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Month: February 2012

Royals exercise option on Yost for next season

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Kansas City Royals have exercised their option on manager Ned Yost to keep him with the club through the 2013 season.

The team announced the move Tuesday, six days before pitchers and catchers are due to report to the Royals’ spring training home in Surprise, Ariz.

Yost was hired in May 2010 to replace Trey Hillman. He signed a two-year extension that July that included a club option for next season.

Yost is just 126-163 since taking over the Royals, but he’s been credited with helping bring along one of the youngest rosters in baseball. A youthful team led by Alex Gordon, Eric Hosmer and Mike Moustakas is expected to begin contending in the AL Central for the first time in years.

Royals already prepping for All-Star game

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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) – It’s the middle of basketball season and folks in Kansas City are talking about baseball. Not just the Kansas City Royals, either.

With five months still remaining before the city hosts the All-Star game, there is already a certain amount of buzz building around the annual Midsummer Classic.

Royals general manager Dayton Moore can’t help but smile when he thinks about the spotlight it will put on Kansas City, and on his young team, which is expected to contend in the AL Central for the first time in years.

Just maybe the stars are finally aligning for fans in Kansas City.

Petition for a public vote on the No-Fund Warrants for the Stafford County Hospital Due March 25th

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The Stafford County Hospital has been seeking no-fund warrants in the amount of 555,000 dollars from Stafford County to help pay off some of the hospital’s debts. The no-fund warrants are loans from some local banks that the County would pay back over four years. The public has been given up to 60 days to collect over 140 signatures from Stafford County residents that would force a public vote on the issue. Stafford County Hospital Administrator Todd Taylor.

TAYLOR-SIGN THE PETITION by Matt Unruh

Taylor says a public vote would stall the Hospital from receiving the no-fund warrants for at least another 60 days, which he says could cause the Hospital to fall under. He said the Hospital has had three well-attended public meetings in St. John, Macksville, and Stafford, to inform the public about the issue. Taylor says the Hospital will probably have some more public meetings on the issue.

Charged with 1st Degree Murder, Jeffery Chapman Makes First Court Appearance

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Jeffery Chapman, the man charged with the 1st degree murder of 25-year-old Great Bend resident Damon Galyardt on November 12th, 2011, made an appearance in Barton County District Court (TUE.) today/yesterday. Barton County Attorney Doug Matthews explains what was decided from the appearance.

MATTHEWS-TO TAKE PLACE by Matt Unruh

Magistrate Judge Don Alvord from Lyons is expected to oversee the case. Chapman was charged with Galyardt’s murder on Monday. Chapman is being held at Barton County Detention Center on a 1 million-dollar bond.

Barton 19th this week in NJCAA Top 20 Poll

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The Barton Cougars remained in the NJCAA Top 20 poll but just barely.
Barton dropped to 19th in this week’s poll after losing in double-overtime
to Garden City Saturday night.

Seward County, who leads the West by two full games over the Cougars
and Hutch, are 13th this week. Coffeyville remains the top ranked Region 6
team as the Red Ravens are number 5th this season.

1 South Plains College 24-0
2 Northwest Florida State College 23-1
3 Vincennes University 24-2
4 College of Southern Idaho 23-2
5 Coffeyville Community College 22-2
6 Indian Hills Community College-Ottumwa 24-2
7 Eastern Oklahoma State College 22-2
8 Monroe College 24-3
9 North Dakota State College of Science 24-2
10 Shelton State Community College 22-3
11 Kankakee Community College 23-3
12 Odessa College 21-4
13 Seward County Community College 21-4
14 East Mississippi Community College 17-2
15 Cochise College 22-4
16 Pensacola State College 21-5
16 Mississippi Gulf Coast 19-2
18 Olney Central College 21-3
19 Barton Community College 21-4
20 Santa Fe College 22-4

photo – Freshman Algie Key is averaging 19 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists for the 19th ranked cougars.   photo courtesy of Everett Royer www.ksportsimages.com

Elsie Mae Pickerill

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Elsie Mae Pickerill, age 69 years, of Great Bend, Kansas, passed away at the Minneola Long Term Care Center in Minneola, Kansas on Monday afternoon, February 13, 2012.  Elsie was born on September 12, 1942 at Ellsworth, Kansas to John and Mildred (Mills) Ploutz, and graduated from Ellsworth High School.  On September 5th, 1964 she was united in marriage to Gary Pickerill at Great Bend, where the couple made their home.  One of Elsie’s favorite activities was watching KU basketball.

            Survivors include her husband, Gary Pickerill of Great Bend; one son, Jeffery Pickerill of Olathe, Kansas and one daughter, Sandra (and her husband, Bryan) Burgess of Minneola, Kansas; two granddaughters, Victoria and Elizabeth Burgess; twenty-four nieces and nephews and their families.  Elsie was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers (John, Howard, and Harold Ploutz), and two sisters (Thelma Hurst and Viola Nily).

            It was Elsie’s wishes that her body be donated to the University of Kansas Medical Center after her death.  A Memorial Service will be held at 10:30 AM on Saturday, February 25, 2012 at Charter Funerals in Great Bend, Kansas.  There will be no viewing or visitation.  The family requests that memorials be directed to the Great Bend Relay for Life.  A complete obituary may be read and condolences may be left for the family online athttps://www.charterfunerals.com/obituary/chgb.

 

Arrangements Entrusted To

CHARTER FUNERALS

2115 Washington St.

Great Bend, KS  67530

(620) 793-6161

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

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White House cuts Kansas biosecurity lab funding

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Kansas officials were stunned and upset Monday to learn that President Barack Obama recommended no additional funding for construction of a new biosecurity lab, jeopardizing a high-visibility project that the state had seen as a powerful engine of economic growth.

The spending plan from Obama also said the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will reassess the viability of the National Bio-and Agro-defense Facility planned for Manhattan, near Kansas State University. The project would cost an estimated $650 million and would replace an aging facility at Plum Island, N.Y.

Workers have already cleared the Kansas site, and the state has committed itself to authorizing up to $105 million in bonds to help with the project. State officials envisioned the lab, which would research foot-and-mouth and other dangerous animal diseases, as a key part of an emerging biosciences industry.

Gov. Sam Brownback and Kansas’ congressional delegation – all Republicans – issued a statement saying further review of merits of the facility is needless and “a waste of taxpayer dollars.” The officials promised to work to overcome the recommendation from Obama, a Democrat, and said doing so will protect the security of
the nation’s food supply.

Congress appropriated only $50 million of the $150 million the Obama administration requested for the lab in the current budget year, which the White House said was insufficient to begin construction.

SW Kansas town voting on Sunday liquor sales

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BUCKLIN, Kan. (AP) – Voters in a southwestern Kansas town with roughly 800 residents but no liquor store will decide whether to allow sales of alcohol on Sunday afternoons.

The Ford County community of Bucklin is holding a special election Tuesday on the question.

Bucklin Mayor Mike Fisher said Sunday sales are allowed in the town of Ford, about seven miles away, and Coldwater, about 20 miles away.

The mayor says Bucklin had a liquor store and two convenience stores when talk of allowing Sunday sales first arose. The liquor store and one convenience store have since closed. Fisher says those two establishments might reopen if Sunday sales are approved

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