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The MIDWEEK Tuesday, April 2, 2013 Goodland1205 Main Avenue, Goodland, Star-News KS 67735 • Phone (785) 899-2338 $1 Volume 81, Number 27 8 Pages Goodland, Kansas 67735 weather Museum Meeting the Easter Bunny report has April 29° 10 a.m. Monday programs Today An array of programing is planned • Sunset, 7:12 p.m. by the High Plains Museum, 1717 Wednesdayday Cherry, in April to showcase their • Sunrise, 6:27 a.m. current exhibit “Earth From Space.” • Sunset, 7:13 p.m. They will be offering a variety of activities to spotlight space and land Midday Conditions satellite images, as well as celebrat- • Soil temperature 42 degrees ing Earth Day and Arbor Day. • Humidity 92 percent At 4 p.m. Thursday, Dave Floyd • Sky cloudy of the National Weather Service will • Winds east 6 mph show how the service uses satellite • Barometer 30.24 inches images to predict the weather. From and falling 1 to 5 on Saturday the monthly • Record High today 86° (1996) Space Walk program will have • Record Low today 0° (1936) fun geography activities. At 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 13, Terry Last 24 Hours* Leonhart, a quality assurance di- High Sunday 68° mensional inspection technician at Low Sunday 3° the Sierra Nevada Corporation and Precipitation none a Goodland native, will talk about This month none developments in the private sector Year to date 2.30 air and space travel. In the afternoon Above normal 0.36 inches everyone is invited to learn about The Topside Forecast Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Today: Cloudy with a 40 percent Chaser and build a space vehicle. chance of rain or snow, a high near To celebrate Earth Day on April 45, winds out of the southeast at 22 and Arbor Day on April 26 the 10 mph and a low around 29.. museum will have activities all day. Wednesday: Partly sunny with For Earth Day come learn about a high near 53, winds out of the ways to protect our Earth, make south at 5 to 15 mph and a low crafts and help make an Earth Day around 31. quilt. On Arbor Day everyone is Extended Forecast encouraged to enjoy the city’s parks Thursday: Mostly sunny with for fun and games and to learn about a high near 65 and a low around trees. Adults can enter our photogra- 40. Friday: Mostly sunny with a 20 phy contest of trees in the area. percent chance of showers and On Sunday April 27, at 1:30 thunderstorms at night, a high near p.m. the museum and the Sherman 74 and a low around 42. Theatre will show the documentary (National Weather Service) Get 24-hour weather info. at 162.400 MHz. “Harvesting the High Plains,” a film made by Jay Kriss. The film show the Dust Bowl story of farming in northwest Kansas by Kriss and Ray Garvey. The Easter Bunny talked to one of the little kids that came for the union. It didn’t take long for the large crowd of kids to scoop up the For information, visit www. Easter Egg hunt given by the Kiwanis and Circle K at Northwest eggs filled with candy. The kids were divided into age groups. highplainsmuseum.org or call (785) Kansas Technical College on Thursday afternoon in the student Photo by Pat Schiefen/The Goodland Star-News 890-4595. local Goodland couple were on stricken ship By Kevin Bottrell rejoin the ship. markets [email protected] “We were thinking ‘oh, that poor person’,” he said. On Sunday, Feb. 10, the Carnival Triumph, a cruise “Turns out she was the lucky one.” 10 a.m. ship heading back to America from Mexico, lost power. The ship left Cozumel, and then early Sunday morn- Wheat — $6.68 bushel It would take tugboats five days to tow it Mobile, Ala., ing Angelos heard a call over the ship’s intercom telling Posted county price — $6.63 during which time the passengers had to make do with “Alpha Team” to assemble in one of the engine rooms. Corn — $6.59 bushel minimal power, minimal hot food, no air conditioning, At 6:30 a.m., the engines shut down and the power Posted county price — $7.13 and few functioning toilets. turned off. Angelos said emergency power came on, Milo — $6.16 bushel Goodland resident Scott Angelos and his wife Shelly powering emergency lights in the corridor. Soybeans — $13.28 bushel were on board the Triumph when it lost power. Despite “We were told there was a situation,” he said. “They Posted county price — $13.80 Millet — no bid the horror stories in the news, Angelos said the event tried to keep people calm, telling us there was no Sunflowers was more of an inconvenience than anything else. danger.” Oil current crop — $23.80 cwt. The ship left Galvaston, Texas, on Thursday, Feb. Angelos and the other passengers learned later that Confection — no bid 7, and was supposed to go to the Mexican island of there had been a fire in one of the engine compartments. Pinto beans — $28 Cozumel and return to port on Monday, Feb. 11. It The ship was dead in the water, but not in danger of (Markets by Scoular Grain, Sun Opta, reached Cozumel that Saturday without any trouble. sinking. Angelos said some people were putting their Frontier Ag and 21st Century Bean. While on the island, Angelos said, one passenger had These may not be closing figures. ) to be taken away in an ambulance and was not able to See SHIP, Page 5 inside today More local news, views from your Goodland Star-News This computer-generated imagine shows what the new Northwest Tech Athletic Center (right) will look like. The center is being built next to the existing athletic building. Estevan Ordonez, Cutler Mayer, Trevor Daise and Ryan Fife were rappers for the final song at the fourth grade music program Tuesday night at the Goodland High School auditorium. College breaks ground on new building Photo by Pat Schiefen/The Goodland Star-News Northwest Kansas Technical Track team College held a groundbreaking Fourth graders perform ceremony for its new building Thursday. begins season The Northwest Tech Athletic Center is being constructed on the The Goodland High School Disney songs at program west side of the existing athletic track team started its 2013 By Pat Schiefen Berls as the chimney sweep, dwarfs building. season with a road trip to The Goodland Star-News and Jackson Daise in “Supercalifra- Mayor John Garcia spoke at the Ulysses on Thursday. The The sounds of Disney characters gilisticexpialidocious.” goundbreaking. team had one first-place filled the Goodland High School The fourth grade music teacher “On behalf of city I’d like to finisher and many other auditorium when the Central El- is Char Avila. thank Dr. Mills and the board and placings. ementary School fourth grade had Four piano student played their staff for their progressive activity See Page 8 their music program Tuesday night. pieces before the singing began. in the community and their contri- Songs were sung from “The Lion Students in Kim Artzer’s class are bution to our town,” he said. King,” “The Little Mermaid,” Atalee Amthor, Trevor Daise, Andy Garcia praised the college, “Beauty and the Beast,” “Mary Pop- Edwards, Tiffany Flores, James which is at an all-time high for A group of dignitaries including college President Ed Mills and pins” and “Sleeping Beauty.” Gensheer, Lorena Gil-Shaw, Dem- enrollment, saying it has a major Mayor John Garcia posed for a photo during the ground breaking Students made appearances as economic impact on the city. ceremony Thursday. Photo by Kayla Bentley/The Goodland Star-News Davy Crockett, siamese cats, Ryan See DISNEY, Page 5 about our 2 The Goodland Star-News / Tuesday, April 2, 2013 friends genesis and obituaries salvation army the calendar Genesis and Salvation Army are available year round to help those in calendar be in Goodland from 1 to 2:15 serole, Italian blend vegetables, Ila Dale Zeigler need. Please call 785-890-2299 to p.m. Thursday in the Assembly gelatin with fruit, bread and fruit Commodity Distribution for Ila Dale Zeigler, 82, Goodland Survivors include two sons, speak to a volunteer. Room on the third floor of the crisp. Wednesday: Little smok- Sherman County residents will be bookkeeper, died Friday, March Steve Zeigler of Goodland and courthouse to help veterans and ies, macaroni and cheese, stewed activities at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday at First 29, 2013, at Penrose Hos- Jerry Ziegler of Florissant dependents with claims. Call tomatoes, bread and applesauce Tours of the 1907 Victorian Christian Church, 8th and Arcade. pital in Colorado Springs, Colo.; a sister, Dorothy the office in Colby any Monday, bar. Thursday: Liver and onions House at 202 W. 13th are from 1 to Foods will include applesauce, Colo. (Marlin) Roeder of Good- Wednesday or Friday at (785) in gravy, mashed potatoes, har- 5 p.m. Wednesday through Mon- corn, orange juice, mixed fruit, She was born July land; a brother, Don (Bon- 462-3572. vard beets, bread and apricots. day. Closed on Tuesday. grapefruit juice and potatoes. For 8, 1930, to Mary Dale nie) Smith of Goodland; Goodland American Legion Friday: Frito chili pie, ambrosiz The High Plains Museum, 1717 information call Genesis (785) (Rinck) and Charles Her- two sisters-in-law Ad- will hold an annual dinner at 6 fruit salad, corn chips and cin- Cherry Ave., is open from 9 a.m. 890-2299. man Smith in Edson. dieline Harper of Colora- p.m. on Monday, April 15, at namon roll.