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T HURSDAY
VOLUME 17, N UMBER 6
T HURSDAY, J ULY 10, 2008
W INNER OF THE K ANSAS G AS S ERVICE
E XCELLENCE I N E DITORIAL W RITING
2006 K ANSAS P ROFESSIONAL
C OMMUNICATORS P HOTO E SSAY AWARD
2006 K ANSAS P ROFESSIONAL
C OMMUNICATORS E DITORIAL AWARD
W INNER OF THE K ANSAS P RESS
A SSOCIATION A DVERTISING AWARD
Judge Wilson’s Redevelopment
Decision Will Be Appealed
They will be riding high at the Kaw Valley Rodeo
Kaw Valley Rodeo
Explodes July 24-26
There will be guaranteed unpredictable “EXPOLSIVE” action,
“ROCKIN’” sound and a new digital
flashing scoreboard at 33rd Annual
Kaw Valley Rodeo, July 24, 25 & 26
at Wells Arena in Cico Park,
Manhattan during the Riley County
Fair. This ProRodeo event is presented by Briggs GMC. PRCA rodeo
clown “Boom Boom” Johnson will
entertain the crowds each night with
his dynamite antics.
Performances begin at 8:00 each
night, where rough riding cowboys of
the Professional Rodeo Cowboys
Association (PRCA) will be challenged by the rank stock from the
Rafter H Rodeo Company in bull riding, saddle bronc riding and bareback
riding events. Timed event contestants will face the clock with team roping, tie-down roping, steer wrestling
and Women’s Professional Rodeo
Association (WPRA) barrel racing.
Bullfighters Andy North and Josh
Rivinius return to protect the bull riders’ eight-second rides.
Rodeo
Announcer Dr. Lynn Phillips will
cover the action from the crow’s nest.
For additional color and pageantry the
Prairie Dusters mounted drill team
from Phillipsburg will perform at each
performance.
Each rodeo performance will feature rodeo events for kids! Always a
crowd-pleaser, McDonald’s wild and
wooly Mutton Bustin’ is open each
night to little cowpokes ages 5-7 (no
more than 60 pounds). Sign-up
begins each night at 6:30 p.m. at the
main entrance at the rodeo arena (SW
corner). Parent’s signature required!
No early sign-ups. For the older
wranglers a calf scramble is open to 78 year olds on Thursday night, 9-10
year olds on Friday night and 11-12
year olds on Saturday night. No signup required.
The Kaw Valley Rodeo is a participating rodeo in the third Kansas
Lottery Championship Rodeo Series.
The Kansas PRCA rodeos that make
up the membership of the Kansas
Association of Rodeo Committees
(KARC) encourage all ProRodeo contestants to enter their rodeos and win
points for year-end prizes. The Kansas
Lottery supports the series. These
KARC committees work together to
promote rodeo and preserve our
American western heritage.
Thursday night the Riley County Fair,
Kaw Valley Rodeo and the Manhattan
Area Chamber of Commerce are hosting
a Military Family Night. The planned
event is free entry by ticket only. A picnic will be provided by McAlister’s Deli
and Pepsi of Manhattan. Rodeo tickets
are compliments of Dick Edwards Ford
and Best Buy. Military families are invited to come enjoy the Riley County Fair
and ProRodeo! Contact your ISG or
CSM to reserve tickets or stop by the
Manhattan Chamber of Commerce
Office at 501 Poyntz Ave. to pick up tickets. Call 785-776-8829 ext. 228 for
details. Retired and active military personnel are also offered $5 general admission tickets (good for any night) purchased at ITR on Ft. Riley.
Thursday night is KIDS NIGHT at the
rodeo. Kids (12 and under) get in FREE
on THURSDAY NIGHT with non-perishable food donations brought to the
rodeo. All donations benefit the Flint
Hills Breadbasket. Donations can also be
dropped off at the Breadbasket, 905
Yuma or at Dillons West Saturday, July
19 from 9 a.m. to noon. Kids tickets to
the Thursday’s performance will be
available at those locations as well. The
Manhattan Little Apple Optimists will
also be giving t-shirts to kids 4-18 years
of age. Their promotion of Tobacco
Prevention and Health Education supports their mission of “BRINGING OUT
THE BEST IN KIDS!”
Friday is “Tough Enough to Wear
Pink” (TETWP) night at the rodeo. The
Kaw Valley Rodeo joins the western
rodeo community to raise awareness and
funds for the fight against breast cancer!
Funds raised by the Kaw Valley Rodeo,
including a portion of Friday night’s ticket sales, will benefit the Terry C. Johnson
Basic Cancer Research Center at KState. Activities include a balloon launch,
t-shirts sales, and passing of PINK collection boots. More information on the
center’s work is available at www.kstate.edu/cancer.center PACK IT WITH
PINK on Friday!
Friday night at 7:00 p.m. the Kaw
Valley Special Rodeo will feature area
children with special needs pardnerin’ up
with cowboys, clowns and rodeo queens
to participate in some serious rodeo fun.
Unique rodeo events designed for these
special cowboys and cowgirls will
include a flag race on a real horse and
taking an eight-second ride on a handrocked bucking bull. Gentle horses and
experienced staff and volunteers from
Hope Ranch Therapeutic Riding
Center will be lending a hand.
www.hoperanchks.org These special
rodeos are presented at many rodeos
across the country providing an
opportunity for contestants to give
back to the rodeo communities. Don’t
miss this touching event.
Additional pre-rodeo activities
include the Kaw Valley Junior Rodeo,
“The Coolest Rodeo in Town”,
Saturday, July 19 at the Manhattan
Town Center. Children 10 years and
under compete in fun rodeo events.
Registration begins at “high noon”
(that’s 12:00 noon in cowboy lingo) in
center court. FREE rodeo tickets to
all participants. Smokey Bear will be
there to meet everyone. This Junior
Rodeo event is hosted by Midland
Exteriors and Affordable Electric.
The public is also invited to attend
the Kaw Valley Rodeo Fundraiser
Auction on Sunday, July 20, 7:00 p.m.
at R.C. McGraw’s. The auction will
feature silent and live auctions. Area
friends and businesses have provided
a wide selection of items up for bid.
Funds raised assure quality family
entertainment during the Riley
County Fair and assist in maintaining
Wells Arena, providing a safe equestrian facility for 4-H Clubs, the KState Rodeo Team, youth groups and
the general public. A special item to
be auctioned is a TETWP trophy
buckle.
Prudential Copeland Company &
Realtors, 601 S. 5th Street, Manhattan
is the Kaw Valley Rodeo Ticket
Headquarters. The ticket headquarter
will have general admission and
reserve tickets. For ticket information
call 785-539-1463.
Advanced ticket prices are reserved
$8 ($10/gate), general admission $6
($7/gate) and children 12 and under
$3.50 ($4/gate). Rodeo tickets are
available in Manhattan-Prudential
Copeland Company & Realtors,
Dara’s Fast Lanes, RB Outpost,
Dillons Stores, Orschlens, Lee’s
Western Wear, Manhattan Town;
Junction City-Dillons, Orschlens;
Wamego-Vanderbilts, Ft. Riley-ITR,
Riley-GTB Custom Meats. Group
ticket rates available on request. Go to
www.rileycountyfair.com for fair and
rodeo information.
Manhattan Citizens for Sustainable
Downtown Redevelopment (MCSDR)
and six other plaintiffs announced today
that they will appeal the district court
decision made last month by Judge
Meryl Wilson. Judge Wilson ruled in
favor of the City of Manhattan and DialManhattan, LLC. MCSDR’s attorney,
Ronald Schneider, filed the appeal on
behalf of the plaintiffs.
“The appeal does not prevent the redevelopment from progressing,” said
Marolyn Caldwell, chair of MCSDR.
“However, we did not want to see this
case set a precedent for allowing governmental entities to be both developer and
zoning decision-maker with no oversight.”
MCSDR’s lawsuit alleged that the
amendment to the PUD was unreasonable, that City Commissioners had
improper ex parte communications and
failed to disclose those communications,
that City Commissioners prejudged the
amendment, and that the City failed to
provide for the protest period after the
January 7, 2008 Planning Board meeting
as provided per state statute.
When MCSDR filed the lawsuit their
primary goal was to overturn the amendment and cause Dial and Hy-Vee to build
a store no greater than 68,000 sq ft in
size, rather than a store that eventually
could be greater than 98,000 sq ft in size.
Judge Wilson’s ruling in favor of the City
created different concerns for MCSDR
Some utilite work has started in the redevelopment area.
and the other plaintiffs.
“Judge Wilson’s ruling undermines the
quasi-judicial process as our community
has come to understand it,” said Debbie
Nuss, MCSDR representative. “In effect
the ruling says that the decisions of the
Planning Board are irrelevant, that community input is not meaningful or important, and that the process can be manipulated so that the ends justify the means.”
In filing the appeal, MCSDR hopes
that the appellate court will not only
overturn the district court ruling, and
thus the amendment to the PUD, but that
a ruling in their favor will also re-establish the integrity of the quasi-judicial
process.
Concerned citizens formed MCSDR
following the City Commission’s
January 2008 decision to approve the
amendment to the north end development
PUD.
Pat Bosco Named Vice President
By Cheryl May
KSU News Service
In a move to gain more efficiency
within Kansas State University’s internal
reporting structure, Pat Bosco will
become the vice president for student life
and dean of students July 7.
The announcement, from K-State
President Jon Wefald and Bob Krause,
vice president for institutional advancement and director of intercollegiate athletics, recognizes Bosco’s long history of
effective service to K-State.
From his days as student body president to the present time — more than 30
years later — Pat Bosco has had a positive impact on Kansas State University,
Wefald said.
“K-State has long had a tradition of
‘putting students first’ and Pat Bosco has
been the lead person in developing many
of the programs, activities and administrative areas which support this tradition,” Wefald said. “I am confident he
will continue to further develop the
importance of our student life programs
on and off campus.”
“Pat has done an outstanding job as
associate vice president for institutional
advancement and dean of student life
over these past 22 years,” Krause said.
“This change in title consolidates all the
student life programs under Pat who will
report to the president through my
office.”
In April, Krause assumed additional
responsibilities for administering intercollegiate athletics at K-State. This
change is one of the ways K-State is
maximizing efficiency in institutional
advancement.
“This move consolidates all of the student life programs into one unit which,
among other things, will facilitate planning for the transition of career and
employment services and counseling
services to Memorial Stadium,” Wefald
said. “It also streamlines the direct
reporting relationships to Bob Krause
which will allow him to better focus his
time on institutional priorities and coordinate the various activities of the
Alumni Association, the Kansas State
University Foundation, athletics, student
life and various external university constituencies.”
Bosco’s involvement with student
recruitment reversed a trend of declining
enrollment at K-State during the early
1980s, and his work has sparked
unprecedented growth at a time when
universities are fighting cutbacks of
many kinds, Krause said.
He has more than 30 years experience
in leadership training, student government advising, campus union programming, residence hall staff training and
Greek affairs in both a community college and major university setting. His
demonstrated commitment to these areas
is expressed in the many keynotes, workshops, conferences and consulting opportunities he engages in each year.
Bosco received his doctorate in higher
educational administration from the
University of Nebraska in 1982; his mas-
ter of science in educational administration from Kansas State University in
1973; and his bachelor of science in elementary education from K-State in 1971.
As an undergraduate, he served as the
Kansas State University student body
president from 1970-71. He is a member
of Delta Sigma Phi fraternity, Phi Delta
Kappa educational fraternity, Order of
Omega, and an honorary member of Blue
Key and Golden Key national honor
societies.
Bosco received the 2000 Excellence in
Dedication Award from the Kansas City
Alumni Club for his quarter century of
administrative service to the university.
He is also a recipient of numerous service and leadership awards including the
Kansas State University Service to
Students Award, the Excellence in
Dedication Award, and the Alumni
Distinguished Service Award from his
fraternity. He has served on the board of
directors of several national, state and
local community volunteer agencies.
K-State alumni named a freshman
scholarship in his honor, and each spring
the College of Education’s department of
leadership studies and programs recognizes an undergraduate as the Pat J.
Bosco Outstanding Student Leader.
He is an associate professor (adjunct)
in the department of educational administration and leadership, College of
Education, and has taught undergraduate
and graduate courses in the areas of leadership and volunteerism at K-State for
the past 20 years.
Art Nominations Wanted
For Kansas Sampler Contest
The Kansas Sampler Foundation
announced that they are now taking
nominations for art for the next 8
Wonders of Kansas contest.
Nominations will be taken through
July and can be submitted online at
8wonders.org or sent to 978 Arapaho
Road, Inman, KS 67546.
Art is the second of eight rural culture elements that will be showcased
in the 8 Wonders contests. The
architecture contest was completed
June 30 and results are posted at
8wonders.org. After a four-month
focus on art, the elements of commerce, cuisine, customs, geography,
history, and people will each be featured. The overall 8 Wonders of
Kansas were announced by
Governor Sebelius on Kansas Day,
January 29, 2008.
Nominations must have physical
evidence that is publicly accessible
to the public. For instance, a nomination for artist Birger Sandzen
would include the Sandzen Gallery
in Lindsborg. The nomination
description should include reasons
why the nominee is unique to Kansas
or the midwest. Foundation director
Marci Penner said, “We’re not just
looking for a great art gallery, for
example, but one that can distinguish
itself with characteristics that are
unique to any other art gallery in the
state.”
The Inman-based Foundation has
long used the eight elements to help
see a community with new eyes. The
series of contests are designed to
educate the public about what there
is to see and do in Kansas and to
encourage travel.
The Soldiers Medal was awarded to Spc. Darrell Dressler July 7 by Maj. Gen. Robert Durbin, commanding general 1st Infantry Division and Fort Riley, for extraordinary heroism. Dressler rescued two
people from a train derailment on Fort Riley May 6, 2007. (Photo By: Spc. Francisca Vega)
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MANHATTAN FREE PRESS - THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2008
Obituaries
Sally Dickens
Sally C. Dickens, 80, of
Manhattan died Sunday afternoon,
July 6 at her residence at St. Joseph
Village in Manhattan, Kan.
The cause was complications from
Parkinson’s disease.
Mrs. Dickens was born Sarah Jane
Cuykendall on May 23, 1928 in
Wichita, Kan, the daughter of
Murray and Nira (Webster)
Cuykendall. She was a graduate of
Wichita East High School in 1946
and attended Wichita University.
On November 7, 1953, she was
married to Ralph A. Dickens in
Wichita. She later lived in St. Paul,
Minn.; Denver, Colo.; North Little
Rock, Ark.; Tarzana, Calif., and
Ocean Springs, Miss., while following her husband’s career as a technical writer/editor. Her professional
career was in medical administration
and included working in both private
practices and hospitals.
Following her retirement, Mrs.
Sally Dickens
Dickens and her husband moved
from Ocean Springs, Miss., where
they lived for 23 years, to Manhattan
in 1994. They were married for 51
years until Mr. Dickens’ death in
2005.
Mrs. Dickens was a member of St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church in
Manhattan, where she was active in
the church’s Episcopal Church
Women (ECW) and the Altar Guild
and also volunteered in the church’s
Encore thrift shop. She was also a
member of the Order of the
Daughters of the King, a spiritual sisterhood dedicated to a life of prayer
and service.
Mrs. Dickens was also a member
of the women’s auxiliary of the
American Legion and VFW posts in
Manhattan. Her hobbies included
reading, music and miniatures.
Mrs. Dickens is survived by two
sons: Patrick M. Dickens and his
wife, Anne, of Lafayette, La.; and
Michael C. Dickens and his wife,
Jodi Williamschen, of Oakland,
Calif.; two grandsons: Murray
Dickens and Walker Dickens, both of
Lafayette, La.; brother-in-law Robert
L. Dickens and sister-in-law Marilyn
Dickens, both of Manhattan; and
cousins Maxine Howard of
Gaithersburg, Md., and Deborah
Howard of Derwood, Md.
The family will receive friends and
family during a visitation from 7-8
p.m. on Wednesday, July 9 at the
Yorgensen-Meloan-Londeen Funeral
Home in Manhattan.
Funeral services will be held 10:00
a.m. on Thursday, July 10th at St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church in
Manhattan with The Reverend
Thomas Miles officiating. Interment
will follow in the Valley View
Memorial Gardens Cemetery east of
Manhattan.
Online condolences may be left for
the family through the funeral home
website, www.ymlfuneralhome.com,
and at [email protected].
In lieu of flowers, the family
requests memorials to St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church in Manhattan.
Contributions may be left in care of
the
Yorgensen-Meloan-Londeen
Funeral Home, 1616 Poyntz Avenue,
Manhattan, Kansas 66502.
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Sebelius Is The Key Player On Abortion
By JOHN HANNA
AP Political Writer
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ Numerous
political debates and legal disputes
involving abortion providers continue to demonstrate that Gov. Kathleen
Sebelius is a key figure in all of
them.
True, the latest event last week
seemed removed from her. A grand
jury in Sedgwick County declined to
indict Dr. George Tiller, one of the
few U.S. physicians performing lateterm abortions.
But the grand jury said any indictment of Tiller is unlikely unless legislators rewrite a state law restricting
late-term procedures. That raised the
question of whether lawmakers
should rewrite the law _ and what
Sebelius, a strong abortion rights
advocate, would accept.
Abortion opponents consistently
argue the problem isn’t the law but
its enforcement. It’s not necessary to
take a position on that issue to conclude that Sebelius’ influence is significant.
She appoints members of the
board regulating doctors. A health
department under her direction
enforces reporting requirements.
She’s appointed the current attorney
general, and next year, four of the
seven state Supreme Court justices
will be her picks.
And in April 2007, Tiller attended
a reception at Cedar Crest, the governor’s residence, and photos show the
two of them shaking hands. Sebelius
and her staff say he won the right to
have the event in a group’s fundraising auction, but that didn’t lessen
abortion foes’ outrage.
`Ìt’s clear that she’s strongly
allied politically with Tiller, and
there’s no doubt in my mind that
she’s going to act to use the power of
the governor’s office in any way that
she can to protect him,’‘ said Rep.
Lance Kinzer, an anti-abortion
Olathe Republican.
Sebelius and her supporters dis-
Discovery
Center Open
House
An open house will be held on
Tuesday, July 22, 2008, regarding
the Flint Hills Prairie Discovery
Center. Members of the public are
invited to share ideas for the
Discovery Center which will be a
focal point in the City’s South End
Downtown Redevelopment Area.
The event starts at 7:00 p.m. in the
Large Assembly Room at Fire
Station Headquarters (2000 Denison
Avenue).
The open house will be conducted
by a team of nationally-recognized
museum planning experts who are
working with the City over the next
several months to develop a master
plan for the project. The plan will
cover the Discovery Center’s mission statement, exhibits, management structure, business plan, and
development strategy.
To receive future updates about the
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miss such comments. She said last
week that abortion opponents have
turned debates about state law into
``wide-based assaults on privacy
rights.’‘ (In legalizing some abortions across the nation in 1973, the
U.S. Supreme Court cited women’s
right to privacy.)
`Ì have not seen a bill hit my desk
in the years I have been governor
that hasn’t had serious constitutional
questions raised by a whole variety
of sources,’‘ she said.
This year, Sebelius vetoed a bill
imposing additional restrictions on
abortion providers and allowing lawsuits against them to block late-term
procedures. She vetoed measures
requiring additional reporting by
physicians in 2006 and 2007, and
new licensing requirements for clinics in 2003 and 2005.
But it’s not just legislative battles
frustrating abortion opponents.
The attorney general’s office is
pursuing 19 misdemeanor charges
against Tiller, alleging he failed to
get a second opinion on some lateterm procedures from an independent physician, as required by law. He
denies wrongdoing.
Abortion opponents believe the
attorney general’s office should be
pursuing Tiller more aggressively.
The case against Tiller was started
by former Attorney General Paul
Morrison, an abortion rights supporter. Many Democrats believed
Sebelius was instrumental in getting
Morrison to switch parties to run in
2006, when he ousted Phill Kline, an
anti-abortion Republican.
When Morrison was forced to
resign in January because of a sex
scandal, Sebelius appointed Steve
Six to replace him.
Abortion opponents’ frustration
with the attorney general’s office
under Morrison led them to pursue a
grand jury in Sedgwick County,
using a law that allows citizens to
circulate petitions to force one to
convene.
They believed, as Kline did, that
Tiller was performing late-term
abortions in violation of a state law
meant to limit them to medical emergencies. Morrison read the law more
narrowly than Kline did _ and the
grand jury’s reasoning was in line
with Morrison’s opinion.
Meanwhile, other agencies have a
role in regulating abortion providers.
Providers file reports on late-term
abortions with the Department and
Health and Environment, whose secretary is appointed by the governor.
Abortion foes believe physicians
should be _ and are _ required by law
to give the actual medical diagnosis
that warrants an abortion, rather than
the statement KDHE allows that a
woman’s health faces ``substantial
and irreversible’‘ harm if she does
not have one.
The State Board of Healing Arts
licenses doctors and has been
accused repeatedly by abortion foes
of lax regulation of abortion
providers, which it has denied. The
governor appoints its 15 members
and its former longtime executive
director was the husband of a
Sebelius aide.
And finally, there’s the Supreme
Court.
The court is hearing two lawsuits
over the custody of edited medical
records from about 90 patients’ files
from Tiller’s clinic and one operated
by Planned Parenthood in Overland
Park.
Kline, now Johnson County district attorney, has copies of Planned
Parenthood records. A Shawnee
County judge has custody of copies
of documents from both clinics. The
issue is whether they’re returned to
the clinics.
Sebelius has appointed three justices since taking office in January
2003. Two more were appointed by
her predecessor, Republican Bill
Graves, whom anti-abortion groups
saw as hostile to them.
Because of a mandatory retirement
law, Chief Justice Kay McFarland
cannot stand for retention this year
for another six-year term and will
leave office by January 2009. Her
replacement will be Sebelius’ fourth
appointment.
A nonpartisan commission will
screen applications and give Sebelius
three nominees. But the final choice
will be hers _ and it won’t be subject
to Senate confirmation, where abortion opponents could raise questions.
Thus, it’s not hard to see why abortion opponents believe much of state
government is aligned against them.
When they look for someone to
crack down on abortion providers,
they often find someone with a tie to
Sebelius.
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Letter To The Editor:
Editor
Back in the 1950’s, Popular
Science magazine ran an article
about a hydrogen powered tractor, as
I recall, it used a little Kerosene to
break the water down into hydrogen
and oxygen. It was the belief at the
time that it would be only a matter of
a few years before the hydrogen fuel
cell powered not only all of the automobiles and tractors but the homes
as well. Hint to inventors, all of that
technology is well out of patent and
into public domain.
Sixty years later, we are still driving vehicles powered by gasoline
and diesel. The internal combustion
engine was designed over 100 years
ago and is still only about 23% efficient, entirely unacceptable with $4
gas. Hydrogen is safer than gasoline
yet burns much hotter.
Hydrogen vehicles are now fairly
common; they have zero emissions,
they are the future. Hydrogen is possibly the most common element on
the planet and any school kid knows
that all it takes to make hydrogen is
water and DC voltage. That DC
voltage can come from wind, solar,
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biomass, coal, corn, any grain,
weeds, etc. It must certainly be a
more efficient use of our remaining
oil and natural gas than burning them
in an inefficient and polluting
engine. I have been told that there is
enough energy in a gallon of water to
propel a car across the country at 65
mph. lets find out.
The reason that we as a nation
have not embraced hydrogen, let
there be no doubt in your minds, is
that big coal and big oil have not
found a way to monopolize it.
The federal government has spent
millions to help big oil figure out a
way to control the distribution of
hydrogen. In the back of my mind I
recall that our government has even
allowed foreign interests to buy up
all of a certain element required for
fuel cells.
It is my feeling that their big worry
is that individuals, tired of high gas
prices will stumble onto the fact that
hydrogen is the future. In some
board room, it most probably has
already been decided that they must
keep the common man from developing a simple way to harvest and
transport hydrogen. They will have
determined that the government must
find a way to pass legislation that
will not allow the common person to
work with hydrogen, it may have
already been written. They will have
decided that in order to pass this legislation, they must create an event
that is so devastating that no one can
question the government’s actions.
They will have decided that the best
way to sell this legislation to the people is to create an event that is so
abhorrent that no one will question
the resulting legislation.
What kind of crisis will they create? Perhaps a playground or a
school with a convenient garage,
owned by a mad scientist, built too
close. The resulting explosion will
kill many children along with the
mad inventor who was working on a
hydrogen delivery system. The government will immediately step in and
confiscate all computers and documents, the garage and school will be
quickly bulldozed to the ground, and
a monument erected. The resulting
hue and cry will lead to legislation
that will bar forevermore the ability
of the common man to fiddle with
hydrogen, and all those children will
have been martyrs. Forevermore, on
the anniversary date, we will be
reminded about the dangers of
hydrogen, and how our legislators
have saved us from the crazy inventors and hydrogen technology will be
set back another 60 years.
Please urge your congressmen to
pass immediate legislation that forbids tinkering with hydrogen near
schools or churches or public gathering places. This legislation should
also require all inventors who work
with hydrogen to be registered with
the local fire marshal, and require
them to adhere to OSHA safety mandates, with hefty fines. This legislation should also contain a generous
prize for any inventor who is able to
get us into affordable hydrogen
power. Perhaps the cities could generate the hydrogen and we would fill
up our little hydrogen cars at the fire
house, the city makes the money and
our taxes lower. Hydrogen is transported all the time in semi’s; with
proper care it can be done. The technology is out there to fill a car with
water and generate the hydrogen as
needed for propulsion.
We must accept the fact that there
will be a few casualties as we enter
the hydrogen age, those who parish
from the occasional accident will be
heroes, with proper care we can keep
those to a minimum.
GM is struggling, why can’t they
get a multi million dollar grant to
build a cheap hydrogen car, or Ford,
or Chrysler, or some other AMERICAN owned company?
Are
American engineers up to this challenge?
We must abandon the engine as we
know it because it is too inefficient.
American citizens will gain from
hydrogen but who will lose; big oil,
big coal, the banks, all the politicians
who are owned by them, the NRC,
the electric companies, all the people
who make money from our sick children who have been sickened by air
pollution. A lot of money will be
spent to stop us from using hydrogen
fuel cells.
Hey, I was right about gambling in
Kansas. Remember, years ago I told
you the fix was in and that we would
get slots in Kansas and there wasn’t a
thing you could do to stop it? I’m
right about this too. Hydrogen fuel
cells are the solution and America
can still do it, with your help.
Mike Seymour
Council Grove
Blair And Passarelli Named Directors
By Stephanie Jacques
KSU News Service
John Blair, university distinguished professor of ecology, and
Lorena Passarelli, associate professor of molecular biology, have been
appointed associate directors of
Kansas State University’s Division
of Biology.
“The addition of Dr. Blair and Dr.
Passarelli as associate directors adds
outstanding teaching and research
achievements, as well as discipline
breadth, gender perspective and multicultural diversity to our administrative team,” said Brian Spooner, university distinguished professor and
director of the Division of Biology.
As associate directors, Blair will
focus on faculty development, while
Passarelli’s focus will be on student
development.
“I think having associate directors
that cover the breadth of disciplines
in biology is really important and I
am very excited about being able to
represent the ecology and evolutionary biology section of the Division of
Biology,” Blair said. “I look forward
to helping faculty members as they
establish and develop their careers,
and being able to contribute to the
continued growth of strong research
and teaching programs in the division.”
“I have been contributing to student development by encouraging
the involvement of students in
research, so this position expands
what I have been doing and allows
me to develop new ideas for undergraduate and graduate students to
have a richer and broader education,”
Passarelli said.
Blair joined K-State in 1992. He
was named a university distinguished professor in 2006, K-State’s
highest faculty ranking. He also
serves as the Edwin G. Brychta
Professor of Biology. He has been
recognized for his teaching with the
William L. Stamey Outstanding
Undergraduate Teaching Award from
K-State’s College of Arts and
Sciences.
Blair’s research interests are on the
influence of physical and biological
drivers on ecological processes and
how ecosystems respond to changes
in those drivers as a result of human
activities. Since 2002, Blair has
brought in almost $7 million to KState as the principal investigator for
multiple projects, as well as an additional $7 million in collaborative
funding as a co-principal investigator
during the same time frame.
His research work includes serving
as principal investigator and project
director of the National Science
Foundation-funded Konza Prairie
Long-Term Ecological Research
Program. He also is the principal
investigator
on
collaborative
research grants from the U.S.
Department of Energy’s National
Institute for Climate Change
Research, the U.S. Department of
Agriculture and the National Science
Foundation. Blair has been leading
Business Booms
In Kansas Oil Town
By PHYLLIS JACOBS GRIEKSPOOR
The Wichita Eagle
SPIVEY, Kan. (AP) _ Almost nobody
lives here.
There is no cafe, no gas station, no
bank, no church, no school.
But Kansas 42 through town is
bustling with traffic, and people come
and go from the 10 or 12 businesses scattered around the center of town.
Spivey is an oil patch town. It once
had all of the things associated with
small towns _ a bank, two or three
churches, a grade school and a high
school.
All those things are gone, but the companies that supply materials and services
to the oil fields that surround Spivey
remain. And others, like Sunrise Oilfield
Supply, have chosen to relocate here.
That’s because Spivey is more or less
in the center of one of the oldest and
most productive oilfield areas in Kansas.
So getting to customers in the field is
easier than it would be from a larger
nearby town.
That has made Spivey one of the most
durable little towns in Kansas history.
Founded as a railroad town in 1897,
Spivey flourished until the end of the rail
boom and the arrival of the Great
Depression. After that, it survived
because of the discovery of oil.
Over the years, the oil industry has had
its ups and downs. But the steady production near Spivey has kept the need for
oilfield services alive.
Marci Penner, executive director of the
Kansas Sampler Foundation, says Spivey
is unique among tiny Kansas towns.
There are 55 towns smaller than Spivey _
which has a population of about 70 _ and
a few more unincorporated crossroads.
Most other tiny towns are simply
enclaves of housing filled with people
who work in nearby larger towns.
``But Spivey is definitely unique for
the scope of its daytime business,’‘
Penner said.
The current boom in the oil industry
has brought more business for existing
service companies in Spivey and opportunities for new ones such as Sunrise,
which makes, sells and services compressors.
``Spivey is much closer to the customers we have for our products,’‘ said
Jeff Base, who oversees the manufacturing operation for Sunrise. ``So we moved
it here from Ness City.’‘
The result is a thriving business at the
town’s post office, considerable traffic
and activity in town during business
hours _ and utter quiet when night falls.
Grady Webb is one of the 70 or so people who live in the 37 households in
Spivey, which once had a population of
900.
He says he loves the quiet and doesn’t
mind that he has to drive to Kingman or
Attica for the services normally associated with living in town.
`Ì’m used to it,’‘ said Webb, who has
worked in the oilfield business for 30
years and is now one of about 20
employees at Abe’s Oilfield Service.
`Ìt’s not a lot different than living on
the farm.’‘
Most of the 200 or so people who
work at the oilfield companies in Spivey
pack a lunch because there is no place to
eat in town. Webb says he goes home to
eat unless his job takes him out into the
field.
``There’s a little lunch place over at
Zenda, but they are only open on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday,’‘ he said.
Marvin Miller has a long history in
Spivey. He founded the town’s oldest
company, Spivey Oilfield Services,
which he sold several years ago. He now
owns Jayhawk Supply, another longtime
company.
Miller doubts that the town will
change much as a result of the current
boom in oil.
He said he thinks there will be enough
oilfield activity to sustain the town’s
service companies for years to come, but
doubts that people will return to live
there.
the regional planning for the
National Ecological Observatory
Network, a National Science
Foundation-sponsored research plan
being proposed to the U.S. Congress
that includes K-State’s Konza Prairie
Biological Station as a candidate
core site for implementing a major
new national research and educational program.
Blair received his doctorate from
the University of Georgia in 1987.
Passarelli joined K-State in 2001
and has been recognized with many
top teaching and research awards,
including being the first recipient of
K-State’s Presidential Distinguished
Faculty Award for the Mentoring of
Undergraduate Students in Research
in 2007. She also has received KState’s Commerce Bank Presidential
Faculty Award for Distinguished
Services
to
Historically
Underrepresented Students, the H.
Henley
Haymaker
Teaching
Excellence Award, the William L.
Stamey Outstanding Undergraduate
Teaching Award, Biology Graduate
Student Association’s Outstanding
Graduate Faculty Award and a
Faculty Scholar Award from the
Kansas
IDeA
Network
of
Biomedical Research Excellence.
Passarelli currently serves as chair
of the College of Arts and Sciences
Committee on Diversity and as a
member of the editorial board of the
journal Virology.
She is the principal investigator of
active National Institutes of Health
and U.S. Department of Agriculture
individual research grants on viral
gene regulation and pathogenesis.
Her research interests are in molecular virology; specifically, she studies
gene regulatory circuits in insect
viruses and how insect viruses and
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Passarelli received her Ph.D. from
The University of Georgia in 1993.
“Professors John Blair and Lorena
Passarelli have impressive research,
teaching and service achievements,
and will contribute to an expansion
of the Division of Biology focus on
faculty and student development programs. It is with pleasure that Dave
Rintoul, senior associate director,
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administrative team,” Spooner said.
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Thoughts
From The
Prairie
Country Preacher
Have you ever been to Someday Isle?
Like, someday I’ll write a book about my
dad. I realize Father’s Day is passed, but
it seemed timely to get started with the
introduction what with all the interest
these days in books about fathers, such as
Obama’s “Dreams from My Father” and
McCain’s “Faith of My Fathers.” I was
intrigued by William Bennett’s comment
regarding lessons from Faith of My
Fathers. He wrote, “And the greatest
freedom and human fulfillment comes
from engaging in a noble enterprise, larger than oneself. Faith of My Fathers
teaches deep truths that are valid in any
age-but truths that warrant special attention in our own.”
I don’t recall Dad lecturing about
noble enterprises, yet as I read Bennett’s
comment, it sounded like Dad’s life. So,
in this brief writ, I pay honor and respect
to my father and share some of the lessons from his life that shaped my life. As
I look back down the path along which I
meandered, I have a different perspective
than that which I had growing up. My
dad was a strict disciplinarian and ardent
believer in taking personal responsibility
for one’s own affairs and the welfare of
one’s family. This fact was indelibly
imprinted upon my life by an incident
that happened when I was about 10. We
were a family of eight and lived on a 93acre farm in the Appalachian Mountains.
We raised almost all our food. Our
clothes were homemade or from the catalogue, often patched, but always clean,
at least in the morning.
On day a young man showed up in a
suit carrying a briefcase. Dad invited him
to sit on the porch so I hid under the
porch to listen. I got real excited when
the young man told Dad he had come to
sign him up for a monthly relief check
since our cash income was below the
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line. Dad was silent as the young man
expounded on the virtues of the county
helping those who were less fortunate.
Finally Dad spoke: “Now young man, I
appreciate the trouble you went to to
come all the way up here, but you must
have noticed that my kids are well fed
and have on clean clothes. We won’t be
needing any help from the county.” My
heart sank as the dream of candy and new
shoes faded.
The young man persisted, but after
Dad’s third refusal to sign the paper, I
knew a storm was brewing. Finally, I
heard Dad get up and say, “Now, young
whipper snapper, I have told you three
times I don’t need your help. I am going
into the house and when I get back, you
ought to be gone!” I can only imagine
what the young man thought, but stories
of mountain men and their shotguns were
plentiful. Anyway, I peeked out from
under the porch to see the young man
leap over the gate and head down the
holler at a rather fast gallop!
Dad always said God’s first commandment was to take care of what He created. He was recognized more than once
for being Conservationist of the Year.
Soon after the above incident, a man
showed up with an offer to buy our timber. Dad met the man out by the creek
and did not invite him in. You see his
company had bought my aunt’s timber
and stripped the hills in the process until
great landslides were everywhere. I
vividly remember the man saying, “I will
give you a quarter of a cent a foot on the
stump.” That sounded good to me, but
not to Dad who responded, “Mister, I saw
what you did to my sister’s land and I
wouldn’t have you set foot on my land
for a quarter of a cent a foot!” That was
that. We later harvested the mature timber ourselves with Dad operating the
sawmill.
Dad was an innovator. Mom and the
older children ran the farm while Dad
self-taught himself and became a graded
school teacher, then walked 20 miles to a
trade school to become a first class electrician when electricity came to our area.
Then one day Dad felt a higher calling
from his God and he self-taught himself
to be a pastor. There were numerous
churches up the various hollers, none
able to support a fulltime pastor, so Dad
became a “circuit riding, country preacher” in his Model “A”, making the rounds
to as many as seven churches every
month. His salary was a couple of chickens, or a ham, or a bushel of apples and
sometimes a few dollars from the offering plate.
Those were tough days but through the
lens of my memories, I still see the simple house by the creek with fruit trees all
around and smell the pungent sweet odor
of the rich soil in Mom’s garden and the
excitement of hearing the Model “A”
coming up the dirt road meaning Dad
was coming home. Maybe he’d have
time to play a little ball.
Every boy should have a dad who
loves him enough to teach him about
freedom at any cost and sacrifice when
necessary. Dad never lectured on vision,
he taught it by his life. Of the six children, one started a successful business
after high school, the other five received
college degrees followed by successful
careers. Regarding sacrifice, I found out
after Dad died that he had sold the family farm so my youngest sister and I could
finish college. Our little chunk of Prairie
is important to me, but the farm Dad sold
had been in the family for generations. A
great sacrifice. Thanks, Dad. I’ll pass on
the lessons.
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loss of friends, reputation, status, power,
possessions or, at the extremes, freedom
or life."
No
wonder
McCain
and
Schwarzenegger skipped it.
Moderate Republicans like McCain
have taken to heart liberals' admonition
that Ronald Reagan's appeal had
absolutely nothing to do with his conservative philosophy. Don't be like him!
You'll lose the soccer moms! Liberals
assure us that Reagan won landslide elections because Americans were mesmerized by his sunny disposition and corny
jokes. If that's true, why isn't Al Roker
president?
Ann
Coulter
McCain: Pump This!
Well, I guess we're all pretty relieved
we didn't drill in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge back in 2002. What a
disaster that would have been.
The vote on ANWR was almost entirely along partisan lines, with all
Republicans, except a handful of "moderates," voting for drilling, and all
Democrats, except a handful of sane
Democrats like Zell Miller, voting
against drilling.
John McCain opposed drilling in the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge because
he polled soccer moms and found out
they were against drilling. They thought
it sounded too much like going to the
dentist. McCain wanted to ensure that he
remained beloved by the two pillars of
his base: "centrists" and New York Times
reporters.
Even Sen. Chuck Hagel voted for
drilling in ANWR. But John McCain,
"our" candidate, voted against it.
I guess we're beginning to see the
problem of basing a political platform on
the passing fancies of "centrists." These
are people who have no opinions because
they know nothing about national issues.
They're the ones who check the "not
sure/no opinion" box on polls regarding
the legalization of cannibalism.
You can't blame them: They're not
being paid to know something about
national issues. Those people we call
"senators" and "representatives."
But now, astronomical gas prices have
forced even soccer moms to spend 10
minutes looking at a problem that their
leaders were supposed to be thinking
about for years. And the soccer moms are
saying: Drill! Drill! Drill! Bobby, come
down off of there! Stop hitting your sister! Where was I? Oh, yeah ... Drill!
Drill! Drill!
Consequently, McCain recently
switched his position to go along with the
centrists. See, that's the downside of having chosen all your political positions by
polling centrists: The moment they
acquire any knowledge, they'll realize
you're an idiot.
It's always the same argument. Year
after year, the "moderate Republicans" so
respected at The New York Times
harangue us to dump the Christians, the
Ann Coulter
conservatives, the Swift Boat Veterans,
the "right-wing extremists," the gun-andGod clingers and the fanatical pro-lifers
from our party so we can repel every
American who voted for Ronald Reagan
in order to win the votes of people like
Christine Todd Whitman.
Yes, by all means let's clear out all that
deadwood and pave the way for a 49state landslide! (For the Democrats.)
McCain followed the Times' strategy
to a T. He called Jerry Falwell an "agent
of intolerance." He called the Swift Boat
Veterans "dishonest and dishonorable."
He has denounced every Christian minister who tries to endorse him. Over the
years, McCain has ostentatiously
attacked every issue of importance to
conservatives and embraced every crackpot liberal idea, including the left's latest
plan to exterminate the human race,
called "global warming."
Two weeks ago, McCain skipped the
capitol prayer breakfast in California,
instead appearing with Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger at an environmental
event in nearby Santa Barbara.
Schwarzenegger's absence marked the
first time a governor skipped what has
come to be known as "the governor's
prayer breakfast." I guess in the world of
moderate Republicans an environmental
event qualifies as a religious observance.
The keynote speaker at the breakfast,
Hollywood producer Mark Joseph, quoted a recent cover article in Christianity
Today by professors Daniel Taylor and
Mark McCloskey that said:
"In premodern times, the courage of a
leader often had to be physical. In the last
500 years it is more often moral. Moral
courage is the ability to do what's right
even when it is deeply unpopular, even
dangerous. Courage is only found where
there is the genuine possibility of loss --
The irony is, the only people McCain
can count on to vote for him are the very
Republicans he despises -- at least those
of us who can get drunk enough on
Election Day to pull the lever for him. In
fact, we should organize parties around
the country where Republicans can get
drunk so they can vote for McCain. We
can pass out clothespins with his name as
a reminder and slogan-festooned vomit
bags. The East Coast parties can post the
number of drinks necessary for the task
to help the West Coast parties. For more
information,
go
to
getdrunkandvote4mccain.com.
Not being ignorant "centrists," we
know what a world-class disaster B.
Hussein Obama will be. Meanwhile, the
centrists McCain spent years impressing
with his outraged denunciations of conservatives, Swift Boat Veterans and
Christians will be voting for Obama.
They think he's cute.
How many times do we have to run
this experiment?
Taking the advice of Democrats,
Republicans ran "moderates" for president in 1944, 1948, 1976, 1992 and
1996. All lost. Republicans also ran a
"moderate" for president in 1988, but that
was unwittingly -- both to us and, fortunately, to the voters. In other words, in
the language of the market, the best tip
on "moderate Republicans" is: SELL!
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But now, apparently, we have to run
the experiment again. This year, moderate Republicans have hit the jackpot.
John McCain is the Platonic ideal of a
"moderate Republican."
To paraphrase Richard Nixon on
George McGovern in 1972: Here we
have a situation where moderate
Republicans finally have a candidate
who almost totally shares their views.
Now we'll see what the country thinks.
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GOVERNMENT
County Commission Minutes
Bob Newsome
Alvan Johnson
Thursday June 26, 2008
Riley County Commission Minutes
Approved as Amended The Board of
County Commissioners Of Riley
County, Kansas The Regular meeting
of the Board of County Commissioners
met at the Riley County Plaza East
Building June 26, 2008 with the following members present: Bob
Newsome, Chairman; Alvan Johnson,
Vice Chair; Mike Kearns, Member;
and Cindy Kabriel sitting in for Rich
Vargo, County Clerk.
8:30 Public Comment & Business
Meeting
Charlotte Shawver, Register of
Deeds; Joan Strickler, League of
Women Voters; Clancy Holeman,
Counselor/Director of Administrative
Services; Laurie Harrison, Assistant
Emergency Management Coordinator;
Shelly
Williams,
Director
of
Community
Corrections;
Gary
Rosewicz, Assistant County Engineer;
and Leon Hobson, Director of Public
Works/County Engineer, attended.
Harrison said P. Collins brought the
Riley County Debris Management
Plan to the commission in January.
Harrison said the Riley County Debris
Management Plan needs to be
approved by the Board of County
Commissioners, because the President
declared Riley County as a disaster
area from the tornado.
Harrison said this raises the reimbursement from 75% to 80%. Kearns
asked if Riley County can do an
amendment and if there are any costs
to Riley County. Harrison said an
amendment can be made and there are
no costs to Riley County. Kearns
moved to sign the Riley County Debris
Management Plan. Johnson seconded.
Carried 3-0.
Shepek said the State mileage rate
reimbursement went up to 50.5¢ a
mile. Shepek said by resolution Riley
County follows the State rate. Shepek
said starting July 1, 2008 Riley
County’s mileage rate reimbursement
will be 50.5¢. Johnson moved for
Riley County to follow the State rate of
50.5¢ per resolution starting July 1,
2008. Kearns seconded. Carried 3-0.
Kearns said Louis Hargrave said at
the north end of Fancy Branch Road
people are driving off a culvert trying
to turn around. Kearns said Hargrave
suggested placing something there so
they do not drive off the culvert.
Kearns said the commission received
an e-mail from naco stating naco has
launched two national green competitions for counties.
Kearns asked the commission if the
REACH Committee and Extension
could look into this program. The commission agreed Kearns could ask the
REACH Committee and Extension to
look into this program.
Johnson moved to approve the Sales
Order Agreement with Election
Systems & Software (ES&S) for election equipment for the Elections
Department in the amount of
$19,700.00. Kearns seconded. Carried
3-0.
Kearns moved to approve the
Renewal of Online Access Agreement
with Charlson and Wilson Bonded
Abstracters for the Register of Deeds’
Office. Johnson seconded. Carried 3-0.
with Alpha Title, LLC for the Register
of Deeds’ Office. Johnson seconded.
Carried 3-0.
with the Riley County Genealogical
Society for the Register of Deeds’
Office. Johnson seconded. Carried 3-0.
Johnson moved to approve a First
Addendum to Agreement for
Operation of the Riley County Transfer
Station with N. R. Hamm Quarry, Inc.
Kearns seconded. Carried 3-0.
Kearns moved to sign the Real
Estate Tax Roll Correction for the
Orlin G. & Sharon E. Fritzson Trust
(208-34-0-00-03-013.00-0) for tax
year 2007 as a result of a Payment
Under Protest with the County
Appraiser. This results in a decrease in
tax dollars of $139.54. Johnson seconded. Carried 3-0.
Mary M. Zoeller Trust (204-18-2-10017-013.00-0) for tax year 2007 as a
result of a Payment Under Protest with
the County Appraiser. This results in a
decrease in tax dollars of $96.54.
Johnson seconded. Carried 3-0.
Estate Tax Roll Correction for Mary
M. Zoeller (204-18-2-40-05-038.00-0)
for tax year 2007 as a result of a
Payment Under Protest with the
County Appraiser. This results in a
Zoeller Family LLC (Donald & Mary
Zoeller) (204-18-2-60-07-001.00-0)
Zoeller) (204-18-2-60-07-007.00-0)
Zoeller) (204-18-2-60-07-008.00-0)
for tax year 2007 as June 26, 2008. A
Mary M. Zoeller Trust (204-18-2-7004-001.00-0) for tax year 2007 as a
No action was required on the
Ogden Youth Center Line Adjustment,
this was for information purposes only.
Kearns moved to approve the Adult
Services Request for Line-Item
Adjustments greater than $5,000.00.
Juvenile Services Request for LineItem Adjustments greater than
$5,000.00. Johnson seconded. Carried
3-0.
Kearns moved to approve a
Purchase Authorization for a 2009
Ford Fusion for the Community
Corrections Department in the amount
of $14,000.00 to be funded by the
Juvenile Services Fund. Johnson seconded. Carried 3-0.
Johnson moved to approve the minutes of June 23, 2008 as presented.
8:53
Clancy
Holeman,
Counselor/Director of Administrative
Services
Administrative Work Session
Johnette Shepek, Budget and
Finance Officer; and Joan Strickler,
League of Women Voters, attended.
Holeman said Wedel received an invitation to attend a work session for the
Konza water and sewer next Tuesday
night with the City of Manhattan.
9:10 Johnette Shepek, Budget and
Finance Officer
Clancy
Holeman,
Counselor/
Director of Administrative Services;
Joan Strickler, League of Women
Voters; and Scott Miller, KMAN,
attended. Shepek presented a CIP,
county building, economic development, and ½ cent sales tax update. The
commission asked Hobson to replace a
window in the CPE building.
9:25 Robert Nall, Information
Technology Director Scott Miller,
KMAN; Leon Hobson, Director of
Public Works/County Engineer; Joan
Strickler, League of Women Voters;
Craig Cox, Assistant County
Counselor; and John Doehling, Riley
County Police Department, attended.
Nall asked if he could send his staff
to KAC training for customer service
and supervisor classes. The Board
agreed Nall could send staff to the
KAC classes, because the classes are
not out of state. Nall said we are
focused on several internal projects as
well as continuing to improve our skill
sets. Some highlights of projects and
tasks accomplished:
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Mike Kearns
1. Installed Microsoft Office 2007
on all Riley County computers.
2. Biannual computer maintenance
on all workstations.
3. Monthly maintenance on all laptops.
and also see if we can lock in a flat rate
for 3 to 5 years. We are attempting to
put a hold on the excessive annual
price increases imposed upon Riley
County by the software vendors.
Nall said he met with the Business
Continuity Committee on June 13th,
and we have reviewed the draft reports
sent to us by Resiliency Solutions.
After our review, we have presented
the initial draft reports to the department heads for the review of their
respective department information. We
have asked that the department heads
have comments, suggestions or considerations be sent back to the committee
by the 27th of June. Nall said Riley
County’s Email Spam solution is fully
in place and operating normally. Our
previous solution was just not able to
keep up with the various types of
spam. At the time of this letter, a seven
day window showed that we had
received an approximate 30,000 emails
and out of that over 27,000 emails
were quarantined due to being spam.
Over the last four weeks, we have
received nearly 129,000 emails and out
of that almost 95,000 of them were
classified as spam.
Nall said Information Technology
has completed over 1,151 work orders
in the last 30 days, which is up 730
work orders from the 421 work orders
compared to the same time last year.
Year to date we have completed 4,639
work orders so far in 2008, which is
2,071 more work orders than the 2,568
work orders from the same time period
in 2007.
Nall discussed data phones for the
Information Systems Department. Nall
said the data phones would save his
department time and they would be
beneficial to some departments. The
Board of County Commissioners asked
Nall to schedule time on the agenda
and bring back more information on
the data phones.
9:47 Leon Hobson, Director of
Public Works/County Engineer and
Bruce McMillan, Bruce McMillan
AIA, Architects, P.A. John Doehling,
Riley County Police Department; Joan
Strickler, League of Women Voters;
Scott Miller, KMAN; Gary Rosewicz,
Assistant County Engineer; Craig Cox,
Assistant County Counselor; Johnette
Shepek, Budget and Finance Officer;
Brad Schoen, Director of Riley County
Police Department; Eileen King,
Treasurer; and Gary Grubbs, Riley
County Police Department, attended.
McMillan presented a Law
Enforcement Center (LEC) expansion
update. McMillan said information
was sent to a construction company in
Kansas City to give a full bid take off
as the project is now. McMillan said
they will look at various options if necessary.
Johnson moved to approve a
Highway Use Permit with AT&T to cut
around existing AT&T cable in order to
place a cable deeper for requested road
changes per Chuck Heinz, Riley
County. Cable to be placed 4’ deep in
order to accommodate Riley County
request. Kearns seconded. Carried 3-0.
Johnson said he was asked about
retirement cards for Riley County.
Johnson asked for the topic to be
placed on the agenda for discussion.
10:02 Johnson moved to adjourn.
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7. Working on future reductions for
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8. Performed various server and network maintenance.
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last month. We should start wiring the
three smaller shop site buildings over
the next couple of weeks. We are still
finishing up a detailed list of items that
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County Commission Minutes _____from page 5
Monday June 30, 2008
The Board of County
Commissioners Of Riley County,
Kansas
The Regular meeting of the Board
of County Commissioners met at the
Riley County Plaza East Building
June 30, 2008 with the following
members present: Bob Newsome,
Chairman; Alvan Johnson, Vice
Chair; Mike Kearns, Member; and
Cindy Kabriel sitting in for Rich
Vargo, County Clerk.
8:30 Public Comment & Business
Meeting
Clancy Holeman, Counselor/
Rod Meredith, Assistant Director of
Public
Works/Parks
Director;
Finance Officer; and Leon Hobson,
Director of Public Works/County
Engineer, attended.
Kearns moved to sign an appointment letter for James Armendariz for
an adult appointment to the Joint
Corrections Advisory Board, term
expiration June 30, 2010 and
“Resolution No. 063008-35, A
Resolution re-appointing an adult
representative
to
the
Joint
Corrections Advisory Board” –
James Armendariz. Johnson seconded. Carried 3-0.
Kearns moved to approve the following warrant vouchers for June 30,
2008: 2008 Budget
County General
$240,890.28
Juvenile Intake Case Mgr 85.00
Riley Co Juvenile Service2,807.06
Riley Co Adult Services 2,997.80
Solid Waste
141,774.21
County Building
16,480.78
Road & Bridge Cap Project 9.15
RCPD Levy/Op
9,866.82
Landfill Closure
5,825.20
Riley Co Fire Dist #1 16,567.66
Hunters Island Water Dist 647.81
Deep Creek Sewer
415.86
Moehlman Bottoms
459.94
Valleywood Operations 1,019.04
Konza Water Operations 1,090.84
TOTAL. . . . . . . .
$440,937.45
Kearns moved to approve the minutes of June 26, 2008 as amended.
The
Board
of
County
Commissioners signed a Riley
County Personnel Action Form for
Larry J. Feldkamp, for a transfer
from the Road & Bridge Department
to the Parks Department, as a
Facilities & Grounds Tech, at a grade
7 step 1, at $13.85 per hour, effective
July 1, 2008.
8:41 Clancy Holeman, Counselor/
Director of Administrative Services
Administrative Work Session
Leon Hobson, Director of Public
Works/County Engineer; Johnette
and Bill Felber, Manhattan Mercury,
attended.
Holeman discussed the Konza
sewer project and amended contract
with the City of Manhattan.
Newsome said Congress is taking
money out of the highway fund. The
Board of County Commissioners
requested Clancy Holeman send a
letter to the State Representatives
and Senators requesting them to
place money back into the highway
fund. Holeman discussed pending
county projects. Discussion followed
on the airport area flooding.
9:25 Larry Couchman, Director of
EMS
Michelle Rutherford, EMS; Scott
Miller, KMAN; Bill Felber,
Manhattan
Mercury;
Johnette
Jan Kruh, League of Women Voters;
Laurie
Harrison,
Assistant
Emergency
Management
Coordinator; Clancy Holeman,
Counselor
/Director
of
Administrative Services; and Craig
Cox, Assistant County Counselor,
attended.
Couchman presented the Riley
County Ambulance 2009 Budget
Appropriation Request.
9:30 Press Conference Clancy
Holeman, Counselor/Director of
Administrative Services; Scott
Miller, KMAN; Laurie Harrison,
Assistant Emergency Management
Coordinator; Johnette Shepek,
Budget and Finance Officer; Craig
Cox, Assistant County Counselor;
Bill Felber, Manhattan Mercury; Jan
Kruh, League of Women Voters;
Michelle Rutherford, EMS; and
Larry Couchman, Director of EMS,
attended.
Couchman discussed the 2008
Country Stampede that was held
June 26, 2008 – June 29, 2008.
Couchman said the event was successful considering the weather, construction project, new traffic flow,
and attendance.
Cox said the Riley County 2008
Tax Foreclosure Sale will be held
July 23, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. Cox said
bidders may register either on-line
before the sale or between 8:45 am. –
9:45 a.m. the day of the sale. Cox
said a bidder may not be a person
who owes any delinquent real estate
taxes for 2000 or subsequent years.
Hobson presented a construction
projects update.
Harrison said the U.S. Small
Business Administration is offering
disaster assistance to Kansas residents and businesses affected by tornadoes and storms in Dickinson and
Riley Counties. Harrison said the
Choose Snacks To Boost Health
KSU News Service
Snacks boost energy between meals
but need not be a so-called “snack food,”
a Kansas State University Research and
Extension nutrition specialist said.
Snacking isn’t a license to overeat and
shouldn´t be considered the same as
“grazing,” which may involve multiple
helpings from food available over an
extended period of time, said Sandy
Procter, who also is a registered dietitian
and nutrition educator.
Skipping a snack to trim calories and
lose weight may not be as productive as
choosing a health-promoting snack to
satisfy hunger - and reduce the temptation to overeat at an upcoming meal,
either, said Procter, who offered tips for
choosing satisfying snacks that offer
health benefits and trimming food costs:
* Plan snacks, so as not to be caught
empty-handed and with a limited selection at a sports event or vending machine
at work that may offer high-cost and/or
highly processed foods that offer few
nutritional benefits.
* Match a snack to activity level,
which may require more calories.
Active children and adults may, for
example, benefit from graham or other
whole-grain crackers and peanut butter
or half a sandwich and fruit rather than a
single apple or orange.
* Vary snack choices, rather than
choosing the same snack each day.
* Look to locally grown seasonal fruits
and vegetables for healthful, satisfying
snacks. While many consider fruits and
vegetables the original convenience
foods (because they come with their own
wrapper-like peel), some preparation
may make them more appealing as
snacks.
Seeding and cubing (or chunking) and
chilling a muskmelon or cantaloupe in a
covered, clear glass or other see-through
container can make such a snack more
appealing, particularly when time is
short.
* In summer months, choose fruits
(such as fresh berries, peaches or plums)
and vegetables (such as a crunchy
cucumber, celery or summer squash)
with a high water content to help replenish body fluids lost through perspiration
and other body processes.
* If a snack will be eaten away from
home, choose foods that travel well.
Popcorn is an example. The low-cost,
whole-grain snack can be pre-popped,
seasoned to taste, and packaged in a resealable plastic bag. Its high volume also
makes it a filling snack.
* Consider leftovers, such as a single
serving of a fruit, vegetable or pasta
salad; half a meatloaf sandwich; or a
slice of turkey, which all can qualify as a
healthy, satisfying snack.
* Choose dry cereal (that is not highly
processed or sweetened) to eat like a
snack mix.
* Weigh the value of a soft drink that
may quench thirst but add calories with
no real nutritional value.
* Drink water to replenish body fluids
lost through perspiration and other body
processes. Tap water is recommended to
reduce the environmental impact associated with commercially bottled water.
Choosing to use a reusable/refillable
water bottle also can reduce environmental impact.
* Choose beverages such as milk and
100 percent fruit or vegetable juices that
offer health benefits to supplement
snacks.
* Pay attention to a standard portion or
recommended serving size. A one-cup
serving of ready-to-eat cereal; one-fourth
cup serving of dried fruit; one-half cup
serving of fresh, canned or frozen fruit;
or a two tablespoon serving of peanut
butter each counts as one adult serving.
* Buy snack foods (dried fruits, nuts or
crackers are examples) in bulk and repackage them as single or snack servings, rather than buying more costly prepackaged single servings. Choose
reusable serving containers for fresh or
canned fruits, vegetables or leftovers.
* Set up a snack station in the home by
dedicating a cupboard or pantry shelf for
storing non-perishable snack foods and
space in the refrigerator for perishable
foods. Posting a list of available snack
foods in the kitchen also can be helpful
for family members.
* Popcorn is not recommended for
children ages 2 and under because of a
potential choking hazard. Choking can,
however, be a danger at any age. Many
everyday foods - a small bite of raw carrot or broccoli, peanut butter, or barbecue
sandwich filling are examples - may pose
a threat if eaten too quickly or not
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chewed before swallowing. When snacking, take a break and make time to chew
food completely before swallowing it to
reduce the risk of choking.
Sandy Procter is the state coordinator
for the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Expanded Food and Nutrition Education
Program (EFNEP) in Kansas, which is
based at Kansas State University in
Manhattan.
More information on food, nutrition,
health, and planning and preparing
health-promoting foods at home easily
and economically is available at local
and district K-State Research and
Extension offices and on the Extension
Web-site: www.oznet.ksu.edu/humannutrition.
application filing deadline is August
19, 2008.
Harrison said the Disaster Loan
Outreach Center in Riley County
will be held at the Manhattan Fire
Department (enter on the north side
of the building), 2000 Denison
Avenue, Manhattan, Kansas from
9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. on Thursday,
July 3, 2008; Thursday, July 10,
2008; and Friday, July 11, 2008.
Holeman said the Annual Riley
County Legislative Conference was
held June 16, 2008 from 10:00 a.m. –
12:00 (noon).
Holeman said Senator Mark
Taddiken, Representative Richard
Carlson, Senator Roger Reitz,
Representative Sydney Carlin, and
Representative Sharon Schwartz
attended
the
Riley
County
Legislative Conference.
Holeman discussed the results of
the Annual Riley County Legislative
Conference and the process Riley
County goes through to get things
introduced to the legislature.
10:02 Leon Hobson, Director of
Public Works/County Engineer
Clancy
Holeman,
Counselor/
Finance Officer; and Jan Kruh,
League of Women Voters, attended.
Hobson discussed the projects list.
10:15 Monty Wedel, Director of
Planning and Development Work
session on revised K-18 Corridor
Preservation Overlay
Finance Officer; Clancy Holeman,
Counselor/
Director
of
Administrative Services; Craig Cox,
Assistant County Counselor; Leon
Hobson, Director of Public
Works/County Engineer; Bob Isaac,
Planner; and Jan Kruh, League of
Women Voters, attended.
The
Board
of
County
Commissioners, by consensus,
agreed to accept the recommendation
to proceed with the process of adoption in accordance with the Strategic
Plan Action Program.
10:20 Discuss the Konza water
and sewer
Leon Hobson, Director of Public
Works/County Engineer; Monty
Wedel, Director of Planning and
Development; Clancy Holeman,
Counselor/
Director
of
Administrative Services; Johnette
and Jan Kruh, League of Women
Voters, attended.
Wedel said he will present what he
presented to the Manhattan Urban
Area Planning Board on the Konza
water and sewer at the City
Commission Meeting on Tuesday.
11:00 Johnette Shepek, Budget
and Finance Officer
Dennis Peterson, Director of
Noxious Weed; Charlotte Shawver,
Register of Deeds; Cheryl Collins,
Museum Curator; Dawn Shoffner,
Information Technology Specialist;
Bill Felber, Manhattan Mercury; Jan
Kruh, League of Women Voters;
Clancy
Holeman,
Counselor
/Director of Administrative Services;
Monty Wedel, Director of Planning
and Development; Kathy Carpenter,
Legal Assistant, County Attorney’s
Office;
John
Cowan,
GIS
Coordinator; Becky Topliff, Court
Administrator;
Eileen
King,
Treasurer; Leon Hobson, Director of
Public Work/County Engineer; Larry
Couchman, Director of EMS; and
Rod Meredith, Assistant Director of
Public Works/Parks Director, attended.
Shepek presented and discussed
the 2009 Budget Development
Worksheet.
11:17 Recessed.
12:00
Intergovernmental
Luncheon
1:00 Johnson moved to adjourn.
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County Taxes To Soar Sk
Editorial
By Jon A. Brake
If you think your Riley County
Property Taxes have soared
sky
high, wait until the Riley
County
Commission pushes though
their
new Public Building Commissio
n
(PBC). Your taxes will be
higher
than the Commission’s
planned
Riley County Office Building
g
skyin
scraper.
ild
Here is the problem:
If the
Bu
County forms a building
commisce
sion the voters of Manhattan
ffi
and
O
Riley County will never
vote on
ty
another City, County or
School
un
District building again.
All the
Co
City, County or School
District
will have to do is go to the
ley
PBC
Ri
and three people will pass
it.
If you were to ask the County
Commissioners today about
the
PBC or a new Riley County
Office
Building and Jail, they would
tell
you that is something they
are look
at for the future. But,
to these
Commissioners the future
is now.
Here is what they have done
to
and cost estimates
date (that we know of):
of a new building.
1. They have had one or
more
meetings with a consultant
on
4. They are talking
forming a Public Building
about a new County
Commission.
Office Building and a
They were told:
new Jail. The August 13,
a. They can form a Public
2007 minutes quote
Building Commission.
Commissioner Bob
b. They can appoint themNewsome as saying: “It is
selves to the PBC.
my dream to retain the
Courthouse and Carnagie
2. They have been talking
with
Building and the Courts,
the First Christian Church
and
the Attorneys, and the Jail
Crums Beauty College about
be
the
tied together.”
purchase of their properties
next to
the County Courthouse.
It is simple, if the Commissio
ners
appoint
a
Public
3. They have hired Bowman
Building
Commission, it will
Bowman and Novick Inc.,
be Bob
local Newsome dream and the
Architects to study and
taxpayers
analyze nightmare.
space needs, options,
y High
The Public Building Commis
Another statement by
Carson was: “The
Commissioners may
appoint themselves as the
governing body of the
PBC. In fact, this is
apparently common and,
in my opinion, practical.”
(Minutes of the April 2007
County Commission
Meeting on forming a
Public Building
Commission
Perceived Space Needs
Commissio
ner Newsome said his
dream is to retain the
Carnagie Building and the
Courthouse and
Courts,
Newsome said another high-rise the Attorneys, and the Jail be it tied together.
building for the other offices.
Minutes August 13, 2007)
(Riley County
Perceived Space Needs
Last week the Commissio
ners talked with Brent
Bowman of Bowman Bowman
about his proposal to analyze Novick Inc. Architects
estimates for the new building.the options, and cost
Bowman’s proposal
would cost the County $56,864.00.
Bowman has already performed
a space needs
study and analyzed the Christian
Church in regards
to additional space for Riley
County.
Bowman discussed the over
vation needs of the Courthouse utilization and renoOffice Building with
the Commission.
Commissioner Mike Kearns
asked how extensive
of renovations are needed
to
Bowman said the question the office building.
could be answered
through further analysis.
(Manhattan Free Press
August 22, 2007 from Minutes
of the Riley County
Commission)
Alumni Give Record Contr
Alumni and friends of Kansas
State
University contributed a
record
million to the KSU Foundation $91.5
during
the fiscal year that ended June
30, 2007.
This is the second highest
giving total in
the 63-year history of the
foundation.
Fiscal year 2007 also saw
a favorable
investment return of 19.3
percent on the
foundation’s endowment
fund, which
was valued at $335 million
on June 30.
“We are thrilled to announce
ond year of more than $90 our secmillion in
contributions for K-State,”
said Dennis
The PBC
sion
“Last week the Commissio
n “talked” with Greg
Vahrenberg, U.S. Bancorp
Piper Jaffray and Mary
Carson, Triplett, Woolf,
& Garretson consultants
all. Carson told the Commissio
ners what they
wanted to hear: “A
PBC (Public Building
Commission) may issue
revenue bonds to finance
public building constructio
n and improvements.
The bonds of the PBC are
paid from revenues the
PBC obtains from leasing
pubic buildings to cities,
counties, school districts
and state and federal
agencies.” (Manhattan Free
Press - April 25, 2007
from Minutes of the Riley
County Commission)
ibutions To The KSU Fou
von Waaden, Austin, Texas,
chairman of
the KSU Foundation Board
of Trustees.
“During the final phase of
the $500 million Changing Lives Campaign
for KState, we want the 47,854
alumni and
friends who contributed
this year to
know that their generosity
makes
ing impact on K-State’s ability a lastand thrive. We would especiallyto grow
like
to
thank the 8,738 donors who
made gifts to
K-State for the first time in
this past fiscal year.”
ndation
during the fiscal year, $51.7
million was
received in cash, and $39.8
million was
committed through pledges
and deferred
gifts, which will come to the
university at
a later date. Donors established
195 new
scholarships and 7 faculty
chairs
fessorships. Over the course or proof the
Changing Lives Campaign,
which began
in 2000, a total of 865 new
scholarships
and 57 faculty chairs and
professorships
have been established.
“K-State is truly honored
to have
alumni and friends whose
loyalty and
generosity are unmatched,
” said Jon
Wefald, president of
The KSU Foundation
Labette
Kansas State
coordinates
$42,765.72
University. “Just one-quarter
fundraising efforts with alumni,
75
Lane
of the unifriends,
$36,647.38
versity’s operating budget
corporations and foundations
53
Leavenworth $142,850.00
now
to encourfrom the state. The remainder comes age private support for
285
Lincoln
the benefit of
of the
$13,587.88
operating budget comes
71
Linn
from three Kansas State University.
$2,645.00
sources: tuition, grants and
49
County totals:
Logan
contracts, and
$32,642.00
private philanthropic support
50
Lyon
given COUNTY:
$343,631.66
through the KSU Foundation.
233
GIFT TOTAL NO. OF GIFTS
Marion
The
col$65,012.00
laborative efforts of the donors,
113
Marshall
$356,529.50
versity staff and the foundation the uni330
Allen
$144,397.00
Mc Pherson
Of the $91.5 million total
staff are
80
$168,027.38
providing a margin of excellence
521
received
Anderson
$9,575.00
Meade
at K42
$4,345.00
State.”
31
Atchison
$19,640.31
Miami
88
$74,118.50
199
Barber
$6,057.00
Mitchell
49
$102,889.98
229
Barton
$269,170.00
Montgomery $506,715.00
369
209
Bourbon
Mercy Regional Health Center
$5,365.00
Morris
62
$100,628.60
is capabilities. The additional services
230
Brown
seeking original works of
$168,743.74
Morton
191
$430.00
enter their 2D, 3D, fiber and
art for
make it possible for regional
6
Butler
jewelry ence and explore
$153,196.71
Nemaha
upcoming The Art of HeART its
432
$158,716.00
the relationship
221
dents to receive the best quality resi- work in this juried competition. The
Chase
Care
$13,495.00
Neosho
Fine Art Exhibition, on
between art and health care,”
43
care Best-of-Show
$38,435.48
125
Chautauqua
display without traveling far from
said
winner will receive a Lydia
$1,545.00
Ness
home.
12
November 29 through mid-Febru
$17,460.55
Huber, vice
66
$2,000 cash prize, and
Cherokee
“The exhibition — and the
$3,610.41
Norton
additional Planning and Developmpresident of
33
$44,651.70
at Mercy Regional. The exhibitionary
cam54
Cheyenne
ent. “I think
$3,881.00
Osage
is paign in general — is an innovative prizes will be awarded depending on the
35
$42,435.00
intended to introduce The
opening of Mercy Regional’s
168
Clark
the number of entries submitted
$82,157.90
Osborne
Heart way to juxtapose health
51
$7,810.00
in HeART Gallery will have
Institute at Mercy Regional,
care
41
Clay
$91,294.96
Ottawa
a very poswhich technology with the fine arts,” and each category.
286
$33,195.92
142
offers interventional cardiac
Cloud
itive effect on patients, staff
said
$93,395.00
Pawnee
In addition
services Richard Allen, president
and the
211
$155,402.19
139
Coffey
and chief the hospital’s to being on display at environment of healing
for residents of the Flint
$573,282.89
Phillips
96
Hills and executive officer of Mercy
$355,730.11
at Mercy
new HeART Gallery, Regional.”
88
Comanche
surrounding communities.
Regional. invited
$3,525.00
Pottawatomie $864,632.99
17
entries will also be exhibited
“We want to emphasize
940
Cowley
$569,290.00
that our at several
The exhibition is part of
Entries are due November
Pratt
209
$100,526.00
a larger medical professionals are
Manhattan businesses in
156
1.
Crawford
$22,077.00
Rawlins
campaign that will begin
not only early 2008.
Interested artists can visit
137
$2,480.00
www.mer35
academically and scientifica
Decatur
First-place
this
and Best-of- cyregional.org
$29,098.30
Reno
October called The Art and
45
$443,687.33
lly Show winners
to download entry
690
Dickinson
Science trained, but artists in
will be auctioned at forms
$186,512.88
Republic
their own Mercy
543
of Health Care. The campaign
$71,866.88
and learn more.
157
Doniphan
Regional’s annual A Dress
aims right.”
$32,182.00
Rice
98
$49,203.27
the
to create awareness about
Mercy Regional Health Center
153
Douglas
Heart Gala in
new and
$142,757.40
Submitted entries should
Riley
$15,847,263.59 14,446
602
expanded services at
reflect ceeds benefitingFebruary, with pro- located in Manhattan, Kan. The is
Edwards
$21,055.00
Rooks
Mercy The Art of HeART Care
120heart and vascular bed hospital
36
$12,790.00
Regional, including interventio
theme, services
68
Elk
employs almost 1,000
$5,825.00
Rush
at the hospital.
which is open to artist interpretat
57
$2,076.00
25
cardiology, critical/intensive nal
Ellis
residents
ion.
from
$122,522.56
the local and surRussell
“This exhibition is a tremendou
248
$44,188.06
Both professional and amateur
care
112
Ellsworth
s rounding communities and
services, and state-of-the-art
$45,348.00
Saline
114
$5,413,297.54
imaging student artists are encourage or way for both new and established
supports
1,503
Finney
a medical staff of over 100
d to artists to reach
$314,886.60
Scott
350
$121,646.12
physian additional audi- cians.
121
Ford
$170,945.20
Sedgwick $7,219,448.07
200
3,166
Franklin
$36,585.00
Seward
123
$33,810.00
84
Geary
$408,975.20
Shawnee
$2,544,171.12
472
2,666
Gove
$30,142.23
Sheridan
Not everyone is happy that
56
$6,950.00
35
Dial will hold a meeting
Graham
$3,870.00
Sherman
Realty has announced that
Thursday night groups agreed
20
$10,920.00
42
Grant
HyVee
on was the need for
$8,446.00
Smith
will be in the Downtown to talk about the development.
54
$10,999.96
Secondly, the proposed changes
59
collective action when the
Gray
$91,839.12
to
Stafford
cultural the PUD will
75
$22,820.00
Redevelopment area.
82
Greeley
directly affect the
resources of the city threatened
$2,482.17
Stanton
Here is the e-mail sent out
16
$2,135.00
.
City Staff and Dial Realty
number
25
of
Greenwood
by
housing
the
units
The
$25,705.00
to be added
has said organization Monday:
MRCPA believes the proStevens
76
$3,900.00
in the past that the largest
to the downtown. The plat
50
Hamilton
posed change to the North
$3,215.00
Sumner
building
for
the
$68,340.00
21
Greetings
End
from
rede- HyVee totally eliminates
121
will be between 50,000 and
Harper
the Preservation velopment
$53,070.00
Thomas
the planned
60,000 Alliance! This is
is a real threat to the char$42,414.93
63
111
Harvey
sq. ft. The new HyVee is planning
an invitation to acter and
housing that would act
$176,023.39
Trego
$5,212.17
331
preservation of our city.
as a
to attend a meeting about
25
Haskell
start at 80,000 and grow to
buffer for the historic
$21,300.00
downtown
Wabaunsee $31,066.86
55
Instead of restoring and
100,000 redevelopment.
residential
213
Hodgeman
re-using neighborhood on
As many of you will the
sq. ft.
$4,410.00
Wallace
$3,335.00
28
the west side of
historic Strausser house,
22
Jackson
remember,
$86,362.41
Dial 4th street
last
Washington $49,907.72
The original development
February’s proposes to have
186
commit- Preservation Summit
207
Jefferson
it moved (or demol- potential and will again limit the
$29,196.00
Wichita
tee talked about not having
brought togeth- ished)
130
$7,707.90
for
people
35
a big box er everyone
Jewell
which
to
live
will make it downtown
$29,677.00
Wilson
in the Preservation ineligible
store. HyVee would be considered
$7,430.00
66
—which we all know is a
58
Johnson
for tax credits from the
$4,768,207.07
a Community to discuss
Woodson
5,527
$15,910.00
“big box.”
key
their top state or federal
ingredient in downtown
34
Kansas
$4,090.00
Wyandotte $84,824.90
priorities.
governme
17
The Manhattan Preservatio
271
Kearny
Without tax credits, rehabilitat nt. revitalization.
$215,776.50
n Alliance
Total
$45,405,728.59
One of the things that
44
ion
41,642
Kingman
all the will be economica
$104,985.68
85
lly unfeasible.
Kiowa
$4,275.00
21
Hospital Seeking Submis
sions For Art Exhibition
Opposition Growing To HyVe
e In Downtown Redevelop
ment District
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Kansas Profile Now That’s Rural
By Ron Wilson, director, Huck
Boyd National Institute for Rural
Development at Kansas State
University.
Let´s go to Ocala, Florida and turn
on the radio. As we tune in to stations
across the radio dial, we come across
a program where someone is talking
about training, feeding, riding, and
caring for horses. It´s the Better
Horses Radio program. The host is a
man from halfway across the continent in rural Kansas. Thanks to KState Research and Extension Franklin County for this story idea.
Ernie Rodina is the district sales
manager for Purina Feeds and host of
the Better Horses Radio program.
This all started when Ernie was
growing up in the Kansas City suburbs, when he joined 4-H and found
that he enjoyed horses. He got a pony
named Red which he rode all the
8A
Ernie Rodina - Better Horses Radio Program
Ron Wilson
time. As he grew, he continued to
ride that pony. He remembers saying
to his sister, "Do I look too big on
this pony?"
While he may have outgrown the
pony, he never outgrew his love for
the equine industry. He enjoyed
horses and the western and rural
lifestyle. He knew he wanted to work
with farmers, ranchers, and horsemen.
After graduating from Ottawa
University, he worked for Farmland
Industries and then had the opportunity to join a management trainee
program for Purina Mills. He trained
in the rural community of Humboldt,
Kansas, population 1,964 people.
Now, that´s rural.
Ernie moved on up into a management position with Purina where he
has been ever since. He serves a territory with more than 30 feed dealers
in Kansas and Missouri, including
greater Kansas City. His territory
goes roughly from St. Joe to
Marshall, Missouri; over to Emporia
and up to Wamego, Kansas. Ernie
and his family live near Ottawa.
Ernie says with a smile that his
responsibility with the company is to
focus on animals with names. In
other words, his emphasis is on horses and pets, not the mass numbers of
livestock in a feedlot. The key driving element of the business is equine.
Ernie says, "When I got started,
my goal was that when people heard
the word "horse" they thought of
Purina Mills and Ernie Rodina." He
says, "My job is to sell feed, but if
we can help people raise their equine
experience to a new level, we win."
So Ernie set out to help horse owners. He started saving people´s
names from customer meetings so he
could send them helpful equine
information. Nine years ago, he started sending that information in a trifold brochure. Now that has evolved
into a 50-page newspaper which
goes to 25,000 people.
Ernie began calling this the Better
Horses Network. Meanwhile, Purina
was sponsoring a weekly radio program called the Horseman´s Radio
Weekly. When the host of that program retired, Ernie decided he would
try producing his own radio show.
Ernie says, "It only took me doing
it one time to realize, I needed a partner." So Ernie brought in Dawn
Dawson, an accomplished rider from
Alma to join him on the show. Ernie
says, "I brought her on as a guest and
never let her go."
Each week Ernie and Dawn interview various guests and tell about
current events and tips for improving
the horse owners´ equine experience.
The program, called Better Horses
Radio, has expanded to be carried on
stations in Kansas and Missouri, plus
as far away as Lexington, Kentucky
and Ocala, Florida.
Meanwhile, Ernie is involved in
special events and horse organiza-
tions across the Midwest. His goal
has been realized. In 2006, the
Kansas Horse Council named Ernie
its Equine Ambassador of the Year.
But some things don´t change.
While out riding recently, he went by
his sister and said with a smile, "Do
I look too big on this horse?"
That´s the type of humor which
has made him a successful businessman and fun radio personality.
It´s time to leave Ocala, Florida,
where we found the Better Horses
Radio program coming all the way
from Kansas. We commend Ernie
Rodina, Dawn Dawson, and all those
involved with the Better Horses
Network for making a difference by
helping horse owners raise their
equine experience. Together, they
create strong forces for better horses.
Kansas Lawmakers Order Analysis Of Imigration Costs
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ Legislators
failed this year to pass a bill dealing
with the growing problem of illegal
immigration in the state, but they
will try again next year.
When they do, they will be armed
with an analysis by the Legislative
Division of Post Audit, which legislators hope will help them draft a bill
that can make it to Gov. Kathleen
Sebelius.
This year, efforts to deal illegal
immigrants started out with strong
get-tough plans in the House and
Senate, but both chambers watered
down the measure after objections by
the business sector.
A compromise bill died in a negotiating committee, largely because
House Democrats refused to back off
demands to include criminal penalties for businesses that illegally treat
any worker as an independent subcontractor.
Rep. Nile Dillmore added language to the budget requiring the
audit that will focus on the costs of
illegal immigration to the state. The
report is expected to be completed
during the next legislative session
that starts in January.
``Before we decide on fiscal policies that affect economy, shouldn’t
we have some idea on what we are
doing and what the outcomes might
be if we make those changes?’‘ the
Wichita Democrat told the Lawrence
Journal-World.
The audit will try to determine the
costs to the state for benefits and
services provided to illegal immigrants, the estimated tax revenues
from illegal immigrants, and whether
the taxes they pay offset the costs of
benefits provided. It also will study
the effect that illegal immigration
has on labor costs and the job market
in Kansas.
The costs already known to the
state include the $175,000 the attorney general’s office says it has paid
to defend a law that allows illegal
immigrants to pay in-state college
tuition if they have lived in Kansas
for three years, graduated from a
high school in the state and seek or
promise to seek legal status.
Repeated efforts by legislators to
repeal the 2004 law have failed. The
state Board of Regents says 243 illegal immigrants are receiving in-state
tuition.
Also failing was a federal court
challenge by a group of parents and
non-Kansas residents represented by
Kris Kobach, a University of
Missouri-Kansas City law school
professor and Kansas Republican
Party chairman.
A U.S. District Court judge in
Topeka threw out the lawsuit, saying
the plaintiffs had no standing
because they couldn’t show how
they would be harmed. If the law was
struck down, they still would have to
pay the higher tuition. The 10th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeal agreed, and
the U.S. Supreme Court refused to
hear the case.
Kobach said he’s considering his
next move.
Jonathan Blazer, a public benefits
policy attorney with the National
Immigration Law Center, said contrary to popular opinion, many studies have shown that illegal immigrants have a positive effect on the
“Watch Out” For New Balderson
Film, Teaser Trailer A Big Hit
The teaser trailer for Steve
Balderson’s new film was launched
on YouTube on June 15, 2008, and
within two weeks had been viewed
over 30,000 times.
“I was surprised,” said Steve
Balderson, the Kansas-based filmmaker. “A friend called me up and
said the teaser trailer had gone viral
and was posted on blogs and fan sites
all over the internet. It had only been
14 days. I expected maybe a thousand views at the most. I’d never
have imagined it was well over
30,000.”
To give some perspective, the trailer for BUNKER HILL, made by fellow Kansas filmmaker Kevin
Willmott, was launched on YouTube
an entire year ago and has been
viewed just 1,600 times; the trailer
for the Kansas City-shot BONNIE &
CLYDE VS. DRACULA was
launched eight months ago and has
been viewed 5,939 times; and the
trailer for Wichita’s 2006 Tallgrass
Film Festival has been viewed a
meager 277 times.
Already fielding comparisons to
AMERICAN PSYCHO, Balderson’s
new film WATCH OUT is based on
the best-selling novel by Dr. Joseph
Suglia. It’s the story of Jonathan
Barrows, a man who falls in love
with himself, literally. He is attracted
to his own body, carries out an erotic
relationship with a blow-up doll that
resembles him, and takes pleasure in
rejecting the advances of his many
admirers, both male and female. He
descends into a world of carnivorous
priests and Prozac-popping Polish
prostitutes and eventually assassi-
Golf Tournament
To Help MHS Football
The Manhattan High Football
Team is having a golf tournament
Wednesday, July 30th at Stagg Hill
Golf Course. The tournament is a 4man scramble with registration at
8:00 and a 9:00 shot-gun start. The
cost is $200 per team and will
include golf, cart,range balls, 2 drink
tickets and lunch.
All proceeds will go to the MHS
Football team. Teams interested in
playing need to contact Keith
Eyestone at (785) 539-7444/ [email protected], or Lew Lane
(785) 537-2918/
[email protected].
nates the world’s most popular popdiva.
WATCH OUT stars Matt
Riddlehoover (the actor/director and
MySpace sensation best known for
his award-winning comedy TO A
TEE), Peter Stickles (SHORTBUS),
B-movie superstar Jeff Dylan
Graham, Jillian Lauren, and burlesque sensation Lady Monster.
Balderson cast Kansas area actors
in major supporting roles: Jon
Niccum of the Lawrence Journal
World, jazz favorite Betti O., former
IFC president Aaron Gnirk, Shelly
Jennings, Frank Krainz, Rossana
Jeran and Kitty Steffens.
“There is a lot of really great talent
here,” said Balderson. “It’s just that
more often than not, talented people
are hard to find. They go into hid-
ing. Many talented people in the
Midwest often surrender to the narrow-minded, ignorant and prejudice
communities we live in. After years
of being told their creativity should
take a back seat to things like competitive sports, most people give up.
But when I find them, I try to encourage them. Our communities should
really give the same support and
funding to the arts that they give
competitive sports. It would be a
healthier environment.”
Although the story takes place in
Benton Harbor, Michigan, “Watch
Out” was filmed entirely in Wamego,
Kansas in April earlier this year. The
unrated and uncensored film is being
distributed by Dikenga Films
International simultaneously in theatres and on dvd this fall.
economy. He said illegal immigrants
workers pay more in taxes into the
economy than they derive in benefits.
``There is still this myth that is
fueling this debate that immigrants
are a drain as opposed to an asset,’‘
Blazer said.
Some studies, he said, show that
they may depress wages in certain
labor markets. But, he said, the solution is to provide them a way to
attain citizenship so that they are not
exploited by unscrupulous employers.
He said it was important for states
to tread cautiously when trying to
enact immigration laws.
In Oklahoma, for example, an antiillegal immigration law that took
effect last year will cause $1.8 billion
in economic losses, according to a
study done by the Oklahoma
Bankers Association. The losses will
be incurred because thousands of
workers will leave the state, the
study said.
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