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The MIDWEEK Tuesday, July 15, 2014 Goodland1205 Main Avenue, Goodland, Star-News KS 67735 • Phone (785) 899-2338 $1 Volume 82, Number 56 10 Pages Goodland, Kansas 67735 upcoming Chase Relay for Life is this weekend events Camp starts suspect next week The grade school basket- pleads ball camp for girls entering third, fourth and fifth grades will be from 10 a.m. to noon, July 21-25, in the Mustang guilty gym. Cost is $5 for insur- ance and $10 for a T-shirt. By Sam Dieter For information, call Coach [email protected] Andy Scheopner at (785) A man shot by officers checking 821-0299. out a prostitution complaint after a high-speed chase in April pleaded Weather night guilty to three counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer Wednesday. at the museum Entering and leaving the court The National Weather room handcuffed to a walker, Jer- Service and the High Plains emy Owens, 35, admitted to point- The 2014 Sherman County Relay for Life is this weekend, and will continue walking the track through to Saturday morning. Museum will hold a free ing a toy gun that looked like a lethal teams have already been gearing up. The Nora’s team held a A luminary service will be held around 9 p.m. and there will be educational Weather Night weapon at three officers that night survivor dinner and fund raiser on Saturday at the 4-H Building games throughout the night. The Kiwanis Club will serve supper from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday, near the Edson exit off Interstate on the Sherman County Fairgrounds. The Relay will begin at 7 and the Knights of Columbus will serve breakfast. The community July 21, at the museum. For 70. He said he pleaded guilty to the p.m. Friday at the Goodland High School track. It will start with an is invited to come for the event. more information, contact three charges as part of an agree- opening ceremony, survivor lap and caregiver lap. Participants Photo by Kevin Bottrell/The Goodland Star-News the Goodland NWS at 785- ment that included, as he understood 899-7119 or e-mail at mi- it, “dismissing charges against my [email protected]. wife, because she had nothing to do with this.” Local entities help gun club expand services He and Mary Derr, 33, were spot- ted at the Pilot Truck Stop at around By Kevin Bottrell Crow – one of the program’s lead- facility, and the nearest open facility Crow said there are currently 48 9:20 p.m. April 23, by Colby Police, [email protected] ers – said the new skeet house proj- is in Atwood. kids in the program, with about 30 weather who were following up on reports The Sherman County Commis- ect was about 70 percent done. The Crow said a lot of the labor and coming each Sunday to practice. of a man and woman trying to sell sion met with Michael Dorn and skeet house is being built because money for materials for the new The commissioners voted to sexual favors at stations near I-70. Melvin Crow at their meeting last new rules require 4-Hers to shoot building has been donated by local donate $5,000 toward the skeet Police were checking the license week to discuss additions to the gun skeet as well as trap to qualify for entities such as the city, Kiwanis and house project, and up to $1,000 next 74° club, which are aimed at improving national competitions. Previously, Pheasants Forever as well as private 10 a.m. See GUILTY, Page 10 the 4-H shooting sports program. the gun club had no skeet shooting donations. See GUN CLUB, Page 10 Monday Today • Sunset, 8:12 p.m. Wednesday Church group helps out at disaster relief center • Sunrise, 5:34 a.m. • Sunset, 8:11 p.m. By Kevin Bottrell would then be filled with cleaning [email protected] supplies and sent to flood-damaged Midday Conditions Small acts can make a big dif- areas, and helped sort about six tons • Soil temperature 72 degrees ference around the world. That’s of donated bedding. • Humidity 69 percent the lesson learned by a group of six “We did a lot of little things to be a • Sky mostly sunny people from the Goodland United part of big things,” she said. “It can • Winds northeast 15 mph Methodist Church, who went on a make a big difference.” • Barometer 30.21 inches missions trip in June to help out at The group brought home this and rising the Midwest Mission Distribution philosophy, and starting a “Color • Record High today 106° (1925) Center in Chatham, Ill. the World” drive to collect pencils • Record Low today 52° (1990) Talon Corke, Chandler Pettibone, and 24-packs of crayons. Half of the donations will be going to children Last 24 Hours* Sara Johnson and Amanda Coon along with adult sponsors Alyssa here in Sherman County through High Sunday 85° Dees and Andrew Shores made Genesis, and the other half will be Low Sunday 63° the trip to Illinois from June 1 to 8. going to the distribution center to Precipitation .50 At the center, which is one of eight be sent to needy children all over This month 1.40 United Methodist Committee on the world. Year to date 10.47 Relief facilities, the group helped On their trip, Dees said, the group Below Normal .70 inches put together items and packages for got to see several historical sites The Topside Forecast disaster relief. related to Abraham Lincoln – who Today: Partly sunny with a 20 Dees said the group helped take was from Illinois – and got to visit percent chance of showers and down bleachers at a nearby school. the St. Louis Arch as they passed thunderstorms after noon, a high Seven and a half tons of metal were through on the 14-hour drive. near 73, winds breezy out of the taken to be recycled, and the wood Dees said the church plans to start southeast at 5 to 30 mph and will be made into desks for schools doing these missions trips every a low around 55. Wednesday: Goodland United Methodist Church members Talon Corke, Sara Johnson, Amanda Coon and Chan- in other countries. The group also two years. Cloudy with a 70 percent chance dler Pettibone washed five-gallon buckets, which were to become flood relief kits.Photo by Alyssa Dees washed five-gallon buckets, which of showers and thunderstorms, a high near 65 and a low around 54. Extended Forecast Thursday: Partly sunny with Four injured in I-70 a 20 percent chance of showers Electric car maker installs and thunderstorms, a high near 75 and a low around 55. Friday: rollover accident Sunny with a high near 84 and a super chargers in Goodland low around 61. Saturday: Mostly Four Alabama residents were overcorrected and the vehicle spun sunny with a 20 percent chance taken to the hospital early Saturday and went into the north ditch, rolling By Tyler Anderson to 58 miles of charge per hour. The of showers and thunderstorms. morning when their pickup truck three complete times. [email protected] new SuperChargers are meant to brought to you by: lost control on I-70. Shaw, along with passengers Ray On June 3 the Tesla Super- be for cross-country journeys or According to a Kansas Highway Livingston, 48, Jimmy Livingson, Chargers for their current “Model emergencies. For everyday use it Patrol report, Michael Shaw, 44, 51, and Spencer Livingston, 23, S” fully electric vehicle, became is usually suggested that the owner of Northport Alabama, was driv- were all transported to Goodland operationally here in the Heartland plugs in at home – at night for up to ing a 2004 Toyota pickup truck Regional Medical Center. Spen- of America, opening just in time eight hours – and buys the charg- westbound on I-70 about five miles cer was listed as having disabling for the ‘Fourth of July’ holiday. ing system that they will need for east of Goodland at 5:20 a.m. when injuries. There are three locations in their daily use. it entered the median. The driver Kansas: Salina, Hays, and the Work on the Salina chargers be- 328 W. Hwy. 24, Goodland Holiday Inn Express and Suites gan in mid-June, with the chargers Phone: (785) 899-5628 in Goodland. The official Tesla ready for customers on July 3. website, TeslaMotors.com, indi- The Tesla Model S, starts at Probation given cates that the other two are already 208 miles (60 kilowatt battery) markets open. They are offered to Model S of range for its low end model, owners to charge their car for free, 10 a.m. at a $69,000 price. The higher in drunk driving case and according to the Holiday Inn, end goes up to the 265 miles (85 Wheat — $6.15 bushel they do not need to be a guest to Posted county price — $7.51 By Sam Dieter hours, and 30 days under house kilowatt battery) performance use the chargers. model for $93,400. It’s next clos- Corn — $3.99 bushel [email protected] arrest before the probation begins. When a person buys a Tesla est competitor in ‘all electric’ Posted county price — $3.81 A man who was acquitted of He will have to pay $1,370 in Model S, and soon their “Model range is the Nissan Leaf, which Milo — $3.46 bushel vehicular manslaughter in the the costs and fees stemming from the X,” one option on the low end has a battery pack of 24 kilowatt, Soybeans — $11.87 bushel 2012 death of a friend after a night 2012 incident in which he ran over Model S with the 60 kilowatt bat- (73 miles) of range and varies in Posted county price — $12.47 of drinking in Brewster was given and killed his friend, Val Gallentin, tery is to have a SuperCharger – a price from $21,480 to $27,520 Millet — no bid probation instead of a jail sentence 44.