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Fort Hays State University’s College of Health and Behavioral Sciences in conjunction with the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders will host Matthew Schindler to share his story about Parkinson’s disease at 3 p.m., Monday, April 8, in the Memorial Union’s Stouffer Lounge.
Matthew Schindler is riding his bike around Kansas speaking about the importance of exercise and how it has changed his life. The Dale Schindler Memorial Bike Ride for Parkinson’s Awareness is named after his father.
Dale Schindler was diagnosed with Parkinson’s at a very early age and had no access to a support group. Matthew was diagnosed with young onset familial Parkinson’s disease in 2002. He will talk about why this diagnosis does not have to be a death sentence.
April is also Parkinson’s Awareness month.
Admission is free, and light refreshments will be provided.
LINDSBORG — Each year, students from Bethany College are selected to perform solo pieces from Handel’s Messiah during the Bethany Oratorio Society’s dress rehearsal.
Handel’s masterwork is the highlight of the Messiah Festival of the Arts, an annual festival since 1881 at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kan.
For the dress rehearsal, Bethany College students are allowed to audition for spots performing with the orchestra in place of the professional singers who perform on Easter Sunday. This year 17 students were selected for this honor, including the following.
Almena
Carson Montgomery
Cheney
Austin Hampton
Matthew Slusser
Leavenworth
Mackinze Smith
Lindsborg
Elise Nelson
Kalyn Powers
Abigail Rishel-Barnett
Manhattan
Gavin Larios
Marquette
Stephen Klaassen
Minneapolis
Michael Baker
Lauren Gragg
Salina
Nicholas Bartholomew
Katelynn Zuercher
WaKeeney
Isaiah Fabrizius
Brighton, Colorado
Maya Herrera
Las Vegas, Nevada
Carl Lindstrom III
Moscow, Russia
Galina Brauer
The dress rehearsal will be performed at 3 p.m. in Presser Hall Auditorium on Sunday. Tickets are $5 at the door.
The 2019 Messiah Festival of the Arts will feature a number of concerts, recitals, art exhibits, and theatrical productions from April 11 to April 21. Tickets and a full list of events may be found at www.messiahfestival.org or by contacting Taylor Deutscher, Messiah Festival Coordinator at [email protected] or by calling 785-227-3380 ext. 8237.
Every year since 1881, the Bethany Oratorio Society has performed Handel’s masterpiece Messiah. The work is perhaps the most popularly performed choral/orchestral masterpiece in history but is often only heard in an abridged version during the Christmas season. The Bethany Oratorio Society performs the work each Holy Week in its full version with professional soloists, a semi-professional orchestra, and a 250-300 member chorus of well-experience volunteers, some of whom have sung 50 years or more.
The Hays Police Department responded to 9 animal calls and conducted 15 traffic stops Mon., April 1, 2019, according to the HPD Activity Log.
Suspicious Activity–100 block Ash St, Hays; 2:16 AM
Suspicious Person–2400 block Hall St, Hays; 7:42 AM
Animal At Large–400 block E 21st St, Hays; 9:28 AM
Civil Transport–1300 block Kansas Highway 264, Larned; 12 PM
Abandoned Vehicle–1700 block Holmes Rd, Hays; 12:20 PM
MV Accident-City Street/Alley–24th and Pine St, Hays; 1:23 PM
Criminal Trespass–2500 block Vine St, Hays; 1:41 PM
Theft (general)–2700 block Vine St, Hays; 3/31 3 PM ; 3:30 PM
Sex Offense–100 block W 12th St, Hays; 3:15 PM
Animal At Large–1300 block Douglas Dr, Hays; 4:37 PM
44 – Traffic Stop–2700 block Broadway Ave, Hays; 5:24 PM
Found/Lost Property–2600 block Vine St, Hays; 6:59 PM
The Hays Police Department responded to 8 animal calls and conducted 10 traffic stops Tue., April 2, 2019, according to the HPD Activity Log.
Welfare Check–2500 block Vine, Hays; 6:10 AM; 6:11 AM
Animal Call–2900 block Willow St, Hays; 7:14 AM
Lost Animals ONLY–1700 block Felten Dr, Hays; 11:38 AM
Lost Animals ONLY–3300 block Vine St, Hays; 2:40 PM
Welfare Check–1900 block Holmes Rd, Hays; 3:20 PM
Animal At Large–400 block W 17th St, Hays; 4:26 PM
Theft (general)–1900 block Lincoln St, Hays; 4 PM; 4:41 PM
Juvenile Complaint–1400 block Washington Cir, Hays; 10:26 PM
Suspicious Activity–500 block W 20th St, Hays; 11:44 PM
Shoplifting–4300 block Vine St, Hays; 12/21/18
Shoplifting–4300 block Vine St, Hays; 12/26/18
Shoplifting–4300 block Vine St, Hays; 12/286/18
Shoplifting–4300 block Vine St, Hays; 2/17
Friday Areas of fog before 10am. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 72. Breezy, with a south wind 5 to 10 mph increasing to 17 to 22 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 33 mph.
Friday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 56. Breezy, with a south southeast wind 14 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Saturday A slight chance of showers between 8am and 2pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 69. South wind 11 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Saturday NightA chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 49. South southeast wind 6 to 11 mph becoming west southwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
SundayA 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before 8am. Partly sunny, with a high near 69.
Sunday NightMostly clear, with a low around 44.
MondaySunny, with a high near 75.
OFFICE OF REP. WASINGER
TOPEKA – The Kansas Department of Transportation has pledged to match $1 million in funding for road improvements in Ellis County’s Northwest Business Corridor, contingent on approval of a grant the county has made to the Dane G. Hansen Foundation, Logan.
Rep. Barb Wasinger (R-Hays), 111th District, brought together a coalition of federal, state, county and city leaders in February to see the road first-hand, tour businesses whose operations are affected by the road, and asked all parties to work together for a solution.
“I’d like to thank Congressman Marshall, Commerce Secretary Toland and Deputy Transportation Secretary Douglas, as well as Senator Billinger, Representative Rahjes, and our county and city commissioners for their work on this project,” Wasinger said.
“Commitment of these funds from the state, along with previously approved Ellis County funding, are moving this project forward. We’re hopeful the Dane G. Hansen Foundation will favorably consider the county’s grant application, and help make these improvements a reality.”
The Northwest Business Corridor, which includes 230th Avenue between 1-70 and Feedlot Road, as well as Feedlot Road from 230th Avenue to U.S. Highway 183, has long been eyed for improvements.
In particular, 230th Avenue is a narrow limestone road that sees hundreds of vehicles and heavy trucks daily, including traffic from Pertl Feeders, Hess Services, Midwest Energy and Ellis County Concrete.
Poor sight lines, drainage and erosion have made the road dangerous for the volume of traffic it serves.
Improvements along the corridor are also essential for a travel plaza planned for the area, and could help alleviate truck congestion once roundabouts on Vine Street are completed.
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Four acts. Four different locations – Figaro’s quarters, the countess’s boudoir, a banquet hall, and a garden. A cast of 27, not counting stage manager and crew.
All of this in a theatre with limited wing space – that’s the space off to the sides, where actors and scenes wait their turns to be rolled onto the stage.
And a kicker: “We have an unusual challenge with this year’s opera – a three-week turn-around. We usually have six,” said Debra Holmes, assistant professor of music and theatre and technical director for Felten-Start Theatre in Malloy Hall, where Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” will be performed on three nights, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and a Sunday matinee.
The three week-six week window is the time between tearing down the set for one production – in this case, “Barefoot in the Park” – and building all the scenery and props and designing the lighting for the next one.
Holmes has a Master of Fine Arts in scenography design from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. That encompasses scenery, lighting and costumes. She is in her first year at Fort Hays State and is also the set designer and chief builder for FHSU Theatre.
“When I was considering the design,” she said, “I needed to include a window for an actor to jump out of, three doors, and some levels, meaning different levels of the stage, to make it interesting, all while keeping the majority of the space clear for bodies.”
Twenty-seven people, plus stage manager and crew, are a lot of people for a stage the size of Felten-Start’s.
“The challenge to this design,” she said, “is to indicate the grand Mozart spaces inexpensively and take up minimal floor space.” She emphasized the “grand” nature of the scenery required for Mozart’s opera.
“We have a newly renovated fly system, so I wanted to use that to create each unique location,” she said.
In a fly system, scenery is lifted and lowered from the ceiling.
“Initially, I thought about using China silk to indicate locations, but the estimate was more than $2,000, so I had to look for another alternative.”
The solution she found was a material called Tyvek®, 600 yards, two feet wide, for $99. It is normally used as a building wrap in construction. It is available without lettering, and it can be glued and painted. For Holmes, it is theatre.
“I designed some screens made from Tyvek to fly in to indicate each location, and my student workers carefully cut the pieces, glued them together, painted them a base color and stenciled the designs.”
The fourth act, set in a garden, has trees, which Holmes and her students cut out, painted and hung, which they will “fly” in and out, as with the rest of the location scenery.
“I’m already using stock wall units for the doors and the window and using stock platforms to add the levels,” said Holmes. “I’m very pleased with the result.”
“I couldn’t have done this without the support of my department chair, my colleagues and the student workers,” she said.
Performances are all in Malloy Hall’s Felten-Start Theatre. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 4, 5 and 6, the curtain opens at 7:30 p.m. Sunday’s matinee, April 7, begins at 2:30 p.m.
Admission is $15 for the public and $10 for students and seniors. Tickets will be available at the door, but can still be reserved online at https://webapps.fhsu.edu/theatreonlinereservations.
For more information, email [email protected] or call 785-628-4533.
By CRISTINA JANNEY
Hays Post
Thomas More Prep-Marian students this week completed the Can Your Class food drive, collecting 3,105 food items for the St. Joseph Food Bank.
Spanish teacher Melissa Pinkney came up for the idea for the drive. The students were challenged to bring enough food to fill up the doorway to their classrooms. The class that donated the largest amount of food earned a free class period with popcorn.
Pinkney said she was shocked by the students’ response to the challenge.
It was a tight competition, but Mr. Denton’s senior and sophomore English classes won the competition.
The junior class delivered and sorted the food for the pantry during its academy period.
“I know Renee Michaud at the food pantry was very thankful. When we brought the food, the room was quite bare,” Pinkney said.
Learning about service and charity are important aspects of the TMP education, Pinkney said.
“I think for the younger generations, they have to experience the service. That helps them in their mind make connections to the community, but also TMP is about giving back,” she said. “That is one of our main goals is to teach about service and how important it is.”
By TERRY FREI
Greeley (Colo.) Tribune
DENVER — Longtime state wrestling icon Bob Smith, a Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference 115-pound champion in 1958 while competing at what now is the University of Northern Colorado, was inducted into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame at the organization’s annual banquet Wednesday night.
Now a resident of Hudson, Colo., Smith was raised in Denver and is a graduate of Denver North High School, were he was a two-time state wrestling champion.
He went on from UNC to coach at Wray High School for 33 years and then at Fort Hays State University for eight more years before retiring in 2000. In retirement in Weld County, he also has lived in Milliken before moving to Hudson.
At Wray, his teams won 10 state championships and as head of the state’s wrestling coaches association, he was also instrumental in lobbying for the 1987 move of all classifications in state wrestling to one site for the state wrestling tournament. He was the national high school coach of the year in 1984.
“I’ve been pinching myself ever since I received a call last year,” Smith said in his turn at the podium in the Hilton Denver City Center banquet room. “This is really happening.”
Smith paid tribute to his late wife of 57 years, Marilyn; his son Scott, who was killed in an automobile accident when he was a senior at Chadron (Neb.) State College; and the rest of his family.
“I do have to say I learned so much from my students and wrestlers,” he said.
He also praised UNC wrestling coach John Hancock as one of his mentors.
“The concept of being a gentleman was a big part of my coaching and teaching vocabulary,” Smith added. “My goal was to help these young men be gentlemen. I wanted my wrestlers to be gentlemen, both on and off the mat. Some of my best feelings as a coach were not winning championships but seeing these young men develop as productive citizens and share their accomplishments in their chosen professions throughout their lives.”
He said he was proud that “80-plus” of his former wrestlers had become coaches “at various levels around the nation.”
He pitched for the continued support of wrestling and noted, “Wrestling’s next horizon will be the addition of girls’ and women’s wrestling at all levels.”
Smith and all five of the other inductees are Colorado natives.
The others entering the Hall in the Class of 2019 Wednesday night were swimmer Missy Franklin; former Thomas Jefferson High, University of Colorado and Broncos tight end Daniel Graham; long-time Colorado School of Mines football coach and athletic director Marv Kay; former Steamboat Springs High and Colorado College standout athlete Tom Southall, who competed despite being born without a right hand; and Todd Lodwick, a six-time Olympian in the Nordic Combined.
Fossil Ridge High School swimmer Zoe Bartel and Fountain-Fort Carson sprinter Jalen Lyon were the high school athletes of the year. University of Colorado cross-country star Dani Jones and University of Denver lacrosse player Trevor Baptiste were named the college athletes of the year.
Also, Broncos running back Phillip Lindsay accepted the award as professional athlete of the year and Wake Forest University golfer Jennifer Kupcho, from Jefferson Academy in Broomfield, was amateur athlete of the year. She is the top-rated woman amateur golfer in the world and is the defending NCAA champion.
— Terry Frei writes features and columns for The Tribune. He’s the author of seven books, including “’77: Denver, the Broncos, and a Coming of Age.” He can be reached at (970) 392-4424 or [email protected]. His website is https://www.terryfrei.com. Twitter: @tfrei
Republished with permission
By GUY WINDHOLZ
There is the old adage that, “Life begins at 50.” But it should ring true, for many, that the fun can really start at 60 — or even 80.
According to the Sports & Fitness Industry Association’s 2017 report, “Pickleball currently has 2.815 million players in the US alone.” Now one might not be sure if that included the 38 mixture of male and females that came eagerly to the Hays Recreation Center on a crispy Saturday morning, preceded by an over-night light blanket of snow. So much for spring being here. Even the nesting Robins and other birds that moved in are likely miffed at why they came back to central Kansas.
Pickleball patrons present were a variety of ages, mostly seniors, which is generally anyone 55 and over that might also be carrying a membership card from the AARP. They would test their skill of the game before those of same experience and those millennials having the advantage of drinking from bottled water drawn from the “Fountain of Youth.” This would be their day to shine and school their elders in the meaning of speed, endurance and of being in top physical condition. Would there be blood, sweat and tears? Yes there was sweat. No injuries, no tears because everyone was on a high of fun.
It is quite gratifying to see those individuals older than one’s self swinging the paddle but when they turn the table on you, leaving your final point total at 1 out of the 15 points they chalk up to win, a split second of depression can result. Oh well, take another shot of Geritol and onward to the next contestants. Can it get worse that that? Oh yes it can and your team-mate is looking at you as to why we allowed a shut-out on the next match. Time did reward with some glory moments and some professional looking shots , otherwise known as accidental luck.
While avoiding the question of what and how pickleball is played, it would just be easier for those with iPhones and Androids to google the information and a pleasant sounding lady will be happy to make all this information known.
Perhaps you might enjoy seeing your locals in these photos and videos and see how the game is played. It was great to see new people, now becoming friends from towns like Ellis, Great Bend, Stockton, Wichita and Bazine. What started with the orientation of rules of play at 7:30 A.M. and bracket line ups, it kicked off at 8:00 and ended at 1:30 P.M. wherein a dozen of us hit Professor’s sandwich shop and raised their water consumption bill for the month. It was evident that all those at the table were obviously more fit than this writer and declined the offer of ibuprofen tablets.
But in all seriousness, the event was so well enjoyed by the players and observers that appeals were made to the Hays Rec Commission to have another tournament sooner than later. This first one in Hays, was organized, staffed for the occasion and exceeded all expectations. The variety of programs for all ages makes this venue a draw to Hays and Ellis County and gives the community a big example of the quality of life we enjoy here and our tax dollars well spent.
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The Department of History at Fort Hays State University presented seven papers at the 2019 Kansas Association of Historians Conference in Manhattan.
Students and faculty attended and presented at the conference, with two students earning awards.
Students who presented are listed in alphabetical order.
Randy Gonzales, Hays history graduate student, presented “Newspaper Coverage of Kansas ‘Fitter Families,’ ” which won the award for Best Graduate Paper.
Carly Kauffman, Hays history graduate student, presented “Racial and Ethnic Implications in Rorschach Tests.”
Trevor Leverett, Sublette history graduate student, presented “The Black Fist of Freedom: The Growth of Black Power and FBI Intervention,” which tied for first place in the Undergraduate Paper Award.
Jordan Stevens, Wichita sophomore majoring in history, presented “There’s Something Happening Here: American Protest Songs of the Vietnam War.”
Faculty who presented were:
Dr. John Mack, FHSU Virtual College professor of history, presented “Selling a Mythical Past: Fred Harvey and the Spectacle of the American Southwest.”
Hollie Marquess, instructor of history, presented “Drue Leyton Tartiere’s Resistance Efforts to Aid Allied Aviators in Occupied France.”
Dr. Kim Perez, associate professor of history, presented “‘Hoover’s Silent Partner’: Lou Henry and Herbert Hoover’s Collaboration on the Translation of De Re Metalica.”
Additionally, Dr. Marco Macias, assistant professor of history, Dr. Juti Winchester, assistant professor of history, Marquess and Perez served as chairs for different sessions held throughout the conference.
“Overall the 2019 KAH Conference was a success,” said Marquess. “The History Department is so proud of our students who participated in the conference, presented their work and won awards. Their dedication and level of scholarship produced is something for which they deserve recognition.”
Mark Scheetz, 30, Lansing, faces two counts of rape and two counts of aggravated criminal sodomy. The Kansas Attorney General’s Office filed the charges last week in Norton County District Court. His bond is set at $500,000.
Charging documents say Scheetz had sex with a child under the age of 14 several years ago while he was living in Norton County.
The Kansas City, Kansas, district has its own police department. The school district said last week that it placed Scheetz on administrative leave pending the results of the investigation.
Before coming there, Scheetz worked for the Sheridan County Sheriff’s Office from 2016 to 2018.
The Hays Area Chamber of Commerce will host a Legislative Coffee Saturday, April 6 in the Fort Hays State University Memorial Union Stouffer Lounge from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Guests will include First District Congressman Roger Marshall (R-Great Bend), and Kansas state legislators Sen. Rick Billinger (R-Goodland), Rep. Barbara Wasinger (R-Hays), Rep. Ken Rahjes (R-Agra), and Rep. Leonard Mastroni (R-La Crosse).
Light pastries and beverages will be provided.
There is no charge for the event and the public is encouraged to attend.
