Fort Hays State Tiger coach Chris Brown held his weekly press conference Tuesday after the Tigers lost a double overtime heartbreaker to Northwest Missouri State Saturday.
The Tigers close out the season Saturday at Northeastern State.
Senior kicker Dante Brown and junior linebacker Drew Harvey also addressed the media and you see their comments below.
Chris Brown
Dante Brown
Drew Harvey
KANSAS CITY (AP) — Cerner Corp. has cut 130 jobs, including 60 in the Kansas City area.
The layoffs announced Tuesday come after the North Kansas City-based company laid off 255 workers in early September.
The health care information technology company said the job reductions comes as it looks for ways to diversify its current operations.
Cerner is the Kansas City area’s largest private employer, with about 14,000 workers across the metropolitan area.
Cerner says it remains committed to creating jobs in Kansas City and has hired several thousand workers this year.
The company recently notified federal regulators that Chief Operating Office Mike Nill will step down at the beginning of next year. The 23-year veteran is among three top executives to leave in recent months.
SALINE COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect on theft charges after an arrest by the Kansas Highway Patrol.
Just after 2:30p.m. Friday, employees with Lowe’s in Salina were making a delivery in the 300 block of West South Street in Salina and left the truck running so they could use the power lift, according to Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester.
When the employees came out of the residence, the 17-foot 2016 Isuzu box truck with $400 worth of tools, a $1,000 black LG refrigerator, and a company cellphone still on board was missing.
A couple of hours later, a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper spotted the truck headed westbound on Interstate 70 just west of the Hedville exit.
The trooper stopped the truck and arrested Carlo Watson, 53, of San Francisco, Calif., on suspicion of felony theft and operating a motor vehicle without a valid driver’s license, Forrester said.
All property was returned undamaged.
Albert Junior Ree, 92, Schoenchen, died Tuesday, November 12, 2019 surrounded by family at his daughter’s home in Hays.
He was born March 19, 1927 in Ellis County, the son of Albert Herman and Barbara Ann (Peters) Ree. On September 17, 1946 he was united in marriage to Rita Mae Dreiling in Plainville. They celebrated 48 years of marriage before she preceded him in death on October 5, 1994. He was a member of St. Anthony Catholic Church, Holy Name Society, and St. Anthony church council. Albert lived his entire life on the piece of land in southwest Ellis County where he was born. A lifelong farmer and rancher, he loved nothing more than working in the fields and tending to his cattle herd. He was always up for a good joke, a laugh, and loved to tell stories. He especially enjoyed telling tall tales and teasing his grandchildren. He loved to fish and hunt and enjoyed hosting groups of hunters opening day of pheasant season for over 50 years.
Survivors include two sons; Albert L. Ree and wife Lisa of Schoenchen, Gary Ree and Terri Nickolson of Smith Center, two daughters; Barbara White and husband Joe of Kanopolis, and Sharen Feltis and husband Gary of Hays, nine grandchildren; Carmen Rouse, Deanna Radke, Donell Aronson, Craig Werth, Denise Miller, Clifton Werth, Adrea Katzenmeier, Albert Taylor Ree, and Jessica Sutton, 14 great grandchildren, five step great grandchildren, four great-great grandchildren, and two step great-great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Rita Mae, a sister; Alberta Wasinger, a great granddaughter; Lyric Radke, and three step great grandsons; Derreck, Devon, and Dexter Urban.
Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10:00 am on Thursday, November 14, 2019 at St. Anthony Catholic Church in Schoenchen. Burial will follow in St. Anthony Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5:00 pm until 8:00 on Wednesday and from 8:30 am until 9:30 on Thursday, all at Hays Memorial Chapel Funeral Home. Recitation of the Rosary will be at 6:00 pm followed by a vigil service at 6:30 pm, all on Wednesday at the funeral home. Memorials are suggested to the St. Anthony Cemetery Fund. Condolences and memories of Albert may be shared with the family at www.haysmemorial.com
Norman “Nick” Jewell, age 64, of Hill City, Kansas passed away Friday, November 8, 2019 at Hays Medical Center.
Arrangements and a complete obituary is pending with Brock’s-Keithley Funeral Chapel and Crematory, 2509 Vine, Hays, KS 67601.
LENEXA, Kan. (AP) — Lenexa police are investigating the theft of thousands of meals intended for homeless veterans.
A trailer containing meals packed by bank employees last week was stolen last week. The meals were intended for Friends In Service of Heroes, a veteran service organization.
The trailer carried 12,100 meal packets, with each packet making eight meals — for a total of nearly 97,000 meals. The food was going to be delivered to the Kansas City VA Medical Center Nov. 21.
Police say the 5-by-8 interstate trailer was parked at the Friends In Service Of Heroes headquarters in Lenexa when it was stolen between 8 p.m. Saturday and Monday morning. The trailer has two bumper stickers with the FISH logo and Johnson County, Kansas, license plate 133 KMA.
MANHATTAN — The estate of Otis and Wanda Gilliland, Wellington, has given $1.6 million to Kansas State University, according to a media release from the university.
This gift has established the Gilliland K-State Family Scholarship, which creates match opportunities for 50 scholarships in support of students in the university’s College of Business Administration.
New gifts of $30,000 will be matched with $30,000 from the Gillilands’ gift. Also, $10,000 will go into an expendable scholarship fund, making $2,000 scholarships immediately available to students for up to five years. The remaining $50,000 will go into the endowment, ensuring future generations of Wildcats will receive scholarships as well.
Both Otis and Wanda Gilliland graduated from Kansas State University. Otis Gilliland earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering in 1948 and a bachelor’s in business administration from the College of Business Administration in 1949. Wanda Gilliland earned her bachelor’s degree in interior design in 1949 from the College of Health and Human Sciences. Otis Gilliland worked as an engineer for Boeing Aircraft Company in Wichita before his retirement in 1985. Wanda Gilliland died in 2013, and Otis Gilliland died in July 2019.
“The scholarships made possible from the Gilliland family’s gift will have a profound impact on our student body,” said Kevin Gwinner, Edgerley family dean of the College of Business Administration. “With these scholarships, we will attract more student leaders, further challenge high-achieving students, and fully engage those who desire our unique academic offerings and extracurricular experiences that make our business graduates so highly demanded by employers. Because these scholarships will be endowed, the Gillilands’ generosity toward the business college will be felt for generations.”
LYON COUNTY — A Kansas woman avoided serious injury Monday following an accident and water rescue.
Just after 6p.m., deputies were dispatched to northbound Interstate 35 near 6th Avenue in Lyon County for a vehicle in the water on the south side, according to Deputy Jody Myers.
A Honda Fit driven by Danelle Hagan, 42, Wichita, struck a deer carcass lying in the left lane of the highway.
She lost control of the the Honda and the vehicle slid down an embankment coming to rest in about three and a half feet of water.
She was able to exit the Honda and get on top of it, according to Myers.
A passerby reported the accident. Lyon County-Emporia Water Rescue was able to extend a ladder to the Honda for Hagan to get to solid ground. She was treated on scene and not transported by Lyon County EMS.
She was wearing her seatbelt at the time of the accident, according to the sheriff’s department.
🎥 Veterans Day Ceremony 2019
Eagle Communications presents the 2019 Veterans Day ceremony from the VFW in Hays.
CLINTON, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a man, woman and young girl have been killed in an apartment fire in Missouri.
Clinton Fire Chief Leo Huff says the fire was reported around 2:20 a.m. Tuesday. He says a second story apartment in the 12-unit building was in a free burning state when crews arrived. The blaze was brought under control within about 20 minutes, and the victims were found inside. Their names weren’t immediately released. He says the girl was 4 or 5 years old.
The cause of the fire is under investigation, and Huff said he didn’t know where it started. One other unit in the apartment building also sustained water and fire damage.
Clinton is about 75 miles southeast of Kansas City.
The National Weather Service in Goodland reported today at least five monitoring stations recorded temperatures below zero Tuesday morning.
Colby and Norton each dipped to 3 degrees below, and stations in Russell Springs, northeast of Goodland and Oberlin all saw lows below zero.
The K-State Ag Research Center also reported a new overnight record low for Hays, with a low of 1 degree recorded. Russell also dropped to a record low of 3 degrees overnight.
After a bitter cold snap, the mercury is expected to rise through the rest of the week, with a high of 45 predicted Tuesday. By the weekend, the NWS in Dodge City is expecting temperatures in the Hays area to reach into the low- to mid-60s.
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By STEPHAN BISAHA
Kansas News Service
MANHATTAN — Millennials get blamed for killing off sports, drinks and entire industries. Those millennials — and their Gen Z successors — have also given rise to a new word: adulting.
Aging folks from the baby boom or Generation X enjoy ridiculing today’s college students when those younger people can’t change a tire or wash their clothes without turning to Mom or Dad.
But educators say students privileged enough to go to college and who somehow avoided learning when to change their oil also grew up under a mountain of academic pressure. All that drilling for college entrance exams and robust GPAs left them book-smart — and less life-savvy.
So Kansas State University and other colleges have turned to adulting workshops. The noncredit classes aim to teach students the practical skills that don’t come up in ordinary classrooms.
Mental health advocates hope the workshops can also temper the stress caused by academic pressure and a lack of knowhow about living beyond the reach of hovering parents.
Curbing home economics
Adulting lessons used to go by another well-known name: home economics. Those classes taught cooking, sewing, budgeting and other practical skills.
But long before adulting classes took over, home economics got rebranded. To shred the house-wife-in-training sensibility, many of the classes were relabeled as “family and consumer science” in the 1990s.
Their popularity declined anyway. In 2012, fewer than 3.5 million students were taking FCS classes, a 38% drop over a decade. FCS teachers are in short supply.
And two decades of shifting education policies — starting with the No Child Left Behind Act — have caused schools to focus on a narrow set of often-tested subjects.
“It’s not considered to be a core area, and so it’s easier to say, ‘maybe we don’t need this,’” said Duane Whitbeck, the chair of Family and Consumer Sciences at Pittsburg State University.
That emphasis on a limited number of subjects and the pressure to perform well in them has left today’s college students feeling unready for challenges not found on a Scantron test.
“I feel like I was ill-prepared for life in general,” said Ashley Fox, a K-State student.
Enter adulting
Some colleges want to fill in those missing life skills with free, noncredit workshops they often call “Adulting 101.”
Wichita State University offered one on budgeting. The University of Nebraska-Kearney’s version touches on tax preparation. A University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill workshop focuses on building credit.
K-State offers a series of workshops. The school’s lessons include car maintenance, food safety and conflict resolution for dealing with that roommate who expects you to do all the toilet scrubbing.
Students working with the university’s health center organized the workshops. They were interested because they felt they had few other opportunities to pick up these skills.
“We don’t have classes on how to change a tire at school,” said Frankie Skinner, a student at K-State who helped create the adulting workshops. “We lack knowledge of just basic adulting.”
Adulting 101: more than Home Economics 2.0
Educators hope even a lesson on oil changes does more than teach students about car maintenance. They’re trying to build sturdier adults in the context of what they describe as a mental health crisis.
Mental health treatment for college students went from 19% to 34% between 2007 and 2017. Students and educators point to an unprecedented amount of academic expectations leaving students exhausted and stressed.
“In high school, I felt really pressured to take a lot of college classes to succeed because there was a huge race for valedictorian and being top of the class,” said K-State student Anna Traynham. “No matter how high your GPA was … everybody was still stressed. … You had to be perfect all the time.”
While academic pressure is believed to play a big part in stressing out students, evidence suggests it’s not just high-achieving students feeling the anxiety.
Mental health advocates believe adulting classes can help in two ways: The first is simply preparing already-overwhelmed students to deal with life’s pitfalls. A flat tire is less stressful when you know where to find the tire iron.
“These basic problem-solving life skills are being brushed under the rug,” said Megan Katt, a health educator at K-State. “Instead, we’re just drilling all this academic work into their head.”
The second idea deals with another word that’s become popular on campus — resilience.
That ability to bounce back from challenges can mean the difference between working through a stressful event and spiraling into a breakdown.
And educators believe today’s students are less resilient than previous generations.
“When we’re not given the tools to solve problems, we are not able to be resilient,” said Megan Katt, who helped create the K-state’s adulting workshops.
Mental health advocates say there are merits to both adulting and workshops specifically aimed at building resiliency.
But Laura Horne, chief program officer at the mental advocacy organization Active Minds, warns that these are just short-term solutions. Addressing the college mental health crisis takes changing the culture of campus so that more staff and students feel comfortable talking about mental health issues.
“It’s a long game,” Horne said. “This is really difficult work to do, but it is … worth doing.”
Stephan Bisaha reports on education and young adult life for the Kansas News Service. You can follow him on Twitter @SteveBisaha or email him at [email protected]. The Kansas News Service is a collaboration of KCUR, Kansas Public Radio, KMUW and High Plains Public Radio focused on the health and well-being of Kansans, their communities and civic life.
