Matthew James Schluckebier, infant son of Jacob and Nickia (Auker) Schluckebier, Burdett, Kansas, passed away Saturday, October 6, 2018, at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, Kansas.
Funeral service will be Saturday, October 13, 2018, at 3:00 P.M. at the United Methodist Church, Burdett, Kansas.
A complete obituary will follow. Janousek Funeral Home in La Crosse, Kansas, is in charge of arrangements.
By JOHN P. TRETBAR
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas middle school is asking parents to be sure their children aren’t bringing a candy known a “happy crack” to school.
Truesdell Middle School officials in Wichita sent an email to families Monday saying the school’s teachers are seeing more students bringing in powder candy in plastic bags.
The candy is Kool-Aid mixed with sugar or crushed smarties. The email said the candy has caused disruptions at the school several times.
Wichita school district spokeswoman Susan Arensman said she hadn’t heard about other schools having problems with “happy crack.” .
The powdered candy isn’t new. In 2011, officials at a Maize elementary school asked parents to discuss drugs with their children after some fifth-graders reportedly sold baggies of Kool-Aid and sugar to classmates on the bus.
GEARY COUNTY — Two people were injured in an accident just after 6:30a.m. Tuesday in Geary County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2008 Jeep Compass driven by Chantel L. Wiedman, 26, WaKeeney, was westbound on Kansas 18 two miles east of Junction City.
The driver failed to yield at a stop sign and collided with a 2008 Ford Taurus driven by Shemeka S. Adams, 31, Junction City, that was eastbound on Interstate 70 exiting at K18.
Wiedman and Adams were transported to Geary Community Hospital. Both drivers were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Lawrence city commissioners will consider a proposal to reduce penalties for marijuana possession.
Currently, first-time offenders face a fine between $200 and $1,000 and/or up to 180 days in jail. Those who are granted a diversion must pay for mandatory drug-abuse evaluation and could be required to receive drug-abuse education, counseling or treatment.
The city prosecutor is recommending penalties for first-time marijuana possession of $200, a substance abuse evaluation and classes or treatment, 90 day jail sentences that would be suspended if another violation doesn’t occur, and six months of unsupervised probation. A second offense would increase the penalties to a $300 fine and a year of probation.
The city’s health department submitted a statement to the commission opposing reducing penalties for marijuana possession.
CITY OF HAYS
Due to equipment breakdowns and weather, Tuesday’s refuse collection for city of Hays customers may not be collected on Tuesday, October 9, 2018.
In the event your refuse is not collected today, it will be collected on Wednesday, October 10. Wednesday’s refuse collection may be collected later than usual.
City of Hays customers who have any questions regarding this notice should contact the Solid Waste Division of the Public Works Department at 785- 628-7350.
Please make sure your refuse and recycling are out by 7:00 a.m. and keep in mind the trucks have no set time schedule.
Trick or Treat So Others Can Eat is still on for tonight. People who wish to donate non-perishable food to the Community Assistance Food Bank should do so by setting food on their porches by 6 tonight. Food pickup will between 6 and 9 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is leaving the administration “at the end of the year.”
Trump spoke as he and Haley met in the Oval Office, shortly after word came of her plans to resign.
He called Haley a “very special” person, adding that she told him six months ago that she might want to take some time off. Trump said that together, they had “solved a lot of problems.”
It’s the latest shake-up in the turbulent Trump administration just weeks before the November midterm election.
No reason for the resignation was immediately provided.
Haley, 46, was appointed to the U.N. post in November 2016 and last month coordinated Trump’s second trip to the United Nations, including his first time chairing the U.N. Security Council.
Before she was named by Trump to her U.N. post, Haley was governor of South Carolina, the first woman to hold the post. She was re-elected in 2014.
Last month Haley wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post discussing her policy disagreements but also her pride in working for Trump. It came in response to an anonymous essay in The New York Times by a senior administration official that alleged there to be a secret “resistance” effort from the right in Trump’s administration and that there were internal discussions of invoking the 25th amendment to remove Trump from office.
“I proudly serve in this administration, and I enthusiastically support most of its decisions and the direction it is taking the country,” Haley wrote. “But I don’t agree with the president on everything.”
As governor, she developed a national reputation as a racial conciliator who led the charge to bring down the Confederate flag at the Statehouse and guided South Carolina through one of its darkest moments, the massacre at a black church.
Phillipsburg resident, Robert “Bob” Moffatt, passed away October 6, 2018 at the Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, KS at the age of 71. He was born Feb. 27, 1947 in Amarillo, TX, the son of Robert Carl and Inez Boque (Oglesby) Moffatt. He was the former owner and operator of Miles Furniture.
Survivors include his wife Penny of the home; his son Ryan of Phillipsburg; his daughter, Stacy Slechta of Newton; his sister, Marilyn Kuller of Arrowhead, OK and 4 grandchildren.
Cremation was chosen. A Memorial service will be held Friday, Oct. 12 at 2:00 p.m. in the First Christian Church, Phillipsburg, with Dick Higgins and Pastor LeRoy Herder officiating. A private family inurnment will be held in the Fairview Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 9:00 to 9:00 Thursday at the Olliff-Boeve Memorial Chapel with the family receiving friends from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Phillipsburg Youth Baseball Program.
Online condolences: www.olliffboeve.com.
Olliff-Boeve Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
HAYSMED
Well, that was one for the record books!!! We’ve done the Flu Shot Drive Thru campaign in snow, extremely cold and hot temperatures and once in the mist but never in a downpour!!!
We gave over 4,000 flu shots.
Thanks to Fort Hays State University and NCK Tech students, HaysMed associates and volunteers and everyone who helped make Sunday a success.
Special thanks to our security for keeping watch on the lightning and making the decision to bring the event inside for everyone’s safety.
A BIG THANK YOU to the HaysMed Foundation for sponsoring the flu vaccine.
A special thank you to the public for braving the weather and getting your shot to prevent getting the flu. Your generosity in food donations for the Community Assistance Center are also really appreciated.
Despite some unintended consequences of the weather our team pulled together and executed a well-run event. Thanks to everyone!!!!
By JONATHAN ZWEYGARDT
Hays Post
With some areas of Ellis County receiving more than five inches of rain over the last few days, public works crews are expected to stay busy.
Public Works Director Bill Ring told the county commission Monday evening crews have been coning-off areas that have been washed out by the heavy rains.
Ring said when the rain stops, crews will work to repair the roads.
“Everybody will be out blading trying to get through it. They’re really pretty rough right now,” Ring said.
As of Monday night two roads had been closed by Public Works, the 900 block of Yocemento and a portion of 210th Avenue are both closed to through traffic.
Ellis County is in a Flood Warning until 3:15 Tuesday afternoon.
