Shakey went to a psychiatrist. “Doc,” he said, “I’ve got trouble. Every time I get into bed, I think there’s somebody under it. You gotta help me, I’m going crazy!”
“Come to me three times a week for two years,” said the psychiatrist, “and I’ll cure your fears.”
“How much do you charge?”
“A hundred dollars per visit.”
“I’ll sleep on it,” said Shakey. Six months later the doctor met Shakey on the street. “Why didn’t you ever come to see me again?” asked the psychiatrist.
“Too expensive. My paperboy cured me for ten dollars.”
The Hays Larks earned their seventh win in-a-row Wednesday behind Mason Myhre who allowed just one run over six innings in a 2-1 win over Great Bend.
The Bat Cats took a 1-0 lead on a first inning sacrifice fly but after that Myrhe and Walter Pennington combined to throw eight shutout innings for the Larks.
Myrhe allowed just the one run on five hits and struck out five to improve to 3-1 on the summer.
Pennington pitched three shutout innings, allowing just one run and striking out three to earn his first save of the season.
Hays scored their first run on a second inning passed ball and then in the third inning Devin Hager plated a run with an RBI single.
Easton Smith took the loss for Great Bend. He allowed four hits and two runs over five innings, striking out five.
The Larks are 22-5 and 16-4 in the Jayhawk League.
Elsewhere in the Jayhawk League on Wednesday:
Dodge City beat Liberal 8-2
Derby beat Haysville 5-4
HOXIE – The Dane G. Hansen Foundation, Logan, Kansas, has awarded the Main Street Arts Council (MSAC) a $15,000 grant in support of the council’s 2018 Main Street Summer Theater Festival. The festival, in its seventh year, provides performance opportunities for Northwest Kansas area youth.
Under the direction of Bonnie Cameron, executive director of the MSAC, the festival will feature performances throughout July in three locations: Atwood, Hoxie and Goodland. Cameron is assisted by student interns Mattie Higley, Atwood; Sophia Hampton, Atwood; Tabor Rucker, Hoxie; Jacqueline Chacon, Atwood; and Kathryn Haffner, Hoxie. Kayla Tiemeyer, Rawlins County High School music teacher, is directing the Atwood production.
“We are extremely grateful to the Dane G. Hansen Foundation for their generous support,” said Cameron. “The kids participating have been working very hard, and we look forward to sharing our love of music and the performing arts with the communities throughout Northwest Kansas. The Hansen Foundation has enabled us to grow our program and for that we are very thankful.”
Performances include Disney’s “The Jungle Book – Kids” on Friday, July 6 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, July 8 at 3 p.m., at Rawlins County High School, 205 N 4th St, Atwood; Dreamworks’ “Shrek the Musical Jr.” on Friday, July 13 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, July 15 at 3 p.m. at Hoxie High School Auditorium, 1625 Queen Ave, Hoxie; and Disney’s “Cinderella – Kids” on Friday, July 20 at 7 p.m (MT) and Sunday, July 22 at 5 p.m. (MT) at Goodland High School, 1209 Cherry Ave, Goodland.
Auditions were held in each location earlier this spring for area youth aged 5-18. There is no fee to participate and all children interested were cast in each respective show. More than 90 kids from 10 communities are set to perform in this year’s festival.
Tickets for each show are available for purchase from cast members or at the door. Tickets for the Atwood and Goodland performances are $12 adults and $8 kids aged 6-12. Hoxie performance tickets are $15 adults; $10 kids aged 6-12; Children 5 and under are free at all three locations.
Additional festival contributors include DuPont Pioneer Giving Program, Sheridan County Community Foundation, Ogallala Commons, Hoxie Feedyard and Oscar’s. MSAC expresses its sincerest gratitude to all contributors and sponsors. For more information regarding sponsorship opportunities, visit www.mainstreetartscouncil.com/sponsorship-opportunities.
About the Main Street Arts Council
The Main Street Arts Council is an organization dedicated to promoting the arts, encouraging creativity, serving the Arts community and acting as an advocate for the Arts. We believe the arts are essential to the life of the community. The Main Street Arts Council strives to be a model organization for the Northwest Kansas region, ensuring access to the arts for all ages, encouraging a community passion for the arts and successfully supporting, partnering and collaborating with others committed to the arts.
KEARNEY, Mo. (AP) – Two young sisters have been found dead in a rural area northeast of Kansas City.
Investigators on the scene Wednesday -image courtesy KCTV
Clay County sheriff’s Capt. Will Akin said the girls were found outside their home just after noon Wednesday by their mother and were not breathing. Both girls were under 5 years old.
Akin said foul play is not suspected and neither water nor firearms appear to have been involved, but the deaths are under investigation.
The incident was reported near the intersection of a rural road and Missouri 92 east of Kearney. The mother ran to a neighbor’s house and the neighbor called 911.
RENO COUNTY— A second Kansas man shot during a gunfight in Hutchinson on June 26 is now also jailed on a $500,000 bond and accused of first-degree murder.
Delaney-photo Reno County
Tristan Delaney, 18, is now charged along with 26-year-old Curtis Garcia in the case.
Both were arrested in association with the shooting death of 18-year-old Norman Cushinberry.
Just before 6:30 p.m. on June 26, police were called to the 500 block of North Washington in Hutchinson on the report of a shooting and found Cushinberry in the street. Efforts to revive him were unsuccessful.
The other victim, 18-year-old Tristan J. Delaney, was wounded in the face and the abdomen and taken to Hutchinson Regional Medical Center. He was then flown to Wesley Medical Center.
Statements in court indicate the shootings may have been over the possible sale of marijuana, as well as the use of fake money.
Security camera images show Delaney approaching Garcia’s vehicle. Cushinberry was a passenger in the vehicle. He was shot and his body was pulled from the truck after a struggle inside.
Police found a shotgun near Cushinberry. They also found some .380-caliber shells at the scene and during a search of Garcia’s home. Officers say they also found a .380 caliber handgun and a 9 mm handgun at the home.
Garcia, who has claimed the shooting was in self-defense, is expected back in court on July 6. Delaney will be back in court on July 10.
The 35th Infantry Division Band, the official band of the Kansas National Guard, has announced its summer concert series.
The free public summer concert series will be presented in a number of communities across the state. Audience attendance for past concerts has averaged from 400-500 people per concert.
The Marching Band will be presenting the National Anthem July 4 at the Kansas City-T-Bones game and July 6 at the Kansas City Royals game.
The Music Performance Teams of the 35th Division Band and the music each plays include:
Concert Band – Military, Contemporary, Popular
Bullseye Brass (Brass Quintet) – Chamber, Contemporary, Popular
Heartland Brass (Brass Quintet) – Chamber, Contemporary, Popular
Prairie Winds (Woodwind Quintet) – Chamber, Contemporary, Popular
Sounds of Freedom (Small Brass Ensemble) – Chamber, Contemporary, Popular
Hard to Handle (Rock Band) – Top 40 Hits
Night Breeze (Jazz Combo) – Jazz Standards
All concerts will last approximately an hour and 15 minutes.
Courtesy photo
The summer schedule is:
July 8
Scott City – El Quartelejo Museum, 902 W 5th St., 2 p.m. – Heartland Brass and Prairie Winds
Cimarron – Cimarron Crossing Park, South Main St., 7 p.m. – Sounds of Freedom and Bullseye Brass
Sublette – Municipal Park, 7 p.m. Night Breeze
July 9
Greensburg– Twilight Theater, 200 S. Main St. 7:30 p.m. – Concert Band
July 10
Dodge City – Public Library, 1001 N. 2nd Ave., 12 p.m. – Prairie Winds
Dodge City – Wright Park, 7:30 p.m. – Concert Band
July 11
Hugoton – Senior Center, 624 S. Main St., 11:30 a.m. – Sounds of Freedom
Liberal – Tobias Park, 430 N. Grant St., 12 p.m. – Night Breeze
Hugoton – City Park, 300 S. Main St., 7 p.m. – Hard to Handle
Johnson – Stanton County Junior/Senior High, 200 W. Weaver, 7 p.m. – Bullseye Brass
Leoti – District Courthouse Lawn, 206 S. 4th St., 7 p.m. – Sounds of Freedom
Soldiers and Airmen with the Kansas National Guard marched, rattled and rolled down the perimeter streets of the Kansas Statehouse as American flag waving parade-goers looked on, cheering and saluting the procession of the third-annual Veterans Day Parade in Topeka, Kansas, Nov. 7, 2015. The procession included vintage cars, civic groups, floats and military equipment. Maj. Gen. Lee Tafanelli, the adjutant general of Kansas, and Command Chief Master Sgt. James Brown, senior enlisted advisor, KSNG, served as grand marshals of the parade.(U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Zachary Sheely/Released)
July 13
Great Bend – Public Library, 1409 Williams, 10:30 a.m. – Bullseye Brass and Prairie Winds
Garden City – City Park, 7 p.m. – Concert Band
July 14
Liberal – Liberal High School, 1611 W. 2nd St., 7 p.m. – Concert Band
July 15
WaKeeney – Trego Community High School, 1200 Russell Ave., 7 p.m. – Concert Band
July 16
Hays – Schmidt Gallery, Hays Public Library, 1205 Main St., 12 p.m. – Bullseye Brass
Smith Center – Wagner Park, 200 E. 3rd St., 1 p.m. – Hard to Handle and Night Breeze
Hays – Fort Hays State University, 600 Park Street, 7 p.m. – Concert Band
July 17
Hays – Schmidt Gallery, Hays Public Library, 1205 Main St., 12 p.m. – Night Breeze
Great Bend – Courthouse Square, 1400 Main St., 7:30 p.m. – Concert Band
July 18
Hays – Fort Hays Historic Site, 1472 Hwy 183 Alt, 11 a.m. – Prairie Winds and Heartland Brass
Oakley – Fick Fossil Museum/Library, 700 W. 3rd, 12 p.m. – Hard to Handle
Russell – Public Library, 126 E. Wisconsin, 1 p.m. – Sounds of Freedom
Colby – Colby Community College, 1255 S. Range Ave., 7:30 p.m. – Concert Band
July 19
Hays – Schmidt Gallery, Hays Public Library, 1205 Main St., 12 p.m. – Hard to Handle
Logan – Public Library, 109 W. Main St., 1 p.m. – Prairie Winds
We hate false information on social media even more than “hate speech” or personal attacks, says the 2018 State of the First Amendment survey released Thursday by the First Amendment Center of the Freedom Forum Institute.
The same survey also found that a majority of us want the social media companies like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to do the false news takedown, not some government authority or official truth czar.
Overall, 83 percent of Americans agree that social media companies should remove false information, compared to 72 percent who agree such companies should remove “hate speech” and 68 percent who would have personal attacks taken down.
Those with a high school education or less were significantly more likely (87%) than those with a college education (77%) to agree that false information should be removed. There were no statistically significant differences among income groups.
The survey was conducted by Fors Marsh Group, an applied research company based in Arlington, Va., which speculates that those less educated may rely more heavily on social media as a source of news and therefore worry more than others about whether they are getting truthful information.
We strongly believe that social media companies should on their own initiative be monitoring and removing such objectionable content. But hold off on those free expression celebrations: When asked directly, respondents were about evenly split on whether to go a step further and empower the government to require those companies to “monitor and remove.”
In total, the survey sample included 1,009 adult respondents, with a margin of error of 3.7 percent — meaning it’s likely that if you asked another 1,009 adults the same questions, the results might go up or down by 3.7 percent.
When it comes to speech on campus, the survey showed that the public leans toward hearing from controversial speakers over cancelling invitations to speak — though support drops significantly when the speech is likely to cause violence.
Solid majorities favored going ahead with such speakers at colleges and universities even when the remarks were likely to offend some groups or individuals (55%).The nation was closely divided (51%-45%) on withdrawing an invitation if the speaker was likely to provoke “large-scale protests from students” or when the speech was supported by public funds (47%-46%). Small percentages in both cases declined to response or “didn’t know.”
Only when violence was likely to occur did 70 percent favor withdrawing an invitation to speak.
The survey found that the more we know about our First Amendment freedoms, the less likely we are to agree with placing limits on those freedoms.
But again, the warning buzzer sounds: As found consistently over the last 21 years of survey results, many of us know very little about those basic rights. According to this year’s survey, 40 percent of us cannot even name one First Amendment freedom. For the respondents who could, unprompted, name a First Amendment freedom, freedom of speech (56%) was the most commonly recalled, followed by religion (15%), press (13%), assembly (12%) and petition (2%). Two percent mistakenly guessed the right to vote, while the right to bear arms (9%) was the most common mistake.
Anything less than overwhelming support for freedom of religion and free expression brings cold comfort to those who see democracy’s base as resting on both. Even finding that about three-quarters of respondents (74%) see a role for the news media in holding government accountable, a slight uptick from last year’s 68 percent, means that around one in four of us does not see the news media as such a needed “watchdog.”
We can take heart that this year’s survey findings bend toward free expression and freedom for the press. But, we ought to be more than just concerned that a sizeable number of us seem willing to disavow those core freedoms for one reason or another — or can’t even be bothered to remember them.
Gene Policinski is president and chief operating officer of the Freedom Forum Institute. He can be reached at [email protected], or follow him on Twitter at @genefac.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Trevor Bauer made plenty of quality pitches, but it was Cleveland catcher Roberto Perez who made the best throw of the night.
Bauer pitched effectively into the eighth inning as the Indians beat the skidding Kansas City Royals 3-2 on Wednesday for a three-game sweep.
With the Royals trailing by one in the eighth, Whit Merrifield hit a leadoff double before Perez nabbed him attempting to steal third.
“It was a huge play,” Bauer said.
Merrifield, the 2017 AL stolen base champion, said he got a good jump
“They executed. I executed,” Merrifield said. “They got me this time. It was the right play. If I had a chance to do it again, I’d do it again.”
Perez gave credit to Bauer.
“He was thinking he was going to try and steal,” Perez said. “He called fastball up and in and I thought that was the game right there. That was on Bauer. He hit me right in the chest and I made a strong throw, and (Jose) Ramirez made a good tag on him. I was fired up.”
Michael Brantley had an early RBI double and the Indians scored all their runs in the first three innings on only one hit. Bauer struck out eight and walked one over 7 2/3 innings.
The plummeting Royals have lost six straight and 18 of 21. They have scored four or fewer runs in 25 of their past 26 games and are barely ahead of Baltimore for the worst record in the majors.
After winning on grand slams by Francisco Lindor and Yan Gomes the previous two nights, the Indians managed only four hits – two in the ninth inning.
Bauer (8-6) has struck out eight or more in eight consecutive starts. He allowed seven hits, six of them singles, and is 3-1 in his past four starts.
“It was frustrating in a lot of ways and I was happy the team won,” Bauer said. “I made some good pitches and gave up some weak hits. I had too many two-strike pitches put into play. I need to clean that up.”
Cody Allen worked the ninth to earn his 18th save in 19 chances. It was his 140th career save, breaking a tie with Bob Wickman for the club record.
Lindor walked to start the game, stole second and scored on Brantley’s double. Brantley went to third on Ramirez’s flyout and scored on Edwin Encarnacion’s sacrifice fly.
The Indians manufactured a run without a hit in the second. Jason Kipnis and Tyler Naquin opened the inning with walks. Perez advanced both with a sacrifice bunt, and Greg Allen delivered a sacrifice fly.
Kansas City used a double steal to create a run in the second. Alex Gordon, who was hit by a pitch, and Hunter Dozier, who reached on an infield single, were at the corners with two outs. They pulled off a successful double steal, with Gordon scoring. It was Dozier’s first career steal.
The last Royals player to steal home was Alex Rios on July 20, 2015, against Pittsburgh, also as part of a double steal.
Alcides Escobar singled in the Kansas City fifth and advanced to third on Drew Butera’s one-out single. Escobar scored on Merrifield’s sacrifice fly.
Royals starter Trevor Oaks (0-2), recalled from Triple-A Omaha to take Ian Kennedy’s spot in the rotation, was removed after four innings and 73 pitches. He allowed three runs on two hits and four walks.
“The leadoff walks and not having good command, just really frustrating when I’ve walked like one or two guys an outing and now I’m back to four,” Oaks said.
Oaks had a 0.62 ERA in his last seven Triple-A starts. Kennedy went on the disabled list with a strained left oblique.
THE HOT CORNER
Dozier made his first big league start at third base. Dozier played 401 games at third, starting 281, in the Royals’ minor league system. He had started 35 games at first base, two in right field and two as the DH this season.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Indians: OF Brandon Guyer (bruised left knee) did not play after fouling a pitch off his leg in the ninth inning Tuesday. X-rays were negative. … LHP Andrew Miller (right knee inflammation) is scheduled to throw a bullpen Thursday. … LHP Tyler Olson (shoulder strain) threw 17 pitches for Triple-A Columbus on a rehab assignment. He retired two batters, walked one, struck out one and did not allow a hit.
Royals: 3B Mike Moustakas (back spasms) was held out of the lineup for the second straight game. “It’s not serious at all,” manager Ned Yost said. “He came in today and still felt it a little bit. With an off day tomorrow, there’s no sense in pushing it.” … OF Bubba Starling (oblique strain) was sent to the rookie-level Arizona League to begin a rehab assignment. Starling, a 2011 first-round draft pick, has not played since May 10 with Triple-A Omaha.
UP NEXT
Indians: Open a homestand Friday against the Athletics with RHP Carlos Carrasco (8-5, 4.24 ERA) starting. Oakland will counter with RHP Paul Blackburn (2-2, 6.46).
Royals: RHP Jason Hammel (2-10, 5.56) starts Friday night against the Red Sox at Kauffman Stadium. LHP Chris Sale (8-4, 2.41) gets the ball for Boston.
RENO COUNTY — One person was injured in an accident just after midnight Wednesday in Reno County.
A Chevy S-10 driven by Tristen F. Woods of Hutchinson was just west of the Cow Creek bridge in the 2000 Block of Nickerson Boulevard, according to the Reno County Sheriff’s Department.
The pickup was parked sideways in the westbound lane trying to help a friend get his motorcycle up from the ditch.
A westbound motorcycle driven by William Julian, 52, Lyons, didn’t see the truck in time and struck it just in front of the driver side door. The rider was thrown several feet from the motorcycle.
Woods was the only one in the vehicle at the time of the accident.
Life Team transported Julian to Wesley Medical Center. He was not wearing a helmet. The Reno County Sheriff’s
Woods declined treatment and was taken to the hospital by a private vehicle.
The accident is still under investigation, according to the sheriff’s department.
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RENO COUNTY — One person was injured in an accident just after midnight Wednesday in Reno County.
A Chevy S-10 driven by Tristen F. Woods of Hutchinson was just west of the Cow Creek bridge in the 2000 Block of Nickerson Boulevard, according to the Reno County Sheriff’s Department.
The pickup was parked sideways in the westbound lane trying to help a friend get his motorcycle up from the ditch.
A westbound motorcycle didn’t see the truck in time and struck it just in front of the driver side door. The rider was thrown several feet from the motorcycle.
Woods was the only one in the vehicle at the time of the accident and the man riding the motorcycle was the only one on the motorcycle at the time.
Life Team transported the driver of the motorcycle to Wesley Medical Center. He was not wearing a helmet. The Reno County Sheriff’s Department has not released his name.
Woods declined treatment and was taken to the hospital by a private vehicle.
The accident is still under investigation, according to the sheriff’s department.
Avalon Advanced Health is providing a new health care model in Hays — direct primary care.
Dr. Marshall Eidenberg’s practice does not bill third-party insurance.
Dr. Marshall Eidenberg’s direct primary care practice, Avalon Advanced Health, opened in April.
Instead, patients pay a monthly fee for services some of which include sick visits, weight management, house calls, pre-operation visits, in-office ultra sound, sports physicals, diabetes management, and pediatric sick visits and well checks.
By eliminating its back office staff, Dr. Eidenberg is able to provide services less expensively and more efficiently. He said 90 percent of services are covered under the monthly service fee, which starts at $75 for an individual. Per-person prices decrease for family memberships.
Eidenberg is the former director of the ER department at HaysMed. His medical background includes 12 years in the Army as an emergency medical physician. During that time he also worked in population health and preventive medicine. He also spent four years at Via Christ in Wichita in its ER department.
During his time as an ER physician, he learned the value of preventive care. He said he appreciates being able to spend more time with his patients in his new practice.
Whereas a visit to a physician in a typical clinic might last 20 minutes, appointments at Avalon can be 30 to 90 minutes. This time allows him the opportunity to counsel and educate and decrease patients’ need for medicines. In a fee-for-service model, clinics and doctors make more money if they see more patients and perform more procedures, Eidenberg said.
“By having the time and answering all the questions, making a comprehensive plan with the patient, we actually save them time because then they don’t have to make that appointment next month to come back in and pay another co-pay for the office visit,” he said. “We believe in the value of the comprehensive visit.”
The practice has on-site lab services. Eidenberg can draw labs at the beginning of the appointment and have results back before the patient leaves the office.
Eidenberg recommends patients still keep major medical insurance, but most direct primary care patients can increase their deductibles and save money. His family moved to a higher deductible and is saving $400 to $500 per month.
He said his experiences in the ER lead him to think there was a more efficient way to provide health care.
“I was the chief of the ER here at HaysMed, and we had no clue of what was being billed in our name. We were being given just a salary. My wife was injured and ended up going into the ER,” he said. “We had very good insurance, and there was still a $1,000 co-pay. Just from there, we figured there had to be a better way. Health care does not need to cost as much as it does.”
Of the 30 heads of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations, they made more than $100 million in 2016, Eidenberg said.
“That didn’t keep anybody’s rates down. In fact, most people saw an increase in their insurance rates,” he said.
Eidenberg compared health insurance to car insurance. Direct primary care takes care of the day-to-day needs of patients like changing the oil in a car, and health insurance is saved for major occurrences we hope never happen like heart attacks.
Eidenberg offers after-hours care, which can save costly trips to the ER for conditions that would normally be dealt with in a clinic setting.
“If you are a mother at 2 in the morning with three kids and one of them is sick, do you want to package everyone up at 2 in the morning to go to the ER?” he said. “We can make house calls and save that mother the time and effort and the cost. The ER is allowed to charge an after-hours fee, and believe me they do. I think we are an option for everybody if you want that personalized care.”
By providing easy access to primary care, Eidenberg said he hopes to free the ER to care for true emergencies.
The practice tries to limit specialist referrals by trying to have minor questions about ongoing care answered electronically through email. The practice also tries to save time and money when referring to a specialist by contacting the specialists about labs and studies that need to be done. Those labs can be done in advance. This allows the specialist to address issues in a single visit.
The practice also works with employers to perform site visits to identify instances in which an employee might be injured.
The clinic, 2703 Hall, Ste. 13, opened in April. Eidenberg said he has had good response from the community, including clients from the hospital.
He said he sees direct primary care as a growing trend. There are more than 1,000 practices across the country, although few at present in the state of Kansas.
Ada Mae Stebbens, 85, passed away Sunday, July 1, 2018. She was born April 27, 1933, to Edgar Charles and Martha Melissa (Lewis) Loop. She married Donald Theodore Stebbens on Sept. 8, 1951.
She is survived by two daughters: Debra Brenner (Mark), of Riverside, California., and Diane Schuck (Lenus), of Hill City; six grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by: her parents; her husband; and all siblings. Private family services will be at a later date. There is no visitation nor local services.
TOPEKA—The Kansas Supreme Court appointed five new members to the Alternative Dispute Resolution Council and reappointed two more.
All will serve from July 1 through June 30, 2021.
New members are:
Denise Parker, court services officer and approved mediator for the 16th Judicial District, composed of Clark, Comanche, Ford, Gray, Kiowa, and Meade counties
Jenna Esquibel, court services officer and approved mediator, 10th Judicial District, composed of Johnson County
Sharon Seidler, approved mediator, Riley County Domestic Mediation Services
Laura Lewis, approved mediator, 16th Judicial District
Sara Wheeler, court services officer and approved mediator, 13th Judicial District, composed of Butler, Greenwood, and Elk counties.
Reappointed were:
District Judge Sally Pokorny, Lawrence, who serves in Douglas County of the 7th Judicial District
Roxanne Emmert-Davis, mediator and trainer in Shawnee County.
The Dispute Resolution Act established dispute resolution as a means to resolve issues without litigation, using an impartial third party to help the two sides reach a settlement.
Council members are knowledgeable about and trained in dispute resolution. The council advises the Supreme Court and its director of dispute resolution.
Under The Bed
