College Holds Commencement Wednesday • Sunrise, 5:28 A.M
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The MIDWEEK Tuesday, May 20, 2014 Goodland1205 Main Avenue, Goodland, Star-News KS 67735 • Phone (785) 899-2338 $1 Volume 82, Number 40 10 Pages Goodland, Kansas 67735 volunteers needed Volunteers are needed to help put up and take down flags at the Goodland Cemetery for Memorial Day weekend. Flags will be put up starting at 7 a.m. Satur- day. Volunteers do not have to sign up, just be at the cemetery at 7 a.m. The flags will be taken down from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday. Volunteers are needed for both days. weather report Northwest Kansas Technical College graduates – including mPortfolio prize winner lege’s commencement ceremony on Friday in the Max Jones Fieldhouse. 75° Beau Gardner (third from left) moved their tassels to the other side during the col- Photos by Kevin Bottrell/The Goodland Star-News 10 a.m. Monday Today • Sunset, 7:59 p.m. College holds commencement Wednesday • Sunrise, 5:28 a.m. By Kevin Bottrell cesses of others,” he said. “I suggest focusing on your • Sunset, 7:59 p.m. [email protected] own successes.” Midday Conditions More than 100 graduates will be heading out into the Morris said leadership must be earned every day, • Soil temperature 55 degrees workforce after being honored at the 2014 Northwest and that too often integrity and honesty have become • Humidity 46 percent Kansas Technical College commencement ceremony endangered species. • Sky sunny on Friday. “Whether serving in the armed forces or serving in • Winds north at 15 to 25 mph The ceremony began with a welcome from college the Kansas Senate, integrity and honesty are the su- • Barometer 29.70 inches President Dr. Ed Mills and the National Anthem sung preme qualities of leadership,” he said, paraphrasing and rising by Sabrina Erhart. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Morris encouraged the students to go out into the • Record High today 98° (1934) This year’s commencement speaker was Stephen world with confidence. • Record Low today 30° (1931) Morris, a former Kansas state senator, Vietnam War veteran and retired Air Force reservist. “Your challenge is not just to do something, but to Last 24 Hours* “I respect your achievements and applaud your ef- be someone,” he said. High Sunday 79° forts,” he said, addressing the graduates. “Technical Dr. Mills presented Morris with a gift, a framed Low Sunday 45° education benefits all of western Kansas.” photograph of a unit of military pilots who went to Precipitation none Morris said the graduates had learned critical skills China in 1940. This month .2 and described several paradoxes in life, such as not The winner of the President’s mPortfolio Prize was Year to date 1.99 learning from our own successes. Beau Gardner from the Automotive Technology de- Below Normal 3.07 inches “We seem to focus on our own failures and the suc- partment. The prize is awarded to the student who puts The Topside Forecast together the best mobile portfolio. The winner received Today: Mostly sunny with a 20 Northwest Tech graduate Gian Clavell embraced $500 and the opportunity to display the portfolio at percent chance of showers and college Vice President Brenda Chatfield as he graduation. thunderstorms after 5 p.m., a high walked across the stage. Clavell earned an As- The 2014 Student of the Year was Greg Thomas from near 82, winds out of the north at sociate of Applied Science Degree in the Medical the Mobile App department. 10 to 15 mph and a low around 54. Assistant field. Wednesday: Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, winds breezy out of the east at 15 to 30 mph, a Brewster graduates high near 70 and a low around 56. Extended Forecast Thursday: Partly sunny with a told to keep in touch 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, a high near 80 and By Kevin Bottrell that,” she said. a low around 57. Friday: Mostly [email protected] Valedictorian Ashley Barrie and cloudy with a 40 percent chance Nine students walked across salutatorian Nathan Jorgensen of showers and thunderstorms, a the stage at Brewster High School chose to speak together. After con- high near 77 and a low around 56. on Saturday, having fulfilled the gratulating their fellow graduates, requirements to receive their high Jorgensen read from “Oh the Places school diplomas. You’ll Go” by Dr. Seuss. Tiffany Martin, a radio host at Other Brewster graduates in- KGCR and mother of graduate cluded Tanner Abbott, Justin Cul- Rook Shaw, said she jumped at the well, Tony Aguilar, Logan Rall, and chance to be the graduation speaker. Colton Rundel. Exchange student Shaw described each of the stu- Yumi Inagaki graduated with the local dents as smart and having potential, class, but will have several more and described some of her memories years of high school when she re- markets of them as well as their plans after turns to Japan. high school. She encouraged them Brewster graduates Logan Rall 10 a.m. to be there for each other after they (from left) Tony Aguilar, Ashley Wheat — $7.36 bushel graduate. Barrie and Justin Culwell lis- Posted county price — $7.35 Shaw ended her speech by thank- tened to speaker Tiffany Martin Corn — $4.67 bushel ing the other parents. at the graduation ceremony Posted county price — none “I have no doubt that the Brewster Saturday. Milo — $4.16 bushel Class of 2014 will go on to do great Photo by Kevin Bottrell Soybeans — $13.91 bushel things, and you have been a part of The Goodland Star-News Posted county price — none Millet — no bid Sunflowers Oil current crop — $18.85 cwt. West Elementary playground to close for the summer Confection — no bid Pinto beans — $36 (new crop) By Pat Schiefen After contacting the banks for bids the and Gary Slough said yes. Biermann said the Under this bill money from the fund may also (Markets by Scoular Grain, Sun Opta, [email protected] official depository for the district will be board could not do anything about filling the be used for computer software and band and Frontier Ag and 21st Century Bean. The Goodland School Board has decided Bankwest for the next two years. slot until it was actually empty by law. cheerleading uniforms. Before the fund could These may not be closing figures. ) to close the playground at West Elementary The board discussed the resignation of Di- Biermann said there was a steady flow of only be used for the buildings. School for the summer. ane Stiles to the board. Stiles will be moving about 25 people at the open house at North The board, Biermann said, needed to pass Superintendent Bill Biermann said at the to Lake Erie, S.D., to take the vice president Elementary School on Sunday, May 11. a resolution to set the maximum amount of board’s May 12 meeting that with all of the position at the vocational school. Board presi- The broadened use of capital outlay funds mills the board could set for capital outlay and construction at West there were concerns dent Gennifer House had asked former school by the Kansas Legislature was talked about for how long. Previously the resolution had about safety for kids, especially around the board members if they would be interested by Biermann. That was included in the school to be passed every five years. Stiles moved construction vehicles. The playground will in filling out the remaining term of one year. funding bill by the legislature in 2012 when be fenced off for the summer. Amy Sederstrom and Mike Cochran said no the legislature would fully fund capital outlay. See SUMMER, Page 5 GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE All regular price in-stock SuperiorFlooring and Furniture items storewide! and accessories Hours: Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. 360 14th St., Burlington, CO (Will close Saturday, May 24 at Noon for Memorial Day weekend) about our 2 The Goodland Star-News / Tuesday, May 20, 2014 friends obituaries kanorado senior the calendar center Kenny Schemm The Kanorado Senior Center calendar Theatre, 1203 Main. The movie The Kids Cooking Class is held is in need of cash donations and on Wednesday, May 28, will be on the second Wednesday of each Kenny Schemm, 57, Wallace dren ride horse-back. During cold The Tenth Annual Outdoor donations for our benefit auction on “Free Birds” (PG). month from 3:45 to 5:15 p.m. at County farmer and rancher, died weather he enjoyed woodworking, Youth Skills Day will be Satur- July 12. Donations will help keep The 48th Annual Butterfield the 4-H Building. This class is Friday, May 16, 2014, at such as building scroll- day, June 14. Registration forms the center functioning. Their mail- Trail Ride will be at noon (Moun- open for second to fifth graders. the Greeley County Hos- work crosses, turned vases available from Bill’s Shootin Shop ing address is the Kanorado Senior tain Time) on Saturday, May 31 For information call 890-4880. pital in Tribune. and picture frames. or S&T Communication. Call Center, Box 176, Kanorado, Kan. and 8 a.m. on Sunday, June 1, He was born on Aug. 27, Survivors include his Troy Mannis at (785) 821-1838 senior menu 67741 or for donations call Tammy starting at Russell Springs. Horse- 1956, to Mildred (Olson) wife of the home; two for information. Today: Taco salad, tropical at the center (785) 399-2348, Con- drawn vehicles, horses and riders and Dean Schemm in Tri- sons, Cole (Sheena) Prairie Land Food distribu- fruit, chips and cook’s choice nie Sheldon (785) 399-2402, John and hiker will cover the wide-open bune.