February 13, 2014

Hugoton City Councilmet in regular session Feb-ruary 10, 2014 in the coun-

cil meeting room. Attendingthe meeting were MayorJack E. Rowden, City ClerkThomas G. Hicks, ElectricalSystem Supervisor GaryRowden, Outside UtilitiesSupervisor Paul Nordyke,City Inspector JoshuaGrubbs, City AttorneyWayne R. Tate and council-men Dean Banker, MikeEshbaugh, Shannon Craw-ford, Tron Stegman andDan Corpening. Also pres-ent at the meeting were Po-lice Chief Courtney Leslie,Jan Leonard, David Snyderand Hugoton Hermes re-

porter Ruthie Winget.The council approved the

minutes of the last meetingand the January municipaljudge’s report.

Tom Hicks addressed thecouncil concerning annexa-tion to the City of Hugoton.He suggested annexation ofthe city blocks from whereFifteenth Street should beeast of Washington toCemetery Road and northto Eleventh Street. He alsosuggested annexing fromeast Ninth Street fromCemetery Road to Commer-cial Street over to EleventhStreet. (See the map onpage 3.) The council mem-bers agreed to consider thisannexation.

Joshua Grubbs informedthe councilmen of buildingprojects in progress. He re-ported he has an upcomingInspector School March 3-7in Denver, Co., he plans toattend. He stated they hada safety meeting concerningCPR and First Aid January 30.

Mayor Rowden com-mented the RV varianceconcerning where RVscould be parked is about toexpire March 25, 2014.Since Abengoa is still inconstruction, the councilvoted to extend the varianceuntil July 1, 2014. Whenthis variance expires, allRVs must be parked only inan RV park or campground.Councilman Tron Stegmanabstained from the vote be-cause of his involvement inEagle RV.

City Clerk Hicks in-formed the council thestate has proposed to con-crete Highway 51, downEleventh Street, from WestCity Limits to Washingtonin 2015. As part of this proj-ect, the state will install apump station at the cornerof Eleventh Street and Jef-ferson Street. They wantthe city to accept ownershipto operate and maintain thePump Station. The councilpassed the motion to ap-prove this action. The CityCouncil also approved themotion to set up detour

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Hugoton High School’s 2014 Winter Homecom-ing will be Friday, February 14. Coronationwill take place AFTER ALL THE GAMES inthe West Gym. Pictured left to right in back,Senior Queen Candidate Sarah Martin, SeniorKing Candidate Slade Shuck, Senior King Can-didate Adam Scott, Senior King Candidate

Maverick Mills, Senior Queen Candidate BaileyHaynes and Senior Queen Candidate MicahBaehler; kneeling are, sophomore attendantMarissa Shuck, freshman attendant Melissa Fa-bela and junior attendant Taylor Fiss. Pleasejoin them for the king and queen coronationafter the games. Photo courtesy of Kathy Pate.

The International Pan-cake Day talent showpreliminaries were Feb-ruary 1 at the LiberalHigh School auditorium.Hugoton was representedvery well with many acts.Those acts who qualifiedto compete in the finalswere: in the tiny tot divi-sion Faith Beesley,daughter of Don and

Reneé Beesley and JettaGiudicy, daughter ofLacy and Mike Giudicy;in the intermediate divi-sion Sydney Beesley,daughter of Don andReneé Beesley; senior di-vision included MontanaBeesley, daughter of Donand Reneé Beesley andMoriah Rome, daughterof Dave and Lori Rome;

and in the adult divisionwas Collin McClendon,grandson of Doug andRita Mills.

The finals will beMarch 3 at 7:00 p.m. atthe Liberal High Schoolauditorium.

Ticket information willbe available from thosenamed in the article.

Stevens County Spelling Bee winners in the senior division are,first Hallie Wettstein, second Haziel Rojo and third AxelGranillo.

Collin McClendon and Montana Beesley

Jetta Giudicy and Faith Beesley

Sydney Beesley

Moriah Rome

Stevens County Spelling Bee winners are, junior division firstplace Gillian Heger, second Chay Burnett and third JessieJames.

Monday night, the Sen-ate passed S. 1954, biparti-san legislation offered byU.S. Senator Jerry Moranto prevent the Centers forMedicare and MedicaidServices (CMS) from enforc-ing its unreasonable andinflexible direct supervisionrules for outpatient therapyservices at Critical AccessHospitals (CAH) and othersmall, rural hospitals in2014.

“CMS imposing such anunrealistic and clinicallyunnecessary supervisionpolicy jeopardizes patients’access to important therapyservices in rural communi-ties in Kansas and acrossthe country,” Sen. Moransaid. “This one-year en-forcement delay is neededbecause many Kansas hos-pitals are considering cut-ting services for theirpatients or limiting hours ofoperation in order to com-ply with this inflexible reg-ulation. Congress needs todirect CMS to implement areasonable policy that moreadequately reflects the real-

ities of providing care inrural areas.”

In its 2009 outpatientpayment rule, CMS man-dated a new policy for “di-rect supervision” ofoutpatient therapeuticservices. Outpatient thera-peutic services includeservices such as drug infu-sions, blood transfusions,outpatient psychiatric serv-ices, wound debridement,and cardiac and pulmonaryrehabilitation services.CMS’ policy required a su-pervising physician bephysically present in thehospital department at alltimes when Medicare bene-ficiaries receive outpatienttherapy services. Eventhough it was a significantshift in policy, CMS charac-terized the change as a “re-statement and clarification”of existing policy in placesince 2001. In response toconcerns health careproviders and policymak-ers, CMS delayed enforce-ment of the directsupervision policy through2013 for CAHs and small

and rural hospitals withfewer than 100 beds. How-ever, in its 2014 outpatientpayment rule, CMS endedthis enforcement morato-rium.

S. 1954, cosponsored bySenator Jon Tester of Mon-tana and Senator JohnThune of South Dakota, re-instates this enforcementmoratorium for 2014 to en-sure CAHs and other ruralhospitals in Kansas cancontinue providing patientswith a full range of outpa-tient therapy services inhospitals in their own com-munities. Visit senate.gov,click “Legislation andRecords” then search “S.1954” to see the entire bill’stext.

In June 2013, Sen.Moran introduced S. 1143,the Protecting Access toRural Therapy Services(PARTS) Act, to address thistherapy supervision issueon a permanent basis. ThePARTS Act can also befound at senate.gov.

Submitted by the Office ofSenator Jerry Moran.

The Hugoton AirportBoard met for their regularlyscheduled meeting Wednes-day, February 5, 2014 at theairport meeting room. At-tending the meeting wereboard members RobertDavis, Kim Harper, DellCullison, Jeff Crawford andDax Gaskill. Also presentwere Airport Manager GaryPorter, Secretary Risa Nor-ton, Kirkham Michael’s Cur-tis Houser and HugotonHermes reporter RuthieWinget.

The minutes of the previ-ous meeting were read andapproved.

Curtis Houser presentedhis report. He informed theboard the annual CapitalImprovement Plan (CIP) isdue. CIP is the five-year planthe airport hopes to put intoeffect in the future. The CIPhas to be submitted everyyear in order to stay in theFAA program. The boardmade no changes. Theyvoted to approve the planand to have the secretaryforward it to the FAA.

He reminded the boardthe Public Hearing for Pro-posed Improvements will beFebruary 20, 2014 at 6:30p.m. at the Hugoton Airport.

Chairman Robert Davisreported he had signed theKDOT Taxiway Lane Re-placement documents andforwarded them back to theEllsworth office. The FAAhas closed out the grant for

the Taxiway Project. TheTieDowns Project grant isstill open.

Gary Porter gave hismanager’s report. He statedA.J. Owens welded on thetruck skid pads. He re-marked the fuel truck radi-ator is leaking. He put insome BarsLeak, hoping thatwill repair the leak.

Porter said he ran the adfor the sprinkler in HighPlains Journal for onemonth. The board askedhim to run the ad for an-other month.

Kim Harper put togethera potential contract forhangar leases. The boardpassed the motion to ap-prove the new contract.

The manager heard abouta new hydraulic door nowavailable out of Michigan.The old door on the shop isover 30 years old. This newfree-standing hydraulic doorhas no header on it. It wouldnot be attached to the build-ing. The hydraulics are inthe sides. It has an externaltruss, and it rotates on acam on the sides. It will han-dle winds up to 90 mph.When the door is open, theopening will be taller thanthe old door. The boardpassed a motion to pursuereplacing the main hangardoor.

The meeting adjourned.The next regular meetingwill be March 5, 2014.

Younger generation represents Hugoton well at Liberal Airport Board approves CIP

Moran requests CMS reconsider strict policies

Council considers annexation

ObituariesThe Hugoton Hermes Thursday, February 13, 2014

A homograph that is alsopronounced differently is aheteronym. You think Englishis easy?? I think a retired Eng-lish teacher was bored...THISIS GREAT!

Read all the way to theend...........This took a lot ofwork to put together! 1) The bandage was woundaround the wound.2) The farm was used to pro-duce produce.3) The dump was so full that ithad to refuse more refuse. 4) We must polish the Polishfurniture..5) He could lead if he would getthe lead out.6) The soldier decided to deserthis dessert in the desert..7) Since there is no time likethe present, he thought it wastime to present the present. 8) A bass was painted on thehead of the bass drum.9) When shot at, the dove doveinto the bushes.10) I did not object to the ob-ject. 11) The insurance was invalidfor the invalid.12) There was a row among theoarsmen about how to row.13) They were too close to thedoor to close it.14) The buck does funnythings when the does are pres-ent. 15) A seamstress and a sewerfell down into a sewer line.16) To help with planting, thefarmer taught his sow to sow.17) The wind was too strong to

wind the sail.18) Upon seeing the tear in thepainting I shed a tear..19) I had to subject the subjectto a series of tests.20) How can I intimate this tomy most intimate friend?

Let's face it - English is acrazy language. There is no eggin eggplant, nor ham in ham-burger; neither apple nor pinein pineapple. English muffinsweren’t invented in England orFrench fries in France. Sweet-meats are candies while sweet-breads, which aren’t sweet, aremeat. We take English forgranted. But if we explore itsparadoxes, we find that quick-sand can work slowly, boxingrings are square and a guineapig is neither from Guinea noris it a pig.

And why is it that writerswrite but fingers don’t fing,grocers don'’t groce and ham-mers don’t ham? If the pluralof tooth is teeth, why isn’t theplural of booth, beeth? Onegoose, 2 geese. So one moose,2 meese? One index, 2 indices?Doesn’t it seem crazy that youcan make amends but not oneamend? If you have a bunch ofodds and ends and get rid of allbut one of them, what do youcall it?

If teachers taught, why did-n’t preachers praught? If a veg-etarian eats vegetables, whatdoes a humanitarian eat?Sometimes I think all the Eng-lish speakers should be com-mitted to an asylum for the

verbally insane. In what lan-guage do people recite at a playand play at a recital? Ship bytruck and send cargo by ship?Have noses that run and feetthat smell?

How can a slim chance anda fat chance be the same, whilea wise man and a wise guy areopposites? You have to marvelat the unique lunacy of a lan-guage in which your house canburn up as it burns down, inwhich you fill in a form by fill-ing it out and in which, analarm goes off by going on.

English was invented bypeople, not computers, and itreflects the creativity of thehuman race, which, of course,is not a race at all. That is why,when the stars are out, theyare visible, but when the lightsare out, they are invisible.

PS. - Why doesn’t ‘Buick’rhyme with ‘quick’?

You lovers of the Englishlanguage might enjoy this.

There is a two-letter wordthat perhaps has more mean-ings than any other two-letterword, and that is ‘UP.’ It’s easyto understand UP, meaning to-ward the sky or at the top ofthe list, but when we awakenin the morning, why do wewake UP? At a meeting, whydoes a topic come UP? Why dowe speak UP and why are theofficers UP for election and whyis it UP to the secretary to writeUP a report? We call UP ourfriends. And we use it tobrighten UP a room, polish UP

the silver; we warm UP the left-overs and clean UP thekitchen. We lock UP the houseand some guys fix UP the oldcar.

At other times the little wordhas real special meaning. Peo-ple stir UP trouble, line UP fortickets, work UP an appetite,and think UP excuses. To bedressed is one thing, but to bedressed UP is special. A drainmust be opened UP because itis stopped UP. We open UP astore in the morning but weclose it UP at night. We seem tobe pretty mixed UP about UP!

To be knowledgeable aboutthe proper uses of UP, look theword UP in the dictionary. In adesk-sized dictionary, it takesUP almost 1/4th of the pageand can add UP to about thirtydefinitions.

If you are UP to it, youmight try building UP a list ofthe many ways UP is used. Itwill take UP a lot of your time,but if you don’t give UP, youmay wind UP with a hundredor more. When it threatens torain, we say it is clouding UP.When the sun comes out wesay it is clearing UP. When itrains, it wets the earth andoften messes things UP. Whenit doesn’t rain for awhile,things dry UP.

One could go on and on, butI’ll wrap it UP, for now my timeis UP, so.......it is time to shutUP!

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Pioneer Manor residents playBingo at 2:00 p.m. Tuesdays,Thursdays, Fridays and Sat-urdays. Community membersare invited to volunteer or playa game with the residents!AL-ANON Family Groupmeets at 1405 CemeteryRoad Mondays and Thurs-days at 8:00 p.m. Call 620-544-2610 or 620-544-2854 formore information.CELEBRATE LIFE every Mon-day night 6:30-8:00 p.m. atAssembly of God, 138 S. Mainin Hugoton. Park in the backlot.HUGOTON LIONS CLUBmeets every Second and FourthThursday of the month at Me-morial Hall at 7:00 p.m. HUGOTON MASONIC LODGE#406 AF&AM meets every sec-ond and fourth Tuesday of themonth at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday nights- Inside Out Kids at the Hugo-ton Assembly of God, 138 S.Main, beginning with dinner at6:45 p.m. Program will be from7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Rides areavailable by calling Pastor BenCoats at 620-428-1487 before5:30 p.m. Wednesdayevenings.- Moscow United Methodist

will host Kids Club, from 3:45to 4:45 p.m. Kids Club is avail-able for children ages Kinder-garten through fifth grade. Formore information, contact thechurch at 620-598-2426.***SCHEDULE CHANGE***Hugoton Aglow will meet on

the fourth - NOT second -Thursdays of February andMarch. Meetings will be Febru-ary 27 and March 27 at 7:00p.m. at the Senior Center, 624S. Main in Hugoton.Now through February 14- Sign up at participating busi-nesses for the fifteenth annualSweetheart Sweepstakes draw-ing! Check out page 10B of thisweek’s Hermes for more infor-mation. Winners will be drawnFriday, February 14, so ShopHugoton First!Now through February 24- Submit your idea for the

2014 Stevens County Fairtheme to Stevens County FairAssociation, PO Box 356,Hugoton, Ks. 67951 or emailto [email protected]. Includeyour name and address withyour entry. Entries must be re-ceived by February 24.Now through February 28- Stop by the Stevens County

Library to view the LocalArtists’ Exhibition in the Com-munity Room.Now through March 1- Dog taxes are due at the Cityof Hugoton with no penalty. February 13- Relay for Life Kick Off at the

EMS Training Center at 6:00p.m. Everyone is invited tolearn more about the event andto get involved. For more infor-mation, contact Dixie Failes at580-522-1586 or Lisa Nelsonat 620-428-1778.- Sons of Thunder Southwest

Kansas Chapter will meet at

the Grant County Civic Center,1000 W. Patterson Ave. inUlysses from 7:00 to 9:30 p.m.Bobby Massey of Wichita willspeak. There will be a freemeal, fellowship and worship.Remember February is “BringYour Sweetheart” month!February 13-14- No school for USD 210 stu-

dents due to Parent/ TeacherConferences. February 14- Happy Valentine’s Day!- Project After Prom will host aChili Feed during the HHSWinter Homecoming basketballgame, beginning at 5:00 p.m.Chili and cinnamon rolls will beavailable in the old cafeteriaacross the gym. Pumpkin rollswill also be available.February 15- Sew All Day at the Hugoton

Senior Center, 624 S. Main.Call 620-544-2283 for more in-formation.- State Scholars’ Bowl compe-tition at Rolla High School.- Legislative update at the

Stevens County Library Meet-ing Room at 4:00 p.m. Addi-tional dates: March 15 andApril 19. Senator Larry Powelland Representative Steve Al-ford plan to attend.February 16- Fort Hays State University

will host their Student Recog-nition Program at Garden CityHigh School, 2720 Buffalo Wayat 2:00 p.m. Scholarship win-ners will be recognized. Formore information, visit

www.fhsu.edu/admissions/srp.February 17- No school for USD 217 stu-

dents in honor of Presidents’Day.- Stevens County Commis-

sioners will meet in the Com-missioners’ Room at theStevens County Courthouse,beginning at 8:30 a.m.- USD 210 Board of Educationwill meet at 6:30 p.m. in theHMS Library.February 18- Hugoton Area Chamber of

Commerce will host theirmonthly luncheon at theStevens County Library meet-ing room at 12:00 noon. Foodwill be provided by ChinaRestaurant. Matt Johnsonfrom Seaboard Foods willspeak. February 19- Life Story Workshop at the

Hugoton Senior Center, 624 S.Main at 9:00 a.m. Two moreworkshops will be March 5 andMarch 19, also at 9:00 a.m.- Circle Time at the Stevens

County Library at 10:30 a.m.for children ages 0-5 and theirparents.- Any and all Hugoton High

School alumni are welcome toattend a meeting to discuss theupcoming all school reunionplanned for July 4, 2015. Themeeting will start at 7:00 p.m.in the meeting room at the Sen-ior Center, 624 S. Main.- Garden City Community Col-lege will host a short course

“Camera Basics” from 6:00 to9:00 p.m. Wednesday, Febru-ary 19 and Wednesday, Febru-ary 26. Information andregistration is available at theJohn Collins Vocational Build-ing, by calling 620-275-3259 orat www.gcccks.edu/business-community. Reigstration isnecessary before classes startand will only take place withsufficient enrollment. There isa cost to participate. Informa-tion is also available at [email protected] 21- Stevens County Library will

host a kids’ movie at the SCLbeginning at 3:35 p.m.- Deadline to submit nomina-tions for USD 210’s 2014Teacher of the Year. Email let-ter of recommendation toaestrada@ usd210.org. Ques-tions may be directed to ArletEstrada at Central Office, 620-544-4397.February 22- Richfield/Dermot Commu-

nity Groundhog Supper at theDermot Community Building.- Stevens County ConservationDistrict’s Sixty-Fourth AnnualRanch, Farm and Producers’Banquet and Annual Meeting.Make reservations at 620-544-2991, extension 3. RSVP dead-line is February 14.February 23- College Goal Sunday at the

Liberal High School Libraryfrom 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Volun-teers will assist participants infilling out Federal Financial Aid

(FAFSA) applications. For infor-mation, contact ShannonDavis at 620-417-1113 or atshannon.davis@ sccc.edu.- Garden City Telegram’s thirdannual Bridal Show at theClarion Inn and ConferenceCenter from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.More information is available atw w w . f a c ebook.com/GCTelegramBri dal-Show, www.gctelegram.com/BridalShow/ or [email protected].

Dear Editor,Attention all HHS graduates - we

need your help!The One Hundreth Anniversary All

School Reunion over July Fourth week-end in 2015 will be here before youknow it and we need everyone to helpus prepare for this special event, as wellas attending and celebrating with us.

This reunion should be special inmany ways. First of all, it will be theone hundreth anniversary of the firstgraduating class in 1915! Secondly, thenew school facilities will be available forthe events!

Many returning graduates will get tosee the new cafeteria, etc. for the firsttime since completion. They will alsoget to see the new milk processingplant, the new cellulosic ethanol plantand they should have the option ofstaying in our new hotel!

Karen Harper has asked me to callan organizational meeting, so I have re-

served the Senior Center Meeting Roomfor Wednesday evening, February 19.The meeting will start at 7:00 p.m. Weneed alumni to help with mailings,meal planning, registering, greeting,etc.

I have agreed to MC the program onemore time and I’m asking for your inputabout what kind of program you wouldlike to see. I have arranged for formerrock star, Frankie Valens to come per-form his hit songs, including “ThisMagic Moment”, “The Lion SleepsTonight” and “Smoke Gets In YourEyes” and share his life story! If thereis enough interest, we might also haveanother program? Some always ask tosee certain acts again, but others wantsomething completely different. If youhave a favorite act you would like re-peated, let me know and we’ll see if we

can arrange it. If you know of an alumthat can perform something that youthink a broad range of alums wouldfind entertaining, suggest that talentedperson to me. Right now, I’m looking fora recent grad that can perform BrunoMars-Just the Way You Are.

Scott City has a tremendous turnoutfor their reunions and I understandthey have no formal program. Theyhave several dances instead where thevarious age groups can gather, hearmusic from their era and reminiscewith old classmates. Would this bepreferable to what we’ve been doing?

Please attend the meeting, shareyour ideas and volunteer to help. Weneed a lot of younger grads to get in-volved in order to continue these funevents in the future.

Looking forward to a great celebration,

Neal R. Gillespie

Attention HHS Graduates for the One Hundredth Reunion!!Neal Gillespie

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Former Hugoton residentG. W. Thompson, age 80, ofBison, passed away Thurs-day evening, February 6,2014 at Via Christi St. Fran-cis Hospital in Wichita.

Mr. Thompson was bornApril 30, 1933 at Cookeville,Tn. to William Thompsonand the former Dollie Hall-man.

G. W. grew up nearSpringfield, Tn. and moved tothe La Crosse area in 1962,having lived in Fritch, Tx.,Hugoton and Liberal. Hemoved to Bison in 2002.

A heavy equipment opera-tor for the pipeline construc-tion industry, G. W. workedfor Brodie Construction ofAmarillo, Tx. and JomaxConstruction of Great Bendprior to his retirement. Hewas very good at bendingand engineering pipe, andloved working in his shop. Healso loved hunting and fish-ing. In his younger days heloved horses and horsebackriding.

May 4, 1957, G. W. wasunited in marriage to HelenE. Hallman in Russellville,Ky. She preceded him indeath January 22, 2004. Hemarried Lois M. MendenhallNovember 22, 2004 at LaCrosse.

Survivors include his wifeLois M. Thompson of Bison;three sons, David W. Thomp-

son of Pratt, Daniel L.Thompson and wife Julie ofTonganoxie and Dennis R.Thompson and wife Christineof Lathrop, Mo.; one daugh-ter, Deborah K. Brashier andhusband Larry of Norman,Ok.; his 12 grandchildren;four great grandchildren; twobrothers, Minor L. Thompsonof Soda Springs, Id. andFranklin Thompson and wifeZita of Russellville, Ky.; andhis sister-in-law Lois Thomp-son of Norman, Ok.

Mr. Thompson was pre-ceded in death by his par-ents; his first wife Helen;three brothers; and two sis-ters.

Funeral services were at-tended Tuesday afternoon,February 11, 2014 at theJanousek Funeral Home inLa Crosse. Interment fol-lowed in the La Crosse CityCemetery.

Memorials are suggestedto the American Heart Asso-ciation, the local chapter ofthe American Red Cross, orthe donor’s choice.

Condolences or remem-brances may be left for thefamily at www.charterfunerals.com/locations/janousek-lacrosse.php.

Arrangements were byJanousek Funeral Home,719 Pine, P.O. Box 550, LaCrosse, Ks. 67548, 785-222-2517.

G. W. Thompson

JANUARY 2014

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MUNICIPAL COURTMUNICIPAL COURT

Stevens County Emer-gency Services run activityfor February 3 through Feb-ruary 8.Fire Department

Hugoton Station No activity this period. Fire Department

Moscow Station No activity this period.

Ambulance Activity Two medical runs, threetransfers and two motor ve-hicle accidents.

Stevens County Fire Department

andAmbulance Report

WHAT’S HAPPENIN’

ARE YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS

TAXABLE? If you’ve recently begun re-ceiving Social Security benefitsor plan to apply in the near fu-ture, you may be wonderingthis tax season: are Social Se-curity benefits taxable?

The short answer is: some-times. Some people have to payfederal income taxes on theirSocial Security benefits. Thisusually happens only if youhave other substantial income(such as wages, self-employ-ment, interest, dividends andother taxable income thatmust be reported on your taxreturn) in addition to your So-cial Security benefits. There is never a case whena person pays tax on morethan 85 percent of his or herSocial Security benefits, based

on Internal Revenue Service(IRS) rules. Now, let’s get downto the numbers. If you file a federal tax re-turn as an individual and yourincome is between $25,000and $34,000, you may have topay income tax on up to 50percent of your benefits. If yourincome is more than $34,000,then up to 85 percent of yourbenefits may be taxable. If you are married and youfile a joint return, and you andyour spouse have a combinedincome that is between$32,000 and $44,000, you

may have to pay income tax onup to 50 percent of your bene-fits. If your combined income ismore than $44,000, then up to85 percent of your benefitsmay be taxable. Note your “income” for thepurpose of determiningwhether you must pay taxes onsome of your Social Securitybenefits includes your adjustedgross income, your nontaxableinterest, and one half of yourSocial Security benefits. In January, you shouldhave received a Social SecurityBenefit Statement showing theamount of benefits you re-ceived last year. You can usethis statement, or SSA-1099,when completing your federalincome tax return to find outwhether some of your benefitsare subject to federal incometax. If you didn’t receive yours,you can request one atwww.socialsecurity.gov/1099. So, are your Social Securitybenefits taxable? Maybe. Tolearn more, read page 14 of ourbooklet, Retirement Benefits,available at www.socialsecu-rity.gov/pubs or visitwww.irs.gov/ to obtain moredetailed information on thesubject.

Kansas Attorney GeneralDerek Schmidt announcedmore than 500 roofing contrac-tors are now registered with hisoffice and have received certifi-cation to operate in the State ofKansas.

“More Kansas roofing com-panies are becoming aware oftheir new legal obligation toregister with our office,”Schmidt said. “As the homeimprovement season ap-proaches in the spring, con-sumers should also be awareof this requirement and re-quest a copy of the registrationcertificate from any roofer be-fore signing any contract.”

The new Kansas RoofingContractor Registration Act isaimed at helping consumersavoid doing business with un-scrupulous or fly-by-night op-erators who do not comply withregistration requirements. Thelaw was passed during the2013 legislative session andtook effect July 1, 2013. Thelaw requires every roofing con-tractor to obtain a registrationcertificate from the Kansas At-torney General in order tolegally provide commercial orresidential roofing services for

a fee in Kansas.Schmidt said his office is

continuing to work with tradeassociations and local govern-ment construction permittingoffices to help contractors com-ply with the new law. Roofingcontractors who have not al-ready registered may do so byvisiting www.InYour-CornerKansas.org. Consumersmay also visit the Web site tocheck the registration status ofa roofing contractor.

The Hugoton Hermes Thursday, February 13, 2014

SOCIAL SECURITY NEWSBy Rich FowlerSocial Security Operations Supervisor in Dodge City

Dustin E JohnFinancial Advisor.

608 S Main Street

Hugoton, KS 67951

620-544-8818

Dustin E JohnsonFinancial Advisor Stephanie A Weeast,

CFP®, AAMS®Financial Advisor

Legislative UpdateLegislative Update

Saturday, February 15, at 4:00 p.m.at the Stevens County Library Meeting Room

SenatorLarry Powell

RepresentativeStephen Alford

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Economic Development Board

Stevens CountyFarm BureauAssociation

and theHugoton Area Chamber of Commerce and their Gold Members

Jordan Air Inc.

COMPLETE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES• Including Family and Marriage Counseling •

Southwest Guidance CenterCall 624-8171 for an appointment

routes and closing alleys dur-ing this construction.

Sunflower Electric Power in-formed the city Hugoton will berequired to upgrade the gener-ation meters at a cost of$83,136.62. This is required tomeet the Southwest Power Poolregulations. The council tookno action on the request.

Jan Leonard and DavidSnyder of the Hugoton Recre-ation addressed the city coun-cil regarding installing anine-hole frisbee golf course atRaydene Park. They had re-ceived petitions asking for afrisbee golf course. The councilpassed the motion to install acourse subject to the city attor-ney checking the pipelineright-of-way.

Paul Nordyke reported tothe council the city needs todrill another water well. He hadbeen consulting with GaryBaker about what needed to bedone for this project. The coun-cil asked Paul to continuechecking about drilling a newwell.

Paul also told the council itwas time to clean and inspectthe water tower and reservoirs.He had received bids and thelow bid was $5,670. This wasfrom Liquid Engineering. Thiscontractor was the same onewho last cleaned the waterstructures in 2006. The coun-

cil passed the motion to acceptthe low bid.

Nordyke informed the coun-cil the city roundtop has no in-sulation. The heating bills runover $400 a winter month forthis building and have run ashigh as $1,300. Spray FoamSolutions, LLC offered to spraytwo inches insulation insidefor $8,228. Trucks and equip-ment are stored in this build-ing. The City cannot allow thisbuilding to freeze inside. Thecouncil voted to approve get-ting the roundtop insulated bySpray Foam Solutions, LLC.

Hicks asked the council totrade the President’s Day holi-day for the day after Christ-mas. The holiday being in themiddle of the month causes ahardship for customers payingtheir utility bills. The councilagreed to change the holidayfor the office employees. Thismeans the city office will beopen February 17, 2014.

Mayor Rowden brought upthe subject of how rough theroads were around the Hal-liburton railroad tracks. Hal-liburton is responsible for thisroad. The city clerk was in-structed to write Halliburtonand the railroad a letter con-cerning this road.

The meeting adjourned.The next meeting will be March10, 2014.

January Students of the Month for HugotonMiddle School are eighth graders Madison

Shuck and Mitchell Hamlin and seventhgraders Jeff Persinger and Aylin Avila.

Kansas roofing companies nowrequired to register with AG

City CouncilContinued from page 1

Hugoton’s City Council discussed annexing the highlighted area during their February 10 meeting.

The late Emmett and Har-riet Reardon have beennamed the 2014 MuseumSweethearts. Emmett andHarriet were married in 1942.They had three children;Charlotte Thomas, KathleenFurr both of Hugoton andHarold Reardon of Tyrone,Ok.

Emmett served in theArmy Air Corps in WWII forfour years after being draftedin 1942, including a sixmonth tour on the island ofGuam. Following the war, hereturned to Hugoton andworked at Citizens StateBank until his retirement in1974.

Harriet made many quiltsand was called “The QuiltLady.” Two of her quilts arepictured in this Hermesissue.

Stevens County Gas andHistorical Museum is openMonday through Friday from1:00 until 5:00 p.m. They areopen 1:00 until 4:00 p.m. onSaturdays. Visitors are al-ways welcome.

Harriet’s Pineapple quilt, 1995

Harriet’s Candlewick,1984

MUSEUM UPDATEfrom The Stevens County Gas & Historical MuseumGladys Renfro, Beulah Carter and Linda McCrary

The late Emmett and Harriet Reardon have been named theMuseum Sweethearts for 2014. Harriet’s wedding dress andEmmett’s Army uniform, shown above, are up for display at theStevens County Gas and Historical Museum. They were StevensCounty residents for most of their lives.

Karen McClure - McClureFarms of Hugoton - has beenselected as a winner in thefourth annual America’s Farm-ers Grow CommunitiesSM,sponsored by the MonsantoFund. Grow Communities givesfarmers the opportunity to wina $2,500 donation to direct totheir favorite local nonprofit or-ganizations. Saturday, Febru-ary 8, at the Hugoton MiddleSchool, Daron Cowan, a Mon-santo representative, partici-pated in giving the check toStevens County 4-H.

In 1,289 eligible counties in39 states, farmers could signup for the opportunity to win a$2,500 donation for their fa-vorite community nonprofit.Karen won and chose to directthis $2,500 donation to StevensCounty 4-H. The purpose of

Grow CommunitiesSM is to rec-ognize and celebrate the impor-tant contributions farmersmake to rural America, and to

help them grow their communi-ties by supporting local organi-zation that are important tothem.

More than 82,000 farmersacross the country participatedin the program this year, with awinning farmer selected in eacheligible county.

America's Farmers GrowCommunitiesSM is sponsored bythe Monsanto Fund to highlightthe important contributionsfarmers make every day to so-ciety and to help them positivelyimpact their communities. Thisprogram is part of the Mon-santo Fund's overall effort tosupport rural America.


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Opinion PageOur opinion page is open to the public.We encourage comments from readersin the form of letters to the editor or guestcolumns. All letters must be signed andmust include the address and telephonenumber of the sender. (names will be pub-lished but not address & phone#) Lettersshould be no more than 300 words. Nolibelous or offensive letter will be pub-lished. The guest column or letter to theeditor does not reflect the opinion of thisnewspaper or its representatives.

Citizens State Bank601 S. Main - Hugoton

Pyramid Agency, Inc.521 S. Main - Hugoton

PAUL'S FUNERAL HOMEDavid & Brandy Robson

314 S. Van Buren 544-4122

Faith Publishing LLC522 S. Main 620-544-4321

TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH516 N.E. Avenue 544-2355Morning Worship - 9:00 a.m.

Fellowship/Refreshments - 10:00 a.m.Sunday School - 10:30 a.m.

Rev. Larry Bradford, Interim Pastor544-9492 or 598-2400

YOU ARE WELCOME!UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

828 S. Main Hugoton 544-8715Reverend Jo Mead, Pastor

Monday Bible Study - 1:30 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.Wednesday Praise! Kids - 3:45 p.m.

Wednesday Jr. High Youth Fellowship - 5:30 p.m.Wednesday Sr. High Youth Fellowship - 7:00 p.m.

Sunday School - 9:45 a.m.Morning Worship - 11:00 a.m.

HugotonUMC.com

ROLLAEMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH

202 Monroe St. - Rolla, Ks. 67954Henry McGuire, Pastor 593-4693

Sunday School - 10:00 a.m.Sunday Morning Worship - 11:00 a.m.

Sunday Evening Service - 6:00 p.m.Wednesday Evening, AWANA’s - 6:45 p.m.

ROLLA PENTECOSTALHOLINESS CHURCH

Corner of Third and Adams, RollaMarcus Light, Pastor

Church - 593-4626, Parsonage - 593-4796Sunday School - 10:00 a.m.

Worship - 11:00 a.m.Wednesday night meal - 6:00 p.m.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCHROLLA - RICHFIELD

593-4596 or 593-4781Sandy Ferguson, Pastor

Rolla Morning Worship - 11:00 a.m.Sunday School - 10:00 a.m.Youth Groups - 5:00 p.m.

Richfield Morning Worship - 9:15 a.m.Sunday School - 10:30 a.m.

MOSCOWMOSCOW BAPTIST CHURCH598-2455 Church - 598-2400 Home

Rev. Larry Bradford, Pastor1 mile S. of Moscow, 1/2 mile E. of

Moscow/Hooker Rd.Morning Worship - 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.Wednesday Bible Study - 7:00 p.m.

Team Kids (Wed.) - 3:30-5:00p.m. Sept.-MayMOSCOW UNITED METHODIST

598-2426Tim McCrary, Pastor 598-2421


Kid’s Club - Wednesday 3:30 p.m.UMYF Jr. High - 6:00 p.m.UMYF Sr. High - 5:00 p.m.

FAITH LUTHERANTenth and Adams 544-2092

Christopher M. Fincher, PastorMorning Worship - 9:00 a.m.Sunday School - 10:30 a.m.

Bible Study, Wednesday - 7:30 p.m.FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH

600 S. Van Buren - 544-2715Pastor Heath Kelley

Sunday School - 9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.Fellowship - 10:15 - 10:30 a.m.Worship Hour - 10:30 - 12:00Children's Church, 10:30 a.m.

Jr. High Youth Group, 6:30-7:30 p.m.Sr. High Youth Group, 7:45-9:00 p.m.

Information on small groups call 544-2715FIRST CHURCH OF GOD801 W. City Limits 544-2652

Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.Morning Worship - 10:30 a.m.Evening Worship - 7:00 p.m.

Wednesday Evening Service - 7:00 p.m.Call 544-2652 for Church Bus

HUGOTON BAPTIST CHURCHEighth and Main 544-2210506 East Eighth - 544-2295Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship - 10:30 a.m.Wednesday Bible Study - 6:30 p.m.

LIGHTHOUSE FELLOWSHIP424 S. Jackson 544-4828

Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.Sunday Church - 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday - 7:00 p.m.Pre-Service Prayer - half hour before service

LONE STAR FRIENDS CHURCH14 Miles East of Hugoton on Highway 51

Church 624-3784 Home 624-3104Sunday School - 9:45 a.m.

Contemporary Worship Celebration - 10:45 a.m.Jr. High & Sr. High Youth Group - Sunday 6:30 p.m.

Sunday Evening Fellowship - 6:00 p.m.Wednesday Evening Adult Study - 6:30 p.m.

Prayer Meeting Wednesday - 8:00 p.m.Christian Life Club (age 2 - 18) - 6:30 p.m.

MY FATHER’S HOUSEA Full Gospel Church207 East 6th - Hugoton

Pam Peachey, Pastor544-2436Services

Sundays 10:30 a.m. & 5:00 p.m.PRIMERO BAUTISTA IGLESIA

HISPANO Congregación618 Main sur - Hugoton

620-370-1003Pastor Marcelino Auila

Servicio de la Iglesia11:00 a.m. - Domingo7:00 p.m. - Miércoles

SOVEREIGN REDEEMER CHURCHPastor - Eric Mason

620-544-6386www.sovereignredeemerchurch.org

ST. HELEN CATHOLIC CHURCH1011 South Jefferson Street 544-2551

Sunday - 11:00 a.m. English Mass- 1:00 p.m. - Spanish Mass

AGAPE CHURCH OF HUGOTON

409 East Ninth, Hugoton453-2711

Pastor Bob RichSunday – 10:30 a.m.

ASAMBLEA DE DIOSLOS REDIMIDOS DEL REY

Martes 7:00 PMJueves 7:00 PM

Domingo 3:00 PM138 S. Main Hugoton

Pastores: Martinez620-544-7096

ASSEMBLY OF GODMain and Second Street

544-2773Ben Coats, Pastor


Life Groups Sunday Nights - 6:00 p.m.Inside Out Kids Wed. - 6:30 p.m.

Student Ministry @ The Turnaround - Wed. 7:00 p.m.

BETHEL FRIENDS CHURCH

11th & Jefferson - 544-8517Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.

Morning Service - 10:30 a.m.Wednesday Evening Ministries - 6:30 p.m.

(Children, Youth, & Adult)

CHURCH OF CHRIST1045 S. Van Buren

Church: 544-2825 Home: 453-0965Lee Rottman

1041 S. Van BurenWednesday - 7:00 p.m.


Evening Service - 6:00 p.m.CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST

OF LATTER DAY SAINTS520 E. First

544-2125Sacrament - 9:00 a.m.

Sunday School - 10:00 a.m.Priesthood - 11:00 a.m.

CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE500 S. Van Buren 544-2493

Pastor Dave PiperSunday School - 9:45 a.m.

Morning Worship - 10:45 a.m.Evening Services - 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday Bible Study - 7:00 p.m.COWBOY CHURCH - HUGOTONSecond & Fourth Tuesday of every month

Stevens County Commercial Building at Fairgrounds 7:00 p.m.

FAITH CHAPEL CHURCHOF GOD IN CHRIST

Tenth and JeffersonLawrence Johnson, PastorSunday School - 10:00 a.m.

Morning Worship - 11:00 a.m.Bible Band (Tuesday) - 6:00 p.m.

Home and Forn. Miss. (Friday) - 6:00 p.m.Youth - 6:00 p.m.

Bible Study - 7:00 p.m.

You are invited tocome worship withfamily and friends at Pioneer Manor

February 16Trinity Baptist

February 23Agape

It is with joy that Tiffany Gretchen Bennett ofGoodland and Michael Dean Heston of Hugoton willshare in celebration of love as they exchange theirmarriage vows Saturday, March 8, 2014 at 4:00 p.m.at the Calvary Gospel Church in Goodland. A reception will immediately follow the ceremony.

Bennet t - Heston

Monsanto representative Daron Cowan presents a check for$2,500 to Stevens County 4-H. Karen McClure is the winner inthe fourth annual America’s Farmers Grow Communities spon-sored by the Monsanto Fund. Karen selected Stevens County 4-H to receive the donation. Front row kneeling left to right areLainey Cox, Madison Crawford, Claudia Clark, Amya Johnson

and Riley Fann. Back row standing are Jacob Bell, SydneyBeesley, Adyson Gooch, Montana Beesley, Lacey Brecheisen,Ashlyn Schechter, (Jeff Cutter in the red and white stripedshirt), Claire Clark, Rebecca Johnson, Karen McClure, Joel Mc-Clure, Dorothy McClure, Walter McClure and 4-H CouncilPresident Megan Newlon shaking hands with Daron Cowan.

Kansas residents who re-ceive unusual phone calls oremails from a person claim-ing to be affiliated with aKansas court need to beaware they might be the tar-get of a scam.

In one scam, residents re-port they received a phonecall from someone claiming tobe affiliated with a local courtor sheriff’s office who de-mands the person pay a finefor failing to report for juryduty. Anyone who receives acall of this type should hangup immediately and report itto local law enforcement.

In another scam, residentsreport receiving an email

from a Kansas court encour-aging them to click on a linkto confirm a court complaintwas filed. It is believed thelink is used to deliver a virusonto the recipient’s computerwhen it is clicked. Anyonewho receives an email of thistype should delete it immedi-ately.

A person who receives anunusual communication notfitting the profile of either ofthese scams can contact alocal court official to confirmwhether it is valid.

Story submitted by State ofKansas Office of Judicial Administration.

Seward County Commu-nity College/Area TechnicalSchool will be participating inThe ‘National’ College GoalSunday program. College GoalSunday provides assistance tofamilies who are applying forfinancial aid. Volunteers willassist individuals in filling outthe Free Application for Fed-eral Financial Aid (FAFSA)from 2:00-4:00 p.m., Sunday,February 23 in the LiberalHigh School Library.

“By delivering help to fami-lies in our community, CollegeGoal Sunday helps ensurethat students get the help theyneed crossing the paper bar-rier as they qualify for finan-cial aid,” said Donna Fisher,SCCC/ATS director of finan-cial aid.

College Goal Sunday isopen to all college-bound stu-dents regardless of age.Whether a prospective studentis going to be a recent highschool graduate or someonereturning to education later inlife, College Goal Sunday willhelp them complete theFAFSA, accurately and ontime. A $500 scholarship willalso be awarded to one stu-dent who will be a first semes-ter freshman in the fall of2014.

For information, contactShannon Davis at 620-417-1113 or [email protected].

For the 2014-15 schoolyear you will need financial in-formation from 2013. To ac-

curately complete the FAFSAplease bring the followingitems with you:• Your Social Security card.It is important you enter yourSocial Security Number cor-rectly!• Your driver’s license (if any)• Your 2013 W-2 forms andother records of money earned• Your (and your spouse’s, ifyou are married) 2013 FederalIncome Tax Return if com-pleted – bring your 2012 taxesif your 2013 taxes are notdone. (Other applicable re-turns are: Foreign Tax Return,or Tax Return for Puerto Rico,Guam, American Samoa, theU.S. Virgin Islands, the Mar-shall Islands, the FederalStates of Micronesia, or Palau)• Your Parents’ 2013 FederalIncome Tax Return (if you area dependent student) if com-pleted – bring the 2012 taxesif the 2013 taxes are not done• Your/your parents’ 2013untaxed income records• Your/your parents’ currentbank statements• Your/your parents’ currentbusiness and investmentmortgage information, busi-ness and farm records, stock,bond and other investmentrecords• Your alien registration orpermanent resident card (ifyou are not a U.S. citizen)

Submitted by SewardCounty Community College/Area Technical School.

People frequently takehuman hair for granted, es-pecially if they have it inabundance. While hair canhelp keep your head warm,there’s more to hair thanwhat meets the eye. For ahealthy individual with nohair diseases, hair is verystrong with enormous tensilestrength. In fact, human hairis about as strong as copperwire of the same diameter.That means one strand ofhair can support up to 100grams in weight. Consideringthe average head of hair con-tains about 100,000 to150,000 strands of hair in all,the combined strength ofhuman hair could feasiblysupport up to 12 tons, or theequivalent of two African ele-phants.

From Metro Editorial Serv-ices.

Karen McClure is selected winner and passes winnings to Stevens County 4-H

The strength of hair is impressive

College Goal Sunday coming February 23

Unusual phone calls or emails?Contact a local court official


(First published in the Hugoton Her-mes, Thursday, February 13, 2014) 3t

All trailer houses being moved intoStevens County must be 1994 ornewer and must be inspected by thezoning administrator of StevensCounty . The Stevens County zoningregulations were adopted in 1995. Ifyou have any questions about the reg-ulations please call Roger Lynch, 620-544-2541 or 620-544-3953.

Roger E. Lynch, Stevens CountyZoning Administrator

PUBLICNOTICE

Many Stevens County Hos-pital staff members hadclients seeing red last Friday -but for a good cause.

The American Heart Asso-ciation has designated Febru-ary American Heart Month

and encouraged people to “GoRed for Women” Friday, Feb-ruary 7, to bring more atten-tion to heart disease, thenumber-one killer of womenin the United States. Eachyear cardiovascular diseases

claim the lives of nearly half amillion women - almost oneper minute.

Hospital staff donned theirred togs for the day to “Go Redfor Women” and “Go Red PorTu Corazon”, the latest His-

panic campaign.For more information

about the “Go Red” campaign,you may call the AmericanHeart Association at 888-MY-HEART (694-3278) or go towww.goredforwomen.org.

The Hugoton Girl Scouts have been busy completing activitiesto go along with the Girl Scout Law. They have learned newgames, songs and manners, and the girls have visited PioneerManor to learn about past customs. Please support the GirlScouts in buying Girl Scout Cookies which began selling Febru-ary 8. Monies from the sales help the Girl Scout Council andLocal Troops.

Since 1963, the Presidentof the United States has pro-claimed February as “Ameri-can Heart Month” to urgeAmericans to join the battleagainst cardiovascular dis-eases - the nation’s number-one killer. As a result, theAmerican Heart Associationencourages the public to usethis special opportunity tofocus on ways to buildhealthier lives, free of heartdisease and stroke.

About Cardiovascular Disease:

Cardiovascular disease af-fects one in three adults – anestimated 80.7 million Amer-icans. It kills one Americanevery 37 seconds, or 2,400people every single day. In

fact, cardiovascular diseaseclaims more lives than thenext four causes of deathcombined - cancer, respira-tory disease, accidents anddiabetes.

The American Heart Asso-ciation has set an aggressivegoal to improve the cardio-vascular health of all Ameri-cans by 20 percent, whilereducing deaths from cardio-vascular diseases and strokeby another 20 percent - all bythe year 2020.

Also, the association hasdefined ideal cardiovascularhealth, introducing an onlineresource: My Life Check. Thisresource can be found atwww.heart.org/MyLifeCheck.This important tool helps in-

dividuals easily identify sevensteps to achieving idealhealth and notes where eachperson is on the spectrum.But it doesn’t stop there. Italso helps them develop aplan to improve overallhealth.

The seven steps to idealcardiovascular health, knownas “Life’s Simple Seven”, areas follows:1. Get Active2. Eat Better3. Manage Blood Pressure4. Control Cholesterol5. Reduce Blood Sugar6. Lose Weight7. Stop Smoking

About Heart Attacks andStrokes:

It is important for the pub-

lic to recognize the signs ofheart attacks and strokes. Al-though the following is asummary, not all of thesesigns occur in every attack. Ifan individual notices one ormore of these signs, theAmerican Heart Associationencourages them to seekmedical attention immedi-ately.

Heart Attack WarningSigns:• Uncomfortable pressure,fullness, squeezing or pain inthe center of the chest lastingmore than a few minutes.• Pain spreading to theshoulders, neck or arms.• Chest discomfort withlightheadedness, fainting,sweating, nausea or short-

ness of breath.Stroke Warning Signs:• Sudden weakness ornumbness of the face, arm orleg on one side of the body.• Sudden dimness or loss ofvision, particularly in oneeye.• Loss of speech, or troubletalking or understandingspeech.• Sudden, severe headacheswith no apparent cause.• Unexplained dizziness,unsteadiness or sudden falls,especially along with any ofthe previous symptoms.

To learn more about Amer-ican Heart Month or theAmerican Heart Associationand its lifesaving mission “tobuild healthier lives free of

cardiovascular disease andstroke,” please log on towww.heart.org.

Submitted by the AmericanHeart Association.

SCH staff wears red for American Heart Month

Several Stevens County Hospital employees “saw red” last Fri-day, February 7 - but it was all for a good cause! Friday was“Wear Red for Women”, started by the American Heart Associ-

ation to bring attention to heart disease in women. Heart diseaseclaims the lives of nearly half a million women every year. Formore information, visit www.goredforwomen.org.

February deemed “American Heart Month” to support cardiovascular disease prevention

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It wasn’t your typical LadyEagles basketball game, Fridaynight at Colby. Hugoton startedout slow, and by the end of thefirst quarter the Lady Eaglestrailed by two. Fighting theirway back to the leading posi-tion, the Lady Eagles managedto take the lead 18 to 14 by halftime. Hugoton again struggledin the third quarter and lost thelead by one going into the finalquarter. Megan Cornelsen andKaty Heger put the team backon track, each scoring three-point baskets in the fourthquarter. Hugoton shut downthe Colby Lady Eagles in thisquarter and when the finalbuzzer finally sounded it wasthe Hugoton team on top, 41 to31.

Colby got the tip off to startthe game but could not get theshot. Hugoton was first on theboard with a three-point shotby Riley Sosa followed by a two-point shot by Heger. The LadyEagles let the Colby girls slip bythem to end the first quartertrailing 5 to 7.

The Lady Eagles did a betterjob in the second quarteradding 13 points to take thelead, 18 to 14 by half time. Sosahit her second three-point bas-ket along with three-point fieldgoals from Melissa Fabela andAmy Scott. Scott and Hegereach added two-point basketstaking the team to a four pointlead.

Hugoton struggled in thethird quarter only adding sixpoints before the quarter ended.“Cornelsen came off the benchand provided a big boost in in-tensity and she hit a three-pointer at the end of the third.Megan was the differencemaker for the team in thisquarter,” said Coach Jeff Ram-sey. Cornelsen also scored afree throw along with a two-point basket by Heger. Thisquarter ended with the LadyEagles trailing 24 to 25.

Every basketball game hasthat one quarter that makes adifference and the final quarterwas the one for the Lady Eagles.Hugoton was finally able to playball like they wanted and theresult was another win. Cor-nelsen stepped up and scored athree-point basket just beforeHeger came off the bench andquickly added another three-point basket from the corner.The Lady Eagle defense finallycame together to stop the ColbyLady Eagles and shut downtheir best score maker.

Heger led the Lady Eagles inscoring adding 16 points fol-lowed by Scott and Cornelsenwith seven each. Sosa and Scottled in rebounding with five eachand Scott had three assists.“The Lady Eagles played a verysolid defensive ball game andheld Colby’s best player to onlyseven points,” concluded Ram-sey.


HUGOTON UPTOWNAUTOBODY

624 S. Monroe 544-4683

600 E. 11th 544-8686

Hwy 51 East Hugoton, KS

620.544.4388MusgroveInsuranceServices, Inc.

“Helping You Put The Pieces Together.”1012 S. Main St., Hugoton, KS 67951

838 E. 11th, Hugoton • 620-544-8522

Jordan Air IncCall Terry at620-544-4361

Member FDIC www.csbks.com

113 W. 6TH HUGOTON, KANSAS

1026 S. MainHugoton

620-544-8011

Hi-Plains Lumber507 S. Main 544-4304

620-544-8908www.fnbhugoton.com • Member FDIC

Phone (620) 544-4920Hugoton, Kansas 67951

Commodity Hauling

Jeff Ramsey 613 S. Main • 544-4303 • Hugoton

531 S. Jackson Hugoton, KS 67951 620-544-7800

620-544-2975

Debbie L. Nordling State Farm Agent617 S. MainHugoton, KS 67951620-544-8528

K-C Oil Company &Main Street Laundry

218 S. Main St. • 544-4660

BROWN-DUPREEOIL CO INC.

1400 S Washington St. 356-3926

or 1-800-682-4143

GOOD LUCKON YOUR

WINTERSPORTS

A Nursing/Ancillary Resource Company620-417-5679 Office • 620-544-7629 Fax

Ed Stevenson RN • Alicia Stevenson404 Jayhawk Ct. • Hugoton, KS 67951

www.nurselinkstaffing.com • [email protected]

Thursday, February 13Wrestling JV Dual @ Ulysses

High School; 6:00 p.m.Wrestling Varsity Dual @

Ulysses High School; 6:00 p.m.Friday, February 14

High School Basketball vsGuymon @ Home:

- Boys JV; 4:45 p.m.- Girls JV; 4:45 p.m.- Girls V; 6:30 p.m.- Boys C-Team; 6:30 p.m.- Boys V; 8:00 p.m.

Tuesday, February 18High School Basketball vs

Ulysses @ Home:- Boys JV; 4:45 p.m.- Girls JV; 4:45 p.m.

- Girls V; 6:30 p.m.- Boys C-Team; 6:30 p.m.- Girls V; 8:00 p.m.- Boys V; 8:00 p.m.

Thursday, February 20Eighth Grade Boys Basket-

ball B-Team @ Dodge City Mid-dle School; 4:00 p.m.

Seventh Grade Boys Basket-ball B-Team vs Dodge City Mid-dle @ Home; 4:00 p.m.

Eighth Grade Boys Basket-ball A-Team @ Dodge City Mid-dle School; 5:00 p.m.

Seventh Grade Boys Basket-ball A-Team vs Dodge City Mid-dle School @ Home; 5:00 p.m.

Sports Schedule

Dirtona Racewayis looking for sponsors or donations

to have three races this year:

Dates of Races:April 18May 31

July 26 - Fair RaceIf interested contact Millie Heger at

620-544-6892 or PO Box 594, Hugoton, 67951

Sports by

Reece McDaniels

The Eagles won anothergame Friday night when theytraveled to Colby taking theirrecord to seven and seven.Hugoton was off to a slowstart trailing by four at halftime. Kicking it up a notch,the Eagles trailed by onegoing into the final quarter.Hugoton added another 23points in the final quarterwhile holding Colby to 17.Hugoton won the battle, 58 to53.

Nine Eagles scored againstColby with Kellen Watkins

being the only player to reachdouble digits. Watkins scoredten points, followed by ParkerTitus, Zack Leininger andJeison Rodriguez each scor-ing nine. Logan Frederickadded eight, Reid Davisscored seven, Ulises Armen-dariz scored three and NicFrederick scored one.

The Eagles will face Guy-mon, Ok. Friday for Home-coming. Varsity boys’ gamestarts at 8:00 p.m. Come outand help support the hometeam!

Former Hugoton residentHenry Vela’s decision to moveto Liberal for his senior sea-son in order to play soccer

has paid off with a collegescholarship. Vela has signedto play soccer at Pratt Community College.

By Tom HicksThe Hugoton Middle

School eighth grade boyshosted the Liberal SouthApaches Saturday morningin a makeup game resched-uled from February 4. Theweekend did not get off to agood start for the visitors asthe Eagles administered a 45-7 beat down in the “A” gameand also dominated by a 31-16 margin in the “B” game.

The outcome of the “A”game was literally decided inthe first few minutes. Hugo-ton scored the game’s firstten points in just over threeminutes before the Apachesgot on the scoreboard. Theperiod ended with HMS com-pletely in control 17-2.Nathan Leininger, with sevenpoints, and Paden Cornelsen,with six points, led the bar-rage.

Mitchell Hamlin had thehot hand in the second quar-ter, with six points, and fin-ished as HMS’ leading scorerwith 12 points. Leiningerconnected on a three-pointeras the third quarter ended tobring his final tally to tenpoints.

Cornelsen followed withnine points. Damyan DonJuan scored six points. IsaacSanchez contributed fourpoints. Isai Cabezas recordedthree points, and Luis Contr-eras added one point.

Azarael Rodriguez led the“B” team with 11 points. Ro-drigo Sanchez took runner-up honors with six points.Jahaziel Garcia and ArmandoMartinez accounted for fourpoints apiece. AngelQuezada, Colton Swinneyand Ivan Villa scored twopoints.

Hugoton hosts Liberal South’s Apachesfor a Saturday morning beat down

Senior Bradley Campbell, son of Brian and Candice Campbellsigns with McPherson College to play football for 2014-15 schoolyear. Bradley will be playing linebacker on special teams for theMcPherson Bulldogs under the direction of Coach Steve Fox.McPherson College is NAIA and plays in the KCAC conference.Pictured with Bradley is his father Brian Campbell on the leftand head coach Clint Merritt, Hugoton High School. Photocourtesy of Kathy Pate.

Karessa Nordyke places at theKansas Collegiate AthleticConference (KCAC) IndoorTrack Championships forBethany College. Karessa isshown with her second placemedal.

Karessa Nordyke placedsecond in the women's weightthrow with an 11.83 meterperformance at the KansasCollegiate Athletic Conference(KCAC) Indoor Track Cham-pionships for Bethany CollegeFebruary 7 at Kansas StateUniversity. She is a freshmanat Bethany College. She alsoplaced tenth in the shot putwith a mark of 9.08 meter.Karessa is a 2013 graduate ofHugoton High School.

Karessa is the daughter ofPaul and Shannon Nordykeof Hugoton.

Eagles earn seventh “W” at Colby

Lady Eagles start offsluggish against Colby

Manuel Mendez looks for a teammate to pass the ball to duringrecent varsity basketball action. Friday varsity Eagles take onthe Guymon Tigers for Homecoming.

Taylor Fiss tries for an open teammate during varsity basketballaction recently. Varsity Lady Eagles have a 13-2 record going inthe Homecoming game Friday.

Former HHS student Henry Velaearns Pratt soccer scholarship

Karessa earnssilver medalfor Bethany

Second place finisher Bradley Campbell tries to pin his opponent during GWAC action in Goodland.

Pedro Ordonez, freshman 126 pounder, places second at theGWAC Duals in Goodland Saturday.

The Hugoton wrestling teamtraveled to Goodland Saturday,February 8 for GWAC Duals.The team placed fifth.

Placers for Hugoton weresecond place Pedro Ordonezand Bradley Campbell. Thirdplace finishers were Kole Kahland Nick Evans.

Edgar Villa, Genesis Mar-tinez, Noel Camacho and Lan-dan Hickey all placed fourth.

Warrior of the Week was sen-ior Kole Kahl.

“The GWAC is a very toughwrestling league. Having saidthat, we probably could havewrestled better. There wereprobably five or six matchesover the course of the day thatwe should have won,” saidCoach Brent Mahan.

Pedro Ordonez, freshman126 pounder, lost his firstmatch of the day to Travis Fin-ley from Colby. Pedro has wres-tled Finley quite a bit throughmiddle school and the matcheshave always been close. Truth-fully Pedro beat Finley Saturdaybut lost the match due to fourcautions - similar to a false startin football. In the course of awrestling match the first twocautions against a wrestler arewarnings. The third caution is apoint, and the fourth is twopoints. Pedro’s third caution putthe Finley match into overtime,and his fourth cost him thematch. The cool part about thewhole incident is Pedro bouncedback and absolutely destroyed avery tough 126 pound weightclass; including the #1 rankedguy in the state, James Jurgensfrom Scott City, whom Pedrobeat solidly 5 to 4. It was one ofthose matches that was notnearly as close as the scorewould indicate. Bradley Camp-bell was having a great day 4and 0 and beat the Ulysses 195pounder Diego Maravilla, evenwhen he made a mistake, andMaravilla is very good at capital-izing on mistakes. Bradley hasbeaten Maravilla twice, andMaravilla has beaten Bradleythree times in the last two sea-sons. Which makes the dualnext Thursday very interest-ing… “and I am going to predictthat Bradley and Maravilla willmeet again at regionals andhonestly could wrestle again forthe eighth time at the Statetournament,” said Mahan.

Also wrestling for the Eaglesat the GWAC duals were ReedRome and Josh Kirby.

GWAC Wrestling Tourna-ment - Hugoton High Schoolfifth placeMatch #1 Round 1: Colby HighSchool defeated Hugoton HighSchool 72-3

At 120 - Tanner Elias (ColbyHigh School) over Reed Rome(Hugoton High School) Fall 1:01

At 126 - Travis Finley (ColbyHigh School) over Pedro Or-donez (Hugoton High School)Dec 5-3

At 138 - Brett Schroeder(Colby High School) over EdgarVilla (Hugoton High School) Fall5:33

At 145 - Brady Holzmeister(Colby High School) over Gene-sis Martinez (Hugoton HighSchool) Dec 5-4

At 152 - Bryce Arnberger(Colby High School) over JoshKirby (Hugoton High School)Fall 1:01

At 170 - Connor Edmundson(Colby High School) over KoleKahl (Hugoton High School) Fall3:01

At 182 - Andrew Taylor(Colby High School) over NoelCamacho (Hugoton HighSchool) Fall 1:52

At 195 - Bradley Campbell(Hugoton High School) over JayZiegelmeier (Colby High School)Dec 9-2

At 220 - Austin Hart (ColbyHigh School) over LandanHickey (Hugoton High School)Fall 1:53Match #2 Round 2: HugotonHigh School defeated HolcombHigh School 54-30

At 120 - Reed Rome (Hugo-ton High School) over Unknown(Unattached) Forf

At 126 - Pedro Ordonez(Hugoton High School) over JoeErskin (Holcomb High School)Fall 3:26

At 138 - Edgar Villa (Hugo-

ton High School) over JonathanPrieto (Holcomb High School)Fall 1:34

At 145 - Logan Zahn (Hol-comb High School) over GenesisMartinez (Hugoton High School)Fall 0:23

At 152 - Josh Kirby (HugotonHigh School) over Unknown(Unattached) Forf

At 170 - Kole Kahl (HugotonHigh School) over Jake Hawkins(Holcomb High School) Fall 3:37

At 182 - Noel Camacho(Hugoton High School) over Un-known (Unattached) Forf

At 195 - Landan Hickey(Hugoton High School) over Un-known (Unattached) Forf

At 220 - Bradley Campbell(Hugoton High School) overAaron Hernandez (HolcombHigh School) Fall 1:04

At 285 - Nick Evans (Hugo-ton High School) over Unknown(Unattached) ForfMatch #3 Round 3: Scott CityHigh School defeated HugotonHigh School 42-27

At 120 - Chase Ramsey(Scott City High School) overReed Rome (Hugoton HighSchool) Dec 9-7

At 126 - Pedro Ordonez(Hugoton High School) overJames Jurgens (Scott City HighSchool) Dec 5-4

At 138 - Jesse Anchondo(Scott City High School) overEdgar Villa (Hugoton HighSchool) Dec 6-4

At 145 - Genesis Martinez(Hugoton High School) overKevin Lozano (Scott City HighSchool) Fall 5:31

At 152 - Abe Wiebe (ScottCity High School) over JoshKirby (Hugoton High School)Fall 0:51

At 170 - Kole Kahl (HugotonHigh School) over Unknown(Unattached) Forf

At 182 - Tre Stewart (ScottCity High School) over Noel Ca-macho (Hugoton High School)Fall 5:08

At 195 - Bradley Campbell(Hugoton High School) overGarrett Osborn (Scott City HighSchool) Fall 0:35

At 220 - Landan Hickey(Hugoton High School) over Un-known (Unattached) Forf Match #4 Round 4: GoodlandHigh School defeated HugotonHigh School 54-25

At 120 - Aaron Avelar (Good-land High School) over ReedRome (Hugoton High School)Fall 1:08

At 126 - Pedro Ordonez(Hugoton High School) overTanner Gastineau (GoodlandHigh School) Maj 9-1

At 138 - Brook Bahe (Good-land High School) over EdgarVilla (Hugoton High School) Fall1:00

At 145 - Genesis Martinez(Hugoton High School) overGerell Miller (Goodland HighSchool) Dec 7-4

At 152 - Ricky Milke (Good-land High School) over JoshKirby (Hugoton High School)Fall 0:11

At 170 - Colton Cooper(Goodland High School) overKole Kahl (Hugoton HighSchool) Fall 0:22

At 182 - Garrett Taylor(Goodland High School) overNoel Camacho (Hugoton HighSchool) Fall 2:53

At 195 - Bradley Campbell(Hugoton High School) over Un-known (Unattached) Forf

At 220 - Landan Hickey(Hugoton High School) over Un-known (Unattached) Forf

At 285 - Nick Evans (Hugo-ton High School) over Unknown(Unattached) ForfMatch #5 Round 5: Ulysses HighSchool defeated Hugoton HighSchool 42-24

At 120 - Zach Miller (UlyssesHigh School) over Reed Rome(Hugoton High School) Fall 3:21

At 126 - Pedro Ordonez(Hugoton High School) over LuisMendoza (Ulysses High School)Dec 7-3

At 138 - Edgar Villa (Hugo-ton High School) over KalerGilbert (Ulysses High School)Dec 4-2

At 145 - Bryce Rodriguez(Ulysses High School) over Gen-

esis Martinez (Hugoton HighSchool) Fall 1:14

At 152 - Juan Anguiano(Ulysses High School) over JoshKirby (Hugoton High School)Fall 0:18

At 170 - Kole Kahl (HugotonHigh School) over Unknown(Unattached) Forf

At 182 - Noel Camacho(Hugoton High School) over Un-known (Unattached) Forf

At 195 - Diego Maravilla(Ulysses High School) overBradley Campbell (HugotonHigh School) Fall 1:22

At 220 - Otto Orosco (UlyssesHigh School) over LandanHickey (Hugoton High School)Fall 0:48

At 285 - Nick Evans (Hugo-ton High School) over Unknown(Unattached) Forf


Sports by

Reece McDaniels

Project After Prom

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Reed Rome works to take down his opponent during the GWACDuals Saturday. Reed wrestles at 120 pounds.

Kole Kahl places third during the GWAC Duals. Kole shows hiswrestling skills trying to wrestle his opponent to the mat.

Hugoton High School wrestling cheerleaders are pumping upthe crowd in support of the varsity wrestlers at the GWAC Dualsin Goodland.

Hugoton grapplers take fifth at Goodland

Funding Now Available to Renovate Shelterbelts

and Restore Forested Riparian Areas

Application Deadline March 21, 2014

The U.S. Department of Agri-culture’s (USDA) Natural Re-sources Conservation Service(NRCS) State ConservationistEric B. Banks, Salina, an-nounced the availability of fiscalyear (FY) 2014 funding forKansas agriculture producers torenovate shelterbelts and restoreforested riparian buffers underthe Cooperative ConservationPartnership Initiative (CCPI).Sign-up deadline to be consid-

ered for this FY2014 funding isMarch 21, 2014. Producersneed to contact their local NRCSoffice to sign up. Producers areencouraged to sign up as soonas possible so all requests canbe completed by the deadline.

“Producers of forestland playpivotal roles in protecting andenhancing natural resources,"said Banks. "Our goal is to sup-port projects that will improvethe health of the natural re-sources on their land and bringthe environmental and eco-nomic benefits of conservationto their local communities.”

“The CCPI fits nicely into ren-ovation and restoration efforts,”

said Larry Biles, State Forester,Kansas Forest Service, Manhat-tan. “Over 44 percent of the43,436 miles of shelterbelts inKansas are in decline and are nolonger providing the benefitsthey once did. There is also asignificant percentage of ourKansas streams that lack ade-quate management and forestcover which directly contributesto bank erosion and advancedsedimentation of our reservoirs,reducing water supply to thepeople of Kansas.”

The USDA will provide$684,000 in financial assistancein FY2014 for the CCPI projectsin Kansas. These projects will

be administered by NRCS andwill work through the existingEnvironmental Quality Incen-tives Program (EQIP) to leverageadditional services and re-sources from the state forestryagency and other non-federalpartners to implement conser-vation on working farms,ranches and forest lands.

Any producers eligible forEQIP funding can participate inthe program. In Kansas, sociallydisadvantaged, limited resource,and beginning farmers andranchers will receive a higherpayment rate for conservationpractices related to CCPI. Addi-tional CCPI information can befound at www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main / k s / p r o g r a m s / f i n a ncial/ccpi/.

For more information aboutCCPI projects and other naturalresources conservation pro-grams, please contact your localNRCS office or conservation dis-trict office. The office is locatedat your local USDA Service Cen-ter (listed in the telephone bookunder United States Govern-ment or on the internet at offices.usda.gov. More informa-tion is also available on theKansas Web site atwww.ks.nrcs.usda.gov. Followus on Twitter @NRCS_Kansas.

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Stevens County 4-H ClubDay was Saturday, February 8at the Hugoton Middle School.Results of the Club Day eventsare as follows:

Model Meetings: Top Blue -Heartland, Blue - Wranglers.

Project Talks - Junior Divi-sion: Top Blue - Zachary Willis;Intermediate Division: Top Blue- Jacob Bell, Top Blue - BrookeHinds, Top Blue - MeganNewlon, Blue - Victoria Bryan,Blue - Garrette Hinds, Blue -McKenzie Hinds, Blue - RaeganHinds, Blue - Rebecca Johnson,Blue - Emma McClure, Blue -Molly McClure, Red - NicholasBryan, Red - Adyson Gooch.

Demonstrations and Illus-trated Talks - Junior Divi-sion: Top Blue - Faith Beesley,Top Blue - Zachary Willis, TopBlue - Katya Wolters, Red - EllaBeesley; Intermediate Division:Top Blue - Sydney Beesley, TopBlue - Jacob Bell, Top Blue -Kayle Wolters, Red - AmyaJohnson, Red - Emma McClure,Red - Jamyn Wolters; Senior Di-vision: Top Blue - LaceyBrecheisen, Top Blue - BradyHeger, Top Blue - Sarah John-son, Blue - Montana Beesley,Blue - Landon Brecheisen, Blue- Megan Bryan.

Readings - Junior Division:Top Blue - Lakota Persing, Blue- Catie Gooch, Blue - EmmettGaskill, Blue - JewelsKraisinger, Blue - CarsonSchechter, Blue - Tegyn Wolters;

Intermediate Division: Top Blue- Rebecca Johnson, Blue -Frances Gaskill, Blue - AshlynSchechter; Senior Division: TopBlue - Elizabeth Johnson.

Instrumental Music Solos -Junior Division: Top Blue -Jewels Kraisinger, Blue - EllaBeesley, Blue - Grace Dillinger,Blue - Emmett Gaskill, Blue -Jayce Heger, Blue - Lakota Pers-ing; Intermediate Division: TopBlue - Casle Heger, Top Blue -Megan Newlon, Blue - McKenzieHinds, Blue - Rebecca Johnson,Blue - Ashlyn Schechter, Red -Conner Wells, White - ValleryPersing; Senior Division: TopBlue - Elizabeth Johnson, TopBlue - Sarah Johnson.

Vocal Solo - Junior Divi-sion: Top Blue - Claudia Clark,Top Blue - Catie Gooch; Inter-mediate Division: Top Blue -Claire Clark, Top Blue - FrancesGaskill.

Vocal Duet - Junior Divi-sion: Top Blue - Claudia Clarkand Jayce Heger.

Vocal Talent - Junior Divi-sion: Top Blue - Faith Beesley,Blue - Jewels Kraisinger; Inter-mediate Division: Top Blue -Sydney Beesley; Senior Division:Top Blue - Montana Beesley.

Vocal Talent Chorus - Sen-ior Division: Top Blue - Clover-leaf Cowboys 4-H Club.

Skit - Senior Division: TopBlue - Cloverleaf Cowboys 4-HClub.

Congratulations to everyone.

Top Blue ribbon winners are el-igible to perform their presenta-tions at Regional 4-H Club Dayat Sublette March 1.

Anyone interested in learning

more about 4-H may contact theExtension Office at 544-4359, orstop by the Stevens County Ex-tension Office at 114 E. Fifth inHugoton.

Latest K-State Chemical Weed Control

Guide Now AvailableThe latest edition of Chemi-

cal Weed Control for FieldCrops, Pastures, Rangelandand Noncropland is now avail-able at our county Extension of-fice and online at www.stevens.ksu.edu/p.aspx?tabid=13 Much has changed in themagnitude of the weed controlguide over the years, but thepurpose remains the same. In1967 it consisted of 12 pages,with large print and a lot ofwhite space. The current guideis about 135 pages with verycondensed print and containsmuch more herbicide informa-tion. It has always been in-tended to be a resource to helpfarmers and crop advisors withselecting herbicides and usingthem appropriately.

The 1967 edition listed 16herbicide active ingredientswhile the latest edition includes

93 active ingredients. In addi-tion to those 93, the guide alsoincludes generic products andpre-mix combinations. Proba-bly the first place you would goto for reference would be the ef-ficacy tables. They have the var-ious herbicide treatments andcombinations listed by applica-tion timing, whether that is apreplant, preemergence orpostemergence herbicide. Thenit provides ratings for the kindof weed control we would antic-ipate on the common weedspecies in those crops.

We base the information in-cluded in the guide on field trialevaluations done by K-Statescientists, evaluations of newand established herbicides forcrop tolerance and weed con-trol, and recommendationsfrom chemical professionalsand other agronomists whohave performed herbicide test-ing in other states. Along withthe efficacy tables is informa-

tion about safe use and han-dling, protective equipment andherbicide resistance manage-ment. There is also a cost tableavailable, which is developed bysoliciting information from dis-tributors and adding in a per-centage markup for retail. Itdoes not account for possiblediscounts available throughlocal retailers, so growers mightend up paying less than theamount projected.

Additionally, there is infor-mation about managing pas-tures and rangeland, landenrolled in the ConservationReserve Program, noncroplandand noxious weeds as well. Theguide is just one source forweed control. People shouldalso consult their local crop ad-visors about herbicide applica-tion, as products might performdifferently in certain parts ofKansas. It is also not meant toserve as a replacement to theherbicide label, which is impor-

tant for people to read. The herbicide label is the

law, and that’s the resource youshould go to when using thoseherbicides. But, this guide doesprovide some comparisons, re-strictions and how the variousherbicides should be utilized. Itis surprising how manychanges have to be made to theguide annually. Therefore, any-one who has an outdated copyshould get the 2014 edition.

Stevens County 4-H Club Day results released

The Stevens County 4-H Shooting sports mem-bers participate in the SW 4-H Shootout inSublette Saturday, February 1. Pictured left toright are Coach Joshua Morris, Raegan Hinds,Jordyn Beard, Molly McClure, CJ Beard,

Grace Dillinger, Carter McClure, McKenzieHinds, Garrette Hinds, Brooke Hinds andCoach Ron Honig. Those participating that arenot pictured are Thomas Willis and ZacharyWillis.

These 4-Hers are participating in Family and Consumers Sci-ence Judging, Crops Judging, and a Livestock Quiz duringStevens County 4-H Club Day Saturday.

Some of the activities include different judging including cropsand livestock. Parents help sign up 4-Hers for the quiz duringthe day Saturday.

Sniff out a bargain in the Classifieds!

Give Us A Call at544-4321

LIBRARY VALUEWe love when our patrons

bring us surprises! One of ourlibrary’s regular patrons noticedthat we have a line on the bot-tom of our receipts that says“Today you checked out X itemswith a total of $Z.ZZ.” She col-lected each library receipt for anentire year, and this is what shefound. “I started January 3,2013, and kept all the receiptsthrough December 20,2013. The total came to$2033.26! Wow! I could neverafford to buy books for thatamount in one year. Of course,I realize this was just my smallshare of reading during oneyear, but the amount coveringall of the patrons would behuge. Just wanted you to knowhow much I value our public li-brary. I appreciate all that youand your staff do. Thank you.”If each of our 5,278 patrons hadchecked out materials with thehalf that value, they would havesaved a total of 5.4 million dol-lars!

WINTER LIBRARY HOURSThe library has reverted to

normal winter hours of opera-tion. We will be open Mondaythrough Friday from 8:00 a.m.to 7:00 p.m. and Saturday 9:00a.m. to 5:00 p.m. through Me-morial Day. Thank you for yourpatience.

ARTIST EXHIBITTen artists and thirty-six

pieces are now displayed in theStevens County Library LocalArtists’ Exhibit. The exhibit willcontinue through the end ofFebruary.

CELEBRATE 100The Adult Winter Reading

Program, Celebrate 100, is akickoff for the SCL centennialcelebration. Participants may

continue to register to partici-pate in the program, whichruns through March 21, 2014.Books may be entered individ-ually, or BINGO cards be filledout for additional awards. Thisweek’s winners are ChristinaTower, Lindsay Tuman and Vi-vian Eves.

UPCOMING EVENTS AT THE SCL

February 15 – 3:00 p.m. Leg-islative Update at the SCLFebruary 18 – 12:00 p.m.Chamber Luncheon at the SCLApril – Photography ExhibitJuly 7 – 11 – Library Centen-nial Celebration

Pioneer Manor residentsand staff donned their danc-ing shoes, whet their whistlesand tuned their instrumentsfor a talent show at theManor Friday, January 31,and from all reports had aroaring great time. In fact, sogreat that, though only 12had signed up to share theirtalent, when the show gotgoing, others saw how muchfun it was and joined in witha few impromptu offerings.

The Pioneer Manor bandwon first place. The band wasbegun when Almeta Thomp-son moved in with her bassdrum. Almeta had previouslyplayed with the Glow Worms.Other members of the bandare Julia Fay Shank on theguitar, Donna Little with thetambourine, and volunteerEileen Gillespie on the piano.

Dr. Charles Littell wonsecond place with his light-footed and light-hearted ball-room dancing steps.

Evelyn Bansemer wonthird place with her vocalstylings along with AndreaBocelli on CD singing “I Can’tHelp Falling in Love WithYou”. The wonderful soundsof Bocelli’s voice are oftenheard from Evelyn’s room.

Karroll Wagner won theFred Astaire award waltzingpartner Pioneer Manor Ad-ministrator Kathie Harbisonacross the dance floor.

Winning the cutest coupleaward were resident MaryLou Cullison and Manor LifeEnhancement CoordinatorCelain Baker.

Several residents sangsolos. Maxine (Porter) Dewey

crooned a tune. Jewel Myerssang her all-time favoritesong which she knows all thewords to, “I’ll Fly Away.”

Lynn Fink from the physi-cal therapy department of-fered her whistling talents.Dietician Michelle Goochplayed the piano.

The talent didn’t end withthe traditional musical kind.The sounds of hog and cowAND MOOSE! calling echoeddown Main Street. HobartQuimby brought up somememories calling cows, hogs

and dogs; Kathie Harbisoncalled horses and hogs andAlan Sherrell invited themoose to come round.

When the sounds of musicdied away came the hard job:picking the winners. Judgeswere resident Mike Colvin,volunteer June Trentham,Human Resources DirectorDiane Porter and HospitalAdministrator Linda Stalcup.

Win, lose or draw, every-one had a jolly time provingPioneer Manor does have tal-ent.

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The judges take up the difficult task of deciding whogave the best performance at Pioneer Manor’s GotTalent show in January. The judges are, from left to

right, resident Mike Colvin, volunteer June Tren-tham, Human Resources Director Diane Porter andHospital Administrator Linda Stalcup.

Dr. Charles Littell takes second place in the talent show in ballroom dancing with the help of willing partner Sandra, oneof the household coordinators.

Hobart Quimby calls up someold memories with his cow,hog and dog calling.

Evelyn Bansemer wins thirdprize singing a duet with Andrea Bocelli.

Almeta Thompson holds thefirst place certificate and stat-uette awarded to the PioneerManor Band.

Got talent? Pioneer Manor does!

Relay For Life is getting un-derway with their yearlyfundraisers and events leadingup to the actual relay which willbe June 27 this year at the HighSchool track. This year’s themeis “One Wish, Two Wish, YouWish, I Wish for a Cure”! RelayFor Life is very excited aboutthe theme! Everyone loves Dr.Seuss!

The sponsorship letters havebeen sent out and Relay For Lifeis very appreciative of thosewho have already sent their do-nations back in to be on theback of Relay’s shirt. If youwould like to be a sponsor,please contact Nylene Johnsonor Lisa Nelson and they cansend you a letter. A business,family or an individual can be asponsor.

The National Honor Societyunder the leadership of ChelleLeininger and President of NHSMicah Baehler, put on a greatPINK OUT recognizing the can-cer survivors! The Relay For Lifecommittee would like to expresstheir appreciation for their ded-ication each year to put thisevent on and to all those whodonated to help find a cure forthis disease! Relay for Life ap-preciates the Drill Team whoperforms on PINK OUT and alsopartners up with Relay For Lifethe night of the event and putson a great show for everyone!

Relay For Life Kick Off isThursday, February 13; pleasejoin them at 6:00 p.m. at theEMS Training Center to learnmore about the event. Relay forLife is needing teams and com-

mittee members. Please feel freeto come to just learn moreabout the event to see if youwould like to get involved. Ittakes a lot of people to put onthis event and they would loveto have you join them! If youhave lost a loved one to cancerand would like to honor theirmemory with a team or if youwould like to join your cancersurvivor and have a team, thatwould be great also! The eventis all about those who havefought cancer. Relay for Life re-members those who have losttheir battle and celebrates withthose who have been victoriousin their battle against cancer.

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Resident Karroll Wagner takes a turn on the dance floor withPioneer Manor Administrator Kathie Harbison. Karroll won theFred Astaire award with his dance steps.

Senator Jerry Moran re-cently announced he is ac-cepting applications forcongressional internships in

his Washington, D.C. andKansas offices for the sum-mer of 2014.

“Congressional intern-

ships offer Kansas students agreat opportunity to learnabout Congress and the leg-islative process,” SenatorMoran said. “I hope to giveKansans an opportunity sim-ilar to the one I had serving ina congressional office yearsago.”

An internship in SenatorMoran’s office - either legisla-tive or communications - pro-vides a unique opportunity towork closely with Senate staffon behalf of the state ofKansas. Legislative internswill gain a better understand-ing of the legislative processin the U.S. Congress, and de-velop knowledge and profes-sional skills valuable tofuture career pursuits. Com-munications internships pro-vide a unique opportunity tolearn about how politicalcommunications and the leg-islative process intersect, andgain practical knowledge

about the inner workings of afast-paced press office.

The intern program isopen to qualified undergrad-uate and graduate students -or recent graduates - whohave strong interest in publicservice and government andhave achieved academic ex-cellence. Applicants for aCommunications internshipshould possess exceptionalwriting and communicationskills, knowledge of AP style,experience in digital media,and follow current eventsclosely. While preference isgiven to Kansas residents,students from all states areencouraged to apply.

The application deadlinefor summer 2014 internshipsis March 1, 2014. Applica-tions can be obtained andcompleted under the “Ser-vices” section of Sen. Moran’swebsite at www.moran.sen-ate.gov. Applicants shouldsubmit a completed applica-tion form, resume, academictranscript, two letters of rec-ommendation and a cover let-ter explaining their interest inpublic service and detailing apolicy issue of personal im-portance. Please submit re-quired materials to:[email protected].

For questions, please con-tact Senator Moran’s office [email protected] or call 202-224-6521 andrequest to speak with the In-tern Coordinator.

“Stephen Dorsey and HisMansion” - Part 2

Stephen Wallace Dorsey wasborn in Vermont in 1842, the sonof Irish immigrants. In his teens,his family moved to Ohio wherehe worked as a house painter,and attended Oberlin College. During the Civil War, he be-came a captain in the artilleryunder the command of GeneralJames Garfield (later, twentiethPresident of the U.S), and subse-quently also served under Gen-eral Ulysses S. Grant (America’stwenty-third President.) Hefought in numerous major bat-tles, where his superior intelli-gence and handsomeappearance were soon noticed bythe Union Army’s upper levelcommanders. At war’s end in 1865, he wasmarried to a very attractiveyoung woman from Ohio, namedHelen Wack. Two years later, he

was mustered out of the serviceand awarded the honorary rankof lieutenant colonel. During this period of time, hedeveloped a keen businesssense, went to work for the largeSandusky Tool Company, andquickly rose to become its top ex-ecutive. At the same time, he be-came actively involved inRepublican politics, and as a del-egate, attended the party’s na-tional convention that nominatedUlysses Grant for President. Shortly thereafter, Dorseymoved his family to Arkansas totry his hand at the rapidly grow-ing railroad business, and by1871 had become president ofthe Arkansas Central Railroad.One of his responsibilities aspresident was to travel to Londonand sell railroad bonds towealthy Englishmen. Despite ad-verse publicity about the bondsin the London “Times,” Dorseywas able to use his good looksand considerable charm to sell alarge volume of the risky financialinstruments. At about the same time,Dorsey reportedly developed asevere heart condition allowinghim to sell his Sandusky stock ina sympathetic Ohio securitiesmarket at very favorable prices.Almost immediately after thesale, his heart condition some-what mysteriously cleared up -some said completely. As another year passed,Dorsey’s name began to becomeassociated with Arkansas carpet-bag politics, and he was electedto the U.S. Senate in 1872. Be-coming ever more popular, acounty in Arkansas was namedafter him, despite surfacing ru-mors that he had bribed his wayinto the Senate. Then in 1876, he acquired(from an unknown party) theUna de Gato, which was a largeSpanish land grant in northeastNew Mexico, 60 miles long and

40 miles wide. The grant waslater determined to be a fake, andits shaky legal status necessi-tated several questionable legalmaneuvers by Dorsey in order toretain control of the land. Nevertheless, when Dorseycame to New Mexico to assesshis real estate purchase, the ter-ritorial governor accompaniedhim from Santa Fe to ColfaxCounty, and they camped at aplace near Point of Rocks on theSanta Fe Trail. Dorsey later builthis mansion on that location,which was named MountainSpring. When completed, the man-sion had nine bedrooms, a hugewine cellar, an art gallery, a bil-liard room, and a dining roomthat could easily accommodatesixty guests - and did so numer-ous times under Dorsey’s tenure.In fact, many of the parties theDorseys hosted at the mansionhad over 100 guests in atten-dance, and the dancing typicallylasted at least until the next day’sdawn. But the Dorsey party thatgained the most notoriety wasone in which Mrs. Dorsey wasabsent from the ranch. (Big partyguys just never seem to learn.) The event was obviouslytherefore hosted by Mr. Dorseyalone, and the entertainment forthe party included an entiretroupe of Kansas City chorusgirls. They were brought by trainto Springer, and then by horseand buggy on to the ranch. Itwould appear logical, though,that Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey proba-bly discussed the party’s enter-tainment arrangements -thoroughly, afterward. In 1880, Dorsey became moreheavily involved in national poli-tics when his old wartime regi-mental commander, JamesGarfield, was nominated by theRepublicans for President.Dorsey was selected by Garfieldto manage much of his campaign

and serve as secretary of the na-tional party committee.Garfield’s choice soon paid majordividends, as Dorsey’s personalinfluence (along with a “moun-tain of $2 bills”) was the key fac-tor in getting Indiana to switch itstraditional popular vote fromDemocratic to Republican, andthereby propel Garfield into theWhite House. (The gala affair atDelmonico’s of New York City tocelebrate Dorsey’s momentousaccomplishment for the Repub-licans is described in the first ar-ticle of this series.) Dorsey’s political stock, how-ever, shortly thereafter began todrop sharply, when charges of fi-nancial irregularities in the Star(postal) Route that benefittedDorsey began to appear in the“New York Times.” The StarRoute was a very lucrative postalroute in New Mexico, and thevengeful eastern paper had, un-fortunately for Dorsey, beensnubbed by the RepublicanParty in favor of another nationalpublication during the Garfieldcampaign. (Some of this snub-bing may have occurred becauseof Dorsey’s own doing. If indeed,this is so, it is certain that he re-gretted it for the rest of his life,providing further proof that oneshould never get into an argu-ment with a party that buys itsink by the barrel.) Dorsey naturally looked toPresident Garfield for help in thematter, but Garfield was felled byan assassin’s bullet only a fewmonths after becoming Presi-dent, and he died from hiswounds eleven weeks later. Con-sequently, Dorsey was left to hisown designs to weather thestorm of adverse editorials andcartoons leveled against him inthe national news media. Next time, more of Dorsey and

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OFSTEVENS COUNTY, KANSAS

In the Matter of the Estate of JOANSPIKES, deceased

No. 14 PR 5

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PER-SONS CONCERNED:

You are hereby notified that on the21st day of January 2014, a Petitionfor Probate of Will and Issuance ofLetters Testamentary was filed in thiscourt by Kirk Spikes and ScottSpikes, heirs, devisees, legatees, and

Co-Executors named in the Last Willand Testament of Joan Spikes, de-ceased.

All creditors of the above nameddecedent are notified to exhibit theirdemands against the estate withinfour months from the date of the firstpublication of this notice as providedby law, and if their demands are notthus exhibited, they shall be foreverbarred.

Kirk Spikes, PetitionerScott Spikes, Petitioner

Martindell Swearer Shaffer RidenourLLPBox 1028Cimarron, Kansas 67835(620) 855-7051Lawyer for Petitioners

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OFSTEVENS COUNTY, KANSAS

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OFBARBARA B. SHELTON, DECEASED

Case No. 14PR8

NOTICE TO CREDITORS


You and each of you will take no-tice that on the 10th day of February,2014, Mike Shelton and Richard Shel-ton were appointed as Co-Executorsof the Estate of Barbara B. Shelton,deceased, and duly qualified as suchCo-Executors; and letters testamen-tary were issued to them on February10, 2014, by the District Court of

Stevens County, Kansas. All partiesinterested in the estate will governthemselves accordingly.

All creditors of the decedent arenotified to exhibit their demandsagainst the estate within the later offour (4) months from the date of thefirst publication of this notice underK.S.A. 59-2236 and amendmentsthereto, or if the identity of the credi-tor is known or reasonably ascertain-able, within 30 days after actualnotice was given as provided by law,and if their demands is not thus ex-hibited, they shall be forever barred.

MIKE SHELTON and RICHARD SHELTON

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Yandel has completed 800books in the 1,000 Books Be-fore Kindergarten challenge atthe Stevens County Library!Great job Yandel!

Average retail gasolineprices in Kansas have risen0.3 cents per gallon in thepast week, averaging $3.10per gallon Sunday, accordingto GasBuddy's daily survey of1,329 gas outlets in Kansas.This compares with the na-tional average that has in-creased 1.6 cents per gallon

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St. Catherine Hospice willoffer a five-week grief supportgroup each Tuesday beginningFebruary 25 and ending March25. This is an excellent resourcefor understanding and obtain-ing the skills needed to deal withany kind of grief. Anyone whohas experienced a significantloss in their lives is invited.

This group is led by Dr.Kenne Whitson who is Certifiedin Thanatology: Death, Dyingand Bereavement. All sessionsare from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. andwill be at the Hospice Office, 602N. Sixth in Garden City. Topicsinclude understanding normalgrief, myths, special occasions,

the needs of mourning, andhealing. There is no cost to at-tend.

St. Catherine Hospice serves17 counties in southwestKansas and is part of the Cen-tura Health family, which con-nects individuals and familiesacross western Kansas and Col-orado with more than 6,000physicians, 15 hospitals, sevensenior - living communities,home - care and hospice services.

Please call Gina Cash at 1-800-281-4077 or 620-272-2519for a complete listing of griefsupport services.

Applications being accepted by Senator Moran

Jose Medina at 215 South Jefferson shows his snow building talent by making this igloo this past weekend. He can get insidethe igloo if he so desires. Monday evening’s snow added to thetop of the igloo.

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Gas prices up from last week, down from last year

Snow might be covering yourblock, but spring is just aroundthe corner, and that meansturkey season is on its way.Spring turkey hunters can get ahead start on the season by ap-plying now for exclusive entryinto areas with limited accessthrough the Kansas Departmentof Wildlife, Parks and Tourism(KDWPT) Special Hunts Pro-gram. While there is no guaran-tee of success, this special access

usually means a higher qualityhunt and potentially greater har-vest rates. From February 1-24,hunters can apply for a specialhunt at ksoutdoors.com byclicking “Hunting/SpecialHunts.” Following the applica-tion period, a random drawingwill take place with notificationssent to successful and unsuc-cessful applicants vie e-mail.

This year, the Spring TurkeySpecial Hunts Program is offer-

ing 202 different individualturkey hunts on 23 properties.Half the hunts are “Open,” 58are “Youth” hunts and 43 are“Mentor” hunts. The springturkey special hunts occur onlands not normally open to pub-lic hunting including, but notlimited to, wildlife areas, stateparks, Corps of Engineers prop-erties, National Wildlife Refuges,city and county parks and onprivate lands enrolled in the spe-

cial hunts program. Open hunts are available to

all hunters with no age or expe-rience restrictions. Youth huntsare open to hunters 16 andyounger accompanied by anadult. Mentor hunts are open toyouth and novice hunters ac-companied by an adult mentor.Both the youth/novice and thementor may hunt during a men-tor hunt. A novice is defined as ahunter who has not huntedturkeys in the last three years.Hunts can range from one day toseveral days, with some open theentire spring turkey season.

To view a list of current spe-cial hunts available, visitwww.ksoutdoors.com and click“Hunting/Special Hunts Infor-mation.”


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Moscow Spelling Bee winners for Stevens County are junior di-vision third place Jessie James, senior division second placeHaziel Rojo and senior division third place Axel Granillo.

Two Moscow Spelling Bee winners will go on to compete in theCounty Bee. Seventh grader Axel Granillo and fifth grader SaraFriesen each advance to the Bee after winning their division.

The sun came out Saturday to sparkle and glisten through thebeautiful frost covered trees in the Hugoton City Park.

Students place at Scott CityCongratulations to the

4N6 students for placing atScott City Saturday: Vanceand Brice, second, IDA; Mag-gie and Talley, third, IDA;

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You don’t have to be a world-renowned chef to recognize agood meal when you eat one,and now you don’t have to be aMaster Angler in order to catchfish like one. The 2014 FishingForecast, produced by theKansas Department of Wildlife,Parks and Tourism (KDWPT), isan instrumental ingredient whencreating the perfect day on thewater. Simply take a helping ofresearch, combined with a fewchoice lures, add in some freetime, and you just might findyourself with a recipe worth re-visiting this fishing season.

Since the 2014 Fishing Fore-cast uses data gathered fromsampling efforts of public watersduring annual lake monitoring,anglers can rest assured they arereceiving the best possible infor-mation about where to fish andwhat to fish for. In addition towhat species of fish can becaught at any given body ofwater, the forecast also includestables with Density Ratings, Pre-ferred Ratings, and Lunker Rat-ings, as well as informationabout the Biggest Fish sampled,Biologist’s Ratings, and a Three-Year Average of popular species.

The Density Rating is thenumber of fish of high-qualitysize or larger sampled per unit ofsampling effort. High-qualitysize, listed in parentheses at thetop of the Density Rating col-umn, is the length of fish consid-ered acceptable to most anglersand is different for each species.

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You can use the Density Rat-ing and Lunker Rating together.If you want numbers, go with thehighest Density Rating. If youwant only big fish, go with theLunker Rating. Somewhere in

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The Biggest Fish column liststhe weight of the largest fishcaught during sampling. A heavyfish listed here can give thelunker fishermen confidencethat truly big fish are present.

The Biologist’s Rating adds ahuman touch to the forecast.Each district fisheries’ biologistreviews the data from annualsampling of their assigned lakes.This review considers environ-mental conditions that may haveaffected the sampling. They alsoconsider previous years’ data. Arating of P (poor), F (fair), G(good), or E (excellent) will be inthe last column. Sometimes theDensity Rating may not agreewith the Biologist’s Rating. Thiswill happen occasionally andmeans the Density Rating maynot accurately reflect the biolo-gist’s opinion of the fishery.

The Three-Year Average rat-ing refers to the averaging of theDensity Rating over the previousthree years of sampling to helpshow a trend for a particularlake.

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first week of MayState Annual Convention in late MayState Conference for Chapter Leaders in JulyApplied for Superior Chapter AwardState and National Scholarships

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Hugoton FFA team places fourth at Scott Cityrecently. Team members are LandonBrecheisen, Baxter Self, Nick Evans, Caleb

Henry and Brady Heger. Photo courtesy of Les McNally.

Nick Evans, in the red FFA shirt, is determining soil texture. Photo courtesy of Les McNally.

Hugoton FFA students get to chunk pumpkins with their catapult last Monday.

The contraption throws the pumpkins quitea distance across the field.

FFA members Luis Flores, Reed Rome and Landon Brecheisen deliver 400pounds of FFA fruit to Project Hope.

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Moscow300 N. Road 20 620-598-2214 East Hwy 56

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James Kuharic, Attorney At Law517 South Main Street620-544-8555 Hugoton

BROLLIER, WOLF &KUHARIC LAW OFFICE

838 E. 11th Hugoton

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Debbie L. Nordling, State Farm Agent617 S. MainHugoton, KS 67951620-544-8528 - Phone620-544-8527 - Fax

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Thursday, February 13High School Basketball vs

Moscow @ Home; 4:30 p.m.Friday, February 14

ARGHSaturday, February 15

High School State Scholars’Bowl @ Home; 12:00 p.m.Sunday, February 16

Regional History Bee @Home; 12:00 p.m.Monday, February 17

President’s Day - NOSCHOOL. Enjoy your day off!Tuesday, February 18

High School Basketball vs

Ashland @ Home - Parents’Night; 4:30 p.m.

Junior High Scholars’ Bowl @Dodge City; TBAThursday, February 20

High School Speech @Meade; TBASaturday, February 22

Fifth/Sixth Grade Rolla RecBasketball Tournament; 9:00a.m.

High School Speech @ LakinCommunity Groundhog

Supper @ Dermot CommunityBuilding

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The Rolla High School schol-ars’ bowl team has once againmade Rolla very proud. Thecommunity and school gathered

at 10:15 a.m. Thursday, Febru-ary 6, in the old gym to wish theteam good luck at the regionalmeet, taking place in snowy Ash-

land. Snow and bad roads only

made the Rolla team more deter-mined to bring home the trophy.At the end of the day, the teamwas successful.

Coached by Kris Hall andMary Courtney, the team con-sisted of seniors Karly Cline-smith and Kaleigh Barrett,junior Chandler Huddleston,sophomores Chandler Burrowsand Garry Norton and freshmanArtemio Villa.

Congratulations and goodluck at State, which will be inRolla February 15.

A team of students repre-senting Rolla High Schoolcaptured first place honorsamong Class 1A schools atthe recent Quest High SchoolAcademic Competition atWashburn University. Fifty-four teams from throughoutthe state participated.

They were also one of 16teams earning the highestscores and qualified to partic-ipate in the televised, single-elimination tournamentfilmed at KTWU studios onthe Washburn campus.

Submitted by WashburnUniversity.

The Rolla High School bas-ketball teams traveled toGreeley County, Tribune,Saturday, February 8, tocompete against the Jackrab-bits.

The Jackrabbits were slowto the basket for the girls’game and the Pirates plun-dered them. But for the boys’team the reverse was trueand the Jackrabbits defeatedthem soundly.

The teams will compete inRolla February 11 against In-galls and February 13 againstMoscow. Come out and sup-port the Rolla teams as theyset sail against the Bulldogsand the Wildcats!

Rolla students enjoyed anextra day off this week whensnow and cold temperaturesblew in. Rolla had schooluntil 12:20 p.m. Tuesday,February 4, and then sent allstudents home. Tuesdayevening, school was cancelledfor Wednesday, February 5.Snow may cause all kinds ofproblems but students andteachers enjoy the occasional“snow day.”

Karen and Courtney Lighttraveled to Aspen, Co., to at-tend the Winter X 15 Games.They were able to watch someof the guys who will be compet-ing in the SuperPipe at theOlympics in Sochi, Russia.They also watched snowmobilecross, which, according to

Karen, was “crazy, snowmo-biles flying really high overjumps.” Karen stated it was alot of fun but the climb up themountain was a killer. They at-tended the games with theirson Tyler who took some timeto snowboard with ChanceHays, who skied.

RHS scholars’ bowl brings home Regional Meet trophyKaren and Courtney Light cheer for Olympic hopefuls at theSuperPipe competion in Aspen, Co.

Lights attend Winter X 15 Games in Aspen

Tips for taming your winter allergies

RHS students take first place honors amongClass 1A schools at the Quest High School Ac-ademic Competition. Left to right are Artemio

Villa, Garry Norton, Chandler Huddleston,Chandler Burrows and Mica Ratzlaff.

The RHS scholar’s bowl team does it again andbrings home the trophy from the Regional

Meet in Ashland last week. Congratulationsscholars!

RHS takes Class 1Afirst place honors inQuest Competition

Snow day warmlywelcomed by all

GCCC named in top150 community collegesby Aspen Institute

Mixed results inPirates versusJackrabbits game

Richfield/Dermot Community Groundhog SupperFebruary 22

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As frigid temperatures andunusually snowy conditions overmuch of the nation continue tokeep many Americans indoors, aveteran allergy expert remindsus that staying inside may keepus warm, but it also us gives usprolonged exposure to four pow-erful indoor allergens capable oftriggering a variety of cold andflu-like symptoms.

“If you experience more thannine days of continuing conges-tion, coughing, sneezing, wateryeyes and nasal drip, chances aregood that you are reacting to thepresence of either dust mites,cockroaches, animal dander, ormold somewhere in your home,office or school,” said Dr. JoanLehach, integrative medicinephysician specializing in allergy,asthma and clinical immunologyat Montefiore Medical Center inNew York. “Many times, and es-pecially in the inner city wherepopulations are dense, all four ofthese allergens are present andmust be addressed.”

Dr. Lehach's tips for control-ling your indoor allergy symp-toms: 1. Mold inspection: The firststep for controlling your allergysymptoms is to do a little inspec-tion for mold inside the house.The most common places to findit are on shower curtains, wall-paper, carpets and the sink.Mold also grows in the drain,which can be cleaned withbleach and detergent. 2. Cockroach hunt: Studieshave found cockroach allergensto be present in at least half ofinner city homes and in nearlythree-quarters of inner cityschools. Cockroaches do nothave to be alive to trigger respi-ratory problems. Dust contain-ing molecules of crushedcarcasses can still cause prob-

lems for humans. Professionalscan be consulted to discover andclean out hidden colonies. Nest-ing areas and pathways wherecockroaches may have beentraveling should be thoroughlycleaned. 3. Dry up dust mites: Keepyour indoor humidity at 50 per-cent or lower, as higher humiditywill breed dust mites. A humid-ity gauge can be purchased. 4. Filter out animal dander: Ifyou have a pet allergy, you prob-ably are going to need to be onallergy medications until you canconsult with an allergist and seeif you want to be desensitized ornot. Meanwhile, a small HEPAair purifier placed in each roomwill keep airborne dander fromspreading throughout the house.Mice or other fur-bearing pestsliving under the house or in theattic must be searched for andremoved. 5. Get symptom relief: A mix-ture of sinus-friendly Chineseherbs, like Rootology, can tem-porarily halt most allergy symp-toms in less than 20 minutes.Rootology can also be used tocontrol winter cold and flu symp-toms. 6. Start an immune-buildingdiet: Eliminate foods that areweakening your immune sys-tem, like processed and pack-aged foods, and start eatingimmune boosting, allergy fight-ing foods, like blackberries andblueberries. Also important aremultivitamin supplements anddigestive enzymes to help youaccess more of the nutrients inthe food you consume. 7. Get sufficient sleep: Our im-mune system is very “sleep-dri-ven”, and allergies areprecipitated by weakened immu-nity. 8. Stay hydrated: When you

become dehydrated you get drynasal mucosa and can developmicroscopic cracks in the nasallining, making it easier for aller-gens to enter your bloodstream.9. Use the “hot” setting: Washyour bedding in hot water (atleast 130 degrees) to properlyneutralize allergens. 10. Wash your face and hands:Not only to maintain popularitywith family, friends and co-work-ers, but if there is dander, mold,or dust on your face or hands,chances are good that you willend up inhaling it.

Mark your calendars for Feb-ruary 22 for a communityGroundhog Supper. Normally,the Richfield United MethodistMen host a Groundhog Supperto raise money for various proj-ects. The United MethodistMen’s group has become smallerand so a group effort has beenarranged for Richfield/Dermotmen to host a supper February22.

Donations will be taken forthe annual Dermot fireworksdisplay and for the RichfieldCommunity Christmas party.More information will be avail-able in next week’s paper, butdon’t forget the location will be atthe Dermot Community Build-ing (Dermot school).

Garden City Community Col-lege was named to Aspen Insti-tute’s top 150 communitycolleges in the nation. The desig-nation opens the door for the col-lege to compete for the 2015Aspen Prize for Community Col-lege Excellence and the $1 mil-lion that comes with it.

The Aspen Institute collectsdata on factors such as studentretention, graduation rates, andnumber of low-income and mi-nority students served in morethan 1,000 technical and com-munity colleges every two years.

Other Kansas schools namedto the Top 150 were Colby Com-munity College, Flint Hills Tech-nical College in Emporia,Hutchinson Community College,North central Kansas TechnicalCollege in Beloit and Hays,Northwest Kansas TechnicalCollege in Goodland, Pratt Com-munity College, Salina AreaTechnical College and SewardCounty Community College/Area Technical School.

Submitted by Garden CityCommunity College.

Community GroundhogSupper is February 22

The high school basketballgames scheduled againstElkhart for February 4 in Rollahave been rescheduled for Mon-day, February 24. Please markthis change on your calendar!

Rol la /Elkhartgame rescheduled

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NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OFTHE STEVENS COUNTY

CONSERVATION DISTRICT

To all qualified electors residingwithin the boundaries of the StevensCounty Conservation District, noticeis hereby given that pursuant toK.S.A. 2-1907, as amended, on the22nd day of February, 2014, at 6:30p.m. an annual meeting of theStevens County Conservation Districtwill be held at the Stevens County Me-morial Hall, 6th and Monroe St.,Hugoton, KS.

The meeting agenda shall include thefollowing business items:ONE:

The supervisors of the StevensCounty Conservation District shallmake full and due report of their ac-tivities and financial affairs since thelast annual meeting.

TWO:They shall conduct an election by se-cret ballot of qualified electors, therepresent, of two supervisors to serve aterm of three years from the date ofsaid meeting.

All in the county of Stevens in theState of Kansas.

By Tron Stegman, ChairmanStevens County Conservation District

Attest:Sherri MartinDistrict Manager

PUBLIC NOTICE


NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETINGSOUTHWEST KANSAS

GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT NO. 3

WATER AND THE FUTURE OFSOUTHWEST KANSAS

TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED:

Take notice that pursuant to K.S.A.82a-1026, the Board of Directors of theSouthwest Kansas Groundwater Man-agement District No. 3 has called an An-nual Meeting of all eligible voters forelection of Directors whose terms expire,for a report of the financial conditionand activities of the District, and to con-sider two initiatives: 1) A vote taken toguide the District Board on closing theremaining 20 townships open to newwater rights, and 2) visioning for watersupply SW Kansas in the next 50 years.The Director positions to be voted onwill include the representatives fromGrant County, Stanton County, Hamil-ton County, Haskell County and Munic-ipal (at large). Director NominationForms must be turned in to the DistrictOffice by 5:00p.m. on February 12,2014. All Qualified votes may be cast byeligible voters in attendance who havebeen pre-registered with the District by

5:00p.m. on March 7, 2014. The meet-ing shall be held at Grant County CivicCenter Ulysses, Kansas at 9:00 a.m.CST, on Wednesday March 12, 2014.Speakers will include Executive Direc-tor, Mark E. Rude, Tracy Streeter withthe Kansas Water Office, Brownie Wil-son with the KS Geological Survey andGary Harshberger, Governor’s Chair ofthe Kansas Water Authority. For moreinformation and copies of Director Nom-ination Forms and Voter RegistrationForms, log on to the District’s website atwww.gmd3.org or call the District Office(620) 275-7147. Industry booths will beset up, lunch will be served, RSVP [email protected].

The Board of Directors of the SouthwestKansas Groundwater Management Dis-trict No. 3 will hold their regularlyscheduled monthly board meeting fol-lowing the annual meeting March 12,2014 at the Grant County Civic Center,Fairgrounds Ulysses, KS

Take notice and govern yourself accord-ingly.

BOARD OF DIRECTORSSOUTHWEST KANSAS GROUNDWATERMANAGEMENT DISTRICT NO. 3

By: Kent DunnPresident of the Board

PUBLIC NOTICE

Hugoton High School, 1924, the first year in the new buildingnow a part of the grade school. Some of those in the picture areSchuyler Madden, Cecil Joslin, Oscar Kagarice, ClarenceThompson, Curtis Stockstill, George Drew, Clem Richardson,Bess Neathery, Amber McCoy, Gladys Thompson Drew, JulietReeve, Murray Stockstill, Bob Horsch, Harry Madden, Walter

Burrows, Bernard Brubaker, Oleta Strickland Wilson, BessieWest, Lizzie Burrows, Etna Morgan, Wendell Hubbard, ViolaWhetstone, Earl Stoops, Georgia Bundy, Don Brubaker, MarianRice and Bryan Hubbard. From The History of Stevens Countyand Its People.

Thursday, February 12,2009

Garry and ZoAnn Rolandof Moscow will celebrate theirFiftieth Wedding AnniversaryFebruary 15, 2009. They weremarried February 15, 1959.

Larry and Vonda Raneywill celebrate forty years ofmarriage Valentines Day.They were married February14, 1969 at the HugotonUnited Methodist Church.


Moscow’s Easton Hamlin’ssinging career is blooming inwestern Kansas as he is set tobe the opening act for countrymusic star Joe Diffee at theKansas State Trooper Concertin Dodge City.


USD 209 School Boardmember Stanley McGill hasreturned from a Washington,D.C. meeting of the NationalSchool Board Association’sFederal Relations NetworkConference. Stanley com-mented it was a learning ex-perience.

Gladys and Maurice Renfroare the thrilled 1994 Sweet-hearts having won the Valen-tine’s Sweepstakes drawinglast Friday at the Santa FeSteak House.


Denise Heaton, seven yearold daughter of Judy and TedHeaton, is doing great sinceher heart surgery in Houston,Tx. The corrective surgery hasallowed Denise to be as activeas any seven-year-old now.


Several residents from thisarea flew by jet from Wichitato Mexico City for a trip spon-sored by Farmland Indus-tries. Mr. and Mrs. RalphWhite, Mr. Gary Brewer, Mrand Mrs. Lawrence Harrisand Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Craw-ford enjoyed the trip. Duringtheir four-day trip they wenton a farm tour, viewed AztecPyramid ruins, rode the sub-way and toured Mexico Cityhomes and cathedrals.


Placing fourth in the Pan-cake Day Talent Contest inLiberal recently were Hugotonyoungsters Greg Gaskill andCynthia Greenwood. Theyperformed a tap dance num-ber. Their parents are Mr. and

Mrs. Gerald Gaskill and Mr.and Mrs. Kenneth Green-wood.


Leta Jackson and RoyWalkemeyer exchanged wed-ding vows at the Cold SpringsFriends Church January 23,1954, at a candlelight cere-mony. The happy couple willmake their home in Wichitawhere they are attendingFriends University.

The weather in the pastweek was as warm as 82° andas cold as 8° but struck ahappy medium most of thetime.

If any readers have pic-tures or memories for thehistory page of the Hermes,please bring them in toRuthie Winget at TheHugoton Hermes.

NEWS FROM

STEVENS COUNTYSENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER

Shila Moore, Director544-2283 - Activities 544-8041 - Meals

624 S. Main, Hugoton

We appreciate everyonewho attended our ValentineDance and Bingo Party! Over115 people attended. We alsowish to send our appreciationto First National Bank forsponsoring the event and forall the help and support theyprovided. Our next dance isSaturday, March 8, from 7:00to 10:00 p.m.

Our next Life Story Work-shop is Wednesday, February19 at 9:00 a.m. Please come

and I’ll help you get startedwriting the story of your life.We will also have workshopsMarch 5 and 19 at 9:00 a.m.

We are on Facebook underStevens County Senior Activ-ity Center. Please “Like” us toreceive updates about our ac-tivities and see our photo-graphs.

If you have questions con-cerning caregiving, legal mat-ters, disability, healthinsurance, housing, etc.,

please call Michael Johnstonwho is our representative forSouthwest Kansas AreaAgency on Aging. His phonenumber is 620-225-8230.

We welcome all ages tocome eat with us Mondaythrough Friday. We servefrom 11:30 a.m. until 1:00p.m.

MenuFeb. 13...............................StewFeb. 14............................Chili &

...................Cinammon RollsFeb. 17.......................Meat LoafFeb. 18......Chicken Fried SteakFeb. 19......................Roast BeefFeb. 20 ...................Baked Ham

ActivitiesThursday, February 13Bridge.................12:30 p.m.Friday, February 14Bingo..................12:30 p.m.Saturday, February 15Sew All Day .........................Cards & Games.....6:00 p.m.Monday, February 17Line Dancing ........7:00 p.m.Tuesday, February 18Bridge.................12:30 p.m.Wednesday, February 19Paint.....................1:00 p.m.Thursday, February 20Bridge.................12:30 p.m.Daily – Monday thru FridayExercise ..............10:30 a.m.

Hugoton CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

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Stevens County EconomicDevelopment Board, StevensCounty Farm Bureau Associa-tion, and the Hugoton AreaChamber of Commerce inviteall residents of Stevens Countyto attend the Legislative Up-date this Saturday, February15. at 4:00 p.m. at the StevensCounty Library Meeting Room.Senator Larry Powell and Rep-resentative Stephen Alford willbe here to inform the residentsof Stevens County on happen-ings at the State Capitol inTopeka and answer your ques-tions and concerns. We hopeyou will plan to attend thisevent. Future Legislative Up-dates are scheduled for March15 and April 19.

The monthly ChamberLuncheon will at the StevensCounty Library meetingroom Tuesday, February 18,at 12:00 noon. This month’sluncheon is being catered byChina Restaurant and ourspeaker will be Matt Johnson ofSeaboard Foods. Matt willshare about a recent trip hemade to South Africa, the agri-culture of the country and

Seaboard’s interests there. Tuesday, February 25,

6:00-9:00 p.m. another Busi-ness Startup Seminar will beheld in Room SW229 of theStudent Activities Building atSeward County CommunityCollege in Liberal. This semi-nar is presented by theKSBDC. There is not a regis-tration fee for this seminar, butpreregistration is required inorder to prepare handout ma-terials. Contact the Chamberof Commerce at 620-544-4305for more details and registra-tion information.

COMMERCIAL LOOKINGFOR KANSAS BARN! A NewYork City-based director wantsto come to Kansas to shoot aCoca Cola commercial in lateMay or June. They are seekingan old, vintage barn sur-rounded by wheat fields. If youare interested in finding outmore details on what they arelooking for, contact the Cham-ber office (620-544-4305), wehave a picture of the type ofbarn they are looking for, somepreferences, and contact infor-mation.

The Hugoton Area Chamberof Commerce and StevensCounty Economic DevelopmentWeb site www.stevens coun-tyks.com is a great place toview a calendar of events goingon in the County. We also tryto keep the community in-formed of upcoming events onour Facebook pages GetHugoton! and Hugoton AreaChamber of Commerce. Giveus a LIKE on Facebook.

Chamber Gift Certificatesare the PERFECT gift for Any-one, Anytime! Chamber GiftCertificates are the solution forall of your gift giving needs.Purchasing Chamber Gift Cer-tificates ensures that yourmoney is staying in our localeconomy making our localbusinesses strong. Stop by theChamber Office and purchasea Chamber Gift Certificate.These certificates can be writ-ten for any amount and are re-deemable at most StevensCounty businesses. ShopSTEVENS COUNTY First!

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT, STEVENSCOUNTY, KANSAS

In the Matter of the Estate of Carl N.Brollier, Deceased.

Case No. 12PR45

(Pursuant to Chapter 59 of theKansas Statutes Annotated)

NOTICE OF HEARING

The State of Kansas to All PersonsConcerned:

You are hereby notified that a Pe-tition has been filed on the 3rd day ofFebruary, 2014, in said Court by Jef-frey Brollier, Administrator of the Willof Carl N. Brollier, deceased, prayingfor a final settlement of the estate, ap-proval of his acts, proceedings and ac-

counts as Administrator, allowance ofattorney’s fees and expenses, determi-nation of the heirs, devisees and lega-tees entitled to the estate andassignment to them in accordancewith laws of the State of Kansas forCarl N. Brollier, deceased. You arehereby required to file your writtendefenses thereto on or before the 28thday of February, 2014, at 9:30 o'clocka.m. on said day, in said court, in theCity of Hugoton, in Stevens County,Kansas, at which time and place saidcause will be heard. Should you failtherein, judgment and decree will beentered in due course upon said Peti-tion.

Jeffrey Brollier, Petitioner

Frank J. Schwartz2140 N. KansasP.O. Box 948Liberal, KS 67901(620) 626-4545Attorney for the Petitioner

PUBLIC NOTICE



In the Matter of the Estate of DON O.CONCANNON, Deceased.

No. 13 PR 8

NOTICE OF HEARING


You are hereby notified that a Pe-tition has been filed in this court bySharon L. Concannon and Craig A.Concannon, duly appointed, qualified,and acting as Co-Executors of the es-tate of Don O. Concannon, deceased,praying their acts be approved; theiraccount be settled and allowed; thewill be construed and the estate be

assigned to the persons entitledthereto; the administration of the es-tate be closed; and the Co-Executorsbe discharged.

You are required to file your writ-ten defenses thereto on or before the28th day of February, 2014, at 10:00o'clock a.m., in this court, in the Cityof Hugoton, in Stevens County,Kansas, at which time and place saidcause will be heard. Should you failtherein, judgment and decree will beentered in due course upon the peti-tion.

Sharon L. Concannon, PetitionerCraig A. Concannon, Petitioner

Martindell Swearer Shaffer RidenourLLPBox 1028Cimarron, Kansas 67835(620) 855-7051Lawyer for Executor

PUBLIC NOTICE

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Turn in your consignments to:Walter McClure 544-4202, Ron Brewer 544-8985

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IN THE TWENTY-SIXTH JUDICIALDISTRICT

DISTRICT COURT, STEVENSCOUNTY, KANSAS

PROBATE DEPARTMENT

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATEOF MARY ELAINE DAWSON, De-ceased.

Case No. 2014-PR-6

Notice of Hearing


You are hereby notified that on the27th day of January, 2014, a Petitionhas been filed in said Court by HaroldV. Eason and Diann L. Eason prayingfor admission of foreign Will to pro-bate and record without administra-tion; and all of decedent's right, titleand interest, including but not limitedto all royalty, overriding royalty, min-eral ownership and life estates, in andto the following described real prop-erty situated in Stevens County,Kansas:

All minerals in and under or thatmay be produced from Section One

(1), Section Two (2), and SectionThree (3), all in Township Thirty-three (33) South, Range Thirty-eight (38) West, Stevens County,Kansas; and

All minerals in and under or thatmay be produced from SectionSeven (7), Township Thirty-three(33) South, Range Thirty-seven (37)West, Stevens County, Kansas;

be assigned in accordance with theterms of the Will.

You are hereby required to fileyour written defenses thereto on orbefore the 27th day of February,2014, at 9:30 o'clock a.m. of said day,in said Court, in the City of Hugoton,in Stevens County, Kansas, at whichtime and place said cause will beheard. Should you fail therein, judg-ment and decree will be entered indue course upon said Petition.

HAROLD V. EASON AND DIANN L. EASON, Petitioners

Tamara L. DavisDavis & McCann, P.A.107 Layton St., Suite ADodge City, KS 67801Ph. (620) 225-1674Attorneys for Petitioners

PUBLIC NOTICE

(First published in the Hugoton Hermes, Thursday, February 6, 2014) 2t

PUBLIC NOTICEThe regularly scheduled meeting of the Stevens County Commissioners for

Monday, February 17, 2014 at 8:30 a.m., has been rescheduled to take placeTuesday, February 18, 2014 at 8:30 a.m. in the Commissioners’ Room at theStevens County Courthouse, 200 E. Sixth Street in Hugoton.

PUBLIC NOTICE

(4p7)



In the Matter of the Estate of DON O.CONCANNON, Deceased.

No. 13 PR 8

NOTICE OF HEARING


You are hereby notified that a Pe-tition has been filed in this court bySharon L. Concannon and Craig A.Concannon, duly appointed, qualified,and acting as Co-Executors of the es-tate of Don O. Concannon, deceased,praying their acts be approved; theiraccount be settled and allowed; thewill be construed and the estate be

assigned to the persons entitledthereto; the administration of the es-tate be closed; and the Co-Executorsbe discharged.

You are required to file your writ-ten defenses thereto on or before the28th day of February, 2014, at 10:00o'clock a.m., in this court, in the Cityof Hugoton, in Stevens County,Kansas, at which time and place saidcause will be heard. Should you failtherein, judgment and decree will beentered in due course upon the peti-tion.

Sharon L. Concannon, PetitionerCraig A. Concannon, Petitioner

Martindell Swearer Shaffer RidenourLLPBox 1028Cimarron, Kansas 67835(620) 855-7051Lawyer for Executor

PUBLIC NOTICE



In the Matter of the Estate of Carl N.Brollier, Deceased.

Case No. 12PR45

(Pursuant to Chapter 59 of theKansas Statutes Annotated)

NOTICE OF HEARING


You are hereby notified that a Pe-tition has been filed on the 3rd day ofFebruary, 2014, in said Court by Jef-frey Brollier, Administrator of the Willof Carl N. Brollier, deceased, prayingfor a final settlement of the estate, ap-proval of his acts, proceedings and ac-

counts as Administrator, allowance ofattorney’s fees and expenses, determi-nation of the heirs, devisees and lega-tees entitled to the estate andassignment to them in accordancewith laws of the State of Kansas forCarl N. Brollier, deceased. You arehereby required to file your writtendefenses thereto on or before the 28thday of February, 2014, at 9:30 o'clocka.m. on said day, in said court, in theCity of Hugoton, in Stevens County,Kansas, at which time and place saidcause will be heard. Should you failtherein, judgment and decree will beentered in due course upon said Peti-tion.

Jeffrey Brollier, Petitioner

Frank J. Schwartz2140 N. KansasP.O. Box 948Liberal, KS 67901(620) 626-4545Attorney for the Petitioner

PUBLIC NOTICE

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Recent high-profile databreaches by large retail chainshave many Kansas consumerson alert for identity theft. It’simportant to check your bankand credit card statementsevery month for suspiciouscharges. However, another op-tion to guard personal informa-tion is to put a security freezeon your credit report.

A security freeze prohibitsthe credit bureaus, with cer-tain exceptions, from releasingyour credit report or any infor-mation on it without your ex-press authorization. UnderKansas law, victims of identitytheft can obtain a securityfreeze for free by submittingdocumentation of the identitytheft, such as a police report,to the credit bureaus. If you arenot a victim of identity theft,the credit bureaus can chargeyou up to $5 for placing the se-curity freeze.

All requests for a securityfreeze should be made in writ-ing, whether by mail or online.The credit bureaus must placethe freeze on your report withinfive days of receiving your re-quest.

While a security freeze is inplace, it will be very difficult foranyone - including you - toopen new accounts in yourname. If you wish to apply fora new loan, open a new creditcard or bank account while thefreeze is in place, you will needto contact the credit bureaus totemporarily lift the freeze. This

will require giving them thepassword or PIN number youreceived when you put thefreeze in place. For non-iden-tity theft victims, the credit bu-reaus can charge you another$5 fee each time the freeze islifted or put back in place.

Another way to protect youridentity is through a creditmonitoring service. These serv-ices will continuously monitoryour credit report and sendyou an alert if there is any ac-tivity, including opening a newaccount or a change of ad-dress. When a large data

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To learn more about secu-rity freezes and other ways toprevent identity theft, visit theAttorney General’s ConsumerProtection Web site at www.InYourCornerKansas.org.


WANTED: TEACHERS WHO MAKE A DIFFERENCEOnce again USD 210 Hugoton School District has the opportunity to recognize excellent teachers. As part ofthe Kansas Teacher of the Year program sponsored by the Kansas State Department of Education, we are invitedto nominate one teacher to represent our district in the selection of 2014 Kansas Teacher of the Year.

USD 210 employs many worthy teachers. Please take a few moments from your busy schedule to write a briefletter describing the contributions a classroom teacher is making in your child’s life and/or in the life of our ed-ucation community. (This teacher must be currently employed as a full-time classroom teacher at USD 210.)

Each teacher nominated will be invited to complete an abbreviated application for Kansas Teacher of the Year.From these applications a local selection committee will name one teacher to represent our district in the com-petition for the 2014 Kansas Teacher of the year.

Address your letter to:2014 Kansas Teacher of the Year

USD 210205 E. 6th St.

Hugoton, KS 67951You may email your letter to [email protected]

Deadline for receiving applications is February 21, 2014Questions may be directed to Arlet Estrada at USD 210 Central Office 544-4397

112A East Sixth • Hugoton620-544-2233

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GOLDEN – Following athree-event, three-win effortSaturday at the CSM TwilightOpen, freshman Patrick Weaverof the Colorado School of Minesmen's indoor track and fieldsquad has been named thisweek's Mines Student-Athlete ofthe Week, athletic departmentofficials announced Monday.

A native of Hugoton,Weaver, a true freshman, madehis home debut over the week-end at the CSM Twilight Openin Golden, compiling threeNCAA provisional times andthree wins.

Friday, he paced the DMR tothe third-best converted time inDivision II as the 1200 leg, bet-tering the six-team field bynearly five seconds in 10:01.64.In the 800 Saturday, Weavertook first out of 26 runners, re-setting his personal-record forthe third time in three weekswith a converted mark of1:52.49 – fourth-best across Di-vision II.

He closed his weekend byanchoring the 4x400 to the No.10 converted time nationallyand fastest by an Orediggersquad since 2009 in 3:19.57.

In eight races over four

meets this season, Weaver hasranked in the top-three onseven occasions, totaling fiveprovisionals and four wins thusfar.

This is the first Mines Stu-

dent-Athlete of the Week awardof his career.

Patrick is the son of JeffWeaver and Kathy Weaver.

Used by permission from Col-orado School of Mines Athletics.

Weaver named Mines Student-Athlete of the Week

In the adjoining room at the Stevens CountyActivity Center, many attendees enjoy the

Valentine dance. The music was by OklahomaCowboy and Texas Lady.

Many Hugoton residents turn out Saturdayevening for the Valentine Bingo party at the

Stevens County Activity Center. The food andprizes add to all the enjoyment.

The Bingo players mostly use several cards tohave a better chance to win. It was a fun and

entertaining evening for all those who attended.

Patrick Weaver takes first out of 26 runners, resetting his per-sonal record for the third time in three weeks. Used by permis-sion from Colorado School of Mines Athletics.

Patrick WeaverUsed by permission from Col-orado School of Mines Athletics.

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