The MIDWEEK Tuesday, March 26, 2013 Goodland1205 Main Avenue, Goodland, Star-News KS 67735 • Phone (785) 899-2338 $1 Volume 81, Number 25 8 Pages Goodland, Kansas 67735 coming up Schools this week to have assemblies on bullying The Goodland School District will have assemblies for all grade levels on Wednesday focusing on cyber bullying and other dangerous online acts. The program, called NetSmartz, is funded by the Kansas Attorney General’s office and will be present- ed by Katie Fox, coordinator for the Boys and Girls Club of Manhattan. Fox will be trying to empower and encourage students to stand up for Easter egg themselves and their peers. Fox said parents can get involved by looking at privacy settings on a hunt set for child’s phone as well as Facebook and other websites. Thursday Fox provided some bullying statistics. Three million students The annual Easter egg hunt are absent from school each month will begin at 5 p.m. Thursday for fear of being bullied. Sixty-nine outside the Northwest Tech percent of teens own phones or com- student union. There will be puters and of those, 80 percent are prizes, portraits and a visit active on social networking sites. from the Easter Bunny. Most say online bullying is easier to get away with, and one in three Locals have fun say that have been bullied on- line and one in five of those have weather comtemplated suicide. report in the snow A warmer Sunday afternoon meant good Candidate weather for sledding at Pioneer Park. All 42° told, the National Weather Service recorded 10:30 a.m. about 15.1 inches of snow in Goodland. The files as Monday snow began Friday night and ended Saturday afternoon. There was also trace amounts of Today snowfall Sunday night. Winds reached 35 write-in for • Sunset, 7:05 p.m. miles per hour, with gusts up to 41. Goodland Wednesday has now received 19.8 inches of snow so far in school board • Sunrise, 6:38a.m. March and 43 inches throughout the winter. The • Sunset,7:06 p.m. normal snowfall for March is about 5 inches. By Kevin Bottrell Things also got cold Sunday, with a low of 2 de- [email protected] Midday Conditions grees, putting Goodland close to the record low A second write-in candidate • Soil temperature 38 degrees temperature. The record value was 1 degree has emerged for Goodland School • Humidity 13 percent Fahrenheit set in 1965. The Weather Service is Board, turning • Sunny predicting mostly sunny weather for the week, what had been • Winds northwest 13 mph with a chance of showers and thurnderstorms a foregone con- • Barometer 30.32 inches on Friday and Saturday, clusion into a Photos by Kevin Bottrell/The Goodland Star-News and rising race. • Record High today 86° (1907) Mike Hamil- • Record Low today -1° (1955) ton, vice presi- Last 24 Hours* dent of Western High Sunday 27° State Bank, filed Low Sunday 2° his paperwork Precipitation trace to run for school Hamilton This month 1.34 board last week. Year to date 2.19 Hamilton moved Above normal 0.55 inches back to Goodland in 2007. His wife, The Topside Forecast Krista Burr, is from Goodland and Today: Clear in the morning, his mother and stepfather live here then partly cloudy. High of 46. as well. He had been working in Winds from the south southwest New York City. He began his career 10 to 15 mph. Evening: Partly teaching math at the junior high and cloudy , then overcast. Low of high school level, then went back to 27. Winds from the south 5 to 15 school and taught statistics at the un- mph. dergraduate level. He later worked Extended Forecast for the Wyoming Department of Education as well as private compa- Wednesday: Partly cloudy. High nies in Texas and New York. of 52, low of 32. Fog overnight. “I didn’t care for the work on the Thursday: Partly cloudy. Fog East Coast,” he said. “It was tough early. High of 61, low of 23. Fog to find a home, and we wanted to be overnight. (National Weather Service) closer to family.” Get 24-hour weather info. at 162.400 MHz. He took a job for Western State Bank, which he said was his first time away from education, which is part of the reason he decided to run. “I want to be another voice for See WRITE-IN, Page 5 local Candidate says city markets Incumbent wants more 10:30 a.m. needs to be an open book Wheat — $7.17 bushel strategic planning for city By Kevin Bottrell Edson. He has lived in the area all his life, even Posted county price — $7.15 By Kevin Bottrell infrastructure. There are many water mains Corn — $7.35 bushel [email protected] while harvesting grain from Oklahoma to [email protected] that need replacing, he said, an expensive Posted county price — $7.37 Goodland City Commission incumbent Canada. In 1980 he starting a business build- Incumbent Goodland City Commission project for which the city does not have Milo — $6.92 bushel candidate Gary Farris, said he feels ing trailers in Edson and moved that candidate said the city should money reserved. Finley said the Soybeans — $13.80 bushel the commission sometimes doesn’t shop to Goodland in 1997. focus its efforts into long-range city should set priorities and de- Posted county price — $14.02 get enough information in a timely In spring, 2011, he was appointed planning, so it can be prepared velop a series of projects spread Millet — no bid manner. to fill a vacancy on the city commis- to address the future needs of its out over five to ten years to soften Sunflowers Farris said that oftentimes the sion. He had run for the commis- citizens. the blow. The water supply in Oil current crop — $23.80 cwt. commissioners hear things second- sion in a previous election, losing Finley pointed to the water general is also a concern of Fin- Confection — no bid hand at the coffee shop before they to current commissioner Annette treatment plant, which was being ley’s, given the drought. Pinto beans — $28 hear them in a meeting, and often- Fairbanks by a slim margin. When (Markets by Scoular Grain, Sun Opta, completed just as he started his “I have suggested we examine times the coffee shop talk doesn’t the vacancy opened up, the commis- Frontier Ag and 21st Century Bean. term on the commission, as a good some water conservation meth- have the facts right. Toward that sion appointed Farris. These may not be closing figures. ) example of long-range planning. ods,” he said. end, Farris has pushed the com- Gary Farris Farris said there are many things “My hat’s off to those com- Bill Finley Finley was elected to fill Rick mission toward broadcasting the that need to be done at the city. He missioners for foreseeing that,” Billinger’s spot on the commis- meetings. said there have been good infrastructure he said. sion two years ago when Billinger was “The city ought to be an open book,” he improvements over the past year, but the One issue before the city that Finley sees said. as especially needing strategic planning is Farris was born in Goodland and raised in See CITY, Page 5 See PLANNING, Page 5 about our 2 The Goodland Star-News / Tuesday, March 26, 2013 friends genesis and building, 257 15th St., in Burling- of children with disabilities. If you 462-3572. school menu ton. Call Debbie at 719-346-4612. have a family member with a special salvation army Goodland American Legion calendar Today: Breakfast - pancake on area events problem, such as drug or alcohol Genesis and Salvation Army are Prairie Land Food sign up will hold an annual dinner at 6 abuse, job loss or other family crisis, a stick, tri-tator, fruit juice and Prairie Museum of Art and available year round to help those in will be until Monday, April 8. p.m. on Monday, April 15, at your family can qualify. Call 785- milk. Lunch - chicken wrap with History, 1905 S. Franklin, Colby is need. Please call 785-890-2299 to Distribution is 1 to 2 p.m. Satur- the Masonic Lodge, 519 Center. lettuce and tomato, Spanish rice, 672-3125, ext. 187. speak to a volunteer. day, April 20. at Cat’s TnT, 1018 For reservations contact Legion open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central steamed carrots, tropical fruit Time Tuesday through Friday and 1 preschool Main, or at the Bernadine Johnson members Ken Baum at 890-7364 and milk. Wednesday: Breakfast activities residence, located at 704 Walnut. or Mel Pfau at 890-3445 before to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Sherman County Head Start is Tours of the 1907 Victorian - quick blueberry bubble bread, a free preschool for eligible 3 and For information call 899-2338, Saturday, April 6. sliced peaches and milk. Lunch - thrift store House at 202 W. 13th are from 1 to 821-1275, 890-2287, 821-1827 or AARP Tax-Aide counseling, 4 year olds. The federally funded 5 p.m. Wednesday through Mon- spaghetti with meat sauce, spinach The Goodland Churches Thrift program is targeted to families who 899-4278 or order online at www. preparation, e-filing and teaching salad, seasoned peas, garlic bread, Shop, 1002 Main, is open from 10 day. Closed on Tuesday. prairielandfood.com. The Prairie service will help you file your meet certain economic guidelines The High Plains Museum, 1717 fresh fruit and milk.