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Month: July 2019
Neal D. Hudson
Neal D. Hudson, age 95, of McCook, NE passed away on Wednesday, July 24, 2019 at his home in Brookdale, McCook.
Neal was born February 6, 1924 on his grandparents’ Jessee farmstead north of Benkelman, NE to parents Jesse D. and Leona M. (Jessee) Hudson. In 1929 the family made their home on a farm in Hitchcock County near the Kansas Border. They later moved to a farm overlooking the Republican River Valley where Neal witnessed the flood of 1935 and remembered hearing the rushing flood waters from the house. Neal was a lifelong farmer. He grew up farming during the dust bowl in the Depression.
Neal attended a one room country school before graduating from Stratton High School with the Class of 1940. He was active in FFA and other AG related activities.
On May 23, 1942, Neal married his lifetime partner, Shirley Y. Richards in St.Francis, KS. The couple was blessed with two children, Roger and Jean. The family made their home South of Stratton/Trenton where they continued to farm for over 60 years.
Neal was a member of the Stratton Church of Christ and a lifetime member of the NRA and Farm Bureau where he was active in both the county and state organizations. He also served on the Trenton Board of Education. Neal was a Nebraska Football Fan. His favorite times were spent showing his grandchildren the values of hard work on the farm and how those values related to everyday life. He enjoyed travelling with Shirley and the two of them share fond memories of a cruise to the Bahamas and of finding lost relatives and friends across the country.
Neal was preceded in death by his parents, brother Gaile Dunn; and son in law, Earl Ward.
Those left to celebrate his life include his wife of 77 years, Shirley Hudson of McCook; son, Roger (Deb) Hudson of Martell, NE; daughter, Jean Ward of Hays, KS; five grandchildren, Jennifer (Steven) Vanderpool of Pasadena, CA, Grant ( fiancé Chelsea Tyrie) Hudson of Dallas, TX, Chad (Cathy) Quick of Cincinnati, OH, Kyle (Paula) Quick of Oklahoma City, OK and Tisha (Nael) Samaha of Centerville, VA; ; ten great grandchildren; three great great grandchildren; three step grandchildren, four step great grandchildren; as well as numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and extended family members.
A Memorial Service will be held at 1 PM, on Monday, August 12, 2019, at the Stratton Church of Christ in Stratton, NE with Pastor Randy Hayes, officiating. Burial will be held at a later date in Rose Hill Cemetery in Stratton.
Family and friends are invited to share memories and refreshments at the Grandview Community Center following the services
Memorial Contributions may be directed to the Stratton Church of Christ, 406 Baxter Street, Stratton, NE 69043.
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Larks face Cougars in bracket play at NBC World Series
WICHITA – The Hays Larks will face a familiar foe when they begin first week bracket play Tuesday afternoon at the NBC World Series. The Larks will play the Denver Cougars who scored a run in the bottom of the ninth to beat the Wellington Heat 5-4 in the late game Monday.
The Larks ended up winning their pool by tiebreaker after Great Bend rallied with a run in the ninth in a 7-5 loss to Waco. That run gave the second spot out of Pool D to the Bat Cats who play the Wichita Sluggers in Tuesday’s late game.
The Hutchinson Monarchs play Dodge City of the KCLB at 1 p.m. Tuesday. Derby and 316 Elite play in the feature game at 7 p.m.
The Larks won three of their four regular season meetings with the Cougars this summer, however only a handful of players from Denver’s team are still on the roster.
You can hear all of the Larks action from the NBC World Series on KAYS (94.3-FM, 1400-AM) as well as on the KAYS app an on-line.
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🎥 Water$mart Landscape winners recognized for conserving Hays water
By BECKY KISER
Hays Post
A Hays couple and the employees of a state office building have been honored with the 2019 Water$mart Landscape Award by the city of Hays.
Since 2016, one residential and one commercial property have been chosen for the recognition.
The goal of the award program is to increase awareness of the importance of water conservation in the landscape and to recognize those in the community who have made great strides towards that effort.
Holly Dickman, water conservation specialist, introduced the winners and showed pictures of their landscaping during Thursday’s Hays city commission meeting.
Winners of the residential award are Theresa and Patrick Trapp.
Their yard on Holmes Road “exemplifies what it means to be water smart,” said Dickman.
The entire yard is landscape plantings of drought-tolerant perennials, including lavender and hens and chicks. They use mulch and and compost from the free sites maintained by the city.
“There’s no turf grass, just a little bit of buffalo grass here and there.”
The front yard is designed to keep as much rainfall as possible on the property without runoff. The couple also uses three rain barrels to capture rain for watering the plants.
The Trapp back yard is also a Certified Wildlife Habitat – a designation by the National Wildlife Federation – which provides water and shelter for animals raising their young.
The commercial award winner is the Kansas Department of Children and Families on East 22nd Street, represented by their director Armando Orozco.
Organic mulch surrounds the plantings, which include ornamental grasses and shrubs along with drought-tolerant perennials, including catmint and Rose of Sharon.
“Even the islands in the parking lot have organic wood-type mulch with plantings,” Dickman pointed out.
The parking lot is also part of the water-conserving design.
“It completely drains into a buffalo grass low spot. The rain is all going into that nice deep-rooted buffalo grass which is what we like to see. It’s not escaping the property.”
“A watersmart landscape is more than just watering those plants correctly,” she explained.
“It’s a combination of several different gardening practices that together create a beautiful, water conserving landscape.”
Those practices include planning and design, soil preparation, right plants in the right places, practical turf areas, efficient irrigation, proper mulch and proper maintenance.
(Editor’s note: Theresa Trapp is an employee of Eagle Communications, the parent company of Hays Post.)
Police continue search for 3rd suspect in shooting death of Kansas boy
SHAWNEE COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a fatal shooting and continue the search for one suspect.
Just after 3:30p.m. July 25, police were dispatched to SE 37th and SE Pennsylvania in Topeka located a white passenger car with 16- year-old Joaquin Aj McKinney suffering from life threatening injuries. He was transported to a local hospital where he died.
On July 27, 2019 a suspect in the case, 16-year-old Zachary Jacob McFall turned himself in to law enforcement. He is being held in the Juvenile Department of Corrections for 1st Degree Murder.
On July 28, 2019 officers located and arrested an additional 16-year-old suspect in the case. He was transported to the Juvenile Department of Corrections for 1st Degree Murder.
Police are attempting to locate 22-year-old Lavonte D. Johnson for questioning in the case.
Police said if you know his location, please do not attempt to apprehend him, call 911 to report his location
Mary Leora (Copelin) Speed
It is with great sadness that the family of Mary Leora (Copelin) Speed passed away at the age of 92. She was born in Villisca, Iowa on June 25, 1927, and passed away on Saturday, July 27, 2019 at her home with her son and daughter by her side. She was a resident of the Sheldahl and Huxley communities from 1958-2015, at which time she moved to Larned, Kansas to reside with her daughter, Joan.
Mary was united in marriage in June of 1949 to Robert M. Speed, they later divorced. Together seven children were born.
Mary will be lovingly remembered by children Noel Speed, Joan Basgall, Vivian Valfre, Jane Sexton, John (Vicki) Speed and Gordon Speed. She will also be lovingly remembered by numerous grand, great grand, and great-great grandchildren.
Mary is preceded in death by daughter Joetta Flotho, granddaughter Jodi Bedore, John Sexton (Jane’s spouse), Gerald Basgall (Joan’s spouse), and Tessie Speed (Noel’s spouse). She is also preceded in death by parents John and Effie Copelin, siblings Darwin and Delbert Copelin (infant twins), Ruth Speed, Joe Copelin, and Lila Johnson.
A memorial service will be held Saturday, August 10, 2019, 10:30 a.m. at the United Methodist Church in Sheldahl, Iowa. A private family inurnment will be at a later date. The family requests no flowers. Memorial donations can be made to the Sheldahl United Methodist Church, in care of Janice Halverson, P.O. Box 302, Slater, IA 50244.
HAWVER: Kelly has the upper hand in Supreme Court battles
President Donald Trump congratulates himself on his appointment/U.S. Senate confirmation of more than 100 federal judges, including two U.S. Supreme Court justices.
Now, it appears that Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly might be able to tout, maybe more discreetly, her success in packing the Kansas Supreme Court.
With the retirement in September of Justice Lee Johnson, and the just-announced retirement of Chief Justice Lawton Nuss in December, Kelly will get final say on two appointees to the court that often battles the Legislature with decisions that kill laws the Legislature passed. Look at abortion, look at school finance.
Now, if there’s something that the Legislature hates, it is any institution that has veto power over its action. That’s just the three-division state government at work — the executive, the legislative and the judicial branches. Legislators have always thought that they are the big dogs in the management of the state, and lawmakers growl at any other branch that won’t bow to their authority.
Lawmakers weren’t happy with the abortion decision, which essentially guarantees the right to abortion in Kansas. At least a majority of them, and the Republican leadership.
Oh, and lawmakers also want the court out of the business of deciding what is “adequate” in the way of state financing of public education. The court has loudly and frequently said it will determine just what is adequate to provide every Kansas schoolchild access to a good education from border to border.
So, having a Democrat governor with the power to appoint Supreme Court justices is a big deal. And now Kelly gets to appoint two justices to the seven-member court, and likely have a chance to make those appointees see state law the way she sees it.
The Legislature, or at least its overwhelming Republican majorities in each chamber, is not happy that a Democrat governor gets to interview and find a candidate for the court that is likely to be less conservative than the majority of legislators.
Already, the Senate has a proposed constitutional amendment warming up that would give the Senate the final say—to confirm or reject—a gubernatorial appointment to the high court. Sounds a little like conservative Republican state senators want to have the same power as federal senators, doesn’t it?
It takes a constitutional amendment, which means that if lawmakers OK the proposal, it will be November 2020 before it can be put before voters in the state to empower the Kansas Senate to have the final say on who gets to wear those nice black robes.
By that time, Kelly’s appointees to the Supreme Court will have already redecorated their offices and gotten comfortable on the bench. Oh, Kelly’s appointments will have to stand for retention to their posts to earn their full six-year terms on the court, but that’s not a major issue…justices face conservative opposition, but haven’t been tossed off the court by voters in recent memory.
So, Kelly, and her moderate Republican and Democrat predecessors, will retain the majority on the court. Former Gov. Sam Brownback got just one Supreme Court appointment, his former chief counsel Caleb Stegall, arguably the most conservative justice in recent memory.
The nominations for Kelly to choose from for each job? We won’t know who they are until the five-lawyer, four-nonlawyer Supreme Court Nominating Commission winnows the jobseekers to just three for each chair to present to the governor for her selection.
It looks like the court will retain its socially moderate position and not be afraid to take a swipe at the conservative GOP legislature for the next few years.
Wonder how that’s going to work out…
Syndicated by Hawver News Company LLC of Topeka; Martin Hawver is publisher of Hawver’s Capitol Report—to learn more about this nonpartisan statewide political news service, visit the website at www.hawvernews.com
Kansas teen dies, 2 hospitalized after ATV accident
ATCHISON COUNTY — One person died in an accident just after 6p.m. Monday in Atchison County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2014 Polaris ATV driven by Jentri Lynn Fowler, 19, Cummings, was westbound in the 13000 Block of 214th Road.
The driver lost control and the vehicle. It entered the south ditch and rolled.
Fowler and passenger Jaycee Ernzen, 18, Cummings, were transported to Mosaic Life Care in St. Joseph where Fowler died. Another passenger Ashley Peiper, 18, Cummings, was transported to the hospital in Atchison for treatment of minor injuries. A third passenger Caden McAfee, 19, Valley Falls, was not injured.
Former Regent Joe Bain named new general counsel of Fort Hays State
Former member of the Kansas Board of Regents, trial lawyer and litigator with wide experience in civil law, criminal law, estate matters, dispute resolution and more – Joe Bain will now bring all this experience to his new post as general counsel of Fort Hays State University.
His appointment was announced this week by FHSU President Tisa Mason.
“I say often, and honestly, that FHSU had a transformative effect on me,” said Bain.
“This university has a history of providing access to a quality higher education for many first-generation, lower income and diverse-background students,” he said. “It is an honor and a privilege to serve this university and to be on the team responsible for taking FHSU into the future.”
“As a member of the Kansas Board of Regents, Joe was able to experience at first hand the challenges, expectations and successes of higher education,” said FHSU President Tisa Mason. “His service with the Regents and his wide legal experience, and his status as an FHSU alumnus, make him an ideal choice as the general counsel for Fort Hays State.”
Bain grew up in Ness City and graduated from Ness City High School. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from FHSU in 2002, graduating summa cum laude. His Juris Doctor, 2005, is from the University of Kansas School of Law.
His career includes a judicial clerkship in the Seventh Judicial District of Kansas and working as a summer associate for a Kansas City law firm before his graduation from the KU School of Law.
After graduation, he was an associate at Warden, Triplett, Grier, PA, in Overland Park. From 2009 to 2011 he was a senior attorney for the Black & Veatch Corp., an international engineering and construction firm in Overland Park.
Since 2011, he has been a member, vice-president, attorney and co-manager for Cure & Bain, P.C., in Goodland. He is licensed in Kansas, Missouri and Colorado. He was a member of the Kansas Board of Regents from 2014 to 2018, and since 2017 he has served as Ness City Municipal Court Judge.
He will begin his duties in mid to late August.
Biggio’s homer sends Blue Jays to win over Royals
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Cavan Biggio hit the go-ahead homer in the eighth inning, Randal Grichuk and Teoscar Hernandez also went deep, and the Toronto Blue Jays rallied past the Kansas City Royals 7-3 on Monday night.
Top prospect Bo Bichette singled in the first at-bat of his big league career, and the Blue Jays got a strong spot start from Thomas Pannone in the opener of a 10-game trip.
Tim Mayza (1-1) earned the victory with a scoreless inning of relief.
Brad Keller (7-10) let just three balls out of the infield until Hernandez’s tying home run in the fifth inning. The right-hander went on to allow three homers in a game for the first time in his career, and four runs total in seven-plus innings.
Pannone, who was recalled from Triple-A Buffalo before the game, gave the Blue Jays six competitive innings. The left-hander allowed three runs and five hits.
The Royals didn’t get a hit off Pannone until Cam Gallagher’s one-out double off the top of the wall in left in the third. Whit Merrifield followed with a single to give Kansas City the lead.
Keller, who fanned four of his first five batters, was cruising along until Hernandez came up in the fifth. He sent a mistake splashing into the fountains an estimated 450 feet from home plate.
Biggio then led off the sixth with a single. Grichuk turned on a 2-1 pitch moments later, sending it over the left-field wall for his 17th homer.
Keller, who came into the game with the third-stingiest home run rate in the majors, breezed through the seventh inning and manager Ned Yost left him in to start the eighth. That’s when Biggio followed up a deep foul ball with an even deeper fair one for a solo shot that gave the Blue Jays the lead again.
Toronto tacked on three more runs in the ninth to put the game away.
LEGACY TRIO
Bichette, the son of longtime big leaguer Dante Bichette, makes it a trio of legacy players in the Blue Jays lineup. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Biggio, the son of Hall of Famer Craig Biggio, arrived earlier this season. Their fathers combined to make 20 appearances in the All-Star Game.
ROYALS RELEASE
The Royals requested unconditional release waivers on Lucas Duda after the first baseman was designated for assignment last weekend. Duda was hitting just .171 in his second stint in Kansas City.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Royals shortstop Adalberto Mondesi said he was feeling much better after fielding grounders before the game. Mondesi has been out since July 17 with a left shoulder subluxation.
Blue Jays second baseman Freddy Galvis was scratched about an hour before first pitch with lower back tightness. Galvis has been the subject of trade rumors after Bichette’s long-awaited arrival shifted him from his preferred shortstop position.
UP NEXT
Left-hander Mike Montgomery (1-3, 6.09 ERA) makes his third start for the Royals on Tuesday night following his trade from the Cubs. The Blue Jays have yet to announce their starter.
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Fangio will hold QB Joe Flacco out of Hall of Fame Game
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) – Joe Flacco will have to wait another week to make his Denver debut.
Broncos coach Vic Fangio said he’ll start last year’s backup, Kevin Hogan, against Atlanta in the Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio, on Thursday night.
He’ll be followed by rookies Drew Lock and Brett Rypien, Fangio said.
That means Flacco is slated to make his first appearance for the Broncos on Aug. 8 at Seattle.
Hogan had a rough start to training camp before settling in, and Lock is getting a crash course in the pro-style offense after taking only a handful of snaps from under center during his time at the University of Missouri.
Although there are major questions facing Fangio as he builds his first roster in Denver, the 61-year-old rookie head coach is keeping the front-line starters on the sideline in Canton, Ohio, where former Broncos cornerback Champ Bailey will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame over the weekend along with team owner Pat Bowlen, who died in June at age 75.
The starters, including receiver Emmanuel Sanders, who participated in 11-on-11 drills Monday for the first time as he continues his comeback from a torn Achilles tendon, will get an extended break this week after reporting to camp a week earlier than usual.
Following Wednesday’s walkthrough, they won’t practice again until Sunday.
With their first preseason game approaching, the Broncos released their initial depth chart Monday, although Fangio cautioned against reading much into it.
“I’m going to be honest with you. I wouldn’t read it at all,” Fangio said. “They come in to me and asked me to put this depth chart together. I gave it to the coaches said just put it there. You guys know who’s been working with the 1s. Anything after that is a free-for-all, and if you put any stock in to it, you’re mistaken.”
Fangio said the depth chart doesn’t matter until “we cut down to 53,” which isn’t for another month.