“Bobby” Clinton Robert Minium, age 37, of Hays, Kansas passed away Saturday, July 4, 2018 in Hays.
Funeral services will be 10 AM Saturday, July 7, 2018 at Brock’s-Keithley Funeral Chapel and Crematory 25098 Vine Hays, KS 67601. Burial will be at 3 PM Saturday at the Lebanon Cemetery rural Kingman, Kansas.
Visitation will be Friday, July 6, 2018 6 PM – 8 PM at the funeral chapel.
A complete obituary is pending.
The Hays Larks earned their seventh win in-a-row Wednesday behind Mason Myhre who allowed just one run over six innings in a 2-1 win over Great Bend.
The Bat Cats took a 1-0 lead on a first inning sacrifice fly but after that Myrhe and Walter Pennington combined to throw eight shutout innings for the Larks.
Myrhe allowed just the one run on five hits and struck out five to improve to 3-1 on the summer.
Pennington pitched three shutout innings, allowing just one run and striking out three to earn his first save of the season.
Hays scored their first run on a second inning passed ball and then in the third inning Devin Hager plated a run with an RBI single.
Easton Smith took the loss for Great Bend. He allowed four hits and two runs over five innings, striking out five.
The Larks are 22-5 and 16-4 in the Jayhawk League.
Elsewhere in the Jayhawk League on Wednesday:
Dodge City beat Liberal 8-2
Derby beat Haysville 5-4
MAIN STREET ARTS COUNCIL
HOXIE – The Dane G. Hansen Foundation, Logan, Kansas, has awarded the Main Street Arts Council (MSAC) a $15,000 grant in support of the council’s 2018 Main Street Summer Theater Festival. The festival, in its seventh year, provides performance opportunities for Northwest Kansas area youth.
Under the direction of Bonnie Cameron, executive director of the MSAC, the festival will feature performances throughout July in three locations: Atwood, Hoxie and Goodland. Cameron is assisted by student interns Mattie Higley, Atwood; Sophia Hampton, Atwood; Tabor Rucker, Hoxie; Jacqueline Chacon, Atwood; and Kathryn Haffner, Hoxie. Kayla Tiemeyer, Rawlins County High School music teacher, is directing the Atwood production.
“We are extremely grateful to the Dane G. Hansen Foundation for their generous support,” said Cameron. “The kids participating have been working very hard, and we look forward to sharing our love of music and the performing arts with the communities throughout Northwest Kansas. The Hansen Foundation has enabled us to grow our program and for that we are very thankful.”
Performances include Disney’s “The Jungle Book – Kids” on Friday, July 6 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, July 8 at 3 p.m., at Rawlins County High School, 205 N 4th St, Atwood; Dreamworks’ “Shrek the Musical Jr.” on Friday, July 13 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, July 15 at 3 p.m. at Hoxie High School Auditorium, 1625 Queen Ave, Hoxie; and Disney’s “Cinderella – Kids” on Friday, July 20 at 7 p.m (MT) and Sunday, July 22 at 5 p.m. (MT) at Goodland High School, 1209 Cherry Ave, Goodland.
Auditions were held in each location earlier this spring for area youth aged 5-18. There is no fee to participate and all children interested were cast in each respective show. More than 90 kids from 10 communities are set to perform in this year’s festival.
Tickets for each show are available for purchase from cast members or at the door. Tickets for the Atwood and Goodland performances are $12 adults and $8 kids aged 6-12. Hoxie performance tickets are $15 adults; $10 kids aged 6-12; Children 5 and under are free at all three locations.
Additional festival contributors include DuPont Pioneer Giving Program, Sheridan County Community Foundation, Ogallala Commons, Hoxie Feedyard and Oscar’s. MSAC expresses its sincerest gratitude to all contributors and sponsors. For more information regarding sponsorship opportunities, visit www.mainstreetartscouncil.com/sponsorship-opportunities.
About the Main Street Arts Council
The Main Street Arts Council is an organization dedicated to promoting the arts, encouraging creativity, serving the Arts community and acting as an advocate for the Arts. We believe the arts are essential to the life of the community. The Main Street Arts Council strives to be a model organization for the Northwest Kansas region, ensuring access to the arts for all ages, encouraging a community passion for the arts and successfully supporting, partnering and collaborating with others committed to the arts.
KEARNEY, Mo. (AP) – Two young sisters have been found dead in a rural area northeast of Kansas City.
Clay County sheriff’s Capt. Will Akin said the girls were found outside their home just after noon Wednesday by their mother and were not breathing. Both girls were under 5 years old.
Akin said foul play is not suspected and neither water nor firearms appear to have been involved, but the deaths are under investigation.
The incident was reported near the intersection of a rural road and Missouri 92 east of Kearney. The mother ran to a neighbor’s house and the neighbor called 911.
RENO COUNTY— A second Kansas man shot during a gunfight in Hutchinson on June 26 is now also jailed on a $500,000 bond and accused of first-degree murder.
Tristan Delaney, 18, is now charged along with 26-year-old Curtis Garcia in the case.
Both were arrested in association with the shooting death of 18-year-old Norman Cushinberry.
Just before 6:30 p.m. on June 26, police were called to the 500 block of North Washington in Hutchinson on the report of a shooting and found Cushinberry in the street. Efforts to revive him were unsuccessful.
The other victim, 18-year-old Tristan J. Delaney, was wounded in the face and the abdomen and taken to Hutchinson Regional Medical Center. He was then flown to Wesley Medical Center.
Statements in court indicate the shootings may have been over the possible sale of marijuana, as well as the use of fake money.
Security camera images show Delaney approaching Garcia’s vehicle. Cushinberry was a passenger in the vehicle. He was shot and his body was pulled from the truck after a struggle inside.
Police found a shotgun near Cushinberry. They also found some .380-caliber shells at the scene and during a search of Garcia’s home. Officers say they also found a .380 caliber handgun and a 9 mm handgun at the home.
Garcia, who has claimed the shooting was in self-defense, is expected back in court on July 6. Delaney will be back in court on July 10.
The 35th Infantry Division Band, the official band of the Kansas National Guard, has announced its summer concert series.
The free public summer concert series will be presented in a number of communities across the state. Audience attendance for past concerts has averaged from 400-500 people per concert.
The Marching Band will be presenting the National Anthem July 4 at the Kansas City-T-Bones game and July 6 at the Kansas City Royals game.
The Music Performance Teams of the 35th Division Band and the music each plays include:
All concerts will last approximately an hour and 15 minutes.
The summer schedule is:
July 8
Scott City – El Quartelejo Museum, 902 W 5th St., 2 p.m. – Heartland Brass and Prairie Winds
Cimarron – Cimarron Crossing Park, South Main St., 7 p.m. – Sounds of Freedom and Bullseye Brass
Sublette – Municipal Park, 7 p.m. Night Breeze
July 9
Greensburg– Twilight Theater, 200 S. Main St. 7:30 p.m. – Concert Band
July 10
Dodge City – Public Library, 1001 N. 2nd Ave., 12 p.m. – Prairie Winds
Dodge City – Wright Park, 7:30 p.m. – Concert Band
July 11
Hugoton – Senior Center, 624 S. Main St., 11:30 a.m. – Sounds of Freedom
Liberal – Tobias Park, 430 N. Grant St., 12 p.m. – Night Breeze
July 12
Larned – Fort Larned Historic Site, 1767 Hwy 156, 7 p.m. – Heartland Brass
Hugoton – City Park, 300 S. Main St., 7 p.m. – Hard to Handle
Johnson – Stanton County Junior/Senior High, 200 W. Weaver, 7 p.m. – Bullseye Brass
Leoti – District Courthouse Lawn, 206 S. 4th St., 7 p.m. – Sounds of Freedom
July 13
Great Bend – Public Library, 1409 Williams, 10:30 a.m. – Bullseye Brass and Prairie Winds
Garden City – City Park, 7 p.m. – Concert Band
July 14
Liberal – Liberal High School, 1611 W. 2nd St., 7 p.m. – Concert Band
July 15
WaKeeney – Trego Community High School, 1200 Russell Ave., 7 p.m. – Concert Band
July 16
Hays – Schmidt Gallery, Hays Public Library, 1205 Main St., 12 p.m. – Bullseye Brass
Smith Center – Wagner Park, 200 E. 3rd St., 1 p.m. – Hard to Handle and Night Breeze
Hays – Fort Hays State University, 600 Park Street, 7 p.m. – Concert Band
July 17
Hays – Schmidt Gallery, Hays Public Library, 1205 Main St., 12 p.m. – Night Breeze
Great Bend – Courthouse Square, 1400 Main St., 7:30 p.m. – Concert Band
July 18
Hays – Fort Hays Historic Site, 1472 Hwy 183 Alt, 11 a.m. – Prairie Winds and Heartland Brass
Oakley – Fick Fossil Museum/Library, 700 W. 3rd, 12 p.m. – Hard to Handle
Russell – Public Library, 126 E. Wisconsin, 1 p.m. – Sounds of Freedom
Colby – Colby Community College, 1255 S. Range Ave., 7:30 p.m. – Concert Band
July 19
Hays – Schmidt Gallery, Hays Public Library, 1205 Main St., 12 p.m. – Hard to Handle
Logan – Public Library, 109 W. Main St., 1 p.m. – Prairie Winds
Philipsburg – TBD, 12 p.m. – Heartland Brass
Goodland – Public Library, 812 Broadway, 7 p.m. (Mountain Time) – Bullseye Brass
Osborne – City Park, 325 W. Main, 7 p.m. – Heartland Brass and Sounds of Freedom
Dighton – Lane County Fairgrounds, 7 p.m. – Hard to Handle
July 20
Wichita – Kansas Bandmaster’s Association, Doubletree Hotel, 2098 S. Airport Road, 7 p.m. – Concert Ban
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We hate false information on social media even more than “hate speech” or personal attacks, says the 2018 State of the First Amendment survey released Thursday by the First Amendment Center of the Freedom Forum Institute.
The same survey also found that a majority of us want the social media companies like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to do the false news takedown, not some government authority or official truth czar.
Overall, 83 percent of Americans agree that social media companies should remove false information, compared to 72 percent who agree such companies should remove “hate speech” and 68 percent who would have personal attacks taken down.
Those with a high school education or less were significantly more likely (87%) than those with a college education (77%) to agree that false information should be removed. There were no statistically significant differences among income groups.
The survey was conducted by Fors Marsh Group, an applied research company based in Arlington, Va., which speculates that those less educated may rely more heavily on social media as a source of news and therefore worry more than others about whether they are getting truthful information.
We strongly believe that social media companies should on their own initiative be monitoring and removing such objectionable content. But hold off on those free expression celebrations: When asked directly, respondents were about evenly split on whether to go a step further and empower the government to require those companies to “monitor and remove.”
In total, the survey sample included 1,009 adult respondents, with a margin of error of 3.7 percent — meaning it’s likely that if you asked another 1,009 adults the same questions, the results might go up or down by 3.7 percent.
When it comes to speech on campus, the survey showed that the public leans toward hearing from controversial speakers over cancelling invitations to speak — though support drops significantly when the speech is likely to cause violence.
Solid majorities favored going ahead with such speakers at colleges and universities even when the remarks were likely to offend some groups or individuals (55%).The nation was closely divided (51%-45%) on withdrawing an invitation if the speaker was likely to provoke “large-scale protests from students” or when the speech was supported by public funds (47%-46%). Small percentages in both cases declined to response or “didn’t know.”
Only when violence was likely to occur did 70 percent favor withdrawing an invitation to speak.
The survey found that the more we know about our First Amendment freedoms, the less likely we are to agree with placing limits on those freedoms.
But again, the warning buzzer sounds: As found consistently over the last 21 years of survey results, many of us know very little about those basic rights. According to this year’s survey, 40 percent of us cannot even name one First Amendment freedom. For the respondents who could, unprompted, name a First Amendment freedom, freedom of speech (56%) was the most commonly recalled, followed by religion (15%), press (13%), assembly (12%) and petition (2%). Two percent mistakenly guessed the right to vote, while the right to bear arms (9%) was the most common mistake.
Anything less than overwhelming support for freedom of religion and free expression brings cold comfort to those who see democracy’s base as resting on both. Even finding that about three-quarters of respondents (74%) see a role for the news media in holding government accountable, a slight uptick from last year’s 68 percent, means that around one in four of us does not see the news media as such a needed “watchdog.”
We can take heart that this year’s survey findings bend toward free expression and freedom for the press. But, we ought to be more than just concerned that a sizeable number of us seem willing to disavow those core freedoms for one reason or another — or can’t even be bothered to remember them.
Gene Policinski is president and chief operating officer of the Freedom Forum Institute. He can be reached at [email protected], or follow him on Twitter at @genefac.
RENO COUNTY — One person was injured in an accident just after midnight Wednesday in Reno County.
A Chevy S-10 driven by Tristen F. Woods of Hutchinson was just west of the Cow Creek bridge in the 2000 Block of Nickerson Boulevard, according to the Reno County Sheriff’s Department.
The pickup was parked sideways in the westbound lane trying to help a friend get his motorcycle up from the ditch.
A westbound motorcycle driven by William Julian, 52, Lyons, didn’t see the truck in time and struck it just in front of the driver side door. The rider was thrown several feet from the motorcycle.
Woods was the only one in the vehicle at the time of the accident.
Life Team transported Julian to Wesley Medical Center. He was not wearing a helmet. The Reno County Sheriff’s
Woods declined treatment and was taken to the hospital by a private vehicle.
The accident is still under investigation, according to the sheriff’s department.
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RENO COUNTY — One person was injured in an accident just after midnight Wednesday in Reno County.
A Chevy S-10 driven by Tristen F. Woods of Hutchinson was just west of the Cow Creek bridge in the 2000 Block of Nickerson Boulevard, according to the Reno County Sheriff’s Department.
The pickup was parked sideways in the westbound lane trying to help a friend get his motorcycle up from the ditch.
A westbound motorcycle didn’t see the truck in time and struck it just in front of the driver side door. The rider was thrown several feet from the motorcycle.
Woods was the only one in the vehicle at the time of the accident and the man riding the motorcycle was the only one on the motorcycle at the time.
Life Team transported the driver of the motorcycle to Wesley Medical Center. He was not wearing a helmet. The Reno County Sheriff’s Department has not released his name.
Woods declined treatment and was taken to the hospital by a private vehicle.
The accident is still under investigation, according to the sheriff’s department.
Today A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before noon. Mostly sunny, with a high near 91. East southeast wind 6 to 8 mph.
Tonight A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 69. East northeast wind 6 to 9 mph.
Friday A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 88. East southeast wind 5 to 9 mph.
Friday Night A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 68. East southeast wind 6 to 10 mph.
Saturday A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 90.
Saturday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 67.
Sunday Sunny, with a high near 92.
Ada Mae Stebbens, 85, passed away Sunday, July 1, 2018. She was born April 27, 1933, to Edgar Charles and Martha Melissa (Lewis) Loop. She married Donald Theodore Stebbens on Sept. 8, 1951.
She is survived by two daughters: Debra Brenner (Mark), of Riverside, California., and Diane Schuck (Lenus), of Hill City; six grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by: her parents; her husband; and all siblings. Private family services will be at a later date. There is no visitation nor local services.
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TOPEKA—The Kansas Supreme Court appointed five new members to the Alternative Dispute Resolution Council and reappointed two more.
All will serve from July 1 through June 30, 2021.
New members are:
Reappointed were:
The Dispute Resolution Act established dispute resolution as a means to resolve issues without litigation, using an impartial third party to help the two sides reach a settlement.
Council members are knowledgeable about and trained in dispute resolution. The council advises the Supreme Court and its director of dispute resolution.
CLAY CENTER, Kan. (AP) — A group of Kansas pranksters are finally coming clean right before the 50-year anniversary of a high school finding a mysterious hole through its roof.
Richard Klocke and his friends fired a small cannon full of gunpowder near Clay Center Community High School for the Fourth of July in 1968.
“This thing just exploded like crazy,” Klocke said. “The metal was flying. I could hear it flying in all these directions, but I could specifically hear it flying from this direction off toward the school. It was a deafening explosion.”
Authorities reported that mysterious metal scraps had gouged the school roof and caused a water leak, but they never figured out where the scraps came from. A local newspaper reported that the “mysterious piece of metal” was sent to Forbes Air Force Base in Topeka for identification, but the scraps still couldn’t be explained.
“I think when the thing showed up in the newspaper that they found something on the roof, we all went, ‘Are you going to tell them about this?'” said Mike Browne, Klocke’s friend and one of the teens who fired the cannon. “No, no, keep quiet. Nobody wanted to get in trouble.”
Klocke said he now wants to take responsibility because “it’s never officially been told as to what happened at that event.”
“I’ll have to suffer any consequences now as an old man for my youthful indiscretions,” said Klocke, now 65.
Klocke now works as an artist and exhibition designer in Lawrence, and Browne is a business owner in Lincoln, Nebraska. The two plan to connect on Wednesday, as they do every Independence Day.
KANSAS CITY – A former legal director for a commercial development firm in Kansas City alleges in a lawsuit that she discovered a camera installed underneath her desk and was fired after calling police.
The Kansas City Star reports that Mary Caffrey, of Leawood, Kansas, is suing Legacy Development, managing partner Dan Lowe and the firm’s chief financial officer, Sue Gallatin, in Jackson County Circuit Court.
Caffrey alleges that she called police last summer after finding the secretive recording device underneath her office desk and pointed in her direction. She was terminated five days later. The lawsuit says Lowe and Gallatin knew Caffrey used her office to undress and change into workout clothes.
Lowe and Gallatin didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment from The Star. Caffrey is seeking unspecified damages.
