Page 2 Colby Free Press Thursday, August 29, 2013 Area/State WWeathereather Enrollment down again BBrieflyriefly The deadline for Briefl y is noon From “DOWN,” Page 1 30-kilowatt generator with a 150-amp trans- • Discussed switching several banking the day before. Items submitted in the fer switch. Jim’s Electric submitted the only services from Sunfl ower Bank to Farmers morning will be set up for the following conditions back to just a few days a week, bid for installation services at $39,654. and Merchants Bank in response to a solici- day, space available. The deadline for but the trustees did not discuss or vote on The bids were approved pending approval tation of business from Farmers and Mer- Monday’s paper is noon Friday. any of these suggestions. from the federal Department of Education. chants Bank. No action was taken. • Weighed bids for a new diesel backup • Awarded a contract to Murray Roofi ng • Accepted resignations from Lorenzo County Landfill generator. Central Power Systems and for repairs to the cafeteria roof for $35,900, Garcia, a custodian, and Wendi Ehlers, a to close for weekend Services won the contract over Cummins the lowest bid. Roofmasters had also sub- program assistant. For the Labor Day weekend, the Diesel with a total cost of $19,864 for a mitted a bid for $41,196. Thomas County Landfi ll will close at noon Saturday and remain closed until Tuesday Sept. 3. Call the landfi ll at 462- Hiking goat brings friend for company 8139 if you have questions. From “GOAT,” Page 1 He handed them a card with that he only hopes to get across stayed in several hotels – out- Sanitation trucks directions to his website on the country “before the end of side when Westcott could not National Weather Service “I don’t know what gave me it. The website has a place for the world.” get him a room by paying the won’t run on Labor Day Tonight: Clear, with a low the idea,” he said. “I’m like, I’m people to donate, and Wescott Last winter he was stopped pet deposit. Staff would check City of Colby sanitation trucks will around 63. Southeast wind walking across America.” said he recently sold about 100 by the snow in Salt Lake City. on him. not run on Monday, Sept. 2, in obser- around 5 mph becoming south- He started his trip in Seattle T-shirts online, which brought When he couldn’t get a job “This goat has literally done vance of Labor Day. Monday’s sanita- west after midnight. on May 2, 2012, shortly after in over $1,000. He added that he there, he went back to Seattle everything,” he said. tion route will be picked up Tuesday, Friday: Sunny and hot, with getting Leeroy off Craigslist and goes to several events. for the winter and worked on a Wescott said it varies whether Sept. 3. Please have your tipper cans to a high near 102. West wind buying a saddlebag from a com- “It’s gone beyond what I ex- farm for the fi rst time. police tolerate him and Leeroy the curb by 8 a.m. For more informa- around 5 mph becoming south- pany that specializes in selling pected,” he said. In May, he started on the road walking down the road. He met tion, contact Omar Weber at the Public east in the afternoon. them. Wescott, who had never hiked again, hitchhiking with Leeroy a few unfriendly cops in Den- Works Department at 460-4420. Friday Night: Partly cloudy, “Basically I just walk and or camped before, admitted that to Portland, Ore., and getting a ver, but they were much nicer with a low around 67. South- people come to me,” Wescott he was not sure how long it ride to Boise, Idaho. A woman in places like Limon, Burlington Pets ready for adoption east wind 5 to 10 mph becoming said when asked how he raises would take to walk using a goat he had met there gave him a ride and Goodland. at Colby Animal Clinic south after midnight. money. as a pack animal. Leeroy’s load to Salt Lake City in her Honda He found what he called “the Looking for a pet? Colby Animal Saturday: A 20 percent As if to make his point for has been lightened considerably Accord; Leeroy rode in the back. kindness of America” to be alive Clinic has a female blue and cream chance of showers and thunder- him, several people came to up since the start of the journey. He Since then, the pack goat has and well, especially in small 4-year-old Himalayan cat and two dogs, storms after 1 p.m. Mostly sunny meet Leeroy when the goat was now only carries Wescott’s rain- hitched a ride on a gondola and towns. lab mixes, available for adoption. Lost and hot, with a high near 101. hitched outside Love’s. Others gear, extra water, and water or gone up the side of a moun- To learn more about his trip or or strayed animals are often brought to South wind 5 to 10 mph. stared as they went to fuel their food that people offer him. He tain at a ski resort in Steam- to donate, visit needle2square. the clinic. Call or stop by 810 E. Fourth Saturday Night: A 20 percent cars. tries to let the goat rest and said boat Springs, Colo. He has also com. St. All animals have current shots, and chance of showers and thunder- costs are minimal. For questions, call storms. Partly cloudy, with a low 460-8621. around 65. Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a New cap hoped to curb fatal Tylenol overdoses high near 90. Ex-gun lobbyist Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, By Matthew Perrone acetaminophen, a pain-relieving and “ALWAYS READ THE Strength Tylenol, a day. to give ‘Max’ lecture with a low around 63. AP Health Writer ingredient that’s the nation’s LABEL.” Each year, some 100 million Former gun lobbyist Richard Feld- Labor Day: Sunny, with a leading cause of sudden liver The move comes at a critical Americans use acetaminophen, man will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. high near 90. WASHINGTON (AP) – Bot- failure. The new cap is designed time for the company, which but liver damage occurs in only 10, at the Northwest Kansas Cultural Monday Night: Mostly clear, tles of Tylenol sold in the U.S. to grab the attention of people faces more than 85 personal a fraction of 1 percent of users. Arts Center near the southeast corner of with a low around 65. will soon bear red warnings who don’t read warnings that al- injury lawsuits in federal court Still, liver specialists say those the Colby Community College campus. Tuesday: Sunny, with a high alerting users to the potentially ready appear in the fi ne print on that blame Tylenol for liver in- cases are preventable. They say The free lecture is part of the Dr. Max near 94. fatal risks of taking too much of the product’s label, according to juries and deaths. At the same that part of the problem is that Pickerill series. For information, con- Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, the popular pain reliever. The company executives. time, the Food and Drug Admin- there are sometimes hundreds of tact Linda Davis-Stephens at 460-5528. with a low around 66. unusual step, disclosed by the “We’re always looking for istration is drafting long-await- pills in a bottle, making it easy Wednesday: Mostly sunny, company that makes Tylenol, ways to better communicate ed safety measures that could for consumers to pop as many as with a high near 95. comes amid a growing number information to patients and con- curtail the use of Tylenol and they please. For example, Mc- World’s Largest Convoy of lawsuits and pressure from sumers,” says Dr. Edwin Kuff- other acetaminophen products. Neil sells Extra Strength Tylenol helps Special Olympics Wednesday: High, 99; Low 59 the federal government that ner, vice president of McNeil Much is at stake for McNeil in bottles containing up to 325 The World’s Largest Truck Convoy, Precip: Wednesday 0.None could have widespread ramifi - Consumer Healthcare, the John- and its parent company. John- tablets open to the public, will be Friday and Month: 0.87 inches cations for a medicine taken by son & Johnson unit that makes son & Johnson does not report “The argument goes that if Saturday, Sept. 6 and 7, in Colby. Be- Year: 9.36 inches millions of people every day. Tylenol. sales of Tylenol, but total sales you take acetaminophen correct- ginning at 5 p.m. Friday, there will be a Normal: 16.36 inches Johnson & Johnson says Overdoses from acetamino- of all over-the-counter medi- ly you will virtually never get tailgate party at Oasis-Petro, a cruise-in (K-State Experiment Station) the warning will appear on the phen send 55,000 to 80,000 cines containing acetaminophen into trouble,” says Dr. William and fi reworks. Saturday, convoys from Sunrise and Sunset cap of each new bottle of Ex- people to the emergency room were more than $1.75 billion Lee of the University of Texas Oakley and Goodland will merge at 11 Friday 7:11 a.m. 8:18 p.m. tra Strength Tylenol sold in the in the U.S. each year and kill at last year, according to Informa- Southwestern Medical Center, a.m. for a parade down Range to Fourth Moon: waning, 29 percent U.S. in October and on most least 500, according the Centers tion Resources Inc., a retail data who has studied acetaminophen (U.S. Naval Observatory) and back south on Franklin. All events, Colby Water Use other Tylenol bottles in com- for Disease Control and Pre- service. toxicity for four decades. “But including a truck and bike show and Wednesday 2,711,000 gal. ing months. The warning will vention and the Food and Drug Safety experts are most con- it’s the very fact that it’s easily lunch are open to the public. Donations (Colby Public Works) make it explicitly clear that the Administration. Acetaminophen cerned about “extra-strength” accessible over-the-counter in go to Special Olympics. For informa- over-the-counter drug contains can be found in more than 600 versions of Tylenol and other bottles of 300 pills or more that tion call Joe Mentlick at 443-1682. common over-the-counter prod- pain relievers with acetamino- puts people in harm’s way.” ucts used by nearly one in four phen found in drugstores. A Lee applauded the new warn- Donations needed to American adults every week, typical two-pill dose of Extra ing, but said McNeil’s market- Arizona man injured including household brands like Strength Tylenol contains 1,000 ing has contributed to the “free- pay for county’s map Nyquil cold formula, Excedrin milligrams of acetaminophen, wheeling” way that Americans The Kansas Association of Counties An Arizona man went to the But the semi moved to pass the pain tablets and Sudafed sinus compared with 650 milligrams take the drug. For decades, Mc- is seeking donations for Thomas Coun- hospital Wednesday after being vehicle in front of it at the same pills. for regular strength. Extra Neil has advertised Tylenol as ty’s share of a marble map to be placed forced off the road by a semi rig. time, forcing Eakle off the road Tylenol is the fi rst of these Strength Tylenol is so popu- “the safest brand of pain reliev- on the fl oor of the new visitors’ center The Kansas Highway Patrol to the south. The Toyota rolled, products to include such a warn- lar that some pharmacies don’t er” when used as directed. “That at the Kansas statehouse. To donate, worked the accident, and re- coming to rest upside down in a ing label on the bottle cap. Mc- even stock regular strength. has been their standard ploy in contact County Commissioner Mike ported that David Paul Eakle, dirt fi eld south of the highway. Neil says the warning is a result Most experts agree that acet- the past, and I would argue that Baughn at (785) 694-2278, 460-9061 64, Tucson, was driving a 2009 Eakle went to Logan County of research into the misuse of aminophen is safe when used as safest it is not,” he says. or [email protected] or send Toyota west on U.S. 40. At 10:12 Medical Center, but his passen- Tylenol by consumers. The new directed, which generally means McNeil’s Kuffner stands by donations to Box 159, Brewster, Kan., a.m. he tried to pass a semi rig at ger, Jacob Shiloh Eakle of Provi- cap message will read: “CON- taking less than 4,000 milli- the company’s safety claim. 67732. Checks should be made pay- mile 66, almost three miles west dence, Road Island, was unhurt. TAINS ACETAMINOPHEN” grams, or eight pills of Extra able to the Thomas County Community of the U.S. 83 junction. Both were wearing seat belts. Foundation with a memo for the Kansas Statehouse Thomas County Map Fund.

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