The MIDWEEK Tuesday, April 9, 2013 Goodland1205 Main Avenue, Goodland, Star-News KS 67735 • Phone (785) 899-2338 $1 Volume 81, Number 29 8 Pages Goodland, Kansas 67735 weather report 64° 10 a.m. Monday Today • Sunset, 7:19 p.m. Wednesday • Sunrise, 6:17 a.m. • Sunset, 7:20 p.m. Midday Conditions • Soil temperature 49 degrees • Humidity 35 percent • Sky sunny • Winds southeast 15 mph • Barometer 29.64 inches and falling • Record High today 90° (1930) • Record Low today 8° (1989) Last 24 Hours* High Sunday 71° Low Sunday 39 Precipitation none This month 0.01 The first group of volunteers working on the floor of the Max Jones Fieldhouse on make 125,000 meals and ship them. The meals packed at the Max were to go to Haiti Year to date 2.31 Friday afternoon worked to fill the “Manna Packs,” bags of dehydrated food for six, for or El Salvador. Photos by Pat Schiefen/The Goodland Star-News Above normal 0.07 inches Feed My Starving Children. The core group of Goodland Youth raised over $25,000 to The Topside Forecast Today: Cloudy with a 70 percent chance of snow and freezing drizzle, a high near 25, winds out of the north at 30 to 40 mph and a low around 14. Wednesday: Partly Volunteers pack food for needy sunny with a high near 33, winds breezy out of the north at 20 to 35 By Pat Schiefen sponsor Dusti Chadwick. The group dients in bulk and the set up for mph and a low around 17. The Goodland Star-News raised over $25,000 to be able to the volunteers to pack the Manna Extended Forecast Excitement filled the air for the pack 125,000 meals. Packs. Thursday: Mostly sunny with core group of Goodland Youth who Feed My Starving Children is The were in separate boxes and a high near 49 and a low around had worked to raise money to bring based out of Minnesota and they a scoop or a cup that measured the 29. Friday: Partly sunny with a 20 a mobile pack event for Feed My provide the ingredients to make into correct amount of the ingredients percent chance of rain and snow Starving Children to Goodland at a dried food pouch that will feed six. was provided. Each person at an at night, a high near 54 and a Max Jones Fieldhouse on Friday The pack has chicken flavoring, 20 ingredient would dump the correct low around 35. Saturday: Mostly and Saturday. This was the first different vitamins and minerals, amount into a funnel which had a sunny with a high near 67 and a event from that organization to be dried vegetables, soy and rice. The bag under it held by someone else. low around 43. held in Kansas. Coming to help pack ingredients have been formulated The bag then went to someone who (National Weather Service) were a mixture of volunteers. A large especially for starving children and weighed it and did corrections if group of teens came from Weskan to infants. needed. The final step was a heated help and students in good academic Ewing said the world produces bar the sealed the bag. The person standing from Grant Junior High enough food to feed everyone on running the sealer had to be over 18. came to help. There were also moms the planet but it is not distributed Next it went to a person who packed with kids and older people. equally and the poorer countries do 36 in a box. Other people moved The process had a job for every- not get the correct vitamins and min- the boxes and kept the ingredients one, no matter their age, said Kevin erals for proper health and growth. coming. local Ewing, Mobil pack supervisor. The He said Feed My Starving Children The organizers try hard to make packs done at the Max would go to has helped to cut deaths of children the event as much fun as possible. Haiti or El Salvador. from starvation from 18,000 to Workers were able to try the food. Two Grant Junior High Students who spent two hours on Friday markets The core group included Kinsey about 6,000 a day worldwide. It was described as tasting like Rice- afternoon working at the Feed My Starving Children Mobile Pack Volk, Savannah Solomon, Ashley Ewing and his crew of four oth- A-Roni. event at Max Jones Fieldhouse. One of the students held the filled 10 a.m. ers including one very enthusiastic Manna Pack while the other student uses a heater bar to seal the Wheat — $7 bushel Anderson, Nicole Gerber, Erin truck driver brought in the ingre- plastic bag. Posted county price — $6.82 Floyd, Savannah Bassett and adult Corn — $6.38 bushel Posted county price — $6.37 Milo — $5.95 bushel City commission gets water overview Soybeans — $13.14 bushel Posted county price — $13.39 By Kevin Bottrell Gerber and Rich Simon, the head of Gerber said, if you got their first, Millet — no bid [email protected] the water department, conducted the the water right is yours. The city Sunflowers The Goodland City Commission presentation. actually has the most senior water Oil current crop — $23.50 cwt. received a summary of the city’s The city has water rights for 13 right in the county, he said. Confection — no bid water system and a rundown of the wells, they said, nine of which are The city pumped 537 million Pinto beans — $28 issues it faces at their regular meet- currently in use. It has 50 miles of gallons last year and 441 million (Markets by Scoular Grain, Sun Opta, ing April 2. distribution lines, 7.5 miles of trans- the year before. Gerber said due to Frontier Ag and 21st Century Bean. At a previous meeting, Commis- mission lines, 1,037 valves, 230 fire some wells being inactive, the city These may not be closing figures. ) sion Bill Finley had asked the city hydrants and four water towers. can’t actually pump the full 700 staff to put together a presentation A water right is a state designated million gallons, but so far it hasn’t on the water system, so the com- usage amount. Goodland has the needed to. missioners and the public will be right to pump 700 million gallons Simon said the local water table better informed should they need to a year, though it has the right the has been declining. In one place, he inside consider conservation restrictions pump some of its wells more than today this summer. City Manager Doug others. Under Kansas water laws, See WATER, Page 5 More local news, views from your Goodland Star-News Goodland elementary students painted a sport utility vehicle donat- ed by Jessica Vignery at the Elementary Arts Fair last Tuesday. Photo by Pat Schiefen/The Goodland Star-News Students learn variety of art styles at the Max Jones Cowgirls By Pat Schiefen paper folding or origami with Nick KU honors seniors The Goodland Star-News Evert. Origami can be seen in the shapes of animals, flowers, baskets beat Hugoton The Max was the place for Good- The University of Kansas Alumni Association and boxes. With paper and little eyes land elementary students to explore held a Kansas Honor Scholars dinner for stu- The Goodland High School the students set out to fold a creature different forms of art last week. dents from nine northwest Kansas counties on varsity softball team beat the of their own. The Carnegie Arts Center put to- Thursday at the Goodland Elks Lodge. Among Hugoton Lady Eagles twice Marilyn Cooper was at the next gether five stations for the students those recognized were Goodland seniors at home on Thursday. station and she told the student to learn about different forms of art. Chantel Coates and Shayley Miller (right), See Page 8 about storytelling. She explained At the first station Elywn Vatcher and Goodland attorney Jeff Mason (above), how it could be done and gave them talked about painting with watercol- who was surprised with the Mildred Clodfelter an example. ors and then students got to try their Alumni Award for local volunteer service. hand at it with paint and paper. Photos by Steve Haynes/The Goodland Star-News The next station was Japanese See ART, Page 5 about our 2 The Goodland Star-News / Tuesday, April 9, 2013 friends genesis and obituaries salvation army the calendar Genesis and Salvation Army are available year round to help those in calendar 1827 to make an appointment. salsa, sliced pears, whole grain William G. Berringer need. Please call 785-890-2299 to Prairie Land Food distribu- Tuesday Flicks are at 1:30 corn chips and milk. Thursday: William G. Berringer, 70, Erie, joyed family gatherings and water speak to a volunteer. tion is 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday, p.m. at the Goodland Public Breakfast - coffeecake, sunrise Colo., 1959 graduate of Sherman skiing. After retirement he played Library, activities April 20. at Cat’s TnT, 1018 812 Broadway. Call the smoothie, graham crackers and Community High School basketball not only locally library for the title of the movie at milk. Lunch - Italian pasta bake, Tours of the 1907 Victorian Main, or at the Bernadine Johnson in Goodland, died Tues- but competed globally 899-5461. green pepper strips/baby carrots, House at 202 W. 13th are from 1 to residence, located at 704 Walnut. day, April 2, 2013, af- in men’s senior Olympic applesauce, royal brownie, whole 5 p.m.