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A Larned man was injured in an accident Thursday on a
muddy Trego County road. 32-year-old Leonard Ramsey was
eastbound on Old Highway 40 about one mile west of Voda
Road, when his pickup fishtailed in the mud. The pickup
rolled into the south ditch. Ramsey was taken to Trego-Lemke
Memorial Hospital. His passenger was not injured.
The Legislature has wrapped up the session with mixed
results for Fort Hays State University. Funding was allotted
for the facility at Cheyenne Bottoms and the Kansas Academy
of Math and Science, but President Edward Hammond says not
enough money was provided in the block grant. Fort Hays
State also did not receive funding for the professional
science masters program.
Fort Hays State University’s classified employees
voted this week to remain in the state system. There is a
provision that allows the classified employees to decide,
through a vote, to leave the state system and become
university support staff, moving salary decisions to the
university level. President Edward Hammond says the state
approving a new pay plan probably influenced the vote. The
vote was 98 in favor and 159 opposed to leaving the state
system. Hammond says if the state pay plan doesn’t work
out for the employees, they can choose to vote again.
It is estimated over 50,000 Kansas children are in
need of mentoring. Kansas Mentors was organized to address
that issue, and former K-State football coach Bill Snyder
has taken the lead. Snyder says society has changed so much
and so rapidly that children need mentors now more than
ever. Snyder spoke at a joint meeting of the Hays Kiwanis
and Optimist Clubs Thursday.
Residents inside the Hays city limits will be able to
shoot fireworks on July 3rd, 4th and 5th
from 10am until midnight each day under a resolution passed
by the city commission Thursday night. Commissioner Troy
Hickman says based on last year the window for fireworks has
been scaled down. The commission could still choose to
change the dates and times as the holiday approaches if
there are weather-related concerns.
The number of passengers at the Hays Regional Airport
continues to decline. In April the enplanements for Great
Lakes to both Kansas City and Denver were down 20% from last
April. City Manager Toby Dougherty says there has been no
response to a letter the city sent to Great Lakes addressing
the losses. Dougherty says other Essential Air Service
communities in western Kansas are seeing similar numbers. He
says both Hays and Garden City are on pace to have fewer
than 10,000 boardings for the year, which means a loss in
grant funding.
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