HAYS, Kan. – The Fort Hays State baseball team dropped a pair of games to Lindenwood Sunday afternoon at Larks Park. The Tigers were overpowered by the Lions pitching in both contests, falling 13-1 in the opener before taking a 16-3 loss in the nightcap. The Tigers (3-23, 2-15 MIAA) and Lions (16-15, 10-7 MIAA) will wrap up the series Monday beginning at 1 p.m.
Game One: Lindenwood 13, Fort Hays State 1
The Tigers could only muster five hits in the opener. Landon Erway and Jared Haynes tallied two hits each, while Ryan Grasser earned the other hit and the lone RBI. Ryan Ruder (1-5) started on the mound and allowed eight runs (six earned) on 10 hits, striking out two and walking one in 4.0 innings of work. Chase Werth came on in relief but was tagged for five runs (four earned) in two innings. Jake Vieira tossed a scoreless frame in the seventh, while earning one strikeout.
Game Two: Lindenwood 16, Fort Hays State 3
In the nightcap, Tiger starter Ethan Booe tossed 6.0 innings, allowing two runs (one earned) on seven hits while striking out one and walking four batters. Ryan Brown was tapped for six runs (five earned) in 0.2 of the seventh frame before Tanner Smith came on in relief to get the final out of the inning. Wyatt Schumacher tossed one inning, while giving up two runs on one hit and one walk.
The Lions built their 9-0 lead heading into the home half of the seventh with a seven-run frame. LWU posted a three-run home run, a two RBI triple, and earned three runs on two Tiger miscues.
The Tiger bats fared better in the second game, as they were able to post eight hits. Tyler Olson picked up his fifth multi-hit bid of the season while Grasser, Haynes, Jared Maneth and Cody Starkel each earned a hit in the contest. Kyler Cox and Taylan Mullins-Ohm produced key pinch-hit singles that led to Haynes finding the center field wall for a two-out 2 RBI double in the eighth inning.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Lucas Giolito has mastered the Kansas City Royals, a trend that continued Sunday.
The rest of the major leagues? The Chicago White Sox hope the 6-foot-6 right-hander is ready to dominate there, too.
Giolito took a no-hit bid into the seventh inning in his first start of the season, and the White Sox beat the Royals 6-3 on Sunday to avoid a three-game sweep in the season-opening series.
“It feels good to start off on a good note,” Giolito said. “Throughout my whole career, I’ve always had my not as good starts earlier in the year, and I wanted to change that this year.”
Giolito (1-0) walked Whit Merrifield on four pitches to begin the game, but then retired 19 straight before Alex Gordon’s single with one out in the seventh. Gordon fouled off four consecutive pitches before lining a curveball into center field.
“Besides that curveball, he was pretty much on all day,” Gordon said. “Like I say, give him credit. It was a good at-bat, but he had a great game.”
Giolito couldn’t finish the inning. Ryan O’Hearn drove in Gordon with a double into the right field corner, and Lucas Duda chased Giolito with an RBI single. Giolito was charged with two runs in 6 2/3 innings, allowing three hits and a walk with eight strikeouts. He threw 99 pitches.
Giolito was 10-13 with a 6.13 ERA in 2018 and led the AL in walks (90) and the majors in earned runs allowed (118). In seven starts against the Royals in his career, Giolito is 4-0 with a 2.40 ERA. In 14 starts against the other AL Central teams, Giolito has a 5.62 ERA.
“He was attacking the strike zone,” White Sox manager Rick Renteria said. “Breaking ball was working well, he was commanding his fastball, probably tired a little bit there at the end, but really did a really nice job.”
Ryan Burr got the final out of the seventh to end the threat.
Yonder Alonso preserved the no-hitter with a diving stop in the sixth, and he and Jose Abreu homered on consecutive pitches in the fourth off starter Jorge Lopez (0-1).
Alex Colome pitched a perfect ninth for his first save.
Alonso had two hits and three RBIs. Four other White Sox had two hits in the game, including Abreu.
Alonso also robbed Billy Hamilton of a hit by diving down the first base line to snag a line drive in the sixth.
Lopez and reliever Tim Hill combined to walk three straight during the sixth inning, resulting in two runs. Lopez allowed four runs in five-plus innings.
Royals right-handers Kyle Zimmer and Chris Ellis made their major league debuts. Zimmer threw a scoreless eighth inning, surrendering a single and striking out two.
The fifth overall pick in the 2012 draft, Zimmer spent six seasons in the minor leagues and spent last year way from the organization while working on his mechanics at the Driveline baseball facility in Seattle.
“This is just the first of hopefully many outings. Hopefully the first of many zeros,” Zimmer said.
“We’re just scratching the surface,” Yost said. “This is nothing. He’s got the ability to put together a nice run this year and establish himself as a major leaguer. That’s what he’s got to do now.”
Ellis matched Zimmer with a scoreless ninth, giving up two singles and a walk in the inning after retiring the first two batters he faced.
TRAINER’S ROOM
White Sox: OF Jon Jay (right hip strain) will have his hip reevaluated when the team gets back to Chicago later this week, and RHP Ian Hamilton is throwing as he continues to work his way back from right shoulder inflammation. Renteria said both players, who have been on the 10-day injured list since March 25, are improving each day.
UP NEXT
White Sox: Ivan Nova makes his first start Monday as a member of the White Sox as Chicago travels to Cleveland for a two-game series.
Royals: Brad Keller will make his second start of the season Tuesday against the Twins. Keller has pitched 41 consecutive innings without allowing a home run, dating to Aug. 31. It’s the longest active streak in the AL and the second-longest streak in the majors.
KANSAS CITY, KAN. – Two Kansas men were charged Thursday with a pair of bank robberies in which shots were fired and the robbers wore Black Panther and Venom masks, according to U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister.
Shiferaw -photo Wyandotte Co.Breakfield -photo Johnson Co.
Michael Shiferaw, 20, Olathe, Kan., and Kenya Breakfield, 21, Olathe, Kan., were charged with two counts of bank robbery. They were charged with an Oct. 31, 2018, robbery at Wells Fargo Bank in Leawood, Kan., and a March 27, 2019, robbery at Commerce Bank in Roeland Park, Kan.
Wells Fargo robbery
According to documents filed in federal court in Kansas City, Kan., two robbers entered the Wells Fargo Bank at 2000 West 103rd in Leawood carrying guns and wearing masks that looked like the comic book and movie character Venom. Both robbers were carrying guns and threatened bank employees. Before leaving with cash, one of the robbers fired a round from his handgun into the ceiling.
Commerce Bank Robbery
At Commerce Bank, a single robber entered the building wearing a Black Panther mask. During the robbery, he fired a total of four shots while giving orders to bank employees. When he left the bank, he got into a small, black, four-door car.
Investigation
On March 27, agents set up surveillance at a house in the 1700 block of Lindenwood in Olathe where they spotted the defendants. Agents followed the defendants as they drove to Shiferaw’s residence in the 12000 block of Meadow Lane in Olathe. Later that day, Olathe Police responded to a report of a domestic disturbance at the house. The defendants were arrested with a black backpack full of currency and a handgun.
It is alleged that Breakfield took part in the first robbery and drove the getaway car in the second robbery. The defendants purchased the masks at a Spencers gift store.
If convicted, the defendants face up to 25 years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000 on each count. Investigators included the FBI, Leawood Police Department, the Olathe Police Department, the Kansas City Police Department and the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kim Flannigan is prosecuting.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A woman who was raped 38 years ago as she jogged on the University of Kansas campus has returned to the state seven times to testify against her attacker’s release on parole, and she vows to continue her efforts as long as she can.
Sherman Galloway -photo KDOC
Jean Rhea was 25 when she was attacked in October 1981 by a man who held a knife to her throat and raped and repeatedly sodomized her on the Lawrence campus. She testified against her rapist, Sherman Galloway, who was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison with a possibility of parole after 15 years. Galloway was later convicted of a second rape and again sentenced to 30 years to life with a possibility of parole after 15 years. But the judge ruled that Galloway would still be eligible for parole after 15 years on the first conviction.
Galloway is considered for parole every few years, and Rhea, who has lived in California for more than 30 years, has shown up every time to testify that he should stay in prison.
“For me, personally, it’s important that I have a voice,” Rhea said this month, after speaking to the Kansas Prisoner Review Board for the seventh time. “If I didn’t participate, I feel like I’d feel more like collateral damage.”
Rhea said participating in Galloway’s parole reviews furthers her decision to participate in Galloway’s prosecution.
“But is this exactly what I signed on for in October 1981?” she said. “No.”
In Rhea’s case, Galloway was convicted of rape and aggravated sodomy. In the second rape of a Kansas graduate student he was convicted in 1984 of rape, aggravated sodomy, kidnapping and aggravated battery.
At the time sentences for those crimes were given ranges. Currently, for the same convictions, Kansas sentencing guidelines set a number of months in prison based on the severity level of the crime and the defendant’s criminal history. The Douglas County District Attorney’s Office said most modern sentences don’t include parole hearing dates, only release dates.
Rhea returned to Kansas in 1996, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2012 and this year, said Joe Phillips, administrator of the Kansas Department of Corrections’ Prisoner Review Board. Rhea said her relatives also wrote letters when Galloway asked for clemency in 2017.
Parole consideration happens automatically, Phillips said. Each time, the three-member parole board gathers oral and written public comments, holds a hearing with the inmate, then makes a decision.
Galloway’s parole hearing is scheduled for April. If he is paroled, he could be out of prison May 1.
Both of Galloway’s rape convictions are considered for his parole proceedings, though Rhea said the other victim has chosen not to participate in person.
Rhea said she has never seen any Galloway supporters at the sessions she has attended. Former and current prosecutors, and the two now-retired university police officers who worked on the case have testified against Galloway’s release.
Retired prosecutor Shelly Diehl worked on Galloway’s case in the early 2000s when he filed a motion for DNA testing, which failed to exonerate him. She has spoken several times against paroling Galloway.
“I believe in the prosecution, and I believe that this is a person who should never see the light of day — his crimes were that savage,” Diehl said.
Rhea, who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and alcoholism after the attack, says she made it through her dark times and is now a licensed clinical mental health professional. She said the repeated parole proceedings have become less re-traumatizing.
“No one should ever be considered for parole who is a sexual predator that does not have the ability to express regret or remorse, and has never taken accountability for his crimes,” she said.
SHAWNEE COUNTY–Law enforcement authorities are investigating a Kansas felon on new charges after a traffic stop.
Stanford-from a previous arrest in Sedgwick Co.
Just after 2 p.m. Saturday, Patrol Officers conducted a suspicious person stop in the 1500Block of SW Lincoln Street in Topeka, according to Lt. Robert Simmons.
The subject, later identified as Kanealies Lamont Stanford 41, lied to Officers about his identity. Stanford was found to be in possession of a firearm, heroin, drug paraphernalia and a homemade explosive device.
Once his true identity was determined, he was also found to have 2 city warrants for his arrest. Stanford is also a convicted felon and is prohibited from being in possession of a firearm.
Stanford was transported to the Shawnee County Department of Corrections and booked on charges of Criminal Possession of a Firearm by a Felon, Possession of Heroin, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, Interference with a Law Enforcement Officer and Criminal Use of Explosives.
This is the 31st case in 2019 with a charge involving a felon in possession of a firearm reported by the Topeka Police Department.
Stanford has three previous drug convictions, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections.
THOMAS COUNTY —Two people were injured in an accident just after 12:30p.m. Sunday in Thomas County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2013 Nissan NV driven by Laura Michelle Bergstraser-Lorenz, 32, Franktown, CO., was westbound on Interstate 70 just west of U.S. 83.
The van left the roadway to the left, struck a median turn around, went airborne and continued through the median until it came to rest facing westbound.
Bergstraser-Lorenz and a passenger Janet Ann Kaufmann, 61, Colorado Springs, Co., were transported to the Logan County Hospital. Both were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.
By DIANE GASPER-O’BRIEN FHSU University Relations and Marketing
Each speaker at Tuesday’s Rudd Foundation presentation at Fort Hays State University talked about grit, determination and a strong work ethic.
Those traits are the cornerstone on which the Rudd Scholarship Program was formed, and they are ones that the scholarship selection committee feels Rudd Scholars should possess.
The Rudd Foundation believes that Fort Hays State University also possesses those characteristics. Therefore, FHSU is one of three state universities chosen for Rudd Scholars to attend “because they represent the Midwestern values of grit, determination and work ethic,” said Peter Najera, president of the Rudd Foundation.
At a reception in the Robbins Center, the five new Rudd Scholars who will be attending Fort Hays State next fall were recognized.
Members of the first two classes of Rudd Scholars at Fort Hays State University are: Back row, from left, Rudd Foundation President Peter Najera, entrance class of 2018 Danica Kostner, Cydney Bergmann and Meleny Jacome-Banuelos, and FHSU President Dr. Tisa Mason; front row, from left, entrance class of 2019 Gage Farney, Aundrea Haberer, Ayanna Hensley, Angel Mong and Trinity Wagner. (Photo by Mitch Weber)
Nearly 900 students from around the state were among this year’s list of applicants, from which only 25 were chosen. Five will attend Emporia State University, and the remaining 15 will enroll at Wichita State University, the alma mater of the late Leslie Rudd, a Wichita native.
Rudd was an entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Rudd Group, a privately owned portfolio of luxury businesses and established the Rudd Foundation in 1998. Through the foundation, the Rudd Scholarship was started “to help students for whom the the financial burden of higher education made its attainment nearly impossible,” he wrote in a letter to potential Rudd Scholars before he died in 2018.
The four-year scholarship is open to Kansas students who qualify for a Pell Grant. It covers any remaining cost of attendance after all other aid, grants and scholarships are applied to a student’s account. The expected value for the 25 members of the second class of Rudd Scholars is $1.4 million over four years. More information about the program can be found at ruddfoundation.org.
“Kansas high schools continue to produce very talented young men and women imbued with the Midwestern values, and we are excited to make an investment in them through a college education,” Najera said. “These 25 recipients, in addition to the 19 previously selected, brings us to a total of 44 Rudd Scholars in college who will continue to support each other as they are groomed to strengthen the talent pipeline here in Kansas upon graduation.”
The scholarship is earned through a competitive selection process that requires grades, test scores, essays, letters of recommendation. The 50 semifinalists then go through a personal interview as well.
One of the new Rudd Scholars is Aundrea Haberer from Sylvan-Lucas Unified High School, who plans to major in agronomy. She will be the third member of her family attending FHSU. Her older sister, Elaia Haberer Garrett, graduated in 2017, and heir mother, Rhonda Haberer, also is a Tiger alum.
Haberer visited other colleges but said she “really liked the feel of the campus” at Fort Hays State.
The three members of the first class of Rudd Scholars at Fort Hays State attended the reception.
Meleny Jacome-Banuelos from Johnson welcomed the incoming class to “our family.”
“From this moment forward, we three individuals are here to support you,” she said. “The hardest things in life are usually the best things for you, and we are here to offer any kind of help or support.”
She told the newcomers they will “get to work with the people and get to know more people who want to be successful. We can all learn from each other. I am looking forward to them coming to campus. I will get some leadership experience.”
Current Rudd Scholars talked about the numerous advantages of the Rudd Scholarship, other than the financial piece of it.
“I was extremely grateful for this, not just for the financial aspect of it but for the networking angle, too,” said Cydney Bergmann from Concordia, a pre-veterinarian major.
Bergmann was considering other colleges as well as Fort Hays State when she heard of the Rudd Scholarship.
Bergmann had received enough academic scholarships to cover expenses for the first year of college but was unsure of future years. Plus, she knew vet school would be more schooling – and additional expense.
“This scholarship has made a huge impact, because I don’t have the financial burden and can focus on my classes,” she said. “I didn’t want to be in debt twice.”
Some of the requirements for Rudd Scholars are to live on campus, take an active part in organizations and pursue leadership opportunities. They also must graduate in four years.
Jacome-Banuelos is a first-generation student majoring in organizational leadership. She said she already has been positively impacted during her first year.
“This scholarship has really helped me connect with people in my field,” Jacome-Banuelos said. “Building connections has been really helpful.”
“This scholarship strives to find the brightest Kansas minds – those who have that grit, integrity, and drive to succeed – and empower those students with the resources to achieve their goals,” said Dr. Tisa Mason, FHSU president. “At Fort Hays State, we are thrilled to provide innovative educational opportunities, vibrant learning communities, state-of-the-art technology, world-class internships and unparalleled opportunities for experiential learning inside and out of the classroom – and all at the most affordable tuition rate in the Kansas and the region.”
Najera said he is pleased with the first two classes and looks forward to adding more and more in years to come.
“In just two more years, we will have nearly 100 Rudd Scholars on campus learning from one another,” Najera said. “And in a few years after that, they will all be networking with one another throughout the state as they continue on their trajectory of being positive contributors to our Kansas communities and society as a whole.”
Each of the new scholars talked a bit, thanking the foundation for this opportunity and had their picture taken with Najera and Mason. They got to learn a little about the welcoming culture of Fort Hays State as administrators, faculty and staff joined the new scholars and their families at their tables.
Haberer already has bought into the FHSU campus spirit.
After thanking the Rudd Foundation “for this amazing offer,” she finished her talk with “Go Tigers!”
The list of the second class of Rudd Scholars at FHSU (for the 2019-20 school year), listed by hometown, name, high school and major:
BELOIT (67420): Trinity Wagner, Beloit High School, biology.
DODGE CITY (67801): Ayanna Hensley, Dodge City High School, radiology.
GRAINFIELD (67737): Angel Mong, Wheatland/Grinnell High School, elementary education.
LURAY (67649): Aundrea Haberer, Sylvan-Lucas Unified High School, agronomy.
STERLING (67579): Gage Farney, Sterling High School, construction management.
Current Rudd Scholars at FHSU, from the first class of 2018-19, listed by hometown, name and major:
Eagle Communications is collecting monetary donations at its Kansas radio stations for victims of the recent catastrophic flooding in Nebraska.
A GoFundMe account is now available for online donations.
Hays-area residents wishing to make a contribution may bring cash or checks to the Eagle Media Center, 2300 Hall Street, Hays. Checks should be made out to the Nebraska Red Cross.
Donations will be collected through Thu., April 4.
The Hays contributions will be combined with those collected by our Eagle Radio stations in Great Bend, Salina, Hutchinson, Manhattan and Junction City. The final amount will then be matched by the Schmidt Family Foundation and will be distributed to the Nebraska Red Cross.
For more information, contact the Hays Eagle Media Center at 785-301-2211.
Disclosure: Eagle Communications is the parent company of Hays Post.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Border officials are aiming to more than quadruple the number of asylum seekers sent back over the southern border each day, a major expansion of a top government effort to address the swelling number of Central Americans arriving in the country, a Trump administration official said Saturday.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol continues to apprehend large groups of 100 or more migrants arriving at our borders. There have been 95 large groups of 100 or more individuals totaling 16,042 apprehensions in FY19TD. Comparatively, Border Patrol encountered 13 large groups in FY18 and only 2 in FY17. This photos show USBP and BORSTAR agents processing individuals last week in El Paso, TX – image courtesy Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Border Patrol
It was the latest attempt to ease a straining immigration system that officials say is at the breaking point. Hundreds of officers who usually screen cargo and vehicles at ports of entry were reassigned to help manage migrants. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen asked for volunteers from non-immigration agencies within her department, sent a letter to Congress late this past week requesting resources and broader authority to deport families faster, and she met with Central American and Mexican officials.
The efforts are being made while President Donald Trump is doubling down on threats to shutter the U.S.-Mexico border entirely, a move that would have serious economic repercussions for both the U.S. and Mexico but wouldn’t stop migrants from crossing between ports. His administration also announced it was cutting aid to the Central American countries home to most of the migrants.
Right now, about 60 asylum seekers a day are returned to Mexico at the San Ysidro, Calexico and El Paso ports to wait out their cases, the official said. They are allowed to return to the U.S. for court dates. The plan was announced Jan. 29, partially to deter false claimants from coming across the border. With a backlog of more than 700,000 immigration cases, asylum seekers can wait years for their cases to progress, and officials say some people game the system in order to live in the U.S.
Officials hope to have as many as 300 people returned per day by the end of the week, focusing particularly on those who come in between ports of entry, said the official, who had knowledge of the plans but was unauthorized to speak publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
But the process so far has been slow-going, and such a sizeable increase may be difficult to achieve. The plan has already been marred by confusion, scheduling glitches and an inability by some attorneys to reach their clients. In San Ysidro alone, Mexico had been prepared to accept up to 120 asylum seekers per week, but for the first six weeks only 40 people per week were returned.
Plus, U.S. officials must check if asylum seekers have any felony convictions and notify Mexico at least 12 hours before they are returned. Those who cross illegally must have come as single adults, though the administration is in talks with the Mexican government to include families. Children are not returned.
Homeland Security officials have been grappling with an ever-growing number of Central American children and families coming over the border. Arrests soared in February to a 12-year-high and more than half of those stopped arrived as families, many of them asylum seekers who generally turn themselves in instead of trying to elude capture. Guatemala and Honduras have replaced Mexico as the top countries, a remarkable shift from only a few years ago. Migrants from Central America cannot be easily deported, unlike people crossing from Mexico.
Mexico has been treading lightly on the subject. After Trump lashed out, saying Mexico and the Central American nations were “doing nothing” about illegal immigration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said his country would do everything it could to help to maintain a “very respectful relationship” with the U.S. government and Trump.
Meanwhile, Nielsen sent a letter to the heads of other agencies within her sprawling, 240,000-person department, asking for volunteers to help with border duties. And she wrote to Congress asking for more temporary facilities to process people, more detention space, and the ability to detain families indefinitely and to deport unaccompanied minors from Central America. While children from Mexico can be returned over the border, laws prohibit deportation to other countries.
Democratic congressional leaders expressed deep concern, saying the administration wanted to revive “horrific” and “immoral” plans, noting its failed hardline border policies have created “senseless heartbreak and horror.”
“Democrats reject any effort to let the administration deport little children, and we reject all anti-immigrant and anti-family attacks from this President,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement.
JACKSON COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating two suspects for alleged burglary.
Johnson -photo Jackson Co.Cowling-photo Jackson Co.
Just after 8p.m. Friday, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a suspicious vehicle parked behind a residence in the 13000 block of S. Road near Hoyt, according to Sheriff Tim Morse.
Jackson County Deputies and the Hoyt Police Department responded to the area and discovered that forced entry was made to the property.
Law enforcement stopped a white Saturn passenger car east of T. Road on 126th Road. The occupants of the vehicle, Rachel Leeann Johnson, 34, of Wellsville, Kansas and Bradley Steven Cowling, 36, of Carbondale, Kansas were arrested during the traffic stop. The duo were alleged to be in possession of property that came from the residence at the time of their arrest, according to Morse.
Cowling was booked into the Jackson County Jail for burglary, theft, felony interference with law enforcement, and criminal use of weapons. Cowling also had outstanding warrants for his arrest from other Kansas jurisdictions. Johnson was booked into the Jackson County Jail for burglary and theft.
The Dane G. Hansen Museum is pleased to announce the now-open exhibit featuring Eckman Fine Arts’ collection of cast paper sculptures. Cast paper sculpture, (not to be confused with papier mâché), was invented as late as the 1950s.
The two Eckmans have developed a careful process that is now trademarked by them. Accordingly, Allen and Patty Eckman of Eckman Fine Art are internationally recognized as masters in this intricate, time-consuming medium.
Allen Eckman touching up “Sitting Bulls Vision.”
Sculpting from their home in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Marine veteran Allen Eckman’s Cherokee heritage originally spurred him to greatly broaden his knowledge of Native American history, especially beginning with the Westward Expansion in the early 1800’s.
This exhibit not only pays tribute to several aspects of Native American culture, but ties in another special focus, closely related – nature itself.
Complementing Allen’s attention to Native American history, Patty has a detailed awareness of natural beauty, especially wildlife and flowers, and has remarked that color is sometimes a distraction to the underlying intricate forms in nature. As Allen and Patty’s sculptures are typically unpainted, this purity lends itself wholly to the detail of these exquisite pieces.
Patty Eckman discussing the exhibition with Museum Director Shari Buss.
Eckman Fine Art – Cast Paper Sculptures will be on display through June 2, 2019, at the Dane G. Hansen Museum located at 110 W. Main Street, Logan, Kansas.
Museum hours are Monday through Friday 9-12 & 1-4; Saturdays 9-12 & 1-5; Sundays & holidays 1-5. We are handicapped accessible and thanks to the generosity of the Dane G. Hansen Foundation, there is never an admission fee.
For more information, please contact us at 785-689-4846.
Crabgrass preventers are another name for pre-emergence herbicides that prevent crabgrass seeds from developing into mature plants. Many people have a somewhat foggy idea of how they work and assume they kill the weed seed.
Such is not the case. They do not kill the seed or even keep the seed from germinating but rather kill the young plant after it germinates. Therefore, they do not prevent germination but prevent emergence.
Crabgrass preventers are just that – preventers. With few exceptions they have no effect on existing crabgrass plants, so they must be applied before germination. Additionally, preventers do not last forever once applied to the soil. Microorganisms and natural processes begin to gradually break them down soon after they are applied. If some products are applied too early, they may have lost much of their strength by the time they are needed. Most crabgrass preventers are fairly ineffective after about 60 days, but there is considerable variation among products. (Dimension and Barricade last longer. See below.)
For most of Kansas, crabgrass typically begins to germinate around May 1 or a little later. April 15 is normally a good target date for applying preventer because it gives active ingredients time to evenly disperse in the soil before crabgrass germination starts. Even better, base timing on the bloom of ornamental plants. The Eastern Redbud tree is a good choice for this purpose. When the trees in your area approach full bloom, apply crabgrass preventer. A follow-up application will be needed about 8 weeks later unless you are using Dimension or Barricade. Products that do require a follow-up application include pendimethalin (Scotts Halts) and Team (Hi-Yield Crabgrass Control).
Dimension and Barricade are the only two products that give season-long control of crabgrass from a single application. In fact, they can be applied much earlier than April 15 and still have sufficient residual strength to last the season. Barricade can even be applied in the fall for crabgrass control the next season.
Dimension can be applied as early as March 1. Because of the added flexibility in timing, these products are favorites of lawn care companies who have many customers to service in the spring. Though Dimension is usually not applied as early as Barricade, it is the herbicide of choice if it must be applied later than recommended. It is the exception to the rule that pre-emergence herbicides do not kill existing weeds. Dimension can kill crabgrass as long as it is young (two- to three-leaf stage). Dimension is also the best choice if treating a lawn that was planted late last fall. Normally a pre-emergence herbicide is not recommended unless the lawn has been mowed two to four times.
But Dimension is kind to young tall fescue, perennial ryegrass, and Kentucky bluegrass seedlings and some formulations can be applied as early as two weeks after the first sign of germination. However, read the label of the specific product you wish to use to ensure that this use is allowed. Lawns established in the fall can be safely treated with Dimension the following spring even if they have not been mowed.
Alicia Boor is an Agriculture and Natural Resources agent in the Cottonwood District (which includes Barton and Ellis counties) for K-State Research and Extension. You can contact her by e-mail at [email protected] or calling 620-793-1910.
