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75¢ COLBY Thursday May 29, 2014 Volume 125, Number 84 Serving Thomas County since 1888 10 pages FFREEREE PPRESSRESS School adds tweaks to budget By Sam Dieter simply be raised from $497,768 Colby Free Press to $499,578 to reflect the higher [email protected] amount of state money being paid into the fund. At its monthly meeting May 19, The new budget had not been the Colby School Board added published in the Colby Free Press one more revision to the $6.4 mil- when the state called, Harrison lion 2013-14 budget it plans to said. This means the district had publish this summer. to reschedule the public hearing After the board voted at its for the budget from May 19 to its April 21 meeting to publish a re- June 23 meeting, but did not have vised budget, Superintendent Ter- to publish twice. rel Harrison told the board, a rep- Last month, the board agreed resentative of the Kansas Depart- to revise the budget because of an ment of Education called, and told unexpected increase in the state the district it would need more. money the district will get for They said the $6,374,534 budget the number of students going to did not include enough money school here. for the Kansas Public Employees This new budget of $6,374,534 Retirement System, so on May 19 will be a little higher than the the board had to replace the bud- $6,363,020 budget originally ap- Elder statesman stops here get it approved last month with yet proved for the 2013-14 fiscal year. another version. The extra money came from the This change will not affect the state because of the way money By Sam Dieter Dole, a decorated Army veteran, was when he was on the Agriculture Committee. bottom line of the new budget for students is weighted, DeYoung Colby Free Press congressman for the 1st District of west- A group of farmers showed up with caps the board wants to approve, said said last month. In September [email protected] ern Kansas from 1961 to 1969 then a U.S. reading, “Dump Dole.” district Business Manager Jo De- Senator from 1969 until June 1996, when he “I put them down as undecided,” he said. Young. The retirement fund will Former Sen. Bob Dole, Kansas’s most resigned to run for president against incum- “Maybe they’ve still got their caps.” See “BUDGET,” Page 2 famous statesman of the post-World War bent Bill Clinton. He got a warmer reception here on II era, passed through town on his state- “People always say, ‘Well what would Wednesday, when about 80 people showed wide tour Wednesday, stopping at the Colby you do different?’” the Russell native said. up to hear him speak, including Colby May- Community College Student Union to spend “I said, ‘Well, I’d win.” Seatbelt helps an hour with old friends and supporters. He recalled stopping through Colby once See “STATESMAN,” Page 2 SHARON FRIEDLANDER and SAM DIETER Colby Free Press Two of former Sen. Bob in truck wreck Dole’s fellow World War II veterans, Dale Deaver A seatbelt may have saved a The truck went into the west ditch (top, standing) and Lloyd 43-year-old MacDonald man and rolled several times just south Theimer, exchanged a from serious injury when his truck of mile marker 1, about five miles memory or two after he rolled Tuesday afternoon near from the Herndon turnoff. spoke to a crowd of local Herndon in Rawlins County. Rucker, who was wearing a seat residents Wednesday af- Brian Rucker was driving a belt, was treated at the Rawlins ternoon at the Colby com- Mack truck northbound on K-117 County Health Center, the patrol munity College Student when the left driver’s side tire said. Herndon is between Atwood Union. Dole spoke as blew out about 2:40 p.m., the and Oberlin about six miles north part of his farewell tour, Kansas Highway Patrol reported. of U.S. 36. then posed for pictures with audience members, including Connie Smith Davis (standing, at left) and Fran Smith, who had Studio Friday a photo with him from 1963. Colby Mayor Gary Adrian (bottom left) intro- duced Dole after a group of American Legion Rid- features native ers (below) escorted him here from an earlier stop Amy Bertrand, a Colby native Colby Art Walk for several years, in Oakley. who now lives and works in Law- Jay said. She credits her first art rence, will be the featured artist at teachers, Cal Mahin and La- Studio Friday next week, June 6. maoreaux Fulwider, with provid- Everyone is welcome to come ing a strong base for her work. join in from 9 a.m. to noon and Bertrand lives in Lawrence with 1 to 3 p.m. in the Colby Commu- her husband Scott and two dogs. nity College art room at Ferguson In addition to work and creative Hall. There is no charge. pursuits, she can be found read- “At her day job, Amy is a social ing, walking or doing yoga. worker for at-risk teenagers in an Participants should bring a arts-based job training program,” very fine-tipped black permanent said Rebel Jay, college art instruc- marker (Sharpie Ultra-Fine Point tor. “She experiments with her or others), a variety of colors of own creative work in her spare medium-fine point markers (Bic time – including making art, music or others), a pile of 8.5-by-11 and writing. The 2-D art forms she white paper and a clipboard or enjoys most are drawing, painting, hardback book to draw on. collage and photography.” For information, call Jay at Bertrand has participated in the (785) 269-7065. WaKeeney campus disposition still on hold By Heather Alwin school. Twenty-nine students were en- of academic affairs, said he did not have “We’re trying to be as lean as possible modeling debt is repaid. The bank can Colby Free Press rolled for this fall, he said, and they likely those numbers with him but thought it while still meeting the needs of our stu- take over the dorm if the school defaults, [email protected] will not enroll at the Colby campus. was 90 to 100 students. dents,” Nichols told the board. but when the remodeling costs are fully The owners will let the college have the Nichols said part of the plan for the Trustee Carolyn Armstrong asked paid, the school gets the building back. Colby Community College trustees building rent-free this year, Rodenbeck nursing program was to use distance when the administrators would know • Adopted recommendations to estab- considered a plea to keep the school’s said, leaving it to pay only maintenance, learning for lectures and hands-on train- whether they have an agreement. Nichols lish bond compliance procedures and WaKeeney location open, including an taxes and insurance. Rodenbeck said he ing when necessary. The college is work- said they have to get the details together appoint Dr. Glenda Overstreet as compli- offer of free rent for the upcoming school believes the school could get enough ing on an agreement with the WaKeeney and go through them with the head of the ance officer. year, at their meeting May 19, but made donations to cover the roughly $5,500 hospital to allow nursing students to use hospital, who so far has seemed amenable • Heard a report from Dr. George Mc- no decisions. needed to pay taxes and insurance. The that facility for the hands-on portion to the idea. Nulty that the school is looking at pro- Rod Rodenbeck, whose wife once landlords would require a two-year com- of the program, said President Stephen In other business, the trustees taught in the school’s nursing program, mitment, charging $1,000 per month after Vacik. • Approved a lease with Farmers and See “WAKEENEY,” Page 2 told the trustees he does not feel the clos- the first year. Although he had previously advocated Merchants Bank for the “double-decker” ing of the WaKeeney campus, which Board member Audrey Hines asked expanding the location’s offerings to gen- dorm currently being remodeled. The housed nursing and massage therapy what the break-even number is for the eral education classes, Vacik said, that did document allows the bank to lease the programs, was the best decision for the location. Greg Nichols, vice president not work. building back to the school until the re- Page 2 Colby Free Press Thursday, May 29, 2014 Area/State Weather Elder statesman stops here on tour Briefly From “STATESMAN,” Page 1 The deadline for Briefly is noon the day before. Items submitted in the or Gary Adrian, Thomas County Commis- morning will be set up for the following sioner Paul Steele, and Mike Tubbs, owner day, space available. The deadline for of Tubbs and Sons Ford Sales. Ten Ameri- Monday’s paper is noon Friday. can Legion Riders escorted the senator from Oakley to Colby. Staffers and college em- ployees followed as the was brought into Rural Life service the building in a wheelchair. He will be 91 at Lone Star Church this summer. The First Presbyterian Church of Col- Dole asked the group several questions of by will hold a Rural Life Sunday service his own: at the Lone Star Church on the grounds Which Republican should run for presi- of the Prairie Museum of Art and His- dent in 2016? The crowd offered no sugges- tory at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Everyone is tions, but Dole said he thought there should welcome; wear period clothing if you be some talented candidates.