CLAY CENTER, Kan. – The TMP-Marian girls’ golf team took fifh place at the Clay Center Invitational with a team score of 216. Concordia won with 202, Salina Central was second at 203 and Wamego 3rd at 212.
Individually, Shannen Chin took first place with a new nine-hole school record score of 37. The previous low score was shot by Karee Dinkel at Russell in 2016. Ellie Cobb of Salina Central was second with 38.
Other TMP scores were Haleigh Spray 55, Abby Heimerman 59 and Katy Walters 65.
Next tourney for the Monarchs is the TMP Invitational at Smoky Hill CC on Monday October 2.
TEAM
1. Concordia 202
2. Salina Central 203
3. Wamego 212
4. Council Grove 213
5. TMP-Marian 216
6. Manhattan JV 236
7. Rossville 237
8. Clay Center 244
TOP 10 INDIVIDUALS
1. Shannen Chin, TMP, 37
2. Ellie Cobb, Salina Central, 38
3. Abby Donovan, Concordia, 42
4. Sydney Callaway, Clay Center, 43
5. Katy Donovan, Concordia, 50
6. AJ Ryan, Manhattan, 51
7. Samantha Wick, Wamego, 51
8. Kathleen Schuler, Rossville, 52
9. Makenzie Downes, Council Grove, 52
10. Lauren Trecek, Concordia, 52
GEARY COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating three suspects on drug and theft charges.
Just after 11:30p.m. Wednesday police stopped a vehicle on Interstate 70 at J Hill Road. Deputies arrested
Todd Lubbers, Hamilton, Ohio, on suspicion of Possession of Stolen Property, Possession of Marijuana and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.
Todd Lubbers
They also arrested Chelsea Chamberlin, Hamilton, Ohio and Elizabeth Swetland, Port Richey Florida on suspicion of Possession of Marijuana and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.
HAYS, Kan.-The Hays High Lady Indian volleyball team went 2-1 in their home quad on Thursday. The Lady Indians won their first match of the day over Salina South in straight sets 25-17, 25-20. Tasiah Nunnery led the charge with eight kills, Hannah McGuire 17 assists, Kallie Leiker 15 digs and Jaycee Dale with seven block assists.
The Lady Indians faced Abilene in the second match, losing in three sets 11-25, 25-20, 17-25. Nunnery led again with nine kills and Savannah Schneider had eight. McGuire chipped in with 17 assists while Leiker had 18 digs and Dale six block assists.
Hays High finished the day with a sweep of Norton winning 25-17, 25-11. Nunnery had eight kills and six digs with McGuire added 12 assists. Hays High improves to 12-5 on the season and will play in Great Bend on Saturday.
SALINE COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect on felony theft charges.
In mid-August, the relative on an elderly woman in a Lindsborg nursing home contacted police about another family member was using his grandmother’s financial card without permission, according to Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester.
The relative was responsible with assisting the woman with finances.
An investigation revealed that 26-year-old Derrick Ellis of Salina used the card between May 5 and August 8 to purchase food, phone services, Hulu and to make cash withdrawals. Capt. Forrester said that the total loss was around $2,000, according to Forrester.
Ellis told police that he had permission to use the card and access to the personal identification number.
On Thursday, Police arrested Ellis and booked him into the Saline County Jail for forgery, 46 counts of criminal use of a financial card, 44 counts of theft by deception, felony theft and four counts of unlawful acts on a computer.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A fifth suspect has been charged in a triple homicide in Topeka on the same day that three others were ordered to stand trial.
Liles-photo Shawnee Co.
Kora Liles, 31, Topeka, was charged Wednesday with two first-degree murder counts. A preliminary hearing also ended with Brian Flowers, Joseph Lowry and Shane Mays being bound over for trial.
A police detective testified at the hearing that 19-year-old Matthew Leavitt, 38-year-old Nicole Fisher, and 20-year-old Luke Davis were strangled or smothered to death with trash bags in March. Deutsch says the violence stemmed from a rape allegation.
The defense argued that Mays was forced to participate to save his life. He, Flowers and Liles are charged in Fisher and Leavitt’s death. Lowry and a fifth person are charged in all three deaths. Police arrested Liles Sunday.
She is being held on a $1,000,000 bond, according to the Shawnee County Detention Center.
DOVER, Kan. (AP) — Girl Scouts of northeast Kansas and northwest Missouri have announced plans to close one of its camps.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that programming and activities at Camp Daisy Hindman will cease Nov. 30 in Shawnee County.
Girl Scouts CEO Joy Wheeler says the decision was based on a steady decline in the resident camp program and operating at a loss of nearly $200,000.
The camp has been renovated several times in the past five years, including upgrades to its water and electrical infrastructure. The program also installed new cabins, a natural playground and a spray park.
A Facebook post by Sophie Devanney says she “found a home at Camp Daisy Hindman this summer.” She says she’s upset to hear about the closure but will “cherish every memory” she has.
UPDATE AT 5:15 P.M.–Tonight’s (Sept. 28) Hays City Commission meeting has been canceled due to the lack of a quorum.
By BECKY KISER Hays Post
Several city parks in Hays may soon have more sidewalks.
Parks Director Jeff Boyle will present the proposed additions in Frontier Park, Hickok Park, Ekey Park, and a short section of Indian Trail during tonight’s Hays city commission meeting.
Other agenda items include proposed changes to the Hays Unified Development Code (UDC) to minimize certain commercial and industrial rear and side yard setbacks, and to allow construction of breezeways.
Commissioners will also be asked to approve large lot developments in a portion of the Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ). A proposed policy would allow such developments in a 35-mile square area of the outer edges of the 3-mile area outside the Hays city limits.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Four of six members of Kansas’ congressional delegation are supporting a proposed federal tax code being developed by House and Senate Republicans.
U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, and Reps. Lynn Jenkins, Roger Marshall and Ron Estes all said Wednesday they support legislation that would reduce the corporate income tax rate from 35 to 20 percent. It also would reduce the top individual income tax rate from 39 percent to 35 percent.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports none of the four members’ statements on tax legislation discussed how the tax bill would affect the federal deficit.
Roberts said there is widespread bipartisan agreement on the need for tax reform and Congress should work together to take action on some most Americans support.
Ellis Co. Rural Fire puts down water on a fire March 7 near Catherine as the ground to the east is disked by a tractor to form a fire break.
KDA
MANHATTAN — The Kansas Department of Agriculture announced that the State Conservation Commission has approved the creation of the Kansas Wildfire Cost Share Initiative which will provide funding in the amount of $200,000 for specific recovery expenses following recent wildfires in Kansas. The commission approved the action in September to work with local Conservation Districts in supporting the recovery efforts.
Funds from the initiative are to be targeted at livestock water supplies, cross fencing, grass seeding, windbreaks and obstruction removal in the areas affected by the March 2017 Kansas wildfires as well as the Anderson Creek wildfire in 2016.
Eligible areas for the initiative are in the following counties: Barber, Clark, Comanche, Ellis, Ellsworth, Ford, Hodgeman, Lane, Lincoln, McPherson, Meade, Ness, Reno, Rice, Rooks, Russell, Seward and Smith. Cost share assistance will be provided by the KDA Division of Conservation (DOC) through local county Conservation Districts.
Landowners in the eligible counties are urged to contact their local county Conservation District to apply for the Kansas Wildfire Cost Share Initiative. Applications can be submitted through Oct. 31, 2017. County Conservation District contact information can be found at agriculture.ks.gov/ConservationDistricts.
This cost-share assistance is one way KDA is supporting the recovery from the destruction caused by wildfires in recent years. KDA is committed to serving all Kansas farmers and ranchers and encouraging economic growth of the agriculture industry, which is the state’s largest economic driver, while protecting natural resources.
Questions regarding the Kansas Wildfire Cost Share Initiative may be directed to KDA DOC water quality program manager David Jones at [email protected] or 785-564-6623.
The HaysMed Birthing Center will host Remembering Together Remembrance Walk on Sunday, October 15th.
Participants are asked to meet in Hadley Room 3 at HaysMed at 2:00 pm. The group will be walking on the fitness trail so please dress for appropriate weather conditions.
This special service is for anyone who has experienced a loss through miscarriage, stillbirth or infant loss.
Russell D. Strohm, age 64, passed away on Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at his home in Scott City, Kansas. He was born on June 8, 1953 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, the son of Robert H. And Mary Ann Keeling Strohm. A resident of Scott City, Kansas since 2013 moving from Evanston, Wyoming, he was an Oil Refinery Operator.
Survivors Include:
Father Robert H. Strohm of Scott City, Kansas
One Brother Steven J. Strohm of Redondo Beach, California
One Sister Dallas A. Crist of Garden City, Kansas
Two Nephews Solomon R. & Laramee Crist of Garden City, Kansas
Elijah D. & Tara Crist of Hutchinson, Kansas
On Niece Jessica K. & Roger Wadel of Holcomb, Kansas
Five Cousins John C. Keeling of Brighton, Colorado
Jay L. Keeling of Baker Florida
Jeffrey Drake of Tonsaket, Washington
Kelsie J. Percival of Garden City, Kansas
Susan Duff of Scott City, Kansas
He was preceded in death by his Mother.
Memorial Services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, November 4, 2017 at Price & Sons Funeral Home in Scott City, Kansas with Jeff Crist presiding.
Memorials Russell D. Strohm Memorial Fund
% of Price & Son Funeral Home in Scott City, Kansas
Recently you might have been intrigued by the announcement of a new “state of the art protein processing plant” in northeast Kansas. That’s what the governor called it in his social media message.
Dr. Mark Peterson
You also may have noticed some nifty new public service TV ads from the Kansas Department of Commerce urging business inclined viewers to “return to Kansas.” Among the companies featured in the television spots are Tallgrass Brewing in Manhattan and Dessin-Fournir Companies in Plainville. I’ve also seen Garmin Industries, Spirit Aerospace, Black and Veatch and Security Benefit Group. Tallgrass is the only ‘blue-collar’ operation among the six, and the nearest thing to an agri-business in the group.
But, a protein processing plant – a PPP—that could be something really new under the Sun, right? This was just what Governor Brownback has been telling everyone Kansas was going to see happen as the state became a paradise of low taxes and business friendly attitudes under his administration.
A PPP is a physically imposing, not notably high tech, not high-paying, definitely environmentally questionable Tyson Foods poultry (oops! protein) processing plant that almost located in Tonganoxie. For those not familiar, in early September a public proposal came before the Leavenworth County Commission to issue industrial revenue bonds and approve other economic development concessions so that a $320 million dollar Tyson Foods poultry processing operation could be built near Tonganoxie, a bedroom community 30 miles west of Kansas City. This was big: 1600 jobs at the processing facility and hundreds of growing facilities within a 50 mile radius of the plant producing 1.25 million chickens per week to supply the plant. Combined payroll and supply expenditures would pump $150 million annually into the region.
The local residents, landowners, some farmers and others with environmental concerns volubly and emphatically expressed opposition to the deal quietly fast-tracked as “Project Sunset.” The Leavenworth Commission declined to approve Project Sunset in light of the protests. Tyson announced disappointment and began to look elsewhere – probably Nebraska — to site their plant.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports meatpacking in Kansas pays around $13.00 per hour — about $29,000 per year. Large numbers of non-Tyson employees engaged in feeding at the front-end or cleaning up at the back would undoubtedly be making less. While these may be good jobs for people with limited training, current unemployment rates (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) of 5.9% in Wyandotte and 4.3% in Leavenworth counties do not suggest a huge pool of unemployed labor lining up at Tyson’s gate – especially if the president’s “big, beautiful wall” becomes a real thing. Attracting new labor would require many new inexpensive housing units –for a bedroom community with median home values in the low $200,000 range? Commuters from the KC metro area would have added congestion, pollution and lots of stress on local transportation infrastructure. This project might have penciled out handsomely for Tyson, but for the target community and those surrounding? Not so much.
No doubt Kansas needs to grow. The biggest problems of the last 100 years for Kansas have involved dwindling rural populations and unimpressive economic growth. Our economy is slow and lackluster because it hasn’t captured many high value-added, high wage enterprises since the aviation industry petered out. While a new PPP benefits the shareholders of Tyson, it does little good for the community it will come to dominate. Governments offering low taxes and other concessions to projects like Tyson may create impressive numbers on corporate ledgers, but the pollution, congestion, population and infrastructure growth impacts tear up the local fabric of life creating costs that are nearly certain to erase the benefits.
Dr. Mark Peterson teaches political science at the college level in Topeka.
Dante Blackmon, Erin Muirhead, London Keller, Trinity Callis, Allen Zollinger, Lisa Schoenberger, Hunter Brown, Hannah Donaldson, Kyler Voss, and Macey Steckel are homecoming candidates for Hays High School. (Photo courtesy Bill Gasper)
By BECKY KISER Hays Post
The Hays High School Homecoming 2017 candidates have been announced.
They are: Dante Blackmon, Erin Muirhead, London Keller, Trinity Callis, Allen Zollinger, Lisa Schoenberger, Hunter Brown, Hannah Donaldson, Kyler Voss, and Macey Steckel.
A full week of activities for homecoming is planned.
The bonfire is scheduled for Thu., Oct. 12 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday evening kicks off with the parade at 5 p.m. through downtown Hays followed by the football game where the Hays High Indians take on the McPherson Bullpups.
The homecoming dance is the next evening, Sat. Oct. 14, in HHS Gym B with the theme “Haunted Homecoming” selected by Student Council.
