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The MIDWEEK Tuesday, May 14, 2013 Goodland1205 Main Avenue, Goodland, Star-News KS 67735 • Phone (785) 899-2338 $1 Volume 81, Number 39 8 Pages Goodland, Kansas 67735 weather Game report Warden: 80° 10 a.m. Monday steer clear Today • Sunset, 7:53 p.m. Wednesday of wildlife • Sunrise, 5:33 a.m. By Kevin Bottrell • Sunset, 7:54 p.m. [email protected] Midday Conditions With warmer weather, it’s more • Soil temperature 57 degrees common to run into baby wild • Humidity 80 percent animals. • Sky partly sunny Game Warden Mike Hopper said • Winds north 10 mph it may be tempting to try and care or • Barometer 30.09 inches feed wild animal babies, but they are and rising best left alone. • Record High today 95° (1915) “The best things we can do is • Record Low today 27° (2004) leave them alone,” he said. “Wild- life is best enjoyed at a distance.” Last 24 Hours* Skunks, turkeys, foxes and more High Sunday 81° are prevalent this time of year. Hop- Low Sunday 47° per said he often gets calls this time Precipitation none of year about baby animals from This month 0.50 people who area afraid a dog or cat Year to date 3.59 will eat the wildlife, but, he said, Below normal 0.89 inches Mother Nature can deal with it bet- The Topside Forecast ter than people can. Today: Sunny with a 10 percent Hopper said people should also chance of showers and thunder- feed their pets during the day and storms after 3 p.m., a high near only feed them enough for a healthy 93, winds out of the west at 5 to diet. Leaving excess food out en- 10 mph switching to the north and courages wildlife to move in. a low around 52. Wednesday: Hopper said now is also a great Mostly sunny with a high near 78, time to take care of a yard to discour- winds out of the north at 5 to 15 age wildlife, especially by trimming mph switching to the east and a bushes up about 18 inches off the low around 52. Extended Forecast See WILDLIFE, Page 5 Thursday: Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, a high near 85 and Commission a low around 57. Friday: Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance Rain storm of showers and thunderstorms, a considers high near 87 and a low around 57. (National Weather Service) school forces picnic police officer to move inside Members of the Music Boosters Club served By Kevin Bottrell hamburgers (right) and all of the trimmings local [email protected] Wednesday night before the Goodland High The City of Goodland and the School band’s Picnic in the Park. The burger markets Goodland School District have be- feed is the main fund raiser for the club.The gun preliminary discussions about concert (above) was held in the high school 10 a.m. adding a school resource police gym because of sporadic rain showers. The Wheat — $7.36 bushel officer. band played the pieces it had prepared for Posted county price — $8.31 At the May 6 meeting of the city music contest as well as fun pieces. The Corn — $6.77 bushel commission, Police Chief Cliff director Deanne Langness said the “Star Posted county price — none Couch said he was approached by Wars Theme” was a requested piece from Milo — $6.31 bushel the school district about adding a band members. Recognized at the band Soybeans — $13.82 bushel school resource officer. There are concert were graduating seniors, individual Posted county price — none several reasons to have one, he achievements and activities the student Millet — no bid said, including increased security, musicians had participated in during the year. Sunflowers enhancing the department’s ability Photos by Pat Schiefen/The Goodland Star-News Oil current crop — $23.95 cwt. Confection — no bid to solve crimes, and developing a Pinto beans — $28 better relationship with students. (Markets by Scoular Grain, Sun Opta, Frontier Ag and 21st Century Bean. These may not be closing figures. ) See OFFICER, Page 5 Maid to Order Skills day inside set for June 8 today The ninth annual Outdoor Youth Skills Day will be Saturday, June 8, More local news, views from at Bellamy Farms in southern Sher- your Goodland Star-News man County. The skills day, for kids aged 9 to 15, will include shotgunning, archery, fishing, muzzleloaders, dog training and .22 target shooting. Registration forms are avail- able at Bill’s Shootin’ Shop – 1907 Cherry Ave. – and S&T Communi- cations – 1318 Main. For more information, call Troy Mannis at (785) 821-1838. GED more difficult Golf team next year wins league By Debbie Schwanke The Goodland High School Colby Community College golf team are this year’s Students who are working toward Great West Activity Confer- passing the General Educational ence champions, having Development (GED) test to receive come in first at the league their Kansas High School Diploma meet on Thursday in Hol- might want to finish soon. The test comb. will change beginning January 2, See Page 8 The Goodland Arts Council’s theater production “Maid to Order” Michele Preston. The Saturday dinner was made by the Northwest 2014. was on stage Friday and Saturday night at the Veterans of Foreign Kansas Technical College and served by the Family, Career and “By the end of 2013, the GED Wars. Pictured is Marty Melia, the son of a wealthy widow from Community Leaders of America club from Goodland High School. as we know it will be changing the Upper East Side in New York City in the mid to late 1940’s. The Friday night light buffet was prepared by the Goodland Arts and time is running out to enroll in The lecherous son pays unwanted attention to the new maid, Council Board. Photo by Pat Schiefen/The Goodland Star-News See GED, Page 5 about our 2 The Goodland Star-News / Tuesday, May 14, 2013 friends birthdays The family of Opal Seaman will the calendar obituaries have a birthday party celebrating her 95th birthday from 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 25, 2013, at the calendar pork sausage, grilled chicken wheat roll and jelly, strawberries Berna Biem Wednes- Masonic Hall, 519 Center, Good- The next blood drive for the breasts, lean ground beef, split and bananas and milk. chicken breasts, seasonal fresh day: Breakfast - breakfast sundae, Berna Biem, 92, Tulsa, Okla., for- Church, the Buckles Camping Club land. Your presence is the only gift American Red Cross is from noon mer Goodland resident, died Dec. and the Goodland Regional Medical needed. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May 21, at fruits and vegetables. The specials raisins, fruit juice and milk. Lunch are the Memorial Day griller with - chili, whole grain corn chips, cel- 2, 2012, at Southern Hills Center Auxiliary. She was card shower the Harvest Evangelical Church, Nursing Home in Tulsa, also involved in the Arbor 521 E. Highway 24, Goodland. To two sirloin steaks, two boneless ery and cucumbers, cinnamon roll, The family of former Goodland Thursday Okla., where she had been Day Tree Board and the schedule your donation call (800) pork chops, chicken breast filets, fresh fruit and milk. : resident Alice Watkins is request- a resident for the last year Van Gogh sunflower proj- 733-2767 or visit redcrossblood. Italian sausage, pork tenderloin Breakfast - whole grain cheese ing a card shower for her 95th and a half. ect. In 2000 she moved to org. and lean ground beef; Grilled beef pizza, fresh mixed fruit cup and birthday on Thursday, May 16. Her She was born Dec. 12, Broadmore Senior Living Are you a cancer survivor. If burgers: Hog wild with boneless milk. Lunch - baked ham, two address is 1610 North Spruce #218, 1919, to Selma (Holmes) Center in Tulsa, Okla., to you are and would like to attend center cut chops; and chicken potato mash, green beans, angel Ogallala, Neb. 69153. and Olaf Eliason at Ophe- be closer to her daughters. the Survivor Dinner and get a breast strips. biscuit with jelly, fresh fruit and Tuesday Flicks 1:30 p.m. Friday im, Mont. She went to Later she lived with her genesis and survivor T-shirt from Relay for are at milk. : Breakfast - break- at the Goodland Public Library, fast bake with tomato salsa, whole Opheim schools and her daughter Karen Donovan Life contact Sheila at 899-2338 family farmed in the area. Biem in Jones, Okla., for three salvation army by Tuesday, May 21. 812 Broadway. Call the library for grain toast, fresh fruit and milk. Genesis and Salvation Army are the title of the movie at 899-5461. Lunch - macaroni and cheese, On Oct. 4, 1938, she years and then in 2010, Community dances will be and Anard Biem were married in she moved to the Southern Hills available year round to help those in held from 7 to 10 p.m. on Fridays, senior menu meatballs, seasoned peas, baby need. Call (785) 890-2299 to speak carrots, whole wheat bread and Glasgow, Mont. They made their Nursing Home in Tulsa. June 7, June 28, July 12, July 26, Today: Hamburger patti, pick- to a volunteer. jelly, fresh fruit and milk. home in Seattle, Wash., for a brief Preceding her in death were her Aug. 9 and Aug. 23 at Knights of les, onion, tomato, baked beans, time before returning to Opheim husband, parents and five siblings. activities Columbus Hall, 8th and Caldwell, bun and cataloupe. Wednesday: school calendar during World War II.