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Vol. 132 No. 10, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016
Official Newspaper for City of Coldwater and Comanche County
Box 518 • Coldwater, Kansas 67029-0518 ° (620) 582-2101
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The South Central High attempts. During the first frame, conversion on one of its TDs,
School's varsity football team the Mustangs were only able to for 13 points.
improved its season record to 4- score one touchdown, plus a 2- Though the visiting Mus-
and- 1 last Friday night at home, point conversion, tangs had again outscored the
winning 46-30 over the Mus-That setthe hafftime score at home team in the fourth, the Tim-
tangs from Macksville High 26-8 in the T-Wolves' favor, berwolves' lead was still enough
School. The pace slowed consider- to claim a 46-30 victory.
With the loss, Macksville ably for SCHS in the third quar- South Centrai's offense was
moves to 1 -and-4 on the season, ter, with just one touchdown and a balanced attack, with 297 yards
After a scoreless first quar- a 1-point conversion for seven in the air and 215 yards on the
ter, an explosive second quarter points. The visiting Macksville ground for a total offensive out-
put South Central on top ofteam also scored just once, but putof512.Macksville'steamac-
Macksville, and they remained added two points on the PATcounted for more yards in the air
on top despite being outscored attempt.That setthe score at 33- at 334, but managed to pile up
in the third and fourth frames. 16 in favor ofthe Timberwolves only 82 yards rushing for 417
Both teams found it impos- as the third quarter came to an total yards.
sible to cross the goal line in the end. Junior Dalton Morehead was
first quarter of play, but that Going into the fourth quarter the leading rusher for SCHS with
changed in the second quarter, ahead by 17 points, South Cen- 128 yards on six carries. Senior
Each team scored in the sec- tral scored two more times, as did Gerald Morehead was next with
ond, with the Timberwolves Macksville.MHSmadea2-point 46 yards on nine carries, fol-
cranking 26 points onto theconversion on one touchdownlowed closely by freshman
scoreboard with four touch-for 14 total points in the quarter. Chayde Snyder with 43 yards on
downs and two points on PATSCHS made only a single-point (continued on page 8)
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Jolene Roitman (at righ0 Wellington Democrat running for the ll6th Dis-
trict Kansas House of Representatives seat in the November election visited
Coldwater this Wednesday, above stopping in the Comanche County Farm
Bureau office to share information with and answer questions fromOffice Man-
ager and Senior Sales Associate Jessica Reed (left) and Sales Associate Macy
Parkin (center). photo by Dennies D Andersen
Commissioners Chang
Their Minds on Cardboard
Meeting in regular session
here Tuesday, the Comanche
County Commissioners reversed
-- or at least modified -- a deci-
sion they made at their meeting
two weeks ago.
At that meeting, the commis-
sioners agreed to discontinue
the practice of sending a county
employee to pick recyclable ma-
terial from any business in the
county -- something that had
been done to one extent or an-
other for a number of years.
The matter came back to their
attention after Lynda Cooley,
courthouse custodian, turned in
a bill to the county for mileage
for hauling various things from
the courthouse for the past 26
years.
When she met with the com-
missioners, she told them she
didn't expect to receive the back
mileage pay, but did want to get
their attention.
That worked.
Tuesday she said the road
and bridge crew's recycling per-
sonnel had refused after the last
commission meeting to haul the
recyclables from the courthouse
to the recycling center -- so she
hauled them herself in her own
vehicle.
That, apparently was the last
straw for her.
The commissioners told her
that they would do nothing
about the mileage for the past 26
years. They said they had no
problem, however, with paying
her for a recent trip to Pratt to
pick up commodities for distri-
bution in the county.
Road and Bridge Supervisor
Dennis Hernandez reminded the
commissioners they had told him
not to pick up recyclables at the
hospital -- or anywhere else --
at their previous meeting. That
was when Hernandez reported
that a request had come from
Pioneer Lodge to pick up card-
board there since cardboard was
being picked up at the hospital.
The commissioners said at that
time they were unaware any
recyclables pick up was being
done, and instructed him to dis-
continue it.
After rethinking the matter
Tuesday, they agreed that the
county crew should pick up the
recyclables from county agen-
cies -- the hospital and the
courthouse.
In other business, the com-
missioners:
-- Approved payment of bills
in the amount of $151 "579.29.
--Discussed a report of a re-
cent instance when one county
employee prepared a deed for an-
other county employee -- and
supposedly did the work on
county time.
The commissioners dis-
cussed the liability issues, in ad-
dition to the time spent on some-
thing other than county duties
during office hours. After dis-
cussing the matter further with
County Attorney Skip Herd, the
commissioners instructed the
county attorney to write a
county policy to handle the situ-
ation and bring it back to the
commissioners for approval. At
that time, it would be included in
the county policy book.
--Met with County Health
Nurse Nicole York who reported
that the health department had
purchased a vision screening
machine through donated funds.
--Heard the health nurse re-
port that after changing the
health department office hours
for the summer, they had found
it to be beneficial for both the
staff and clients. She recom-
mended that the "summer
hours" be continued year round.
Those hours are 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Monday through Thursday and
9 a.m. to noon on Fridays.
--Heard Nurse York explain
that she would like to see the
county pay a portion ($35 per
month) of the cell phone bill of
Joann Malone, health depart-
ment secretary/receptionist, due
to the fact that she does a con-
siderable amount of county
business on her personal phone.
The commissioners agreed to
take no action on the matter un-
til after there is further discus-
sion with the county auditor. He
had earlier said that health de-
partment phone calls on a pri-
vate phone would be a violation
of federal HIPPA rules, subject-
ing the county to fines of up to
$10~000.
--Met with Matt Burton of
Lasso Energy who reported that
his company had no luck in se-
curing a mile and a half of right-
of-way from some of the adja-
cent landowners for a proposed
salt water disposal well in the
northwest part of the county. He
asked if the commissioners had
any suggestions for an alternate
route to run the disposal line.
Commissioner Randy Unruh and
Burton looked at an ownership
map, with Commissioner Unruh
suggesting an alternate route.
--Met with Comanche
County Hospital Administrator
Nancy Zimmerman who said the
hospital had sought additional
bids on new footing in the medi-
cal clinic. Bids ranged from
$14,519.85 to $19,000 for the
2,700 square feet combination of
carpet and vinyl flooring. After
some discussion, the commis-
sioners approved a bid of
$14.519.85 from Davis Salisbury
of Dodge City. The hospital ad
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