People can attend or experience the same event, but each individual will describe it very differently. Some people will be impacted deeply by something that seemed only trivial to another.
The differences are in perspective, and a new workshop from the Management Development Center at Fort Hays State University will offer insight and skills in understanding and accommodating different perspectives.
“Through a Different Lens: Understanding Perspective,” is designed to increase understanding of the four dimensions of the diversity wheel and how personality is at the very core of understanding one’s self and others and is also important in developing powerful emotional intelligence.
The MDC will offer “Understanding Perspective” from 1 to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 21, in Hansen Entrepreneurship Hall on the FHSU campus.
Dr. Jeni McRay, assistant professor of leadership studies, will teach skills in maximizing self-awareness and awareness of others in both personal and professional settings.
Each person who completes the workshop will receive a completion certificate and 0.3 continuing education units. The cost for the workshop is $119. Hays Area Chamber of Commerce members can call to receive a discount code for 15 percent off registration.
Registration is available online at www.fhsu.edu/mdc. To learn more about this workshop or additional upcoming trainings, contact Hannah Hilker by phone at 785-628-4121 or by email at [email protected].
A new summer exhibit, “World of Giant Insects,” at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays will allow visitors to experience insects in ways they never have before.
Set in realistic habitats, animatronics insects will tower over people at 40 to 100 time their size in life. The blown-up examples will allow visitors to see intricate details of the insects’ anatomy that can’t be seen with the naked eye.
Among these displays will be male atlas beetles with their long horns that they use to battle each other for dominance, territory and mates.
“You will get to learn some about their behaviors,” Reese Barrick, museum director, said of the insects. “It is so bizarre. It is so weird. We don’t think about how does an insect smell, how does an insect hear, how does it make noise. People don’t think about how the insect world works.”
The Insect exhibits opened Saturday and will remain in Hays through Labor Day. The exhibit is included in regular admission to the museum. The museum is open seven days a week during the summer. See the Sternberg online for details on hours and admission.
“Insects have been here for 100s of millions of years,” Barrick said, “so there is a little bit of the depth of how long insects have been here and insect diversity. Insects are the most diverse animals on the planet.”
Science does not know how many species of insects live on Earth. New species are constantly being discovered even in our own backyard. A new bristletail species, which are also known as silverfish, was found five years ago on the Fort Hays State University campus, Barrick said.
“Bristletails are one of the old insects on the planet, yet there are new species of them being found now,” he said.
People often think of insects, such as ticks or mosquitoes as pests, but there is a great number of insects that are beneficial to agriculture and humans. An example of this is bees.
“The world would be completely out of fruit and vegetables if there were not honeybees or bees in general as pollinators,” Barrick said. “The whole world changed when insect diversity increased to a point and plants started to have flowers. Now plants are dependent on insects, bees specifically, to pollinate them. Without bees, there would be so much food we would not have as humans.
“Any type of bee crisis is a crisis for agriculture. That is something we are experiencing right now.”
Other insects that will be featured in the exhibit include stick bugs, praying mantises, swallowtail butterfly caterpillars and locusts.
“A lot of people, I think, are afraid of insects because they are creepy crawlies,” Darrah Steffen, Sternberg public relations assistant, said. “They can learn they are really beneficial and these insects are really cool creatures.”
Large closeup photos of a variety of insects and insect imposters, such as spiders, will allow visitors to see insects in detail. The exhibit also will have a section called “The Zoo,” which will include live insects in terrariums.
“With the butterfly, [visitors] will learn about the metamorphosis they go through,” Steffen said. “The caterpillar has to eat so much to go into the pupa or chrysalis and completely dissolves and becomes that butterfly. [The exhibit will describe] how that transformation happens.”
Barrick said now is the perfect time to experience this exhibit because it relates directly back to what is happening in our environment.
“We are heading into insect season here in Kansas,” he said. “People can go into their backyards. They can go out on our nature trail. They can go hiking anywhere, and they will have a little better understanding of what they will be able to see and be aware of after coming to our exhibit.”
The Sternberg has a number of other activities scheduled for this summer including summer camps for children, a summer science day in July, a murder mystery party for adults on Aug. 4, family shark tooth hunt on June 16 and a teacher STEM workshop.
Information on the teacher workshop and the summer camps are available on the website now. Look for details on the other events coming soon.
SHERMAN COUNTY — One person was injured in an accident just after 7:30p.m. Saturday in Sherman County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1997 Dodge Ram driven by Dylan Thomas Eisenbart, 16, Goodland, was southbound on County Road 33.
The pickup rear-ended a 2003 Volkswagen driven by Harrison Ford, 26, Longmont, CO, that stopped at intersection of County Road 33 and County Road 63. The collision pushed the Volkswagen into the south ditch.
A passenger in the Volkswagen Karlee Raile, 23, Goodland, was transported to Goodland Regional Medical Center. She was not wearing a seat belt, according to the KHP.
WELLINGTON, Kan. (AP) — Police in southern Kansas say a woman has been killed and a man arrested on suspicion of murder.
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The woman’s body was found in Wellington around 8 p.m. Thursday. Police have not released the woman’s name or details about how she died. An autopsy has been ordered.
Police arrested 32-year-old Bradley Dean Aue on suspicion of second-degree murder. He’s being held in the Sumner County Jail on $500,000 bond. It was not clear Saturday whether he yet had an attorney.
SEDGWICK COUNTY— Law enforcement authorities are investigating an armed robbery and have two suspects in custody.
Just after 11:30 p.m. Friday, police responded to an armed robbery call at a convenience store in the 2300 Block of south Seneca in Wichita, according to officer Charley Davidson.
An 18-year-old male employee told police two unknown suspects, armed with handguns, entered the business demanding money.
The suspects took money from the business and a 55-year-old male customer, according to Davidson. The suspects also took cigarettes from a 30-year-old female employee and then fled the business.
A witness observed the suspects get into a dark colored Dodge Charger, followed them to a residence in the 2000 Block of south Gold and notified authorities.
Police contacted five occupants at the residence. Two of the occupants, both 16-year-old males, were arrested and booked into the Juvenile Detention Center for three counts of aggravated robbery, and aggravated kidnapping, according to Davidson.
Also, during the investigation Officers recovered two stolen firearms.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – One national title and seven All-American honors highlighted day three of the 2018 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships for the Fort Hays State track and field team on Saturday. The Tigers accumulated 15 team points on the women’s side while totaling 13 points in the men’s standings.
Madison Wolf earned the second national title in as many years for the Tigers, winning the javelin throw in her fourth trip to the national meet. The senior sat in second after one round of throws before posting a toss of 161-1 on her second attempt, a mark that would hold up as the best of the day. It was Wolf’s fourth All-American honor. The Bennington, Kan. native is the seventh NCAA champion from the women’s program and is the first outdoor champ since 1999 (Janet Eck, high jump).
Decano Cronin picked up his third All-American trophy in the last calendar year, finishing second in the 800m run. The senior opened the race in the back of the pack but passed five runners over the final 300 meters to finish in a time of 1:47.37, bettering his own school record by more than one second. Cronin took the national title in the same race a year ago before finishing runner-up in the 800m at the indoor meet earlier this season.
Brett Meyer earned his fourth All-American trophy in the last two years after placing fourth in the 1,500m run. The junior started towards the front of the pack before falling back to the middle of the field by the midway point. Meyer made his move around the final turn, passing two runners to finish fourth in a time of 3:46.43.
Senior Kelly Wycoff shattered her own school record in her final collegiate race, placing fifth in the 400m dash after crossing the line in 53.52. It is the Scott City, Kan. native’s second All-American award after garnering second team status a year ago in the same race.
Alexcia Deutscher earned a spot on the national podium for the first time after finishing eighth in the javelin, recording a top throw of 145-4 on her second attempt of the day. The sophomore earned All-American accolades for the second time after picking up second team honors last year.
Jake Morrow and Sam Dreiling both picked up second team All-American honors in the pole vault, each earning national status for the second time this year after finishing in the top eight indoors. Morrow placed ninth with a mark of 16-8. The Grand Island, Neb. native needed just four attempts to clear the first three bars, but was unable to eclipse the 17-0 mark, which would have tied the school record. Dreiling finished in a tie for 11th after soaring over the 16-0 bar on his first attempt.
Courtney Geiger finished 19th in the discus throw thanks to a heave of 136-8 on her first attempt. The senior was the top MIAA finisher in the event.
Adding in performances from the first two days of the national meet, the Tigers picked up 10 All-American honors.
PAWNEE COUNTY — One person died in an accident just before 8a.m. Saturday in Pawnee County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2013 Chevy Cruze driven by Danielle C. Garcia, 22, Larned, was eastbound on U.S. 56.
The Chevy rear-ended a semi that was slowing to turn right onto a private drive just west of Larned.
Garcia was transported to a hospital in Wichita where she died.
The semi driver James M. Thompson, 55, Burdette, was not injured. Both drivers were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.
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PAWNEE COUNTY — One person was injured in an accident just before 8a.m. Saturday in Pawnee County
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2013 Chevy Cruze driven by Danielle C. Garcia, 22, Larned, was eastbound on U.S. 56.
The Chevy rear-ended a semi that was slowing to turn right onto a private drive just west of Larned.
Garcia was transported to a hospital in Wichita. The semi driver James M. Thompson, 55, Burdette, was not injured. Both drivers were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sam Brownback appears relaxed, looser and more convivial as he settles into his ambassador’s job, miles both geographically and emotionally from where he was during his final, difficult months as Kansas’ governor.
Brownback during a television interview with Mike Huckabee earlier this month
When Brownback left the governor’s office in January, the two-term conservative Republican left behind low approval ratings, ire from fellow Republicans over the state’s fiscal problems and an order from the Kansas Supreme Court to increase spending on public schools.
Five months later, a visibly relaxed Brownback was back in his element. He was making jokey sports analogies, ribbing former aide and U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, boasting about his anti-abortion record in Kansas and asking the faithful for their prayers.
He spoke at the recent National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., his new home. As soon as he’d been introduced in his new role as U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, he wasted no time in drawing laughter from the audience.
“She forgot to mention my favorite title, though: Grandpa!” he said. “We have three grandchildren; five children, we’re expecting 25 grandchildren and my favorite child will be whoever has the most grandchildren.”
He said in an interview after the speech that he hasn’t been following political developments in Kansas very closely. That includes the governor’s race, where Republican Gov. Jeff Colyer, his former lieutenant governor, is in tough contest to keep the office.
Brownback said his wife had moved to Washington to be with him. That’s a change from when he served 16 years in Congress before being elected governor in 2010 and he commuted between Washington and Kansas. The couple doesn’t return to Kansas a lot, he said.
“I hear from friends,” Brownback said, “but I’m focused here.”
Brownback’s new job has sent him all over the world.
He’s been to Turkey and Bangladesh and is headed to Nigeria soon, documenting religious persecution for the State Department. He recently had lunch with President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and his new boss, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to discuss religious freedom with the president of Uzbekistan.
And the State Department will soon release an annual report on religious freedom around the world, produced by Brownback’s office.
Brownback, a Catholic known for his strong faith, said he loves his new job as ambassador for religious freedom.
“It is the protection of the pure, noble beautiful,” he said in his speech. “It is why we need your prayers because religious freedom is under attack all over the world.”
DERBY, Kan. (AP) — Dinosaur fans now have a new place to indulge their interest.
The new Field Station: Dinosaurs park has opened in Derby. The 14-acre dinosaur theme park features 44 life-size animatronic dinosaurs spread among three distinct areas of the park.
Park executive director Guy Gsell says the exhibits roar, breathe and blink. The park also features a lake and quarry and employees providing live shows.
The park is the first major attraction to open in the Wichita area in the past few years.
The $6.5 million cost was funded with private financing and sales tax revenue bonds from the city of Derby.
The dinosaurs featured in the park were once found in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, New Mexico and Missouri.
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PRATT – Kansas’ license requirement to fish on public waters will be temporarily lifted for two days in June. Anglers can fish for free on June 2 and 3, 2018 thanks to the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism’s (KDWPT) “Free Fishing Days.”
Each year, KDWPT designates one weekend where everyone can fish without a license; All you need is a pole and a place to go! The Department began the effort as a way to take part in National Fishing and Boating Week – a week dedicated to celebrating, and recognizing the importance of, recreational boating and fishing.
If you’ll be taking part in this year’s free fishing days, here are a couple tips to help you plan your weekend outing:
-Visit www.ksoutdoors.com and click “Fishing,” then “Where to Fish” to find a public fishing spot near you.
-While license requirements are waived for the weekend, anglers must still abide by all other regulations such as length and creel limits, equipment requirements, and more. To find regulation information, grab a copy of the 2018 Kansas Fishing Regulations Summary at a license vendor near you. The summary also lists every state fishing lake, community lake and reservoir, and designates those considered “family friendly,” which means they have easy access to the water, flush restrooms, security patrols and lighting, and no alcohol is allowed.
Go fishing on June 2 and 3; the only thing it will cost you is your free time.
Fort Hays State University is currently accepting applications for the position of University Police Officer. Review of applications will begin after the priority deadline of 06/11/2018. For a full description and a list of requirements go to https://fhsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CAREERS.
Applicants must be at least 21 years of age, no felony convictions, no convictions for domestic violence, and must maintain a valid Kansas driver’s license.
John Thomas Riffle, age 83, of Hays, Kansas formerly of Cameron, Missouri passed away Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at the Good Samaritan Society, Hays. He was born February 14, 1935 in Latour, Missouri to Fredrick Thomas and Glada (Plank) Riffle. On April 11, 1954 he married Barbara Jean Holt-Whiting in Garden City, Missouri. She preceded him in death on December 25, 2014.
John owned Riffle Carpet Installation in Grandview, Missouri. He enjoyed mowing his lawn and was known to be a people person.
He is survived by two daughters, Teresa Taylor and husband Doug of Lake Charles, Louisiana and Connie Curtis and husband Dr. Jeff Curtis of Hays, Kansas; three brothers, Jim Riffle of Latour, Missouri, Richard Riffle of Garden City, Missouri and Don Riffle of Harrisonville, Missouri and two sisters, Barbara Davis of Independence, Missouri and Beverly Andes of Garden City, Missouri. He is also survived by nine grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; two daughters, Janette Hartley and Donna Moore as well as a brother, Raymond Riffle and great-grandson, Landon Michael.
Funeral services will be at a later date in Independence, Missouri.
Arrangements in care of Brock’s-Keithley Funeral Chapel and Crematory 2509 Vine Hays, Kansas 67601
Condolences may be left by guest book at www.keithleyfuneralchapels.com or by email at [email protected]
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