Jacob Foster Leatherman, 102 years of age, passed away April 13, 2018 at the Scott County Hospital. He was born November 30, 1915 in Kansas City, MO and was adopted by Fannie and Alpha Leatherman as an infant.
He was a resident of Scott County since 1947, moving from Fredonia, KS. He was a farmer, prior County Assessor, and served on the City Council. He could repair or build almost anything. He loved his family, friends, airplanes and making people smile.
On November 24, 1940, he married Gladys Ilene Nightengale in Fredonia. They were married for 62 years. She preceded him in death on May 18, 2003.
He was also preceded in death by his parents, a granddaughter, Stephanie Leatherman, two sisters and one brother.
Jake is survived by three sons: Forrest Leatherman, Fort Lupton, CO, Rodney and MaryAnn Leatherman, Scott City, KS, Donald and Amy Leatherman, Garden City, KS, a daughter: Fayetta Summervill, Hutchinson, KS, eight grandchildren, fifteen great-grandchildren, and one great-great grandchild.
Funeral services will be held at Wednesday, April 18, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. at the First Christian Church, 701 South Main Street, Scott City, KS. Burial will be in Scott County Cemetery.
Visitation will be Monday 2-8 and on Tuesday from 10-8 at Price & Sons Funeral Home of Scott City.
Memorials may be directed to Scott County VIP Center or the Pioneer Krier Museum in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, Scott City.
Native Kansan Karen Madorin is a local writer and retired teacher who loves sharing stories about places, people, critters, plants, food, and history of the High Plains.
Sometimes you look at a creature and wonder how it evolved. Kangaroos and platypus come to mind, but they’re Australian. The critter I’m most curious about is one frequently seen squashed on Texas and Oklahoma Interstates–the armadillo. Not long ago, I spied an immigrant armadillo flattened on I-70 in Trego County.
Just as African killer bees keep moving north from South America, it appears invading armadillos add to regional highway death tolls. These elliptical fellows must not know about our winters, or they’d keep their hairy little scutes in warmer climates.
Perhaps they should reconsider these migrations since farmers and ranchers love armadillos about as much as they love prairie dogs. Despite their lack of popularity with agricultural folk, these prehistoric beasties won my heart years ago when I discovered their ability to vertically leap six feet from a standing position.
This introduction occurred as I drove down an isolated road late at night. A bizarrely snouted creature supported on a short-legged and long clawed-ovoid body waddled across the road. My first thought was aliens had invaded. A newcomer to Oklahoma, I’d seen armadillos only in magazines. The vision before me compelled me to slow to a crawl.
For lack of definitive gender identification, I’ll call this guy a “he.” Thinking he would hurry across the road as I coasted, I decelerated further. This had a similar effect upon the varmint. Only he stopped like he was stuck in tar. I didn’t want to squash him, so I halted as well.
Thank goodness my brights were on so I got the full effect of his antics. That armadillo leapt straight up–a good foot above the hood of my 66 Plymouth. Headlights reflecting from his eyeballs added an eerie component to his comic jump. With that football-shape and those clawed feet sticking out at right angles, he hovered like a basketball player going for a tough lay up. Once more, aliens crossed my mind.
Under different circumstances that armadillo would have ended up as road kill. Because he surprised me on a county road that permitted me to ogle strange creatures, his jump simply surprised the two of us. No damage occurred and these beasts won a new fan. Had we been on Interstate, this would’ve been messy.
I’ve never seen an armadillo since that doesn’t trigger that memory. Mr. Been- Around-Since-Prehistoric-Times charmed me and began a love affair that lasts today.
Since that first meeting, I’ve collected over 50 armadillo figurines. Strangers spot them in my curio cabinet and ask what I might’ve asked nearly 40 years ago– “What’s that?” —opening the door to share odd facts about this New World trespasser.
Nine-banded armadillos living in the southern United States have unique characteristics that enable it to survive its slow march toward Canada. Besides the obvious physical adaptation of the hair covered shell that protects soft body parts and its jumping talent, armadillos are reproductive marvels.
Like some marsupials, female armadillos are able to delay fertilized egg development until optimum conditions exist. This species almost always bears four same-sex young—identical quadruplets in other words. According to James Michener’s Texas, females determine which gender they’ll bear. I haven’t verified this, but if true, these armored ones possess abilities some would pay millions to share.
Despite ranchers’ opinions about armadillos, I like them. I like anything that scares predators with a leap and a funny face. I like a critter that can select the gender of its offspring and when it delivers them.
I want another chance to watch an armadillo levitate and hover. However, I don’t want to meet on Interstate. I want both parties to survive unscathed.
Native Kansan Karen Madorin is a local writer and retired teacher who loves sharing stories about places, people, critters, plants, food, and history of the High Plains.
The Fort Hays State University Foundation will host its annual Student Awareness Day from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, April 18, in the FHSU Robbins Center.
Students who attend the event will be eligible for one of eight different scholarships requiring various degrees of involvement. Students will be entered to win one of five $100 scholarships and one $500 scholarship just for attending. Students will be entered to win another $500 award if they post on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram with the hashtag “AwarenessDay.”
A third $500 scholarship will be awarded for students who previously answered an essay prompt. Scholarships, provided by Astra Bank, will be awarded for the fall 2018 semester.
Attendees will also receive a free lunch and learn about the importance of private support and fundraising.
To learn more about the FHSU Foundation, visit https://foundation.fhsu.edu.
TOPEKA — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect after an altercation with a store employee.
Just after 11a.m. Sunday, police were dispatched to Target, 2120 SW Wanamaker, Topeka where a loss prevention employee attempted to stop a suspected shoplifter, according to Lt. Kelvin Johnson.
During the incident, the alleged shoplifter attempted to punch the loss prevention employee and then pulled a knife and ran north with the items he had taken from the store.
A witness kept an eye on the suspect until police arrived. Following a brief foot pursuit, police captured the suspect identified as 29-year-old Casey J. St. John. He was booked into the Shawnee County Department of Corrections for Aggravated Robbery and Felony Obstruction, according to Johnson.
The loss prevention employee was not injured during the incident.
Last week was the final week of legislative activity before First Adjournment. Early Sunday morning, the Senate gaveled out for adjournment and will reconvene on April 26th or Veto Session. The Senate voted on numerous conference committee reports, a tax reform bill, and a school finance plan. A conference committee is a small, bipartisan, and bicameral committee that works to smooth out the differences between the House and Senate’s version of a similar bill. Once the conference committee reaches a compromise, the negotiated bill is sent to both the House and Senate for a final vote before advancing to the governor’s desk. When the Senate gavels in on April 26th, we will begin Veto Session and will wrap up any legislative loose ends for the year.
SCHOOL FINANCE
In the early hours of Sunday morning and after a night of debate, the Senate voted to concur on a school finance plan that the House sent over earlier that day. On Saturday morning, the House narrowly passed a school finance deal on a vote of 63-56. The House placed their original K-12 finance plan into a Senate bill and passed it to the Senate to either concur or non-concur on the deal. The House’s plan would add $500 million to public school funding over the next five years. The funding plan almost doubles the cost of the Senate’s proposed plan that passed earlier that week. The Senate voted 21-19 to concur, sending it to Governor Colyer’s desk for him to sign. As this article was going to press, it was discovered that a calculation error was made in the bill – watch for a trailer bill to be debated before the entire education package can be turned over to the Attorney General (after the Governor’s signature) for the ruling of the Supreme Court case.
FLOOR ACTION
SENATE SCHOOL FINANCE PLAN: Substitute Senate Bill 423 amends the Kansas School Equity and Enhancement Act by making appropriations to the Department of Education relating to school finance. Sub SB 423 would phase in a $275 million increase to education funding.
Some major policy provisions included in SB 423 are:
Base aid for student excellence will increase from $4,006 to $4,258 in 2018-19, to $4,334 in 2019-20, to $4,412 in 2020-21, to $4,492 in 2021-22, and to $4,574 in 2022-23.
Increase special education funding by $24 million in 2018-2019.
Expand early childhood funding by increasing state aid for three- and four-year-old at-risk children by $3,000,000.
Allow all students the opportunity to participate in ACT and ACT Work Keys funded by the state.
Add $1,760,000 for ABC Early Childhood Program.
Provide a pilot program for improvement of mental health services for school districts.
Provides that all high school students may take a college class in Comp I at no cost to the student.
KANSAS TAX REFORM
Senate Substitute for House Bill 2228 amends current law allowing Kansans to receive the anticipated state windfall from federal tax reform. The bill increases the state’s standard income tax deduction and allows Kansans to itemize deductions for state income taxes if they don’t itemize deductions for federal taxation. The bill would accelerate restoration of itemized deductions on state income taxes. Currently, state law allows a 50 percent deduction for medical expenses, mortgage interest, and property taxes in 2018. S Sub 2228 would raise the deduction to 75 percent in tax year 2018 and 100 percent in tax year 2020. The legislation also aims to bring more revenue into the state by taxing international income that is expected to flow back into the United States due to federal tax adjustment. An amendment was placed on the floor to grant a 50 percent state tax credit for donors to exhibit renovations at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene. The bill will allow Kansans to keep the windfall money instead of the state government. It is estimated that the windfall could be around $137 million in the next fiscal year, $179 million in the subsequent fiscal year, and $187 million the following fiscal year. The bill passed the Senate 24-16.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORTS
House Bill 2470 would allow microbreweries within the state of Kansas to contract with other microbreweries for production and packaging of beer and hard cider. The bill amends law related to the sale of alcoholic candy and to the sale of domestic beer in refillable containers. HB 2470 allows licensed microbreweries in the state to produce beer containing up to 15 percent alcohol by weight. The bill also increases the length of time that certain businesses may serve alcohol to 6AM to 2AM.The Conference Committee Report was adopted by a vote of 27-10.
House Bill 2606 amends law related to testing for a class M (motorcycle) driver’s license, online driver’s license renewal, and the length of time a commercial driver’s license is valid. The Conference Committee Report was adopted by a vote of 38-2.
House Bill 2597 would amend law regarding designation of an urban area. The bill amends law when a mayor is considered a member of a governing body. HB 2597 also deals with the compensation, supervision, personnel, and budgeting policies of election commissioners. The Conference Committee Report was adopted by a vote of 29-10.
House Bill 2542 amends statutes for fees collected by the Kansas Board of Regents (KBOR) and performance-based budgeting requirements. HB 2542 also creates the Dyslexia Task Force that will conduct a study of issues and report to the Kansas Legislature by January 30, 2019. The Conference Committee Report was adopted by a vote of 40-0.
House Bill 2583 would create the Noxious Weed Act and repeal current Noxious Weed law. The Conference Committee Report was adopted by a vote of 35-5.
House Bill 2476 would amend the section of the Kansas Open Records Act (KORA) related to the unlawful use of names derived from public records. The bill would create an additional exception to the general prohibition in KORA against selling, giving, or receiving any list of names and addresses from public records for sales purposes. The Conference Committee Report was adopted by a vote of 39-1.
Senate Substitute for Senate Substitute for House Bill 2386 would amend law related to licensure, certification, or registration qualifications for employment at adult care homes, hospitals, and home health agencies. It would add all employees of the Kansas Commission on Veterans’ Affairs Office to the definition of “safety sensitive positions” found in law. The Conference Committee Report was adopted by a vote of 40-0.
Senate Substitute for House Bill 2600 would amend the Nuclear Energy Development and Radiation Control Act, provide for the study and investigation of maternal deaths by the Secretary of Health and Environment, and create the Palliative Care and Quality of Life Interdisciplinary Advisory Council and the State Palliative Care Consumer and Professional Information and Education Program within the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE). The Conference Committee Report was adopted by a vote of 27-12.
House Bill 2482 would amend law related to contracts between the State and persons or companies who are actively engaged in a boycott of Israel. The Conference Committee Report was adopted by a vote of 36-1.
Substitute House Bill 2556 would establish the State Interoperability Advisory Committee in statute. Currently, a State Interoperability Executive Committee exists by executive order. The committee would provide input to the Adjutant General’s Department (TAG) for the development and deployment of centralized interoperable communications planning and implementation capacity for Kansas. The Conference Committee Report was adopted by a vote of 37-3.
Senate Substitute for House Bill 2701 would establish the Statewide Broadband Expansion Planning Task Force. The Conference Committee Report was adopted by a vote of 40-0.
Senate Substitute for House Bill 2028would establish the Kansas Telemedicine Act. The bill would also provide for coverage of speech-language pathologist and audiologist services via telehealth under the Kansas Medical Assistance Program (KMAP) if such services would be covered under KMAP when delivered via in-person contact.The Conference Committee Report was adopted by a vote of 24-14.
CONCURS
Senate Bill 324amends the vehicle dealers and manufacturers licensing act. The Senate concurred on House amendments 37-0.
Senate Bill 410updates captive insurance statutes and provides for association and branch captive insurance companies and special purpose insurance companies. The Senate concurred on House amendments 39-0.
Senate Bill 394ensures transparency in state government contract decisions. The Senate concurred on House amendments 40-0.
Senate Bill 275relates to mid-term appointments of credit union council members. The Senate concurred on House amendments 40-0.
Senate Bill 263creates a program to research the use of industrial hemp. The Senate concurred on House amendments 40-0.
CONSIDERATION OF APPOINTMENTS
The Senate confirmed Dwight Keen to serve on the Kansas Corporation Commission. Keen is a co-owner of Keen Oil Co., a Winfield, Kan., oil and gas production company. He has served as Securities Commissioner of Kansas and board chair for the Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association. He received a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a master’s in economics from Wichita State University and received a law degree from Kansas University. Keen was nominated last month by Governor Jeff Colyer and replaces Pat Apple on the three-person commission after Apple announced in December that he would not seek reappointment.
The Senate confirmed Keen on Saturday April 7th.
GOV. COLYER, COMMERCE DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCE COMMUNITIES TO BE DESIGNATED AS OPPORTUNITY ZONES – Senate District #36
Governor Jeff Colyer and officials from state government agencies have completed a review of Letters of Interest submitted from communities across the state to be considered for designation as Opportunity Zones. Opportunity Zones are a new economic development tool enacted by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 designed to encourage long-term investments in low-income urban and rural communities. Based upon the number of low-income communities identified by the Federal Census, the Governor may nominate up to 74 census tracts in Kansas for designation as Opportunity Zones.
In February, the Kansas Department of Commerce announced it would begin accepting Letters of Interest from communities to have their eligible low-income census tracts designated as Opportunity Zones. The communities with census tracts chosen to be included in Governor Colyer’s nominations for designation as Opportunity Zones include Belleville, Cloud County, Jewell County and Rooks County.
HARD FACTS FROM THE KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE
Total tax receipts so far, this fiscal year total $4.8 billion, which is $673.61 million or 16.32 percent above last year at this time and $314.83 million above estimates for the year.
Income tax collections for the fiscal year are $603.95 million above last year and $325.73 million above current expectations.
March 2018 tax receipts came in $60.91 million over last March and $39.47 million above current expectations. Individual income tax collections in March were $77.88 million above last year. Sales tax receipts are up for the year by $38.36 million over last year.
Thank You for Engaging
Thank you for all of your calls, emails, and letters regarding your thoughts and concerns about happenings in Kansas. I always encourage you to stay informed of the issues under consideration by the Kansas Legislature. Committee schedules, bills, and other helpful information can be easily accessed through the legislature’s website at www.kslegislature.org. You are also able to ‘listen in live’ at this website or watch live at YouTube Streaming: https://bit.ly/2CZj9O0. The Senate will be in session each day at 10:00AM through the wrap-up session. Please do not hesitate to contact me with your thoughts, concerns, and suggestions. An email is the best at this point in the session.
Thank you for the honor of serving you!
Senator Elaine Bowers
Kansas State Capitol Building
Room 223-E
300 SW 10th St.
Topeka, KS 66612 [email protected]
785-296-7389
Today Sunny, with a high near 57. Light and variable wind becoming southeast 8 to 13 mph in the morning.
Tonight Mostly clear, with a low around 36. East southeast wind 9 to 13 mph.
Tuesday Mostly sunny, with a high near 75. East wind 7 to 14 mph.
Tuesday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 41. Windy, with a south wind 17 to 25 mph becoming northwest in the evening. Winds could gust as high as 40 mph.
Wednesday Sunny, with a high near 65. Very windy, with a northwest wind 25 to 31 mph, with gusts as high as 41 mph.
Wednesday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 34. Breezy.
ThursdaySunny, with a high near 65.
Thursday NightA 30 percent chance of rain after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 40.
ELLSWORTH, Kan. (AP) — Under a new Kansas Department of Transportation program, “Lost to DUI” memorial signs will be placed along state and federal highways for victims of drunken driving accidents.
The first memorial sign was recently unveiled by parents of 20-year-old Kylie Jobe and 22-year-old Kyle Thornburg, who were killed in a 2011 accident.
Barby Jobe said her daughter and Thornburg were on their way back from a skiing trip when they were struck by an impaired driver who also was killed in the crash.
“You can’t say enough about not drinking and driving,” Barby said. “The message never changes, but the opportunity to tell that message any time you can is really important.”
Former Republican Rep. Mark Hutton sponsored the Kyle Thornburg and Kylie Jobe Believe Act in 2016, which authorized the DUI memorial signage program. He said the legislation aimed to humanize the problem with drunk driving.
“We wanted people to see those signs,” Hutton said.
Hutton said the signs represent the human cost of drunken driving.
The memorial signs with finger print designs will be placed near the victims’ crash site and include the names and ages of people who were killed. Barby Jobe said the fingerprint design represents a person’s individuality.
“Every victim is a unique person that is lost,” Barby Jobe said. “It kind of also represents the life cycle — the circle, the spiral reminds you of that, too.”
LOS ANGELES (AP) — R. Lee Ermey, a former Marine who made a career in Hollywood playing hard-nosed military men like Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket,” has died.
R. Lee Ermey-photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons
Ermey’s longtime manager Bill Rogin says he died Sunday morning from pneumonia-related complications. He was 74.
The Kanas native was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his memorable performance in “Full Metal Jacket,” in which he immortalized lines such as: “What is your major malfunction?”
His co-stars Matthew Modine and Vincent D’Onofrio tweeted their condolences Sunday evening.
“#SemperFidelis Always faithful. Always loyal. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light,” Modine wrote, quoting the Dylan Thomas poem. “RIP amigo. PVT. Joker.”
Vincent D’Onofrio added: “Ermey was the real deal. The knowledge of him passing brings back wonderful memories of our time together.”
Born Ronald Lee Ermey in 1944, Ermey served 11 years in the Marine Corps and spent 14 months in Vietnam and then in Okinawa, Japan, where he became staff sergeant. His first film credit was as a helicopter pilot in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now,” which was quickly followed by a part in “The Boys in Company C” as a drill instructor.
He raked in more than 60 credits in film and television across his long career in the industry, often playing authority figures in everything from “Se7en” to “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” remake.
The part he would become most well-known for, in “Full Metal Jacket,” wasn’t even originally his. Ermey had been brought on as a technical consultant for the 1987 film, but he had his eyes on the role of the brutal gunnery sergeant and filmed his own audition tape of him yelling out insults while tennis balls flew at him. An impressed Kubrick gave him the role.
Kubrick told Rolling Stone that 50 percent of Ermey’s dialogue in the film was his own.
“In the course of hiring the marine recruits, we interviewed hundreds of guys. We lined them all up and did an improvisation of the first meeting with the drill instructor. They didn’t know what he was going to say, and we could see how they reacted. Lee came up with, I don’t know, 150 pages of insults,” Kubrick said.
According to Kubrick, Ermey also had a terrible car accident one night in the middle of production and was out for four and half months with broken ribs.
Ermey would also go on to voice the little green army man Sarge in the “Toy Story” films. He also played track and field coach and Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman in “Prefontaine,” General Kramer in “Toy Soldiers” and Mayor Tilman in “Mississippi Burning.”
Ermey also hosted the History Channel series “Mail Call” and “Lock N’ Load with R. Lee Ermey” and was a board member for the National Rifle Association, as well as a spokesman for Glock.
“He will be greatly missed by all of us,” Rogin said. “It is a terrible loss that nobody was prepared for.”
Rogin says that while his characters were often hard and principled, the real Ermey was a family man and a kind and gentle soul who supported the men and women who serve.
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas woman pleaded no contest to second-degree murder in the death of her fiancé’s 2-year-old daughter last year.
Thomasson-photo Johnson Co.
Lindsey Thomasson, 25, entered the plea Friday in the child abuse death of Presley Porting.
The girl died in February 2017 in Gardner. Thomasson also pleaded no contest to a charge of aggravated kidnapping.
Assistant District Attorney Jason Covington said Friday that Presley died from blunt force trauma to the head, injuries she suffered while Thomasson was babysitting her.
He said the girl had severe bruising on her face and head and one of her eyes was swollen shut when emergency responders arrived.
Thomasson had told investigators that the girl was injured when a crutch fell and struck her on the head.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) —Videos posted online show officers handcuffing two men in a downtown Philadelphia Starbucks on Thursday. A white man in the video is heard saying he was meeting with the men and calls the arrest “ridiculous.”
Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross said Starbucks employees called 911 to say the men were trespassing. He said officers were told that the men had come in and asked to use the restroom but were denied because they hadn’t bought anything, as he said is company policy. He said they then refused to leave.
On Sunday the Starbucks CEO apologized for the arrests.
@Starbucks The police were called because these men hadn’t ordered anything. They were waiting for a friend to show up, who did as they were taken out in handcuffs for doing nothing. All the other white ppl are wondering why it’s never happened to us when we do the same thing. pic.twitter.com/0U4Pzs55Ci
Starbucks is only the latest U.S. food chain to come under scrutiny because of the way black people were treated at one of its locations.
Some companies have been accused of systemic racism; others have faced complaints about isolated occurrences. Allegations of discrimination against minorities go back decades and include:
DENNY’S
Denny’s, with more than 1,700 restaurants, agreed to pay more than $54 million in a landmark settlement of racial discrimination claims with the Justice Department in 1994.
Thousands of black customers alleged they were refused service, forced to wait longer than white customers or overcharged at Denny’s restaurants nationwide.
The agreement was called the largest settlement ever under federal public accommodation laws. Denny’s promised to treat all customers equally in the future under the settlement, but incidents have continued.
Just last year, the company apologized and workers at a franchise restaurant in Washington state were fired after a group of black young men were forced to wait and then were asked to prepay for food.
CRACKER BARREL
Cracker Barrel agreed to pay almost $9 million in 2004 to settle allegations the restaurant chain mistreated black customers and discriminated against black workers.
More than 40 plaintiffs in 16 states alleged black people were denied service, assigned to segregated seating, subjected to racial slurs and served food from the trash. Also, about a dozen employees complained that black workers were segregated from white workers and generally received “back of the house” assignments such as cook and dishwasher.
Also in 2004, the company settled a Justice Department lawsuit in an agreement which included a finding that black customers at many of the country-themed restaurants were treated poorly.
Cracker Barrel has about 650 restaurants in 45 states, according to its website.
IHOP
IHOP, run by International House of Pancakes LLC, apologized last month after a waitress asked black teenagers to pay upfront for a meal at a restaurant in Auburn, Maine.
The chain, with more than 1,750 locations worldwide, said it had “zero tolerance” for discrimination. IHOP President Darren Rebelez called the episode an “isolated incident” and said the restaurant was reaching out to the teenagers to apologize.
Rebelez said “appropriate disciplinary actions” would be taken.
The restaurant manager said there had been problems with teenagers walking out without paying for meals, but that the waitress’ actions were wrong.
APPLEBEE’S
Applebee’s apologized, fired workers and closed a restaurant in Independence, Missouri, where two black women said they were falsely accused of not paying for meals in February.
Two women posted a video online showing a restaurant employee, a police officer and a mall security guard confronting them for “dining and dashing” during a previous visit, which the women denied.
The video showed the police officer laughing at one point and waving at the person with the camera. The city said it had reviewed the officer’s conduct but would not comment on the findings.
The Kansas City Star reported it was unclear whether the restaurant closure was directly related to the racial profiling incident because the mall where the Applebee’s was located was scheduled for a foreclosure sale.
Applebee’s has almost 1,970 franchise restaurants.
Debby Pfeifer, Sharon Graham and Rachel Hyatt at the TESOL International Convention.
FHSU University Relations
Three instructors from the Department of English at Fort Hays State University attended the recent International Teaching English to Students of Other Languages Convention and Expo in Chicago.
Sharon Graham, Rachel Hyatt, and Debby Pfeifer attended the conference, including a poster presentation by Graham.
Graham’s poster, “Sustainable Improvement: Language Learning Projects in Chinese Higher Education,” showed a portion of the training that she has conducted throughout the last year with Chinese English teachers from Sias International University, FHSU’s partner school in Zhengzhou, China.
Jacob Foster Leatherman, 102 years of age, passed away April 13, 2018 at the Scott County Hospital. He was born November 30, 1915 in Kansas City, MO and was adopted by Fannie and Alpha Leatherman as an infant.
