Colby Free Press Thursday , March 16, 2006 Page 5 Storm damage can be costly • If your house is damaged, shut TV LISTINGS By Sandy Praeger around causing damage or it can Kansas Insurance Commissioner block drains and sewers which electricity off at the breakers. Keep could cause flooding. power off until an electrician has While April showers bring May • Check your roof for leaks or inspected your system for safety. sponsored by the flowers, spring storms can bring damage to rain gutters. • Beware of fly-by-night repair costly damage to your property. • See that trees or branches are not businesses. Hire licensed and repu- In the past, my article on the in danger of falling on your home. table service and repair people. Get spring storm season has arrived in Closely inspect your trees looking references and use local businesses, COLBY FREE PRESS time to provide helpful information for weak branches that could fall in when possible. to homeowners ahead of the storm high winds. • Take precautions if the damage season. But as we witnessed March • Take severe weather alerts and requires you to leave your home for 12th, the 2006 spring storm season warnings seriously. Too many an extended period of time. Let is ahead of schedule and many people are injured or die unneces- your agent or insurance company SATURDAY MARCH 18 homeowners in Kansas have al- sarily each year from watching the know of your temporary forward- ready experienced some significant storm and not protecting them- ing address and phone number. 6 AM 6:30 7 AM 7:30 8 AM 8:30 9 AM 9:30 10 AM 10:30 11 AM 11:30 damage to their properties. With the selves from it. 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That bill is before a of instruction on “abstinence until board will discuss requiring dis- House committee. marriage” at least once in grades six SATURDAY MARCH 18 tricts to have at least one absti- The board had a similar regula- through nine. nence-only course in grades six tion in place for nearly two decades, “This would be one way to put a 6 PM 6:30 7 PM 7:30 8 PM 8:30 9 PM 9:30 10 PM 10:30 11 PM 11:30 through nine. but as it revised rules for accredit- little teeth into what we would like KLBY/ABC News The Movie: The Sixth Sense TTT (1999) (PA) A child psychologist News Seinfeld Seinfeld Enter- “We need to send the correct mes- ing schools, the regulation was al- them to do as far as instructing stu- H h (CC) Insider counsels a boy who can see dead people. Bruce Willis. (CC) The Maid (CC) prise KSNK/NBC News Wheel of Saturday Night’s Main Event (N) (CC) Conviction Breakup News Saturday Night Live Alec sage,” Martin said. lowed to lapse. While the board dents,” Martin said. 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