Month: May 2018
KZ Country Cheesy Joke of the Day 5/7/18
A Sunday school teacher said to the children, “We have been learning how powerful kings and queens were in Bible times, but there is a Higher Power. Can anybody tell me what it is?”
One child blurted out, “The Ace!”
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Forsyth’s digital curation librarian represents FHSU at national conference
FHSU University Relations
Digital Curation Librarian Elizabeth Chance for Fort Hays State University’s Forsyth Library recently attended the fifth annual Digital Initiatives Symposium, a national conference hosted by the Copley Library at the University of San Diego.
Chance worked with Michele Gibney from the University of the Pacific, Stockton, Calif., and Kristin Laughtin-Dunker from Chapman University, Orange, Calif., on a presentation titled “Migratory Patterns in IRs: CONTENTdm, Digital Commons and Flying the Coop,” a combination of three individual case studies that looked at the challenges each librarian faced when they moved existing digital collections from one platform to another.
Tiger Women 4th at MIAA Championship, Two Individual Champions
KEARNEY, Neb. – The Fort Hays State women’s track and field team improved off their 2017 finish at the MIAA Outdoor Championships after placing fourth this season. The 2018 installment of the meet was held in Kearney May 4-6.
and led the way for the Tigers by bringing home their individual titles. Wolf, who holds the No. 1 performance in the nation, with her throw of 158 feet, 2 inches. Roberts, who earned her title on the track, finished the in a time of 4:44.37 to take the conference crown. Roberts also placed in the runner-up position in the 800-meters at 2:14.86 to earn her second All-MIAA honor of the weekend.
Kelly Wycoff completed the 400-meters in a speedy 54.42 for a second place finish. This time not only gave Wycoff an All-MIAA honor, but she set a new personal record, improved her DII provisional mark and moved to No. 4 on the performance list.
The final two All-MIAA honors on the weekend for the Tigers went to two third place finishers. Selam Ball set a school record, earned a personal record and claimed a provisional with her height of 12 feet, 8 ¼ inches in the pole vault. Chelsea Jackson claimed a third place finish in the 10,000-meters with an impressive time of 37:47.31 for her All-MIAA mention.
Amber Forbes highlighted other notable performances in Kearney as she set a new school record in the 100-meters with her provisional time of 11.64 by coming in fifth place. In the 200-meters, Forbes earned her provisional at 24.05 as she swept the finish line in sixth place. Wycoff finished right after Forbes in seventh with a time of 24.07, good for her own provisional. Alexcia Deutscher also claimed All-MIAA honors by coming in third in the javelin at 146 feet, 3 inches to reach her provisional mark.
Yessenia Gonzales and Chelsea Jackson both finish in the top-ten in the 5,000-meters as Gonzales clocked in at 18:32.61 for sixth place, and Jackson earned eighth at 18:40.69. Gonzales also earned a high finish as she placed fifth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at 11:51.04.
In relay competition, the team of Forbes, Wycoff, Yanoudji Diarra and Bree Hysaw placed fourth in the 4×100 with a provisional time of 46.22. Another fourth place finish in the 4×400 by Diarra, Sharee Zombo, Forbes and Wycoff with a time of 3:51.13 helped the Tigers.
In field events, Summer Kragel placed ninth in the high jump at 5 feet, 3 inches, while Courtney Geiger (143 feet, 5 inches) and Laurel Haley (137 feet, 10 inches) finished in eighth and ninth place in the discus.
The Tigers calculated 88 total points to finish in fourth place. Pittsburg State claimed the team title with 191 points, followed by Lincoln with 95 and Central Missouri who totaled 93.5.
Women’s Team Scores
Rank Team Score
1 Pittsburg State 191
2 Lincoln (Mo.) 95
3 Central Missouri 93.5
4 Fort Hays State 88
5 Missouri Southern 75
6 NW Missouri State 58
7 Nebraska-Kearney 57
8 Southwest Baptist 56
9 Washburn 33
10 Lindenwood 32.5
11 Emporia State 21
12 Central Oklahoma 14
13 Missouri Western 4
Meyer, Cronin MIAA Champions; FHSU with 5th Place Finish
KEARNEY, Neb. – The Fort Hays State men’s track and field team produced six All-MIAA performances, including two individual championships. The team competed at the conference championships held in Kearney May 4-6.
Brett Meyer and Decano Cronin brought home the two championship performances. Meyer claimed first in the 1,500-meters at a time of 3:53.30, while Cronin out-ran his field in the 800-meters with a finishing time of 1:50.06. Meyer earned another All-MIAA honor in the 800-meters after finishing in third place at 1:51.25.
The other three All-Conference performers for the Tigers came during the field events. Jake Morrow finished in the runner-up position in the pole vault with his height of 16 feet, 11 inches. Lucas Broxterman also finished in second place in his event of the high jump at 6 feet, 11 inches, followed by teammate Kolt Newell in third place at the same height.
Other solid performances highlighted the championship weekend for the Tigers, including Malcom Gardner claiming two top-ten performances. Gardner took sixth in the 200-meters (21.29) and eighth in the 100-meters (10.59) which were both good enough times for provisional marks. Oscar Carmona earned fourth in the 1,500-meters with a time of 3:56.77, while also claiming sixth in the 5,000-meters at 15:26.47.
Kyle Comstock capped a sixth place finish in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 14.74 and Weston Riner ran for 54.83 in the 400-meter hurdles to place seventh. In relay competition, Comstock, Jacob Schumacher, Johnathan Penrose and Gardner led the way to a fifth place finish in the 4×100 at 41.82, while a fourth place time of 3:15.77 in the 4×400 relay comprised of Schumacher, Meyer, Gardner and Cronin sealed strong relay performances.
Switching to field performances, Sam Dreiling earned another provisional in the pole vault coming in eighth place with a height of 15 feet, 9 ¼ inches. TJ Dozier earned a fifth place finish in the discus with his throw of 167 feet, 2 inches for a provisional. In the javelin, Derek Bixenman placed ninth at 175 feet, 8 inches, while also earning fourth place in the decathlon with a provisional 6,497 points. Teammate Matthew Pieper was close behind in fifth place alongside his provisional points at 6,467.
As a team, the Tigers amassed 90.5 points to finish in the fifth place. Pittsburg State led the way with 166.5 points followed by Central Missouri (103.5) and Emporia State (92).
Men’s Team Scores
Rank Team Score
1 Pittsburg State 166.5
2 Central Missouri 103.5
T3 Emporia State 92
T3 Lincoln (Mo.) 92
5 Fort Hays State 90.5
6 Nebraska-Kearney 69
7 Missouri Southern 68
8 NW Missouri State 54.5
9 Lindenwood 31
10 Washburn 26
11 Missouri Western 15
12 Southwest Baptist 11
Well-traveled Allen Street intersection will be closed for a month
City of Hays
Beginning Monday, the intersection of 24th and Allen streets will be opened and the intersection of 22nd and Allen will be closed. Allen Street will be closed from north of 21st Street to south of 24th Street. 22nd Street at Allen will be closed to through traffic for approximately four weeks. This work is part of the Allen Street Reconstruction Project.
Signs will be in place to direct the traveling public. Motorists should use caution in these areas.
The City of Hays regrets any inconvenience this may cause to the public. If there are any questions, please call the Office of Project Management at 628-7350 or the contractor, Paul-Wertenberger Construction at 625-8220.
Zoning Appeals Board to meeting May 9
CITY OF HAYS
The Hays Area Board of Zoning Appeals will meet Wednesday, May 9, at 8:15 a.m. in Commission Chambers at Hays City Hall, 1507 Main.
Agenda items include requests for a side yard building setback at 1306 E 8th Street and a variance in fence height at 417 E 14th Street.
The complete agenda may be seen here.
SHPTV receives grant from Western Kansas Community Foundation
SHPTV
BUNKER HILL – The Western Kansas Community Foundation has awarded Smoky Hills Public Television with a grant for the station’s Literacy Leadership program.
The $1,500 grant will provide books to children in several western Kansas communities. The counties served through this funding include Finney, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kearny, Scott, Seward, Stanton, Stevens, Wichita, Greeley, Hamilton, Lane, Meade and Morton.
“We are grateful to the Western Kansas Community Foundation for their generosity,” said Dawn Gabel, Smoky Hills Public Television General Manager. “With these funds, the Foundation helps support the education mission of Smoky Hills Public Television by providing needed resources to children in western Kansas.”
Smoky Hills Public Television serves 71 counties in central and western Kansas and has been named the Kansas Association of Broadcasters Non-Metro Station of the Year.
WKCF began in 1996 when a group of community leaders saw the potential of a local community foundation to enrich western Kansas life. Since that time, WKCF has expanded to cover 15 counties in southwest Kansas and experienced significant growth to now include assets of over $26 million and more than 200 funds.
Exploring Outdoors Kansas: The cows and the decoys
Rows of round bales lined this side of the patch, split into two groups by a driveway left for a tractor. The turkeys got there by way of a field drive through the thick, overgrown fencerow behind the bales, continuing down the tractor drive and onto the stalks. Once before, some days ago, we were set up here amongst the bales. The turkeys streamed past, well within gun range, but none would stop or raise their head to offer Joyce a clean shot.
We were close enough she could have nailed several turkeys on-the-run with one shot, but besides being slightly illegal since she only had one tag, the prized breast meat would have been so full of pellets it would’ve been like sand blasting the insides of our mouths with each bite. Today we had tried to solve that problem by adding a couple decoys in the drive just before it entered the stalks, in hopes the turkeys would slow down and mill around long enough for a good standing head shot.
What was meant to fix one problem ultimately created another. This was a small lot of just a few acres, so the cattle were never far away, forcing extra caution when shooting. After all, the last thing we needed was to pepper one of the land owner’s heifers in the butt with lead shot.
Our county game warden may have been young and a wee bit naïve, but I think he’d still have caught on when I tried explaining the dandy T-Bones we got from this turkey. So the party was about to begin, and here we sat awaiting the guests of honor, when a half dozen of the cattle began to take a shine to our plastic birds. They gathered just inside the electric fence, exactly where Joyce would need to shoot, and stood there like dumbstruck junior high boys at the Christmas dance! You could almost sense their thoughts.
“They look like turkeys,” Clara thought, “But they sure don’t move much.” “But they don’t smell like turkeys,” Elsie added. “Turkeys stink and these things smell like rubber or something.” “Girls, I have an idea,” Bessie chimed in, “I’ll turn around and try to pee on one and see if it moves like they usually do.”
“This won’t last long,” I told myself… Fifteen minutes later I was fuming! I stuck my arm out the blind window, and waved it franticly, but barely drew stares from our bovine spectators. “Rocks,” I mumbled. “Rocks should do the trick.” I slunk out the back of the blind and scoured the ground.
Rats! Nothing but sand and weeds; not a rock to be found! (By now, I think my wife had fast-forwarded through this whole scenario, and already seen the ending.) I tugged on one of the weeds that were as thick as my wrist, and it tore from the ground sporting a wad of dirt around its roots the size of volleyball. Eureka! Just what I needed! I swung the thing over my head like an Olympic hammer thrower and let fly, only to watch it dribble to a halt at the feet of the nearest cow, which looked down at it with disgust. “Stupid cows,” I mumbled. Still hidden behind the bales, I jumped up and down and waved my arms frantically like a first time auction goer trying to bid; still no response.
I’m sure the cows were thinking something like “Will you look at that stupid turkey hunter jumping up and down like a first time auction goer trying to bid.” “That does it,” I thought! Turkeys or not, I WILL walk over there and those cows WILL move! (By now it had become a matter of principle.) I had only taken a few steps when I heard something behind me. Was it turkeys after all this? A dozen scenarios flashed through my mind; What if I spooked the turkeys, causing them to fly everywhere and my wife accidentally shot a cow in the butt in the melee; What if she accidentally shot me in the butt in the melee; What if she PURPOSELY shot me in the butt just to get me out of the way? I stopped to listen, but the sound I heard was not turkeys.
No, it was raucous laughter coming from the blind! I squinted to peer inside from where I stood, and saw my wife bent over, howling hysterically. “Who’s the blockhead now,” I wondered. “Cows enamored with plastic turkeys or yours truly?”
We packed up and headed home, once again conceding defeat. “They’re all in cahoots,” I muttered. “Those cows and turkeys have a pack of some sort, I’m sure of it!” “Whatever you say honey,” Joyce replied with a smirk. As we drove away, I imagined that little patch of feed stalks now filled with turkeys celebrating our defeat, however cows and turkeys celebrate. I was sure that off to one side, a group of turkeys had Bessie cornered; the spokesman for the group was asking her “Soooooo, all those times you were really TRYING to pee on us?
Steve Gilliland, Inman, can be contacted by email at [email protected].
MADORIN: Seeing possibilities in junk
Inside the house, this might involve moving furniture or adding bright pillows and throws. Outside, the possibilities are endless. One so inclined might use pallets to construct upright gardens that grow along a fence or garage wall or outdoor forts and furniture. Those who love funky yard art might head for the scrap heap to find broken down metal pieces that lend themselves to new lives as flywheel-bodied birds and insects with plier head ornaments, harrow tailed beasts, or disc and rebar mammals.
Waste not, want not is the mantra for folks who recognize a dolphin, stallion, or buffalo sculpture in a pile of rusty nuts, bolts, and gears. You can’t help but admire these creative spirits for both their vision and their skillset. Holy cow, they visualize a final product and then weld it out of what others tossed in the trash pile.
Think about possibilities waiting to be born from scrap heaps in garages, barns, and at the junk dealer’s. Old tractor seats wait to find a new life as a critter or a crazy looking picnic stool. Gazillions of metal knobs, faucets, and handles oxidize in isolation until inventive sorts spy them and reimagine them as garden fountains, coat racks, or google eyes on a dragon.
One young welder I know sees possibility in just about anything. He can take garage sale or auction- found plumbing pipes and turn them into high-end embellishments. I particularly like the innovative lamps he makes. If he gets tired of his day job, he could make a living selling his one of a kind furnishings and light fixtures.
In addition to scoping out creative neighbors, a stop at area flea markets or the Kansas Store on I-70 offers potential buyers and craftspeople a chance to see welded art creatures first hand. As a result of such adventures, my brother’s backyard now sports a tractor-seat-bodied and tailed strutting turkey. Who knows what discarded parts form its wattle. A welded grasshopper made of once useless implement parts guards mom’s roses. A heavy bodied woodpecker constructed from old plates, gears, and wheels climbs her trellis. A roadrunner made of soldered spikes oversees her dining room. My own collection includes a heavy-duty rooster, long-legged heron with leaf rake tail, and rusty armadillo formed from bits of rebar.
My husband recently bought a welder so once I find a source for metal, our menagerie will expand. Unlike living pets, these repurposed ones don’t require food or cleaning up poop. Besides, flying pigs and unicorn frogs exist in this world.
As you spring clean and find odd piles of metal or wood, consider the possibilities. How can you recycle junk into yard art that entertains you and visitors who happen to spot your creations? It’s not like we don’t have a model for grassroots art in nearby Lucas, Kansas.
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.
Moustakas helps Royals top Tigers 4-2, win first series
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Mike Moustakas helped the Kansas City Royals win a series for the first time in 11 tries this season.
Moustakas drove in three runs with a double and sacrifice fly, and the Royals beat Detroit 4-2 on Sunday to take three of four from the Tigers.
Kansas City had lost nine previous series this year and split one.
“We’ve been going out and grinding and playing good baseball,” Moustakas said. “Obviously things haven’t really been going our way. Lately we’ve been playing great ball. Things are starting to fall for us. Our staff has been doing phenomenal and our defense is always there. If we keep doing those things, we’re going to keep getting better.”
Kansas City has won six of its last nine games, leaving the Royals at 11-23.
Jakob Junis (4-2) improved to 3-0 against the Tigers this year and matched his career high with eight strikeouts. He allowed two runs and eight hits in seven-plus innings.
“The slider was working,” Junis said. “I had a lot of strikeouts and strikeouts in big situations. Strikeouts are always good.”
Kelvin Herrera retired pinch-hitter Nicholas Castellanos on a game-ending flyout with a man on for his seventh save in eight chances, ending a game that took just 2 hours, 16 minutes.
Matthew Boyd (1-3) gave up four runs and six hits in seven innings, dropping to 2-6 against Kansas City.
“We got a lot of weak contact,” Boyd said. “I made most of my pitches all game, it’s just that Moustakas was one of my mistakes. I didn’t make my pitch there. It’s unfortunate that the game came down to the Moustakas matchup. I threw the pitch I wanted to. I just didn’t execute it like I wanted to. I had a chance to put him away earlier in the count and I didn’t do that.”
Moustakas hit a sacrifice fly in the first and had a two-run double to the base of the center-field wall in the third. Moustakas scored when Salvador Perez singled on a popup that shortstop Jose Iglesias lost in the sun.
Whit Merrifield led off the first with a double and came home on Moustakas’ sacrifice fly. Merrifield stole three bases for the second time in his big league career, the first since last July 2.
Merrifield stole third against the shift and then Soler stole second before Moustakas’ third-inning double.
“We had one bad inning out there defensively where our third baseman (Niko Goodrum) walked off with another guy stealing third and the first baseman (John Hicks) forgot to hold the runner on,” Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire said. “I’ll put it on myself. I should have just yelled ‘timeout.’ I should have stopped the game. Guys not familiar with their positions, and that’s disappointing that they ran all over us.”
Hicks homered in the fourth and hit a run-scoring single in the eighth off Brad Keller.
NEGRO LEAGUES SALUTE
The Royals wore the uniforms of the Kansas City Monarchs and the Tigers of the Detroit Stars as the clubs saluted the Negro Leagues. The Negro Leagues Museum is in Kansas City.
QUICK GAME
The game time was the shortest at Kaufman Stadium since Aug. 18, 2016 against Minnesota.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Tigers: 3B Jaimer Candelario did not play because of a jammed and swollen left thumb, injured in a swing. … Castellanos, who had three extra-base hits Saturday, did not start because of flu-like symptoms. … Iglesias is getting treatment for a tender ankle, but was in the lineup. “We’ve talked about trying to give him a break, but we didn’t have an option today,” Gardenhire said.
UP NEXT
Tigers: RHP Michael Fulmer (1-2, 2.80) is to start Monday at Texas, which goes with LHP Matt Moore (1-4, 7.67).
Royals: LHP Danny Duffy (0-4, 5.64) is the scheduled starter Tuesday at Baltimore, and RHP Dylan Bundy (1-4, 3.76) starts for the Orioles. Kansas City is 0-14 in games started by Duffy and RHP Jason Hammel.
Tiger Baseball Turns First Triple Play in 16 Years in Season Finale
JOPLIN, Mo. – The Fort Hays State baseball team scored two early runs before dropping the final game of the regular season Sunday afternoon (May 6) to Missouri Southern, 17-2. The Tigers wrap up the regular season 13-37 overall and 5-31 in MIAA play, while the Lions finish the year 27-23 and 15-21 in league action.
The Tiger defense saved the best for last, as they turned a rare feat in the home half of the sixth inning. In Tyler Renninson’s first frame of work, the righty allowed two runners to reach base before inducing a sharp ground ball to third base. Alex Weiss scooped up the ball and quickly tagged third before whipping a throw towards second. Ryan Grasser corralled the toss and tapped on the bag before firing the ball towards Dayton Pomeroy at first who completed the first triple play in more than 16 years (5/1/02, 2nd inning vs. Central Christian, Smith-Santangelo-Dreher).
You’ve heard of Tinker to Evers to Chance? Try Weiss to Grasser to Pomeroy! @fhsubaseball wraps up the year with their first triple play in 16 years! 🎥: @mososports @TheMIAANetwork #RoarTigers #miaabb pic.twitter.com/28GN8Hy3md
— FHSU Athletics (@fhsuathletics) May 6, 2018
Offensively the Tigers were limited to just five hits, with three coming in the third and two coming in the seventh. Addison Kaasch worked a leadoff walk before singles from Clayton Basgall and Weiss quickly loaded the bases. Grasser put the Tigers on the board with a base knock to center two batters later, plating a pair.
Missouri Southern kept things rolling at the plate in the home half of the first, with a pair of home runs adding up to four runs. The Lions continued to pour it on moving forward, compiling 14 hits, including four long balls, to score their 17 runs.
The Tigers, meanwhile, went stagnant at the plate, with 19 batters being retired in order after Grasser’s RBI single in the first. Colton Helm and Jonathan Mariani both collected singles off the bench in the seventh inning, but a pop up ended the game with two men aboard.
Ryan Ruder (4-9) took the loss after allowing five runs in one-plus innings of work.
UPDATE: Mother, boyfriend in custody; 2-year-old Kan. boy has died
SEDGWICK COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating two suspects in connection with the death of a 2-year-old boy.
Just before 8 a.m. Friday, police responded to a residence in the 800 block of north Woodrow in Wichita where the boy was found, not breathing, according to officer Charley Davidson.
The boy was transported to an area hospital in critical condition, according to Davidson. The boy died Sunday.
The child’s 22-year-old mother, and her 25-year-old boyfriend were also at the residence.
A preliminary investigation revealed the child had sustained substantial face and head injuries.
The mother identified according to the Sedgwick County booking report as Elizabeth Woolheater and boyfriend Lucas Diel are being held in the Sedgwick County Jail on amended requested charges of first-degree murder and endangering a child.
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SEDGWICK COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating two suspects on attempted murder allegations in connection with abuse of a 2-year-old boy.
Just before 8 a.m. Friday, police responded to a residence in the 800 block of north Woodrow in Wichita where the boy was found, not breathing, according to officer Charley Davidson.
The boy was transported to an area hospital in critical condition. The child’s 22-year-old mother, and her 25-year-old boyfriend were also at the residence.
A preliminary investigation revealed the child had sustained substantial face and head injuries.
The mother identified according to the Sedgwick County booking report as Elizabeth Woolheater and boyfriend Lucas Diel are being held in the Sedgwick County Jail for attempted murder.