BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Authorities say a 50-year-old man from Kansas has died after he fell while rock climbing in Colorado.
The Boulder County Sheriff’s Department says the man fell about 60 feet Saturday in an area called the Bell Buttress in Boulder Canyon about 9 miles west of downtown Boulder.
His name hasn’t been released.
The sheriff’s department says the man and a companion had just completed a climbing route and were searching for a way to descend. When the victim walked to the edge of a cliff to look over, a rock gave way and he fell.
Early Childhood Connections moved from the Washington school several weeks ago. Donna Hudson-Hamilton, ECC director, said the new space is a great improvement over Washington, a 90-year-old building that had significant infrastructure issues, including problems with plumbing, sewer, the roof, and heating and air conditioning.
Although Hudson-Hamilton said converting the former medical complex, 2300 E. 13th, into a school was challenging for the architect, it has meant the new classrooms are right-sized for the programs and children who will be using them.
ECC staff in a new classroom.
“It was kind of a challenge because there were so many rooms,” she said. “We tried to use as many existing walls and doorways and restrooms as possible. I have to give all the kudos to the architect because that is something he worked on doing, using as much as we can. This was quite a maze before we came in here it being a medical facility with all of the exam rooms. He did a great job with that.”
USD 489 also tried to use as much of the existing cabinetry to reduce costs. Playground equipment was moved from the former location at Washington school.
Every nook and cranny in the complex is being used for something — classrooms, offices, storage, an indoor activity room for indoor recess, a sensory room, nurses station, meeting rooms and a breastfeeding room.
The project also included a tornado shelter, which Washington did not have. The ECC now has off-street parking, and the ECC was able to expand its classroom space to facilitate the addition of all-day Headstart, which is being required by the federal government.
The renovated complex has secure entrances. During regular drop-off and pick-up times, doors are unlocked. However, during school hours, visitors will need to be buzzed in through the office, which is in building one (right front building as you enter the parking lot).
The ECC’s new tornado shelter is built to withstand up to an F5 tornado.
Once all four buildings are complete, ECC will house Headstart, Early Headstart, state pre-kindergarten, services through the Early Childhood Block Grant, USD 489 tuition-based preschool, Parents as Teachers and Early Childhood Special Education programs for a total of about 180 kids.
Although programs have already moved into the complex, finishing touches are still being done on buildings one, two and four. Building three is yet to be completed. That will house the district’s infant and toddler program, which is now located at Munjor school. Hudson-Hamilton said she anticipates work will be complete and that program will move to Oak Park by the end of September.
A children’s sitting area in ECC’s new location at the former Oak Park Medical Complex.
She said having all the children in one location will mean parents with children in more than one program will have only one drop off. It also means all of the staff will be in one building, which should be more efficient and allow for more collaboration.
Massive DUI Enforcement Campaign Set for August 24
MADD Kansas
Volunteers and staff from Mothers Against Drunk Driving will team up with Kansas Highway Patrol and local law enforcement agencies in Kansas as part of a nationwide impaired-driving crackdown this weekend for “Saturation Saturday.”
MADD will join law enforcement as they step up patrols, conduct sobriety checkpoints and increase public service messaging to remind everyone that if you drive drunk or impaired by other drugs, you will get caught. Approximately 250 law enforcement agencies are participating in Saturation Saturday nationwide.
“Saturation Saturday is intended to overwhelm the nation with the message to never drive impaired, and to show our appreciation for the tough work law enforcement officers do every day to stop the violent, preventable crime of drunk and drug-impaired driving,” said MADD National President Helen Witty. “We know that the days before Labor Day weekend are among the most heavily traveled and can be the most dangerous on our roads for the general public and for law enforcement. We want to stand with them to remind everyone that these waning days of summer are a time for fun, not tragedy.”
MADD’s Saturation Saturday is scheduled to fall right in the middle of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign. NHTSA’s $13 million Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign, long supported by MADD, helps fund increased drunk driving enforcement and advertising from August 16 through Labor Day.
“We are proud to support our law enforcement heroes on Saturation Saturday and every day. They are our first line of defense against drunk driving, the Number One killer on our roads,” said Lori Marshall, MADD Kansas.
The following law enforcement agencies in Kansas will be participating in Saturation Saturday:
Kansas Highway Patrol
Johnson County Sheriff’s Office Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office
Reno County Sheriff’s Office Hutchinson Police Department
Garden City Police Department Wichita Police Department
Dodge City Police Department Overland Park Police Department
Olathe Police Department Gardner Police Department
Shawnee Police Department Lawrence Police Department
High-visibility law enforcement, such as sobriety checkpoints, is one of the key elements of MADD’s Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving, launched in 2006. MADD advocates for funding for NHTSA’s Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over events, which occur every year in August and December, and Click It or Ticket in May. The other elements of MADD’s Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving include passing laws to require ignition interlocks for all drunk driving offenders, support for advanced vehicle technology and taking personal responsibility by using Uber, public transportation, taxi or designating a non-drinking friend or family member if plans include alcohol.
To follow events throughout the day, follow MADD on Twitter at @maddonline or on Facebook at @MADD.Official. Look for the hashtag #SaturationSaturday.
About Mothers Against Drunk Driving
Founded in 1980 by a mother whose daughter was killed by a drunk driver, Mothers Against Drunk Driving® (MADD) is the nation’s largest nonprofit working to end drunk driving, help fight drugged driving, support the victims of these violent crimes and prevent underage drinking. MADD has helped to save nearly 380,000 lives, reduce drunk driving deaths by more than 50 percent and promote designating a non-drinking driver. MADD’s Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving® calls for law enforcement support, ignition interlocks for all offenders and advanced vehicle technology. MADD has provided supportive services to nearly one million drunk and drugged driving victims and survivors at no charge through local victim advocates and the 24-Hour Victim Help Line 1-877-MADD-HELP. Visit www.madd.org or call 1-877-ASK-MADD.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A database of finger and palm prints used by law enforcement and child welfare workers is in danger of failing and needs to be replaced, a Kansas Bureau of Investigation official told lawmakers.
The system contains more than 2 million finger and palm prints and if it stops working police wouldn’t be able to check prints of criminal suspects and child welfare workers couldn’t do background checks on potential foster parents.
“If the system is not replaced, there is a significant risk that it will fail,” KBI spokesman Joe Mandala told a legislative committee this past week. “A failure of this system would cripple criminal justice and public safety operations across the state, most directly at local law enforcement agencies.”
The database is also used for people applying for visas, employees in adult care homes, individuals involved in child placement and to identify people who have died. The Kansas system handles about 120,000 criminal requests and 60,000 non-criminal requests a year, Mandala said.
Kansas is the last state in the country using the database, called the Automated Fingerprint Identification System, or AFIS. It has been in place since 2007 and the company that made it, MorphoTrack, will stop providing maintenance by 2025, the KBI said.
Lawmakers on the committee complained that they had not been sufficiently warned about the urgency of replacing the system, which would cost about $8 million.
Mandala responded that the KBI submitted a replacement plan in 2017 to state information technology officials and included information about the need to replace the system for the past three years in a briefing book for lawmakers. He said the agency also sought a budget increase to pay for the project, but the governor’s office didn’t include the money in its spending recommendations.
“You guys didn’t think to raise the flag any higher when you weren’t getting any results since this is 2019?” Sen. Caryn Tyson, a Parker Republican, asked Mandala.
The KBI is conducting a feasibility study that is required before a replacement project can proceed.
The study was ongoing when the budget was being developed last year, said Lauren Fitzgerald, a spokeswoman for Gov. Laura Kelly.
“Governor Kelly is committed to keeping our communities safe and ensuring that law enforcement has the tools necessary to do their jobs. We look forward to working with the KBI and the legislature to determine the next steps for replacing the aging AFIS system,” Fitzgerald said in a statement.
The KBI hopes to request proposals to replace the system this year. Replacement will take two years, Mandala said.
TORNADO WATCH 616 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1200 AM CDT FOR THE
FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
KANSAS COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE
BARBER BARTON CHEYENNE
CLARK COMANCHE DECATUR
EDWARDS ELLIS ELLSWORTH
FINNEY FORD GOVE
GRAHAM GRANT GRAY
GREELEY HAMILTON HASKELL
HODGEMAN KEARNY KIOWA
LANE LINCOLN LOGAN
MEADE MITCHELL MORTON
NESS NORTON OSBORNE
PAWNEE PHILLIPS PRATT
RAWLINS RICE ROOKS
RUSH RUSSELL SCOTT
SEWARD SHERIDAN SHERMAN
SMITH STAFFORD STANTON
STEVENS THOMAS TREGO
WALLACE WICHITA
The National Weather Service is predicting the possibility of strong thunderstorms Saturday evening.
The NWS is reporting that there is a possibility of supercells forming over northwest Kansas, bring large hail, high winds up to 60 mph and the possibility of tornadoes.
Ellis, Trego, Scott, Ness and Rush counties could be impacted.
Flash flooding also will be possible, as the ground is saturated from previous heavy rainfall. And additional 1 to 2 inches of precipitation could be possible.
Skies are expected to clear Sunday.
Tune into your Eagle Radio of Hays stations for the latest live updates on severe weather.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Insurance company Aetna is bringing in new leaders to run its Medicaid operations in Kansas after complaints from hospitals and others put it at risk of losing its state contract.
CHRIS NEAL / FOR THE KANSAS NEWS SERVICE
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment confirmed Friday that Keith Wisdom is no longer the CEO of Aetna Better Health of Kansas.
The company declined to answer questions about whether it had replaced Wisdom but said in an emailed statement that it is “bringing in additional leaders with extensive experience in Medicaid” to help “effectively support the needs of this population.” The company would not identify the new hires.
Aetna provides Medicaid health coverage to about 100,000 Kansas residents under a state contract worth about $1 billion a year. The program serves mostly low-income children but also parents, pregnant women, people with disabilities and seniors in long-term care.
The state turned the day-to-day operations of its Medicaid program over to private health insurance companies in 2013, during Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration. One of the three original companies, Amerigroup, lost its contract last year to Aetna in a bidding process, before Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly took office in January.
Kelly’s administration put Aetna on notice last month that it was failing to comply with the terms of its contract. Aetna submitted a plan earlier this month to come into compliance, but health department officials have said the plan failed to address their concerns.
Complaints have included a lack of transparency about which health providers Aetna covers and delays and mistakes in payments to doctors and hospitals. The original three companies faced complaints similar to those that Aetna now faces.
A legislative oversight committee is scheduled to convene a two-day meeting starting Monday, with testimony both days from state officials and the companies managing the Medicaid program.
SHERMAN COUNTY – The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) and the Goodland Police Department are investigating a stabbing incident in Goodland.
Joseph Killips photo Sherman Co.
According to a media release from the KBI, just after 1:30a.m. Saturday, the Goodland Police were notified of a stabbing incident at 1502 Caldwell Avenue in Goodland.
Upon arrival, they discovered Joseph Bradley, age 26, had received multiple stab wounds. His injuries are serious and he remains in critical condition.
Two individuals associated with this incident were arrested. David Jones, age 37, was arrested and booked into the Sherman County Jail on aggravated battery charges. Joseph Killips, age 37, was arrested and booked into the Sherman County Jail on battery charges.
GOODLAND – K-State Research & Extension and K-State’s Department of Agricultural Economics are hosting the 2018 Farm Bill Regional Meeting at Goodland’s Elks Lodge at 1523 Arcade Avenue on August 27 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon Mountain Daylight Time.
The 2018 Farm Bill was passed in December of 2018. Though it has much in common with the previous Farm Bill, there are some significant differences.
To hear exactly what you need to know about the new Farm Bill, come learn in-depth information about the new provisions of the programs, discuss economic considerations when making the ARC/PLC decision, demonstrate some tools to help you make that decision, and hear about changes to crop insurance.
Speakers will include K-State Research and Extension Agricultural Economics specialists Dr. Mykel Taylor, Dr. Monte Vandeveer, Robin Reid, M.S., and Dr. Dan O’Brien.
This meeting is open to the public and there is no cost for admission. Online registration is required by going to northwest.ksu.edu or https://bit.ly/2MTDsTi.
For more information about the school, please call Jeanne Falk Jones at 785-890-488.
EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — A jury has acquitted a former Emporia chiropractor on two of three charges alleging sex crimes against patients.
Hawkins -photo Lyon County Sheriff
Eric Hawkins was found not guilty Friday of aggravated sexual battery and rape charges stemming from separate incidents.
Hawkins was accused of rape against a then-16-year-old girl in 2015 and aggravated sexual battery against a then-22-year-old woman last year.
Defense attorney Christopher Joseph said Hawkins was sloppy and should have better explained his procedures to the women but he didn’t molest them. He said no one doubts that the patients believed their versions of what happened but the jury found there was reasonable doubt.
Jury selection for another sexual battery charge is scheduled for next week. Hawkins is accused of inappropriately touching a 32-year-old female in March 2015.
High-achieving high school students who have high ambitions, and their families, are invited to meet with staff from Fort Hays State University’s Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science at information sessions around the state in September, October and November.
KAMS, the state’s premier early-entry-to-college program, will host 12 free information sessions across the state.
The academy offers high school juniors and seniors an opportunity to live and learn at Fort Hays State and get a head start on their college educations while completing the last two years for their high school diplomas.
Students and guests can learn about KAMS and visit with representatives from the academy at these sessions.
All information sessions are free and open to the public, but attendees must register in advance. The registration website, https://www.fhsu.edu/kams/Info-session-registration/, will also help people find find sessions in their areas.
For more information, contact Abby Anderson, coordinator for marketing and recruitment, at 785-628-4719, [email protected], or visit www.fhsu.edu/kams for more information.
The information sessions are listed chronologically.
Tuesday, September 24 – 6 p.m.
Great Bend Public Library, Lower Level Meeting Room
1409 Williams St.
Great Bend
Thursday, September 26 – 6 p.m. Fort Hays State University Memorial Union, Trails Room 600 Park St. Hays
Monday, September 30 – 6 p.m.
Lawrence Public Library, Meeting Room A
707 Vermont St.
Lawrence
Thursday, October 3 – 6 p.m.
Salina Public Library, Prescott Room
301 W. Elm St.
Salina
Monday, October 7 – 6 p.m.
Shawnee County Public Library, Marvin Auditorium 101B
1515 SW 10th Ave.
Topeka
Thursday, October 10 – 6 p.m.
Antioch Library, Large Meeting Room
8700 Shawnee Mission Parkway
Merriam
Thursday, October 17 – 6 p.m.
Manhattan Public Library, Auditorium
629 Poyntz Ave.
Manhattan
Monday, October 28 – 6 p.m.
Advanced Learning Library, Conference Room A
711 W. Second St. North
Wichita
Thursday, November 7 – 6 p.m.
Dodge City Public Library, Lower Level Meeting Room
1001 N. Second Ave.
Dodge City
Tuesday, November 12 – 6 p.m.
FHSU Higher Education Center
311 N. Campus Drive, No. 102
Garden City
Wednesday, November 13 – 6 p.m.
Emporia Public Library, Large Meeting Room
110 E. Sixth Ave.
Emporia
Monday, November 18 – 6 p.m.
Colby Public Library, Meeting Room
375 W. Fourth St.
Colby
About KAMS:
KAMS is an early college program that focuses on advanced mathematics and science coursework. While studying at KAMS, students live on the FHSU campus in a select residence hall with other Academy students from around the world. Over the course of two years, students complete over 60 hours of college credit and complete their high school diploma. These classes are taken alongside traditional college undergraduates and are taught by college professors while simultaneously contributing to their high school graduation requirements. KAMS also provides hands-on research, leadership and civic engagement opportunities.
Richard Cox, Automotive Instructor for NCK Tech-Hays recently completed the requirements to become a certified ETL (Evaluation Team Leader). The evaluation team leader is in charge of a team that evaluates automotive programs and recommends them for accreditation. Final training was held at the ASE (Automotive Service Excellence) Education Foundation in Frisco, Texas, along with extensive online classes.
“I am excited to give back to the industry that makes us (educators) do what we do, “ Cox said. “And that is to educate our students at the highest level of the trade.”
NCK Tech has a two-year automotive technician program at both campus locations — Beloit and Hays. For information and to learn more about NCK Tech, visitwww.ncktc.edu.
GARDEN CITY — Ali Abdi usually cuts meat at the Tyson plant in Holcomb, and was at the plant when a fire broke out and destroyed part of the structure.
Smoke rising from the Tyson plant fire photo courtesy Shrimplin Photography
He didn’t see it as he and the other workers evacuated, but, he said, “Yes, I was scared.”
Abdi, a Somali refugee who moved to Garden City five years ago, is one of several employees cleaning up the damage. Tyson hasn’t said when the plant will reopen — it could be months. And that uncertainty has a ripple effect on area feedlots, livestock drivers, Garden City itself and even Garden City Community College.
The Holcomb Tyson plant processed approximately 5,600 cattle per day, which represents 5% of the beef processed in the U.S. and nearly a quarter of cattle processing in Kansas. No cattle died in the fire, Tyson spokeswoman Liz Croston said.
Tyson also operates beef plants in Texas, Nebraska, Illinois and Washington state and will transport cattle destined for Holcomb elsewhere.
“We will leverage our entire supply chain to meet customer demands for our products,” she said.
But without a large number of trucks hauling livestock to feedlots and the Tyson plant itself, Garden City and Finney County will lose out on truckers fueling up their vehicles and themselves, County Administrator Randy Partington said.
Additionally, when livestock truck drivers take longer routes, they face “hours of service” regulations, requiring 10 hours of rest for every 14 hours of driving, according to Colin Woodall, senior vice president of government affairs with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.
A crane towers over Tyson’s plant in Holcomb, Kansas, after a fire burned a section of the plant.
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The association has asked the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for an exemption, but as of Wednesday, the request had not been granted. Woodall said he’s not sure when the government may have an answer.
“Every day is opportunities lost here as we’re trying to move cattle to the other plants in order to pick up the slack and try to recover in the market as best we can,” Woodall said, adding later that if the exemption doesn’t come, that “ultimately just slows down the movement of cattle and then you get cattle that are stacking up and these feedlots and they need to be moved.”
For feedlots, time is money. If cattle spend more time in feedlots, it costs the operation more money, according to Clint Alexander, an animal and food science professor at Garden City Community College.
“Now they’re going to worry about the overall cost of things going up, because (the cattle) may spend more time on feed, you’re going to have a higher percentage of health products that might have to be used, especially in this heat …” he said.
The Kansas Livestock Association is also working with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and federal regulatory agencies on waiving rules that would keep cattle moving to other plants. It’s also working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to make sure more meat inspectors and graders are available where more cattle are being processed, KLA spokeswoman Scarlett Hagins said.
After the fire, the price of boxed beef went up and the price of live cattle went down, Hagins said, and “created a lot of uncertainty in the market,” she said.
“We’re seeing some improvement there and it’s kind of starting to get a little more leveled out than it was … right after the fire.”
Meat team sidelined
Earlier this week, the Holcomb plant’s parking lot was full of cars, disaster cleanup crews and a large crane that towered over the plant.
All of the full-time employees at the Tyson plant are getting 40 hours of pay per week, Croston said, but part-time employees are not being compensated.
“There will be opportunities for them to work during the reconstruction,” she added.
Across town at Garden City Community College, Alexander coaches the school’s meat-judging team, which has won a national championship and several awards. The fire is having a major impact on the team.
“… (W)e practiced at Tyson quite regularly and obviously that’s not available anymore,” Alexander said.
He also said that in September, 100 to 150 students from as many as 15 schools were expected to attend a Beef Empire Days contest at Tyson.
He hasn’t found another meatpacking plant to hold the competition, and in the last 30 years, Alexander said he only knows of one other time the competition was cancelled.
The GCCC program also runs a business matching ear tags from cattle heads to tags on carcasses. Alexander said the feedlots paid for the carcass data service, which brought in $4,000 to $6,000 per month.
“That was a good income for our program. And now we’ve lost that for a couple months,” he said.
The effect on the city
On Tuesday, Garden City commissioners voted on a resolution that declared no “financial emergency” existed due to the Tyson plant.
The city uses a set of financial guidelines to assess a “financial emergency” — it can be triggered if the unemployment rate increases by 2 percent should a major employer leave or if repairs from a catastrophic event costs a city department more than 20 percent of its budget.
Garden City Manager Matt Allen said the city began discussing steps to take after the county’s largest employer caught fire. Had the plant not reopened, city officials would have looked for ways to reduce spending by not filling open positions and putting off approved expenditures and while finding new sources of revenue.
“We knew we weren’t dealing with a long-term closure of the plant or employees not getting paid,” Allen said.
For now, Finney County has not been financially impacted by the fire, but could see a reduction in sales tax revenue in the coming months.
Corinne Boyer covers western Kansas for the Kansas News Service. You can follow her on Twitter @corinne_boyer or email cboyer (at) hppr (dot) org.
Fort Hays State University Noyce scholars Cayla Steinert and Kate Westerhaus
By RANDY GONZALES FHSU University Relations and Marketing
HAYS, Kan. – Cayla Steinert’s interest in science started at a young age. Her road to becoming a biology teacher got a boost last spring when she was named a Noyce scholar at Fort Hays State University.
Steinert is on campus this fall as the first transfer student to receive a Noyce scholarship through FHSU’s partnership with five Kansas community colleges.
Steinert, who transferred to FHSU from Garden City Community College, is one of six FHSU students who received $13,750 for tuition, books, and room and board, through the Robert Noyce Scholarship Program. Noyce scholars agree to teach in high-need areas, mainly rural, for two years for every year a grant is accepted.
Choosing FHSU to continue her education especially pleases Steinert’s mom, Tina, who has two teaching degrees from Fort Hays State. It also was her mom who got her Steinert interested in science in the first place.
When she was in first grade, Steinert wanted to know all about her mother’s cancer diagnosis. It was her way of coping with her mom’s illness.
“I was really interested in how everything worked,” Steinert said. “That kind of kick-started my love for science.”
Steinert’s mom remembered her then 7-year-old’s approach to that scary “C” word, cancer. Explaining the jargon to her daughter provided a little understanding for her.
“The nurses and doctors allowed her to ask questions and be involved,” Tina Steinert said. “She had always been interested in how the human body works. Science was something she gravitated to.”
Now, Steinert is on to track to receive her bachelor’s in two years and pursue her master’s degree at FHSU while teaching at the high school level.
Fort Hays State has been helping students with college expenses through the Noyce Scholarship Program since 2012.
The university applied to the National Science Foundation for a grant seven years ago and received $1.2 million for scholarships. The NSF awarded Fort Hays State an additional year of funding, and the school was encouraged to apply again. FHSU successfully wrote another grant, and the $1.45 million it was awarded covers five years of scholarships and will run through 2023.
Steinert said she had no preference where she teaches after graduation but knows it will be where she is needed most.
Dr. Paul Adams, dean of the College of Education and professor of education and professor of physics at FHSU, calls Noyce “the Super Bowl of scholarships.”
“The NSF wants institutions that will prepare the best science and mathematics teachers who can be leaders in their communities, who will make a difference in these high-need communities,” he said.
The scholarship, eligible for juniors and seniors only, can be renewed for a second year.
“The process of getting this means you have to be a scholar, must have potential to be a leader, to work in an area in our state and nation that needs the best possible science and mathematics teachers,” Adams said.
Steinert is eager to meet others in the program. She already connected with a Noyce scholar at a ceremony on campus recognizing first-time recipients last spring.
Kate Westerhaus, a Junction City senior at Fort Hays State, completed her first year as a Noyce scholar in May. Like Steinert, she plans to teach biology upon graduation.
Westerhaus, former president of the STEM education club, said Noyce scholars are required to fulfill six hours of community service each semester.
“With this scholarship, it’s not just about the money,” Westerhaus said. “There are so many connections. Our university truly is unlike any other because of our science and math programs.”
The 2019-2020 Noyce scholarship recipients are listed with their classifications, hometowns, and majors:
Second-time recipients
Alexis Meinert, senior, Garden City, mathematics and secondary education
Diana Sabados, senior, Brighton, Colo., mathematics and secondary education
Chantal Solozano, senior, Dodge City, biology and secondary education Joshua Stark, senior, Liebenthal, chemistry and secondary education
Kate Westerhaus, senior, Junction City, biology and secondary education Lauren Zerr, senior, Russell Springs, mathematics and secondary education
