Luella Lambrecht, age 81, of Ellis, passed away Thursday, March 29, 2018 at Hays Medical Center. She was born January 25, 1937 in Hays, Kansas to Jacob and Lydia (Bieker) Begler. On September 2, 1958 she married Earl James Lambrecht in WaKeeney, Kansas. He preceded her in death April 27, 2017.
She was a homemaker and had cooked at Alloway’s and Skelly restaurants in Ellis. She was a member of St. Mary’s Church and the Daughters of Isabella. She enjoyed gambling trips and traveling with her sisters but most of all she will be remembered as a devoted wife, mother and grandmother.
She is survived by three daughters, Debra Williams and husband Fred Johnson of Big Cabin, Oklahoma, Joan Yunker and husband Dan of Andover, Kansas and Gail Dreiling and husband Dave of Ellis; a daughter-in-law, Kim Lambrecht of Hays; a brother, Jerald (Trudy) Begler of Broomfield, CO; two sisters, Marge Bryant of Minneola, TX and Beverly (Michael) Elliott of Tulsa, OK; nine grandchildren, Natalie (Justin) Silkey, Emily Williams and Trevor Williams, Crystal (Matt) Brungardt-Groen, Candice (Justin) Sullivan, Nicole (Korey) Maxwell, Dani (Kyle) Ricke, Jake Dreiling and Joan Dreiling (Alex Stamm) and 7 great grandchildren, Serenity and Carter Silkey, Kail, Tanis and Brody Brungardt, Noah and Ella Ricke.
She was preceded in death by her parents, a son, Greg Lambrecht and two sisters, Laura Rellins and Lillian Hunter.
Funeral services will be Monday, April 2, 2018 at 10:30 AM with a Daughters of Isabella rosary service at 10 AM all at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Ellis. Inurnment will follow in St. Mary’s Cemetery.
Memorials are suggested to St. Mary’s Church or St. Mary’s School.
Arrangements in care of Keithley Funeral Chapel 400 E 17th, Ellis, KS 67637.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Kansas City Fire Department paramedic has been indicted by a federal grand jury for stealing fentanyl and morphine from ambulances and replacing fentanyl with another substance, according to a media release from the United State’s Attorney’s office.
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Michael L. Fostich, 36, of Kansas City was charged in a two-count indictment returned under seal by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Mo., on Tuesday, March 27, 2018. That indictment was unsealed and made public today upon Fostich’s arrest and initial court appearance.
Fostich is charged with one count of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud (related to the theft of fentanyl and morphine) and one count of tampering with a consumer product (related to the replacement of fentanyl with another substance).
Fostich was employed at the Kansas City Fire Department (KCFD) as a paramedic from August 2014 to Dec. 11, 2016. Fostich had access to fentanyl and morphine, which were stored in sealed narcotics boxes and locked in safes on KCFD ambulances. Each sealed narcotics box contained two vials of fentanyl, each containing 100 micrograms of liquid fentanyl, two syringes of morphine, each containing 10 milligrams of liquid morphine, and two vials containing 5 milligrams of liquid midazolam. As a paramedic, Fostich was able to unlock the electronic safe and open the sealed narcotics boxes in order to administer controlled substances to patients, if necessary.
The federal indictment alleges that Fostich engaged in a scheme from Jan. 1, 2016, through Dec. 11, 2016, to fraudulently obtain fentanyl and morphine. As part of the scheme, Fostich allegedly prepared patient care records and state reporting forms that contained misrepresentations regarding his use of fentanyl and morphine.
According to the indictment, Fostich reported he was responsible for the use of 806 doses of fentanyl, which accounted for approximately 39 percent of all of the KCFD’s total reported use during that period of time. Fostich also reported he was responsible for the use of 636 doses of morphine, which accounted for approximately 63 percent of all of the KCFD’s total reported use of morphine during that period of time.
The federal indictment also alleges that Fostich tampered with a container of fentanyl on Dec. 11, 2016. Fostich removed fentanyl from the vials contained in a KCFD narcotics box and replaced them with another solution in the vials, the indictment says, with reckless disregard for the risk that another person would be placed in danger of death or bodily injury. Fostich allegedly placed the vials back in the narcotics box, attempted to reseal the narcotics box, and then placed the narcotics box back in a safe located on a KCFD ambulance.
Have you ever tried sautéeing with water or preparing a boiled salad? It is easy to get in a rut and prepare the same foods in the same way.
Join Donna Krug, Cottonwood Extension FCS Agent from Great Bend, on Tuesday, April 3rd, at noon at the Extension Office Meeting Room, 601 Main in Hays, for this free educational program. Donna wrote the K-State Research and Extension fact sheet that highlights five healthy cooking styles and cutting techniques.
Give the Hays office of the Cottonwood Extension District a call at 785-628-9430 to register. Several recipes are included in the fact sheet and samples will be shared.
Developmental Services of Northwest Kansas, was recently announced as the recipient of a $399 grant from Midwest Energy, Inc. for it’s Kid-Link program.
The grant award will be used to purchase a Boardmaker Plus Program.
The Boardmaker is a program to create visual schedules, communication books, interactive activities and speech boards.This system can be used for infant’s, toddler’s or older children regardless of their abilities.It will aid communication between parents and children as an environmental prompt to help children remember what is expected of them in a certain activity or routine.The program may help prevent or reduce challenging behaviors, support social competence, and enhance memory.By using this program, children will be better prepared for their transition into school.
The DSNWK Kid-Link program provides a full range of early intervention services to infant and toddlers from birth through two years of age in their natural living environment.
The parishes in and around Hays, will celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday with a solemn hour of prayer and benediction at 3 p.m. Sunday at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, 500 E. 19th St., Hays.
The service will include adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, the Divine Mercy Chaplet in song, as well as prayers, music and meditation.
Devotion for Divine Mercy began in the 1930s when Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, an uneducated Polish nun, received special communications with Jesus in which he asked her to have this image painted to spread the message of his mercy.
Under the instructions of a spiritual director, Saint Faustina, as she is known, wrote down her revelations with Jesus, which is now contained in her 600-page diary. In these writings, Saint Faustina said we are to call upon Jesus with trust, receive his mercy and let it flow through us to others.
This mercy fulfills the message in Matthew’s gospel that states, “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.”
Saint Faustina said in her diary that we “radiate” God’s mercy to others by our actions, our words and our prayers.
The Divine Mercy image is a painting of Jesus with two rays emerging from his heart representing the blood and water which flowed from the side of Jesus as his heart was lanced after he died upon the cross.
One is pale representing the water which makes souls righteous. The other is red for the blood, which is the life of souls.
“These two rays issued forth from the very depths of my tender mercy when my agonized heart was opened by a lance on the cross. These rays shield souls from the wrath of my father. Happy is the one who dwell in their shelter, for the just hand of God shall not lay hold of him.” (Diary number 299)
Saint Faustina died in 1938 at the age of 33. She was canonized a saint April 30, 2000, in Rome by Pope John Paul II. At this time, the pontiff said that the Sunday after Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday, would now be an official feast day of the Church.
Divine Mercy is not just for Catholics – it is for all souls. All Christians share in Jesus’ mercy, and all are invited to participate in this special hour of prayer.”
TOPEKA — The Kansas Cold Weather Rule ends on Saturday, March 31. That means Kansans who are behind on electric and natural gas utility bills will be subject to disconnection of service unless they contact their utility company to make payment arrangements.
The Cold Weather Rule is in effect from November 1 through March 31 each year. It provides protection from disconnection to residential customers serviced by utilities under the Kansas Corporation Commission’s (KCC) jurisdiction. That protection ends on Saturday. Failure to make arrangements or failure to adhere to an already established payment plan could result in service disconnection. Reconnection may require payment in full.
The Cold Weather Rule requires regulated utilities to set up 12-month payment plans for customers who cannot afford to pay their full bill. As part of this arrangement, the customer must make an initial payment of 1/12 of the overdue amount, 1/12 of the bill for current service, the full amount of any disconnection or reconnection fees, plus any applicable deposit owed to the utility. The balance is billed in equal payments over the next 11 months in addition to the regular monthly bill.
The KCC adopted the Cold Weather Rule to protect customers during cold winter weather by providing a reasonable and organized method of paying past due and current bills. For a complete list of utilities regulated by the KCC visit: https://www.kcc.ks.gov/aboutus/jurisdiction
More information about the Cold Weather Rule is available at: https://www.kcc.ks.gov/consumer-information/cold-weather-rule. Kansans may also contact their local utility company or the KCC’s Office of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection at (800) 662-0027.
A key witness in the trial involving three Kansas men accused of planning an attack on Somali immigrants testified Thursday that the group was actively recruiting people to help carry out the alleged plot.
Dan Day recorded months of phone calls and meetings with members of the Kansas Security Force militia as a paid informant for the FBI.
He told jurors that Patrick Stein held at least three recruiting meetings to find out “who was with him, who was against him.”
“I’m tired of waiting on somebody else to do something,” Stein can be heard saying on one recording.
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Stein, Curtis Allen and Gavin Wright are charged with conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction. They were arrested in October 2016 after a months-long investigation into their alleged plan to bomb an apartment complex and mosque in Garden City.
Day, dressed in jeans and a green-striped, button-down shirt, said he went along with the plot as part of his “persona” as a Kansas Security Force vetting and intelligence officer. He was recruited as an FBI informant, the state says, after he approached officials with his increasing concerns about the defendants’ discussions, which took place in person and during hours-long nightly calls.
Day began recording meetings shortly after the shooting at an Orlando, Florida, nightclub in June 2016. That’s when, he says, he became convinced the defendants “might be serious about actually trying to kill” Somali immigrants.
The men were “outraged,” Day says, about a “Muslim killing all these people, Americans. I was outraged, too.”
The Florida gunman, Omar Mateen, pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State.
Over the course of several weeks, Day says Stein and Allen approached other members of their militia group. During one recorded meeting, Stein tells Cody and Trish Burch — also expected to testify as witnesses in the case — he needs “to know where you guys stand” on a potential attack.
Trish Burch got defensive, Day says. She can be heard on the recording telling Stein, “We’re not just gonna go up and start shooting for no reason.
“We’re not that type of people,” she says. “We believe in protecting ourselves.”
She tells Stein the purpose of a militia is for defense.
“We have to keep our image good,” she says. “We have to be smart about this.”
At another meeting, the defendants tried — and failed — to recruit another couple to be a part of an attack.
Day says he took the defendants seriously.
“They had set their minds on getting rid of all the cockroaches, all the Muslims, killing them,” he says, repeating a term the men used to refer to Somali immigrants.
He says the defendants met frequently to plan the actual attack, studying targets using Google Earth and going on surveillance missions. Day was in charge of suggesting some targets, and he told jurors he thought Garden City would be “attractive” because of its high concentration of Somali Muslim immigrants.
Potential future targets there included a different apartment complex near Garden City Community College, as well as the landlords who rented to Muslims and immigrants.
Day told prosecutors it was difficult to maintain his persona with the militia over the course of the investigation.
“It went against most of everything I believe in myself,” he says.
He also had to avoid planting any ideas with the defendants, per the FBI’s rules.
“It had to be their idea,” he says.
By September 2016, the men were drafting a manifesto to release at the same time as the attack and were close to acquiring the material to make explosives. It was then that the FBI decided to send in an undercover officer to “take control of the situation,” Day said.
“[The defendants] were progressing very fast,” he said.
Within a month, Stein, Allen and Wright were arrested.
Defense attorneys argued last week that Day was not the hero the state is portraying him to be, but a bounty hunter who exploited the defendants and pushed them along. Attorneys said the FBI manipulated the situation against the defendants.
Defense attorneys will have the chance to cross-examine Day when the trial resumes Monday.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Senate has approved a measure to make it easier for state agencies to share information about potential child abuse.
The measure, passed Thursday in a 31-0 vote, was partially in response to the death of Adrian Jones, a Kansas boy killed by his father and stepmother in 2015 and whose body was fed to pigs. Jones’ family moved between Kansas and Missouri, and lawmakers said increased communication between states, as well as agencies within the states, could help spot similar abuse.
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The proposal makes several other changes to the foster care system, including extending the amount of time the Department of Social Services is required to retain abuse records.
Today Sunny, with a high near 64. Breezy, with a north wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south southwest 16 to 21 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 31 mph.
Tonight Partly cloudy, with a low around 43. South wind 11 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph.
Saturday Mostly sunny, with a high near 53. Breezy, with a north northeast wind 14 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Saturday NightMostly cloudy, with a low around 27. Northeast wind 10 to 15 mph.
SundayMostly cloudy, with a high near 45. East northeast wind 9 to 11 mph.
BALTIMORE (AP) — Sports apparel merchant Under Armour has become the latest victim of a massive digital theft of sensitive information about tens of millions of customers.
The Baltimore company disclosed Thursday that an intruder grabbed the email addresses and login information during a February break-in affecting about 150 million users of its food and nutrition website, MyFitnessPal.
Under Armour says the hacker didn’t obtain any payment information, Social Security numbers or driver’s license numbers. That means this break-in is unlikely to require credit and debit cards to be replaced or raise the specter of identity theft, as happened with big breaches affecting retailer Target and credit reporting agency Equifax that resulted in the departures of their CEOs.
Still, Under Armour says it is requiring all MyFitnessPal users to change their passwords.
MCPHERSON, Kan.-Savannah Schneider pulled off her first hat trick of the season and propelled the Hays High Lady Indians to a 3-1 win over Augusta in the 7th Place game of the 12th Annual McPherson Invitational. Schneider got the scoring started early with a shot that found the back of the net in the 3rd minute. The score would remain 1-0 before the final goal of the first half gave Hays High a 2-0 lead in the 14th minute.
Augusta scored the first goal of the second half off of a corner kick in the 53rd minute. The score stayed at 2-1 until Schneider capped off the hat trick with a goal in the 71st minute. With the win the Lady Indians improve to 2-2 on the season and will have their first home match on Tuesday when they host Dodge City.
Luella Lambrecht, age 81, of Ellis, passed away Thursday, March 29, 2018 at Hays Medical Center. She was born January 25, 1937 in Hays, Kansas to Jacob and Lydia (Bieker) Begler. On September 2, 1958 she married Earl James Lambrecht in WaKeeney, Kansas. He preceded her in death April 27, 2017.
