There will be a stuffed animal toss at halftime of the Fort Hays State University men’s basketball game for the second consecutive year to benefit Toys for Tots.
The games against Emporia State will begin at 2 p.m Dec. 8.
Anyone bringing a new stuffed animal will receive a $5 general admission ticket. Halftime activities will include everyone throwing their stuffed animals onto the court, where they will be collected for Toys for Tots.
The goal this year is to completely cover the court with stuffed animals.
The 29th annual Fred P. Ruda Teaming Up for Tots Day is set for Saturday, Dec. 1, in Fort Hays State University’s Center for Applied Technology.
Students and staff in the Department of Applied Technology will host volunteers to assemble about 200 wooden toys for children ages 2 to 6 years.
The program is designed to spread holiday cheer to local children who may otherwise not receive Christmas presents. This year’s toy is a piggy bank on wheels.
All ages are welcome to volunteer for the toy production, but children 12 years and under must be accompanied by an adult.
Jobs include sanding, running parts from station to station, putting on wheels, attaching parts, finishing and some machine operations by those who have experience in that area.
Start time is 9 a.m. and will run through about 1 p.m. Volunteers can come and go as it fits into their schedules.
WASHINGTON COUNTY— Authorities are looking for a deer poacher who illegally hunted a deer, taking the head and leaving the meat to waste on Thanksgiving morning.
According to the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks Game Wardens, the deer was poached in Washington County, between the towns of Hanover and Hollenberg. Thhe poacher likely showed the antlers to others and might take the taxidermist for a European mount.
Game wardens previously said two other deer were illegally killed by poachers on Thanksgiving morning.
McDonald’s of North Hays and McDonald’s of South Hays will have collection points set up from Dec. 1 to 21 for residents who bring in items for the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Wichita’s Wish List.
The items will be delivered to the Charities in January, and they will be used to provide basic goods to families who use the houses during the time their child is in the hospital.
Wish list items being collected include coffee, laundry soap, deodorant, disinfectant wipes, fruit, Jell-O, and pudding cups, cookie and muffin mix, frosting, pepper, disposable cups and bowls, disposable razors, paper towels, Crock Pot liners, multi-purpose spray, travel sized shampoo and conditioner, hair ties, computer paper, chip clips, and disposable aluminum pans.
Background of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Wichita
The Ronald McDonald House Charities of Wichita provide families with ill or injured children a place to stay while their child is being taken care of by the hospital. They provide a supportive and home-like atmosphere not only for families in Wichita, but families throughout the state.There are two Ronald McDonald Houses in Wichita: “Sleepy Hollow,” built in 1983, and “Midtown,” which was built in 1985. Wichita was the first town in Kansas to have two houses because of the lack of space in one house. Since 1983, the two houses have provided a “home-away-from-home” for 54,671 families, 1,182 of those families being from Ellis county.
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DECA, an association of marketing students, enhances the education of students with interests in marketing, management and entrepreneurship. The course prepares students for future careers, develops their skills and helps them practice community service. The local DECA chapter is located at Hays High School, and this year it has a total of 32 chapter members.
WICHITA – Susan G. Komen’s Greater Kansas City & Kansas affiliates have joined forces to form a new, more comprehensive entity: Susan G. Komen Kansas & Western Missouri, to better serve existing service areas and in anticipation of expanding efforts throughout state.
The combined organization, which will be headquartered in Leawood, KS and retain its Wichita office, will incorporate the current staff, volunteer leadership, grant-making relationships and fundraising capacities of both organizations. While the name has changed, the services offered and annual events hosted by each former affiliate remain the same.
“Joining forces with our partners in Wichita will only strengthen our efforts, increase our impact, and allow us to continue our mission on a larger scale,” remarked Kristin Cargin, Board President of the affiliate. “Realigning Greater Kansas City with Kansas makes good business sense. As the Kansas & Western Missouri affiliate we will be able to leverage our combined talent and resources to continue working to save lives and end breast cancer forever.”
“Combining our resources in a collaborative, strategic way will help us to not only increase revenue and make a more significant impact on breast cancer and breast health in our current service areas, but also better position us to expand our impact throughout the state,” said Michael A. Levine, Interim Executive Director of the Greater Kansas City affiliate. “Aligned with Komen’s ‘Bold Goal’ to reduce current breast cancer deaths by 50% by 2026, the new organization will continue the affiliates’ focus to fund grants that help remove financial barriers to screening and those that meet identified gaps in breast health care and education.”
The new affiliate will now oversee 112 counties: 17 counties in Eastern Kansas & Western Missouri currently covered by Komen Greater Kansas City as well as the remaining 95 counties in the State of Kansas previously led by Komen Kansas. The new affiliate plans to strategically expand over time to include counties not currently being served between these locations and in other parts of the state.
“While we have worked closely with the Greater Kansas City affiliate in the past, we are thrilled to now officially unite to better serve those throughout the state,” added Jeremy Mock, Interim Executive Director of the Kansas affiliate.
Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Hays
The annual Race for the Cure events will remain in each former affiliate location, including Kansas City, Hays and Wichita. Komen Kansas & Western Missouri will continue to offer valuable programs and resources, such as its grant and research funding, and educational efforts.
About Susan G. Komen® Susan G. Komen is the world’s largest breast cancer organization, funding more breast cancer research than any other nonprofit outside of the federal government while providing real-time help to those facing the disease. Komen has set a Bold Goal to reduce the current number of breast cancer deaths by 50% in the U.S. by 2026. Since its founding in 1982, Komen has funded more than $988 million in research and provided more than $2.2 billion in funding to screening, education, treatment and psychosocial support programs serving millions of people in more than 60 countries worldwide. Komen was founded by Nancy G. Brinker, who promised her sister, Susan G. Komen, that she would end the disease that claimed Suzy’s life. That promise has become Komen’s promise to all people facing breast cancer. Visit komen.org or call 1-877 GO KOMEN. Connect with us on social at ww5.komen.org/social.
About Susan G. Komen® Kansas & Western Missouri Komen Kansas & Western Missouri is working to better the lives of those facing breast cancer in their local communities. Through signature events like the Race for the Cure®, More Than Pink Walk, BigWigs and Rock the Ribbon, Komen Kansas & Western Missouri has invested more than $27.5 million in breast health programs in their 112-county Kansas and Missouri service area and has helped contribute to the more than $988 million invested globally in research. For more information, call 816.842.0410, visit komenkswmo.org or behindtheribbon.org. Connect with us on social media: Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
The Kansas Department of Transportation announces approved bids for state highway construction and maintenance projects in Kansas. The letting took place Nov. 14 in Topeka. Some of the bids may include multiple projects that have been bundled based on proximity and type of work.
District Three — Northwest
Osborne ‑ 24‑71 KA‑5027‑01 – U.S. 24, from where the road begins to widen west of the west city limits of Downs east to the Osborne/Mitchell county line, sealing, 4.1 miles, APAC-Kansas Inc Shears Division, Hutchinson, Ks., $211,936.27.
Sherman ‑ 70‑91 KA‑5137‑01 ‑ I‑70, from mile marker #19 east 3 miles to mile marker #22, pavement patching, 3.0 miles, Mccormick Excavation & Paving LLC, Stratton, Co., $110,487.44.
Statewide ‑ 283‑106 M‑0063‑01 – U.S. 283, from the Barclay Avenue/ U. S. 40B/U. S. 283/ U.S. 40 junction in WaKeeney north to 2.7 miles north of the Graham/Trego county line., stockpile bituminous material, 10.4 miles, APAC-Kansas Inc. Shears Division., Hutchinson, Ks., $5,292.00.
Statewide ‑ 283‑106 KA‑4967‑01 – U.S. 283, from the Trego/Graham county line, north to 0.7 mile north of local road MCS 03302 (old RS‑1724) and from approximately 422 feet north of the east intersection of U.S. 40B/ Barclay Avenue/ U.S. 283 (east city limits of WaKeeney), milling and overlay, 10.3 miles, APAC-Kansas Inc Shears Division., Hutchinson, Ks., $3,031,302.86.
EMPORIA — Dustin Bittel of Ellis is part of the Emporia State University production of “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.”
The play by Jethro Compton premiered in 2014 at the Park Theatre in London and is based on the 1953 short story of the same name by Dorothy M. Johnson, a longtime educator at the University of Montana in Missoula. A celebrated writer of Western fiction, Johnson’s other titles include “A Man Called Horse” and “The Hanging Tree.”
The play is a classic Western tale of good versus evil. It follows the story of Ransome Foster, an educated man from the East, who winds up in the western town of Twotress. Forced by circumstances, he stays and begins to change to the town through education. This catches the eye of the outlaw Liberty Valance who seeks to restore “order” to Twotrees by eliminating anything, and anyone, that threatens the “norms of society” as he views it.
A senior, Bittel is in the Ensemble.
This production is under the direction of Ashley Kobza, a freelance theatre artist based in Nebraska. For the past six years, she has been teaching in San Diego, California. Kobza wants the audience to know that this production “isn’t going to be the Liberty Valance from the big screen.” She attributes most of that to the playwright who based his adaptation very strongly on Johnson’s original story.
“The play mirrors a big chunk of our current sociopolitical climate fairly accurately,” Kobza said. “One man has most of the money and all of the power. And the way he keeps that money and power is through stopping progress dead – literally, dead – in its tracks. He doesn’t want equality, legislation or education in the town as all of those are a definite threat to his power. Keep people divided and uneducated and you keep the power; this isn’t a new concept and one doesn’t have to look hard to see it demonstrated in our very own country.”
The show will feature the scenic design of Nancy J. Pontius. It is under the technical direction of Chris Lohkamp, and Amanda Dura is the costume shop manager.
“The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” is the second production of the 2018-19 ESU Theatre season. It will play in the Ronald Q. Frederickson Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 28 through 30, with a matinee performance at 2 p.m. on Dec. 1.
Tickets purchased in advance for “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” cost $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and $5 for students. Tickets purchased at the door on the day of a performance will increase to $15 for adults, $12 for seniors and $8 for students. Tickets for all ESU Theatre productions can be purchased online at tickets.emporia.edu. Tickets are also available in person from the University Ticket Office in the Memorial Union or by calling 620-341-6378.
JACKSON COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating the circumstances that allowed a Kansas man being extradited from a Kansas City, Missouri Jail to Topeka on multiple Shawnee County warrants and tried to escape from a private inmate transport officer Wednesday afternoon, according to Sheriff Tim Morse.
Kull -photo Shawnee Co.
Shortly before 1 pm the transport company arrived at the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office in Holton, Kansas to pick up an inmate being held on multiple Shawnee County warrants.
One of the private transport officers entered the jail awaiting the transfer of an inmate to their custody, while a second private transport officer escorted a second inmate 38-year-old Jacob Daniel Kull who was in their custody to a public restroom in the lobby of the jail.
Kull allegedly removed his handcuffs while in the restroom and assaulted the second private transport officer and fled the jail lobby.
Sheriff’s Deputies and Correction Officers subdued the him in the Sheriff’s Office parking lot.
He was arrested by Jackson County Sheriff’s Deputies for aggravated escape from custody and battery. Bond was set at $50,000.
Kull who waived extradition from Missouri was wanted out of Shawnee County for burglary, theft and forgery charges.
Kull also has previous convictions for burglary, theft, forgery and identity theft, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections.
Today Patchy fog before 9am. Patchy freezing fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 43. North northeast wind 5 to 7 mph.
Tonight Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 29. North northeast wind 3 to 6 mph.
Friday Patchy freezing drizzle before 9am, then patchy drizzle between 9am and noon, then a chance of rain after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 40. East southeast wind 6 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Friday Night A 40 percent chance of rain before 4am. Cloudy, with a low around 33. East wind 6 to 13 mph becoming northwest after midnight.
Saturday Partly sunny, with a high near 44. West northwest wind 13 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph.
Saturday Night Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26.
GEARY COUNTY—Milford Lake will be a Cabela’s King Kat Championship Qualifier lake in 2019, according to an announcement from The Junction City/Geary County Convention and Visitors Bureau.
“We are excited to have a Cabela’s King Kat Tournament at Milford Lake. This event will highlight the fishing at Milford Lake, provide positive exposure for our area and increase the economics of Geary County,” said Michele Stimatze, Director of the CVB.
The tournament is set for March 30, 2019 and is a two-person team event. The competition will provide the opportunity for a team to win a spot at the national championship. The tournament will be headquartered at Acorns Resort.
Patty Chestnut, age 82, of Quinter, passed away Monday, November 26, 2018, in Omaha, Nebraska.
Funeral service will be 10:00 a.m., Monday, December 5, 2018, at the Church of the Brethren, Quinter. Burial will be in the Baker Township Cemetery.
Visitation will be Sunday evening, from 5 to 7 at the funeral home in Quinter.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions are suggested to the Patty Chestnut Memorial Fund. Donations to the fund may be sent to Schmitt Funeral Home, 901 South Main, Quinter, KS 67752.
Condolences may be left for the family by signing the guest book at www.schmittfuneral.com.
There will be a stuffed animal toss at halftime of the Fort Hays State University men’s basketball game for the second consecutive year to benefit Toys for Tots.
