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Year: 2019
Wonder Women League seeks to expand its programs in Ellis County
By CRISTINA JANNEY
Hays Post
The Wonder Women League is looking forward to several projects that will help children.
The nonprofit, which is affiliated with United Way of Ellis County, had a member drive luncheon Tuesday.
The Wonder Women League hopes to partner with HaysMed to buy stainless steel wagons and/or remote controlled cars for children who are patients at the hospital, Rhonda Meyerhoff, League co-chair, told the group.
“Mom or dad can take the child for a ride, and it is another way of transport,” she said.
The remote-controlled cars, can be a way a child can ride to surgery.
“I didn’t really think about it, but the impact on a child who is really, really scared …,” Meyerhoff said. “They want to cling to mom or to dad because they don’t know what is going to happen. They are scared. What we are told is if they can get the child into one of these motorized vehicles and into surgery, they have accomplished a lot with this child because the child is not going to fight them now.”
HaysMed has approved the project, and it will be up for a vote in front of the Wonder Women in October. The group meets every other month on the second Thursday of the month for about an hour.
The group is trying to organize a cyber security program that could be presented to children in schools, the group also hopes to discuss this project at its next meeting.
The group also hopes to partner with the Fort Hays State University veterans organization to assist in its annual sports equipment drive. That could happen as soon as this fall.
“We know there may be children whose parents can’t afford the athletic equipment that they need to even do Hays Rec or some other team,” Meyerhoff said. “I don’t know about you, but it seemed every year I was having to buy new sizes of shoes for my kids for what they were going through because they had grown that much and the old pair just kind of got dumped.”
New equipment can be donated, but gently used equipment like basketballs, footballs, soccer balls or baseballs could also be donated.
The group has also discussed a long-term goal of creating a woman’s scholarship fund.
The League continues to participate in Matthew’s Gift in cooperation with HaysMed. The project provides bags with necessities, such as toiletries, bottled water, a lap blanket and snacks, to families who have loved ones who have to be transferred out of Hays on an emergency basis. The project was named for 3-year-old Matthew Wellbrock, who died as a result of an accident on his family’s farm.
Nancy Jeter, League c0-chair, said Matthew’s father and mother received a similar bag when Matthew was in the hospital. Matthew’s father told Jeter the bag was invaluable to the couple, because neither one of them wanted to leave Matthew’s side when he was in the hospital. They lived out of that bag until Matthew passed away.
Tammy Williams, HaysMed emergency department nurse, said the families who have received the bags have been very grateful. About three dozen bags have been distributed since the program began in the spring.
Meyerhoff said, “In my heart, when we give them that bag, I think we give them some love from Ellis County to go with them.”
Other projects Wonder Women have supported since the group launched two years ago included a self-defense class and Sunrise Park’s Born Learning Trail, which is a walking trail that includes interactive learning activities for children.
Prior to the event Tuesday, the group had about 35 members.
The group has changed its membership structure. The minimum contribution to become a member is $50. You can pay using check, cash or credit card. You can register online using a credit card.
You can volunteer for events or be on committees, but the League also offers a donor only option.
Registration is good for one year, and the money raised goes to support Wonder Women League projects. The group also accepts contributions from corporate sponsors. Although the League is under the United Way’s nonprofit umbrella, the funds raised through this organization are kept separate for League projects.
The exception is the annual Power of the Purse event, which jointly supports the League and United Way.
🎥 New organizational Hays logo will replace 20+ logos currently used
By BECKY KISER
Hays Post
A single simple organizational logo will “displace the very large amount” of logos currently used by the city of Hays.
“I don’t think any of these logos were adopted by ordinance by the commission in the past,” Toby Dougherty, city manager, told city commissioners Thursday night.
“But because of the staff’s goal to combine them into one logo, we would like you to come to some sort of consensus.”
Dougherty, along with Melissa Dixon, Convention and Visitors executive director, and other city staff members worked with Hays artist Scott Gross who was contracted to design a new logo.
Three similar designs were shown to commissioners who agreed with the staff recommendation of the abstract lowercase “h” option.
Vice-mayor Sean Musil was a little hesitant. “I don’t hate it. I’m just not in love with it,” he said. “I love this logo,” Musil said holding up his bottle of water sporting a current city logo. “To me, this looks fresh.”
The goal of the logo project was to create a standardized city logo that will work in all type of media, signage, letterhead and even employee clothing. The logo color can be tailored to different departments such as green for parks and blue for water resources.
“The logos that are out there aren’t very organized or cohesive,” said Gross. “It was time to give it an update, give it a nice refresh.”
Gross, who has also designed logos for several local businesses including Regeena’s Flowers and Gella’s Diner in downtown Hays, showed mockups of the logo on city vehicles, clothing, the blue trash carts and a photo of the iconic Frontier Park bridge.
“The logo looks like it’s two colors but it’s really just one color,” Gross explained. “You’re only spending money on one color when you go to printing on different things. It’s portable. You 
can’t really embroider two tones like that so you’re just doing one color, nice and simple.”
The city’s “3 Amigos” logo featuring General George A. Custer, James B. “Wild Bill” Hickok and William “Buffalo Bill” Cody often utilized multiple colors, a more expensive process than a single color.
The new logo will use common Pantone colors and the sans-serif Gotham font.
Gross also showed examples of the logo reversed, in 1-color, gray-scale, and 2-color with a color background.
Some of the logo changes will start immediately.
“All the online electronic stuff, that will happen right away. The stuff we give to the press, the letterhead. All that stuff is going to change quickly,” Dougherty said.
Employee shirts will change as they need to be replaced.
The 50-plus wayfinding signs in Hays may not change. “We may look at it and say keep it. It’s a whole separate entity aside from the organizational logo for the city of Hays.”
Hays Regional Airport has its own logo. The new logo will be adapted, perhaps by adding an airplane, to keep the same organizational theme.
Commissioner Ron Mellick asked if the city was going to “throw away thousands of dollars of letterhead.”
“We buy letterhead in really low amounts,” Dougherty answered, “because commissioners’ names change and we have to redo that letterhead. We buy on an as-needed basis. It’s not like we’re going to toss a lot of stuff into the recycling.” Letterhead will not be changed until after the 2020 commission is seated in January, so there will be no additional cost.
The police and fire departments will also use the updated letterhead. Uniform patches will not be affected and for now, the logo will not be placed on police vehicles. Other city vehicles will get new vinyl decals right away.
The logo committee anticipates the cost to implement the new logo is less than $10,000.
Kan. woman accused of battery of officer during vicious dog investigation
SHAWNEE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a teen after an incident with a Kansas deputy.
On Thursday, a deputy was in the 7100 block of SW Woodcroft Way in Topeka looking into a report of three vicious dogs in the area, according to Deputy Andrew Mergen.
The deputy located the 19-year-old owner and while talking to her an object was thrown at and hit the deputy.
The female then ran into her house, but soon came back outside and was detained for a short period of time.
She is being charged with battery on a law enforcement officer. Authorities have not released her name. The deputy was not injured.
Four TMP-M seniors earn Kansas Honors Program accolades
The Kansas Honors Program, a longstanding tradition of the University of Kansas, Alumni Association and KU Endowment, honors high school seniors throughout Kansas for academic excellence and achievement.
This year, there were four Thomas More Prep-Marian seniors who received the honor. Abigail Heimerman, Abigail Peeler, Bryson Rupp and Margaret Speno were chosen due to their GPA being in the top 10 percent of their senior class.
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INSIGHT KANSAS: Addressing racial disparities key to fixing Kan. prison crisis
Our state prison population does not reflect the Kansas population on race. According to 2018 data from the Kansas Department of Corrections, 28% of our adult prisoners are African American, 12% Hispanic, 3% Native American, and 1% Asian. The 2010 Census shows that Kansas is 6% African American, 12% Hispanic, 1% Native American, and 3% Asian.
So, African Americans are represented in our prison population at nearly five times their share of the Kansas population, and Native Americans three times. Racial disparities also exist among juveniles in detention in Kansas, where 32% are black and 23% Hispanic.
Our prison population skews in other important ways, too. Among adult prisoners, 36% have less than a high school education. And 33% are diagnosed with a serious to severe mental illness, underscoring how prisons compensate for the decline of state psychiatric hospitals.
On race, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that the national imprisonment rate among black men has dropped by about 20% since 2000. Experts tie this to declining crime rates, shifts in drug enforcement toward opioids and meth, and criminal justice reform focused on urban communities. Consequently, as prison populations have declined in most states, the disparity in imprisonment between blacks and whites has shrunk, though not disappeared.
In Kansas, though our prison population has grown, African Americans have declined from 36% of the adult prison population in 2001, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections. That represents progress, though that decline has stagnated in recent years.
Nationally, Americans seem more aware of how racial disparities in prison are driven by differences in poverty and educational opportunities, drug laws and their enforcement, policing inequities, legal representation inequities, and sentencing disparities, among other factors.
But good data on Kansas are scarce. Challenge one in addressing the racial disparity in Kansas prisons is better studying and understanding how national factors that create this difference work specifically in Kansas.
Challenge two is policy. The upside to Kansas lagging other states on criminal justice reform is that we can learn from their experiences, though their approaches will not always fit well in Kansas.
Take Georgia. As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, former Republican Governor Nathan Deal spearheaded bipartisan criminal justice reform measures, including “accountability courts” that provide prison alternatives for non-violent or mentally ill offenders and redefining what constitutes a “felony.” Though imperfect, Georgia has shrunk its prison population, cut the imprisonment rate of African Americans even more dramatically, and saved tens of millions of dollars.
Other states have tackled minimum mandatory sentencing, three strikes laws, indigent defense, and other factors that have exacerbated racial disparities in their respective prisons.
Challenge three is spine. Many reform advocates deemphasize race, perhaps thinking it makes the issue divisive. But avoiding hard truths serves no good. This leaves reform opponents as frequently the ones emphasizing race, often implicitly in their language or which violent offenders they cherry pick to mischaracterize reform proposals.
One column cannot adequately address this topic—especially policy complexities, moral justice, and the human impact. But to tackle this problem intelligently, we should not treat the issue as color blind when our prison crisis is inseparable from race.
Patrick R. Miller is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas.
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New York-based jazz drummer musician to perform at FHSU
FHSU University Relations
Pete Zimmer, a New York based jazz drummer, will perform at Fort Hays State University’s Beach/Schmidt Performing Arts Center at 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 23.
Touring through the midwest, Zimmer will stop in Hays to perform as well as work with music students.
This is not Zimmer’s first time in Hays. He has stopped to play on campus before and was a guest artist for the music camp four years ago.
Zimmer will perform with Dr. Ben Markley, an FHSU alum who teaches at the University of Wyoming, on piano, Bob Bowman, a freelance musician, on bass, Brad Dawson, assistant professor of music and theatre, and Luke Johnson an instructor of music and theatre.
“This will be a chance to hear great jazz from some great players,” said Dawson.
The show will feature two compositions written by Markley that are on his latest CD Slow Play.
The show is free and open to the public. For more information you can email Dawson at [email protected].
This weekend’s Hays-area garage sales
Hays-area garage sales
Scroll to the bottom for a map of garage sale locations. Hays Post offers FREE garage sale listings weekly. Having a garage sale next weekend? Click HERE to submit your information.
130 N Ash, Russell
Saturday 8-Noon
Lots of neat stuff, some antiques, Women’s Clothes, Men’s Big and Tall, household, garden, BBQ stuff, crafts and craft supplies and Misc. everything priced to sell. 130 North Ash Street Russell 8-Noon Saturday 9-21-19
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2206 Downing Ave., Hays
Friday, September 20th 5:30 until dark & Saturday, sept. 21st 8:00 am until 1:00 pm
Household items
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508 W 15th, Hays
Thursday, September 19th 4p.m. to dark, Friday, September 20th 4p.m. to dark, Saturday September 21st 9a.m. to Noon
Daycare closing! Toys, books, puzzles, baby items, pack n play, exersaucer, booster seats, house hold items, electronic keyboard with stand, sewing machine, too much to list
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2516 Henry Drive, Hays
Friday 9/20 from 8 am to 8 pm and Saturday 9/21 from 8 am to noon
Automatic Baby Bottle Maker, antiques, collectables, porcelain dolls, queen bed frames, small grill I Robot Floor cleaner, toys, games puzzles, clothes, furniture, microwave, mens electric tools, lots of miscellaneous.
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217 W. 35th St, Hays
Saturday, September 21st 8:00am to 12:00pm
Large, Multi-family garage sale
Girl’s clothing Newborn – 12 months, car seats, baby accessories, maternity clothes
shoes
Lots of home decor
wooden rocking chair
media console tables
desk hutch
coffee table
lots of miscellaneous!
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Police find pot, drug paraphernalia near small child in Kan. home
BARTON COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a woman on drug charges after an arrest.
Just before 12:30p.m. Thursday. police conducted a narcotics search warrant at 3621 23rd Street in Great Bend, according to a media release. This search warrant was obtained from follow up investigation of the arrest of Xavier Carey on September 17.
During the search of the residence, police found marijuana and drug paraphernalia inside the house in the vicinity of a small child.
Police arrested Treva Carey, 47, and transported to the Barton County Jail where she was booked and confined in lieu of $2,500 bond. The small child was released to another family member.
On Tuesday, police arrested Xavier Allen Carey, 25, after a traffic stop and transported him to the Barton County Jail where he was booked and confined in lieu of $100,000 bond.
FHSU Sounds of the Game, week 2
The Fort Hays State Tiger football team travels to the state capital this Saturday afternoon for a week three showdown with the Washburn Ichabods.
The Tigers are coming off their second straight loss to open the season, a 28-17 loss to Missouri Western State last Thursday.
If you missed any of the action you can check out the highlights below with our Sounds of the Game
Cruz hits 2 homers in Twins win over Royals
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Nelson Cruz hit two of Minnesota’s four home runs and matched his season high with five RBIs, igniting another impressive power display by the first-place Twins during an 8-5 victory on Thursday night over the Kansas City Royals to keep their American League Central lead at four games – with nine games to go.
Miguel Sano homered and hit the tiebreaking RBI double in the fifth following the ejection of Royals starter Mike Montgomery, who started that inning by giving up a home run to Mitch Garver. The Twins have 293 homers, one more than New York in the chase for the major league record set last season by the Yankees with 267.
Far more importantly in the pennant race, the Twins trimmed their magic number for clinching the division to six, meaning any combination of their wins and Cleveland losses would give them the title. The Indians completed a three-game sweep of Detroit on Thursday.
Sano, who reached the third deck above left field for the second time in three games, has 31 home runs, as does Garver. Cruz pushed his team lead to 39 homers with a two-run shot in the seventh that landed halfway up the wall of junipers that make up the batter’s eye behind center field. Cruz now has 399 career home runs, tied for 57th place on the all-time list with Andres Galarraga and Al Kaline.
Cruz, who has played in just 113 games due to two stints on the injured list for a strained left wrist, joined Eddie Rosario above the 100-RBI mark. The Twins also set their single-season club record with 885 runs and counting.
The home run derby helped struggling Twins starter Kyle Gibson out. He walked in back-to-back runs in the second inning before being removed with a 3-0 deficit. Dealing all year with ulcerative colitis, a digestive track disease, Gibson has faltered down the stretch, bad timing with the absence of Michael Pineda after his suspension for a banned diuretic.
Lewis Thorpe (4-2), the second of six relievers, worked four innings for the win. Taylor Rogers recorded his 28 saves with two strikeouts in a perfect ninth.
THE FOUL MONTY
Montgomery allowed seven hits and five runs in four innings. During a visit to the mound by pitching coach Cal Eldred after Garver’s home run, home plate umpire Manny Gonzalez came out to urge them to wrap it up. Montgomery had words for Gonzalez, who warned the left-hander before giving him the heave-ho after Montgomery kept jawing at him. He chucked the ball toward the plate on his walk off the mound and slammed his glove against the bench upon reaching the dugout.
Jacob Barnes (1-3) relieved him and gave up the double to Sano that center fielder Erick Mejia nearly caught after a long run but had pop out of his glove.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Twins RF Max Kepler (left shoulder soreness) was rested for the fifth straight game and the eighth time in the last 10 games.
UP NEXT
Royals: LHP Eric Skoglund (0-1, 8.36 ERA), who has taken the place of RHP Jakob Junis in the rotation, will pitch on Friday night for his first start since Aug. 30. Junis was shut down at 175 1/3 innings as a precaution due to his season workload. Skoglund pitched four innings in relief on Sunday.
Twins: Manager Rocco Baldelli declined before the game to declare his starter for the second game of the series, but rookie RHP Devin Smeltzer remained a strong possibility for the opening created by Pineda’s suspension. Smeltzer pitched three scoreless innings on Saturday.
TMP-Marian girls golf wins Larned Invite
LARNED, Kan. – The TMP-Marian girls’ golf team placed four in the top-10 and wins the Larned Invitational. Jenna Romme, Allison Applequist, Mykayla Romme and Emma Dinkel all shot personal bests with Jennea Romme leading the way with a 95 and second place finish.