Rough Eating
Deciding to eat healthier breakfasts, a husband declared that oatmeal
would now be his cereal of choice.
But after eating his first bowl, he told his wife, “I hope I develop a
taste for the stuff. It goes down real rough.”
“Well,” she asked, “how long did you cook it?”
“You’re supposed to cook it?!?”
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Hays Police Department
The Hays Police Department will be conducting training on July 30 and 31, 2019 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. at the Hays Middle School, 201 West 29th St.
Police officers will be training to rapidly enter a school in the event of a crisis. This training is being done with great care and safety.
As a home or business owner, you may see law enforcement officers move through your area. There is no need to be alarmed. The officers are merely conducting a realistic training exercise and there is no danger to the community.
If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact the on-site supervisor (Lt. Tim Greenwood), or Chief Scheibler at 785-625-1030.
NCK TECH
NCK Tech Pharmacy Technician Program on the Hays campus has received continuing accreditation for the remainder of its current six-year cycle (2022) or until the Pharmacy Technician Accreditation Commission recommends further action.
“The Commission arrived at its decision based on a thorough review of the progress report submitted by NCK Tech,” according to the notification document from the SCHP and CPE Board of Directors. “Continued accreditation is granted subject to the provisions set forth in the ASHP/ACPE Regulations on Accreditation of Pharmacy Technician Training Programs.”
The Pharmacy Technician Program is located on the Hays Campus of NCK Tech and graduates approximately ten students each year. The American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists has nationally accredited the program since 2009. Brian Dechant is the instructor for the program and has been with the college for over ten years. Applications are currently being accepted for the Pharmacy Technician program for fall 2019.
For more information on the Pharmacy Technician program, visit NCK Tech’s website at www.ncktc.edu.
What do you need to know about grubs?
Neal D. Hudson, age 95, of McCook, NE passed away on Wednesday, July 24, 2019 at his home in Brookdale, McCook.
Neal was born February 6, 1924 on his grandparents’ Jessee farmstead north of Benkelman, NE to parents Jesse D. and Leona M. (Jessee) Hudson. In 1929 the family made their home on a farm in Hitchcock County near the Kansas Border. They later moved to a farm overlooking the Republican River Valley where Neal witnessed the flood of 1935 and remembered hearing the rushing flood waters from the house. Neal was a lifelong farmer. He grew up farming during the dust bowl in the Depression.
Neal attended a one room country school before graduating from Stratton High School with the Class of 1940. He was active in FFA and other AG related activities.
On May 23, 1942, Neal married his lifetime partner, Shirley Y. Richards in St.Francis, KS. The couple was blessed with two children, Roger and Jean. The family made their home South of Stratton/Trenton where they continued to farm for over 60 years.
Neal was a member of the Stratton Church of Christ and a lifetime member of the NRA and Farm Bureau where he was active in both the county and state organizations. He also served on the Trenton Board of Education. Neal was a Nebraska Football Fan. His favorite times were spent showing his grandchildren the values of hard work on the farm and how those values related to everyday life. He enjoyed travelling with Shirley and the two of them share fond memories of a cruise to the Bahamas and of finding lost relatives and friends across the country.
Neal was preceded in death by his parents, brother Gaile Dunn; and son in law, Earl Ward.
Those left to celebrate his life include his wife of 77 years, Shirley Hudson of McCook; son, Roger (Deb) Hudson of Martell, NE; daughter, Jean Ward of Hays, KS; five grandchildren, Jennifer (Steven) Vanderpool of Pasadena, CA, Grant ( fiancé Chelsea Tyrie) Hudson of Dallas, TX, Chad (Cathy) Quick of Cincinnati, OH, Kyle (Paula) Quick of Oklahoma City, OK and Tisha (Nael) Samaha of Centerville, VA; ; ten great grandchildren; three great great grandchildren; three step grandchildren, four step great grandchildren; as well as numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and extended family members.
A Memorial Service will be held at 1 PM, on Monday, August 12, 2019, at the Stratton Church of Christ in Stratton, NE with Pastor Randy Hayes, officiating. Burial will be held at a later date in Rose Hill Cemetery in Stratton.
Family and friends are invited to share memories and refreshments at the Grandview Community Center following the services
Memorial Contributions may be directed to the Stratton Church of Christ, 406 Baxter Street, Stratton, NE 69043.
Photo courtesy Stiefel Theatre, Salina
WICHITA – The Hays Larks will face a familiar foe when they begin first week bracket play Tuesday afternoon at the NBC World Series. The Larks will play the Denver Cougars who scored a run in the bottom of the ninth to beat the Wellington Heat 5-4 in the late game Monday.
The Larks ended up winning their pool by tiebreaker after Great Bend rallied with a run in the ninth in a 7-5 loss to Waco. That run gave the second spot out of Pool D to the Bat Cats who play the Wichita Sluggers in Tuesday’s late game.
The Hutchinson Monarchs play Dodge City of the KCLB at 1 p.m. Tuesday. Derby and 316 Elite play in the feature game at 7 p.m.
The Larks won three of their four regular season meetings with the Cougars this summer, however only a handful of players from Denver’s team are still on the roster.
You can hear all of the Larks action from the NBC World Series on KAYS (94.3-FM, 1400-AM) as well as on the KAYS app an on-line.
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By BECKY KISER
Hays Post
A Hays couple and the employees of a state office building have been honored with the 2019 Water$mart Landscape Award by the city of Hays.
Since 2016, one residential and one commercial property have been chosen for the recognition.
The goal of the award program is to increase awareness of the importance of water conservation in the landscape and to recognize those in the community who have made great strides towards that effort.
Holly Dickman, water conservation specialist, introduced the winners and showed pictures of their landscaping during Thursday’s Hays city commission meeting.
Winners of the residential award are Theresa and Patrick Trapp.
Their yard on Holmes Road “exemplifies what it means to be water smart,” said Dickman.
The entire yard is landscape plantings of drought-tolerant perennials, including lavender and hens and chicks. They use mulch and and compost from the free sites maintained by the city.
“There’s no turf grass, just a little bit of buffalo grass here and there.”
The front yard is designed to keep as much rainfall as possible on the property without runoff. The couple also uses three rain barrels to capture rain for watering the plants.
The Trapp back yard is also a Certified Wildlife Habitat – a designation by the National Wildlife Federation – which provides water and shelter for animals raising their young.
The commercial award winner is the Kansas Department of Children and Families on East 22nd Street, represented by their director Armando Orozco.
Organic mulch surrounds the plantings, which include ornamental grasses and shrubs along with drought-tolerant perennials, including catmint and Rose of Sharon.
“Even the islands in the parking lot have organic wood-type mulch with plantings,” Dickman pointed out.
The parking lot is also part of the water-conserving design.
“It completely drains into a buffalo grass low spot. The rain is all going into that nice deep-rooted buffalo grass which is what we like to see. It’s not escaping the property.”
“A watersmart landscape is more than just watering those plants correctly,” she explained.
“It’s a combination of several different gardening practices that together create a beautiful, water conserving landscape.”
Those practices include planning and design, soil preparation, right plants in the right places, practical turf areas, efficient irrigation, proper mulch and proper maintenance.
(Editor’s note: Theresa Trapp is an employee of Eagle Communications, the parent company of Hays Post.)
SHAWNEE COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a fatal shooting and continue the search for one suspect.
Just after 3:30p.m. July 25, police were dispatched to SE 37th and SE Pennsylvania in Topeka located a white passenger car with 16- year-old Joaquin Aj McKinney suffering from life threatening injuries. He was transported to a local hospital where he died.
On July 27, 2019 a suspect in the case, 16-year-old Zachary Jacob McFall turned himself in to law enforcement. He is being held in the Juvenile Department of Corrections for 1st Degree Murder.
On July 28, 2019 officers located and arrested an additional 16-year-old suspect in the case. He was transported to the Juvenile Department of Corrections for 1st Degree Murder.
Police are attempting to locate 22-year-old Lavonte D. Johnson for questioning in the case.
Police said if you know his location, please do not attempt to apprehend him, call 911 to report his location
It is with great sadness that the family of Mary Leora (Copelin) Speed passed away at the age of 92. She was born in Villisca, Iowa on June 25, 1927, and passed away on Saturday, July 27, 2019 at her home with her son and daughter by her side. She was a resident of the Sheldahl and Huxley communities from 1958-2015, at which time she moved to Larned, Kansas to reside with her daughter, Joan.
Mary was united in marriage in June of 1949 to Robert M. Speed, they later divorced. Together seven children were born.
Mary will be lovingly remembered by children Noel Speed, Joan Basgall, Vivian Valfre, Jane Sexton, John (Vicki) Speed and Gordon Speed. She will also be lovingly remembered by numerous grand, great grand, and great-great grandchildren.
Mary is preceded in death by daughter Joetta Flotho, granddaughter Jodi Bedore, John Sexton (Jane’s spouse), Gerald Basgall (Joan’s spouse), and Tessie Speed (Noel’s spouse). She is also preceded in death by parents John and Effie Copelin, siblings Darwin and Delbert Copelin (infant twins), Ruth Speed, Joe Copelin, and Lila Johnson.
A memorial service will be held Saturday, August 10, 2019, 10:30 a.m. at the United Methodist Church in Sheldahl, Iowa. A private family inurnment will be at a later date. The family requests no flowers. Memorial donations can be made to the Sheldahl United Methodist Church, in care of Janice Halverson, P.O. Box 302, Slater, IA 50244.
President Donald Trump congratulates himself on his appointment/U.S. Senate confirmation of more than 100 federal judges, including two U.S. Supreme Court justices.
Now, it appears that Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly might be able to tout, maybe more discreetly, her success in packing the Kansas Supreme Court.
With the retirement in September of Justice Lee Johnson, and the just-announced retirement of Chief Justice Lawton Nuss in December, Kelly will get final say on two appointees to the court that often battles the Legislature with decisions that kill laws the Legislature passed. Look at abortion, look at school finance.
Now, if there’s something that the Legislature hates, it is any institution that has veto power over its action. That’s just the three-division state government at work — the executive, the legislative and the judicial branches. Legislators have always thought that they are the big dogs in the management of the state, and lawmakers growl at any other branch that won’t bow to their authority.
Lawmakers weren’t happy with the abortion decision, which essentially guarantees the right to abortion in Kansas. At least a majority of them, and the Republican leadership.
Oh, and lawmakers also want the court out of the business of deciding what is “adequate” in the way of state financing of public education. The court has loudly and frequently said it will determine just what is adequate to provide every Kansas schoolchild access to a good education from border to border.
So, having a Democrat governor with the power to appoint Supreme Court justices is a big deal. And now Kelly gets to appoint two justices to the seven-member court, and likely have a chance to make those appointees see state law the way she sees it.
The Legislature, or at least its overwhelming Republican majorities in each chamber, is not happy that a Democrat governor gets to interview and find a candidate for the court that is likely to be less conservative than the majority of legislators.
Already, the Senate has a proposed constitutional amendment warming up that would give the Senate the final say—to confirm or reject—a gubernatorial appointment to the high court. Sounds a little like conservative Republican state senators want to have the same power as federal senators, doesn’t it?
It takes a constitutional amendment, which means that if lawmakers OK the proposal, it will be November 2020 before it can be put before voters in the state to empower the Kansas Senate to have the final say on who gets to wear those nice black robes.
By that time, Kelly’s appointees to the Supreme Court will have already redecorated their offices and gotten comfortable on the bench. Oh, Kelly’s appointments will have to stand for retention to their posts to earn their full six-year terms on the court, but that’s not a major issue…justices face conservative opposition, but haven’t been tossed off the court by voters in recent memory.
So, Kelly, and her moderate Republican and Democrat predecessors, will retain the majority on the court. Former Gov. Sam Brownback got just one Supreme Court appointment, his former chief counsel Caleb Stegall, arguably the most conservative justice in recent memory.
The nominations for Kelly to choose from for each job? We won’t know who they are until the five-lawyer, four-nonlawyer Supreme Court Nominating Commission winnows the jobseekers to just three for each chair to present to the governor for her selection.
It looks like the court will retain its socially moderate position and not be afraid to take a swipe at the conservative GOP legislature for the next few years.
Wonder how that’s going to work out…
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ATCHISON COUNTY — One person died in an accident just after 6p.m. Monday in Atchison County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2014 Polaris ATV driven by Jentri Lynn Fowler, 19, Cummings, was westbound in the 13000 Block of 214th Road.
The driver lost control and the vehicle. It entered the south ditch and rolled.
Fowler and passenger Jaycee Ernzen, 18, Cummings, were transported to Mosaic Life Care in St. Joseph where Fowler died. Another passenger Ashley Peiper, 18, Cummings, was transported to the hospital in Atchison for treatment of minor injuries. A third passenger Caden McAfee, 19, Valley Falls, was not injured.
Former member of the Kansas Board of Regents, trial lawyer and litigator with wide experience in civil law, criminal law, estate matters, dispute resolution and more – Joe Bain will now bring all this experience to his new post as general counsel of Fort Hays State University.
His appointment was announced this week by FHSU President Tisa Mason.
“I say often, and honestly, that FHSU had a transformative effect on me,” said Bain.
“This university has a history of providing access to a quality higher education for many first-generation, lower income and diverse-background students,” he said. “It is an honor and a privilege to serve this university and to be on the team responsible for taking FHSU into the future.”
“As a member of the Kansas Board of Regents, Joe was able to experience at first hand the challenges, expectations and successes of higher education,” said FHSU President Tisa Mason. “His service with the Regents and his wide legal experience, and his status as an FHSU alumnus, make him an ideal choice as the general counsel for Fort Hays State.”
Bain grew up in Ness City and graduated from Ness City High School. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from FHSU in 2002, graduating summa cum laude. His Juris Doctor, 2005, is from the University of Kansas School of Law.
His career includes a judicial clerkship in the Seventh Judicial District of Kansas and working as a summer associate for a Kansas City law firm before his graduation from the KU School of Law.
After graduation, he was an associate at Warden, Triplett, Grier, PA, in Overland Park. From 2009 to 2011 he was a senior attorney for the Black & Veatch Corp., an international engineering and construction firm in Overland Park.
Since 2011, he has been a member, vice-president, attorney and co-manager for Cure & Bain, P.C., in Goodland. He is licensed in Kansas, Missouri and Colorado. He was a member of the Kansas Board of Regents from 2014 to 2018, and since 2017 he has served as Ness City Municipal Court Judge.
He will begin his duties in mid to late August.
