A Hoxie woman was injured Monday evening in Gove County when the car she was driving rear-ended another vehicle on I- 70, four miles east of Grainfield.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Wanda J. Russell, 51, was westbound at 7:15 p.m. when she became distracted and struck a semi-truck from behind.
The driver of the semi, Israel Garcia-Alba, 41, Wichita, was not injured in the accident.
Russell was taken to Gove County Medical Center for treatment of possible injuries.
Salina Regional Health Center’s trauma program has received Level III verification from the American College of Surgeons.
The Salina hospital has been working toward this designation for the past three years, according to a news release.
“This is probably the most difficult accreditation process for a hospital to achieve,” said Jake Breeding, M.D., trauma medical director.
Salina Regional’s efforts match those of a statewide initiative to have at least a level III trauma center in each geographical region of Kansas.
The trauma team consists of a trauma surgeon, emergency department physician, trauma nurse, intensive care nurse, surgical nurse and staff from radiology, laboratory, blood bank, respiratory care, security and chaplaincy.
Paramedics and doctors in the region have a dedicated line to call for traumatically injured patients, which sets off a cascade of alerts to people on the response team to report to the trauma suite in the emergency department.
Recognizing 25 years of service to America, NOAA’s National Weather Service has named McCracken resident Bill Greenway as a 2012 recipient of the agency’s John Campanius Holm Award for outstanding service in the Cooperative Weather Observer Program.
Larry Ruthi, Meteorologist-in-Charge of the National Weather Service forecast office in Dodge City, presented the award to Greenway Thursday, January 31.
Greenway was also presented with congratulatory letters from U. S. Senators Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran and U.S. Representative Tim Huelskamp.
The McCracken observing site was officially established in October 1911 by E.D. Floyd.
Greenway took over the site August 1, 1987 from Phyllis Higgins. He has been the longest serving observer for McCracken. Greenway reports daily precipitation and snowfall information to the National Weather Service. His wife Paula is the backup observer.
Also in attendance for the presentation were Meteorologists Matt Gerard and Kelly Sugden, and Jesse Lee, Observing Program Leader at the Dodge City office.
A Florence, Colorado man was killed in a one vehicle accident at 11:40 p.m. Saturday in Decatur County.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a 1997 Toyota Tacoma driven by Gordon Gail Gibson, 23, was southbound on Kansas Highway 23, two miles south of Leoville, when the truck went off the right side of the road, came back onto the roadway and then rolled.
Gibson was not wearing a seat belt.
A passenger in the vehicle, Parker James Gibson, 22, Florence, was injured and taken to Decatur Health System in Oberlin.
Troopers say Parker Gibson was wearing a seat belt.
The January 27 annual meeting of the Society of Friends of Historic Fort Hays was fairly routine at first.
Topeka author Debra Goodrich Bisel talked about her new book “The Civil War in Kansas” and how no other state’s history is so entwined with the American Civil War.
Then came the business meeting. It ended with a big announcement from Fort Superintendent Bob Wilhelm.
“I’m going to retire on March first. I’m still going to be around, as a member of the Society of Friends, and maybe later, as a volunteer, ” he said. A few in the crowd gasped, and then there was applause and thanks offered to Wilhelm.
Wilhelm doesn’t plan to be involved in the hiring of a new superintendent, saying “he or she should should be able to do things their way.”
Wilhelm has served as site administrator at historic Fort Hays for nearly 20 years.
BILLS ORDINANCE REVIEW WORK SESSION BEGINS AT 7:00 P.M.
ROLL CALL AND MEETING CALL TO ORDER AT 7:30 P.M.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
AMENDMENTS TO AGENDA (if needed)
1) CONSENT AGENDA
a) Minutes from Regular Meeting on January 21, 2013
b) Bills Ordinance #1918
(Council will review for approval under one motion under the consent agenda. By majority vote of the governing body, any item may be removed from the consent agenda and considered separately)
PUBLIC COMMENTS
(Each speaker will be limited to five minutes. If several people from group speak on same subject, must appoint a spokesperson. ALL comments from public on agenda items must be during Public Comment. Once council begins their business meeting, no more comments from public will be allowed.)
2) PRESENTATIONS OF AWARDS, PROCLAMATIONS, REQUESTS & PETITIONS (HEARINGS)
3) SPECIAL ORDER
4) UNFINISHED BUSINESS
a) Consider replacement of City office phone system
b) Update from Emergency Management Services
5) NEW BUSINESS
a) Consideration of police vehicle
6) REPORTS FROM CITY OFFICIALS
a) Administrative
1) Public Works
(1) Update on furnace at old Midwest Energy building
(2) Update on signage on walking trail
(3) Update on swimming pool
2) Police
(1) Department update
3) City Clerk
(1) Summary of Volunteer Fire Department compensation
“It’s a good problem to have,” says USD 388 Superintendent Bob Young. Ellis is one of the few northwest Kansas communities that is growing, and it’s putting a strain on the school system.
“Enrollment at the grade school is up 15% to 20% the past three years,” he says, “and the ‘new’ high school building is 35 years old.”
A community committee of 30 Ellis residents began looking at the school district’s needs about a year ago. In December school board members approved putting a $10 million bond issue to the voters.
A special election will be held June 4.
If voters approve the $10 million bond, the money will pay off HVAC improvements made four years ago, and also be used for renovations and new construction. At the top of the list are the sports facilities on the west side of town and a proposed addition to the Ellis High School. Junior high students would then be moved to the high school, opening up more room at the grade school for the expanding student enrollment.
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The student newspaper at Fort Hays State — The University Leader — published its last issue Thursday.
President Hammond says he isn’t surprised, pointing to several national daily newspapers that have shut down entirely, both print and online.
Hammond declined a request for the university to fund The Leader through the remainder of the school year.
Instead, a task force will design a multi-media model to meet the news and information needs of the campus community. Fort Hays State also has student radio and television stations, KFHS.
Hammond says the new model will include academic links. He expects it to be implemented this fall 2013 semester.
For now, the Leader staff will continue to in an online-only format.
The “Western Normal Leader” was first published in 1908.
A Student Government Association decision in 2003 ended funding for the Reveille, the FHSU yearbook.
The new Kansas Room librarian at the Hays Public Library was looking for a new way to celebrate the state’s 152nd anniversary of becoming the 34th state in the Union.
So Lucia Flaim decided to organize a photo contest with pictures depicting Kansas.
“We have so many artists and amateur photographers in Hays. I wanted to open it up to anyone regardless of experience or age,” she says.
Entries were accepted December 1-January 18. “We had 54 photos, which I think is pretty good for the first time.”
A brother and sister captured first and second place in the “Natural Kansas” category for ages 12 and under.
“I took a picture of a cat, not mine, a stray cat,” explains Lauren Seibel, 10. Lauren received second place, Her 8-year-old brother Grant took first place with a picture of the frozen-over Big Creek.
The Seibel siblings received their awards, as well as disposable cameras and candy, during a closing reception for the photo exhibit Tuesday night, Kansas Day.
The more than 600 people attending Sunday’s 16th annual Soup ‘R Bowl fundraiser at the Ellis County Fairgrounds filled their stomachs.
They were also helping fill the coffers of the Humane Society of the High Plains with nearly $6600.
Cathy and Doug Pfannenstiel of Auto World, were winners of the “Golden Ladle,” awarded after the crowd voted the couple’s Cheesy Potato Soup as the best among the 15 chefs.
Second prize was claimed by the Hays High School Book Club, with Cheeseburger Soup and Rommegrot, a Norwegian dessert soup. Cedar View Assisted Living took third prize with Taco Soup.
All the “celebrity chefs” donated their time and talent to cook 10 gallons of their specialty soup. Many also made desserts which were sold for a minimum $1 donation.
The money is used for care of the animals housed in the Virginia Miller Animal Shelter east of Hays.
For nearly 50 years, Charles Monroe Schulz entertained audiences from around the world with his Peanuts comic strip.
The Hays Public Library is hosting an exhibit of his artwork through March 10 in the library gallery.
This exhibition contains high resolution reproductions of comic strips and preliminary sketches that follow the development of the characters who make up the unique world of Peanuts, quotes by Schulz explaining his art, and selected Peanuts collectibles from six decades.
An opening reception for “ Inside Peanuts: The Life and Art of Charles M. Schulz” will be held Friday at 7p.m.
Rob Robinson and Gill Alexander, together in Nicodemus Dec. 8, 2012, after Robinson donated a kidney to Alexander on Nov. 26.
“Nobody but God could put us together like that.”
That’s the belief of two men, Gil Alexander, a kidney transplant recipient who lives in Nicodemus, and his donor, who lives a thousand miles away.
Rob Robinson of Eupona, Mississippi, is a turkey hunter and has been hunting for several years on Alexander’s farm land north of town.
“I’ve had kidney disease for about 20 years,” says Alexander. “I had to go on dialysis about a year and a half ago. It’s pretty restrictive.”
Robinson has a friend who lives in Olathe and had been hunting on Alexander’s property for about 40 years.
“I came out from Mississippi to western Kansas with him that first year,” says Robinson, “and Gil and I have become good friends. I know what it’s like to be on a farm, working on equipment. Gil was stuck on that machine every day and I just wanted to help him out.”
So, Robinson signed up for the kidney donor program at K-U Medical Center.
“Next thing I hear, Rob’s a match and agrees to be a kidney donor for me,” says Alexander. “He was worried about me,” laughs Robinson. “Gil came to see me in my hospital bed before I could even get out of it.”
Gil Alexander’s kidney transplant was November 26 in Kansas City. He and his donor, Rob Robinson, were together again just 10 days later, December 8, at the Nicodemus Holiday Open House.
Both men say the transplant experience has strengthened their spirituality and their friendship.
A Hoxie woman was injured Monday evening in Gove County when the car she was driving rear-ended another vehicle on I- 70, four miles east of Grainfield.
