The MIDWEEK Tuesday, March 5, 2013 Goodland1205 Main Avenue, Goodland, Star-News KS 67735 • Phone (785) 899-2338 $1 Volume 81, Number 19 10 Pages Goodland, Kansas 67735 weather Jumping rope for heart health report Harlem team 39° 10 a.m. to play here Monday Today • Sunset, 5:44 p.m. Wednesday • Sunrise, 6:11 a.m. Wednesday • Sunset, 5:45 p.m. Midday Conditions The Harlem Ambassadors bas- The Ambassadors will also pres- ketball and comedy routine will ent a stay in school and drug free • Soil temperature 36 degrees play at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Max assembly for elementary and middle • Humidity 48 percent Jones Fieldhouse. school age students, sponsored by • Sky partly cloudy The program includes Harlem- Sherman County’s Community • Winds northeast 25-30 mph style basketball – high-flying slam Partnership for Prevention and Edu- • Barometer 29.80 inches dunks, ball handling tricks and cation. and steady other routines – and involves kids Cost is $6 for students, $10 for • Record High today 81° (1916) and community members. The Am- adults in advance and $12 at the • Record Low today -15° (1948) bassadors will play against a team door. Advance tickets are available Last 24 Hours* of local volunteers including Bill at Western State Bank, First Na- High Sunday 67° Biermann, Brad Bergsma, Brent tional Bank, Bankwest of Kansas Low Sunday 33° Flanders, Chase Topliff, Connie and Peoples State Bank. Precipitation none Livengood, Dixie Teeter, Donald Proceeds will help fund the Good- This month none Raymer, Jay Herl, Josh Simon, Ju- land Lions Club’s community ser- Year to date 0.85 lie Dautel, Kent Teeter, Mike Doll, vice programs, such as eye screen- Below normal 0.09 inches Paul Flanders, Trevor Linton and ing and eye glasses programs. The Topside Forecast Wade Taylor. Today: Sunny with a high near 44, winds breezy out of the north- west at 10 to 30 mph and a low around 20. Wednesday: Sunny School meetings with a high near 56, winds breezy out of the south at 15 to 30 mph and a low around 28. Extended Forecast cover facility plans Thursday: Sunny with a high near 65 and a low around 34. The Goodland School District The school district proposes to Friday: Partly sunny with a 50 started its series of informational make upgrades to West Elemen- percent chance of rain at night and meetings for the upcoming school tary and North Elementary School a low around 32. Saturday: Mostly bond election on Tuesday, April 2. including updated heating, cooling, cloudy with a 60 percent chance of The meetings were scheduled this wiring and handicapped availability rain and snow, a high near 41 and week at 7 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 7 in bathrooms plus the addition of a low around 28. p.m. on Monday and Tuesday at the storm shelters and modified en- (National Weather Service) Goodland High School auditorium. trance to provide more security for Get 24-hour weather info. at 162.400 MHz. Superintendent Bill Biermann will the buildings. At the high school give a presentation and answer any heating, cooling, lighting, wiring Students at West Elementary School participated in Jump Rope for Heart last week. They raised questions. and handicapped availability for $2,400 for the American Heart Association. Verna Milnes is the principal of West Elementary. Two sets of story boards will bathrooms and classrooms to make Photo by Pat Schiefen/The Goodland Star-News make the rounds of different busi- it a better learning environment for ness and events. the students attending there. local Northwest Kansas legislators meet with community By Kevin Bottrell education committees. committees so far. March 11 will be “tax meyer said. “It comes up every year. I think markets [email protected] “We’ve worked a lot, but haven’t really day” in the Senate, Ostmeyer said, the day they got as many lobbyists as the schools.” Sen. Ralph Ostmeyer and Rep. Ward done anything,” he said. “No real heavy lift- when the Senate will take up the debate on Cassidy spoke next, saying he was enjoy- 10 a.m. Cassidy met with a small group of citizens ing so far.” the governor’s tax plans. Another issue is ing his new chairmanship and the political Wheat — $6.94 bushel and officials from Sherman County at a town Ostmeyer said the past year hasn’t gone as gambling. Ostmeyer said some of the events wheeling and dealing at the capitol. Posted county price — $6.94 hall meeting early Saturday morning at the well as Gov. Sam Brownback had hoped. done as fund raisers by many groups, such as “I enjoy playing the game,” he said. “If you Corn — $7.15 bushel On The Bricks Cafe. “The governor has been dealt an ugly hand raffles and poker runs, are technically illegal, look at the total votes you’ll see that I vote Posted county price — $7.23 The legislators each spoke about what the of cards with the drought and school budget,” and he has been working with the judiciary with the leadership a lot. Why hang yourself Milo — $6.70 bushel House and Senate have been doing this ses- he said. “He’s well aware of that.” committee to find exemptions. out to dry? You have to have power to be able Soybeans — $13.79 bushel Ostmeyer said he told Brownback that Other issues include kennel licensing, to get in that room with the governor; and I Posted county price — $14.24 sion and then took questions from the public. districts in western Kansas can’t afford to put corporate farming, and the “Uncork Kansas” have.” Millet — no bid Ostmeyer spoke first, saying the Legislature Sunflowers has reached “turnaround” or the halfway point any more burden on local option budget and initiative which comes up every year. That ini- Cassidy chairs the House Education Budget Oil current crop — $23.70 cwt. of the session. Ostmeyer chairs the Senate continue to need support from the state. tiative seeks to allow more businesses, such as Committee. He said he has looked through the Confection — no bid Federal and State Affairs Committee and Ostmeyer gave a short overview of some supermarkets, to sell hard liquor and wine. Pinto beans — $28 sits on the agriculture, natural resources and of the issues that have come before those “I have no interest in it, never have,” Ost- See LEGISLATORS, Page 3 (Markets by Scoular Grain, Sun Opta, Frontier Ag and 21st Century Bean. These may not be closing figures. ) Wellness Playing at the opening inside Challenge today plans soup More local news, views from your Goodland Star-News cook-off Participants in the Sherman County Wellness Challenge get the chance to show off their soup mak- ing skills in the “Get Your Soup On! Cook Off” at 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 16, at the Rock House, 326 E. 6. All registration must be received via e-mail by the Sherman County Health Department at shcounty@st- tel.net by 5 p.m. on Friday. Recipes of the soup to be entered should also be sent so the nutritional value may be determined by a dietician. Prizes will be awarded for the chefs choice, people’s choice and the best of show. A panel of local Mavericks judges will judge the soup on taste and nutritional value for the chef’s finish strong choice. In the people’s choice fel- low wellness participants will get The Northwest Tech wres- to taste the soups and pick their fa- tling team had a strong vorite. The best dressed and themed showing at the national table will get the best of show. competition, with one wres- The rules are that each wellness Goodland High School Senior Jacob Schnabel entertained the display will go on to compete at Kansas regional competition. Fol- tler placing third. challenge participant can enter visitors on the trombone at the Carnegie Arts Center on Sunday lowing regional, the high school studetns will travel to the Annual See Page 10 one soup recipe, each contestant afternoon at its gallery opening of Grant Junior High and Goodland Panhandle Area Art Jubilee competition at Oklahoma Panhandle receives 10 points for submitting High School art projects. Schnabel was selected to play in the State College in Goodwell, Okla. The high school instructor is Jeff their soup, entries must be at the Kansas Music Educators Association state honor band at Wichita. First and for Grant Junior High Nancy Farris-Partida. Rock House by 10:30 a.m. on Sat- He first had to audition for the regional honor band before he was Photo by Pat Schiefen/The Goodland Star-News picked for the state band. All of the students whose art was on See SOUP, Page 3 about our 2 The Goodland Star-News / Tuesday, March 5, 2013 friends births genesis and salvation army the calendar Cain Mccrae Saint Genesis and Salvation Army are available year round to help those in calendar residence, located at 704 Walnut. fruit, chips and applesauce cake. Cain Mccrae Saint was born at need. 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