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Goodland Star-News The WEEKEND Friday, August 8, 2014 Goodland1205 Main Avenue, Goodland, Star-News KS 67735 • Phone (785) 899-2338 $1 Volume 82, Number 63 10 Pages Goodland, Kansas 67735 upcoming events Mechanical failure results in blackout Youth Academy Goodland residents asked to conserve power between 1 and 8 p.m. The Sherman County Sher- A mechanical failure at the Goodland flash arc.” A flash arc is where electric current was a stop-gap effort to restore power to all to keep from overloading any circuit and caus- iff’s Office will hold a youth power plant resulted in a four-hour blackout travels through the air from one conductor services Tuesday night. The existing switch- ing additional outages. They ask that residents academy for seventh and for parts of the city Tuesday night, along with to another. According to the Occupational ing equipment was cleaned and restored by complete all electrical tasks such as drying eighth grade students, teach- several subsequent blackouts on Wednesday. Safety and Health Administration, these arcs early morning and the process began to place of clothes and running of appliances be done ing about the role of law en- A press release issued by Sherman County can be violent and dangerous. circuits back to their correct point. This also outside of this time period and to adjust air forcement in public safety, Public Information Officer Donna Terry said The results of the failure disabled all of the caused brief outages Wednesday morning. conditioning up a few degrees. from 8:30 a.m. to noon Tues- the power plant had a catastrophic failure on circuits feeding out of the structure and caused Four of the six circuits were restored to their The City of Goodland is in the process of day through Friday, Aug. one of its switch gears Tuesday evening. The a lengthy outage. The City of Goodland Elec- original state but two had to be left being fed installing a new substation that it says will 19 through 22. Sign up at outage involved mostly residential power. tric Department worked throughout the night by other circuits due to equipment failures. eliminate all of these issues, but the station www.shermancountysheriff. The release said power went out about 5:10 to restore the power to an acceptable level. The release said electric department per- will not be complete for another 6 to 8 weeks. com. Deadline to register is p.m. for a as-yet undetermined reason and that The release said power was originally re- sonnel are confident the circuits will handle Monday. “during the process of restoring the power the stored by tying circuits together and placing the load, but they ask that Goodland residents switch gear failed and was destroyed from a the entire load on functioning circuits. This limit their usage of electricity from 1 to 8 p.m. Youth Football Goodland Youth Football will have equipment checkout Billinger from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at the high school track. Prac- victorious tice starts from 4:30 to 6:30 Monday, Aug. 18, at North Elementary and continues every day that week, and in primary Monday through Thursday the week of Aug. 25. After By Kevin Bottrell that, practices are from 4:30 [email protected] to 6:30 p.m. Monday, Tues- Despite the power outage, staff day and Thursday. and volunteers at the Sherman County Courthouse were eventu- ally able to tabulate the ballots on Tuesday, and Goodland resident Rick Billinger will once again be weather representing northwest Kansas in the state House of Representatives. Billinger, who served one term as representative before the 2012 71° redistricting, captured 2,191 votes 10 a.m. – 60 percent – beating Adam Smith Thursday of Wallace County, who got 1,445 Today votes – 40 percent. No Democrats • Sunset, 7:51 p.m. filed for the seat, which was left Saturday vacant by the retirement of Ward • Sunrise, 5:55 a.m. Cassidy, making Billinger the de • Sunset, 7:49 p.m. facto winner in the General Election in November. Midday Conditions Billinger carried his home coun- • Soil temperature 73 degrees ty with 74 percent of the vote to • Humidity 63 percent Smith’s 26 percent. 868 Sherman Ongoing events at the county fairgrounds • Sky mostly cloudy County Republicans voted. He • Winds northwest at 10 mph also won Cheyenne, Rawlins and This week has been packed with events happening at the North- • Barometer 30.10 inches Decatur counties. west Kansas District Free Fair. Just a few of these were the Howdy and steady Smith won his home county 241 Rowdy Fun Night (above) on Monday, which including a contest • Record High today 108° (1934) votes to Billinger’s 97. He also won to catch pigs and put them into sacks, much like the Catch-It Pig • Record Low today 46° (1939) the portion of Thomas County that contest, held on Tuesday. There have been plenty of livestock lies in the 120th District – 471 votes shows, such as the swine show on Wednesday. This show fea- Last 24 Hours* to 443. High Wednesday 93° tured contestants who had won a pig in last year’s Catch-It Pig Two Kansas primary races were contest (left). Livestock are just some of the animals and exhibits Low Wednesday 63° getting plenty of national coverage. Precipitation ­­none shown at the county fair. Rabbit and poultry judging (below) was In the race to be the Republican held Monday. This month .05 nominee for the senate, Tea Party fa- Photos by Pat Schiefen and Kevin Bottrell/The Goodland Star-News Year to date 11.19 vorite Milton Wolf was challenging Below Normal 2.65 inches incumbent Pat Roberts, the senior The Topside Forecast senator from Kansas. Today: Mostly sunny with a 30 Roberts won with 48 percent percent chance of showers and of the vote – 125,306 votes – and thunderstorms at night, a high near Wolf came second with 41 percent 84, winds out of the southwest at – 106,128 votes. D.J. Smith took 5 to 10 mph and a low around 63. six percent of the vote, while Alvin Saturday: Partly cloudy with a 20 Zahnter got five percent. percent chance of showers and A SurveyUSA poll conducted in thunderstorms after noon, a high mid-July put Roberts ahead of Wolf near 86, winds out of the southeast 50 to 30 percent, but the race grew at 5 to 15 mph and a low around 63. closer in the final weeks before the Extended Forecast election. The poll predicts a more Sunday: Mostly sunny with a 20 difficult time for Roberts in the percent chance of showers and General Election, showing him thunderstorms, a high near 87 and winning by just five percent over a a low around 63. Monday: Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of See PRIMARY, Page 5 showers and thunderstorms. (National Weather Service) brought to you by: Running for kids Interstate accidents claim lives 328 W. Hwy. 24, Goodland Accidents along Interstate 70 this Phone: (785) 899-5628 week took the life of a Louisiana woman who fell asleep at the wheel, and sent a local woman to the hospi- markets tal after she hit a deer. At 9:32 Monday night, the Kan- 10 a.m. sas Highway Patrol said, Elizabeth Wheat — $6.11 bushel Stoll, 65, Oakley, was headed west Posted county price — $6.04 on the highway when she hit a deer. Corn — $3.78 bushel The animal jumped out in front of Posted county price — $3.49 the 1999 Lincoln she was in four Milo — $3.25 bushel miles west of Grainfield. Stoll, who Soybeans — $11.42 bushel Posted county price — $11.71 was wearing a seatbelt, was taken Millet — no bid to the Logan County Hospital after Sunflowers hitting the animal. Oil current crop — $17.20 cwt. Early Tuesday morning, the Pa- Confection — no bid trol said, Michelle M. Grabert, 52, Pinto beans — $32 (new crop) Ponchatoula, La., died after falling (Markets by Scoular Grain, Sun Opta, asleep near Goodland. Grabert was Frontier Ag and 21st Century Bean. seven miles west of Goodland at These may not be closing figures. ) 4:45a.m., officers, said, when the 2005 Kia Sorento she was in drifted The Sherman County Sheriff’s Office held a 5K run/walk to help Ace Artega placed first, with second place going to Erin Floyd and into the median. She woke up and raise money for the Kansas Child Advocacy Center last Friday. third to Benjamin Foust. Photo by Pat Schiefen/The Goodland Star-News See ACCIDENTS, Page 5 about our 2 The Goodland Star-News / Friday, August 8, 2014 friends obituary genesis and salvation army the calendar Evelyn Bessie Kling Genesis and Salvation Army are available year round to help those in calendar [email protected]. and white velvet vanilla cupcakes. need. Call (785) 890-2299 to speak Prairie Land Food sign up Evelyn Bessie Kling, 104, long- Survivors include a daughter The Goodland Public Library senior menu to a volunteer. will be until Monday. Distribu- time Goodland resident, died Mon- Alberta Harding of Goodland, six Book Sale will continue through Today: Baked fish, macaro- day, Aug. 4, 2014, at Good Samari- grandchildren, 13 great-grandchil- activities Aug. 20. From Aug. 7 to 13 the tion is 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23. at Cat’s TnT, 115 E. 9th, or at ni and cheese, beets, bread and tan Society—Sherman dren and six great-great- Tours of the 1907 Victorian price will be $2 per sack. From the Bernadine Johnson residence, strawberries and bananas.
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