Page 2 Colby Free Press Thursday, December 12, 2013 Area/State WWeathereather Students lend a helping hand BBrieflyriefly The deadline for Briefl y is noon the day before. Items submitted in the morning will be set up for the following day, space available. The deadline for Monday’s paper is noon Friday. Commodities to be given out here Monday U.S. Department of Agriculture commodities will be distributed from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program offi ce in the Senior Progress Center at Fike Park. Distribution is fi rst come, fi rst- served, but you may send a signed permission slip with another person. Bring a sack or box. Items given will be surplus canned goods from the previous distribution. For questions, call the offi ce at 462-6744. Help fill Christmas baskets for Genesis Anyone interested in helping fi ll Genesis-Thomas County Christmas baskets is welcome to come at 7 p.m. Friday at the Thomas County 4-H Building on the fairgrounds. Baskets will be distributed from 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Saturday at the 4-H Building. For information call Leisa Hansen at 443-0243. Tree of Hope supports area animal shelter A Tree of Hope supporting the Northwest Kansas Animal Shelter is at the Farmers and Merchants Bank. For a donation of $10 toward providing homeless animals with food and shelter this winter, your pet or loved National Weather Service one’s name can be on a keepsake magnet displayed on the tree. Call Angie Tonight: Mostly clear, with a Harris at 460-1078 for information. low around 14. Calm wind be- coming west around 5 mph after Hear choir ring bells at Trinity on Saturday midnight. “Ring Christmas” will be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Trinity Lutheran Friday: Mostly sunny, with a Church, Fifth Street and Country Club Drive. Come for an evening of high near 43. Northwest wind 5 Christmas music featuring Trinity’s JuBellation handbell choir and friends to 15 mph. from the Pride of the Prairie Orchestra. An offering will be taken for the Friday Night: Partly cloudy, Genesis-Thomas County Food Bank. For information, call Linda Pabst at with a low around 15. Northwest 462-3497. wind around 15 mph. Saturday: Mostly sunny, with ROBERT HANZLICK a high near 41. Northwest wind Eric Schuette (left) Abby Friesen and Alex Vap loaded a pickup with 1,530 pounds of Once a Month Lunch coming up this week 10 to 15 mph. food on Tuesday, along with Walter Vacik and Shane Weis (not pictured). The food was Once a Month Lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday Night: Mostly clear, collected by the Colby High School Student Council for Genesis-Thomas County. Saturday at the First Presbyterian Church, 515 W. Fourth St. This free with a low around 20. meal is served to all who come the second Saturday of each month. No Sunday: Sunny, with a high reservations. Call the church offi ce with questions at 462-6342. near 51. Sunday Night: Mostly clear, Recycling helps keep landfill Orchestra plans holiday concert Sunday with a low around 25. The Pride of the Prairie Orchestra will present “Many Merry Melodies,” Monday: Sunny, with a high From “RECYCLING,” Page recycle would be a good option, years’ worth of trash. conducted by Andrew Salvador, at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the Cultural Arts near 53. and Jumper said single stream Using fi gures gathered for Center at Colby Community College. The program includes a sing-a-long Monday Night: Mostly clear, but huge quantities of recyclable – people putting all recyclable each year through November, and gift drawing. Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for seniors and $3 for with a low around 23. trash come in, especially card- trash into one container to be he showed how much trash the students or patrons. For questions, call Mary Shoaff, 462-2159, or Janet Tuesday: Sunny, with a high board from businesses along sorted out later – would be the landfi ll has been taking in from Hopson, 462-5102. near 48. Interstate 70 and lots of lawn most popular. It would have to 2013 back to 2009. Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, waste, like grass trimmings, that be sorted out at the recycling The landfi ll has been taking with a low around 23. would make good compost. center, which McGreer pointed in about 15 tons of trash, or Economic Development plans meeting Wednesday: Sunny, with a The only way to get people out the city is already paying for. “municipal solid waste,” each The Thomas County Economic Development Alliance board will beet high near 49. to recycle more would be to The manager asked if the day, he said, well below the at 9 a.m. next Thursday at the county offi ce complex, 350 S. Range, Suite make it more expensive not to, county would get less money 20-tons-per-day limit to stay 12. For questions, contact Kayla Faus at 460-4511. Wednesday: High, 34; Low 9 he said. They discussed making with less trash going to the land- open. Construction and demoli- Precip: Wednesday 0.None people pay more for their trash fi ll, and Jumper said if they get tion waste ranged from just un- Food for Thought to feature Kansas writer Month: 0.02 inches collection, and McGreer asked too much trash, they might have der six to over 10 tons per day. December’s Food for Thought program will feature Kansas writer Joyce Year: 14.46 inches if the recycling center saw a to pay to ship it somewhere else. The number of customers at the Thierer on “Our Land, Our Food” at noon next Thursday at the Prairie Normal: 20.86 inches spike in items going there in the At last year’s landfi ll meet- landfi ll dropped from just over Museum of Art and History, 1905 S. Franklin. Call the museum at 460- (K-State Experiment Station) last year, when the city raised its ing, Jumper said, he learned the 19,000 in 2009 to about 15,300 4590 for information Sunrise and Sunset trash pickup rates. Jumper said landfi ll would need to expand in this year, and revenue went up Friday 7:56 a.m. 5:21 p.m. yes, especially when the landfi ll the next fi ve years, something from about $200,000 in 2009 to Living Nativity scheduled for next weekend Moon: waxing, 88 percent raised its rates. he is doing by digging a new pit $300,000 last year, then dropped (U.S. Naval Observatory) A Living Nativity Scene in memory of Theron Johnson will be staged McGreer asked if curbside that should hold fi ve to seven to just under $270,000. from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 20 and 21, at the Jane Johnson Ranch, 2626 K-25 (intersection with County Road Z). Hot cider and cookies will be provided and donations will be accepted for the Genesis- Housing shortage remains critical in region Thomas County food bank. For information, call Cade Carter at 462-7525. From “HOUSING,” Page 1 who wrote the grant applications for the fed- Kansas,” Ahlerich said. eral money, said that the farm could double It’s hard to get the money to put a build- Big Brothers needs clothing for ‘littles’ fi nding space for its employees to live now, is size in two years, but McCarty said there ing in western Kansas, he said, because Big Brothers Big Sisters of Thomas County’s “Christmas for Kids” but he expects they will if they try to expand. are no concrete plans for expansion right properties are not always appraised at a high project runs through Saturday, Dec. 21. Get your name on a stocking at A little more than a year ago, the dairy farm now. enough value. The Department of Agricul- area businesses, including Dillons, F&M Bank, The Bank, Western State sponsored fi ve duplexes in Rexford, donat- The corporation helped invite people to ture helps out with projects here, but its re- Bank, BankWest, Peoples State Bank and Farmer’s Bank and Trust of ing the land where they were built. Rexford attend the meeting, McCarty said, and the sources are limited. Brewster. The group’s angel tree at Orscheln’s has angels with the names got $400,000 from the Kansas Housing Re- dairy’s dealing with the group resulted in his “We’re looking for a way to get around of “littles” who need clothes. Bring gifts to the Colby United Methodist source Corp. to help pay for the $1,669,203 trip to Topeka. He said he thinks the housing that gap, “ he said. Church by Wednesday. For information, call Orvella Romine at 460-9125. project. The rest of the money came from the problems faced by people in this part of the The council talks about a variety of sub- U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural De- state are better understood by government jects at its quarterly meetings, he said, ev- velopment program. offi cials after the meeting. erything from the state’s regent universities Library will take food to pay your fines The Pioneer Memorial Library will have its annual Christmas “Foods Christy Rocca, director of the Thomas “We just know that the rural housing situ- to water resources. for Fines” campaign through Monday, Dec. 23. Bring canned or packaged County Economic Development Alliance, ation was an impediment to growth in rural food to pay your fi nes. For information, call the library at 460-4470.

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