.
Sunday
Sunny, with a high near 89. Breezy, with a south wind 10 to 15 mph increasing to 16 to 21 mph in the morning.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 60. South wind 8 to 16 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with a high near 89. South wind 8 to 10 mph.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 60.
Tuesday
Sunny, with a high near 90.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 60.
Wednesday
Sunny, with a high near 90.
Kobach Cites Voter Database As Key Kansas Resource
By CELIA LLOPIS-JEPSEN
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is touting a controversial multistate voter database as a key resource in response to U.S. Department of Justice questions about Kansas’ compliance with federal voting law.
In a recent letter to the Justice Department, obtained by the Kansas News Service through an open records request, Kobach describes the database as “one of the most important systems” Kansas uses to check the accuracy of voter rolls.
FILE PHOTO / KPR
Kobach has long said the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program — which began in 2005 under previous Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh — serves as a valuable tool for protecting the integrity of elections by allowing officials in about 30 states to compare their voter rolls in search of people who are double registered.
Critics, however, question the program’s value, saying poor data quality means there is far greater potential for mistakenly assuming people with the same name and birthdate to be the same person.
Related story: Kansans caught in crosscheck system singled out for Kobach’s voter fraud campaign
In his letter to the Justice Department, Kobach said the database serves to identify “potential duplicate registrations,” which can then be checked further.
His letter is a reply to the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, which in June contacted election officials in all 50 states seeking details about how they comply with the National Voter Registration Act.
Read Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s letter to the Justice Department.
The Justice Department made its request on June 28 — the same day that Kobach, as vice chairman of President Donald Trump’s commission on voter fraud, asked all states for voter roll data.
The Justice Department asked states to reply within 30 days, but the reply from Kobach’s office is dated Aug. 31.
Read the Justice Department letter regarding the National Voter Registration Act.
A Justice Department spokeswoman confirmed this week that Kansas’ letter has been received and is being reviewed. The spokeswoman declined to answer questions about the content of Kansas’ reply, the date of its submission and whether the Justice Department has received responses from all 50 states yet.
Kobach’s office declined to answer questions about the timing of the response and whether the office had sought an extension from the Justice Department.
Among the Justice Department’s questions to Kobach’s office, also obtained through an open records request, are requests for copies of policies and statutes related to removing names from the rolls when voters die or become ineligible because of a change of address. Kobach’s letter points the Justice Department to an online manual for Kansas elections.
The president’s commission on voter fraud, which includes Kobach as vice chairman, will meet Tuesday in New Hampshire.
Celia Llopis-Jepsen is a reporter for the Kansas News Service, a collaboration of KCUR, Kansas Public Radio and KMUW covering health, education and politics. You can reach her on Twitter @Celia_LJ.
Foster kids to enjoy Kansas State Fair today
DCF
TOPEKA – Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF) employees raised money throughout the months of July and August to ensure that children in foster care can enjoy a day at the Kansas State Fair. DCF West Region staff hosted a friendly competition against Wichita Region staff to raise funds that will provide carnival ride tickets to more than 850 children.
The West Region raised $2,480, and the Wichita Region raised $1,945. Together, DCF employees raised $4,425, an increase of more than $1,600 from last year’s fundraiser.
The $4,425 funds raised will be used to purchase tickets for fair attractions, which will be provided to youth in foster care and their families who attend the Saint Francis Community Services (SFCS)-sponsored Resource Parent Appreciation Day on Saturday, Sept. 9, at the fair.
Resource Parent Appreciation Day, a celebration and promotion of foster parents, has been sponsored by SFCS for the past five years. SFCS provides the participants with free admission to the fair and a free meal during the day.
“Saint Francis Community Services looks forward to the Resource Parent Appreciation Day at the State Fair, as it’s one way we can show our appreciation to the foster and kinship families caring for children in custody,” said Director of Foster Care Homes for SFCS Patrice Claasen. “We were so excited that DCF employees in the West and Wichita Regions participated in the fundraiser so that all the children could receive ride tickets. Children and youth will be delighted to receive this wonderful surprise.”
“I am proud of the West Region for working so hard to ensure a fun day for children in foster care across Kansas,” said DCF West Regional Director Pamela Beach. “It was also exciting to have the Wichita Region join our fundraiser this year, providing some friendly competition to help DCF staff raise more funds than ever.”
DCF’s Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (FBCI) will be on hand with SFCS at the Resource Parent Appreciation Day on Saturday, but they will also be present at the Kansas State Fair throughout the entire week promoting the need for foster families across the State of Kansas. Recently, DCF launched a recruitment campaign, Foster Kansas Kids, to raise awareness about the need for foster parents.
“The need for foster parents is great in Kansas, as well as across the nation, as there is a growing number of children who require a safe and secure environment outside of their own home,” said FBCI Director Peggy Mast. “We are excited to be out at the fair, because it not only allows us to interact with current foster parents at Resource Parent Appreciation Day, but it also gives us an opportunity to speak to people from across the state and educate them about the lack of foster homes in their own communities.”
To learn more about resources available to foster parents, visit fosterkskids.org.
🎥 Synergy Supplements opens in Hays as Zollinger brings coaching career ‘full circle’
By BECKY KISER
Hays Post
Bryan Zollinger is excited to be back in Hays after nearly 30 years and “bring his coaching career full circle.”
The 51-year-old got his start coaching 28 years ago as an assistant to Rick Keltner, the Hays High School boys basketball head coach.
Zollinger went on to Atwood High School where he was the head basketball coach and assistant football coach to Dan Lankas during a portion of Lankas’ 17 winning seasons with the Atwood Buffaloes. Later, Zollinger moved to the junior college ranks as both an assistant and head basketball coach. The last 10 of those years were at Seward County Community College in Liberal where Zollinger coached the SCCC Saints to five Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Western Division championships and two regional championships. During that time Zollinger coached six All-Americans and won nine Coach of the Year awards.
“After 23 seasons in the trenches of college coaching and becoming a father, I felt it was time to make some changes that were more conducive to raising my daughter,” Zollinger said. “It was creating a lot of stress in my life. I was torn between what I needed to do as a college coach and being home with my daughter. I didn’t think I was doing the right thing as a coach or as a single dad. Ultimately, I felt the right thing to do was choose family.”
Thus, the recent move back to Hays where his parents Joe and Euleta Zollinger and his sister Amy Wasinger live, and the decision to start a small local business.
His five-year-old daughter is in kindergarten at O’Loughlin Elementary School where Wasinger teaches third grade. “We moved up here from Liberal, the only home she’s known, to be around mom and dad and my sister and her family. It’s been wonderful,” he said with a smile. “I felt this was the best place to raise my daughter and to try to put down some roots and build something for my daughter’s future.”
Zollinger recently opened Synergy Supplements, 1702 Vine, which offers nutritional supplements of all kinds for all goals.
“My interest in starting this business was born out of my love for helping people reach their goals in sports,” he explained. “I’ve been studying exercise and nutritional supplementation for most of my adult life and this seemed like the best way to continue to pursue that passion, albeit in a somewhat different fashion.”
Zollinger’s interest in nutritional supplements began when he was a high school athlete to stay healthy and help improve his performance on the court. Since then, he says, “it grew into a passion. Whether people want to lose weight, get stronger, address a certain health concern or perform better in competition, we can help.”
A selection of bodybuilding products is also available at Synergy Supplements and Zollinger is offering essential oils at the request of customers. “I’m learning it’s a very popular thing.”
“The biggest portion of our store is aimed at general wellness, the health aspect,” Zollinger said. “Weight management, controlling cholesterol, men’s health, women’s health, all types of vitamins and minerals, antioxidants and different things to just keep you healthy.” If you can’t find what you want, Zollinger will order it from his distributors.
Product lines include Life Extension, Doctor’s Best, NOW, Bio Nutrition, Health from the Sun, Nature’s Alchemy, Mushroom Wisdom, Plus CBD, Nature’s Way, Terry Naturally, Optimum Nutrition, and BSN. According to Zollinger, most of the products are derived from foods and natural plants. Old ‘”folk remedies” are making a comeback, he says. “Cod liver oil is popular again.”
One of his most popular supplements is Curamin, an all natural, non-addictive supplement used to relieve pain, one of the best-selling products in the industry.
Zollinger encourages people to discuss their health history with him, including medical prescriptions and other supplements they take, in order to customize the supplements to each individual and to avoid interactions.
As a baby boomer himself, Zollinger is hyper-aware of the body’s changes as we age. “Women going through menopause, men with prostate problems, the immune system gets a little bit weaker and we can’t fight infections as well as when we were younger. There can be bladder problems and also problems with the thyroid. Sometimes it gets out of whack and that affects all the hormones in your body.”
Everybody has a flagging energy level occasionally. Zollinger says you don’t have to consume high doses of caffeine to become more alert. “There are things available now that increase your body’s natural energy production in different ways that don’t make you jittery or high-strung.”
There are also natural sleep remedies using milk peptides that are “much milder than prescription sleep aides and don’t give you that hangover effect the next morning.” he said. “They’ve isolated these compounds that you can take 20 to 30 minutes before you go to sleep. You get a better night’s sleep and don’t wake up feeling groggy.”
Most people spend money on products to make themselves look good on the outside. Zollinger is more concerned about the inside. He firmly believes vitamin and mineral supplements are an “investment in your health and your body,” he said. “If you’re not healthy and can’t enjoy your life, that affects everything else.”
After high school, Zollinger played college basketball at SCCC and Grand View College in Des Moines, Iowa. While attending Fort Hays State University in the late 1980s to finish his teaching certification, he played throughout Kansas on traveling teams.
And, Zollinger is still coaching. “It was also a blessing that when I got back to Hays I was contacted by Rick Keltner who let me know he had an opening on his staff if I was interested. I’m excited to be a part of this community again, and hopefully, to help HHS and Coach Keltner build on their tradition.”
Synergy Supplements is open Monday through Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. More information is available at www.synergysupplementsks.com and on Facebook or by calling 620-482-0536.
TMP tops Ellis
By JEREMY McGUIRE
Hays Post
TMP 49, Ellis 13
ELLIS, Kan.-TMP scored 28 unanswered points in the second and third quarters to help pace their way to a 49-13 win over Ellis on Friday night. The Railroaders struck first with 2:46 left in the first quarter when Joseph Eck found Ryan Herl from 34 yards out. Ellis held a 7-0 lead after the first quarter.
The second quarter belonged to TMP and more specifically belonged to Gavin Schumacher. The Monarch running back had second quarter touchdown runs of 32 yards, 2 yards and 43 yards to give the Monarchs a 21-7 lead at halftime. Chase Werth tacked on a third quarter touchdown which put TMP on top 28-7. Herl and Eck would connect for a 13 yard touchdown pass and closed the gap to 28-13 after the third quarter.
The Monarchs would put the game away in the fourth quarter with touchdown catches for Creighton Renz and Luke Ruder and a second touchdown run from Werth that closed the scoring on the 36 point TMP victory. Schumacher ran for 183 yards and three touchdowns to lead TMP. David McFarland cooled down a bit from a week ago but still managed 209 yards passing and two touchdowns. Bryce Younger paved the way for Ellis on the ground with 100 yards while Eck led the charge through the air with 86 yards passing.
With the loss Ellis drops to 1-1 on the year and will travel to Sublette on Friday. TMP improves to 1-1 on the season and will host Smith Center at Lewis Field Stadium on Friday.
JASON CAULEY INTERVIEW
GAME HIGHLIGHTS
High school football scoreboard week 2
Football Score Sheet Week 2 – September 8th
Western Athletic Conference
Great Bend 20 Hays 21
*Guymon OK. 3 Liberal 49
Mid-Continent League (11-Man)
Phillipsburg 23 Smith Center 13
TMP 49 Ellis 13
Plainville 10 Norton 40
Mid-Continent League (8-Man)
Stockton 18 Hill City 64
*South Gray 40 Trego 26
Central Prairie League (8-Man)
Central Plains 44 Ness City 20
Ellinwood 0 Otis-Bison 56
Macksville 12 Victoria 60
Northern Plains (8-Man)
St.Johns-Tipton 0 Osborne 48
Rock Hills 58 Lincoln 8
Northwest Kansas League (8-Man)
Decatur Com. 8 Dighton 53
Quinter 8 Greeley Co. 54
*Lakeside-Downs 0 Hoxie 46
Great West Activities Association
*La Crosse 7 Colby 49
*Holcomb 14 Scott City 23
Ulysses 13 Hugoton 14
North Central Activities Association
Beloit 22 Ellsworth 28
Sacred Heart 7 Russell 49
Minneapolis 54 Republic Co. 6
North Central Kansas League
Abilene 20 Marysville 43
*Wamego 13 Ottawa 28
Central Kansas League
*Hoisington 20 Wichita Collegiate 35
Smokey Valley 14 Larned 28
Pratt 49 Haven 8
Western Kansas Liberty League
Logan-Palco 70 Northern Valley 14
Ark Valley Chisholm Trail III
McPherson 0 Maize South 9
11-Man Games of note
Derby 20 Goddard 50
Frontenac 21 Galena 28
8-Man Games of note
Argonia-Attica 20 Caldwell 38
Spearville 64 Hodgeman Co. 34
Hays High beats Great Bend in overtime
Following a week one set back Hays looked to bounce back with a second straight home game as they took on Great Bend Friday night. It was the first game of the Western Athletic Conference season.
Neither team scored in the first half though each team did have an opportunity to do so. Hays took the opening possession 63 yards on 13 plays but lost the ball on downs at the Great Bend 27. The two teams traded punts then the Panthers went on a long drive. Great Bend went 15 plays, converting on two fourth downs, taking the ball down to the Indian ten before losing the ball on downs at the 17. Those two long drives between the Indians and Panthers totaled 17:29 of the 24 first half minutes.
Hightlights
Hays struck first in the third quarter when Hunter Brown hits Keaton Markley on 4th and 13 for a 28 yard touchdown pass to take a 7-0 lead. Great Bend answered right back scoring on the first play of the 4th quarter to tie the game 7-7. Hays took the ensuing possession 80 yards over 12 plays to grab a 14-7 lead with 6:31 remaining.
Great Bend turned the ball over for a second time on the next possession setting up Hays on the Panther 34 yard line. Hays thought lost 15 yards on a penalty then threw an interception on second down.
Great Bend drove the field to tie the score at 14 with 1:55 remaining. The Indians could not do anything with their next possession and Great Bend took over at the 33 yard line. The defense held forcing a 43 yard field goal which missed wide left.
Great Bend scored on the opening possession of overtime but missed the extra point when the snap bounced to the holder leaving the score at 20-14. Hunter Brown kept the ball on each of the three runs that led to a three yard touchdown run to tie the game at 20. Following a timeout from the Panthers Trey VanPelt sent back a perfect snap to Hunter Brown and Logan Clark nailed the game winning kick for a 21-20 victory.
Coach Randall Rath
Brown carried the ball 23 times for 115 yards and two touchdowns. The Panther’s Gage Fritz ran 24 times for 101 yards.
Hays is 1-1 and 1-0 in the WAC. Great Bend falls to 1-1 and 0-1.
Hays is on the road in Liberal next week.
Kan. high school student tased, jailed after altercation
SEDGWICK COUTY— Law enforcement authorities are investigating a student after an altercation at a Kansas high school.
Just after 1p.m. Friday The School Resource Officer (SRO) at Northwest High School radioed for immediate assistance after a 16 year old student caused a disturbance inside of the school and was punching walls and lockers, according to Wichita Police Officer Charley Davidson
The SRO and two Board of Education (BOE) security officers contacted they boy and he was uncooperative.
He pushed a BOE officer. The officers attempted to take him into custody and he resisted. A Sedgwick County Deputy was also in the school and assisted with the situation by deploying a Taser as the 3 officers were having difficulty with the student.
Officers took the student into custody and transported him to an area hospital for treatment of minor injuries. He was booked into the juvenile detention facility for battery of a school official and resist arrest. No officers were injured.
NW Kansas woman hospitalized after SUV rolls on I-70
GOVE COUNTY — A Kansas woman was injured in an accident just before 4p.m. Friday in Gove County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2003 Mercury Mountaineer driven by Destiny L. Sowers, 21, Oakley, was westbound on Interstate 70 just west of the U.S. 40 Junction.
The driver lost control of the vehicle when the trailer attached to the SUV began to fishtail.
The trailer separated from vehicle and it rolled into median. The trailer traveled west bound across the east bound lanes of the Interstate and came to rest in the east ditch.
Sowers was transported to Logan County Hospital. She was properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.