The MIDWEEK Tuesday, July 8, 2014 Goodland1205 Main Avenue, Goodland, Star-News KS 67735 • Phone (785) 899-2338 $1 Volume 82, Number 54 10 Pages Goodland, Kansas 67735 upcoming events Sign up for youth football Registration for Goodland Youth Football is due by Thursday. Packets can be picked up at the Goodland Activities Center or Ameri- can Family Insurance, 516 E. U.S. 24. Anyone inter- Goodland celebrates ested in coaching or being on the board should contact Mike Ruhs at pkfldir@pkfl. org. Independence Day The view from the ferris wheel showed the lines of people waiting to go on the Home Owned Carnival rides at the Freedom Fest event at the Sherman County Fairgrounds on Friday. The event included rides, food and live music by the Wilkens Brothers Band. weather Photos by Pat Schiefen/The Goodland Star-News 78° 10 a.m. Monday Today • Sunset, 8:16 p.m. Wednesday • Sunrise, 5:29 a.m. • Sunset, 8:15 p.m. Midday Conditions • Soil temperature 74 degrees • Humidity 78 percent • Sky sunny • Winds south 7 mph • Barometer 29.97 inches and falling • Record High today 106° (1897) • Record Low today 42° (1952) Candidate running on education issues Last 24 Hours* High Sunday 99° By Ladd Wendelin 5. raised in Park, on Interstate 70 between Grain- to attend the Bohay Institute for Leadership Low Sunday 6400° [email protected] He lost the 2012 election to Cassidy after field and Quinter in Gove County. He gradu- Development in Madison, Wis. Precipitation ­­trace You can’t talk about former Kansas State federal judges redrew legislative boundaries ated from Wheatland High School in 1969 and He was appointed to the Kan-Ed and Finan- This month .33 Legislator Rick Billinger without mentioning and threw the two incumbent representatives attended Fort Hays State University before he cial and Insurance interim committees and has Year to date 9.40 his colleague and former opponent, into the same district. That set up the was drafted into the Army during the Vietnam served on the Kansas executive board of the Below Normal .98 inches Rep. Ward Cassidy. race between the two. War. He was trained as a squad leader, he said, Boy Scouts of America. The Topside Forecast “I wasn’t planning on running “We both respect and appreciate and received advanced individual training in “One of the most important issues facing Today: Mostly sunny with a high against Ward in 2010,” Mr. Bill- the other,” he said. “We’re both Missouri, Virginia and Fort Hood, Texas, over western Kansas is access to a quality educa- near 84, winds out of the north at inger said. “If he wasn’t retiring, I looking out for northwest Kansas. the course of two years, but the war ended tion,” he said. “I believe we need to strengthen 5 to 15 mph and a low around 61. wouldn’t have run again.” We’re very similar in a lot of issues. before he could be sent overseas. our schools and make sure they have adequate Wednesday: Mostly sunny with a But Cassidy announced his retire- Ward’s strong suit was education, Billinger served on the Goodland City funding. The foundation of America is built 30 percent chance of showers and ment from the Legislature at the end and mine is commercial business.” Commission, with time as mayor, from 1990 on education, and children hold the keys to thunderstorms at night, a high near of the current session and will be Billinger said he served the 121st to 2010, when he began his service in the our future.” 89, winds breezy out of the south at taking a vice president position at House District from 2010 to 2012 Legislature Other issues Billinger said he will stress 10 to 30 mph and a low around 64. Northwest Kansas Technical Col- Billinger before redistricting shifted it from During his term in Topeka, he said, he during his campaign this summer are helping lege, so now Billinger is running western Kansas to Overland Park served on the Insurance, Economic Devel- to develop the population of western Kansas, Extended Forecast again for representative in the 120th District in Johnson County, placing him in the 120th. opment, Education and Local Government Thursday: Mostly sunny with a in the Republican Primary on Tuesday, Aug. A lifelong Kansan, Billinger was born and committees and was one of three legislators See CANDIDATE, Page 5 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, a high near 95 and a low around 66. Friday: Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance School board of showers and thunderstorms, a high near 98 and a low around 66. looking to fill (National Weather Service) Get 24-hour weather info. at 162.400 MHz. brought to you by: vacant seats By Pat Schiefen Truck & Tractor [email protected] The Goodland School Board met Repair, LLC Wednesday night to begin its new fis- Full Line of Truck Parts & cal year. At the start of the meeting the Accessories. president and vice president of the board 714 E. Hwy. 24, Goodland were elected. Gennifer House was elected Phone: (785) 899-2401 to continue in her role as president of the board and Jessica Cole was elected vice president. Attending the meeting were markets House, Cole, Lee Ihrig and Teresa Sieck. Ron Vignery was out of town. 10 a.m. The board discussed how they were Wheat — $6.46 bushel going to fill the board positions of Diane Posted county price — $6.58 Stiles and Mike Hamilton. Both had Corn — $4.09 bushel resigned as of July 1. The board voted to Posted county price — $3.97 publish a notice that any interested people Milo — $3.56 bushel should submit a letter to board clerk Mark Soybeans — $12.52 bushel Scheopner by Wednesday, July 23. If more Posted county price — $13.30 than two people were interested the board Millet — no bid decided they would have interviews and Sunflowers then decide. Storms fail to deter Oil current crop — $18.70 cwt. Under the last school financing by the Confection — no bid Kansas State Legislature the district is Pinto beans — $32 (new crop) fireworks show (Markets by Scoular Grain, Sun Opta, required to post on its website the ending Frontier Ag and 21st Century Bean. balances in its funds. Any money left in Sherman County citizens were treated to two light shows These may not be closing figures. ) accounts at the end of the year that are not on Friday night: fireworks and lightning. The fireworks got able to carry forward are transferred to underway at 9:30 p.m., between two thunderstorms. The other accounts, said Superintendent Bill storms produced some high wind as well as lightning, hail Biermann, such as capital outlay, at risk and .33 inches of rain. Photos by Kevin Bottrell/The Goodland Star-News See BOARD, Page 5 about our 2 The Goodland Star-News / Tuesday, July 8, 2014 friends card shower obituary A card shower has been request- the calendar ed for former resident Maxine Betty Elaine (Short) Webb Zollinger. She will be celebrating her 75th birthday on July 21, 2014. calendar A movie pass is not required to get on Wednesdays at the Sherman Betty Elaine (Short) Webb, 86, Mrs. Webb was a member of the Cards may be sent to her at 1913 N. Cancer survivor dinner and a sack lunch. Theatre, 1203 Main. The movie Prairie Land Food sign up will lifelong Goodland resident and First United Methodist Church Monroe Street, Apt. B, Hutchinson, dance will be on Saturday at on Wednesday will be “Journey be until Monday. retired dietary aide at the Goodland in Goodland. With the Good Sam Kan. 67502-4145. the 4-H building at the Sherman Distribution is 1 2: The Mysterious Island” (PG). Kids Cooking Class Regional Medical Center, Camping Club, she and County Fairground. Everyone is to 2 p.m. Saturday, July 26,at Cat’s The is held genesis and second Wednesday of each died Monday, July 7, 2014 Jess enjoyed many fun welcome and the event is a fund TnT, 115 E. 9th, or at the Berna- on the month at Good Samaritan Soci- trips. salvation army raiser for the Sherman County dine Johnson residence, located at from 3:45 to 5:15 p.m. at 704 Walnut. For information call the 4-H Building. This class is ety — Sherman County Preceding her in death Genesis and Salvation Army are Relay for Life. The dinner will be 899-2338, 821-1275, 890-2287, open for second to fifth graders. in Goodland. were her husband on July available year round to help those in from 5 to 7 p.m. followed by the 821-1827, 890-3793 or 899-4278 For information call 890-4880. She was born on Nov. 6, 2005, a son Jerry Webb, need. Call (785) 890-2299 to speak dance. Registered survivors eat or order online at www.prairi- 29, 1927, to Bessie Verna a grandson Scott Travis to a volunteer. free and can register at the door. senior menu (Stewart) and Charles Webb, her parents and a The Goodland United Meth- elandfood.com. The Prairie Pak activities will have deli ham, split chicken Today: Barbecue chicken sand- Emerson Short. brother and his wife, Gene odist Church’s vacation Bible wich, potato salad, watermelon, Tours of the 1907 Victorian breasts, chicken nuggets, chopped In 1946 she graduated and Betty Short. school “Weird Animals, Where bun and pudding. Wednesday: House at 202 W. 13th are from 1 to beef steak patties, turkey strips from the Sherman Com- Webb Survivors include her Jesus’ Love is One-of-a-Kind” Spanish rice with hamburger, 5 p.m.