Month: October 2017
Police investigate shell casings outside administrative building at KU
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — University of Kansas police are investigating after about 20 used shell casings were found outside the university’s administrative building.
Police say they have found no evidence that a weapon was shot anywhere near Strong Hall before the cases were found Tuesday in bushes.
The Lawrence Journal-World reports police believe the person or people who left the shell casings were trying to make a statement but they didn’t elaborate on what type of statement.
A Kansas law that took effect in July required state universities to allow concealed guns on their campuses. There has been strong opposition to the law on many of the universities’ campuses.
Eva ‘Eve’ Marie Harder
Eva “Eve” Marie Harder, 50, of Salina, Kansas, passed away Sunday, October 1st, 2017.
Eve was born in Wichita, Kansas on December 12, 1966, daughter of Sherry (Wasinger) Bergling and the late Wayne Heighton.
On December 30, 1999, Eve married Kyle Harder.
Survivors include her husband; mother and stepfather, Dave Bergling; two daughters, Audrea Spies, and husband Creighton, of Denver, Colorado, Dawn Heighton, of Salina, Kansas; stepson, Craig Harder, and wife Amber, of Minneola, Kansas; brother, Wayne Chesney, of Oberlin, Kansas. She is also survived by grandchildren, Angel Harder, Aubree Harder, Autumn Harder and 1 on the way.
She was preceded in death by her father and sister, Stephanie Heighton.
Cremation has been chosen.
A Memorial Service will be held at 1:00 pm, Saturday, October 7th, 2017 at Carlson-Geisendorf Funeral Home, Salina, Kansas. Please come as you are. Inurnment will take place at a later date.
Family request memorials be made to the Salina Animal Shelter 329 N. 2nd Salina, Kansas 67401.
Kansas man held on $100K bond for alleged kidnapping after chase
BARTON COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect on drug, domestic battery and alleged kidnapping charges.
Just before noon Tuesday sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to Old Manor Road in Ellinwood to assist the Ellinwood Police Department with a domestic battery case.
While deputies were on their way to the area, the Ellinwood Police Department advised the suspect had fled north from Ellinwood on 100 Avenue.
Deputies were able to locate the suspect vehicle, a gray 2016 Ford Focus.
When Sheriff’s officers attempted to stop the vehicle the suspect fled. Sheriff’s officers pursued the vehicle in an area north and west of Ellinwood on rural roads.
Deputies deployed stop sticks at two locations but the suspect vehicle was able to get around them and continued to the 500 block of North East 30 Road where it turned north into a field.
Deputies continued to pursue and were able to box in the suspect vehicle. The driver Kurt Doll, 35, Ellinwood, was taken into custody without incident.
It was about this time Ellinwood police advised this was also a kidnapping case.
Deputies transported Doll to the Barton County Jail where he was booked on charges of felony flee and elude, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. These charges are in addition to the charges sought by Ellinwood for domestic battery and kidnapping.
Doll is being held in lieu of a $100,000 bond.
WATCH Replay: Gov. Brownback’s Senate confirmation hearing
WASHINGTON — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is in Washington for a U.S. Senate committee hearing on his nomination for ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom.
Watch a replay of Wednesday’s hearing presided by Senator Marco Rubio from Washington here.
The hearing in Dirksen Senate Office Building before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee begins started at 9:30 a.m. CDT.
President Donald Trump nominated the two-term Republican governor for the ambassadorship in late July. Brownback said he’ll step down as governor when the Senate confirms him. There is no timetable on when the committee would schedule a vote for confirmation.
Members of the committee include
- Chairman, Bob Corker
- James E. Risch
- Marco Rubio
- Ron Johnson
- Jeff Flake
- Cory Gardner
- Todd Young
- John Barrasso
- Johnny Isakson
- Rob Portman
- Rand Paul
- Ranking, Ben Cardin
- Bob Menendez
- Jeanne Shaheen
- Christopher Coons
- Tom Udall
- Chris Murphy
- Tim Kaine
- Edward J. Markey
- Jeff Merkley
- Cory Booker
Hays Community Acoustic Jam is Saturday
The monthly Hays Community Acoustic Jam session will be held Saturday, October 7th from 2:00-4:00 p.m at the Hays Arts Center Annex, 1010 Main in Downtown Hays. The sessions are held on the first Saturday of each month.
The local acoustic jam is a fun place for people of all skill levels to play acoustical instruments (guitars, banjos, fiddles, harmonicas, bass guitars, etc.) and to invite friends to enjoy music, whether you’re playing, singing, or listening.
All are welcome to listen or participate as little or much as you’d like!
For inquiries, please contact [email protected].
HHS DECA selling coupon books to benefit Ronald McDonald House Charities
By ISABELLE BRAUN
HHS Guidon
Beginning Oct. 2, the Hays High School DECA chapter will be selling coupon books to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House Charities in Wichita.
The chapter was given 1069 coupon books to sell during the month, but the will end sales on Oct. 25, to give time to the local McDonald’s to sell any leftover books.
“I think that our chapter will be very successful because the product is a great value, and that’s a strong selling point,” instructor Shaina Prough said.
The books sell for $1 a piece, though in the book, the coupons value $15. If the chapter sells all of the books, the money collected will go toward their goal of $50,000 this year.
Those in charge of the Ronald McDonald Project are juniors Isabelle Braun, Brianna Forinash, and Kallie Leiker.
Leiker believes that they will be able to sell the books because of the low price.
The project involves getting people in the DECA chapter involved, and this event will allow for that.
“It gives our project chapter involvement,” Leiker said. “With them participating, they can go into the community and spread the awareness of the Ronald McDonald House Charities.”
Leiker said the selling helps the charities out, so people should buy the books.
“Anyone who goes to McDonald’s, at all, should buy this book because it’s a dollar for $15 of value, so it’s a great deal,” Leiker said.
HaysMed welcomes new pulmonologist
Dr. Biring received his medical degree from London University, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School. He completed residencies in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
He is board certified in general internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, critical care and sleep.
Dr. Biring joins Dr. Manoj Suryanarayanan at Pulmonology Associates. To schedule an appointment for pulmonology or sleep disorders, call 785-261-7450.
— Hays Medical Center
Hays tradition: Oktoberfest set for Friday with more vendors
By CRISTINA JANNEY
Hays Post
The 45th annual Oktoberfest will kick off at 8:30 a.m. Friday at Municipal Park, Fourth and Main streets, with friends, food and beer.
The Volga German Association Centennial Association of Ellis and Rush Counties has organized 44 vendors, even more than last year.
Most of the vendors will be serving food for the annual event that honors the community’s Volga-German heritage. There is no admission cost.
Between 8,000 and 15,000 people are anticipated at the event.
Some of this year’s foods will include many of the community’s German favorites along with such oddities as chocolate-dipped bacon and bacon-wrapped potato tots.
Other cultural groups will participate including the FHSU Chinese Student Group; African student group, which will serve a twist on bierocks; Hispanic students, who will be serving walking tacos; and the Black Student Union, which will be serving fried chicken and cornbread.
NCK Tech will have its drive-through for food again this year. Customers can call 785-625-2437 or 785-301-2309 to place orders. Also connect with Oktoberfest Hays on Facebook.
The beer bands will cost $2 again this year and will be available between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., when beer sales close.
Both American beers and Defiance Brewing Co. craft beers will be available.
This year, the woman of the community have requested a non-beer option, which will be Mike’s Hard Blood Orange.
There will be history re-enactors offered by the Hays Community Theatre. This will include such characters as Catherine the Great and a Volga-German farmer. The Hays Community Theatre will also present Wild West shootouts.
German educational opportunities will occur throughout the day coupled with German music and polka dancing.
The event will have a sauerkraut-making demonstration as well as actresses demonstrating early female settlers’ work.
Nick Werth, whose family helped create the festival, said the event serves as a means for many nonprofits to raise money and a place for people to visit and come together.
“A lot of people only come back for Oktoberfest and homecoming,” Werth said.
There is no designated parking for the event, expect for the parking lot next to the shelterhouse, which is for handicap only.
The Volga German Association provides a scholarship for students of Volga-German decent. The group is working to develop a similar scholarship for NCK Tech.
Any additional money raised through Oktoberfest is dedicated to help Volga German communities and churches in case of disaster.
Oktoberfest 2017 Schedule
- 8:30 – Oktoberfest grounds open to public
- 8:30-noon – Face painting
- 9 a.m. – Vendor booths open
- 9-9:30 a.m. Hays Community Theatre performance
- 10-1 p.m. Joe Dolezal and Galen Schmidtberger
- 10 a.m. – Beer banding booths open
- 11 a.m. – Opening Ceremonies
- MC Mike Cooper
- National Anthem by Jackie Maxwell
- Invocation by Father Josh Werth
- Welcome by Nick Werth
- Volga German Welcome Tom Haas
- FHSU Welcome Interim President Dr. Andy Tompkins
- FHSU Alma Mater Dr. Terry Crull
- FHSU German students
- NCK Tech President on stage and possibly welcome speech
- Ellis County Historical Society Welcome Lee Dobratz
- Sunflower Chapter of AHSGR Welcome Kevin Rupp/Janel Moore
- Catherine the Great Welcome – Cheryl Glassman
- Award presented by Nick Werth
- Northwest Printers
- Midwest Energy
- City of Hays Welcome by Mayor Shaun Musil and tapping of the keg
- Beer Song by Joe Dolezal Band
- Ringing of the Bell by Nick Werth
- Oktoberfest is officially open
- 1-1:30 p.m. – HCT reenactors
- 1:30-4 p.m. – Ron Werth Band
- 4 pm – Hays Community Theatre performance
- 4:30-6:30 p.m. – Ron Werth
- 6 p.m. – Beer Banding booths close
- 6 p.m. – Beer sales end
- 7 p.m. – Oktoberfest officially closed until Sept. 28, 2018
NCK Tech is the signature sponsor for this year’s event. The beer tavern is sponsored by EnerSys. Other sponsors include the Hays Convention & Visitors Bureau, Golden Belt Bank, Uber, Cedar Lodge Dental, JD’s Country Style Chicken and Jeff Pinkney, CPA. In-kind sponsors include John’s Fencing Services, Nate’s Liquor, BOS Motorsports, Carrico Implement, Copper’s Carts, Northwest Printers, Hays Professional Fire Equipment, Budweiser, Coors, RD Graphics, Defiance Brewing Co., Nex-Tech, Emily Knowles Designs, Orscheln, Hadley Center, Western Extralite and Ralph’s Electric. Cash and in-kind donors are B & B Taxi and Taco Shop.
Annual Festival of Faith is Wednesday night at Beach-Schmidt
The annual Festival of Faith returns to Hays on Wednesday at Beach-Schmidt Performing Arts Center.
This year marks the 26th year for the annual event celebrating faith and unity.
The 2017 Festival of Faith is now on a Wednesday and, according to the event’s Facebook Page, the event is a call to area Christians to come together in prayer.
Wednesday’s event runs from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Beach-Schmidt Performing Arts Center on the campus of Fort Hays State University.
The annual Festival of Faith will once again be rebroadcast on Eagle Cable Channel 14. Check Hays Post for broadcast times.
Ernest W. Schmeidler
Ernest W. Schmeidler died Monday, October 2 in Wichita, Kansas. He was 93. Ernie was born to William J. and Rose (Wolf) Schmeidler in Hays, Kansas on March 25, 1924. He was the oldest of six children.
Ernie attended St Joseph’s Military Academy in Hays and later joined the U.S. Army. When his military service was complete, he returned to Kansas and began a career in management. He found his greatest satisfaction in sales and meeting people.
Ernie was a lifetime, independent learner. In his time away from work, he found pleasure in gardening, puzzles, watching sports, but most especially dancing. Rooted in his faith, Ernie cared deeply about the Catholic Church and longed to see the priesthood thrive.
Ernie is survived by his sisters Carol (Mel) Romme of Overland Park, Jeanette Flax of Topeka, and sister-in-law Joan Schmeidler of Wichita.
He was preceded in death by wife Virginia “Jeanie” (Schmidtberger), his parents, siblings Bill, James, Sr. Bonaventure, and brother-in-law Rudy Flax.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Friday, October 6, 2017 at The Basilica of St. Fidelis in Victoria, Kansas. Burial in the parish cemetery with military honors.
Visitation is 4:30-8 p.m. Thursday at Brock’s-Keithley Funeral Chapel and Crematory, 2509 Vine Hays, KS. The family will receive guests at 6 p.m. The prayer service and rosary will begin at 7 p.m.
Memorials are suggested to Thomas More Prep-Marian High School, 1701 Hall St., Hays, KS 67601.
Condolences can be left by guestbook at www.keithleyfuneralchapels.com or can be sent via e-mail to [email protected]
Warren L. Cooksey
Warren L. Cooksey, 72, of Russell, Kansas, died on September 29, 2017, at the Hays Medical Center in Hays, Kansas.
Warren was born on December 10, 1944, in Concordia, Kansas, the son of Warren John and Olivebelle Jean (Moman) Cooksey. He grew up in Russell, Kansas and graduated from Russell High School in 1962. He joined the United States Army and fought in the Vietnam War. He received his higher education from Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas where he received his Bachelor Degree. Later he graduated from Ft. Hays State University where he received his Masters Degree. He worked as an insurance agent for 2 years and a Bank Examiner for 2 years. He also worked with the University of Houston in the maintenance department and in his later years worked as a care giver. He was a member of the 2nd Baptist Church of Russell, Russell V.F.W. Post #6240 and Promise Keepers. He enjoyed crossword puzzles and was an avid reader and especially enjoyed reading Western books. Most of all he enjoyed spending time working with his church and helping member of his church congregation and members of the Russell community.
Surviving family include his sister Cathey Cooksey of Houston, Texas. He was preceded in death by his parents.
A memorial service to celebrate Warren’s life will be held at 11:00 A.M. on Friday, October 06, 2017, at the 2nd Baptist Church in Russell, Kansas, with Reverend Eric Malone officiating. Cremation has been selected by the family. The family will greet guests before and after the memorial service. Memorials may be given to the 2nd Baptist Church and can be sent in care of the mortuary. Pohlman-Varner-Peeler Mortuary of Russell, Kansas, is in charge of the funeral service arrangements.
KZ Country Cheesy Joke of the Day 10/4/17
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