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Eagle Broadband is seeking a Full-Time Combination Technician based in the Abilene, KS area. Each day, you will have the opportunity to work with the latest technology in Digital Television, Internet, Wi-Fi, Telephone and customer premise equipment by providing technical solutions to our customers.
A Combination Field/Maintenance Technician at Eagle Broadband will enjoy the freedom and flexibility of working independently. Every day brings new challenges and opportunities for continued growth. You will have the opportunity to meet new people and satisfaction of providing our customers with the latest technology in Digital Television, Internet, Wi-Fi and Telephone services. Normal business hours are 8am to 5pm Monday through Friday. Our on-call rotation and desire to meet the demand of producing quality installation can change the flow of a normal day allowing the opportunity for overtime, including weekends. Requirements:
Drives Company vehicle between office, headend, and work sites
Ability to use a 28 ft. extension ladder and climbing equipment
Ability to be in Attics and Crawl spaces as necessary
Works within or outside of a customer’s premises
Ability to lift 70lbs
Ability to work overtime on regularly scheduled days or on scheduled days off due to customer or operational demands
Ability to work in adverse weather conditions
Travels to all systems within assigned region
Primary Responsibilities:
Install and troubleshoots residential and commercial Analog/Digital/HD television services.
Install and troubleshoots Digital residential and commercial telephone
Install and troubleshoots HI-Speed internet and WIFI internet
Locating underground facilities
Prepare for daily work assignment by requisitioning supplies from warehouse and stocking vehicle
Interact with customers in a professional, courteous manner including when responding to escalations and repeated customer concerns
Educate customers in the use of installed products
Salary:
Compensation is commensurate with experience and includes a competitive benefits package.
Other information:
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. The selected candidate will be required to pass a criminal history background and motor vehicle check, drug test, and successfully complete a Physical Capacity Profile screening. Eagle Broadband is an EEO employer.
John Phillip Floyd, age 84, passed away on Friday, September 13, 2019, at University of Denver Hospital in Denver, Colorado
John was born May 11, 1935 in Hutchinson, Kansas, the son of Richard A. & Verna H. ( Stone ) Floyd. A resident of Greeley County since the 1930’s , he was a farmer, avid hunter and fisherman, but most importantly, Papa.
John was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Tribune, Kansas.
On December 23, 1963 he married Emma Grace Proctor at Syracuse, Kansas. Grace passed away on September 21, 2019 in Hays, Kansas
John’s surviving family includes his Two children – Lloyd Patterson, Jr. of Rush, Colorado, Penny Graham or Tribune, Kansas, Grandchildren – Kara Jo ( Skyler) Howell of Tribune, Kansas, Kegan Wendt of Blackwell, Oklahoma, Brian Graham of Quinter, Kansas, Sara (Andy) Albers of Tribune, Kansas, Teresa Graham of Ellinwood, Kansas, Jason Graham of Tribune, Kansas, Natalie Patterson of Austin, Texas, Great Grandchildren – Hannah, Trevor, Marie, Tyler, Nicole, Trinity, Raylynn, Shaydan, Tayler, Gracelynn, Cenlee, Kaden & Spencer.
His parents, a daughter, Verna Sue Wendt, and three brothers, Howard, I. Floyd II, Edwin D. Floyd and Richard A. Floyd precede him in death.
At John’s request, cremation has taken place and services will be at a later date.
Memorials may be given in John’s memory to the Greeley County Trap Club.
Anna Mary (Fleming) Barnett, 89, of Colby, died Monday, September 16, 2019, at Fairview Estates of Colby, KS. Anna Mary was born to Henry L. and Laura W. (Kirby) Fleming in Logan, KS, on June 24, 1930. She grew up in Rooks County, near Webster, KS. In 1945 her and her family moved to Sheridan County, KS.
In August 17, 1952, she married Morris Barnett in the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church in Studley, KS. They made their home North of Colby, KS. To this union two children were born, Cheryl and Charles.
She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Colby.
Survivors are her children, Cheryl (Forest) Towsley, of Colorado Springs, CO and Charles (Rylinda) Barnett, Colby, KS; sisters, Bernett White, of Oregon and Merle Ellis, of Colby; grandchildren, Kristy Karnes, Brian Barnett and Anna Towsley; great grandchildren, Brielle Karnes and Brandon Karnes; brother-in-law Bernard Barnett; sisters-in-law, Helen Klein, Grace Jones and Mildred Green.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband Morris; brothers, John and Bill Fleming and sister Beulah Hamme.
Visitation is 5-7:00 p.m. Friday, September 20, 2019, at Baalmann Mortuary, Colby. Funeral Service is 10:30 a.m. Saturday, September 21, 2019, also at the Mortuary with burial at Beulah Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to Fairview Estates, in care of Baalmann Mortuary, PO Box 391, Colby, KS 67701. For information or condolences visit www.baalmannmortuary.com
Monica Miller, 1979 – 2019. Well-known former Fayette resident Monica Renee Miller died near Hays, Kansas on Saturday, September 14 as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. She was 40 years of age.
The daughter of Carrol “Gene” and Lorna T. Miller, Monica was born in Columbia, Mo., on March 16, 1979. Growing up in Fayette, she was a member of the Fayette First Christian Church. She was active in church, school, and community activities and graduated with the Fayette High School Class of 1997. She continued her education at Culver-Stockton College in Canton, MO where she was an active member of the Sigma Kappa sorority. She earned the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts from Culver in 2001.
Monica went on to receive the degree of Master of Public Affairs from the University of Missouri, Columbia in 2008. Monica’s love of drama, theater, and music led to an internship at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., a summer job with the Creed Repertory Theatre in Creede, CO, and a position as the administrative assistant to the Director of Bands with Marching Mizzou at the University of Missouri. For the past decade, Monica had a distinguished career as a Program Analyst for the United States Geological Survey at the Columbia Environmental Research Center in Columbia, MO, where she was employed at the time of her death. Monica was an independent and adventuresome spirit.
She loved the out-of-doors, backpacking and camping trips took her all over the country. She also enjoyed working with her sorority as a graduate leader at Canton. Among her greatest joys was time spent with the many friends she made from school, at work, and through her travels. Most of all, she loved her family. Her great good nature and loving guidance will be sorely missed by her parents and family, all her friends, and, of course, her faithful dog Winnie.
Monica is survived by her parents of Columbia, her aunt and uncle Margaret and John Ensor of Jeffersonville, IN, cousins Mark (Deanna) Ensor, Marsha Johnson and her daughter Malika, Michele (Brian) Pope, her great aunt Arlene Miller of Lindale, AZ, and a host of friends.
Funeral services for Monica Miller will be held at 2:00 PM at the Fayette First Christian Church on Saturday, September 28, with Rev. Stephen Johnson officiating. Visitation will be immediately preceding the service from noon until 2:00 PM at the church. Burial will follow the services at Walnut Ridge Cemetery in Fayette. A celebration of life gathering will be held at Cambridge Place Clubhouse on Scarborough Drive in Columbia, MO at 6:00 PM. In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to PAWS animal shelter, Culver-Stockton College, or Fayette First Christian Church care of Friemonth-Freese Funeral Service; 174 Hwy 5 & 240; Fayette, MO 65248.
DETROIT (AP) — Union and company bargainers are making progress toward a new contract as a strike by United Auto Workers brought 33 General Motors factories to a halt continued into its third day.
Workers on the picket line in Kansas Tuesday photo courtesy Triple A
The strike includes some 2000 GM workers in Kansas.
Committees working on thorny issues such as wages, health insurance costs, use of temporary workers, and new work for plants slated to close worked until early evening Tuesday and are scheduled to resume bargaining early Wednesday.
UAW spokesman Brian Rothenberg said the talks were moving slowly but progressing.
More than 49,000 workers walked off their jobs on Monday in a dispute over the union’s quest to get a bigger share of GM’s profits and the company’s goal of cutting labor costs so they’re closer to those at U.S. auto plants run by foreign companies.
Health care costs and giving temporary workers a clear path to permanent jobs were two major sticking points in talks toward a new four-year contract.
On the picket lines, many workers were hoping for a quick resolution, but said they’re willing to stay out as long as needed.
“I can’t see this lasting too long,” said machinist Clarence Trinity as he carried a union sign at GM’s engine and transmission factory in the Detroit suburb of Romulus, Michigan. “Both sides are losing bad.”
Citi analyst Itay Michaeli, in a note to investors, estimated that the strike is costing the company $100 million per day in earnings. However, GM has enough inventory to supply dealers for 77 days at the current sales pace, although it’s running lower on big SUVs, according to Cox Automotive.
If the strike ends soon, GM will be able to crank up production to make up for lost production time and mitigate some of the losses. But if it lasts more than a week, it will start to affect production in Canada and Mexico, putting more pressure on GM’s inventory. If supplies dwindle, consumers may go to other brands, costing GM sales and market share.
GM is facing weakening sales, a deteriorating global economy and an unpredictable trade war as it tries to keep its labor costs in check through 2023. But workers are looking at GM’s fat profits of more than $30 billion during the past five years, and they want a bigger share.
During a lecture Saturday in Hays, Boun Thorne, formerly of Cambodia, holds a stuffed animal similar to the one she received in her Operation Christmas Child box.
By CRISTINA JANNEY Hays Post
A group gathers Saturday at Messiah Lutheran Church to learn about Operation Christmas Child. This year’s shoebox collection week is Nov. 18-25.
Boun Thorne, who had an abusive childhood in Cambodia, said an Operation Christmas Child gift changed her life and help her accept God’s love.
Thorne, who now lives in the U.S., spoke to a group Saturday at Messiah Lutheran Church in Hays about her experiences growing up and her Operation Christmas Child gift.
Operation Christmas Child is a project of Samaritan’s Purse, an international relief agency headquartered in Boone, N.C., and led by the Rev. Franklin Graham. Every Christmas, thousands of individuals prepare shoeboxes filled with small toys, school supplies and hygiene items, which are then delivered to needy children around the world.
This year’s shoebox collection week is Nov. 18 to 25.
Thorne’s family was very poor when she was growing up. She grew up on a boat in a floating village. Her father was a fisherman, but he was also an alcoholic. Thorne’s father would fish to earn money, but he would spend his money on alcohol, leaving his family with nothing.
“Because of that we never had money to buy food from the market,” she said. “Growing up, we would eat anything we could find around us. Fish and rice was our basic food three times a day, and we would eat the leftovers for breakfast. There would be special occasions when my dad would catch a snake or a monkey and that was when we got to eat something different than fish.”
There was no electricity, no school or hospital.
Throne’s father was abusive when he was drunk. He regularly beat Thorne’s mother. After a particularly brutal beating, her mother passed out and Thorne thought she was dead. Thorne and her siblings would swim to a neighbor’s boat to hide from him, but they weren’t always successful in getting away.
When Thorne was about 6 years old, she became very ill. Her mother asked her father to take Thorne to the hospital.
“My dad told my mom, ‘Just let her die. If she doesn’t survive, we will just make more babies,'” Thorne said. “When I heard that, I felt like my dad didn’t love me at all. I thought maybe I am not his daughter.”
Thorne survived her illness. She decided then she wanted to some day be a nurse or doctor so she could help children who were sick.
She went to her father and asked if she could go to school. He said no, she didn’t need to go to school. She was told she would eventually marry and stay home with her children.
When she was 8, she left her family and her village to live with her aunt so she could go to school. She had to help her aunt make and sell Cambodian cookies to pay her way.
Thorne woke up at 3 a.m to help her aunt cook. After school, she would be sent in to village to sell cookies. If she did not sell all the cookies for the day, her aunt told her she was lazy and sent her to bed without diner.
“No matter what happened. No matter what my dad did to us, my mom would make sure I had food in my tummy before we went to bed,” she said.
After two years, Thorne said she could no longer bear her aunt’s abuse, gave up on her education and moved home with her parents.
During a Cambodian holiday, her father became so drunk he couldn’t fish for the family. Thorne’s mother sent her to fish with her uncle, so the family would have something to eat. Her uncle abused her on that trip.
Her mother wanted to report the crime to the police, but she couldn’t do it that day because of the holiday. By the time her mother could report the crime, her father had alerted her uncle, and her uncle fled the area to avoid the authorities.
Because her village elder thought Thorne might be in danger from her uncle, a couple months after the abuse incident, Thorne moved to a Rapha House, an international mission aimed at ending sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of children.
She would have to leave her mother and siblings again, but she would get to go to school.
“My house mother showed me where I was going to get my food,” she said. “There was a table with a lot of food on it. We never had desert or anything like that, but on the table there is a lot of desert. I was just standing there crying because I really wished my siblings and my mom would get to eat all of this food with me.
“Then she showed me I had a bunk bed. I had my own bed with my own mattress. I never slept on a mattress before. At home we slept on a mat on the floor. I just wished my mom and my siblings could experience this all with me.”
One of her counselors told her about Jesus Christ. She told her that God wanted her to forgive her uncle and her dad, but Thorne said she was not ready to forgive.
“It didn’t make sense to me,” she said. “My dad didn’t love me. Why do I have to love him? My uncle didn’t love me. Why do I have to love him? It hurts me.”
Thorne regularly went to church, but she said she went to be with her friends, because she could sing and dance and they served snacks.
When she was 13, her teacher told her they had special gifts for the children. It was boxes from Operation Christmas Child. This was the first gift she had ever received. Christmas and birthdays are not celebrated in Cambodia. They were told these were gifts from the people who love God and they wanted to bless the children with these gifts.
The children were told they were supposed to wait until all the children received their boxes before they opened their gifts, but Thorne couldn’t wait.
Inside her box was a new pair of flip flops. This was special because the students at the school only received one new pair of shoes each year. At home, she and her family always went barefoot. The box also contained a stuffed animal.
“I never knew something like this existed. I never knew they could make an animal like this, so soft,”she said. “It’s new and smells good. I used to eat all kinds of animals, growing up, but I never knew there was an animal that I didn’t have to eat that I could snuggle with and smelled better than the real animal.”
She said the shoebox helped her fall in love with God more deeply and have a relationship with God.
“I realized that God was so big that he could make impossible things happen,” she said. “He can make someone who doesn’t even know who I am to love me and send me this gift. I realized what my teacher told me that God loves me and he wanted me to love my uncle and to forgive him.”
She added, “Even if my earthly father didn’t love me, there is a father in heaven who loves me, and he is way better than my earthly father.”
Her young brothers came to visit her while she was living in Rapha House, and they fell in love with her stuffed animal. She decided they needed it more than she did, so she gave her toy to them. Her mother later told her that her siblings often fought over the toy.
One day, the stuffed animal fell off their boat into the water. The children saw this and came crying to their mother that their stuffed animal was dead. Because they knew other animals floated when they were dead, the stuffed animal must also be dead. The toy was dried and fluffed, and her siblings exclaimed that their toy had been brought back to life.
Thorne, 25, eventually married an American, who she met when she was working as an interpreter in Cambodia. She is working toward her U.S. citizenship. Today, she lives in Oklahoma and is attending college to become a nurse. In the future, she hopes to periodically return to her home country to offer medical assistance.
KANSAS CITY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a homicide and asking the public for help to identify a suspect.
Photo courtesy Wichita Police
Just after 2:30 p.m. September 13, police responded to 13th and Leavenworth Road in Kansas City, according to officer T.J. Tomasic. Officers found a man later identified as Jamagio J. Berryman, 29, Kansas City. EMS transported him to a local hospital where he died.
On Tuesday, police reported they had located a vehicle in connection with the shooting parked near 13th and Euclid. They continue their work to identify the suspect and released a photo.
The KCKPD Criminal Investigation Bureau has reason to believe he may have traveled to Wichita or another area of south-central Kansas, according to Tomasic.
Anyone with information on the suspect or his identity is asked to contact police.
ComeauThe law firm of Jeter Turner Sook Baxter, LLP announced this week that Ashley Comeau has joined the firm in an “Of Counsel” capacity. Her practice will encompass a broad range of civil matters, including estate planning and elder law, to guide the firm’s business and individual clients.
Comeau graduated with honors from Washburn University School of Law in 2011, earning a Juris Doctor with a certificate in law and government, and from Fort Hays State University in 2008. She was a member of the Washburn Law Moot Court Council as well as the Trial Advocacy Team. Her prior experience includes work as corporate in-house counsel and, from 2012 to 2015, she was a civil litigation attorney at Wagstaff & Cartmell, LLP of Kansas City. She is admitted to practice law in the state and federal courts of Kansas, and is a member of the Kansas Bar Association, Kansas Women Attorneys Association, Ellis County Bar Association and Rooks County Bar Association, where she serves on the Rooks County Law Library Board.
“We are very excited that Ashley has joined the firm,” said Christopher Sook, the firm’s managing partner. “She brings experience and a background that will help us better serve our clients throughout the region.”
Jeter Law Firm has served Kansans for more than 80 years in the areas of Business Law, Banking Law, Commercial Law, Real Estate Law, Oil & Gas Law, Civil Litigation, Trusts, Wills, Estates, Probate, and School and Government Law. The firm includes six attorneys and has offices in downtown Hays and Stockton. More about the firm can be found at www.jeterlawoffice.com.
How awesome would it be to have had prominent sports announcers Howard Cosell, Pat Summerall or even Gerard Wellbrock covering the play by play of the second Hays Recreation Commission pickleball tournament?
Pickleball the fastest growing sport in America for players over the age of 60 and its popularity is rising in Hays, Kansas. The Hays City Commission recently gave its blessing for the addition of two nets at the tennis courts on South Main street under the direction of Jeff Boyle, director of the Parks Department.
That project will be undertaken this month. The addition to our quality of life in Hays is complemented by the Hays Recreation Commission having completed a refinish of the three gym floors at the complex on Canterbury Road with the addition of six pickleball sections. The process and wait time for proper drying of the floor took about a week where the local addicts of this sport overcame their withdrawal when 21 players showed up for the reopening of the gym.
What a nice showing of newly made friends from Great Bend who signed up to play. Nearly all victories to 15-point totals came down to break points in the quarter, semi-finals and finals of the matches among the 13 two-person teams that were entered to play. One-nail biting match pitted local rising star Devon Fuller, 28, a six-year Army veteran returning to further his education at FHSU, against Sheldon Hamilton, 72, from Great Bend. Despite a four-decade spread in age, the elder Hamilton moved forward to the semi-finals.
The finals took on an interesting twist of fate finding Justin McClung facing off against his son Bryce McClung in what took several playoffs to give the father, in this match-up, the victory. Justin’s teammate, Shawn Clark, was playing opposite side to Soumya Bhoumik, an associate professor at FHSU.
Keeping this short, fans or interested persons will want to view these 35 minutes of segments of some great action videos that had family and spectators glued to their seats into the finals of a great day.
By KIM BALDWIN McPherson County farmer and rancher
The other day Facebook reminded me that a year ago we kicked off our fall harvest season. I had posted a picture of the kids climbing into the combine with my husband, and then a picture of the four of us piled in the combine with smiles on our faces. It’s always an exciting day when we fire up the combines and move into the fields.
It means we have a crop to harvest. It also means adding many extra miles on my vehicle.
My mother-in-law and I will begin taking evening meals out to the field. I’ll begin reading books to my kids in the car while waiting for a combine to make its return to our side of the field. You might catch us some evenings driving slowly down a dirt road with our windows down blowing goodnight kisses to my husband because the kids won’t see him again until breakfast. It means driving out to a field and excitedly showing everyone when someone has lost a tooth, or celebrating being selected as the Star of the Day at school, or showing off the newest piece of art that was completed in class, or displaying a birthday card that arrived in the mail.
Yes, we spend a lot of time in the car this time of year. I’m always impressed the kids handle it so well. For them, it’s just a normal part of being a farm kid in the fall. After all, it is how they’ve spent every harvest since before they were even born.
Some days we’ll run home after school and change our clothes before heading out to the field, but more days than not, we go straight to where the crew is. It gives the kids extra time to ride alongside their dad or grandpa, to honk the combine’s horn, to “help” unload the grain by pushing buttons and pulling levers, or to just supervise the entire operation.
We try to keep a routine during harvest for the kids. Many evenings I’ll try to get them in the car and headed home before it’s dark. We’ll still have homework, bath time and stories before I put them to bed. But sometimes exceptions have to be made.
There are some evenings when the kids need extra daddy time, so I’ll ignore the setting sun or the time on the clock. Some days we’ll have to make a trip back out to a field after dark in our jammies because a little one needs to see their daddy one more time before bed and Facetime just isn’t cutting it.
Fall harvest will lead into wheat sowing followed by more fall harvest. The goal is to be completely done by Thanksgiving. Last year we went a few days past that.
Regardless of when the harvest is completed this year, you can bet my kiddos and I will have some quality time driving to and from fields this fall. We will be completing reading assignments while waiting for the crew to come to the edge of the field for a meal, enjoying the cool and crisp weather that will soon be here, and I’ll be snapping a picture every once in a while to document our trips out to the fields.
Yes, it’s the eve of fall harvest and we’re ready to begin this season.
“Insight” is a weekly column published by Kansas Farm Bureau, the state’s largest farm organization whose mission is to strengthen agriculture and the lives of Kansans through advocacy, education and service.
Every year, Rockalooa gets a bit bigger, and this year promises to be no different as bands from across Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado will descend upon Hays on Saturday, Sept. 21, in Municipal Park for a music event like no other in the area.
“It seems that every year we do it, there are more bands coming out,” said Matt Isley, organizer.
The event is an opportunity for bands to bring their musical talents to Hays.
“It’s a showcase that features local bands and other bands from regional hubs like Kansas City, Denver and Wichita,” Isley said. “It also features visual artists and food.
“It’s something interesting and out of the ordinary that people can enjoy in Hays,” he added.
This is the second year the event will be held outdoors after the event outgrew venues available in Hays.
“It will be 20 bands at the park and there is going to be an after show at the (Golden Q, 809 Ash), that’s going to be three bands,” Isley said.
While the event will feature several genres of music, rock will be the primary music showcased at the event.
“As the name suggests, it’s mostly rock music,” Isley said. “You’ve got indie rock, you’ve got harder rock, there are some covers in there.
“There are some other genres too,” he said. “We have some singer-songwriters, we have some folk music, there’s some hip-hop music, so it’s pretty diverse and a little bit of everything.”
After being involved in bands in the area, Isley created Rockalooa after seeing an opportunity to bring a music festival to Hays that is a draw in other cities across the state.
It also gives the bands exposure outside of the normal late-night scene at local bars and venues.
“I really feel like it’s a place for local bands have a place to be and showcase them in a light that isn’t just at the bar, on a larger platform than usual,” Isley said.
Outside of the musical acts, art vendors use Rockalooa as a way to showcase their work.
“They are showing art, they are selling art,” Isley said. “You can buy big, nice paintings or you can buy prints of the paintings. There are all kinds of things that people bring out.
“Local artist can show off a little bit and promote their thing,” he said, noting it’s not just visual artists that will be there, but jewelers and handmade bookbinders have been apart of previous events.
Some local organizations also use the event as a fundraising platform through games or sales, Isley said.
While the music will likely appeal to a young adult crowd, Rockalooa will be a family-friendly event.
“It’s all ages, and there are kids activities,” Isley said. “Kids under 10 will get in free with a parent or guardian.”
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