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Month: October 2017
HaysMed recognizes second quarter patient satisfaction award winners
The Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Cath Lab, Food Services and Western Kansas Urology clinic were recently named the patient satisfaction award winners for the second quarter of 2017 at HaysMed.
Each quarter HaysMed recognizes the patient satisfaction award winners based on results from CAHPS (Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) surveys administrated by HealthStream. HealthStream is the research firm HaysMed contracts with to conduct the government required Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) hospital surveys on patient experience. The CAHPS survey is the first national, standardized, publicly reported survey of patients’ perspectives of hospital care. The CAHPS Hospital Survey is a survey instrument and data collection methodology for measuring patients’ perceptions of their hospital experience. Four areas are recognized every quarter including an inpatient department, an outpatient department, a clinic and a non-clinical area.
The inpatient ICU Department was recognized for having the most improvements in the responsiveness of hospital staff with a score of 100%. The ICU is a 12 bed unit and they have 20 full time Associates.
The Cath Lab, an outpatient department, received a score of 88.5% in the overall rating of care which correlates to responsiveness of staff. The unit has 10 full time staff members and performs approximately 1300 procedures a year.
Garnering the clinic award was the Western Kansas Urology Clinic. They scored 86.4% in follow up with test results which is directly related to responsiveness. The Urology Clinic has 15 staff members, three physicians and one nurse practitioner. They have 8 outreach clinics and have 9000 office visits a year.
Food Services received the Customer Service Award for their responsiveness in timing of food deliveries, ensuring pantries have supplies of after hour patient needs, and keeping on top of patients, Associates and guests food needs. The department consists of 38 Associates and they serve 800-1000 patients, guests and Associates a day. They cook and assemble 700 Meals on Wheels per month, serve 4000 meals in the doctor’s lounge per month and host 300 catering and office events a month.
Each area honored displays a patient satisfaction award winner banner in their department.
Partly cloudy, windy Saturday
Today
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 10am. Areas of dense fog before 11am. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 74. Breezy, with a southeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming northwest 17 to 22 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 33 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with a low around 38. Very windy, with a north northwest wind 23 to 33 mph decreasing to 13 to 23 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 46 mph.
Sunday
Sunny, with a high near 64. West wind 7 to 10 mph.
Sunday Night
Clear, with a low around 39. West southwest wind around 6 mph.
Monday
Sunny, with a high near 72. South southwest wind 6 to 14 mph.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 43.
Tuesday
Sunny, with a high near 75.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 47.
Wednesday
Sunny, with a high near 75.
For Kan. Foster Care Task Force, Report Of Missing Children Latest Concern
By MADELINE FOX
FILE PHOTO / KANSAS NEWS SERVICE
The news that about 70 children are missing from the Kansas foster care system is the latest in a string of concerns for lawmakers and child welfare advocates.
Concern for the safety of children, heavy caseloads for social workers and a lack of coordination in the system prompted lawmakers earlier this year to form the Child Welfare Task Force, which heard about the missing children during a meeting Tuesday in Topeka.
The foster care system, overseen by the Kansas Department for Children and Families, was privatized 20 years ago after it failed court-ordered reviews. Care is now overseen by two contractors: St. Francis Community Services in western Kansas, and KVC Health Systems in eastern Kansas.
Missing kids
The task force raised concerns Tuesday about missing children in response to a Kansas City Star article about three sisters who have been missing from their foster home in Tonganoxie since late August.
The girls, all under age 16, were part of KVC’s caseload, and are among 37 children the contractor said were missing as of Wednesday. The Star heard about their disappearance from their foster parent and great aunt, Debbie Miller, who hasn’t seen sisters Emily, Aimee and Christin Utter since Aug. 26.
State Sen. Laura Kelly, a Topeka Democrat, said it was “very concerning” that the Tonganoxie sisters had been missing for almost two months. But Kelly said she was more alarmed that DCF Secretary Phyllis Gilmore hadn’t heard about the girls when Kelly brought it to her attention Tuesday.
“She’s responsible for these kids,” Kelly said. “They are wards of the state, and she’s in charge of that agency. So the fact that she knew nothing about these missing girls is of great concern to me.”
In a Wednesday interview, House Minority Leader Jim Ward expressed exasperation with the Kansas foster care system and its issues, some of which have led to child endangerment and even the deaths of children in care.
“If this was a single event, I would be more willing to listen,” Ward said. “But this is on top of last (month’s) revelation that some foster care kids were sleeping in offices … this is just absolutely unconscionable.”
Ward went even further, reiterating past calls for Gilmore to be removed as head of DCF.
“I’ve been calling for her to be gone for two years, and renew that call today,” he said.
The number of missing Kansas foster care children represents about 1 percent of those in the state’s system.
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Jenny Kutz, KVC communications director, said kids who go missing from its care are found within two weeks on average, with many returned to their care within days. However, one teenager has been missing for more than two years.
Janis Friesen, a communications consultant for St. Francis, did not specify how long children in its care are missing, but she noted that teens reported missing are located quickly “in many instances.” She said children ages 12 and older make up 92 percent of the kids missing statewide.
DCF issued a news release Wednesday outlining its protocol for missing and runaway foster children.
According to DCF protocol, contractors are required to notify the department and appropriate law enforcement agency of a missing child within two hours. By the next workday, the contractor has to communicate what they know about the incident to DCF.
“We made the decision to highlight the protocol for handling situations involving runaways and missing children because of questions that arose during the final minutes of the Child Welfare System Task Force meeting on Tuesday,” Gilmore said in the release. “We want to assure the public that protocols are in place, and have been for many years, to ensure that when children run away from their foster care placement, every effort is made to locate them and return them to a safe and appropriate foster care home or facility.”
Serena Hawkins, a guardian ad litem and task force member, said children often run back to their previous home.
“A lot of the time these children have returned to their biological families, and they are being sheltered by these families to prevent them from being removed from DCF again,” she told task force members.
However, running away to return to families is still cause for concern, as 61 percent of the kids removed from their homes in fiscal year 2016 were removed because of abuse or neglect, ranging from physical and sexual abuse to a lack of supervision or abandonment. An additional 16 percent were removed due to a parent’s substance abuse.
More kids coming into the system
State officials say the problems in the foster care system are not unique to Kansas.
The number of children in foster care nationwide increased every year from 2012 to 2015, the last year for which national data is available. Thirty-five states, including Kansas, saw an increase in the number of children in their foster care systems during that period.
Kansas lawmakers are not sure why the number of kids in the system is increasing, but several noted the national opioid epidemic could be one factor, as children are removed from the care of opioid-addicted parents.
The climbing numbers are adding stress to the Kansas system, which has not been able to add enough new foster families to keep up.
One consequence of this increase has been made visible in the couches and makeshift beds set up in contractors’ offices.
At last month’s task force meeting, lawmakers learned more than 100 children in the foster care system had to spend the night in offices instead of homes in the last year when other facilities were not available to immediately take them.
This happens all over the country, Kutz said, and has been a growing problem in Kansas as the state has seen a steady increase in the number of kids in care in recent years. She said KVC sees an average of five kids sleeping in offices each month, with a high of 15 in June. In 19 instances this year, kids have spent multiple nights in offices.
In response, KVC is opening short-term children’s crisis centers to provide temporary beds for kids who would otherwise be stuck in offices. Kutz said KVC opened beds in Hays and plans to open a crisis center with up to 20 beds in Kansas City, Kansas, in January. KVC is considering a third center in Wichita.
Friesen did not say how many children St. Francis had staying in its offices this year, but she did say the placement process can be prolonged for older youth with behavioral issues, many of whom then spend the night in the contractor’s offices. She said St. Francis is seeing an increase in harder-to-place children.
Next steps
The task force, which has met three times, is examining issues with the foster care system more broadly, looking at how DCF oversees foster care, integration and adoption. Rep. Linda Gallagher, a Lenexa Republican, said she expects the issue of missing kids to come up again, along with worker caseloads and other consequences of increased numbers of kids.
The task force will meet twice more before putting out its preliminary findings in January 2018. Its final recommendations will be issued a year later.
“My intent and my hope is that the task force will identify where the problems are, where the balls are being dropped, and where children are falling through the cracks,” Gallagher said.
Madeline Fox is a reporter for the Kansas News Service. You can reach her on Twitter @maddycfox.
Bunker Hill Cafe to close after 43 years
By CRISTINA JANNEY
Hays Post
BUNKER HILL — Eating at the Bunker Hill Cafe isn’t like having a burger and Coke in plastic seats off the interstate. When you come to the cafe, you are taking a seat at Tom and Janet Taggart’s family table, from the hand-breaded catfish to filet mignon sourced off the Kansas prairie.
Tom and Janet Taggart will close the iconic Bunker Hill Cafe on Nov. 4 after more than 43 years in business.
The cafe has been recognized multiple times in national publications. This has included “Roadfood and Goodfood,” which has been through multiple printings since 1986. On occasion, travelers stop in the cafe, eat and ask Tom to autograph copies of the book.
The cafe has been featured in the “Kansas Guidebook for Explorers,” by Merci Penner as well as “Off the Beaten Path: A Travel Guide to More Than 1,000 Scenic and Interesting Places Still Uncrowded and Inviting.”
The Taggarts’ daughter, Lacy, has helped the couple make a splash on social media, which has helped the out-of-the-way cafe connect with locals as well as travelers.
When asked what is the secret of the cafe’s food, Janet point to her husband saying, “The secret to the food is right here. The same guy cooks your food every time you come.”
Tom added it is the consistency of the product.
The cafe has much of what you might think you would find on a traditional Midwest cafe menu, including twice-baked potatoes, homemade sides, homemade dressings, chicken and steaks.
One of Tom’s specialities is catfish, which he said has always fascinated him because of its conversion to protein. The breading is Tom’s own special recipe as is the fish sauce.
Through its history, the cafe has made forays into other dishes, including quail, bison and elk steaks, but Tom said the traditional tried and true offerings remain the best sellers.
When you eat at the Bunker Hill Cafe, you definitely are going to get a bite of Kansas. Tom sources locally when he can.
The antibiotic-free beef comes from Creekstone Farms in Arkansas City, which Tom touts as being some of the best beef around. It is cut by a local butcher in Wilson. Organic flour for the cafe’s homemade honey raisin bread comes from Heartland Mills in Marienthal. Honey comes Labertew Apiaries in Sylvan Grove.
Tomatoes, which are grown locally, only appear at the cafe in the summer when they are in season. Occasionally during the summer, the cafe can get fresh greens from local residents, but it is hard for local gardeners to keep up with demand, Tom said.
“Are you hungry yet?” Janet joked.
Tom Taggart bought the limestone storefront at Sixth and Elm streets four decades ago because he loved the old stone building and thought it would be well-suited for a cafe. Janet said she just happened to fall in love with a guy who owned a cafe, and so their fledging business and family began.
The cafe building was constructed in 1916. It was originally a drug store with a soda foundation. The druggist lived upstairs. Some of the old wooden cabinets from the original drug store are still in use in the dinning hall of the cafe today. The building also at one time had a dentist and doctor’s office on the second floor and was a pool hall before Tom purchased the building in the ’70s.
“We thought if we had good food, we would do all right,” Tom said. “We didn’t realize how much work it was going to be, but we have maintained our quality over all these years. People appreciate it, so we have been here 43 years now.
“We’re tired. We are ready to call it quits,” he said.
When the Taggarts opened the Bunker Hill Cafe, Bunker Hill, which is located just off of Interstate 70, 37 miles east of Hays, was a thriving community. Today the only two businesses left on the town’s main drag are the cafe and the Smoky Hill Public Television building across the street. As of the 2010 census, there were 95 people living in Bunker Hill.
Much of the cafe’s floor-to-ceiling decorations suggest western Kansas prairies landscape and culture with taxidermied birds that Tom shot himself flying above diners, a bison head from a local ranch (which sometimes frightens children), elk, deer antlers, turkey feathers in full fan, and prints and photographs of other local wildlife.
Also adorning the front lawn of the cafe and other nooks and crannies inside are metal junk sculptures of a fish, dinosaur and hunting dog, created by Johnny Scott, who is from Bunker Hill.
The Taggarts said the best memories they have of the cafe are all the people who they have worked with over the years and all the people who they have fed.
“I think most of my favorite memories involve the people I have gotten to know, and a lot of them have been longtime customers. We have gotten to know them, their children and now their grandchildren. I think that is the thing I will miss the most. We’ve gotten to know a lot of really nice people here.”
People have eaten at the restaurant from both coasts. They have a priest from Boston who likes to stop in when he is in the area and eat a filet with fried rice. A couple of weekends ago, the cafe had a couple from New York who stopped at the cafe for dinner. The couple was on a coast-to-coast trip and had read about the cafe in “Roadfood and Goodfood.”
The cafe crew has as been a family.
Joyce Scott, who works at the cafe, has been with the business for 38 years. The Taggarts’ daughter, Lacy Hammack, is a teacher in Russell and works at the cafe on the weekends. Her daughter, Caitlyn, also worked at the cafe before she headed off to her first year at Wichita State this year.
Employees and the family all eat together when they are done with work in the evening.
Lacy said the cafe has been her second home. The Taggarts started bringing Lacy to the cafe when she was a baby. In kindergarten, the bus picked her up at the cafe.
“Some of my first memories were sitting on a chair in the back while Mom and Dad were working,” she said. “It was just part of my life, you know? All the people who worked here became family, and I had a bunch of moms here.
“It’s been a good thing to grow up here,” she said. “I’ve seen my parents work really hard and build this business. They taught me to work hard.”
Lacy started working out front bussing tables in her early teens and later as hostess and waitress. When she got back from college, she started working at the cafe again and continues to help her parents when they need her.
“I just love it. Just like they said, the people who come in and have been coming in for years and years, I have gotten to know them too. This is the only place I see a lot of those people. It is kind of fun. It doesn’t feel like it’s coming to a job. It’s just a good place to be.”
Many people have asked Lacy if she was going to take the cafe over, but Lacy, who teaches first-grade, said she has a passion for teaching and couldn’t imagine doing anything else.
Although Janet and Tom said closing the cafe has been a hard decision, Janet said she was happy her daughter has followed her dream to be a teacher, a dream she had since she was a little girl.
The Taggarts have been trying to find a buyer for the cafe, but have not been in luck yet. Tom said it is hard to find someone who is willing to put the work in to run a mom-and-pop store like the cafe anymore.
“It’s one business that fails 80 percent of the time, and there a few noticeable exceptions, and we’ve been one,” Tom said and broke into a smile.
When the cafe closes on Nov. 4, Tom said he thought they will be missed by local residents.
Janet said, “Main Street will be quieter in the evenings.”
Janet and Tom said they have no big plans for retirement but look forward to having Friday and Saturday nights off for the first time in four decades. Tom said he looked forward to going to his grandkids games.
Since the Taggarts announced the cafe’s closing, they have kept a journal, which friends and customers can sign and recount memories. Janet said she looks forward to reading it after the last meals are served.
“It’s been fun since we made public the fact that we were gonna close,” Janet said. “We have heard from so many people, and many of them are making an attempt to get here before we close.”
The cafe will be open 5 to 9 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through Saturday, Nov 4. The cafe accepts walk-ins or reservations. If you would like to make a reservation or are interested in buying the cafe, call the cafe at 785-483-6544. You can also connect with the cafe through Facebook.
Tigers prepare for Saturday’s showdown with Ichabods
Fort Hays State hosts Washburn on Saturday at Lewis Field Stadium in Hays. Kickoff is set for 2 pm in the annual Hall of Fame Game. The Tigers enter the game ranked No. 8 in the nation with a 6-0 record, while Washburn is one game back in the MIAA standings at 5-1.
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The Ichabods are receiving votes in the latest AFCA rankings, but hold the No. 22 mark in the latest D2Football.com Poll. Washburn’s only loss this year is to top-ranked Northwest Missouri State by a score of 20-14. Washburn defeated Missouri Southern last week by a score of 49-21.
The Tigers are coming off a 21-17 Homecoming win over Pittsburg State last week. Down 17-0 to open the game, FHSU rallied for 21 unanswered points to remain undefeated and tied for first place in the MIAA with Northwest Missouri State. The Tigers look for a second consecutive win over Washburn in Hays (won 35-30 in 2015). However, Washburn holds a 9-2 edge in the series since FHSU joined the MIAA in 2006. The Ichabods won last year’s meeting in Topeka 30-24. Washburn leads the all-time series 44-24-3.
Kenneth Iheme has been a workhorse for the Tigers over the past two weeks. In the 38-35 win at Lindenwood, he had 174 rushing yards and 58 receiving yards for a career-high 232 all-purpose yards. Last week, he rushed for 189 yards in the win over Pittsburg State to earn MIAA Offensive Athlete of the Week honors. Iheme leads the MIAA in touchdowns with nine (eight rushing, one receiving), while averaging 111 rushing yards and 146.5 all-purpose yards per game.
Quarterback Jacob Mezera is completing 68 percent of his passes this season for 1,414 yards and 12 touchdowns. He is 33 passing yards away from 4,000 in his career, looking to become the sixth Tiger quarterback in history to reach that mark. Monterio Burchfield has 517 receiving yards this year, averaging 20.7 yards per catch with six touchdowns. Defensively, Jose Delgado averages 10.4 tackles per game to rank 20th in the nation.
Fort Hays State is allowing just 16 points per game, which ranks 17th in the nation. The Tigers have held three opponents under 10 points this season. Fort Hays State is averaging 34 points per game. On the flip side, Washburn looks very similar, averaging 35.8 points per game while giving up 18.7 per game.
The Tigers will be looking to match the best start in school history on Saturday. The 1917 team went 7-0 for its entire season.
Kansas woman ejected in jeep rollover accident
SMITH COUNTY— A Kansas woman was injured in an accident just after 6p.m. Friday in Smith County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2002 Jeep Cherokee driven by Lucinda M. Johnson, 62, Smith Center, Vehicle was southbound on U.S. 281 eleven miles south of U.S. 36.
The jeep left the roadway and entered the west ditch. The driver lost control of the jeep. It rolled and the driver was ejected.
Johnson was transported to the Smith County Hospital. She was properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.
Medicare open enrollment begins October 15
KDADS
TOPEKA – The open enrollment period for Medicare coverage in 2018 begins October 15, 2017, and runs through December 7, 2017.
“Older adults can sign up for Medicare for the first time during this period, and current Medicare consumers can make changes to several aspects of their coverage as well,” said Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) Secretary Tim Keck. “If you’re already enrolled, this is an opportunity to review your coverage and make adjustments if necessary so it better meets your needs.”
“Earlier this year, CMS announced new policies that support increased flexibility of benefit, allowing Medicare Advantage plans to offer innovative plans that fit the needs of people with Medicare,” Secretary Keck said. “More affordable choices through this patient-centered approach to health care lead to greater health security for those who need it most.”
During open enrollment, those currently enrolled may:
· Switch from original Medicare to Medicare Advantage, or vice versa;
· Switch from one Medicare Advantage plan to another or from one Medicare Part D prescription drug plan to another;
· And if you didn’t enroll in a Medicare Part D plan when you were first eligible, you can do so during open enrollment, although a late enrollment penalty may apply.
If you want to enroll in a Medicare Advantage plan, you must meet some basic criteria:
· You must be enrolled in Medicare Part A and B
· You must live in the plan’s service area
· You cannot have end-stage renal disease (some exceptions apply)
The federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) estimates that the Medicare Advantage average monthly premium will decrease by $1.91 (about 6 percent) in 2018, from an average of $31.91 in 2017 to $30. More than three-fourths (77 percent) of Medicare Advantage enrollees remaining in their current plan will have the same or lower premium for 2018.
If you’re already enrolled in a Medicare Part D prescription plan or a Medicare Advantage Plan and you don’t want to make changes to your coverage for 2018, you don’t need to do anything during open enrollment, assuming your current plan will still be available in 2018. If your plan is being discontinued and isn’t eligible for renewal, you will receive a non-renewal notice from your carrier prior to open enrollment. If you don’t, it means you can keep your plan without doing anything during open enrollment.
Be aware that benefits and premiums could be changing for 2018. So even if you’re confident you want to keep your current coverage for the coming year, it’s important to understand any changes that may apply and check to make sure your current plan is still the best available option. The available plans and what they cover changes from one year to the next, so even if the plan you have now was the best option when you shopped last year, it’s important to verify that again before you lock yourself in for another year.
Between January 1 and February 14 each year, those enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan can leave that plan and return to original Medicare. If you leave your plan, you will have until February 14 to enroll in a Part D plan that will begin the first day of the following month that you enroll.
Changes to be aware of for 2018 include:
• 46 Medicare Advantage plans are available
• 100 percent of people with Medicare have access to a Medicare Advantage plan
• 23 Medicare prescription drug plans are available with premiums varying from $20.40 to $155.60
• 75 percent of people with a Medicare prescription drug plan have access to a plan with a lower premium than what they paid in 2017
State-by-State Fact Sheets are now available at https://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Reach-Out/Find-tools-to-help-you-help-others/2018-MA-Part-D-Landscape-State-by-State.pdf.
For more information on these changes and other Medicare-related issues, please contact KDADS’ Senior Health Insurance Counseling for Kansas (SHICK), a free program that offers Kansans an opportunity to talk with trained, community volunteers and get answers to questions about Medicare and other insurance issues.
SHICK has counselors throughout the state that can assist people to stay informed on changing conditions in health care insurance. Call 800-860-5260 for this free counseling service.
SHICK counselors receive training on Medicare, Medicare Supplement Insurance, Long-Term Care and other health insurance subjects that concern older Kansans. The counselors do not work for any insurance company, their goal is to educate and assist the public to make informed decisions on what’s best for each individual situation.
Phillipsburg tops TMP
By JEREMY McGUIRE
Hays Post
Phillipsburg 81, TMP 33
PHILLIPSBURG, Kan.-Phillipsburg remained undefeated and showed why they are the number two ranked team in 3A on Friday night by dominating TMP in the opening round of Class 3A-District 14 play. It didn’t take long for Phillpsburg to score as the Panthers were on the board three minutes in to take a 6-0 lead. The Panthers used a steady diet of their ground game and big plays the rest of the quarter to snag an early 20-0 lead after the first quarter.
TMP was down 27-0 before they got on the board on a Luke Ruder second quarter touchdown run. It would be the first of three scores on the night for who who also returned a kickoff for a touchdown and caught another. Following the kickoff return TMP trailed 47-14 at the half.
Phillipsburg outscored TMP 36-19 in the second half. TMP’s David McFarland reached a couple of milestones in the loss. He was able to throw for 422 yards and three touchdowns which made him the all-time single season leader in both categories. McFarland has now thrown for 2,365 yards and 18 touchdowns eclipsing the single season marks set by former Monarch Nick Hammeke.
Phillipsburg improves to 7-0 overall and 1-0 in district play. They will host Norton next week. TMP drops to 2-5 on the season and 0-1 in district play and will host Russell next Friday.
JASON CAULEY INTERVIEW
GAME HIGHLIGHTS
Week 7 high school football scoreboard
Football Score Sheet Week 7 – October 13th
4A-Division 1 – District 8
McPherson 48 Hays 6
Abilene 27 Wamego 28
4A-Division 2 – District 7
Colby 14 Scott City 42
Goodland 19 Concordia 20
3A District 14
TMP 33 Phillipsburg 81
Norton 31 Russell 7
3A District 15
Ellsworth 8 Hoisington 45
Lyons 0 Larned 46
2-1A District 6
Sacred Heart 0 Smith Center 78
2-1A District 7
Ellis 6 La Crosse 19
Oakley 0 Plainville 39
2-1A District 8
Stanton Co. 8 Meade 55
8-Man-1 District 4
Victoria 30 Osborne 36
Solomon 68 Bennington 62
8-Man-1 District 5
Ellinwood 0 Central Plains 64
8-Man-1 District 7
Satanta 16 Spearville 64
Ness City 24 South Gray 32
8-Man-1 District 8
Quinter 0 Rawlins Co. 50
8-Man-2 District 5
Sylvan-Lucas 6 Northern Valley 46
8-Man-2 District 6
Dighton 8 Otis-Bison 54
Greeley Co. 44 Triplains-Brewster 30
Western Athletic Conference
Dodge City 9 Garden City 40
Liberal 23 Great Bend 21
Ark Valley Chisholm Trail I
Haysville Campus 35 Hutchinson 7
11-Man Games of note
Bishop Carroll 35 Wichita Heights 14
Kapaun Mt. Carmel 28 St. James Academy 27
Buhler 6 Andale 17
Lawrence 40 SM East 62
Mill Valley 35 Blue Valley North 30
8-Man Games of note
St. Paul 74 Marmaton Valley 26
6-Man Games
Fowler 0 Pawnee Heights 63
Another earthquake shakes north-central Kansas
JEWELL COUNTY — Another earthquake shook north central Kansas on Friday. The quake at 9:13 p.m. measured a magnitude 2.7 and was centered approximately 4 miles southeast of Mankato, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
This is the 4th quake in Kansas this week. On Wednesday at 6:29p.m. a quake measured a magnitude 3.1 and was centered approximately ten miles northwest of Harper, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
On Tuesday a magnitude 2.5 quake was centered approximately 19 miles southeast of Salina, according to the USGS. On Sunday a 2.6 magnitude quake was centered four miles east of Harper.
There are no reports of damage or injury from Friday’s quake.
Hays falls to McPherson to open district play
Friday night marked both the opening of district play and homecoming for Hays High. The Indians hosted #5 McPherson in the first of three games to determine which four teams from the district goes to the 4A-D1 playoffs.
McPherson started four of their seven first half drives in Hays High territory and took a 22-0 nothing lead into the locker room at half time. McPherson scored on runs of thirteen and eight yards then a nine yard pass to take their lead.
Highlights
McPherson controlled the second half getting the clock to a continuous clock in the 3rd quarter after scoring 15 continues points without the offense on the field. The Bullpups scored on a blocked punt returned for a touchdown, a safety and then a 61 yard kick off return for a touchdown. Leading 48-0 the difference in the score started the continuous clock for the remainder of the game.
The Indians lone score came when freshman Lane Becker split the defense for a 25 yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter for the final 48-6 margin.
Hays travels to Abilene next week to take on the Cowboys in district play. Hays falls to 2-5 on the year. McPherson is now 6-1. Wamego beat Abilene in overtime 28-27. McPherson and Wamego will face off at 1-0 in district play and Hays and Abilene will enter 0-1.
Kan. man convicted in DUI crash that killed county commissioner
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Kansas man has been convicted of manslaughter in the drunk-driving crash that killed a western Missouri county commissioner.
Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley on Friday announced the conviction of 30-year-old Wesley Michael Hays of Pleasanton, Kansas. He was also convicted of second-degree assault and failing to keep on the right side of the roadway in the 2014 wreck that killed Bates County Commissioner Larry Berry.
Sentencing will be Dec. 7. Hays could face up to life in prison. The case was tried by the Attorney General’s office.
Jurors were told that Hays consumed 10 alcoholic drinks before driving his GMC Sierra that crossed the center line on Route A near Hume, Missouri, striking Berry’s Ford Taurus. Berry’s 20-year-old son was injured.