GEARY COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating 2 suspects on multiple charges after a chase and crash.
On Wednesday, police arrested Holly Kathleen Boase, 30, and John Charles Boase Jr. 41, both of Emporia on multiple allegations including Fleeing and Eluding LEO, Damage to Property / Motor Vehicle Accident from Fleeing and Eluding, Reckless Driving and Theft against both, according to police.
Boase Jr. was also arrested on suspicion of No Proof of Insurance and Driving while License was Suspended plus a warrant from Chase County for an alleged Probation violation and a warrant from Saline County charging Failure to Appear.
Boase-photo Geary Co.
Holly was also arrested on a Chase County warrant alleging Probation Violation, a Salina Municipal Court warrant alleging Probation Violation, and McPherson District Court warrant charging Failure to Appear.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former Topeka car dealer who didn’t keep a promise to donate to a memorial fund for a slain Topeka police officer can no longer do business in the state.
The Kansas attorney general’s office said Thursday that Justin Bogina, of Tecumseh, and his Topeka business, Auto Acceptance Center Corp., also must reimburse more than $25,000 to consumers.
Attorney General Derek Schmidt said shortly after Police Cpl. Jason Harwood was killed in the line of duty in September 2014, Bogina advertised that he would donate $100 per vehicle he sold during a specific time to the memorial fund. But he didn’t track sales during the time period and didn’t make a donation until an investigation began in April 2016.
A lawsuit claimed Bogina also repeatedly violated consumer protection laws over several years.
DICKINSON COUNTY — Two people were injured and another arrested after an accident during a chase in just before 10a.m. Thursday in Dickinson County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2014 Ford F150 driven by Mathdaniel Joe Louis Squirrel, 21, Wichita, was traveling on Jeep Road five miles south of Interstate 70 fleeing from law enforcement.
The pickup left the roadway, traveled into a field, became airborne after striking a terrace and rolled to a stop.
Squirrel and a passenger Najah Yasmeen Martin, 17, Topeka were transported to Geary Community Hospital.
Another passenger Bradlee Marshal Ross, 21, Topeka was not injured and taken into custody by Geary County Deputies.
Squirrel and Martin were not wearing seat belts and the chase involved a stolen pickup according to the KHP.
The second free hearing screening of the semester to be held in western Kansas by Fort Hays State University graduate students will be offered in Hoxie.
The screening will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Friday, Feb. 16, at the Hoxie Lodge No. 348, 840 Ninth Street, Hoxie.
“The FHSU Speech-Language Hearing Clinic is continuing into its second semester of its second year of providing hearing screenings sponsored by a grant from the Kansas Masonic Foundation,” said Marcy Beougher, speech-language pathologist and an instructor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.
The grant will provide numerous opportunities for older adults in western Kansas, and in some areas of eastern Colorado and southern Nebraska, to receive important health screening services that are currently scarce or difficult to access.
“This fall we had two successful screenings in St. Francis and Ulysses,” said Beougher. “Through these community screenings hosted by active Masonic lodges, we are trying to reach individuals who likely would not have access to a free hearing screening.”
The screenings will be provided by graduate students from the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders under the supervision of an FHSU Herndon Clinic instructor.
Appointments may be scheduled ahead of time, but walk-ins will be welcomed on a first-come, first-served basis. Each site will have four stations, with each screening lasting approximately 15-20 minutes. Information about hearing loss and follow-up services available will be shared during the screenings. Free educational materials and earplugs will be provided by the Kansas Masons.
“The students are gaining excellent clinical experience as well as mandatory clinical hours from each screening,” she said. “We are grateful to the Kansas Masons for their support of this quality program.”
The final two screenings of the semester are tentatively scheduled for Greensburg and Syracuse.
To schedule an appointment for the Hoxie screening, contact Gary Shipley at 785-675-8586 or [email protected].
For more information, visit fhsu.edu/herndon-clinic/ or contact the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at 785-628-5366.
KWEC’s resident male big brown bat is ready for the Bat Fair on Feb. 11. Several bat-focused activities are planned, from kids’ crafts and a bat cave to a presentation on Kansas bats.
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Bats and their biology and value to people will be the subject of the Bat Fair from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 11, at the Kansas Wetlands Education Center, 592 NE K-156 Hwy, Great Bend.
The fair will begin with a presentation by Sternberg Museum of Natural History zoologist Curtis Schmidt, who co-authored “Bats of Kansas.” He will give an informative report about several Kansas bat species, how scientists gather data on them and the fight to save bats from a devastating disease.
Following the presentation, children will be able to construct their own bats, complete a scavenger hunt in a “cave,” compare bat wing spans and “capture” and measure their own bats.
KWEC will have live brown bats as well as several Sternberg Museum bat specimens on display.
The fair will also have examples and instructions on how to construct bat boxes, which can be used to attract bats to the yard, controlling mosquitoes and other insect pests.
For more information, contact KWEC at 877-243-9268.
Developmental Services of Northwest Kansas announces a newly established fund in memory of co-founder Dr. Homer B. Reed, Sr.
The fund will help support the nearly 500 individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities from the 18 counties DSNWK serves.
The descendants of Dr. Homer B. Reed, Sr. are setting up the memorial fund with a goal to raise $50,000 by the end of 2018. An anonymous donor will match up to $20,000 of all donations.
DSNWK, formerly the Homer B. Reed Adjustment and Training Center, opened its doors February 5, 1968 as one of the first workshops serving those with IDD in Kansas, and one of 40 in the U.S. DSNWK’s Reed Developmental Center is a living memorial to Dr. Reed’s work in Hays.
“This is an exciting re-connection for DSNWK to its past,” said DSNWK President/CEO Jerry Michaud. “This fundraising effort is reflective of the care and support of Homer B Reed and his family, friends and colleagues who desire to carry on the legacy started fifty years ago, supporting the mission of DSNWK into the future.”
To donate send checks made out to DSNWK with a memo of “Homer B. Reed” to Steve Keil, PO Box 310, Hays, KS 67601, or give online at www.dsnwk.org. DSNWK is a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Dr. Homer B. Reed
More about Dr. Homer B. Reed, Sr.
Dr. Reed was a professor of education and psychology at Fort Hays State University (called Fort Hays Kansas State College at the time) from 1929 to 1956, and was the Chairman of the Psychology Department for many years. Before coming to Hays he taught at the University of Illinois, University of Idaho, (where he was asked to leave that institution after expressing his views that women should be granted the right to vote), Colorado College of Education, University of Pittsburgh, and Gunnison, Colo.
He attended Goshen College, earned his A.B. and A.M degrees at Indiana University, and in 1912, the Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Chicago. He also did special graduate work at Columbia University, NY, in 1913, and was a Fellow in Psychiatry at Kansas University Medical Center, 1951-52.
His dissertation “The Morals of Monopoly and Competition,” was cited by Supreme Court Justice Brandeis in one of the earliest cases to reach the Supreme Court arising out of the creation of the Federal Trade Commission. It is not clear, however, that Dr. Reed was ever aware of this application of his early work, and his subsequent research interests were all in psychology.
He was co-founder of the Fort Hays Psychological Clinic, helped organize and promote the High Plains Mental Health Clinic, and co-authored the once widely used Reed-Tracy Teaching Tests.
FHSU Psychologists within the department, including Dr. Reed, developed and operated the clinic specializing in the diagnostic assessment of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Those clinical services were made available to children in western Kansas including their families and their schools.
With the advent of World War II, the psychologists at FHSU were drafted into military service and the clinic that they developed became Dr. Reed’s responsibility. He had to refine his clinical skills and he had to make himself available in facing the problems that any psychological clinic presents. In doing this his interests in psychology changed. He not only worked with individuals referred to the clinic, he also worked actively with the state legislature in developing laws to identify and serve handicapped children. He maintained these interests for the remainder of his years as a psychologist.
The monthly Hays Community Acoustic Jam session will be held Saturday, February 3rd, 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!
FORD COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a hit and run accident and asking the public for help to find a vehicle and driver.
Just before 2p.m. Saturday, officers responded to the area of 311 Kirk Street in Dodge City for a hit and run incident involving a 5-year-old child who ran across the road and was struck by a westbound red pickup that did not stop, according to Police Chief Drew Francis.
The child was transported to the hospital and flown out due to a head injury and a broken leg.
Police are investigating several leads, according to Francis.
“We are still looking to identify the vehicle and driver but we need the community’s help. If you have any information or potential video covering this area or the area surrounding that may have captured this red pickup truck entering or leaving the area during this approximate time frame and have not already been contacted by the police, please contact us so we can review the footage.”
James L. “Jim” Warren, 75, Hays, died Tuesday, January 30, 2018 at the Hays Medical Center.
He was born March 8, 1942 in Hays the son of John and Irene (Coupal) Warren. He graduated from Hays High School in 1960 and attended Fort Hays Kansas State College for two years. On October 16, 1965 he married Lynda Meyers in Kismet, Kansas. His career included oilfield insulation, home insulation, parking lot maintenance and striping, a drywall business, and cleaning pumping units. He was an entrepreneur, an inventor, an artist, he loved his work, and was a dedicated father of his two sons. He was a former board member for The Arc of Central Plains, was very active and a former board member of the Early Childhood Development Center, was a board member of Strokes of Genius, and a founder of Erik’s Originals.
Survivors include his former wife and caregiver since his diagnosis with ALL, Lynda Warren of Hays, two sons; Jason Warren and Erik Warren, both of Hays, a sister; Kay Howell of Pasadena, TX, a niece; Stacey Broers and husband Scott of Ozawkie, KS, and three nephews; Scott Warren of Topeka, Wesley Howard and wife Carol of Pasadena, TX and Rodney Howard and wife Brenda of Round Rock, TX, and numerous friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents, and two brothers; Charles “Pat” Warren and Doug Warren.
A celebration of Jim’s life will be at 2:00 pm on Saturday, February 3, 2018 at the North Oak Community Church, 3000 Oak Street, Hays. Burial will follow in the Ft. Hays Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Visitation will be from 1:00 pm until service time on Saturday at the church. Memorials are suggested to Bethesda Place, fierceloveparents.com, or to Strokes of Genius, Inc., in care of the Hays Memorial Chapel Funeral Home, 1906 Pine St., Hays. Condolences may be left for the family at www.haysmemorial.com
Vice President Mike Pence presides over Thursday’s ceremony for Sam Brownback -image courtesy The White House
WASHINGTON— One day after stepping down as Governor, Sam Brownback officially began his new duties in the Trump Administration.
On Thursday afternoon, Vice President Mike Pence participated in the swearing in ceremony for the new Ambassador for International Religious Freedom. Watch the ceremony here.
Last week, the Republican-led Senate narrowly approved Brownback for the position. Trump originally nominated him to the post in July .
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — The tiny Kansas hometown of a legendary former women’s basketball player who set college scoring records is raising money to help its favorite daughter fight a rare form of cancer.
The Barton County community of Claflin is helping raise money for Jackie Stiles as she prepares for surgery Friday to treat eye cancer.
Students at Central Plains High School set up an online fundraiser Tuesday to help Stiles with some medical costs her insurance won’t cover. The goal is $5,000.
Stiles’ father, Pat Stiles, says he’s “surprised and humbled” that students who don’t personally know his daughter would raise money.
Jackie Stiles put Claflin on the map playing for Missouri State University and later in the WNBA. She currently coaches the university’s women’s basketball team.
The Hays USD 489 school board will have a say if the new Hilton Garden Hotel will receive approval of its tax increment financing district.
The hotel would be a 100-room, $19.3 million project with a conference center. It would be located just west of Walmart in the Ottley Addition.
Incremental tax financing district defined
Because both the county and school district receive property tax money from the land in question, they both have veto power over the project.
The land on which the hotel will sit was zoned agricultural. If a commercial building was constructed on that property, the property value would increase.
Example of how a tax increment financing district works.
A TIF figures the difference between the original value of the land and new value of the developed property. The taxing entities still collect the taxes on the original value, but the taxes on the increased value go back to the developer to use on financing and infrastructure improvements, such as water, sewer, roads and parking. The TIF would be in effect for 20 years.
The school district would see a partial increase in the funds it receives on the new development. The developers would still have to pay the general fund school mill level of 20 mills and the Hays district’s capital outlay fund of 8-mill levy on the improvements.
The district would not receive an increase in property tax for its supplemental levy of 14.92 mills or its .646 mill declining enrollment levy.
The estimated incremental tax for the project would be $3.7 million over 20 years for all the taxing entities, but Jacob Wood, assistant city manager, said he did not know how much of that would be school district taxes.
Tracy Kaiser, USD 489’s director of finance, said the district’s declining enrollment mill levy is only good for one more year— the 2018-19 school year.
Wood said based on the timeline for the hotel project, the declining enrollment levy would likely drop off the tax rolls before the first phase of the project is completed. He said the developers hope to break ground on the project yet this year.
Location of the new hotel.
Wood told the school board Monday the developers said they likely would not proceed with the project if they do not receive the TIF.
There will be a public hearing on the TIF on Feb. 8. Wood said the school district and county would have until March 12 to pass resolutions in opposition of the TIF. Such a resolution from either entity would block the TIF.
Board member Paul Adams asked what the staff levels at the hotel would be and if Wood thought it would affect the district’s enrollment.
The hotel would employ between 80 and 90 people. Wood said he thought the hotel will bring in management from the outside, but most of the other employees would be local.
The board members had no other comment on the issue Monday and took no action on the item.
