The MIDWEEK Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013 Goodland1205 Main Avenue, Goodland, Star-News KS 67735 • Phone (785) 899-2338 $1 Volume 81, Number 73 8 Pages Goodland, Kansas 67735 upcoming events Business After Hours September’s Business After Hours – sponsored by the Goodland Area Chamber of Commerce – will be at 5:30 p.m. at Goodland Regional Medical Center. Family day at Smokey Gardens Enjoy a fall evening with food and music at Smokey Gardens starting at 5 p.m. Saturday. Free hotdogs will be served beginning at 5 p.m., Bo Wright will perform on the harmonica and piano at 5:30, and Heartland Soul will play at 6:30 p.m. Come enjoy the playground equip- ment, walking paths and the new disc golf course. The five semi-tractor rigs of the Goodland leg of the Special Olympics Kansas World’s on Saturday. This is the seventh year the convoy has been held in northwest Kansas. Largest Convoy got ready to roll out from the parking lot at Wilken’s Truck and Trailer Photos by Pat Schiefen/The Goodland Star-News weather report Convoy totals 80° 10 a.m. Monday 61 vehicles Today Five trucks and eight motorcycles trucks and 13 motorcycles from • Sunset, 7:03 p.m. paraded through Goodland Satur- Oakley for another parade. The Wednesday day morning as part of the World’s convoy finished its journey at the • Sunrise, 6:25 a.m. Largest Convoy, a fund and aware- Thomas County Fairgrounds. • Sunset, 7:01 p.m. ness raiser for Special Olympics An evening event, which includ- Kansas. ed fireworks and food, was held the Midday Conditions The convoy headed east on I-70 night before in Colby for athletes • Soil temperature 75 degrees to Colby, where it met up with 32 and drivers. • Humidity 39 percent • Sky sunny • Winds south 15-20 mph • Barometer 29.92 inches and rising • Record High today 100° (1936) • Record Low today 34° (1907) Last 24 Hours* High Sunday 98° Low Sunday 73° Precipitation none This month none Year to date 8.79 Below normal 7.48 inches The Topside Forecast Today: Cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunder- storms after noon, a high near Luke Schulte, director of development for Special Olympics Kansas (above), signed participants in 86, winds out of the west at 5 to at Wilken’s Truck and Trailer before the convoy set off. Law enforcement officers from several agen- 15 mph and and a low around 61. cies were involved, escorting the convoy with their vehicles. Eight bikes (right) also participated in the Wednesday: Partly sunny with a convoy, which ended in Colby at the Thomas County Fairgrounds. 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon, a high near 81, winds out of the north at 5 to 10 mph and a low around 62. Petition circulating on pit bull ordinance Extended Forecast Thursday: Mostly cloudy with By Kevin Bottrell “These have been shown to be Development for $306,863. Sporer tive developers, he said. Sporer Gerber said that the city has an a 50 percent chance of showers [email protected] far more effective,” she said. “It had been the lowest of three bids, the – who is based in Oakley – has a agreement with the homeowners for and thunderstorms, a high near 82 A petition to try and reverse the empowers kids and makes them others being Bryant and Bryant with concrete plant currently operating a 70-30 cost share, so the total cost and a low around 61. Friday: Partly Goodland City Commissions deci- more knowledgeable.” $375,429 and APAC with $383,000. in Sherman County for projects on to the city will be about $62,000. sunny with a 30 percent chance sion to place stronger regulations on Mayor Annette Fairbanks said Gerber said the city obtained a I-70, which it would use for this • Discussed the city’s ongoing of showers and thundersstorms. (National Weather Service) pit bull owners is being circulated she would like to reiterate that the grant from the Kansas Department road as well. compensation study – which is ex- around town. city isn’t targeting good owners, of Transportation that will cover The commission also awarded amining the wages and benefits of Caroline Gebers appeared before which is why provisions were put $217,000, and Crop Production a bid for the extension of Second city workers to see how they stack the city commission at their meet- in to grandfather in current owners Services bought several lots along Street, part of a new four-home up against each other and surround- ing Sept. 3, saying a petition had in good standing. the road for $63,000, so the total housing development. This bid was ing counties. Gerber said the firm been started in disagreement with “We just have a real problem with cost to the city will actually be about awarded to Bryant and Bryant for the city hired has been interviewing the city’s new ordinance regarding pit bulls right now,” she said. $27,000. The road will also serve $89,185. They were the low bidder staff and department heads, and is pitbulls, and signatures were being Gebers said she would bring the several other lots, which will make of the three, with APAC coming in getting ready to send out question- gathered. She said as of the meeting, petition back to a future meeting them more marketable to prospec- at $91,310 and Sporer, $118,757. naires to nearby counties. local roughly 100 people had signed. once more signatures had been Gebers said the ordinance places gathered. markets difficult restrictions on owners and Goodland does not have a pro- impacts visitors as well. There is no vision for formal petitions with Patrol: merging caused Thursday pileup 10 a.m. reliable data showing that particular binding results. At some levels of Wheat — $6.80 bushel breeds of dog bite more than others, government, petitions may be filed The five-vehicle pileup Thursday morning west 2000 Buick Century driven by Damarys E. Cooper Posted county price — $6.67 she said, and cities such as Cincin- to put a measure on the next ballot, of Goodland resulted from one driver pulling in of Imperial, Neb. Corn — $5.53 bushel nati and Baltimore have recently but not at the city level. City Man- front of another as he entered a construction zone Bragg was uninjured, and his pickup stopped in Posted county price — $5.51 rescinded their pit bull ordinances. ager Doug Gerber said there is no on Interstate 70. the median. The other four vehicles ended up in the Milo — $4.82 bushel “It unfairly brands people as signature quota either, and informed The Kansas Highway Patrol worked the accident, ditch on the north side of the highway. Soybeans — $13.37 bushel unreliable based on ownership of Gebers that she was welcome to which happened at 9:10 a.m. Thursday. The patrol Frank Lewis and his passenger Ursula Lewis, 73, Posted county price — $14.11 a particular breed,” she said. “It is bring the petition back whenever reported that Frank N. Lewis, 81, of Linn Valley, was also of Linn Valley, both went to Goodland Regional Millet — no bid unfair, costly and time consuming she feels she has enough signatures. driving east and merging into the construction lane Medical Center. No information on their condition Sunflowers for law enforcement.” In other business, the commis- just east of Kanarado – 1.8 miles from the state line. was available by press time. Oil current crop — $20.65 cwt. Gebers said she was also con- sion: Lewis pulled his 2002 Monte Carlo Chevrolet in Brett Johnson and his passenger Bjorn Johnson Confection — no bid cerned for owners of mixed breed • Signed a resolution exempting front of a 2006 Ford pickup driven by Dustin Lee went to Kit Carson County Memorial Hospital Pinto beans — $28 dogs. the city from a requirement to do a (Markets by Scoular Grain, Sun Opta, Bragg, 29, Wichita, who ran into the back of Lewis’s in Burlington, along with Jeffries-Farquhar and Frontier Ag and 21st Century Bean. “To require people to prove that Generally Acceptable Accounting car. They both crossed into the westbound lane after Cooper. Officials at the hospital said they were no These may not be closing figures. ) their dog is less than 50 percent pit Principles audit. Gerber said the city they collided and both hit westbound vehicles. longer there, and would not say where they had bull places an impossible burden on does a Cash Basis audit, the result Lewis’ car hit a 2001 Chrysler Jeep Liberty driven been sent. the citizen,” she said. of which were presented at the last by Marie C. Jeffries-Farquhar, 21, of Longmont, The patrol did not report whether Bjorn Johnson Gebers said that as an alternative, meeting in August. Colo., and a 2013 Buick Le Sabre driven by Brett was wearing a seatbelt, but said everyone else the city should invest in an animal • Awarded a bid for the new road E. Johnson, 52, Chenoa, Ill. Bragg’s pickup hit a involved in the accident was. safety program in the schools. at the Business Park to Sporer Land about our 2 The Goodland Star-News / Tuesday, September 10, 2013 friends genesis and Early Head Start is a state funded 899-5665. 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