Albert Douglas “Doug” Hardman was born November 7, 1942 in Wichita, Kansas to Irv and LaVergne (Kobler) Hardman. He was the second of five children.
He attended grade school and high school in Hill City, Kansas. He received his Degree in Pharmacy from Kansas University in 1968. Doug enjoyed learning and was always ready to explore new technology and try out new cooking methods and equipment.
He spent most of his professional life in San Francisco working as a pharmacist for Walgreens. Shortly after Doug began his career in San Francisco, he took a leave to join the Peace Corp. He spent time in Brazil and made many lifelong friends while he was there. He then returned to San Francisco for the remainder of his career. After his retirement in 2005, he moved to Guadalajara, Mexico, living there until 2015. He returned to Lawrence, residing there until his death October 21, 2018.
During his life, Doug frequently came back to Kansas to visit friends and family. When our mom needed more support in her later years, Doug was a tremendous help. He had a special way of teasing her that she always enjoyed.
Doug is survived by Blaine and Sharon Hardman, Debbie and Stewart Harley, Nancy Hardman, Mindy and Brad Loveless and many nieces, nephews and great nieces and nephews.
Family and friends were very important to him. His sharp wit and great sense of humor will be missed by all those who knew and loved him.
Dennis “Banjo” Gerstner, age 86, of Hays, Kansas passed away Saturday, October 27, 2018 at Hays Medical Center. He was born September 22, 1932, in Hays, to Joseph and Sophia (Schuetz) Gerstner.
He graduated from St. Joseph’s Military Academy in 1949. After graduation, Dennis enlisted in the US Army serving in the 439th Engineering Organized Reserve Unit. He served in Korea from 1950 – 1952. After his service duty, Dennis worked as an Under Sheriff for Ellis County. He then became a Kansas State Fire Marshall serving Western Kansas until his retirement.
Dennis was a member of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, VFW Post 9076, where he served as commander in 2002-2003. He enjoyed fishing and spending time with his family and friends.
He is survived by 2 sisters, Mary Schmidt of Topeka, KS and Lillian Rohr of Hays; a brother, James Gerstner of Lee’s Summit, MO and a sister-in-law, Marie Gerstner of Surprise, AZ.
He was preceded in death by his parents, a brother, Leroy “Satch” Gerstner, two brother-in-laws, Harold Schmidt and Julius Rohr, and a sister-in-law, Martha Gerstner.
Funeral services will be 10:00 AM Friday, November 2, 2018 at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Hays. Burial will follow services in St. Joseph’s Cemetery with Military Honors courtesy of the Hays VFW Post 9076 Honor Guard.
Visitation will be Thursday 5 PM – 8 PM and Friday 9 AM – 9:30 AM at Brock’s-Keithley Funeral Chapel and Crematory 2509 Vine Hays, KS 67601.
A rosary service will be Thursday at 6:45 PM followed by a parish vigil service at 7:00 Pm all at the funeral chapel.
Memorial contributions are suggested to Hospice of Hays Med or St. Joseph’s Church Building Fund.
Condolences may be left by guest book at www.keithleyfuneralchapels.com or by email at [email protected]
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The co-owner of a Kansas water park who is accused in the decapitation death of a 10-year-old boy has been charged with drug possession and hiring someone for sex.
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Schlitterbahn co-owner Jeff Henry surrendered to authorities in Kansas on Monday and was released on $100,000 bond. Henry’s defense attorney, Carl Cornwell, hasn’t returned a phone call from The Associated Press seeking comment.
Henry is already facing second-degree murder and other charges in the August 2016 death of Caleb Schwab.
Henry is accused of rushing into service the 17-story Verruckt waterslide — which was billed as the world’s largest — that Caleb was riding when he was killed.
This is a critical year for the state of Kansas. No one can sit on the sidelines in this election. The stakes are too high. We’ve seen the devastation of the last eight years and we have to put the Brownback experiment behind us for good. That is one of the reasons I’m endorsing Senator Laura Kelly for Governor.
After much thought and analyzing this race and the candidates, I understand Greg Orman cannot win. While he may have something to offer the state of Kansas, this is not the year. This year, we must come together to support Laura Kelly.
I’ve been a registered Republican for over 50 years. I seldom vote for Democratic candidates, but in this race, I strongly support Laura Kelly. Senator Kelly has worked hard and knows state government and the budget front to back. She is well-prepared to be governor and to lead our state through challenging times.
After eight years of crisis, we cannot elect someone who wants to repeat the disasters of the past. Kris Kobach has promised to do just that – risking the future of our great state.
I met Laura years ago, when she led the Kansas Recreation and Park Association. She and I share a commitment to improving the quality of life in our communities – both urban and rural. We worked together many times over the years and she was always willing to work with anyone to solve problems. When she became a state senator, we collaborated on several projects and I knew she had the right priorities. She always puts our kids and families first and not politics.
Our state faces many challenges and I trust Senator Kelly to use her good common sense to help resolve complex issues. I’ve been a gun owner for 62 years. I’m a strong supporter of the 2nd Amendment and I’m voting for Laura Kelly. I trust her to support the 2nd Amendment and use common sense to promote safety against gun violence. I also know she is committed to protecting thousands of current and retired public servants who depend on our state retirement system which has been short-changed for nearly a decade.
Laura Kelly is the best choice to lead Kansas. She will bring Kansans together – regardless of political party – to get our state back on the right track. She will invest in our schools, highways and natural resources so our state and our people can have a bright future. I encourage Kansans to join me and vote for Laura Kelly for governor on November 6.
Former Kansas Gov. Mike Hayden
Editor’s Note: The deadline for submission of letters related to the November general election will be Nov. 1.
SALINA – Today, schools are facing shrinking budgets and increasing demands on time in the classroom, and as a result field trips to enhance learning have become more difficult to include in the curriculum. In an effort to offer a variety of enrichment options, engaging learning opportunities and “reverse field trips” to students and teachers in northwest Kansas, the Dane G. Hansen Foundation has awarded Rolling Hills Zoo a $25,000 grant to bring the Zoo’s educational experiences to them.
“Education, both traditional and through life experiences was always a priority in the Hansen family. The Trustees are pleased to continue that tradition with the NW Kansas LEARNS initiative, offering students and teachers a variety of hands-on learning opportunities to enhance classroom education,” said Betsy Wearing, Coordinator of Programs, Communications and New Initiatives for the Dane G. Hansen Foundation.
Rolling Hills Zoo’s Zoo To You: Amazing Adaptations program will help students develop a deeper appreciation of the natural world by connecting them to animals that will both inspire and ignite their sense of compassion and love for wildlife. Not only does this program introduce students to exotic species, but it also teaches them about the native species that live right here in Kansas. In addition, students will develop a better understanding and appreciation for the region and the habitat it provides to these native species. Students will also gain a worldlier perspective by learning about animals from around the world and how to draw connections between animals of different species, including humans, and the many threads that connect us all. All Zoo to You programs meet Kansas curriculum standards.
The Zoo To You program will be offered to students from grades kindergarten through eighth grade, in schools within the Hansen Foundation’s 26-county service area beginning Nov. 1 and continuing through Feb. 28. Providing transportation to and from the schools will be a cargo van sponsored by Long McArthur Ford of Salina.
This new outreach initiative, NW Kansas LEARNS, funded by the Dane G. Hansen Foundation, is combined with their other recently announced initiatives, NW Kansas ARTS and NW Kansas READS, all of which help to fulfill the Hansen Foundation’s mission to improve the quality of life and provide opportunities to the people of Northwest Kansas. Other organizations included in the NW Kansas LEARNS initiative include The Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home, the Kansas Cosmosphere, and the Kansas Historical Society.
All of these opportunities are offered at no cost to northwest Kansas schools in the Dane G. Hansen Foundation service area. A schedule of the “Zoo To You” visits will be released at a later date on Hays Post.
A recent news story in Kansas was headlined: “Kobach, Schwab Fuzzy on Voting Registration Access.”
It goes on to state that “both nearly two-term Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and the Republican running to follow him in that job have mistakenly described ways to register to vote.”
Kobach is the current Secretary of State and Kansas’ chief elections officer. Schwab is running for Kobach’s job. And neither of them knows for sure how voter registration works in Kansas?
Brian McClendon does not seem fuzzy at all on the voter registration process in Kansas. Brian led the development of the nonpartisan online voter registration tool KSvotes.org. It can be used on a cell phone and takes less than 5 minutes. More than 24,000 eligible Kansas citizens have used it to register to vote in the last year and more than 19,000 Kansans used it to request an advanced ballot. Now that’s a candidate already doing the job of Kansas Secretary of State, which is more than can be said for the Kobach/Schwab partnership.
Brian is not a career politician. He’s a former Google vice president who famously made Kansas the center of Google Earth. He’ll bring the leadership of a businessman and the efficiency of his technological expertise to the Secretary of State’s office. His opponent Schwab wants to continue Kobach’s politics and we all know that’s been a mess.
It’s clear to me that the Google guy Brian BAM McClendon will be the best for Kansas.
Janis Lee
Hays
Editor’s Note: The deadline for submission of letters related to the November general election will be Nov. 1.
HAYS – The TMP-Marian boys soccer team advanced to the state semifinals Tuesday with a 1-0 win over Topeka-Hayden at Fort Hays State University soccer stadium.
Logan Shaw gave the Monarchs a 1-0 lead early in the second half and they used a stifling defense the rest of the way to secure the victory.
With the win the Monarchs have qualified for the 4-1A state semifinals for the first time in program history.
TMP will play Friday at KC-Piper High School in Kansas City. Their opponent will be announced later this week.
Eber Phelps has demonstrated that he is a strong supporter of all levels of education in Ellis County and all of western Kansas. During his two-year term in the Legislature, he was instrumental in solving the inherited fiscal problems that existed at the beginning of his term. Eber helped put the state on a fiscally sound budget and has left the state with a bright future.
Now that the state is in recovery, it is not the time to replace Eber Phelps, an experienced legislator with a demonstrated willingness to cooperate with moderates of both parties in Topeka. A vote for Eber Phelps is a vote for good education and sound economic policy. I urge you to vote for Eber Phelps.
Louis Caplan
Hays
Editor’s Note: The deadline for submission of letters related to the November general election will be Nov. 1.
Incumbent Republican Congressman Kevin Yoder and his challenger, Democrat Sharice Davids, faced off in a debate on Tuesday afternoon, just a week ahead of the midterm election.
Incumbent Congressman Kevin Yoder and his opponent Sharice Davids faced off in their first debate Tuesday at WDAF-TV studios in Kansas City. ANDREA TUDHOPEBoth are vying for a seat in the Kansas 3rd congressional district, and Tuesday’s debate was the first time the candidates had met in person. Yoder called attention to this in his opening statement, accusing Davids of skipping debates.
“I’ve done three of them by myself,” he said.
In response, Davids told the media after the debate it was “political gamesmanship,” and called out Yoder’s delay in agreeing to Tuesday’s debate.
The questions, asked by journalists from the Kansas City Star, KCPT and Fox 4 News, touched on immigration, healthcare, Trump and other topics.
When asked which government program or service was “performing so poorly it should be eliminated,” Yoder named the Environmental Protection Agency.
“I think one of the most destructive agencies out there is the EPA,” he said. “What the EPA has attempted to do in their efforts to attack Americans and drive up their cost of doing business hurts the economy and is what caused part of the slow recession.”
Davids said she was “floored” by that.
“When I think about where we should be spending less money, certainly it’s not in protecting our environment,” she said. “But I do think there are some regulatory inefficiencies we need to be addressing.”
After the debate, Yoder said he didn’t want to eliminate the EPA, but he told KCUR the EPA needs a “better balancing act.” He said EPA regulations are increasing energy costs and hurting working-class families, pointing specifically to the Clean Power Plan, which the administration wants to toss out.
Immigration has been a hot-button issue for both candidates, and Yoder seemed to take every opportunity he had to draw attention to a comment Davids made, on the podcast Millenial Politics, in support of abolishing ICE.
Asked whether Congress should move to end birthright citizenship, as Trump told Axios he hopes to do, Yoder skirted the question and answered that the root cause is a “failure to secure our borders.”
“My opponent, who’s running on a platform of open borders and abolishing ICE, defunding our immigration enforcement, would leave our borders open,” he said.
Davids later walked back her comments on ICE, and reiterated that she supports “bi-partisan comprehensive immigration reform,” before saying Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship by executive order is unconstitutional, and an example of why Congress needs to be a check on the executive branch.
“Representative Yoder has failed at that,” Davids said.
Davids, who would become the first openly gay person to represent Kansas in Congress if elected, said LGBTQ persons should be a protected class.
“What we’ve seen this past year from this current administration, back-tracking on some of the protections for LGBT folks, is very troubling,” she said.
Yoder said he agreed, and decried discrimination against individuals on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, but he didn’t endorse specific legislation that would realize those protections. After the debate, however, he said he would support that kind of legislation, and told KCUR he doesn’t agree with the Trump administration’s reported move to redefine gender.
Andrea Tudhope is a reporter for KCUR in conjunction with the Kansas News Service. Follow her on Twitter @_tudhope. KCUR news intern Celisa Calacal contributed to this report.
SHAWNEE COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a felony suspect on new charges after an attempted traffic stop Tuesday.
Shughart -photo Shawnee Co.
Just after 8:30p.m. Tuesday, police attempted to stop a green Chevy Suburban with two occupants, at NW Waddell and NW Taylor in Topeka for a traffic infraction, according to Lt. John Trimble.
The driver identified as 31-year-old Cory Shughart initiated a vehicle pursuit that lasted under a minute.
Police found the vehicle without its occupants at the intersection of NW Tyler and NW Paramore. During the investigation police determined that Shughart was a convicted felon and in possession of a firearm.
The passenger, Peace Goodman was also located during the investigation. Shughart was arrested and booked into the Shawnee County Department of Corrections for being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm, Felony Obstruction, an outstanding warrant, and several traffic charges. Shughart has a previous forgery conviction and seven drug related convictions, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections.
Goodman was charged with Felony Obstruction and released from the scene.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A recently disbarred lawyer has been sentenced to two years and four months in prison for hitting a nurse while she was crossing a street.
Mark Logan -photo Wyandotte Co.
Fifty-five-year-old Mark Logan was sentenced for aggravated battery and failure to yield to a pedestrian.
The victim, who was pregnant, was hit in October outside the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas. The collision broke both of her legs. The woman’s baby is 10 months old and in good health.
The Kansas Supreme Court disbarred Logan in June after he voluntarily surrendered his law license.
The court noted in the disbarment order that Logan, who had a law office in Shawnee, faced six disciplinary complaints. He admitted to such violations as misappropriating client money and not cooperating with investigators.
