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The MIDWEEK Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014 Goodland1205 Main Avenue, Goodland, Star-News KS 67735 • Phone (785) 899-2338 $1 Volume 82, Number 14 10 Pages Goodland, Kansas 67735 inside Senator today holds More local news, views from your Goodland Star-News town hall by phone By Kevin Bottrell [email protected] U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts held a town hall meeting by telephone last week, with Kansas voters listening in and asking questions. Roberts, the senior senator from Kansas, is up for election this year and facing strong opposition in the Republican primary. After running down some of the issues currently in front of the Senate, he took ques- tions from people on the call: Cowboys Roberts was asked about his no- vote on the Farm Bill. He said the lose dual Senate had been working on the bill for 400 days, which was far too The Goodland High School long, but he couldn’t support the fi- wrestling team lost a dual nal joint House and Senate version. 33-27 to Norton on Friday at “There was no regulatory relief,” the Max Jones Fieldhouse. he said. “It prioritized food stamps.” The team will head to re- gionals this Friday. See SENATOR, Page 5 See Page 10 Soldier surprises Endowment weather dinner report sweetheart for is March 1 43° Valentine’s Day Editor’s note: the following story 10 a.m. ran in the Tuesday, Feb. 11, edition Monday A big surprise was waiting for Britney Brown. Brown, a member of of the Goodland Star-News with Goodland High School X-Pressos, was with the group doing singing incomplete information. Today valentines for Valentine’s Day to an employee at Dinkel’s Collision Tickets for the “Wild, Wild West” • Sunset, 5:27 p.m. Repair when her boyfriend emerged from a parked pickup. Her themed Northwest Kansas Techni- Saturday boyfriend Joshua Whisnant flew in from Texas. Whisnant graduated cal College Endowment Associa- • Sunrise, 6:36 a.m. from Goodland High School in May and is in the U.S. Army stationed tion banquet are on sale now. The • Sunset, 5:28 p.m. at Ft. Hood, Texas. Photos by Pat Schiefen/The Goodland Star-News event is Saturday, March 1, at the Midday Conditions Goodland Elks Lodge. • Soil temperature 32 degrees Cost is $25 per person. VIP tables • Humidity 38 percent have been sold out. • Sky sunny There is no deadline to register, • Winds west 15 mph and tickets will be sold at the door. • Barometer 30.10 inches Register by going to http://www. and rising nwktc.edu/endowment/registra- • Record High today 74° (1986) tion.php. • Record Low today -4° (1942) The event will kick off at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, March 1. There will Last 24 Hours* be a silent auction, open bar and High Sunday 59° other drawings. A barbecue dinner Low Sunday 29° begins at 5:30 p.m. Precipitation none The live auction will be at 6:30 This month 0..22 p.m. Silent auction tables will close Year to date 0.79 at 7:30, 8 and 8:30. There will be Above normal 0.16 inches a drawing for a 2014 Polaris RZR The Topside Forecast donated by American Implement Today: Sunny with a high near and Ed and Janci Mills. For tickets, 61, winds out of the west at 10 to 15 call (785) 890-1529. and a low around 30. Wednesday: At 9 p.m. there will be dancing Mostly sunny with a 30 percent with live music by “Annie Up.” chance of rain or snow, a high Doors close at midnight. near 59, winds breezy out of the The event is a fund raiser for the southeast at 10 to 20 mph and a college endowment, which helps low around 27. provide funding for scholarships, Extended Forecast facilities and academic programs. Thursday: Partly cloudy with Donations are tax-deductible, and a high near 45 and a low around can be put toward a specific project. 24. Friday: Mostly sunny with a 10 percent chance of rain or snow, a high near 48 and a low around 21. Saturday: Mostly sunny with a Sisters reunite 58 years after being separated by the state high near 38 and a low around 20. (National Weather Service) By Pat Schiefen later Long, almost 7, and Taylor, 4 1/2, were Get 24-hour weather info. at 162.400 MHz. [email protected] adopted by a couple from Colorado. It was a reunion filled with smiles, tears, Brooks lived in several foster homes before catching up and reconnecting. Phyllis Long she was adopted. She had reconnected with and her sister Kathy Brooks of Hutchinson the rest of her biological family but not her met at the Golden Corral last week in Hays. two youngest sisters. The sisters had not seen each other for 58 Long tried to find her older sister but would years. get discouraged when she ran into road The sisters met in Hays because it was about blocks. After Long suffered a stroke several half way between Goodland and Hutchinson. years ago began searching in earnest during local Brooks has not been in good health having had her recovery. a stroke and is on dialysis. Last fall Long’s neighbor, Carol Baum, said markets The restaurant in Hays set aside the banquet she had located a Kathy Brooks in Hutchin- room for them to have some privacy. son. Baum is really into genealogy and works 10 a.m. The pair had been phoning and texting each with the historical society. Wheat — $6.65 bushel other since Nov. 8 but had not seen each other. Long said she wrote Brooks a letter men- Posted county price — $6.26 When Brooks asked Long how she would tioning dates and names only the two of them Corn — $4.39 bushel know her, Long said she would be the naked would know. When Brooks received the letter Posted county price — $4.35 lady dancing in the parking lot. she was so emotional that she had her husband Milo — $3.93 bushel With humor and tears the two spent five Larry make the phone call to Goodland. Soybeans — $12.53 bushel hours trying to fill each other in. They traded The pair chose to concentrate on ways to Posted county price — $12.82 stories about their own families, swapped old keep their communication open and not dwell Millet — no bid photos and took plenty of new ones. on the time they were separated. Sunflowers Long said her sister talked about how They had hoped their other sister would Oil current crop — $18.45 cwt. she colored her hair when they were young be able to come to but was unable to because Confection — no bid by placing melted crayons in her hair. She of her health. Taylor lives in Colorado. The Pinto beans — $36 three sisters are the remaining members of (Markets by Scoular Grain, Sun Opta, thought it was very pretty. Frontier Ag and 21st Century Bean. The sisters said that while living in Wichita their immediate family. These may not be closing figures. ) in the 1950s, the three youngest of six siblings Long said they are planning to get together were removed from their family home by then in the summer. Long hoped Brooks could Social and Rehabilitation Services because come to Goodland. Since Goodland Regional their parents were alcoholics. Medical Center has a dialysis center Brooks Brooks, Long and their sister Judy Taylor could get the care she needed and Taylor could Phyllis Long (left) embraced her sister Kathy Brooks 58 years after being separated were placed in an orphanage. About a year come from Colorado. by Social Services. about our 2 The Goodland Star-News / Tuesday, February 18, 2014 friends open houses The family of Virginia Wilkin- the calendar obituary son/Granny are having an open house for her 90th birthday at the Robert Kip Armstrong Senior Center from 2 to 4 p.m. on calendar having CPR/First Aid classes, Today: Breakfast - star span- Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014. Cards Prairie Land Food distribu- which include infant and pediat- gled pancakes, sausage links, fruit, Robert Kip Armstrong, 48, em- son John Paris Armstrong of Good- may be sent to her at 1407 Harrison, tion is 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday at ric care. The class will be from 8 fruit juice and milk. Lunch - chick- ployee of Sherman County Road land; a daughter Athena Armstrong Goodland, Kan. 67735. Cat’s TnT, 1018 Main, or at the a.m. to noon on Feb. 28, March en wrap with lettuce and tomato, and Bridge Department, died Thurs- of Goodland; stepmother Carol Family of Irene Jewell are hav- Bernadine Johnson residence, 18, April 23, May 1 and June 18. Spanish rice, steamed carrots, fruit day, Feb. 13, 2014. Armstrong of Goodland; a brother Wednesday ing an open house for her 90th located at 704 Walnut. For infor- They will be at the Wolak Emer- and milk. : Breakfast - He was born on May 20, 1965, Fred (Sherri) Armstrong of Lakin; birthday from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m. on mation call 899-2338, 821-1275, gency Building in the Topside whole wheat bagel with toppings, to Robert and Brenda Armstrong in a sister Amie (Michael) Bohnen of Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014, at Wheat- 890-2287, 821-1827, 890-3793 or Room at 1006 Center Street. For fruit, fruit juice and milk. Lunch - Burlington. Mr. Armstrong attended Burlington; and a stepbrother Lin- ridge Acres Retirement Commu- 899-4278 or order online at www.