Greeley County Republican

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P.O. Box 610 • Tribune, Kansas 67879 • 620-376-4264 —10 Pages— Wednesday, January 8, 2020, Vol. 154. No. 2

Our vision is a vibrant, friendly, innovative, unified community with your family, health and happiness in mind.

Jan & Dan

August

2019 in ReviewJuly

Bodhi Woelk gets a taste of his first fair horse show while being led by his parents Cody and Dayna

Josey Schmidt points the way and gives instructions to her breeding heifer during the 2019 Market Beef show. Josey was the Supreme Exhibitor in Market Beef and also in Market Swine.

The GCHS girls basketball team held a fundraiser luncheon last week at the CYAT Center. Pictured are, left to right, Kamryn Youmans, Brianna Hill, helper Sayla Sherer, Myla Chin-Reynolds and Grace Whitham.

The new mountains of Western Kansas are the piles of grain on the ground required to handle the abundant wheat harvest.

Mav Moritz holds his dog at the Little Folks Pet Show at the Long Term Care during the Greeley County Fair.

Hospital renovation and construction project on time, on budget, 80% finished. Corrie Nemechek sits at her desk in the new Physical Therapy area.

First full week of school begins. Members of the Sheriff’s Department were present to help with the new traffic patterns with busses unloading on Lawrence Street.

Pre-Fair activities signal Fair is near! Amusement Association volunteers were busy Saturday morning to get the carnival ready for the State inspection.

Jackrabbit Trap Team preparing to attend Nationals. GCHS individual qualifiers: back Tyler Albers, Michael Lehman, Nick Owen, Kyler Smith, Tayber Elder. Front Brodey Grubb, Bryson Bjorklund, Josey Schmidt and Cade Mangan.

The Crotinger harvest crew was cutting a field of wheat in southwest Greeley County.

The crowd at the Independence Day Worship service stands for the Pledge of Allegiance during the Tribune Boy Scouts’ Presentation of Colors.

A group of bikers called “Bike the US for MS” stayed the night in the basement of First FarmBank on Wednesday, July 3.

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This Valentine’s Day weekend, make plans to attend a fun, entertaining evening featuring 176 Keys’ Fun Pianos, a steak dinner, and a silent and live auction.

The event, scheduled for Saturday, February 15, at the Greeley County 4H Building, is being hosted by the Greeley County Amusement Association as a fundraiser for Greeley County’s home-owned carnival.

The evening will begin at 5 p.m. with a cocktail hour with a steak dinner to follow at 6 p.m. The dueling pianos show will begin at 7 p.m. with a live auction to follow the music and entertainment. The silent auction will be open throughout the evening and a cash bar will be available.

“We’re so excited to bring the well-known Fun Pianos to our community. Known for their high-energy, fun, interactive shows, their talented, professional

performers make sure this event is not to be missed!” said Diane Gentry, Greeley County Amusement Association board member.

Tickets are $40 per individual or $320 for a table for eight. Those purchasing whole tables will receive a bottle of champagne. Tickets can be purchased from any Amusement Association board member or by stopping by the Greeley County Community Development office at 510 Broadway.

For more information about Fun Pianos and the entertainment they provide, visit www.FunPianos.com.

Greeley County Amusement Association board members are Wyatt Dautel, Diane Gentry, Sherri Elder, Christy Hopkins, David Huddleston, Monty Moritz, and Adriane Steinle. Contact any board member to purchase tickets or for more information.

Dueling Pianos, Steak Dinner Scheduled for Saturday, February 15

The Kansas Farm Service Agency (FSA) has announced that the office hours of the Greeley County and Wallace County offices will be changed in January 2020. The combined staff will serve both offices. The Tribune office will be open weekly and Wednesday, Thursday and Friday while the Sharon Springs office will be open Monday through Wednesday.

The announcement was made in the following letter from the outgoing directory George Schmidt.

December 27, 2019Dear Greeley County

Producer:The Kansas Farm

Service Agency (FSA) is committed to serving our producer’s needs across the state, while effectively and efficiently utilizing the resources available to FSA. We take this commitment very seriously and use it to determine the most efficient use of full-time employees within the USDA Service Centers in Kansas.

The Greeley and Wallace County FSA Committees and Kansas FSA leadership made the decision that starting January 21, 2020 to permanently reduce the days of service at the Greeley County FSA office location in Tribune Kansas to 3 days a week, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm.

The Greeley County FSA Office has been operated in a joint management arrangement with the

Wallace County FSA Office for the past several years. The Wallace County FSA office will be open Monday through Wednesday from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm. While we will not be in Tribune on Monday or Tuesday, you may contact us in Sharon Springs for immediate assistance by phone at (785) 8524213.

By combining our staffs and resources, we will provide better customer service by having more employees available each day we are open to assist you. A larger staff will also allow our employees to specialize in different programs. If these reduced days impose a significant hardship to you and your operation, you may elect to transfer your farms to any other contiguous county.

Please contact our office for form FSA- 179, Transfer of Farm Records Between Counties. The form requires all owners and operators to sign.

We apologize for any inconvenience. We believe combining our employees will result in increased efficiency and a more comprehensive staff to fully service your farming and ranching needs in the future.

Please contact the Greeley County Office if you have questions.

Sincerely,George Schmidt County Executive

DirectorGreeley/Wallace County

FSA Office

Greeley County and Wallace County FSA offices change schedule

Greeley County Community Development, through the E-Community Partnership, is proud to host a series of classes teaching the entrepreneurial mindset in Tribune beginning Monday, January 20 and running through Monday, March 9.

The registration deadline is by the end of the day on Monday, January 13. At least

six registrants are required to proceed with the course.

Each session will start off with dinner at 5:30 p.m. followed by class from 6-8 p.m. MT. The course, including all meals each Monday night as well as all necessary materials and instruction, is $100 for adults and $50 for students.

Sign Up by Monday, January 13, for the Think Like an Entrepreneur Program

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J — We have been having some issues with our newspaper@sunflowertelco.com and jandan@sunflowertelco.com (fairpoint) emails. We have an additional email, gcrnews@gcrnews .com which we are encouraging people to use, in addition to the others, or to call and make sure we received emails sent to us. Has anyone else had trouble recently with fairpoint?

****J – Did you make any New Year’s resolutions? I realized that I make them from time to time all year long….and they are no easier to keep than the January 1st ones. The new year is definitely a good time for “start-overs” if one is motivated by starting dates – as long as it’s not always “tomorrow”. Good advice that we hear this time of year is “one step at a time” or “one day at a time”, or even “one minute at a time”. The newspaper business is not a great place to practice that philosophy, since we are required to think of last week, this week and next week, all at the same time. But it IS good advice not to worry about all that…which, of course, is easier said than done, but a worthy goal.

****J — We received an air fryer from son Aaron and Kim for Christmas. We were a bit skeptical about it, but tried it out and like it!!

****J — Here’s a happy new year picture of granddaughter Jade in her holiday dress.

D — The GCHS boys and girls basketball teams are both improving as the season progresses. The level of competition varies a lot between opponents. Both teams can now easily beat the opponents who are near the bottom and they are becoming competitive with the top ranked teams. Hoxie, the opponent on Friday, is definitely a top ranked team so it should be a good test for the Jackrabbits.

****D — We have had some problems with our email accounts, especially the older account newspaper@sunflowertelco.com that we have used for years. We would suggest that you add gcrnews@gcrnews.com to your address list and use that address. Most of the time the sunflowertelco address works, but…. Maybe it’s just too old and needs to retire.

****D — I fondly look back on what I would call the age of certainty. I could go deep and make the old computers work. There are now too many levels to actually find the real problem. I find that true of the whole system. In my younger days I could go to the Hutchinson News, the New York Times and Walter Cronkite and be certain that I had a grasp on the truth. With the Internet there are now a multitude of voices all with different views. The truth has fractured into individual beliefs. I think it is a long cycle and that the new consensus will emerge. I am very certain that the old will not come back.

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