The annual Adult Prom will raise money for the Hays Accessible Recreation Complex, a project being led by ARC of Central Plains.
The fourth-annual event will be Friday, Oct. 12, at the Rose Garden Banquet Hall, 2350 E. Eighth.
Audrey Werth, Hays Area Young Professionals member, said of the park “We just see the benefit it is going to bring for the entire community, especially for those who it is targeted for — kids with disabilities and really people of all ages who will be able to use it. We just want to be a part of the community, so any way we can help, we want to do that.”
This year’s theme is “ARC Across the Sky.” This brings together the elements of a starry night and the ARC fundraising effort.
The event includes a social hour from 6 to 7 p.m., dinner from 7 to 8 p.m. and dance from 8 p.m. to midnight.
Hays Area Young Professionals is sponsoring the event; however, it is open to the public (21 and older). Tickets are $30 per person. Table reservations can be made for tables of six.
Tickets are on sale through Sept. 27 at the following locations: Hays Area Chamber of Commerce (2700 Vine), Platinum Group (116 E. 11th) and The ARC (600 Main).
Although many will be wearing formal attire, you do not have to rent a tux or wear a formal dress to attend.
“It can be as big as you want to make it,” Werth said. “Just have fun with it.”
GOVE COUNTY— One person died in an accident just before 8p.m. Saturday in Gove County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1999 Toyota Corolla driven by Rayette Santillan, 44, Oklahoma City, OK, was eastbound on Intestate 70 just east of Campus Road.
The vehicle briefly entered the median, came back onto the roadway and the driver over-corrected and exited the roadway to the right.
The vehicle entered the south ditch, overturned and came to rest on its roof.
Santillan was pronounced dead at the scene and transported to Baalmann Mortuary. She was wearing a seat belt, according to the KHP.
SCOTT CITY – Live snakes, shotgun and BB gun instruction, and 3-D target archery shooting are all on the agenda for the 2018 Southwest Kansas Youth Day at Historic Lake Scott State Park on Sunday, Sept. 23. All youth ages 16 and younger are invited to enjoy the outdoor skills instruction and demonstrations from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Historic Lake Scott State Park is located 11 miles north of Scott City, 101 West Scott Lake Drive, 67817.
Lunch will be provided, and registered participants will get a free event t-shirt.
A variety of prizes will be given away during the day, including mentored hunts, shotguns and pellet guns for youth ages 9-16, and a separate set of prizes for youth ages 9 and younger.
For more information, and to register for this event, contact Manuel Torres at (620) 966-8570 or by e-mail at [email protected].
The event is made possible by Extreme Fowl, Pheasants Forever and the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism.
The Hays USD 489 school board will meet in a special session at 7 a.m. Monday at the Rockwell Administration Center for an executive session to discuss teacher negotiations.
USD 489 has concluded negotiations with SEIU, its custodian’s union, but has yet to approve an agreement with the Hays NEA.
Click to expandBeginning Monday, the City of Hays, in cooperation with Ellis County Public Works will be doing chip seal at various locations throughout the city.
The chip seal treatment is a spray applied polymerized oil followed immediately by small rock chips. Traffic will be limited during a very short period of time when the streets are being sealed. Vehicles must not be parked on the street prior to chip sealing, and the street should not be wet, so sprinkler systems should not spray on the street prior to chip sealing.
The map above is preliminary and may be subject to weather, mechanical failures, or other production issues; therefore, adjacent property owners will be notified prior to sealing of the streets. The work is estimated to be completed in two days, weather permitting.
Signs will be in place to direct the traveling public. The traveling public should use caution and avoid driving in the wet oil. The construction is in relation to 2018 street maintenance projects.
For more information, call the Public Works Department at (785) 628-7350.
NASA astronaut Nick Hague currently is at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, with his crewmate Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos. They will launch from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on the Russian Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft at 4:39 a.m. (2:39 p.m. Baikonur time) Oct. 11. They are scheduled to return to Earth in April.
Hague is a native of Hoxie, Kansas, and a colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He is part of the 2013 NASA astronaut class and will be the first of his class to go to space. Prior to his selection, he was part of the Air Force Fellows program in Washington, where he worked as an adviser to the U.S. Senate on matters of national defense and foreign policy.
Hague earned a bachelor’s degree in astronautical engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and a master’s degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.
After a six-hour journey to orbit, Hague and Ovchinin will arrive at the station and join fellow NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor, Expedition 57 Commander Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency), and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos, bringing the station’s crew complement to five.
During a planned six-month mission, station crew members will take part in about 250 research investigations and technology demonstrations not possible on Earth to advance scientific knowledge of Earth, space, physical and biological sciences. Science conducted on the space station continues to yield benefits for humanity and will enable future long-duration human and robotic exploration into deep space, including the Moon and Mars.
They’re also expected to be onboard the space station during the first uncrewed test flights of the SpaceX Crew Dragon and Boeing CST-100 Starliner as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, which will return astronaut launches to U.S. soil.
The natural aging process offers challenges to many people. While we know from listening to the news and our personal experiences, staying active is a key component in maintaining or regaining health. But if you have noticed that your strength, flexibility or balance isn’t what it used to be you may want to consider signing up for a strength training program I will be offering, beginning in October.
“Stay Strong, Stay Healthy” is designed to increase an aging adult’s access to a safe, structured, and effective strength training program. Over 8 weeks, participants learn exercises to improve their strength, flexibility, and balance. During each session, a prescribed set of 8 upper and lower body strengthening exercises are done along with warm-ups and cool-down stretches. Participants are made to feel comfortable regardless of their current fitness level so they can safely participate and gradually build the strength beneficial to health.
The 8-week program is set to begin Tuesday, October 23rd, and ends December 20th.It meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 – 11 am at the Great Bend Activity Center, 2715 18th Street. The registration fee is $20 and may be paid at the Cottonwood Extension District – Great Bend office, 1800 12th Street, by October 10th. The class size is limited so please enroll soon. When you register we will schedule a time for a pre-assessment to be completed.
K-State Research & Extension has partnered with Missouri Cooperative Extension to bring the Stay Strong, Stay Healthy program to our state. I am excited that the Great Bend Recreation Commission is allowing us to use their facilities and weights for these classes.
Call me if you have any questions about the “Stay Strong, Stay Healthy” workshop.
Donna Krug is the District Director and Family & Consumer Science Agent with K-State Research and Extension – Cottonwood District. You may reach her at: (620)793-1910 or [email protected]
John Richard Schrock is a professor at Emporia State University.While Asian Americans make up 5.2 percent of the U.S. population, they make up over 20 percent of the students in 23 of the most selective U.S. colleges, according to the September 14 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. This includes only Asian American students who are citizens and does not include nonresident international Asian students.
The academic accomplishment of Asian American students is impressive. Education idealists such as Lumina are pressing schools to increase college attendance and completion from the low 40 percent of high school graduates to 60 percent. But Asian American students have already surpassed that 60 percent college completion level.
Indeed, on all measurements of K–12 academic achievement across all 50 states, children of Asian descent consistently average higher. Labeled the “model minority,” they are often left off of subgroup comparisons because their performance as a minority is significantly greater than majority white students. Their performance is sometimes labeled the “model minority myth” since there are some Asian American students who do not score high. But distribution in academic performance is a bell curve and their curve is substantially higher than for any other racial or ethnic group. It is no myth. Asian culture values education more highly than do other ethnic groups.
California has a higher percentage of Asian American students (13.9%) than most states. In July of 1995, the University of California Board of Regents voted to eliminate affirmative action in university admissions, as reported in the August 4, 1995 Chronicle of Higher Education, A18. The number of Asian American students immediately increased. Affirmative action had clearly suppressed the Asian minority.
Today, while California’s Asian American population constitutes 13.9 percent, the percentages of Asian American students enrolled at California’s top colleges are as follows:
Cal Tech 40.7%
U.C. Berkeley 42.7%
U.C. Los Angeles 33.3%
Cal. State Long Beach 25.0%
Univ. Southern CA 24.5%
Harvey Mudd College 23.1%…and so on.
Affirmative action admission policies are still used in some states to provide greater diversity among minorities on campus, an educational benefit that was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court decision issued June 23, 2016 in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. That decision found that the race-conscious admissions program in use at the time by UT-Austin was lawful under the Equal Protection Clause.
The Court accepted the rationale for having a diversity of students, that included: “destruction of stereotypes,” promotion of “cross-racial understanding,” preparation of students for “an increasingly diverse workforce and society,” and cultivation of “leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry.” Data also showed that race-neutral use of academic criteria could not achieve this mix of students. The court also required ongoing “strict scrutiny” to ensure “…that race plays no greater role than is necessary to meet its compelling interest.”
Two weeks ago, the Department of Justice filed a brief supporting a lawsuit stating: “Harvard has failed to carry its demanding burden to show that its use of race does not inflict unlawful racial discrimination on Asian-Americans.” Harvard University is located in Massachusetts where Asian American students make up 6.1 percent of the state population but comprise 20.3 percent of Harvard’s undergraduates. Nevertheless, it is obvious from the earlier California data that, without affirmative action, Asian American students would make up an even higher portion of Harvard’s student body.
The U.S. Supreme Court recognized the difficulty of balancing the need for campus diversity with the need for fairness in admission to highly selective universities. That Fisher vote was split, with retired Justice Kennedy being the tie-breaking vote. While the country has been focused on the approval of a new Justice based on his views of Roe v. Wade, there is good reason to believe that if this lawsuit against Harvard is appealed to the Supreme Court, we could see the end of affirmative action.
John Richard Schrock is a professor at Emporia State University.
It was a breezy, but otherwise a pleasant day for a car show Saturday in Frontier Park.
The annual Thunder on the Plains car show attracted more than 180 cars, trucks and motorcycles.
“We are really happy with it,” said Jackie Lang, event volunteer, of the turnout. “This is the first time we have had it on our own.”
The event used to be downtown and co-sponsored with the Downtown Hays Development Corp.
Allen and Marie Leiker of Hays brought their 1959 Chevy Impala to the show.
Allen had a ’59 Impala when he was in high school. During his Vietnam service, he asked his father to sell the car.
“It took me 40 more years to find another one and bring it home and restore it,” he said.
Allen has owned this Impala for about 10 years. Allen and Marie said they still enjoy driving the car.
“We have to cruise Main at least once,” Marie said when they take the car out for a spin.
Thunder on the Plains is one of about six or seven car shows the Leikers attend with the Impala every year, but they said they particularly enjoy bring the Impala out for Thunder on the Plains.
Harold Kraus of Hays attended the car show with his son who brought a 1952 International truck and Whizzer bike that had belonged to Harold when he was younger.
The truck belonged to Pete Johnson. Harold’s son bought the truck from him. The truck was still remarkably preserved and required little restoration, Kraus said.
Kraus said he remembered Johnson using the truck. He put a hitch on it and pulled it from field to field behind a tractor so he would have transportation.
“But I don’t think Pete went over 30 miles per hours,” Krasu joked.
THOMAS COUNTY — One person was injured in an accident just after 10:30p.m. Saturday in Thomas County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a John Deere Tractor pulling a Landoll trailer and driven by Robert K. Schroeder, 26, Colby, was northbound on County Road 15 four miles west of Kansas 25.
The tractor ran off the road to the left and the driver was ejected.
Schroeder was transported to Citizen’s Medical Center.
By CRISTINA JANNEY
Today
