january 12, 2012 edition of the ellsworth county i/r

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NEWS Page A3

County will not join Wilson neighborhood revitalization plan.

OPINION Page A4

KDOT project to improve I-70 points to consequences of limited government.

FARM/CITY Page A6

Nick Slechta will retire as director of the Ellsworth-Kanopolis Area Chamber of Commerce.

FSA announces eligibility requirements for payment.

COMMUNITY/PASSAGES Page A7

Ellsworth County Extension agent Jamie Rathbun shows how to keep track of spending in 2012.

SPORTS Pages B1-3

Nienke takes first at Ellsworth Invitational Wrestling Tournament.Lady ‘Cats win third game of the season.Top-ranked Wilson teams continue to win.

THE FACTS Page B6

Claflin girl killed in K-156 accident.

Ellsworth County native arrested in Hutchinson.

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This Week’s Reminder

Tina Davis, director of the Ellsworth County Medical Center Rural Health Clinic,

speaks at the monthly noon luncheon of the

Ellsworth-Kanopolis Area Chamber of Commerce.

The luncheon will be conducted Friday, Jan. 13, in the community room of

the Ellsworth Municipal Golf Course.

WEDNESDAY 38/29Turning cloudy, windy,

and cold

THURSDAY 30/15Mostly sunny and breezy

FRIDAY 36/12Becoming partly cloudy

SATURDAY 42/17Mostly sunny

SUNDAY 51/21Mostly sunny

MONDAY 40/25Becoming partly cloudy

TUESDAY 35/18Increasing clouds and

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Jan. 17

Bison at Sunset

MARK McCOY/Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter

Bill Wachs’ small bison herd is silhouetted against a winter sunset north of Ellsworth.

Wind farm takes shape

Detourahead

Area residents question I-70 construction plans

BY LINDA MOWERY-DENNINGEllsworth County I-R

WILSON — Several of the almost

two dozen residents at a Jan. 4 meeting near Wilson urged the Kansas Department of Transportation to install crossovers to allow access to both sides of Kansas Highway 232 from Interstate 70.

Then Karlton Place, department engineer for the Area Four office in Ellsworth, put a cost to the idea — $500,000 to

See EXITS, Page A3

This photo of the Post Rock Wind Farm’s first tower being erected was taken this past week by Kayla Kvacik of the Lincoln Sentinel-Republican.

BY ALAN RuschEllsworth County I-R

The first of 134 General Electric 1.6 mega-watt wind turbine generators began

silhouetting the sky this past week in northwestern Ellsworth and south-western Lincoln counties, as the Post Rock Wind Farm begins to take shape.

“We’re actually ahead of schedule. All 134 foundations are in the ground and are back-filled with dirt. As of Nov. 30, we started receiving turbine components. There are now 15 com-plete turbines on site,” said Bryan Coyle, construction project manager for Wind Capital Group, owner/operator of the Post Rock Wind Farm.

Wind turbines — the first of which rose from its foundation Jan. 3 — will be 284 feet tall from the ground to the center of the hub. The farm will be Wind Capital’s largest project to date.

Coyle said a mid-December snow-storm didn’t interrupt his building schedule.

“Our intentions were to shut the site down for the holidays, so the snow didn’t really affect anything, because we didn’t have that much

stuff scheduled,” he said. “The rain events that have occurred over the last month have been a little bit of a hindrance, but our contractor, RMT, has done a great job of maintaining the township and county roads.”

General contractor RMT is head-quartered in Madison, Wisc.

The farm is 14 miles wide and 12 miles deep.

Construction on each of the foun-dations is relatively simple. A 70-foot-by 70-foot hole is dug into the ground before a large amount of rebar and anchor bolts for the turbine are installed. Next comes 320 yards of concrete.

“At that point, it gets back-filled,” Coyle said.

The next stage involves building the underground electrical infrastructure, a job that often takes place at the same time the turbines are erected.

Crews will set the base and lower mid sections of the turbine in place. The area between the foundation and the base is then grouted.

“Once all the grouting is done and cured, then we will stack that turbine up the rest of the way,” Coyle said.

Erection of the wind turbines will start at turbine 106, at the western

See WIND, Page A5

USD 327 hires bond consulting firm

cIRcLE OF LIFE

Economists say every dollar spent in a rural community circulates about seven times.

We have proof that may, indeed, be the case.

A reader visited the I-R office recently and paid for a newspaper with a dollar bill. On the front of the bill was the imprint of the metal arm in our old cash box — the cash box our business manager, Juanita Kepka, rescued from the June 19 fire that gutted our old office.

It took six months, but the dollar bill made its way back to our new office at 304 N. Douglas Ave.

Just goes to show — economists do know what they’re talking about.

BY MARk MccOYEllsworth County I-R

The Ellsworth-Kanopolis-Geneseo school board

Monday night approved superintendent Eric Reid’s proposal to hire a consul-tant, Piper Jaffray of Kansas City, to assist the district as it grapples with the idea of a special bond election.

Reid also recommended the board have a special meeting — tentatively set for 7 p.m. Jan. 23 —to hire an architectural firm for the potential bond issue.

And, finally, he suggested the board hire a bond attor-ney to assist with legal issues, if the board decides to pursue a bond issue.

Reid said the bond assis-tance firm, Piper Jaffray, works on a contingency fee, receiving payment only if the bond issue passes. The rate is usually 25 percent of the bond issue. School

board member Deneen Urbanek voiced reserva-tions about hiring firms before the board decided whether to seek a bond issue.

“It just seems like we are already moving forward and the board hasn’t even voted if we are going forward,” Urbanek said, “I don’t know what we are looking for. We should make a decision if we are going forward, if that is what we are doing.

“I think that is what we have to do to get the best possible information,” Reid responded. “And I agree with you. It does kind of seem backwards. It’s just part of the process to get the right numbers. For me to pick a number in December and give you a recommendation, it would not have been good.”

Board president Gina McGowan made the obser-vation that for most school board expenditures, such as a bus, the board

knows a price beforehand. Construction projects are different due to the many variables and legal aspects of construction, she said.

Reid said architects are needed to draw tentative project options. They will be paid hourly initially and later work on a percentage fee if the board moves for-ward with the bond issue.

Reid said seven firms are vying for the work and three will be selected to meet with the board at the Jan. 23 special meeting.

Board attorney John Sherman said a firm or attorney that specializes in bond issues would be an asset to the board.

Reid said any bond issue was at the mercy of the 2012 Kansas Legislature.

“The legislature could decide to retroactively do away with the 30 percent bond issue assistance,” Reid said. “If that happens, then

See USD 327, Page A5

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11LATE START: Classes at Ellsworth Junior-Senior High School start at 8:50 a.m.SCHOOL BUSINESS: The Central Plains USD 112 board of education meets at 6 p.m. at the Central Plains High School cafeteria in Claflin.DOLLARS AND CENTS: A financial aid meeting for parents of seniors is conducted from 6 to 7 p.m. in the ITV Room at Central Plains High School in Claflin.CITY BUSINESS: The Wilson City Council con-ducts a special meeting at 7 p.m. at city hall to discuss a capital improvement plan and financial prioritizing.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 13ELLSWORTH HAPPENINGS: KINA 910 AM, Salina, gives the Ellsworth community update weekly at 8:35 a.m.CHAMBER GATHERING: Tina Davis, director of the Ellsworth County Medical Center Rural Health Clinic, speaks at the monthly noon lunch of the Ellsworth-Kanopolis Chamber of Commerce in the community room of the Ellsworth Municipal Golf Course. USD 327 representatives also are on the program to talk about a job placement class at Ellsworth High School. Reservations to the chamber, (785) 472-4071, by 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 12.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 15GOOD EATS: St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, North Ellsworth, holds a pancake and sausage feed from 5 to 7 p.m.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17COUNTY BUSINESS: Ellsworth County commis-sioners meet at 9 a.m. in the courthouse meeting room. Agenda available after noon the Friday before the meeting.CITY BUSINESS: The Wilson City Council meets at 7 p.m. at city hall.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20FAREWELL RECEPTION: A farewell reception for Ellsworth County deputy clerk Ona Crawford starts at 2 p.m. in the commission meeting room at the county courthouse. Crawford retired Dec. 30 after 21 years of service. FEEL THE BEAT: Barefoot Becky provides the music at a polka dance from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Holyrood American Legion buiding.

MONDAY, JANUARY 23COUNTY BUSINESS: Ellsworth County commis-sioners meet at 9 a.m. in the courthouse meeting room. Agenda available after noon the Friday before the meeting.CITY BUSINESS: The Ellsworth City Council meets at 5:30 p.m. at Ellsworth City Hall.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 21ELLSWORTH HAPPENINGS: KINA 910 AM, Salina, gives the Ellsworth community update.

CorrectionsInformation on a deed conveying an undivided one-

quarter interest in the northwest quarter of Section 27-14-9 to Vera L. Ehrlich was incorrect in the Jan. 5 issue of the I-R.

Numbers included in a story on budget cuts in the mental health system were incorrect in the Jan. 5 issue. In 2011, Ellsworth County spent $20,598 on the Central Kansas Mental Health Center based in Salina. In 2012, the county budgeted $21,000.

Charles V. Heina(1915-2011)

Charles V. Heina, son of John Heina and Frances (Havel) Heina was born Jan. 19, 1915, at rural Cuba, Kan., and passed away Dec. 28, 2011, at the Republic County Hospital, Belleville, at the age of 96 years, 11 months and 9 days.

He graduated from Haddam High School. He was united in mar-riage Aug. 12, 1940, to LeEnora L. Klaumann and to this union two children were born, Louise and Steven. He was a retired grain eleva-tor manager.

He is a member of Cuba’s St. Isidore’s Catholic Church, Knights of Columbus, Republic County Czech Club, and the Western Fraternal Lodge Association

He was preceded in death by his parents, John and Frances Heina; one grandson, Nicholas Kieffer; and two broth-ers, Ernest and Edward Heina.

He is survived by his wife, LeEnora L. Heina of Belleville; one son, Fr. Steven Heina of Ellsworth; one daughter, Louise Kieffer and her husband Michael of Jacksonville, Ark.; one granddaughter, Kimberly Kay and her husband Jesse of Lowell, Ark.; two sisters, Bessie Holechek

of Concordia, and Blanche Kauer of Omaha, Neb.; nieces and nephews; other relatives and many friends.

The funeral was Monday, Jan. 2, at the St. Edward’s Catholic Church, Belleville, con-ducted by, Fr. Steven Heina. Interment will be made in St. Isidore’s Catholic Cemetery, Cuba.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memori-als to St. Isidore’s Catholic Cemetery or the Cuba Fire Department, in care of Louise Kieffer, 3 Valewood Cove, Jacksonville, Ark. 72076.

Bachelor-Surber Funeral Home, Belleville, was in charge of the funeral.

Online condolences and information at www.bachelor-surber.com

Gracia L. Slape-Switzer(1939-2011)

Gracia L. Slape-Switzer, 72, passed away Dec. 27, 2011, in Parker, Ariz.

Gracia was born March 18, 1939, in Ellsworth to Helen Schultz. She moved from Ellsworth to Sacramento, Calif. where the worked for the State of California Department of Pesticide Enforcement until she retired. She moved to Parker in 2000. She was active in B.P.O. Does, GFWC Paker’s

Women’s Club, LaPaz Regional Hospital Auxiliary, Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, American Legion Auxiliary and Fraternal Order of Eagles.

She married Earl Slape and later John Switzer, both of whom preceded her in death.

Also preceding her in death were her mother and step-father, Helen and Jimmie Soukup, who lived in Ellsworth.

Survivors include a daughter, Roxanna; two sons, Bob and Alan; three grandsons; one great-grandson; two great-granddaughters; uncles and aunts, Adolph Schultz Jr. of Kanopolis, Henry Schultz of Holyrood, Elden Schultz of Garden City, LaVerna Mikulecky and Mary Schultz, both of Ellsworth, and Velma Hubbard of Hobbs, N.M., and many cousins.

A memorial service will be conducted later at Parker. Memorials may be made to cancer research.

Helen R. Soukup(1923-2012)

Helen R. Soukup, 88, of Abilene, passed away Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012, at the Sterling House No. 1 in Abilene.

She was born Feb. 22, 1923 in Elmo, the daughter of Herman J. and Sarah A. (Dautel) Anderes. Helen graduat-

ed from Chapman High School, and spent her life in Elmo, Wilson and Abilene. She was a bookkeeper for KP&L, the Russell Livestock Sale Barn, and Home State Bank in Russell. Helen was a member of St. Andrews Catholic Church, the church Altar Society, and the Daughters of Isabella.

She married Al Soukup April 8, 1947, in Elmo. He passed away Jan. 21, 1985. Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by her daughter, Alice Mae Soukup, and brothers Clinton Anderes and Edwin Anderes.

Survivors include her brother, Vincent Anderes of Salina, and several nieces and neph-ews.

A mass of Christian burial was Monday, Jan. 9, at St. Andrews Catholic Church in Abilene, with Father Henry Baxa officiating. Martin-Becker-Carlson Funeral Home in Abilene was in charge of arrangements.

Burial was in St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in Wilson.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the St. Andrews Catholic Church and may be sent in care of the funeral home, 414 NW Third, Abilene, Kan. 67410.

Wilson City Offi ceswill be closed

Monday, January 16, 2012in observance of the

Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday.

Wilson City CouncilRegular meetingwill be Tuesday,

January 17, 2012 at 7 p.m.

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Employees get wage increaseBy AlAn RuschEllsworth County I-R

WILSON — Full-time employees

of the City of Wilson received a belated Christmas present of sorts during the Jan. 3 meeting of the Wilson City Council.

After a 10-minute executive session to dis-cuss non-elected person-nel, the council voted to raise the wages of full-time employees by $300 per year. Also approved was a $250 per month increase above the $250 currently paid to the Peterson and Kasper law firm for attorney fees.

Wage increases for part-time employees will be considered at a later date.

In other business:• Mayor David

Criswell said the project architect for the spray water park is working on bid documents for instal-lation of the splash pad. The documents should be available for review in February.

• Council members approved a special meet-ing at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 11, at city hall to discuss a capital improvement plan and financial prioritizing.

• The following city appointments were approved for 2012 — Wilson State Bank, city bank; Paul J. Kasper, city attorney; Theresa Staudinger, assistant city attorney; Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter, city newspa-per; Darrell Thrasher,

municipal judge; Susan Kriley, city clerk, munici-pal court clerk, city trea-surer; Robert Doepp, police chief; David Boyle, public compliance officer. Also approved were board of health volun-teers Alex Covieo, Marilyn Frevert, Jane Galliart, Eleanor Hunter, and Bob Doepp; Lang Memorial Library board members Lorie Taylor, president; Jane Galliart, vice president; Alice Whitmer, secretary; Edie Hansen, treasurer; Linda Bristow, Marilyn Hook and Cindy Patnode, board members; Tree board members Kris Bair, Matt Beckman, Malcolm Shaw, Eldon Whitmer and Ryan Williams; and Wilson storm spotters Larry Langerman, Nick

Nelson, Richard Lantz, Rev. Ronald Lowry, Keith Roush, Bill Siefers Jr., Joe Soukup, and Jared Steinle.

• Galliart said the library received a $4,138 check from the Central Kansas Library System to install new windows on the north side of the building. The city must pay a 20 percent match, which amounts to $828. Installation is expected to begin in the spring.

• No action was taken after returning from a 30-minute executive ses-sion to discuss the potential purchase of real estate.

Due to the Martin Luther King holiday, the next meeting of the Wilson City Council will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17, at city hall.

-RI News A3

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$600,000 for two crossovers and another $100,000 to remove them.

“Ten or 15 years ago, we would have had crossovers, but because of the eco-nomic times we’re in, that’s probably a thing of the past,” he said.

Wilson mayor David Criswell seemed surprised by the number, as were others at the meeting.

“We all like to have nice roads and we realize you can’t meet all the demands,” Criswell said.

The 45-minute meeting was organized by directors of the Post Rock Opportunities Foundation at its Kansas Originals Market and Gallery to collect information on a project that could shut down the Wilson exit in one direction or the other through the spring and sum-mer.

Kansas Originals, to the north of the Wilson exit, fears the loss of business if construction causes I-70 travelers to bypass the Wilson exit entirely. Other business representatives, including the manager of a nearby service station, expressed similar concerns.

“I think everyone here for the most part wants to know what we’re doing at the interchanges,” Place said.

He said KDOT started four pavement overlay projects in 2011 — one in Lincoln County, the others in Ellsworth County, for a total of 32 miles. Two of the projects are 90 to 95 percent done.

Construction will begin on the other two as early as April 4, the date targeted by the state for the start of major con-struction projects.

As work progresses, traffic will share first the east-bound lanes and then be

moved to the west-bound lanes so work can continue on the second half of the interstate.

Place said only the Kansas Highway 156 exit received a crossover because of truck traffic. At the other exits, traffic will be detoured to the next interchange, where vehicles can turn around and come back.

Place said Sept. 29 is the date for all lanes of Interstate 70 to be open to unre-stricted traffic.

Marge Lawson of the Post Rock Opportunities Foundation continued to question the economic impact of the project.

“It’s going to cost the public more to save the state money and I’m not sure that’s good,” she said.

Russell County representatives were especially concerned about Wilson Lake. Kansas Highway 232 takes travelers directly from the interstate to the lake. State tourism officials also promote the highway to travelers as the Post Rock Scenic Byway.

Rick Martin, who oversees state parks at Wilson and Kanopolis lakes, said the construction on I-70 will come at the peak of the lake season.

“We want the project. We want good roads. Sometimes you have to accept tradeoffs in the short-term,” he said.

He suggested adequate signage to alert travelers so they aren’t surprised when they encounter the detours. Several rec-ommended electronic signs. Place said the construction also will be promoted on his department’s website.

After the meeting, he said KDOT offi-cials also are looking into mobile message boards and radio announcements, based on what he heard at Kansas Originals.

Detour

DETOUR AHEAD

Exits at Wilson and Sylvan Grove will be partially closed during the spring and summer by two construction projects to rehabilitate Interstate 70.

The exits will be closed from April through September with westbound travelers using the Dorrance exit during the first phase and eastbound travelers using the Vesper exit for second phase.

Travelers will be able to use the detour exits to turn around and drive back to the Wilson and Sylvan Grove exits.

CommissionersCounty won’t join Wilson plan

By AlAn RUscHEllsworth County I-R

A request to have Ellsworth

County join Wilson’s neighborhood revital-ization plan was gently rebuffed during Monday’s meeting of the county commis-sioners.

Wilson Mayor David Criswell said of the 29 cities in Kansas he sur-veyed, 23 have 10 year neighborhood revital-ization plans similar to what Wilson has. Furthermore, the home counties of all 29 com-munities participate in those neighborhood revitalization plans.

“From what I under-stand from what you all are proposing, unless we’re willing to partici-pate in Plan B, the county won’t partici-pate with us,” Criswell said. “And I would just like to point out that if that is the case, that would be a unique situ-ation.”

Plan B, is one of four plans within a set of proposed guidelines for the next Ellsworth County Neighborhood Revitalization Program, and includes Ellsworth County, the City of Kanopolis, USD 327 and USD 112. It is a five-year plan with rebates from 100 per-cent in the first year to 50 percent in the fifth year.

Commissioner Kermit Rush asked Criswell if Wilson is still intending to go with a 10-year plan that offers participants a 100 percent rebate on the increase in their ad valorem taxes as a result of building an addition or expanding a structure.

“Yes sir,” Criswell said. “That’s our plan.”

He said the City of Ellsworth has told the commission they want the previous county-wide plan for the next five years.

“That plan has worked for them,” Criswell said.

He noted Wilson’s needs are very different from those in Ellsworth, thus Wilson needs a different plan.

“I would just like to ask you how do you feel that by not partici-pating in Wilson’s plan, how does that benefit Wilson? How does it serve Wilson? Criswell asked.

Kueser said Plan B is a good answer for those communities wanting a more aggressive neigh-borhood revitalization plan.

“I guess what we have to do is disagree on what the total pack-age of the Wilson plan, and what its end result will be,” he said. “There is, I think, a

considerable difference in what we feel is a rea-sonable plan, and what the 10 year at a 100 percent rate is.”

Criswell countered that Plan B is not much better for Wilson than what the county has had in place for the last four years.

“We just don’t feel like that will even come close to doing anything much for us,” he said. “We need help now. It is a desperate situation for us. We would cer-tainly appreciate the county commissioners coming in with us.”

In other business:• No action was

taken after opening two sealed bids for work on the jail electrical sys-tem. The bids will be sent to the project engineer, Orazem and Schlora Engineers of Manhattan, for review. A third bid was not opened, because it did not meet the bid requirements.

• The purchase of a $6,768 Model C5030 printer from OPI for the county appraiser’s office was approved.

• A $400 expenditure for the Silver-haired Legislature was approved for 2012.

• Due to the Martin Luther King holiday, the next meeting of the Ellsworth County com-missioners will be at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17, at the county court-house.

See related story Pg. A8

-RI OpinionA4


TRADEOFFSBudget cuts usually mean the

transfer of responsibility

The gift we didn’t get

The Cowboy Storyteller

Christmas 2011, is going, going, gone — and, I doubt if very many Americans asked for, or received, the gift of affordable, accessible health care for the bal-ance of their lives.

I also doubt if very many people put access to affordable health care on their Christmas list, even though good health care, expertly, tenderly and wisely provided, comes about as close to the Spirit of Christmas, and as a gracious expres-sion of Christianity, as anything we can give, or receive.

Helping others over-come pain and disability, and avoid premature death are the greatest gifts we can give one another, And, Christmas is the season of both material and spiritual giving, isn‘t it?

So why is financial access to health care not at the top of everyone’s Christmas wish-lists?

I think I know.

When I was a boy, making out my Christmas wish-list either in the fading hori-zontal rays of a December sun, or by lamplight, I listed only those things I thought my parents would afford, therefore the things I realistically might get.

I carefully prepared my list, maybe a sponge ball painted like a real base-ball, or a cut-out card-board set of a farm-yard with animals, or maybe just one special thing, like a Parker Brothers’ Monopoly game. And, always, a 15-25 cent book, or two.

It is pretty obvious I was protecting my tender psyche from disappoint-ment by trying to stay within a realistic budget,

and get the things I wanted most. I did not ask for the unattainable.

Americans wanting health care for everyone have been disappointed too many times, and have pretty much quit asking. (The new law which vali-dates private, for-profit health insurance compa-nies, will leave 20 million uninsured, and will not control costs.)

It has been pretty well drilled into us that we can’t afford health care for everyone. We have been told this repeatedly by the affluent, the polit-ical and those with good health insurance — who don’t seem to realize they are paying double for it, one way or another.

We are spending one of every $6 for health care, and, by 2020, we will be spending one of every five dollars for health care. We can’t con-tinue to spend that kind of money for our best shot at wellness, and still rebuild Iraq and

Afghanistan, and police the world.

The cost of war lives on among those who sur-vive. We have all we can do to care indefinitely for our severely and perma-nently disabled brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, husbands and wives, moms and dads, and neighbors, who were the least fortunate among the 33,000 injured in Iraq.

Paradoxically, we will care for our fallen heroes in a very large socialized medicine system known as Veterans Administration Health Care, where the federal government owns the facilities and pays the personnel.

Of course, we have had socialized medicine for designated Americans since 1797 when Congress established public health hospitals paid for by mandatory

Old West fiction is something that I have stayed away from all my life. A few years ago I finally realized why. I have spent all these years researching and collect-ing the history of the West and most every-thing I read takes its place in a chaotic system that medical profession-als would call my “brain.”

If I were to read all those fictional accounts in addition to factual his-torical accounts, I imag-ine the whole mess would congeal into an unusable accumulation of information, leaving me dazed and confused for the rest of my days. Then there are so many enter-taining authors of Old West fiction. How to choose? I just prefer to stay with “just the facts.”

Now that I’ve cut all that fiction out of the picture I do have to say that there is one author that tells the story in a way that remains true to the historical root of the Old West. One particular fellow, Andy Adams, carved out true-to-life tales that for more than

100 years has convinced tens of thousands of readers that they had been touched by the hand of an experienced cowboy. By combining a natural ability to tell a story with his knowledge of cowboy life, and in spite of little formal edu-cation, Adams gained a reputation unknown in western writing.

Born May 3, 1859, in Whitely County, Ind., Andy Adams spent his youth tending cattle and horses while carrying out the mundane chores typ-ical for a rural American boy of the 19th century.

At 15, he left home to make his own way. He was tall with a strong physique, projecting a maturity beyond his years. He worked in Arkansas for a year at a lumber mill before mov-ing on to San Antonio, Texas, where in 1882 he

became involved in the mule and horse trading business. Adams traveled across Texas trading stock, occasionally travel-ing to some of the end of trail Kansas cattle towns.

In 1883 Adams hired on to a trail outfit, and for the next eight years he gained an education at the tail end of the long-horn cow. When the trailing industry began to fade from history Adams turned his attentions to a mercantile business in Rockport, Texas. The business failed.

Adams moved on to Cripple Creek, Colo., and the lure of gold and sil-ver. Like most hopeful miners he soon discov-ered golden fortunes were intensely illusive. One particular evening, sometime around the turn of the 20th century, he attended a showing of Charles H. Hoyt’s stage play, “The Texas Steer,” in Colorado Springs. The play featured a Texas congressman in a series of hilarious adventures that Adams found offen-sive, especially in its inac-curate representation of

the cowboy life he had known and admired.

Adams returned home with an audacious thought that he could write a story more factual than “The Texas Steer.” The result was “The Log of a Cowboy,” a trail-driving narrative about a cattle drive from Brownsville, Texas, to Montana in 1882.

Drawing upon his own experiences on the cattle trail, Adams’ chronicle was believed to be a true account. Succeeding gen-erations have read “The Log of a Cowboy” believ-ing they are following a historical account of an actual cattle drive. Published in 1903, The Log remains Adams best known work. It has been said that if all other books on the subject were destroyed, “a reader could still get a just and authentic conception of trail men, trail work, range cattle, cow horses, and the cow country in general from “The Log of a Cowboy.”

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Go to almost any meeting these days and at some point someone — usually a state or federal official — will get around to describ-

ing a project or policy plan as “a tradeoff.”It happened again during a recent meeting at Kansas

Originals Market and Gallery near Wilson. As part of a project to improve Interstate 70, the Kansas Department of Transportation plans to close the Wilson exit — first the west side and then the east side — through the spring and summer. Two dozen or so residents of nearby communities met with KDOT officials to voice their concerns about economic and safety issues. The Wilson exit deposits traffic on Kansas Highway 232, a scenic byway that runs directly to Wilson Lake and the communities of Wilson and Lucas.

The state could erect crossovers to allow use of the exit during construction, but the cost would be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, KDOT engineer Karlton Place told the residents.

“Ten or 15 years ago, we would have had crossovers, but because of the economic times we’re in, that’s probably a thing of the past,” he said.

Temporary economic hardship versus good roads. Rural Kansas, it seems, has become the land of trad-eoffs.

That is not all bad, given the high cost of protecting the businesses and communities near the Wilson exit. It does, however, point out once again the consequenc-es of the limited government that seems to be so pop-ular with today’s politicians. Not all tradeoffs are as easy to justify as the Wilson crossovers.

A budget cut doesn’t mean a program — or the problem it addresses — disappears. It simply means the burden is shifted elsewhere. State budget cuts, for instance, usually translate into more responsibility for local counties, cities and school districts. That certain-ly has been the experience of Ellsworth County over the years.

As part of the I-70 project tradeoff, state officials plan to rely on signs and other forms of communica-tion to alert travelers to the construction at the Wilson exit. We hope they work — and we also hope that the Wilson and Lucas area has as many businesses in the fall as it did in the spring.

Good highways are important. So are vibrant local economies. State lawmakers, who started the 2012 ses-sion this week, should keep that in mind as they work to reform state spending habits.

PRIORITIESHumans deserve a hand up —

even as adults

Is there some reason the state of Kansas appar-ently has no trouble spending unlimited dollars to make access more difficult to a procedure

the U.S. Supreme Court has declared constitutional? Yet we can’t find enough money to support children and adults in need of an economic safety net.

The Associated Press recently reported that the Kansas attorney general’s office has paid outside law-yers $476,000 in defending abortion laws enacted this past year.

“The office says it has paid nearly $258,000 to a Wichita law firm involved in defending a provision of the state budget that denied federal family planning dollars for non-abortion services to Planned Parenthood. The group is challenging the provision in a federal lawsuit,” AP reported.

The spending goes on.Meanwhile, Ellsworth is about to say good-by to

the St. Francis Academy, a program founded here almost 70 years ago to help troubled youth. St. Francis is consolidating residential operations at its Bavaria location because client referrals are fewer, thanks in part to state budget cuts. Demand for beds isn’t down, just dollars to meet it.

The waiting lists grow longer.Welcome to modern-day Kansas, where the state’s

poor, elderly and disabled continue to wait for need-ed services, while the state seems to have no short-age of dollars to defend itself against questionable laws pushed through the legislature by a one-issue few.

Letters are encouraged

The Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter wel-comes signed Letters to the Editor. They may be sent to [email protected]. The street address is: 304 N. Douglas Ave., Ellsworth, Kan. 67439.

The I-R reserves the right to edit letters for accuracy and libelous material. Questions may be directed to editor Linda Mowery-Denning, (785) 472-5085.

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end of the wind farm. “We’ll start there and

work the project basi-cally from west to east and from south to north,” Coyle said.

Completion of a large amount of electrical work inside the turbine, referred to as tower wir-ing, is the next step, fol-lowed by the connection of the underground electrical system to the transformer. Connections from the transformer lead to the electrical substation and the wind turbines so after the energy is cap-tured, it can be sent down the line to the substation.

Wind Capital Group’s Curt Bjurlin said his company moved to an alternate route for the transmission line after several Ellsworth County residents voiced concerns about the original plan.

“It feels really good to have that done and to have the line where people want it,” Bjurlin said.

He said most of the new route runs cross country between 10th and 11th Road. Unlike the original design, the current plan avoids 10th Road and runs only briefly on 11th Road by the river.

Construction of the substation, located on the corner of 11th Road and Avenue C in Ellsworth County, is scheduled to begin

shortly.“It will be on the

south side of our new operations and mainte-nance facility,” Coyle said.

The operations and maintenance facility will employ a staff of about 10, including a manager, an administrative per-son and several field technicians.

Coyle said there haven’t been any sur-prises so far during the construction process.

“Knock on wood, it’s been a great project so far,” he said. “We’ve had a lot of support from the local community. We’ve tried to pay that back, and have heard a lot of positive feedback, obviously, from the county commissioners and things of that nature.”

Despite the support, Wind Capital has beefed up security at the farm, following the Dec. 10 theft of copper and criminal damage to support bases at Third Road and Avenue C. The loss was valued at $105,656.

Coyle said September 2012 continues to be the planned start date for the Post Rock Wind Farm project.

When the Post Rock

Wind Farm is complete, it will be capable of pro-ducing 201 megawatts of electrical power. Coyle said a power pur-chase agreement is in place to distribute the energy produced by the wind farm; however, the recipient of the power has not been made pub-lic.

“We would never build one of these if there weren’t some place to send the energy,” he said.

Safety is also a priori-ty.

“We provide a safety orientation for every employee on site,” Coyle said. “We hold every single person on this project accountable for being a safety officer.”

In addition to daily safety meetings, Coyle conducts a morning “stretch and bend” pro-gram designed to help prevent back strain, pulled muscles, and sprained knees among the workers.

“Our philosophy with safety is that we will not jeopardize the safe-ty of anyone on this project to get a project or a task completed,” Coyle said. “I stand by that 100 percent.”

Coyle said wind ener-gy industry poses a lot

of hazards.“You have to take

every precautionary measure you can to pro-tect your people and yourself, and that’s exactly what we do,” he said.

On average, there are about 125 people work-ing on the Post Rock project daily.

“Three hundred and forty-four people have at some point come and worked on this project,” Coyle said. “Either they are still here, or they’ve finished their work and have left.”

Coyle noted that has been a big boom to the local economy.

“We want to help out the local communities as much as possible,” he said.

A 10-year veteran of the wind generation industry, Coyle has an extensive background in high-voltage electricity.

“We’re actually doing something that’s good for the environment,” he said. “We’re not taking away — we’re actually giving something back.”


contributions from merchant seaman. President John Adams, a knowing Founding Father,

signed the act into law, never fretting about the consti-tutionality of the individual mandate — which is a Republican presidential debate punch line, and could be struck down by a political Supreme Court.

Based on 2008 figures (the last available), if we could operate our incomplete health care system at the average annual per capita cost ($3,944) for universal care in other similar nations, we would have $3,594 available for every stocking, all 310,000,000 of them. You see, we’re spending $7,538 per person annually for health care!

Germany’s per capita health care costs were $3,737 in 2008, and Canada’s were $4,079 — and their popu-lations are healthier than ours. The second most expensive system, Norway, cost $5,003, still $2,535 less than our $7,538.

With an informed electorate and sane, honest legis-lators, we each could have a universal health care card and 50 $50 bills in every stocking. And, still have the most expensive health care in the world.

Yet, controlled by moneyed interests and wholly-owned politicians‘ fairy tales, we continue to sacrifice better health and our national well-being on the cross of extravagant health care.

Dr. Roy may be reached at [email protected]


immediate hit. Adams published four more titles in less than four years. His five earliest books were his best known, although he wrote prolifically. At his death in 1935, Adams left a number of unpublished manuscripts of novels, stories, and plays.

Andy Adams is a cowboy’s kind of story teller. He takes the reader back in time with a true representa-tion of language and mannerism found nowhere else in literature. Studying Adams’ books reveals not only the outward story of trail-driving in the 1880s but intro-duces us to men who no longer exist in the West or anywhere else for that matter. This winter might be a good time to look for Andy Adams’ books in your library, bookstore, or online, especially if you have a hankering to ride the cattle trails on your Way West.

“The Cowboy,” Jim Gray is author of Desperate Seed: Ellsworth Kansas on the Violent Frontier and also publishes Kansas Cowboy, Old West history from a Kansas perspective. Contact Kansas Cowboy, Box 62, Ellsworth, Kan. 67439. Phone (785) 531-2058 or www.droversmercantile.com

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the bond issue is dead. I can’t in good conscious ask our patrons to carry the burden of a bond issue without help. It would just be too much.”

The next meeting of the USD 327 school board will be at 7 p.m. Feb. 13 at the district office in Ellsworth.

The special January school board meeting will be posted at www.indy-repnews.com as soon as it becomes available.

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Grain prices mostly down for the weekPrices paid for grain at the Ellsworth Co-op at the end of

the business day Monday, Jan. 9, were:Wheat, bu. — $6.78, down 14 cents from a week ago.Milo, bu. — $6.29. down 6 cents.Soybeans, bu. — $11.68, up 1 cent.Corn, bu. — $6.50, down 8 cents.The co-op has locations in Ellsworth, Black Wolf,

Farhman, Hitschmann, Holyrood and Kanopolis.

Rarely seen Rogers art at galleryNow showing at the Ellsworth Area Art Gallery in

downtown Ellsworth are the seldom seen arts of Charlie Rogers and his wife, Ruth.

The “nonobjectives” paintings were painted from 1953 to 1965, while Charlie Rogers lived in California. These are not the western-themed nor landscapes or seascapes that are normally on display. In fact, they have seldom been seen in the last 20 or more years.

The needlework and handiwork of Ruth Rogers is also featured. She received her degree in design from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 1942. Many sample pieces, and some clothing will be on dis-play throughout January at the Ellsworth Area Art Center.

In addition to the work of the Rogerses, wood carv-ings by Glen Knak of Salina are also on display.

The gallery is open from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Turning the PageNick Slechta to retire as Chamber director

by LINDA MOWERy-DENNINGEllsworth County I-R

As a lifetime resident of Ellsworth

and in more recent years as director of the Ellsworth-Kanopolis Chamber of Commerce, there’s not a lot Nick Slechta doesn’t know about his hometown.

Or, as he jokingly tells people, “If you stump the director, you get a $5 gift check. I haven’t given out many.”

It’s a record he may carry into retirement. Slechta plans to quit the chamber Jan. 21, leaving behind what he considers “a good administrative founda-tion” for his successor.

Membership has more than doubled during his time with the organization to 97 voting members, seven in-kind members, 22 friends and 29 associ-ates. Friends include AT&T, Kansas Gas Service and other busi-nesses that serve Ellsworth but don’t have offices here. The organization’s financial integrity also has improved.

“It wasn’t dire when I arrived, but it was in poor straits,” Slechta said.

Income from dues has grown from about $14,000 a year to $24,980, he said.

Slechta’s background

fits perfectly with the chamber job. He served in the Kansas Army National Guard, retiring as a lieutenant colonel after 32 years. He also spent 35 years at Northern Natural Gas and later worked for Smoky Hills Public Television at Bunker Hill and Salina Downtown.

He was elected presi-dent of the Kansas Association of School Boards in 1983 and lost a bid for state rep-resentative in the early 2000s.

“Losing was the best thing that could have happened,” Slechta said. “That was a terri-ble session. It was do nothing for two years for them.”

Before the chamber job, he also spearhead-ed an effort for the Ellsworth County Historical Society to raise money for the Fort Harker junior officer’s quarters and other buildings.

As chamber director, Slechta promotes local businesses, watches over the administrative side of the organiza-tion and serves as an area information source.

One recent day, a woman called to ask for the telephone num-ber of the Great Bend zoo. Earlier, Slechta fielded a request from a Fort Scott man in search of his great-grandfather’s grave in the Ellsworth

Cemetery. The director called City Hall, received a copy of a cemetery map and sent it on to the caller.

“I always tell my board, ‘you hire me, but I work for the membership,’” Slechta said. “Satisfaction is what drives me.”

He thinks Ellsworth has the potential for growth; however, rent-al housing is badly needed. Slechta said he receives calls almost daily from families who want to move here and can’t find housing. Fortunately, county economic development interests are on the job. trying to find solutions, he said.

Slechta said he does not plan to disappear from public view with his retirement. He will continue to be active in the St. Bernard’s Catholic Church. He also wants to spend more “quality time” with his wife, Glorine. The high school sweet-hearts were married in 1953. They have two children, Damon Scott, a Connecticut radio personality, and DeVon Freilinger of Kingman.

He looks forward to the next chapter of his life.

“I believe God has led me on a great jour-ney,” Slechta said. “I can’t wait to see what he has in store for me next.”

MARK McCOY/Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter

Nick Slechta’s last day as director of the Ellsworth-Kanopolis Chamber of Commerce is Jan. 21.

FSA announces eligibility requirements for payment

by MIchAEL MARtINSpecial to the I-R

Most federal farm pro-grams require

eligibility determinations prior to payments being issued. Also, payment limitations apply to farm programs such as the Direct ($40,000) and Counter-cyclical ($65,000) Program, Conservation Reserve ($50,000) Program, etc. Certain eligibility require-ments apply to some pro-grams and not others.

Form CCC-902, Farm Operating Plan, and sup-porting documentation must be furnished to make the eligibility deter-minations. By statute, entities earning program benefits subject to a pay-

ment limitation must provide names, addresses, and ID numbers of the entities’ members. The CCC-902 may not need to be filed annually, but producers are required to notify the County Office of any changes in the farming operation which would affect an actively engaged in farming, cash-rent tenant, or foreign person determination. Changes that may affect a determination may include, but are not limit-ed to, the following:

• Contract shares that may reflect a change of land lease from cash rent to share rent, share rent to cash rent, or modifica-tion to or from a vari-able/fixed bushel rent arrangement.

• The size of a produc-

er’s farming operation by the addition or deletion of a farm that may affect the application of a crop-land factor.

• The structure of a farming operation, including any change in a member’s share.

• Contributions of farm inputs of capital, equipment, active person-al labor, or active personal management.

• The acquisition of farming interests not pre-viously disclosed on CCC-902 or update, including the farming interests of a spouse or minor child.

In addition, Form AD-1026, Highly Erodible Land Conservation and

See FSA, Page A9

Black Wolf Carolers

Photo courtesy of Art Kohls

The Black Wolf Carolers made their annual rounds Dec. 16. They visited the homes of Gene Macek, Gene and Alice Malir, Bill and Carroll Barkow and Art and Kathy Kohls. Everyone enjoyed the evening, which was almost perfect weather-wise. The carolers are back row, from left, Diane Krupp, Traci Piper, Dalton Kroboth, Zac and Greg Piper. Middle row from left, Noah, Kiya, John and Jovie Piper; Lori and Cassidy Kroboth, Kurt Krupp, Jolene Schultz, John Krupp. Front row from left, Irene and Firman Werth; Nancy and Luke Piper; Trenton, Tim, Pamela and Caleb Hays.

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can do this by using a cash, or envelope system (http://www.wisebread.com/a-comprehensive-guide-to-the-envelope-system). You can also keep track with a software program, or you can simply use pen and paper to keep track of your spending.

No matter how you do it, it’s important to find a system that works for you and stick to it.

Want to save more money while shopping? Learn the tips and tricks of using coupons by attend-ing Cash in with Coupons at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 23 in the basement meet-ing room of the Ellsworth County Courthouse. Please RSVP in case of cancellation due to inclement weather, (785) 472-4442, [email protected].

Jamie Rathbun is the family and con-sumer sciences agent in Ellsworth County. Her column appears twice a month in the I-R. For more information on this col-umn, nutrition, food safety, parenting, financial management, health and safety email Jamie at [email protected] or call Ellsworth County Extension Office,

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Lunches for people age 60 or older are a sug-gested donation of $2.75 and under 60 are $4.50. Reservations may be made by calling by 2 p.m. the day before the meal. Call Ellsworth at (785) 472-5185.

MONDAY — Sweet and sour chicken, Lyonnaise rice, Italian blend, bread, pudding and milk.

TUESDAY — Roast beef, boiled potatoes with gravy, baked squash, bread, orange wedges and milk.

WEDNESDAY — Turkey tetrazzini, spinach salad, bread, strawberries and bananas and milk.

THURSDAY — Taco salad, chips, salsa, milk and gelatin with fruit.

FRIDAY — Ham, sweet potato casserole, green beans, bread, pears and milk.

WILSON and HOLYROODLunches for people age 60 or older are a sug-

gested donation of $2.75 and under 60 are $4.50. The center offers free rolls and coffee at 9 a.m. on Fridays. Call the Wilson Senior Center at (785) 658-2388, or Holyrood at (785) 252-3640.

MONDAY — Sweet and sour chicken, Lyonnaise rice, Italian blend vegetables, bread, blushing applesauce and milk.

TUESDAY — Roast beef, boiled potatoes and gravy, baked squash, bread, orange wedges and milk.

WEDNESDAY — Turkey tetrazzini, spinach salad, wheat bread, strawberries and bananas and milk.

THURSDAY — Swiss steak, mashed pota-toes, mixed vegetables, wheat bread, gelatin with fruit and milk.

FRIDAY — Ham, sweet potato casserole, green beans, wheat bread, pears and milk.

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Ellsworth County Extension will sponsor a Cash in with Coupons session at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 23 in the basement meeting room of the Ellsworth County Courthouse.

Reservations are requested so participants can be notified in case the coupon session is canceled because of bad weather. Call (785) 472-4442.

PassagesFrom the Thursday,

Dec. 23, 1883, edition of the Ellsworth Reporter

Editor-to-Editor

It was fairly common in the 1800s for newspaper editors to exchange less than complimentary editorials on the pages of their newspaper. Here is an example from Page 2 of the Reporter.

To the Public

For months and months, we ignored the malicious falsehoods published against ourselves and friends by the foul mouthed imbecile over the way, and would have con-tinued to do so, had it not been that friends from all parts of the county insist-ed upon our replying to some of her personal and libelous attacks. Forbearance had ceased to be a virtue, and when we called upon him through our columns, to explain some of his rascally official acts while a public officer,

he invariably made an attempt to reply by drag-ging before the public, some of the best men in the county, who were so unfor-tunate to be in office at the time he was, making uncalled for and unjustifi-able assaults upon them, as well as such personal attacks upon the editors of this paper, as are usually indulged in by cowardly bullies, and pimps for bawdy houses, and which no honorable man of any profession would be guilty of.

We have proved to our readers by a letter published over his own signature, that he is an arrant hypocrite, by trying to convince the tem-perance element that he was a temperance man, and at the same time, claiming to be the opposite, to those who are classed as anti pro-hibitionists.

We have certainly satis-fied our readers that every attack he made, was con-ceived and born in malice and that jealousy, “the green eyed monster,” was at the bottom of every word he uttered or published. George Huycke, one of the editors of this paper, had been a life-long friend of this selfish, unprincipled man; had done him acts of kindness when he needed a friend and upon one occa-sion, saved him from dis-grace and ruin, if not from the state prison; and

because Huycke has asked for an office that he or any other citizen had a right to ask for, he turned upon him (Huycke) and slandered and abused him as only a malicious and ungrateful man can or would.

The other editor of this paper, W./A/ Gebhardt, never laid a straw across his pathway, or performed a single act toward him, that he had not a moral as well as legal right to perform, and we defy any man to prove that we have ever by word, act or deed, been guilty of uttering a word, or performing a deed against him, that would be termed dishonorable, and never did we way aught against him until he repeatedly attacked us for some imaginary cause and then, only as a reply and in self defense.

The discussion continues

At the request of a number of our business men and other citizens, who have informed us that the wrangle being carried on between the papers of this place was detrimental to the best interests of the city and county, and especially so on account of the Reporter having so large a circulation outside the state, we will, for the present, and perhaps the future, accede to their request.

Personally, we dislike to comply with their wishes, but we are willing to forgo what little pleasure there is in such a quarrel, to accommodate our citi-zens, for what is best for their interests, is best for ours.

Take no prisoners

Editor Gebhardt, who penned the above editorials also wasn’t afraid to take on

readers.

The following also appeared in his column.

Just as we expected. Our neighbor over the way, after insisting that “the Reporter give its readers the facts concern-ing some of the acts of our ex-county officers,” fails to answer their ques-tions propounded to him by “Fair Play.”

He has a happy faculty of dodging all questions that strike at his own cor-rupt life and public acts. He is an expert at crying

“stop thief,” but when he asked to explain some of his own official extrava-gances, he replies, with that old worn out “knock down argument, you lie.”

This won’t do neighbor, you can’t draw the wood over the eyes of the tax payers, by such a reply, any longer. They fail to see you as a reformer and as a large number of farmers have remarked to us during the past week — you had better confine yourself to the questions before the house, and either answer them truth-fully, or forever hold your peace.

This photo from the early 1900s is from the files of the Ellsworth County Historical Society. Write to the I-R, 304 N. Douglas Ave., Ellsworth, Ks. 67439 if you have information about this or any other item on the Passages page.

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Ellsworth CityCouncil receives airport update

By LINDA MOWERy-DENNINGEllsworth County I-R

The financial impact of the Ellsworth

Municipal Airport includes eight jobs, $240,000 in payroll and a total dollar benefit of $1.5 million, according to a study done by the Kansas Department of Transportation.

Brad Waller of Alfred Benesch Associates, engi-neers on the city’s planned airport improve-ment project, offered members of the Ellsworth City Council an update on the plan during its Monday meet-ing. He started off with the KDOT study, which pointed to direct and indirect benefits from airport traffic of about $935,000.

“It shows there’s lots of value to the airport,” Waller said.

The city is working to acquire land for a new runway; however, appraisers must settle on values before negotia-tions start.

Waller also discussed federal funding, which expired several years ago and has been extended 23 times through con-tinuing resolutions. Another six-month extension is expected when the 95/5 federal funding expires at the end of January.

In other business:• Ellsworth resident

Keith Adams appeared before the council to complain about a cable television rate increase

announced in a letter by Eagle Communications. He expects the increase to add $7.44 a month or $89.28 a year to his bill for expanded basic cable.

Adams also com-plained about Eagle’s quality, saying 26 of the 58 channels he receives cannot be viewed full screen.

“I submit there’s a pot-ful of people who are going to have to make some decisions they don’t want to make,” he said of the rate increase.

City administrator Tim Vandall and council members talked about Adams’ concerns later in the meeting. Vandall said the only control the city has over its cable provid-er is through the fran-chise agreement, which was renewed a year or two ago and allows Eagle to do business in Ellsworth.

• Council members authorized Mayor Steve Bahan to sign a utility easement agreement with Ellenz Real Estate, LLC, for the Carrico property.

Vandall said the ease-ment for water and sewer totals 2.84 acres.

• Ellsworth fire chief Bob Kepka talked to council members about the purchase of a used pumper truck from the Great Bend Fire Department. He said the truck is expected to cost in the upper $60,000s and have $20,000-worth of equipment.

“I don’t want a com-mitment yet because I haven’t seen anything in writing,” Kepka said.

With the Great Bend truck, Ellsworth should have enough pumper strength to serve the city for 20 years. A new truck without equipment lists for more than $300,000.

“I don’t see how the city here can ever afford to buy a new truck,” Kepka said.

He said the city’s next purchase will probably be an aerial truck in 10 years.

• Council members by consensus turned down an offer from Citizens State Bank & Trust Co. to donate its drive-in bank to the city. Citizens is building a new drive-in facility at the intersec-tion of Kansas Highways 140 and 156.

About the only use the city would have for the downtown property would be to raze the building and construct a parking lot for 20 cars, Bahan said. He estimated the cost to be $30,000 to $40,000.

Bahan said he talked with the bank’s David Brownback and Brownback said someone else has expressed inter-est in the drive-in.

• Vandall said a mechanical failure at the city lift station has forced water department employees to turn the station on manually.

“There might be a pretty big expense com-ing up in the next few weeks,” he said.

• The next meeting of the Ellsworth City Council will be at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 24 at City Hall.

Wilson council sticks with own neighborhood revitalization plan

By ALAN RuschEllsworth County I-R

WILSON — Thanks, but no thanks.

That was the response of members of the Wilson City Council to Smoky Hill Development Corporation executive director Rob Fillion Jan. 3, after he suggested they consider adopting a dif-ferent neighborhood revi-talization plan than the one they approved in November.

“None of the plans are perfect,” council member Leland Francis said. “I think Wilson needs something a little more aggressive, because we don’t have Carrico, the prison, the new bank being built, and all that stuff. Ellsworth is so for-tunate to have that going on. I’m envious.”

Francis said a more aggressive plan could encourage more Wilson property owners to reno-vate existing structures or build new ones.

“I’m not here to con-vince you what to do,” Fillion said. “You guys are an elected body. You have the right to decide on your own what is best for your community. I’m just here to lay out the facts and answer any questions you guys have regarding the neighborhood revital-ization plan.”

Fillion described neigh-borhood revitalization as an economic development tool aimed at long-term growth, and the reduction of blight.

In December, Ellsworth County commissioners reviewed guidelines for a county neighborhood revitalization plan, which contained four options. Two of the plans involve the city of Wilson and USD 112.

Each taxing entity in the county — the cities of Ellsworth, Kanopolis, Wilson, Lorraine and Holyrood, plus USD 327 and USD 112 and Ellsworth County com-missioners — have until Jan. 31 to select a plan.

“The thing to keep in mind here is that munici-palities can only have one plan,” Fillion told the council.

If Wilson adopts its current plan and the county chooses not to fol-low, Wilson participants will receive a 100 percent rebate over 10 years on the taxable increase; how-ever, the rebate will be based on only Wilson and USD 112 mill levies, if the school district decides to take part in the Wilson

plan, Fillion said. No rebate will come from the county.

“If you are giving away taxes for 10 years, which is completely fine, and at your discretion, you also lose out on potential increased revenue,” Fillion said.

He used the vacant 6,700 square-foot Somer Hardware building in downtown Wilson as an example and its 2011 appraised value of $7,530:

If the owner spent $5 per square foot to reno-vate the structure, — thus increasing the build-ing’s valuation to $41,030 — the city would gain $5,683.78 in additional property taxes over the course of 20 years under the current plan. If, how-ever, Wilson went with the county’s proposed Plan B — which includes Ellsworth County, the City of Kanopolis, USD 327, and USD 112 — the owner of the building would get a smaller rebate — $5,158.33 —but Wilson would see $9,321.40 in additional property taxes over 20 years.

Plan B is five years in length, and offers a stair-stepped rebate starting at 100 percent the first year and ending at 50 percent the fifth year.

“This is assuming — incorrectly I might add — that a weak plan will encourage the owner to do the same thing a strong, aggressive plan would do,” Mayor David Criswell said.

Fillion reminded coun-cil members neighbor-hood revitalization is also a tool for long-term, tax-based growth.

“It is a great tool to use, but not every tool fits each entity at the same level,” he said.

Fillion said Wilson’s current neighborhood revitalization plan offers a great incentive, Its down-fall is three elected bodies have to agree with it for Wilson property owners to receive a full rebate.

Furthermore, Fillion said Wilson’s current plan basically puts a ceiling on the city’s valuation for the next 5 years.

“That’s assuming every-

one who does improve-ments participates in our plan,” Criswell said. “That’s not necessarily a fact.”

He said not everyone will qualify for the pro-gram.

“But, nevertheless, there will be improve-ments,” Criswell said.

“When you freeze your valuation, to continue to offer the same services as a city that you offer, you are going to have to increase your mill levy,” Fillion said.

Francis disagreed, say-ing property improve-ments and the elimina-tion of blight helps every-one’s property values — whether they are part of the program or not.

Criswell said one rea-son Wilson’s mill levy has gone up over time is the reduction in state revenue sharing.

“From 1991 up to the current time, our mill levy in Wilson went from 72 down to 51 at its low, then back up into the high 50s and low 60s to where it is now at 65.28,” Criswell said.

“Mill levy can have a lot of things that cause an impact. All during that 20-year period, our appraised valuation has close to tripled. For you to say, Rob, that by doing this we’re going to freeze our appraised valuation, I just think it’s a little more complicated than that.”

Criswell asked Fillion whether Wilson would be better off participating in Plan B than it would with the plan the council adopted in November.

“I think you would be better off in Plan B,” Fillion said. “If you go with Plan B, you would have three taxing entities that are taking the bur-den of that rebate.”

Criswell said he talked to the eight Wilson prop-erty owners who partici-pated in the original neighborhood revitaliza-tion plan.

“They said they would have done exactly what they did if there had been no plan at all,” he said. “In order to provide long-term property tax-based stabilization, you have to

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Oller elected commission chairmanBy ALAN RuschEllsworth County I-R

Ellsworth County commissioner Al Oller was

elected chairman and Commissioner Kermit Rush was elected vice chairman for 2012, dur-ing the commission’s Jan. 3 meeting.

Appointments approved for 2012 were Ronda Kasiska, health supervisor; Teresa Shute, noxious weed/landfill supervisor; Rick Nondorf, road and bridge supervisor; Jan Andrews, purchasing officer; Dr. Ronald Whitmer, health officer; Whitmer, Dr. Dennis Kepka and Dr. Jerzy Slomka, county coro-ners; physician assistant

Shawn McGowan, spe-cial deputy coroner; Whitmer, Kepka, Slomka and McGowan, workman’s compensation physicians; Rod Rees, EMS director; Slomka, EMS medical advisor; McGowan, EMS liaison; Keith Haberer, emergen-cy management director; Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter, the official county news-paper.

In other business:• Shelly Vopat was

appointed Ellsworth County deputy clerk.

• Jo Funk of the Salina-Saline County Health Department, pre-sented two documents for signature on the new sanitary code. The docu-ments will be submitted to the Kansas

Department of Health and Environment for approval.

Funk said she is work-ing to submit informa-tion to the state on the county’s local environ-mental protection pro-gram, for 2013 funding consideration.

• Sheriff Tracy Ploutz reported he had pur-chased another four-wheel-drive pickup for his department.

• Payment of the 2012 dues to the Ellsworth-Kanopolis Area Chamber of Commerce was approved.

• Payment of $100 to each of the After Prom programs at Ellsworth Junior-Senior High School, Wilson High School, and Central Plains High School was approved.

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encourage things to happen that wouldn’t have hap-pened otherwise. It didn’t for us.”

Criswell said Wilson needs a plan that will address the town’s blight and also encourage activity.

“So the misgivings you have about our aggressive plan, is that because you are concerned about us?” Criswell asked Fillion.

“Yes,” Fillion replied.“Is it because you want to

keep us from making a mis-take?” Criswell asked.

“Yes,” Fillion said. “Is there any other rea-

son,” Criswell asked.“That’s the major one,”

Fillion said. “And the second one is we operate in a politi-cal world, and I’m trying to tell you what other people are willing to negotiate and participate in.

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The Ellsworth City Council Monday night approved a neighborhood revitalization plan, which will be in effect through 2016.

The plan is the same as the original agreement the city has operated under for the past five years. It also was followed by other tax-ing entities in Ellsworth County.

The only change is that the county asked the city to

update the minimum requirement of taxable improvements from $20,000 to $15,000.

City administrator Tim Vandall said this will not affect revenue in the city’s new development districts because new construction typically exceeds $15,000 or $20,000.

Mayor Steve Bahan said Ellsworth didn’t go with a more aggressive plan because “we don’t need it.”

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A10 Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter • Thursday, _January 12, 2012

BY Mark MccoYEllsworth County I-R

The young Bearcat wrestling team had a good showing at the

39th Ellsworth Invitational Wrestling tournament Saturday, winning four medals in a day of good wrestling on the Bearcat mats in Ellsworth.

Thirteen teams competed in the tournament and while the five Bearcat contenders did not win enough team points to place, they did an excellent job of aggressive wrestling.

Taking first place was 106 pound sophomore grappler Ty Nienke. Nienke had a bye in the first round of the tourna-ment. He beat Gideon Root of Minneapolis, pinning the Lions wrestler with 57 seconds left in the first period. Nienke defeat-ed a scrappy Rocky Krueger of Lincoln, winning by a 15-0 technical fall late in the third period of the championship match.

“I felt like I should have pinned him a couple of times,” Nienke said. “But I didn’t get it done. It was my first technical fall though.”

Zach Martin, the 138-pound wrestler for the Bearcats pinned Connor Gies of Southeast of Saline with a min-ute to go in the first period of

wrestling. He was down 4-2 in the third period when he pinned Zach Sanders of Hoisington. Senior Rex Trahan of Minneapolis caught Martin in the process of a reversal and pinned him in the third period of the championship match, giving the freshman wrestler

his second place finish.Marshall Barkow, the sopho-

more 126-pound Ellsworth wrestler, lost his first match in a close 6-5 decision to Cory Knight of Southeast of Saline. Barkow fought his way through the consolation bracket, wres-tling hard and pinning Gage

Stude of Larned in the second period. He defeated Luke Eckert of Minneapolis in an exciting 16-11 decision, gaining near-fall points as time expired. Barkow defeated Tommy Jenkins of Hesston to take the third place medal by a 7-2 deci-sion.

Mo Rojas wrestles at 145 pounds for the Bearcats and pinned Jacob Griffith of Minneapolis in the second peri-od of his first match. Landon Younger of Ellis defeated the sophomore grappler 15-4 in the second match. Rojas pinned Dalton Hoch of Larned late in the third period of his next match. In the match for third place, Mitchell Vincent of Lyons was Rojas’ next victim, as he pinned Vincent early in the final period.

Liam Eck, the 160 pound EHS wrestler, lost his first match by fall to Matt Steele of Hesston and was eliminat-ed from the tournament. However Eck won his exhibi-tion match, pinning Devyn Naegele by fall.

“I thought that the kids com-peted hard and wrestled for the entire matches,” head coach Clint Freeman said. “There are still some things that we need to work on obviously. We beat kids that we should have beat-en. That is a good weekend.”

The Bearcats travel to Minneapolis for a North Central Activities Association dual at 6:30 p.m. today (Thursday). The Bearcats will compete at 4 p.m. Friday at the Halstead Tournament. Wrestling continues at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Halstead.

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Nienke wins first at Ellsworth meet

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Ellsworth’s 145-pound grappler, Mo Rojas, pins Dalton Hoch of Larned on his way to win a third place medal at the Ellsworth Invitational Wrestling Tournament Jan. 7 in Ellsworth.


Lady Bearcat Connor Davis grabs a low pass beneath the bucket in the Jan. 3 win over the Lady Broncos of Russell in Ellsworth.

Lady ‘Cats winthird game


The Lady Bearcats of Ellsworth won their third basketball game of the season Jan. 3,

defeating North Central Activities Association rival Russell 45-38 in an exciting come-from-behind win.

The Lady Broncos took control of the game early in the second quarter and had a 9-point lead at one time — but the Lady ‘Cats persevered, taking advan-tage of Russell turnovers and grabbing the lead early in the fourth quarter.

Russell got on the scoreboard first with a free throw at the 6:32 mark of the defensive battle that marked the first quarter of play. In fact, there was only 3:44 left in the first quarter before Lainey Dunn made a free throw to get Ellsworth on the board and whittle the Lady Bronco lead to 5-1.

Maycee Jones made a layup for the first Ellsworth bucket of the game at the 2:01 mark to make the score 7-3. Lady Bearcat Rachel Herzog canned a 3-ball

to make it a 1-point game about 45 sec-onds later. Halle Connally tied the game 7-7 with a free throw with 30 seconds on the clock, but Russell made two charity shots at the nine second mark to have a 9-7 lead as the quarter ended.

Russell added a bucket 30 seconds into the second quarter of play. Whitney Williams made two charity tosses at the 6:19 mark to keep it a 2-point ball game at 11-9. Russell canned a 3-ball to pull away 14-9 before Brenn Cravens made a free throw to make the score 14-10. Russell had an 18-10 lead before Cravens scored a 3-ball with 2:01 left in the period.

The Lady Broncos had established a 22-13 lead before the Lady ‘Cats added three points before the half-time buzzer to make it a 22-16 ball game.

Ellsworth was slow coming out of the locker room following the break and really didn’t have much of a warm-up period prior to the third quarter of play.

Whatever was said in the locker room

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Lady Dragons rollover Tescott 71-37 BY Mark MccoYEllsworth County I-R

TESCOTT — The second-ranked 1A Division II Lady Dragons of Wilson defeated

a vastly improved Tescott girls’ basket-ball team 71-37 Friday at Tescott.

The Lady Trojans are led by up-and-coming sophomore Shiland Fuller, who scored 17 points in the game — 12 of those points coming from four 3-balls.

Fuller was a thorn in the Lady Dragons’ side for the first half of the ballgame, until Wilson’s Karlie Steinle rejoined the Lady Dragons in the sec-ond half of the game to defend against her.

The Lady Trojans scored first at the 7:07 mark. Emily Beneda scored for the Dragons about 15 seconds later, but both teams struggled to find the bucket until Wilson scored with 4:56 left in the first quarter.

The Lady Dragons pulled ahead to a 7-4 lead following a Beneda bucket and a free throw. Shania Steinike took a blow to the face but made a bucket

for Wilson with 3:07 left in the quar-ter. Tanisha Steinike dropped a field goal for the Lady Dragons 20 seconds later for a 10-2 Lady Dragon lead. Tescott battled back and scored four points before Wilson added a field goal for the 14-6 first quarter tally.

Beneda scored the first bucket of the second quarter with 6:36 on the clock to give the Lady Dragons a 10-point lead. Tescott answered with a free throw and bucket to make the score 16-9. Wilson made a charity shot and the Lady Trojans canned three for a 17-12 score with 4:06 on the clock.

Beneda added a bucket to the Lady Dragon tally 20 seconds later, but Tescott found the goal to make it a 19-14 ballgame with 3:24 left in the period. With 1:04 on the clock Wilson once again established a 10-point lead 24-14, but Tescott found the bucket for a 24-16 score at the halftime break.

Steinle sank a trey for the first score of the third quarter giving Wilson a 27-16 lead and Fuller answered with a


Wilson’s Shania Steinike battles Shiland Fuller for an offensive rebound in the Jan. 6 victory over the Lady Trojans in Tescott.

See WILSON, Page B2


TESCOTT — The Wilson Dragons basket-ball team — ranked ninth in 1A Division II — stormed over the Trojans of Tescott 67-42 Friday in Tescott.

While senior Jake Stoppel dominates any court where he plays, the balance of the Dragons are also good basketball players and a strategy of double or tri-ple-teaming Stoppel results in scores for Wilson — as Creighton Reeves, Jordan Bess, Cole Zelenka and Marcus Denham add points to the Dragons’ tally.

Stoppel scored with a jump shot just 33 sec-onds into the first quar-ter for a Wilson 2-0 lead, but the Trojans knotted the game at the 6:31 mark. A free throw gave the Trojans a 1-point lead with 5:55 on the board, but anoth-er Stoppel bucket returned the lead for Wilson at 4-3. Tescott used a charity shot to tie the game but a Denham bucket gave the Dragons a 6-2 lead. The Trojans

eked ahead on their next possession but Zelenka knotted the game at 6-6.

The teams traded buckets and Stoppel made a jump shot to acquire a 2-point Dragon lead with 2:42 left in the period. Tescott scored but Denham made a field goal to regain the

Wilson lead at 12-10. Zelenka drove into the paint and made a left-handed layup to give the Dragons a 14-10 lead with 37 seconds left in the quarter.

With 7:22 on the clock in the second quarter, Wilson surged

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must have had an impact, for the Lady ‘Cats began to play defense with a vengeance, holding Russell at the 22-point mark while Williams added a bucket and Kailee Landon made a bucket and free throw to make it a 1-point ball game with 5:26 on the clock.

Russell battled back, adding a couple of buck-ets to its tally for a 26-21 lead at the 3:43 mark, but the Lady ‘Cats kept up the pressure on the defensive side of the ball and made it a 26-24 ball game just 30 seconds later. Russell added a charity shot to gain a 3-point advantage which the Lady Broncos main-tained up to the 31-28 mark. With 17 seconds on the clock, Connally made a jump shot to pull the Lady ‘Cats to a 31-30 score. But the Lady Broncos made a bucket as the buzzer sounded for a 33-30 third quarter tally.

It was one of the better attended Lady ‘Cat bas-ketball games of the sea-son and the fans in the stands did a good job of supporting the girls as the final stanza began.

The momentum had turned for the Lady ‘Cats in the last minute of the third quarter and Herzog forced a turnover as the fourth period began and made the layup to make the score 33-32 at the 7:38 mark. The Lady Broncos added a free throw to their score, but Dunn sank a jump shot with 5:17 left in the game to tie the score at 34-34.

The quick-handed Herzog stole the ball from Russell on the next play but missed the layup.

Landon fought for the rebound and threw the ball back to Connally as she was falling beneath the bucket. Connally cool-ly stepped up to the arch and zipped in a trey for the first Lady ‘Cat lead of the game, making the score 37-34 with 4:44 on the clock.

The Lady ‘Cats came alive and began to play focused basketball, work-ing hard to get the ball into the paint for the high percentage shots.

NCAA games are known to be physical and the following two minutes of basketball often resem-bled a wrestling match, with both teams fighting for the ball. At one point in the fourth quarter, only two players from each team were upright on the hardwood while six play-ers were sprawled across the floor.

Russell scored a bucket at the 2:39 point to make it 37-36. Connally was fouled while making a bucket for a 3-point play to make the score 39-36 on the next Lady ‘Cat pos-session. Ellsworth added another charity shot with 50 seconds on the clock. Herzog dropped in two more free throws to make the score 42-36.

Russell’s Janna Schulte added a bucket on the next Lady Bronco posses-sion for the final Russell score of the game. Connally was tackled at mid-court after stealing the ball and her free throw made the score 43-38 with 18 seconds on the board. The Lady Broncos made the mistake of fouling Connally in the paint and the 5’ 9” sopho-more sank the charity shots for the final 45-38 score.

“It was great, we really

needed it,” said Williams, the junior post for the team. “It upped our confi-dence, was good for our record and made everyone else believe in each other.”

With the victory, the Lady ‘Cats are now 3-4 for the season, their best start in over six years.

Connally led the Bearcats with scoring, making 13 points in the win. Herzog was also in the double-digit club with 11 points; Cravens scored seven; Williams made five; Dunn had three; Landon, Jones, and Connor Davis each made a bucket in the win. Cravens made two 3-balls and Connally made one in the win.

Lady ‘Cats versus Republic County

The Lady Buffaloes defeated Ellsworth Friday by a score of 45-35 in Belleville.

Craven led the team in scoring with 11 points; Connally had nine; Davis made five; Jones and Lainey Dunn scored two apiece and Williams added a free throw to the tally. Craven sank two 3-balls in the game. The Lady ‘Cats made seven of 13 charity shots for 53 percent.

Williams, Connally and Davis each had four rebounds in the game; Dunn made three and Cravens scored a board.

Lady ‘Cats versus Southeast of Saline

The Lady ‘Cats dropped the Monday make-up game against the Lady Trojans of Southeast of Saline by a score of 42-35 in Ellsworth. Read the full story of the loss in the Jan. 19 edition of the Ellsworth County I-R.

The Lady ‘Cats take on the Lady Knights of Sacred Heart at 6 p.m. Friday in Ellsworth.

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bucket for Tescott. Beneda scored for the Lady Dragons and Fuller hit her second 3-ball of the game for a 29-22 score. Steinle was fouled beneath the bucket and added a free throw to Wilson’s core and the Lady Trojans made a field goal for a 30-24 score at the five minute mark.

Shania Steinike drove into the paint and made a layup for Wilson 13 seconds later and Tanisha Steinike added a bucket to give the Lady Dragons a 10-point lead 34-24.

Fuller made a Lady Trojan 3-ball and Steinle answered with a trey for Wilson to make the score 37-27 with four minutes left in the third quarter. Beneda made the shot that gave the Lady Dragons a 12-point lead as Wilson began to pull away from the Lady Trojans at the 3:31 mark. Led by Steinle, Wilson had a 54-31 lead by the end of the third quarter.

Lady Dragon head coach Rod Seehafer uti-lized the depth of his bench throughout the game.

In the fourth quarter of play, all of the Lady Dragons saw action on the floor as Wilson con-tinued to run away and held Tescott to the

31-point mark until Fuller canned a 3-ball to make the score 61-34 with 4:43 on the clock. Two Lady Trojans fouled out of the game early in the fourth quar-ter and the Lady Dragons cruised to a 71-37 win.

“I thought that in the first half, the other girls played okay, but they kind of missed Karlie out there,” said Seehafer. “I thought that we did some good things. In the second half, we came out and did much better. We played good defense.”

Steinle had to sit out of the first half of the game to a Kansas State High School Activities Rule infraction that occurred during the win-ter break. Rule number 26 states that players cannot work out with any other entity during the course of the state basketball season, although they can have individual coaching or training.

Steinle, Lincoln’s Jenna Farris and a Washington County player had to miss the first half of the first January game on their schedule. The girls play on a summer league team that held a work-out over the holiday break. The girls and their parents were unaware of the rule at the time.

“It was a minor infrac-tion and it was decided

that the three girls would have to sit out for the first half of their first game after the break,” said WJHS prin-cipal Brian Smith.

The amazing Steinle, who probably is the best female basketball player in 1A Division II — had another 20-point game, scoring 23 points, six rebounds and three steals in less than 16 minutes of basketball.

Beneda scored her first double-double of the season with 18-points and 11 rebounds. Sarah Lanter scored nine points; Shania Steinike scored five; Tashia Steinike, Dreamer Roberson and Janell Ptacek each scored four points apiece; McKenzie Thrasher scored a bucket and Kasey Davis made a free throw in the win.

Angleica Pfannestiel, a transfer student from Norton also scored a charity shot and should be a good addition to the already talented and deep Lady Dragons.

Jenna Lanter suffered a knee injury prior to the game but is expected to return to the Wilson line up soon.

The Lady Dragons played the Oilers of Central Plains Tuesday at Wilson. They will host the Lady Leopards of Lincoln at 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13 in Wilson.

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HOISINGTON — The Lady Oilers of Central Plains lost the Jan. 3 basket-ball game 43-34 to the Lady Cardinals in Hoisington.

Hoisington jumped to a 6-0 lead before Jennifer Hitschmann scored a bucket for the Lady O’s just beneath the 3-point arch and Hitschmann made an identical shot on the next Central Plains possession for the only Lady Oilers points in the quarter. The Lady Cardinals added seven unanswered points for a 13-4 lead by the end of the stanza.

Hoisington scored first in the second quarter to make the score 15-4. A long pass to Lindsay Woodmansee set up a Central Plains layup to make the score 15-6. Hitschmann battled into the paint to make a bucket and Katie Hipp added a free throw to make the score 15-9.

The Lady Cardinals added a bucket before Jenae Hekele stole the ball and made a layup for a 17-11 score. Katie Hipp made a jump shot making the score 17-13 before the Lady Cardinals added a charity shot to their tally. Sydney Rugan was fouled in the paint and she made a free throw to make it an 18-14 ballgame. She added a bucket

with a jump shot but Hoisington made a field goal to maintain its’ 4-point advantage at 20-16.

Hipp stole the ball and made a layup to bring the Lady O’s within two points late in the second quarter. Rugan made a falling away jump shot to tie the game at 20-20 about five seconds before the halftime buzzer sounded.

Hoisington won the third quarter by scoring 13 points and holding the Lady Oilers to 10. The fourth quarter was hard on Central Plains, as Hitschmann’s 3-ball and Woodmansee’s single charity shot were the only points the Lady O’s scored while Hoisington dumped in 10 points for the win.

Hitschmann led the scoring with a total of 14 points including her trey. Woodmansee scored six points includ-ing a 3-ball and Hekele had six points in the loss. Rugan scored five points in the game and Hipp had three to round out the scoring.

The Lady Oilers made four of 10 charity shots for 40 percent.

“We didn’t execute on the offensive end very well,” said head coach Toby Holmes. “Hoisington’s defense had us spread out quite a bit and we didn’t attack the middle very effectively.

Lady Oilers beat Macksville,but fall to Lady Cardinals

See CENTRAL PLAINS, Page B3

Dragons toppleTescott Trojans


Dragon Marcus Denham makes a jump shot in the Jan. 6 win over the Trojans in Tescott.

See DRAGONS, Page B3

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to a 16-10 lead and a Reeves jump shot moved the tall to 18-10. With 6:08 on the clock, Wilson had a 10-point lead, 22-12, but the Trojans fought back nar-rowing the margin to 28-22 with 1:08 left on the clock. Zelenka made two charity shots to make the score 30-22 at the halftime break.

Wilson scored 11 points before the Trojans made a field goal (41-24) at the 4:43 mark of the third quarter and were never seriously threatened by Tescott following that point of the game. The Trojans added six points before Bess made a bucket to increase the Dragons score to 43-30 with 2:19 left in the peri-od. Wilson had a commanding 47-32 lead by the end of the period.

The Dragons had a 51-34 lead when Trojan Austin Herbal made two free throws for Tescott with 4:29 left in the game. The Trojans have quick guards and cause a lot of turnovers but the Dragons’ defense was just too powerful for them. Multiple buckets by Bess and Stoppel contributed to the final 67-42 score.

Stoppel scored a double-double with a whopping 34 points and 16 rebounds. The quick-handed Bess had 10 points, seven rebounds and 10 steals. Zelenka

had his best game of the season, scor-ing 15 points. Denham scored six points and Reeves scored two in the win. The Dragons shot five of seven field goals for 71 percent.

“We are always uncomfortable about playing Tescott, because they are so deliberate on offense,” said head coach Mark Spears. “If you get 10 points behind them, it is like being down 20 to someone else. They just run their offense over and over until you get tired and then score. Fortunately we got off to a good start and they were forced to play faster.

“The turning point in the game was when we got off to a great start in the third quarter and then coasted from there. We ran some gimmick defense part of the time and the rest man. Our man-to-man still needs a lot of work, but we are getting better at it. Our shot selection was real good and I think we shot 58 percent from the field. We were able to get some easy buckets in transition and that is always good. We are improving and must continue to do that the rest of the year.”

The Dragons played the Central Plains Oilers Tuesday in Wilson. They will meet the Leopards of Lincoln at 6 p.m. Friday at Wilson.


The Russell Broncos were no match for the quick and sharpshooting Bearcats Jan. 3 as the ‘Cats pummeled Russell by a score of 63-29 in a boys’ basketball game in Ellsworth.

The ‘Cats gave up a lot in height, but condition-ing played a key role in the victory, as Ellsworth was in constant motion on the floor and halfway through the second quarter, Russell was hav-ing trouble keeping up with the ‘Cats and seemed to be visibly tired.

Ellsworth missed two 3-ball attempts and a layup before Russell’s Jordan Hecker made a layup for a 2-0 Russell lead with 6:33 left in the first quarter. It was Russell’s only lead of the game as the ‘Cats answered with a Jacob Froese jump shot on its next possession to tie the game at 2-2.

The ‘Cats owned the boards all night as Ben Murrell, Froese, Josh Bahr, Clint Glaser and Shane Wilson out-jumped the taller Broncos and although Ellsworth missed two easy layups, Bahr con-nected on the third attempt to give the ‘Cats a 4-2 lead at the 5:12 mark.

Bearcat head coach Kevin Haxton began to substitute his quick and senior-laden bench early in the game with McGregor Jones and Mark Cunningham II entering the fray soon after the Ellsworth buck-et. Glaser made a layup and then Jones added a bucket for an 8-4 lead with 4:14 left in the quarter.

Noah Trapp, a 6’5” junior entered the game for the ‘Cats and did a good job containing Hecker beneath the rim. Wilson made a layup, added another bucket and shot a free throw on the next Bearcat posses-sion for a 13-6 lead with 2:52 left in the quarter. Trapp sank a charity shot to make the score 14-8 with 2:13 on the clock.

Hecker made a trey for Russell on the next

Bronco possession and the ‘Cats answered with a bucket for a 16-11 score with 51 seconds left in the period. But the Broncos battled back and tied the score 16-16 by the end of the quar-ter.

Murrell broke the tie with a bucket early in the second quarter of play as Ellsworth regained its lead and added another bucket 10 seconds later to make the score 20-16. The ‘Cats made another bucket and Glaser added two points with 6:20 to go in the quarter. By the 4:42 mark, Ellsworth had a 26-16 lead and the Broncos were visibly out of gas.

Senior Chyler Hudson, in his first sea-son of playing basketball for the ‘Cats, entered the game after Ellsworth had a 12-pont lead, 29-17. Although Russell closed the gap to 10 points around the two minute mark, Ellsworth had a 15-point lead, 37-22 as the halftime buzzer sounded.

The intermission did little to rejuvenate the Broncos in the third quarter of play as the ‘Cats dominated the court, scoring 17 points — 11 of those coming from Froese — and only allowing Russell to score two points in the final seconds of the stanza. It was a brutal game to watch and many of the Bronco fans began to find the exits as the fourth quarter began.

“It was a fun game and we played well,” said Murrell. “I had a good rebounding game and I felt that as a team we had a good rebounding game. We played a lot better defense than we did against the last few opponents.”

Haxton rotated his entire bench into the game in the fourth quar-ter and Bearcat fans got to see a small glimpse of the future as 6’2” Matthew Keener, a sophomore, was impres-sive on the floor. Another sophomore that moved the ball well was point guard Grant Glaser. The high point of the quarter was when Hudson canned a 3-ball for the ‘Cats, causing the

Bearcat Backers to erupt in cheers. Ellsworth out-scored Russell 9-5 in the stanza.

Froese, who has become an excellent roundball player for the ‘Cats in his senior sea-son, led the team in scoring with 15 points. Also in the double-digit club were Clint Glaser and Wilson with 10 points apiece. Bahr scored seven points; Murrell made six; Cunningham made two 3-balls for six points; Trapp scored three points; Hudson made a trey; Jones scored a bucket and Keener made a free throw to round out the scoring. The ‘Cats made 11 of 21 charity shots for 52 per-cent.

“I was very happy with our defensive inten-sity,” said Haxton. “We applied full-court pres-sure in the first three quarters and forced them into a lot of turn-overs. Our depth in the bench helped us to stay fresh and pitched in 15 points for us. It was a great way to start the New Year.”

With the win, the ‘Cat rise to a 4-3 record and 1-2 in the tough North Central Activities Association. The NCAA is a well-balanced league this year with only the Buffaloes of Republic County remaining unde-feated.

Bearcats versus Republic County

The ‘Cats dropped Friday’s game against NCAA rivals Republic County by a score of 55-44.

Glaser had a 20-point game including one trey in the loss; Froese scored eight; Murrell made seven points; Wilson scored five; Bahr and Cunningham each scored two points apiece.

Bearcats versus Southeast of Saline

The ‘Cats defeated a good Southeast of Saline basketball team 65-55 Monday in a make-up game against the Trojans in Ellsworth. Read the full story in the Jan. 19 edition of the Ellsworth County I-R.

The Bearcats take on the Knights of Sacred Heart at 7 p.m. Friday in Ellsworth.


HOISINGTON — The Hoisington Cardinals defeated the Central Plains Oilers, 61-57 in overtime Jan. 3 in a boys’ basketball game at Hoisington.

The Oilers grabbed the lead early in the first quarter when Benn Kirmer swished a trey following the tip-off.

The much taller Cardinals had to work to get the score to 8-5. Chris Steiner stole the ball from the Cards and scored an easy layup to make the score 11-7 which was the tally at the end of the first quarter.

Four Cardinal free throws tied the game at 11-11 as the second quarter began. The Cardinals made a 3-ball to take the lead at 22-21 late in the period, but Tim Stueder made an offensive put-back to grab a 23-22 lead for Central Plains as the halftime buzzer sounded.

The third quarter had five lead chang-es until the tally was 35-34 in favor of the Cards. Steiner made a 3-point shot as the quarter ended for a Central Plains 37-35 lead.

Hoisington connected with a 3-ball as the fourth quarter began, but Steiner hit another trey to knot the game at 40-40. The teams traded free throws and Steiner added a charity shot for the Oilers to make the score 42-41. The Cards made a bucket and Kirmer added a free throw for Central Plains to tie the game at 43-43.

Hoisington took the lead with a buck-et before Layne Bieberle canned a 3-ball for a Central Plains 46-45 lead. A Steiner hook shot made the score 48-45 before Hoisington added two free throws. Central Plains added a charity

shot to the tally but Hoisington scored a bucket to tie the game at 49-49.

The clock was winding down as Steiner scored for a 51-49 lead, but Hoisington managed to score a field goal as the buzzer sounded to send the game into overtime.

A Kirmer jump shot gave the Oilers an early 53-51 lead.

Kirmer added a charity shot to the Oilers’ tally and then scored a bucket for a 57-51 lead. The Cards made two buckets and two charity shots to tie the game. As the final seconds ticked off of the clock, Hoisington’s Trent Schremmer was fouled and he made his two free throws to win the game for Hoisington.

Kirmer had a 22-point game and 12 rebounds for a double-double and scored three steals. Steiner was also in the double-digit club with 16 points. Joe Barton scored nine points; Bieberle made seven; Stueder made a bucket and Colton Zink made a free throw in the game. Steiner made three 3-balls, Bieberle sank two treys and Kirmer made one for the Oilers in the loss.

Barton did a good job beneath the boards, grabbing 11 rebounds; Patrick Hubbard, Bieberle and Steiner each grabbed four; Stueder and Evan Liebl each scored two and Zink made one in the game.

Oilers verses MacksvilleThe Oilers dropped the Friday night

game to the Mustangs of Macksville by a score of 64-50. Statistics were not available by press time.

The Oilers played Wilson in the battle of USD 122 Tuesday night. Central Plains will play Victoria at 7 p.m. Friday in Claflin.

Dragons

Cards beat Central Plainsin overtime game

‘Cats break Broncosin NCAA league win

B4 Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter • Thursday, January 12, 2012

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St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran LC – MSPhilip Hoppe, pastor(785) 472-3712Sunday service: 10:00 a.m.Adult Bible class: 9:00 a.m.Sunday school: 9:00 a.m.

Smoky hill baptistBilly Kryger, pastor(785)472-55871007 EvansSunday school: 9:45 a.m.Sunday service: 10:45 a.m.Afternoon service: 1:30

United MethodistBethann Black, pastor(785)472-3870322 N. DouglasSunday school: 9:30 a.m.Sunday service: 10:45 a.m.Youth group: Wed. 6:30-8 p.m.TV ministry: Sunday 10:30 & 12:45 a.m.www.ellsworthumc.com

GEnESEoGeneseo united MethodistTicia Bennett, pastor407 8th, (620) 824-6498Sunday Worship: 9:30 a.m.UMW: 3rd. Thursday - 1:30 p.m.

holyroodSt. Paul united Churchof ChristDebby Rains, pastor301 E. Nassau, (785) 252-3410Adult Bible study: 9:30 a.m.Sunday service: 10:30 a.m.Awsome Kids Club: Wed., 6 p.m.

St. Peter LutheranDan Harders, pastor209 S. County Rd. Church: (785) 252-3275Bible Study: 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Service: 10:30 a.m.St. Mary’s CatholicFr. Jarett KonradeConcord StreetSunday Mass: 8 a.m.

kanoPoLISUnited MethodistStephen Holmes, pastor103 S. MissouriChurch: (785) 472-8773Sunday school: 10 a.m.Sunday worship: 11 a.m.

St. Ignatius CatholicFr. Steve Heina127 N. MissouriRectory: (785) 472-4874Saturday Mass: 5:30 p.m.

LoRRaInEFirst baptistDave Barger, pastor320 W. Wichita(785) 472-5334Sunday school: 9:45 a.m.Sunday service: 10:45 a.m.Sun. evening service: 7 p.m.Youth Group : 7 p.m.Wednesday: AWANA, pre-school to Jr. High, 6:30 p.m.

wILSonExcelsior Lutheran – ELCaPastor Ron MacLennan and Marcia MacLennanContact Minister - Diane Wagner(785) 658-2252Nine miles NE of Wilson off I-70Sunday service: 8:30 a.m.

First baptistJoe DiVietro, pastorBrett Denham, asst. pastorOld Highway 40, (785) 658-2499Sunday school: 9:30 a.m.Sunday services: 10:30 a.m. Sunday evening services: 6:00 p.m.AWANA (Children’s Bible study): — Wednesday, 7 p.m.Youth group (6-12 grades): — Sunday 6 p.m.

First Presbyterian & United MethodistKris Bair, pastor319 24th St. or 2424 Ave. F Church: (785) 658-2191Worship and SS alternating monthly between churchesJoint SS: 9:30-11:00 a.m. Joint Sunday service: 10 a.m.

Immanuel Lutheran – ELCaJim Wagner, pastor2819 Ave. FChurch: (785) 658-2252Saturday service: 5:30 p.m.Sunday service: 9 a.m.Sunday School 10:15 a.m.

St. wenceslaus CatholicFr. Jarett Konrade2807 Ave. D (785) 658-3361Sunday Mass: 10 a.m.

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(Presbyterian, Methodist, Lutheran, Baptist, Pentecostal, etc.) seem unaware of the fact that there are two radically different approaches to Protestant Christianity.

One approach is “Liberalism/Modernism” and the other is “Evangelicalism.” Both are repre-sented by well-attended churches here in Ellsworth. The fact is that Liberalism/Modernism and Evangelicalism, in their classical forms, are more different than apples and oranges (they are actu-ally more like two different reli-gions).

The heart of the issue relates to how these two groups view scrip-ture. As a rule, Evangelicals view scripture as a miracle of God, an authoritatively guide in all matters of life and practice.

Liberals/Moderns, on the other hand, typically hold that scripture may be heart-warming and helpful at points, but is filled with errors, naïve myths and outdated morals.

What does this mean in practical terms? For Evangelicals, Moses really existed and the Red Sea real-ly parted, God Himself became a man, was born of a virgin, and died on a cruel cross for the sins of humanity. For many Liberals/Moderns, Moses was fictional, mir-acles don’t happen, and Jesus’ fol-lowers greatly exaggerated his life and claims.

To understand the issue better, the interested person should read a famous sermon from 1922 by Harry Emerson Fosdick called “Shall The Fundamentalists Win.”

Fosdick was a vocal proponent of the Liberal/Modern perspective, and argued that certain traditional Christian beliefs were just not believable anymore.

What beliefs? Fosdick mentions “the historicity of certain special miracles, preeminently the virgin birth of our Lord … a special theo-ry of inspiration … (and) a special theory of the Atonement.” What he was saying was, among other things, that “Christians” should not have to believe that scripture is true and historically accurate, nor that Jesus Christ died to atone for sin.

Fosdick derided more traditional Christians by asking, “What can you do with folks like this who … play with the tiddlywinks and pick-adillos of religion?” Fosdick was saying in no uncertain terms that arguments over the truthfulness of Scripture, the Virgin birth, and Jesus dying for our sins were noth-ing more than “tiddlywinks” and

“pickadillos.” Fosdick’s sermon was the rallying

cry for the Modern/Liberal cause, and it became increasingly popular for pastors to argue that “Christians” should be allowed to reject virtually everything “Christians” had believed for almost two thousand years. This Liberal/Modern perspective had an enormous influence in major Protestant denominations, and for awhile it looked as if this “new” vision of Christianity might win out over more traditional views.

But, the “new” approach has proved futile, and (thankfully) the Liberal/Modern perspective is withering away. Today, it is the more traditional view of Christianity, Evangelicalism, which is exploding all over the globe.

Yet, even though Liberalism/Modernism is in its death throes, it still causes fits for simple Christians who have not taken the time to understand it.

Allow me to state the situation in the simplest of terms — some Protestant churches believe in the absolute authority of scripture (Evangelicals), while other Protestant churches don’t (Liberals/Moderns). So, in which sort of church will you be sitting this weekend, and more important-ly, in which sort of church might you experience the living God?

The Scripture says this, “But to this one will I look, to him who is humble and contrite of heart, who trembles at my Word.” (Isaiah 66:2)

PastorTad Trapp

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Joshua J. Easterling, speeding, $155.

Rachelle M. Erickson, basic rule governing speed of vehicles, $158.

Kyle N. Fitzgerald, speeding, $161.

Daniel Edward Geary, speeding, $248.

Joshua David Helvey, speeding, $200.

Jack Chapin Hensley, speeding, $143.

Dennis D. Hickman, speeding, $173.

Meanna D. Hiechel-Laurin, failure to wear a seat belt, $10.

John William Kiesel, speeding, $272.

Jonathan Paul Landon, speeding, $191.

Darren L. Marvin, speeding, $143.

Donald Ray Nix, park-ing, standing or stopping in a prohibited area, $188.

Kenneth E. Peterson, failure to wear a seat belt, $10.

Robert William Riley, speeding, $200.

Carly Elizabeth Schraeder, speeding, $221.

Thomas L. Schumacher, speeding, $188.

Jon Alden Smith, speeding, $236.

Joaquin F. Velez, speeding, $135.50.

Claudia S. Villa, oper-ating a motor vehicle without a valid license, $219.50.

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WORTHLESS CHECK – State of Kansas vs. Andrew J. Pruitt, giving a worthless check. Pruitt pled no contest. He was ordered to pay a $160 docket fee, a $30 bad check administration fee, and $85.49 restitution to the Ellsworth County treasurer.

DIVORCES — Bonnie S. Mahin, peti-tioner, vs. Joel K. Mahin, respondent. Decree of

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ACCIDENTS — At 5:40 a.m. Jan. 3, Robert Bishop, 58, Lyons, was driving north on K-14 Highway in a 2006 Buick LaSabre. At milepost 154.2, he hit a deer. No injuries were reported. Damage was over $1,000.

At 6:13 a.m. Jan. 3, Warren Bushnell, 68, Wilson, was driving east on Old 40 in a 2006 Chevrolet van. Approximately seven-tenths of a mile west of 11th Road, he hit a deer. No injuries were report-ed. Damage was over $1,000.

At 9 a.m. Jan. 5, Danny Murphy, 56, Anniston, Ala., was driving south on Seventh Road in a 2007 Kenworth tractor-trailer. Upon reaching Old 40 Highway, Murphy backed west a short distance, then turned left on Seventh Road. In the process, Murphy hit a telecom-munications pedestal, and continued north-bound. No injuries were reported. The extent of damage is unknown.

At 6:20 p.m. Jan. 6, Edward Kyler, 52, Ellsworth, was driving southwest on K-156 Highway in a 2005 Chevrolet Silverado pick-up. At milepost 151, he hit a deer. Damage was under $1,000. Neither Kyler nor his passengers, Delores Kyler, 46, and John Kyler, 8, both of Ellsworth, were injured.

THEFT — Between Aug. 15 and Dec. 22, Donald Soukup of Ellsworth was the victim of the theft of diesel fuel and a game camera in the south half of the north-east quarter of Section 8-15-8 in Ellsworth Township. Total loss was $1,092. A report has been sent to the Ellsworth County attor-ney.

DeedsWesley E. Lange and

Michael and Mary Pat Lange convey and war-rant to M&W Family Revocable Trust the

southeast quarter of Section 30-14-9 in Ellsworth County, Kan.

Travis M. Cullens con-veys and warrants to John Dolezal Farms, Inc. the west half of Lots 6 and 8 in Block 1 in the Northview Addition to the City of Wilson.

Diane Kihn grants and conveys to Blackwolf Investment Company LLC a tract of land in the east half of the northeast quarter of Section 25-15-9 in Ellsworth County, Kan.

Diane Kihn grants and conveys to Curtis and Joni Glaser the east half of the northeast quarter of Section 25-15-9, less a tract of land.

Blackwolf Investment Company LLC conveys and warrants to Paul A. Bahr and Jenifer A. Bahr a tract of land in the east half of the northeast quarter of Section 25-15-9 in Ellsworth County, Kan.

Roger Peterman, exec-utor of the estate of Helen L. Stevens, grants and conveys to Angela D. Dolezal a portion of Lots 5 and 6 in Block 2 in Butler’s Addition to the City of Ellsworth.

John F. Pfeiffer and Christine F. Pfeiffer grant and convey to Health and Kerianne Ehrlich a tract of land in the southwest quarter of Section 16-14-9 in Ellsworth County, Kan.

Cedar Ridge Investments, LLC con-veys and warrants to Randall and Nancy Peschka Lot 5, Block 3, in Hodgden’s Addition to the City of Ellsworth.

Francis Earl McEvoy conveys and warrants to the Francis E. McEvoy Living Trust a one-half undivided interest in most of the southwest quarter of Section 30-14-10 in Ellsworth County, Kan.

Terrance and Shirley Robl convey and warrant to MGM LLC a tract of land in the Parkton Addition to the City of Ellsworth.

Keith and Grace Lumpkins convey and warrant to Darin McNeal Lot 3 and the

north half of Lot 4 in Block 32 in the City of Holyrood.

Ellsworth PoliceCHILD ABUSE —

On Jan. 3, officers inves-tigated a report of child abuse. The incident, involving an unknown juvenile, took place between Dec. 26, 2011 and Jan. 3 in Ellsworth. No other details were made available.

BURGLARY/CRIMINAL DAMAGE TO PROPERTY — On Jan. 1, officers investigat-ed a report of a burglary and criminal damage to property to a garage at 209 West Street in Ellsworth. The owner of the garage is Sandy’s Rentals in Ellsworth. Nothing was taken from the garage. A piece of tin on the back wall was damaged. Total loss was $25.

HARASSMENT BY TELEPHONE — On Jan. 2, officers investigat-ed a report of harass-ment by telephone at 350 West 15th in Ellsworth. The incident took place between 2:33 and 2:34 p.m. Jan. 1. The victim was Ray F. Geide of Ellsworth.

LOST PROPERTY — On Jan. 2, officers inves-tigated a report of a lost drivers license at 808 Stanberry in Ellsworth. Kenneth Conrad of Ellsworth reported the loss, which occurred somewhere in Ellsworth or Ellsworth County.

Ellsworth FireAt 3 p.m. Jan. 6, fire-

fighters responded to a report of a brush pile on fire a quarter of a mile west of Ellsworth on Old 40 Highway. Ten fire-fighters and four fire-trucks responded.

At 8:30 a.m. Jan. 7, firefighters responded to the State Farm Insurance office in downtown Ellsworth to investigate a report of carbon monox-ide. According to Ellsworth fire chief Bob Kepka, carbon monoxide was found at the busi-ness. One firefighter and one fire truck responded to the scene.

Claflin girl killed in car crashA 20-year-old Claflin girl was killed and another

injured in a two-vehicle accident on K-156 Highway Dec. 28 near Claflin.

According to a report from the Barton County Sheriff ’s Department, at 3:35 a.m., Rachael Diane Stueder, 20, Claflin, was driving northeast on K-156 Highway in a 2008 Pontiac G6 car. The investigation indicates the Stueder car went left of center within milepost 140. At the same time, Robin L. Taylor, 51, Wichita, was driving a 2006 Volvo tractor-trailer pull-ing two trailers west on K-156, also within milepost 140. Taylor noticed Stueder driving left of center, and swerved to avoid a head-on crash. But due to pulling two trailers, the swing of the last trailer did not make it off the roadway. Taylor heard a crash and a heavy jolt to that trailer. The Stueder car hit the Taylor trac-tor-trailer in the left rear of the second trailer causing damage to both vehicles.

Stueder was fatally injured in the accident. Her pas-senger, Sarah Jean Hickel, 20, Claflin, was injured.

Information detailing where Hickel was taken for treatment or her current condition was not available. Taylor was not injured.

Lutz arrested in HutchinsonA 23-year-old Ellsworth County native, Scott Lee

Lutz, was arrested recently in Hutchinson, after alleg-edly eluding law enforcement officers in multiple coun-ties this past year.

According to the Hutchinson News, Lutz was arrested after officers from the Reno County Drug Enforcement Unit staked out a residence in Hutchinson, after receiving information he was staying there.

Peggy Svaty, clerk of the Ellsworth County District Court, said a bench warrant was issued for Lutz after he failed to appear for a Dec. 27 sentencing hearing on a conviction for criminal threat.

Arrest warrants for Lutz were also issued in Reno County for allegedly eluding Hutchinson police offi-cers in two high speed chases in December.

In November, Lutz failed to appear for a pre-trial hearing in McPherson County on charges stemming from an April high speed chase through McPherson, Rice and Ellsworth counties.

Lutz is being held without bond in the Reno County Jail.

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Cattle are sold in order consigned so call and get them consigned.

February 7- Preconditioned sale

Requirements for these sales is weaned minimum of 30 days and 1 round of fall shots to include a red

nose and black leg shot.

Special Sales calendar:

Cow Sales These sales are on Tuesdays and

start at 12 noon. Call and get your cattle consigned.

January 17, 2012February 21, 2012March 20, 2012April 17, 2012May 1, 2012

• 6’8” X 16 Gooseneck Stock Trailer• 6’8” X 20 Gooseneck Stock Trailer• 6’8” X 16 Half top Trailer GR Trailer• 6’8” X 16 Half top Trailer GR Trailer• 6’8” X 32 Metal Top GR Trailer

• 6’8” X 14 Bumper Pull GR Trailer• Trip Hopper Feeders• Heavy Duty Round Bale Feeders• Heavy Duty Mineral Feeders

Early Consignments for Tuesday January 17 Bred hfr and cow sale:Bred Hfrs: 20 blk hfrs OCHV’d Pelvic Examined scourgaurd bred angus

start February 7, 35 blk/bwf hfrs OCHV’d Pelvic Examined Scourgaurd bred angus start February 7, 45 blk hfrs OCHV’d Northern Origin Bred Hereford

start February 12 for 60 days, 160 angus hfrs OCHV’d SD Origin 1 iron bred to LBW Angus Bulls start February 28 for 60 days scourgaurd, 250

angus hfrs OCHV’d AI bred to LBW green garden angus bulls start March 1 scourgaurd good disposition, 75 angus hfrs AI bred, 30 angus hfrs March calves, 125 angus hfrs OCHV’d bred to winney/Johnson/shippey angus calving ease bulls pelvic examined 2 rnds scourboss9 start January 25 for 30 days, 14 angus hfrs scourgaurd bred to LBW son of Retail Product

start February for 60 days, 75 angus hfrs home raised OCHV’d scourgaurd Gardner Angus breeding bred to Gardner Angus bulls start January 20,

175 blk hfrs OCHV’d bred to LBW Schrieber Angus Bulls start January 15 for 90 days, 58 blk hfrs AI bred May 9&10 to Sureshot and Thunderbird Mill Bras Cleanup bulls Home raised, 90 blk Hfrs OCHV’d BVD free Bred

Gillum Angus scourgaurd and wormed, 147 angus hfrs SD Origin OCHV’d bred Fink Angus start February 10, 10 angus hfrs bred to LBW angus bulls

February/March calves.Replacement Hfrs: 8 bwf hfrs OCHV’d 550-600

Cows: 19 purebred angus cows 3-running bred angus start mid February, 20 young blk cows 3-5 yrs bred angus, 25 blk cows 5-7 yrs, 20 blk angus cows bred angus, 90 mostly blk cows 5 yrs off 1 ranch in Wyoming bred Harms start February 20 for 60 days, 36 blk/bwf/char cows running age

bred to LBW limousin bulls, 13 older blk cows bred blk, 5 angus pairs 6-8 yrs November calves, 4 angus hfr pairs November calves, 20 blk pairs 4-6 yrs 250# calves been running back with bull, 10 red angus pairs 4-6 yrs 250# calves running back with bull, 25 running age pairs, 25 mostly blk

running age cows plus more by sale time.

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Sylvan Sales Commission L .L .C.

To Consign Cattle ContactToby Meyer - 785-658-5772 • Brad Zorn - 785-658-7124 • Ryan Obermueller - 785-658-5858 • John Perry - 785-488-8061

Cody Murray - 785-738-8055 Sale Barn - 785-526-7123 • Greg Carey - 785-483-1455

Bulls - 70-91.00 High Cows - 60-72.50 Low Cows - 40-59.001232 hd

Hfrs9 mx...........437-164.50.................Lincoln6 Blk...........463-161.00....................Luray12 Blk.........515-146.00.................Beverly11 Blk.........539-151.00..................Wilson6 Blk...........548-143.00....................Luray11 mx.........582-141.25..................Wilson21 mx.........599-136.75................Barnard37 Blk.........650-143.00...............Geneseo14 Blk.........683-144.00..................Clafl in15 Blk.........734-134.50...............Geneseo41 mx.........729-137.50...............Simpson20 Blk.........747-138.25....................Luray13 Blk.........797-129.50...................Tipton

Strs8 Blk.............401-203.00.....................Luray4 Bulls..........427-182.00..................Beverly11 mx...........510-177.50...................Wilson9 mx.............587-162.00...................Wilson26 mx plain....612-154.00......................S.G.13 Blk............614-157.75.................Beverly9 Blk..............621-163.50....................Luray55 mx plain....680-146.60...............Simpson11 Blk.............696-150.75.................Lincoln73 mx.............699-155.60..................Clafl in43 mx.............753-148.25..................Clafl in51 mx.............763-149.75.....................S.G.16 Blk.............766-149.85..................Tipton36 Blk.............769-146.50.................Lincoln16 Blk.............787-145.00.................Lincoln16 mx.............796-144.25.................Lincoln19 mx.............831-146.25...................Luray63 Blk.............875-140.25.................Lincoln14 mx.............900-135.25.................Lincoln8 mx...............945-134.75..................Tipton

Regular Sales Every Monday

Next Weeks Early Consignments200 Red Strs - 650-750, 62 Char Strs - 850, 80 mx S/H - 750-800, 300 mx S/H - 5-800, 95

Blk S/H 5-700, many more by sale time Sat. Jan. 14th - 5 p.m. - Sheep & Goat Sale • Special Cow Sale Sat. Jan. 28th - 1 p.m.

472-4436 or 531-0929www.idealkansas.com

916 State, Ellsworth2 Bdrm, 1 Bath home - $52,500

113 N. Missouri, Kanopolis2 Bdrm, 1 Bath home - $22,500

413 Bradley, Ellsworth4 Bdrm, (2ncc), 3 bath home

$167,500.

910 N. Grand, Ellsworth 4 Bdrm, 2 Bath home - $59,500

317 Kunkle, Ellsworth5 Bdrm, 4 Bath home - $197,500

397 E. Wichita, Lorraine3 Bdrm 2 Bath home - $105,000

906 Stelling, Ellsworth6 Bdrm, 3 bath home - $149,500

404 S. Missouri, Kanopolis3 Bdrm, 2 Bath home - $95,000

311 W. 2nd, Ellsworth 4 Bdrm, 2 Bath home - $87,500

411 E. 9th, Ellsworth4 Bdrm, 3 Bath home - $149,500

518 Washington, Ellsworth 5 Bdrm, 2+ Bath home - $139,500

704 E 2nd, Ellsworth3 Bdrm, 2 Bath home - $99,500

112 W. 1st, Ellsworth Commercial business - $75,000

311 N. Missouri, Kanopolis 4 Bdrm, 1 Bath home - $69,500

5 Bdrm, 2 Bath home - $89,500409 E. 3rd, Ellsworth

116 N. Kansas, Kanopolis 5 room business/residential

property - $19,500

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Legal Notices

(First Published in the Ellsworth County Independent/Reporter, January 5, 2012)

STATEMENT OF NON-DISCRIMINATION Home Telephone Co. is the recipient of Federal financial

assistance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The USDA prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, age dis-ability, and where applicable, sex, marital status, familial sta-tus, parental status, religion, sexual orientation, genetic in-formation, political beliefs, reprisal, or because all or a part of an individual’s income is derived from any public assistance program. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.) Persons with disabilities who require alternative means for communication of program information (Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.) should contact USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TDD). To file a complaint of dis-crimination, write to USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20250-9410, or call (800) 795-3272 (voice), or (202) 720-6382 (TDD). “USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lend-er”.

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Additional Legal Notices on Page B10


REQUEST FOR BIDS

Notice is hereby given that the City of Ellsworth, Kansas is soliciting bids for 2012 KLINK Resurfacing. The project consists of 23,568 square yards of microsurfacing and pave-ment markings, as shown on the plans. All Federal, State and County regulations must be complied with. Sealed propos-als for the proposed construction will be received by the City of Ellsworth until 11:00 a.m. local time, February 6, 2012 at Ellsworth City Hall, Ellsworth, Kansas at which time and place all bids will publicly be opened and read aloud. Bidders are encouraged to be present at the bid opening, but if the bid must be mailed it should be addressed to the following: City of Ellsworth,c/o City Clerk, 121 W. 1st Street, Ellsworth, KS 67439.

All bidders are to be prequalified with the Kansas Depart-ment of Transportation, as outlined in Section 102 of the KDOT Standard Specifications.

All bids shall be accompanied by a Bid Bond or a Certified or Cashiers check in the amount of 5% of the total bid. Check or bonds are to be made payable to the City of Ellsworth and serve as a guarantee of the sincerity and integrity of the bid-der, and shall be forfeited to the City if said proposal or bid is accepted and the bidder fails to execute the contract and file the required statutory and performance bonds as required in this contract documents.

All mailed bids must be received prior to the stated bid opening time. The envelope should be clearly marked as to its contents. The bid proposal consists of the following:

2012 KLINK RE-SURFACINGWork will commence no later than June 4, 2012 (late start

date). All work shall be completed within 15 working days after Notice to Proceed. Plans, Specifications and Contract Documents may be examined at the City Clerk’s Office in Ells-worth, Kansas, and at the Engineer’s Office at the following address: Kirkham, Michael & Associates, Inc., 217 N. Douglas, P.O. Box 4, Ellsworth, KS 67439.

Contractors desiring Plans and Specifications may ob-tain such at the above address upon receipt of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) cash, check or money order for each set.

NO REFUNDS WILL BE MADE.The City of Ellsworth reserves the right to waive any and all

technicalities and to reject any and all bids.

/s/ Patti L. Booher, City Clerk2t 1/12

Line Cook, previous expe-rience, breakfast 6:30 to 11 a.m., lunch 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., and weekends. Call or stop by the Ellsworth Steakhouse for application. 472-3043.

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Dishwasher, available shifts afternoons, 12 to 3 p.m., nights, 6 to 11 p.m., and weekends. Call or stop by the Ellsworth Steak-house for application. 472-3043.

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We Are Currently Seeking A Part-time Teller To Join Our Dynamic Team At Our

Ellsworth Location . The Position Would Be For 20 - 30 Hours A Week.

Applications May Be Picked Up At Either Of Our Bank Locations

In Ellsworth Or Lincoln.

PART-TIME TELLER POSITION

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Retail

You Could Be Our Next Great Success Story!

Dollar General, the nation’s largest small-format retail discounter, with more than 9,000 locations in 35 states, is now hiring in Ellsworth, KS for the following:

Full and Part Time Positions Available

If you are looking for a fulfilling career with competitive pay and benefits, along with excellent advancement potential, apply in person at Dollar General, 206 N. Lincoln Avenue, Ellsworth, KS 67439 or apply online at

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Ellsworth–Kanopolis Chamber ofCommerce seeks an Executive Director. Five

hours per day in the of� ce plus othermeetings as needed by the board and

committees. Applicants should requestapplication form by email to [email protected].

An application form will be emailed to you.Application and Resumes due by

January 12th. www.ellsworthkschamber.net EOE.

COMMITMENT ALWAYS FINDS A WAY.

www.goldenliving.com/careers

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V.Drug-Free Workplace.

Golden LivingCenter – Wilson has thefollowing opportunities available:

Certified Nursing AssistantsFull-Time, Evenings

We offer Excellent Medical Insurance at incrediblylow premiums, effective first of the monthfollowing the hire date! Competitive wages,401(k) and tuition reimbursement.

Interested candidates, please contact: GOLDEN LIVINGCENTER - WILSON611 31st Street, Wilson, KS 67490Tel: (785) [email protected]

The Ellsworth Senior Cen-ter is looking for a person who would like great hours and a fun place to work to be assistant cook. Hours 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday-Friday. No nights or week-ends. Applications taken until Jan. 23.

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Landfill Operator, full-time. Russell County Land-fill is accepting applications for a full-time Landfill Oper-ator until position is filled. Position requires working six days each week, heavy equipment experience and Class A with airbrakes CDL. Job description and ap-plications may be picked up at Russell County Shop, 4288 U.S. Hwy 40, Russell, KS 67665 or call 785-483-4032. Position subject to pre-employment drug test. EOE

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H o m e H ealth R N Full-T im e position available. T ypical hours are

M ond ay-Frid ay w ith alternating on-call responsibility.

D uties includ e provid ing excellent custom er service to clients by m eeting their need s through accurate nursing

assessm ents and optim al treatm ents and services.

Job Q ualifications: R egistration and current R N license in the State of K ansas. V alid K ansas d river’s license and is able to provid e ow n transportation to assignm ents.

B enefits includ e on call pay, m ileage reim bursem ent, paid em ployee health insurance, retirem ent, vacation and

personal leave.

T o ap p ly call (785) 524-4428 o r sto p b y 922 N 5th Street, L in co ln , K S fo r an

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BEFORE THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSIONOF THE STATE OF KANSAS

APPLICATION FOR SALTWATER DISPOSAL

RE: Gary Pauley d/b/a Pauley Oil — Application for a permit to authorize the disposal of saltwater into the S. Rolfs lease Well #1, located in Ellsworth County, Kansas.

TO: All Oil & Gas Producers, Unleased Mineral Interest Owners, Landowners and all persons whomever concerned.

You, and each of you, are hereby notitied that Pauley Oil has filed an application to commence the disposal of saltwa-ter into the Lower Arbuckle at the S. Rolfs lease, Well #1, locat-ed in the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter Section 15, Township 17 South, Range 8 West, Ellsworth County, Kansas, with a maximum operating pressure of zero and a maximum injection rate of 4,000 bbls. per day.

Any persons who object to or protest this application shall be required to file their objections or protest with the Conservation Division of the State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas within thirty (30) days from the date of this publication. These protests shall be filed pursuant to Commission regulations and must state specific reasons why granting the application may cause waste, violate correlative rights or pollute the natural resources of the State of Kansas.

All persons interested or concerned shall take notice of the foregoing and shall govern themselves accordingly.

Pauley Oil314 5th StreetClaflin, Kansas 67525(785) 252-8024

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Wind Capital Group is seeking an Operations Manager to join our

team in Ellsworth, KS. � is position is primarily responsible for

managing and overseeing the daily operations and maintenance of a

wind farm. Please visitwww.windcapitalgroup.com

for further details.Immediate Opening for a Universal Worker at our

Senior Living Complex. This is a part time position. The

hours are as follows: Monday and Tuesday

4:30 pm to 7:00 pm, every other Friday same hours.

The person will be required to work one weekend a month, Saturday 7 am

to 7 pm, and Sunday 7 amto 7 pm.

No certifi cation is required. Interested persons should

contact Georgina at785-472-5000

Or complete an on lineapplication at

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Make a Difference TodayYou can make a difference today by working

at Mosaic supporting individuals to live a quality life.

Must have High School Diploma or Equivalent and a valid Driver’s License. Drug free workplace, EOE. Apply in person at 124 W. 3rd St., Ellsworth OR call

785-472-4081 for more information.

Part Time Direct SupportAccepting applications for this position:

Responsible for training and assisting individuals served in various aspects of daily living, while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and company policies and procedures. Responsible for the health, safety

and emotional well being of individuals being served.

Rotational Schedule Days Evenings and Weekends. Up to 30 hours possible. Starting wage for Direct Care is $9.00 per hour.

Cashco, Inc., West Hwy 140, Ellsworth, KSpresently has one day shift position open for

a Material Handler. Wage range is $10.75/hr to $13.22/hr. High school graduate preferred.Responsibilities include but are not limited

delivery of parts to proper machine locations, care of decant tanks and cooker, empty chip barrels

and hoppers, maintain order in oil room, run � oor sweeper as needed, haul material to vendors, give

assistance to maintenance as needed. General housekeeping. Continuous repetitive lifting of up to 50lbs with or without accommodation. Contact

Ellen Kempke, Personnel, 785-472-4461 X177. Applications will be accepted until the position is

� lled. EEO/AAP/ADA employer.


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Legal Notices


RESOLUTION NO. 1-2012

WHEREAS, the City of Wilson, Kansas has determined that the financial reports for the year ending December 31, 2012, to be prepared in conformity with the requirements of K.S.A. 75-1120 (a) are not relevant to the requirements of the cash basis and budget laws of this state and are of no significant value to the governing body of the City of Wilson, Kansas:

AND WHEREAS, there are no revenue bond ordinances or resolutions of said municipality which require financial state-ments and financial reports to be prepared in conformity with said act for the year ending December 31, 2012.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the governing body of the City of Wilson, Kansas, in regular meeting duly as-sembled this 3rd day of January, 2012, that the said govern-ing body requests that the director of accounts and reports waive the requirements of said law as they apply to the City of Wilson, Kansas, for the year ending December 31, 2012.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the said governing body shall cause its financial statements and financial reports of the said municipality to be prepared on the basis of cash re-ceipts and disbursements as adjusted to show compliance with the cash basis and budget laws of this state.

Passed and approved by the governing body of the City of Wilson, Ellsworth County, Kansas, and approved by the Mayor this 3rd day of January, 2012.

DAVID CRISWELL, Mayor

ATTESTED:

SUSAN KRILEY, City Clerk

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(First Published in the Ellsworth County Independent/Re-porter, January 12, 2012)

NOTICE CHRISTINE DOLECHEK

MEDICAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST FUND

This trust fund provides substantial scholarships for stu-dents who are legal residents of Ellsworth County in any field of human medicine that is licensed by the State of Kansas. These include, but are not limited to, the following:

a. Doctors, dentists, nurses, medical technicians and op-tometrists.

b. Support fields, which include medical research.

c. Emergency Medical Technicians and paramedical ser-vices.

Applications must be submitted to the Citizens State Bank & Trust Co., Trust Department, P.O. Box 128, Ellsworth, KS 67439-0128 by April 1, 2012. Recipients will be advised of this award by May 1, 2012. The Scholarship Committee may request a personal interview and/or financial information be-fore selection is completed.

For further information or application form, contact Karen Britton at Citizens State Bank & Trust Co., Ellsworth, KS. Tele-phone: 785-472-3141 or toll-free 1-800-472-3145.

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(First Published in the Ellsworth County Independent/Reporter, December 29, 2011)

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ELLSWORTH COUNTY, KANSAS

In the Matter of the Estate of Case No: 11-PR-45Richard Junior Stoppel andArline Stoppel, Deceased________________________________ (Petition Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 59)

NOTICE OF HEARING

THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED:You are notified that a Petition has been filed in this Court

by Marsha Morrison, adult daughter and heir of Richard Ju-nior Stoppel and Arline Stoppel, deceased, requesting:

Descent be determined of the following described real es-tate situated in Ellsworth County, Kansas:

Lot Two (2), Block Four (4), McKenzie’s First Addition to the City of Wilson, in Ellsworth County, and State of Kansasand all personal property and other Kansas real estate

owned by decedent at the time of death. And that such property and all personal property and other Kansas real es-tate owned by the decedent at the time of death be assigned pursuant to the laws of intestate succession

You are required to file your written defenses to the Peti-tion on or before January 25, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. in the Ells-worth County District Court, Ellsworth County, Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard. Should you fail to file your written defenses, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

Marsha Morrison, Petitioner

SHERMAN, HOFFMAN & HIPP, LC126 N. Douglas, P. O. Box 83Ellsworth, Kansas 67439-0083Attorneys for Petitioner

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PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice of Initiation of the Section 106 Process-Public Par-ticipation in accordance with the FCC’s Nationwide Program-matic Agreement. U.S. Cellular proposes to construct a guyed telecommunications tower with an approximate height of 300 ft. at an address 301 Ave. T, Holyrood, Ellsworth County, KS. Parties interested in details regarding the tower or in pro-viding comment on the proposed undertaking relative to potential effects on historic properties should contact GSS, Inc., 3311 109th Street, Urbandale, IA 50322 (515) 331-2103 (V11570).

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