By ANGIE HAFLICHahaflich@gctelegram.com

Charles Skilling is something of a jack-of-all-trades.

The Garden City resident has had more than 50 jobs in his life, few of which have been in the same field. Despite the fact that his experiences have not translated into a defined set of job skills in one particular field, they have made him something of an expert at not only job hunting, but also people in general.

“I can identify with almost anybody. I know where most people are coming from,” Skilling said.

For more than 25 years, Skilling has been compiling his job hunting experi-ences, which resulted in him writing a book, “Job Hunting Techniques for Everyone,” published in 2011.

“I was teaching at an Indian Reservation in New Mexico and had a lot of free time on my hands, so I wrote the inventory at the back of the book, and then I added more and finally had it published last year,” he said. “I’m going to call them and try to get them distrib-

uted to the school systems and things like that. It’s a really good book to use in a career development class.”

The book outlines the do’s and don’ts of landing a job. The topics he covers in the book include everything from handling difficult questions during an interview to filling out applications properly.

“The best thing is get up in the morning and get out and hunt for a job. You can’t hunt for a job like you’re on vacation,” he said. “That and mas-ter a job application. You have all that information right there. If you’re at home, you can gather up this informa-tion very easily. Remember the things you’ve done, the tools you’ve used, that sort of thing.”

Vantage Press out of New York pub-

lished the book, and Skilling says that there have been about 200 copies distrib-uted. At $10.95 each, Skilling receives about $4 per book sold. He said it cost him $10,000 to have it published.

“I should get a royalty check every six months. I don’t think I’ll ever get my purchase price back, but I had a lot of fun with it,” he said.

Skilling began work as a high school counselor, which he says is his favorite of all the positions he has held. He also has worked as a job developer, which translates well into the book. He has worked everywhere from an auto parts counter to the dairy department at a local grocery store.

“I worked in a radio station, keeping the automatic tape machine on the air throughout the night. It was a FRED — fairly ridiculous electronic device. It was a tape deck actually,” he said with a laugh. “I started playing my own music and thought I was going to get fired, so I quit.”

Like anything, Skilling says a lot of what he has learned through his

TOPEKA (AP) — Facing pressure from large dairies and feedlots desperate for workers, Kansas Agriculture Secretary Dale Rodman is seeking a federal waiver that would allow compa-nies to hire illegal immigrants.

Rodman has met several times with officials at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security about launching a pilot program that would place employ-ers and illegal immigrants in a special state-organized network. The Topeka Capital-Journal reported that the goal is to create a legal, straightforward manner of organizing existing immigrant labor.

So far, Homeland Security has neither approved nor closed the door on the idea.

“I need a waiver,” Rodman

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RIGHT: Children jump around in an inflat-able bounce house

Saturday on the patio area of the Knights of

Columbus during a benefit for the Savoy

family.

ABOVE: Volunteers release pink and

white balloons Saturday in honor

of Nichole, Bryn and Madelyn Savoy dur-ing a benefit for the

family at the Knights of Columbus.

‘Letters to heaven’Ag secretary seeks waiver for illegal immigrants

By Amy BICkELSpecial to The Telegram

The state has reversed its intent to terminate the operations of a southwest Kansas dairy with officials saying the owners are getting the facility into compli-ance with state and federal regu-lations.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced this week that CAG Cimarron Dairy has made consid-erable improvements this month and that the state is withdraw-ing its notice of intent to termi-nate the dairy’s water pollution control permit, which the dairy needs to keep running.

“The past two weeks, they have accomplished a lot that we asked them to do,” said Terry

Dairy gets a reprieve for its efforts

Skilling puts job skills to work in new book

By SHAJIA AHmADsahmad@gctelegram.com

Dozens of pink and white bal-loons with messages like “We will never forget you,” and “Your smiles will live on forever” written on them, took high into the blue skies Saturday afternoon.

The words were “letters to heav-en” written to and in memory of Nichole, Bryn and Madelyn Savoy, a mother and her two young daugh-ters who were killed in an acciden-tal fire at their home, 4220 E. Nancy Ave., Lot 1108, on Jan. 8.

Volunteers, friends, family and even many acquaintances came together Saturday at the Knights of Columbus, 205 N. Eighth St., to remember and pay tribute to the 26-year-old mother and her 6- and 1-year-old daughters.

At the gathering, balloons of white and pink shades filled the room and small sweet and salty treats tied in bags with pink ribbon decorated the tables.

Pink was the girls’ favorite color, and to see the gathering take shape and so many people attend caused mixed emotions for at least one family member.

“It feels really good, but it also really hurts,” Kurtis Savoy, Nichole Savoy’s brother-in-law, said dur-ing Saturday’s program. “I really appreciate all the work the volun-teers have put in.”

The benefit, aimed at raising funds for the Savoy Memorial Fund, in care of Price & Sons Funeral Home, featured a silent auction with donated items from individu-als and businesses, a bake sale, chili feed and six bands, in addition to four hip-hop artists and an acoustic set. The benefit also featured face painting for balloon animals for the kids, in addition to fire safety infor-mation and fire alarms handed out by local fire officials.

Community comes together to pay tribute to Savoy family

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White Balls: 1-13These Kansas lotteries

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By AMY BICKELSpecial to The Telegram

Vienna Lee reckons there hasn’t been a new home built in Rolla in at least a decade.

“It may have been 15 years ago,” she says of the town of 400, which is in the semiarid plains of Morton County in the far southwestern corner of Kansas.

Rolla is about a 45-min-ute drive from the clos-est “big” city of Guymon, Okla., which has a popula-tion of more than 10,000 people. And it’s in these parts that the blowing dirt of the 1930s caused some in the heart of the Dust Bowl to move away.

On Black Sunday in 1935, a man climbed to the top of the Rolla water tower and took a picture of the billowing cloud of dust that was heading toward town. He then sent it to the president of the United States, according to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum.

“Dear Mr. Roosevelt, Darkness came when it hit us. Picture taken from the water tower one hundred feet high. Yours Truly, Chas P. Williams.”

That, however, was more than 75 years ago.

There are few dark days in Rolla, except when an occasional storm cloud rolls in. Moreover, folks here are investing in growth, says Lee, the county’s economic devel-opment director.

Morton County resi-dent David Light donated 10 lots inside the Rolla city limits a few years back to give away free to anyone who would build a home there. Then he went to the bank and asked officials to set aside $1 million in financing.

Meanwhile, the county commission extended its tax increment financing to include new homes, Lee said.

The effort is compa-rable to what a few other communities across

Kansas are trying — lur-ing residents to town with free land if they build and maintain their prop-erty. It also, in essence, echoes the Homestead Act of 1862, which offered pioneers ownership of a quarter section if they improved the land.

The goal is to attract residents and businesses to rural communities in an effort to boost popu-lation and support small-town businesses and schools.

City officials now have one taker, Lee said. The new home being built by Jason Larue, a Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent, and his family, is 30 days from completion.

“We have nine lots left,” Lee said. “It has been so exciting. I know other small communities have given away land, but I didn’t know how success-ful it would be for us.”

The venture could also help sustain the town’s Class 1A school, she added.

Rolla is not the only town in the county ben-efiting from rural rein-vestment. Morton County took advantage of Gov. Sam Brownback’s Rural Opportunity Zone pro-gram that helps repay stu-dent loans to those who

move into a designated county. Elkhart, the coun-ty seat town with a popu-lation of 2,200, now has a new physical therapist at the county hospital, Lee said.

“This definitely helps” rural Kansas, Lee said. “Any incentives we can offer that people can take advantage of are an asset.”

Those interested in the free lot program can call the city at (620) 593-4777 or visit www.rollakansas.com.

Community efforts across Kansas

Across Kansas, other towns are finding ways to stop decline and stay viable.

Here are a few of the efforts:

• “Check out the Neighborhood Nook,” says Mark Goehring, exec-utive vice president of the Farmers State Bank in Oakley, population 2,000, of a new eatery in his city, noting it has good eats as well as homemade pie and ice cream.

Those stopping by the city also should see the student-run theater, Goehring said. The Palace

Theatre closed in 2001 and remained closed until 2003, when community members purchased it. Each year, a new group of seniors takes over the theater management. This year, 11 students are involved in accounting, ordering supplies, adver-tising, paying bills, and employment. They are learning the skills it takes to run a business.

In 2009, the Palace switched to digital and can now play 3D movies.

• In the Graham County town of Morland, popu-lation 160, the Morland Community Foundation is in the process of reopen-ing a closed rural grocery store. The old store build-ing has been renovated. The original hardwood floors and tin ceilings are still in place. Morland lost its grocery store in 2006 when its owners retired and closed the store.

Morland Community Foundation President Faye Minium said volun-teers are still working to get refrigeration equip-ment installed in the building. Then they will begin to look for a man-ager.

“We’re in hopes we can be open sometime in the second quarter” this year, she said.

Towns use variety of incentives to abide

DAWEI, Myanmar (AP) — Euphoric seas of support-ers waved opposition party flags and offered yellow gar-lands. They lined crumbling roads for miles and climbed atop trees, cars and roofs as Aung San Suu Kyi spoke at impromptu rallies. Some cried as her convoy passed.

Cheered by tens of thousands, the 66-year-old opposition leader electri-fied Myanmar’s repressive political landscape every-where she traveled Sunday on her first political tour of the countryside since her party registered to run in a historic ballot that could see her elected to parliament for the first time.

“We will bring democra-cy to the country,” Suu Kyi said to roaring applause as her voice boomed through loudspeakers from the bal-cony of a National League for Democracy office in the southern coastal district of Dawei. “We will bring rule of law ... and we will see to it that repressive laws are repealed.”

As huge crowds screamed “Long Live Daw Aung San Suu Kyi!” and others held banners saying “You Are Our Heart,” she said: “We can overcome any obstacle with unity and persever-ance, however difficult it may be.”

Suu Kyi’s campaign and by-elections due April 1 are being watched closely by the international community, which sees the vote as a cru-cial test of whether the mili-tary-backed government is really committed to reform.

The mere fact that Suu Kyi was able to speak openly in public in Dawei — and her supporters were able to greet her en masse without

fear of reprisal — was proof of dramatic progress itself. Such scenes would have been unthinkable just a year ago, when the long-ruling junta was still in power and demonstrations were all but banned.

Suu Kyi’s visit was equiv-alent to waking a sleeping dragon, said environmental activist Aung Zaw Hein.

“People had been afraid to discuss politics for so long,” he said. “Now that she’s visiting, the political spirit of people has been awakened.”

Looking into the giant crowds, Hein added: “I’ve never seen people’s faces look like this before. For the first time, they have hope in their eyes.”

Businesman Ko Ye said he was ecstatic that Suu Kyi came, and like most people here, he welcomed the recent dramatic changes that made her trip possible. “We are all hoping for democracy,” the 49-year-old said, “but we’re

afraid these reforms can be reversed at anytime.”

After nearly half a cen-tury of iron-fisted military rule, a nominally civilian government took office last March. The new govern-ment has surprised even some of its toughest critics by releasing hundreds of political prisoners, signing cease-fire deals with ethnic rebels, increasing media freedoms and easing censor-ship laws.

Suu Kyi’s party boycotted the 2010 election as neither free nor fair. It sought to have its legal status restored after the government amended electoral laws. Her party has been cleared to offer candi-dates in the April vote, and an Election Commission rul-ing on Suu Kyi’s candidacy is expected in February.

Some critics are con-cerned the government is using its opening with Suu Kyi to show it’s commit-ted to reform. The govern-ment needs her support to

get years of harsh Western sanctions lifted.

On Sunday, Suu Kyi said the opposition had struggled for democracy for decades, but the best way to do that now was to fight “from within parliament.” But she also expressed caution over the challenges ahead. “It’s easy to make problems, but it’s not easy to implement them,” she said. “We have a lot to do.”

An NLD victory would be highly symbolic, but her party would have limited power since the legislature is overwhelmingly dominat-ed by the military and the ruling pro-military party. Up for grabs are 48 seats vacat-ed by lawmakers who were appointed to the Cabinet and other posts.

Suu Kyi has spent 15 of the past 23 years under house arrest, and as a result, has rarely traveled outside Yangon. Although she con-ducted one successful day of rallies north of Yangon last year, a previous politi-cal tour to greet supporters in 2003 sparked a bloody ambush of her convoy that saw her forcibly confined at her lakeside home.

She was finally released from house arrest in late 2010, just days after the elec-tions that installed the cur-rent government and led to the junta’s official disband-ment.

Suu Kyi met with party members in Dawei, includ-ing one running for a par-liament seat. She will make similar political trips to other areas, including the country’s second-largest city, Mandalay, in early February before officially campaign-ing for her own seat, party spokesman Nyan Win said.

Suu Kyi galvanizes Myanmar politics

Associated Press

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, cen-ter, receives flowers from supporters on her arrival in Dawei, south of Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday.

WASHINGTON, Mo. (AP) — An online program pro-vided at no cost by a church-run health care system in four states is helping school districts promote health education.

The program called HealthTeacher is being provided to districts in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma — the four states in which the St. Louis-based Sisters of Mercy Health System operates. The Washington Missourian reports that 214 schools have already signed up to use the program.

The partnership with an entire health system is a first for HealthTeacher. Its curriculum focuses on physical and mental health, nutrition, injury prevention, anatomy and the dangers of tobacco, alcohol and drug use. Educators decide which lessons to use, and how to use them.

Providing the program is part of a $5 million, five-year commitment by Sisters of Mercy for health educa-tion.

“While our children must have a knowledge of the basics, it’s critical we also educate them on how to lead healthy lives,” said Lynn Britton, Mercy presi-dent and chief executive officer.

At Fifth Street Elementary School in Washington, Mo., first-grad-ers in Erin Bauer’s class came back in from morning recess. Rather than immedi-ately starting a lesson plan, their next assignment was a minute of deep breathing.

The image of a blue ball was projected on the class-room’s White Board. As the ball grew larger, the children inhaled; as it grew smaller, they let the air out.

Bauer said the HealthTeacher deep breath-ing app seemed to be paying off.

Program aimedat makingkids healthier

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LEOTI — Eunice M. Ellis, 82, died Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, at her home in Bixby, Okla. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Price & Sons Funeral Home in Leoti.

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Dairy summit takes center stage at final day of Farm and Ranch Show.

By SHAJIA AHMADsahmad@gctelegram.com

The Garden City Farm and Ranch Show came to a close Saturday, following a successful run for vendors, speakers and other attendees alike, many said.

The three-day program that started Thursday at the Finney County Exhibition Building fea-tured more than 60 exhibitors, country music and related pro-grams to showcase the agricultural industry.

Specific to Saturday, the show highlighted a new venture this year: a dairy summit, featuring experts from Kansas State University and others vested in the industry.

One of those experts was Mike Brouk, a KSU professor of animal sciences, who spoke to Saturday’s crowd, affirming that the dairy industry is one of the mainstays of the state’s economy.

Brouk, who has been studying the dairy industry for 12 years, said the population of dairy cows in Kansas has grown by about 25 percent in the last decade and a half, primarily due to expansions in western Kansas.

“There’s a real significant and real steep growth curve,” Brouk said, adding that the state now

ranks 17th in total milk produc-tion and 11th in milk production per cow. According to the Dairy Research 2010 Report of Progress, a KSU publication, Kansas has about 118,000 dairy cows statewide.

Brouk attributed some of the successes to the dairy industry’s expansion in this part of the state not only to the vast and empty expanses quite suited for dairy farms to grow, but also to what he assessed has been the enthusiasm of locales to aggressively pursue and support their dairies.

“Communities here are very interested in it,” Brouk said. “Western Kansas is used to large-

scale agriculture, and we also have avid feed resources. (But) in my time at KSU, I’ve learned that com-munities are interested in dairy-men and their families. The dairy industry is still largely a family business. ... It is really a partner-ship between the families and the community.”

The dairy summit featured pre-sentations by other KSU professors, including Jeff Stevenson and Barry Bradford, both from the animal sci-ences and industry department at KSU; and Gregg Hanzlicek, a KSU professor of veterinary medicine.

The many dozens of vendors who came to sell their products and

meet existing clients or make new ones at this year’s show included farm equipment companies, irri-gation services, seed and feed and chemical businesses and even home improvement groups.

Angie Ragsdale, represent-ing Heinrichs Harvesting from Davenport, Neb., said this was the third year the custom wheat-cut-ting company has attended the local farm show to gauge new busi-ness.

“We try to see if anyone needs help. ... We meet a lot of friendly farmers, Amish, and mainly those involved with farming and irriga-tion,” she said. “We like the people we meet here, and for us, it’s almost like a vacation.”

Other vendors echoed similar sentiments about time spent at the farm show.

“We work up here a lot, but we’ve never been to this show before,” said Sherry Nash, a rep-resentative of Production Plus Irrigation Well Rejuvenation who helps run the Portales N.M.-based business with Dave Nash. “We use a chemical cleaning process, and we’re unique and have been in business 30 years. With people involved in agriculture, this is our customer base. We’ve enjoyed meeting and visiting with people here.”

This was the fourth year for the farm and ranch show. The multi-day program is sponsored by the Mid America Ag Network through its parent company, Steckline Communications, which owns sev-eral area radio stations, including KGGS, KGYN, KYUL and KIUL.

Humdinger Band to perform Tuesday

A musical variety program featuring “The Garden City Humdinger Band” will be presented at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Garden Valley Retirement Village, 1505 E. Spruce St.

The public is encouraged to attend at no charge.

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TOPEKA (AP) — Secretary of State Kris Kobach is tired of excuses. He says educational tele-vision ads are ready, free copies of birth certificates are available, and a state computer upgrade should be done in time to require that all new Kansas voters show proof of U.S. citizenship — ahead of the presidential elections.

Kobach and his support-ers, mostly fellow conservative Republicans, have been fighting to get the new law to take effect in June instead of next January, and this week he’ll take his case to the Legislature. Citing the usual surge in voter registration ahead of presidential elections, Kobach says it is counterproduc-tive — and increases the chances of voter fraud — to wait until next year.

Critics have been fighting back, initially against the overall law but now honing on its imple-mentation: How will new voters learn about the changes? Who should pay for newly required documents? And will a $40 mil-lion state computer upgrade be finished in time to allow for the electronic transfer of passports, birth certificates and other vital documents?

“They keep coming up with excuses,” Kobach said during an interview with The Associated Press. “If one excuse is proven false, they come up with anoth-er.”

But some questions — espe-cially whether the Division of Vehicles’ statewide computer sys-tem upgrade will be done by June

— are raising concerns among new critics, including moderate Republicans. Last week, as leg-islators dug into details of the law, questions also surfaced about whether poor residents would be required to pay for copies of their vital records.

And some lawmakers, both Democrats and Republicans, are simply irritated that Kobach is crossing into their business. Many considered the debate settled last year, when the Legislature resisted putting the proof-of-citi-zenship law in place until Jan. 1, 2013, but consented to Kobach’s other request of requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls.

“We pass the laws. His job is to implement them,” said Sen. Kelly Kultala, a Kansas City Democrat who serves on the Senate Ethics and Elections Committee. “He’s insulted that we changed his pro-posal. That’s what it sounds like.”

The House Elections Committee plans to hold a hearing Wednesday on Kobach’s proposal to make June 15 the effective date when people who register to vote for the first time in Kansas must provide proof of their citizen-ship. There’s a good chance the plan will ultimately be approved by the House, where conservative Republicans hold a majority, but there could be enough opposition in the Senate to block the plan.

Kobach argues that the

requirement will keep illegal immigrants from registering to vote as part of a broader effort to combat election fraud. A former University of Missouri-Kansas City law professor, Kobach is known nationally for advising officials in other states about cracking down on illegal immi-gration, and he helped draft tough laws in Alabama and Arizona.

But, in addition to the ongo-ing debate about the true extent of voter fraud in Kansas — state reports have shown few cases — Kobach faces skepticism about whether Kansas can adequately educate voters if the proof-of-citizenship rule takes effect six months ahead of schedule.

He said television ads and printed materials are ready now. Some lawmakers are skeptical that the $300,000 set aside for the campaign is enough, but Kobach said broadcasters are agreeing to provide one public-service announcement slot for every paid ad.

But it is the Division of Vehicles’ ongoing computer upgrade that has most legislators on edge. Part of the project comes in response to a federal law push-ing states to verify that residents are living in the U.S. legally before issuing them driver’s licenses.

Kansas already requires proof of legal status when it issues a new license, but with the comput-er upgrade, the same proof will be required the next time anyone in Kansas renews a license. By 2019, every Kansas license is sup-posed to indicate whether some-

one is a citizen and the Division of Vehicles must store the sup-porting documents electronically.

Officials in the Department of Revenue, which oversees the Division of Vehicles, have told legislators the agency would be ready to transfer its files to elec-tion officials if the proof-of-citi-zenship rule took effect in June. But some lawmakers and critics of Kobach’s plan aren’t as confi-dent and question whether other state agencies could be prepared by June.

Legislators asked whether the state Department of Health and Environment was ready to issue free birth certificates to poor Kansas residents who need the document to register to vote. Officials acknowledged some con-fusion about whether the new law requires the free documents had to be offered now or next year, but they’ve settled the issue in favor of now. The health department believes the necessary request forms will be ready and online this week.

Still, Democrats and moderate Republicans are resisting moving up the enforcement of the proof-of-citizenship rule. However, Kobach won his job as secretary of state in 2010 by a 59 percent margin with a central campaign theme of combatting election fraud — so it’s unlikely he’ll back down and, chances are, his critics will center their fight on poking holes in his plan.

Political Writer John Hanna has cov-ered state government and politics

since 1987.

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Jim Oshana pours water into a cup to demonstrate how the use of magnets can realign the molecules in water and provide more yield with less water usage Saturday at the Garden City Farm and Ranch Show in the Finney County Exhibition Building. Oshana is the founder of OmniEnviro Water Systems, Oakland, Calif.

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Mike Brouk of Kansas State University talks about dairy manage-ment in Kansas Saturday at the Garden City Farm and Ranch Show in the Finney County Exhibition Building.

Dairies have their day

PRAIRIE VILLAGE (AP) — A different kind of fight is going on at the Fight Club in a Kansas City suburb in northeast Kansas, where teenagers are hitting back at bad emotions caused by bullies and working to build self-confidence instead of slugging each other.

The Fight Club classes at the Title Boxing Club in Prairie Village are offered free to teens who have been bullied, who want to help their friends stand up to bullies, or who just need to let off some steam in a safe way, The Kansas City Star reported.

Holly Reynolds, who started the program, said she can’t call it a self-defense class for legal reasons. But the club isn’t even about fighting, she said. Instead, it concentrates on getting people fit and feeling strong.

“People tried to get me to change the name to make it more acces-sible, but I was very determined,” Reynolds told The Star. “That was the name that came to my head, because growing up is a fight. You’ve got to fight to be heard, you’ve got to fight to be understood. Some of these kids have to fight to get themselves out of bed in the morning and drag themselves to school. It’s a constant struggle.

“The metaphor went well with what we’re doing. We’re not neces-sarily telling these kids go out and fight. We’re giving them the mind-body connection that comes from boxing and kickboxing.”

Kelli Beurman, a grade school teacher from Olathe, hoped her 14-year-old daughter would learn some self-confidence from the class-es. She said Annie, now a fresh-man, has been bullied since fourth grade.

“I thought it would give her a sense of empowerment in case she would ever need to defend herself,” Beurman said. “Because part of dealing with someone who is both-ering you is just knowing that you can.”

Reynolds, an aesthetician, said she was bullied in high school because of her weight and also had a gay friend who was harassed because of his sexual orientation. She said she got thick-skinned and hardened by the experience.

“So I know from experience that there’s a better way to go rather than internalizing those emotions. It makes you mad at the world, really. And it doesn’t have to be that way. There are people who care,” she said.

Two years ago, Reynolds signed up for boxing classes at Title Boxing while she was experiencing postpartum depression and said it “was the best thing I ever did for my confidence, for my power.”

So she asked her instructor and trainer at Title Boxing, to help her organize a program with an anti-bullying message for teens.

The owner of the Prairie Village location donated the space, while other members volunteered to help. Reynolds also lined up such speak-ers as the CEO of the YMCA of Greater Kansas City and women from the Kansas City Roller Warriors.

DaRon Lash, a 15-year-old fresh-man at Shawnee Mission West, joined up after having run-ins with school bullies. “I didn’t know what to do,” he told the newspaper. “I just stood there and took it. I was afraid I was going to get my face punched in.”

The teen is determined to help other kids in the same situation.

“He said, ‘Grandpa, I really don’t put up with that,”’ said his grandfather, Dan Lash of Overland Park. “That’s the reason he wanted to join.”

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Turbines should pop up at brisk pace in Kansas.

As wind whipped through southwest Kansas Friday, it brought with it a

report that was no surprise in singling out Kansas for strides in one area of energy development.

The American Wind Energy Association report showed the Sunflower State leading the nation in the number of wind turbines under construction. The wind industry’s fourth-quarter report had Kansas with 663 turbines under construc-tion, and the state atop the nationwide construction list with more than 1,188 megawatts of wind power scheduled to come on line this year.

Kansas also ranked 14th in installed wind power generation — with plenty of momentum to climb that list.

The ample supply of wind in Kansas — ranked second among windiest states, with Texas first — wasn’t the only driving force in new turbines, however, as a federal production tax credit helped fuel those projects here and beyond.

Companies receive a 2.2-cent per kilo-watt-hour benefit for the first 10 years of a renewable energy facility’s operation. A $2.5 billion annual investment through those tax credits may sound pricey, but still makes sense as a way to help diversify the nation’s energy portfolio and create jobs the country needs.

The tax credit is set to expire at the end of 2012, and Congress shouldn’t let the gridlock of partisan politics stand in the way of its renewal.

That said, we know that even as Kansas took the lead in wind turbines under con-struction, some Kansans — in this region in particular — have remained lukewarm to wind energy development as a Sunflower Electric Power Corp. plant fueled by coal stands ready for expansion in Holcomb.

But pursuing wind doesn’t have to mean downplaying coal-fired energy. It’s worth noting that the proposed project at Holcomb also includes provisions for wind, biomass and transmission develop-ment that would help promote renewable energy development in western and central Kansas.

This state needs a diversified energy strategy that incorporates wind and other renewable sources, without shortchang-ing plans to build on existing reliable and affordable sources of power — all of which promise to create jobs, fuel local economies and help meet the growing demand for energy.

This Kansas Day, Jan. 29, marked the end of our

sesquicentennial year. To cel-ebrate, Gov. Sam Brownback’s office released a list of 12 nota-ble events and developments that have shaped us.

The list includes the devel-opment of overland trails in the 1820s, which facilitated the westward movement of pioneers; the Indian Removal Act of 1838, which forcibly moved Native American tribes from the east to Kansas; and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which turned the Kansas Territory into “bloody Kansas,” as abolitionists and pro-slavery forces battled for control.

Brownback’s historians also listed several major economic developments, including the expansion of railroads, and the introduction of wheat and cattle in the early years of statehood. The 1920s emer-gence of the aviation industry in Wichita helped turn a cow town into urban area. Rural electrification (government did something right?) in the late 1930s brought modernity to rural areas. Also listed is the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, which for many rural areas of Kansas represents the starting point of a long-term trend toward depopulation.

Properly included in Brownback’s list are the impacts of Kansans on the reform movements of the late 1800s and early 1900s, includ-ing prohibition, populism and progressivism. Even though Kansas was not the center of the Civil Rights movement, Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education in 1954 is the hall-mark case in the epic struggle against segregation and rep-resents the modern beginning of the long, slow process of the United States providing equal rights to all historically oppressed groups. Last but cer-tainly not least is the inclusion of women’s rights in the 1859 Wyandotte Constitution, which became the Kansas constitution upon admission to the union in 1861.

This list provides Kansans some food for thought, because within each of these move-ments and events are individu-als who stepped up to provide us with examples of true lead-ership: profiles of courage, to be sure.

For example, take Clarina Irene Howard Nichols. She and her family were Vermont abo-litionists, who packed up their belongings in 1857 to settle in the Kansas Territory, a terri-tory rife with violence. Moving here, she sought to assure that Kansas would be a “Free State.” Nichols and the many other abolitionists who settled the Kansas Territory were people of conviction. They matched words and principle with action.

Nichols is important for Kansas history for another rea-son. In 1859, she was one of the few women allowed to partici-pate, but not vote, in drafting of the Wyandotte Constitution. She used an Abolitionist’s emphasis on Christianity, com-bined with a focus on mother-hood, to successfully promote women’s rights.

As a consequence, the Wyandotte Constitution granted women the right to own property and a homestead exemption, naming them as equal partners. Women also won the right to control their earnings, divorce men if they were abusive, child custody and the right to vote in local school board elections. The convention might have granted women the right to vote in all elections, but delegates feared that Congress would reject the constitution if it included this provision. Even so, the Wyandotte Constitution placed Kansas at the vanguard of the women’s rights move-ment in the 1860s.

In the lower chamber of the Kansas Capitol, the names of famous men associated with the founding of the state can be read above the windows of that renovated space. Perhaps we should make room for one more name: Clarina Irene Howard Nichols. She is a leader who is deserving of this honor and recognition. Happy Kansas Day!

Joseph A. Aistrup is a professor of political science at Kansas

State University and is the co-author of a book on Kansas

politics.

The better angels of our national nature some-

times seem to take more time off than we can collectively stand. The assumed breaking up of the country into ideo-logical opponents has created legislative constipation in Washington, and promotes an animus and a hostility that discourage seeing through ideology to the human beings who are thought to be either red or blue.

Gabrielle Giffords was elected to Congress and nearly murdered in one of the Southwestern states, good old dusty Arizona, a desert made into a state almost against its will. Today, even with all that has happened since the winning of the West, many think that Arizona should be lived in and governed the way it was back in the supposedly good old days.

The good old days were when a man and his gun, a woman and her gun or a child with his or her gun were a couple essential to individual survival and the ability to defend oneself against sav-ages and murderous crimi-nals. Those considered sav-ages were once called Indians but are now called Native Americans, yet the criminals, like all criminals, now obvi-ously come in all colors, all religions and both sexes. At the worst moments, civiliza-tion seems under threat.

When a woman like Giffords, while delivering a political address in a Tucson parking lot, can be shot as six others were killed and a number wounded by a mur-derer as swift and ruthless as Geronimo was, the question of what constitutes an actual savage is much more obvious. Because there was so much easily documented racism faced by American Indians, so much corruption imposed upon them, along with dis-ease and almost anything one could do to the members of a supposedly contemptible group, such victims of wrong-

ful power are sentimentalized to the point of having no more than a different world view.

Were there Indian sav-ages? Sure. But the fact is that they were not all Indians, and those who were so willing to do them in usually had other objectives, like land, water and resources. Those objec-tives made them as savage as anybody else at whom they could point.

Sometimes, savages are so loose between the ears that they can only be described as insane. But we are too often guilty of sleeping throughout troubles until awakened by the horrified screams that fol-low slaughter. We now know the Tucson massacre was committed by a man mad at the world and as savage in his conspiracy theories as anyone committing gruesome acts in Darfur, in Eastern Europe, in Asia, in Latin America. The facts now tell us that savagery is an equal-opportunity force that will push whichever indi-viduals it can across the line of civilized action to grue-somely savage actions against those whom they feel are threatening them.

The gunman charged with intending to kill Giffords was in his early 20s and was iden-tified as Jared Lee Loughner.

The men and women who disarmed and subdued Loughner when he paused to reload were all selfless and filled with a spontaneous response of the highest and bravest quality.

Perhaps the most ironic American was Daniel Hernandez, the 20-year-old intern who moved through all of the hysteria and went to help Giffords, not pausing because of the risk.

Hernandez was ironi-

cally American because he is as far from the stereotypes about people with Spanish surnames as one could get in a state that has been strug-gling with the xenophobia that always comes in hard economic times.

Though a young man, he is obviously not a child of the narcissistic self-obsession pro-moted by our popular culture. He is a superb realization of American possibility, some of which is about empathy, cour-age and discipline.

This week of the State of the Union address by President Barack Obama, many were deeply touched by the presence of Giffords and the announcement sent to YouTube in which she explained that resigning from Congress was important so that she could work on her health.

The health we continue to improve in our society is a profound motion away from bigotry, hysteric or calm hos-tility, and the willingness to never address problems such as gun control, which Giffords understood quite well long before she was almost mur-dered by a man whose brain had been rotted away by conspiracy theories, a far-too-common national disease.

The apparently intense grateful emotion expressed in support of Giffords actu-ally crossed party lines, colors, classes, religions and so on. This level of gratitude for her willingness to fight against what would have been destruction had she not had herself, her husband and all of the human energy provided by those who knew her personally or only heard of her through the news did something we should never forget. In all, it said easily penetrating things about the empathy at the root of civili-zation anywhere in the entire world.

Email Stanley Crouch at crouch.stanley@gmail.com.

Femicidio. Femicide. The female counterpart to

homicide. It is a concept our coun-

try has been less exposed to than, for example, Mexico, Honduras or Guatemala, where the word femicidio is seen on the front pages of newspapers much too often.

The phenomenon of gen-der-based murder, rape and violence is so massive in these parts of the world that the Nobel Women’s Initiative, a project based in Canada and led by women who have won the Nobel Peace Prize, under-took an all-women fact-find-ing delegation to get firsthand accounts and investigate. I was asked to join the delega-tion as an embedded journal-ist. The delegation was led in Mexico by Jody Williams, who won the Peace Prize in 1997 for her campaign against land mines.

In Mexico, the delegates spent two days listening to dozens of horrible stories about women who had been murdered, raped, tortured, disappeared or threatened. Women came from all over the country to tell their stories to 11 Canadian and American women, among them singer Sarah Harmer, human-rights expert Lisa VeneKlasen, journalist Paula Todd and activist-blogger Veronica Arreola. The fact that working women with kids would travel 15 hours to speak to us for about seven minutes each touched the del-egates. Mariusa Lopez, a long-

time women’s human-rights activist, said: “They have knocked on so many doors, and they have been closed. You came to hear them. They will do what they can to tell their stories to the world, a world that wants to listen.”

On the second day, we trav-eled to the state of Guerrero, one of the poorest in Mexico, where one-third of the popu-lation is indigenous. There continues to be an institution-al racism toward indigenous people. In Chilpancingo, we heard stories about young and middle-aged women treated like dirt by hospitals or ambulance services, result-ing in deaths and stillborn births. Another woman was kidnapped two months ago for being a human-rights activist. Left behind are her two daughters, 21 and 26 years old. “I am not afraid to die. I just want to see my mother free before that hap-pens,” said the 21-year-old, who is having to negotiate for her mother’s freedom with shadowy people of the crimi-nal underworld, along with government officials who may know her whereabouts.

The female journalists who tell these stories also have been murdered. One was beheaded, with her head thrown onto the steps of a

government building in her town. Another’s body was hung on the street.

There are words I have come to better understand besides femicidio. One is “impunity.” It is a horrible concept that is reduced to this: You want to beat up a strang-er, your wife or girlfriend, murder her, torture her, kid-nap her, slice her up or sell her. You can do it, and chances are nothing will ever happen to you. Sick minds, macho minds, have free rein because the government does little to stop the violence against women. So there is another word, “simulacion,” or in English “simulation”: A gov-ernment says it is doing one thing when in fact it is doing nothing. Sound familiar?

And finally there is “invisibilizar,” the verb to make something invisible. The women who speak up are dismissed, told they are locas, told that all of their daughters were part of the narcotics business or wanted to run away.

You don’t say that when the numbers show your coun-try, and therefore your gov-ernment, has a human-rights crisis on its hands, this time one specifically affecting one gender. Mexico, you have un grande problema. It’s time to do something about it.

Maria Hinojosa is the anchor and managing editor of her

own NPR show, “Latino USA.” Email her at

mh@futuromediagroup.org.

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Medley, KDHE’s Livestock Waste Management Section chief. “They have a lot of the initial stuff cleaned up.”

According to a docu-ment filed in the Kansas Register, dairy owner Jack Koopman is permitted to operate a 9,050-head facil-ity in Gray County. The dairy has four lagoons, three retention structures, three basins and 19 drying beds to control waste gen-erated at the facility.

KDHE’s initial intent was published Jan. 5 in the Kansas Register. The notice stated that the dairy had failed to comply with the current permit, state and federal requirements and a consent agreement and final order that the dairy entered in October 2009.

Medley said earlier this month that the dairy had several violations since the Koopmans purchased it in 2006.

KDHE issued an admin-istrative order in April 2009 for numerous viola-tions, according to the notice.

At that time, the dairy paid $40,000 for its viola-tions, Medley said. The dairy, however, never fixed the problems cited.

“The permittee has had

a long and continuing his-tory of permit violations; therefore, KDHE is public noticing its intent to ter-minate the permit,” the Jan. 5 document stated.

Medley said he and others met on the issue Wednesday. He said CAG already has fixed more than half of its problems, which helped spur the agency to reverse its deci-sion.

The Koopmans must have a majority of the remaining issues resolved by March 15, he said.

The Koopmans’ other dairy, in Deerfield, doesn’t have any current viola-tions, he said.

According to the com-pany website, Ceres Agrar GmbH, or CAG, originated in 1900 in the Netherlands

and was founded by Jacob Koopman.

In 1995, because of limited expansion possi-bilities and the drive for long-term growth, Jack Koopman, the third-gen-eration dairyman, and his wife, Angeline, immigrat-ed to Germany. In 2006, the dairy company expanded into Russia and into the United States when it acquired Cimarron Dairy.

In 2007, it leased West Plains Dairy in Scott County. That dairy also had health violations at that facility, Medley said, but CAG no longer oper-ates that dairy.

Medley said that the Koopmans said there were some internal communi-cation issues that resulted in the noncompliance.

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said. “It would be good for Kansas agriculture.”

Now, a coalition of busi-ness interests is preparing to push the idea in Topeka. Details are expected to emerge this week about a bill establishing the outline of a state-managed work-er program. Operating in cooperation with the fed-eral government, it would link sponsor companies with illegal immigrants who have been in Kansas a minimum of five years

and have no criminal back-ground. One potential can-didate would be a person who entered Kansas on a visa that expired years ago.

The employees and employers would pay fees that would support the pro-gram, ensuring the state incurred no oversight cost.

Mike Beam, senior vice president of the Kansas Livestock Association, said the objective was to secure a reliable, regulated labor pool to the state’s business-es. Despite the recession, there are counties in rural

Kansas with unemploy-ment rates half the state average.

“This will be very lim-ited,” Beam said. “It would be an agreement between the state of Kansas and Homeland Security.”

Other groups backing the idea include the Kansas Chamber of Commerce and local chamber affiliates, the Kansas Farm Bureau and building industry organizations. This is the same coalition that con-tributed in the 2011 session to blocking a version of

the Arizona immigration measure compelling police officers to detain individu-als they think might be undocumented.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who helped craft the Arizona law, has vowed to work in the 2012 session to obtain passage of a Kansas law requiring employers to deploy the federal E-Verify system to establish the cre-dentials of new hires.

“If there were fewer jobs illegal aliens could obtain unlawfully and get

away with it, fewer ille-gal aliens would come to Kansas,” he said.

Sen. Mark Taddiken, a Clifton Republican and chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, said the state’s labor force needed to be solid to allow agricultural production to expand.

“They’re having trouble finding people,” Taddiken said. “The agricultural sec-tor is looking for reliabil-ity.”

Rodman, the state’s agri-culture secretary, said he

would leave promotion of state legislation to others and would focus on mak-ing his case to Homeland Security.

“I told them to let me do something out in west-ern Kansas,” said Rodman, who has traveled as secre-tary to the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico in an attempt to recruit people interested in agricultural careers in Kansas.

That shows promise, but the payoff would be slow. “Let me fix the system a little bit,” he said.

job hunting experiences has been more about learn-ing from mistakes than from successes.

“A lot of people limit their options to unemploy-ment centers or newspa-pers, but there are a lot more places to find leads than that,” he said. “If you get an interview, you have a pretty good chance of getting hired, but in one

instance, I kept on talking and I think I talked myself right out of the job.”

He also believes that younger people should find a career path and stay on it.

“That’s the reason I say early on, get your educa-tion and training and then follow it on up. Get in your job. Don’t just bounce around from place to place. The person who has had 10 jobs in 10 years isn’t worth

much. The guy who has had one job in 10 years is a pretty valuable employee,” he said.

There have been sever-al positives to his varied career path, however. Born in Garden City, he also has had the opportunity to live in Texas, Illinois, Colorado, New Mexico and Nebraska.

“Every time you go somewhere, you learn something about their

culture. I lived in Lincoln, Neb., and became a Nebraska football fan. Wherever you go, they have their own culture,” he said. “As far as the geogra-phy goes, Anna, Ill., was the most beautiful. ... My favorite place is Garden City, though.”

Skilling has a bach-elor of science in educa-tion and psychology from Emporia State University and a master’s degree in

education and counsel-ing from Fort Hays State University. He also served in the Army.

Although Skilling, in his mid-60s, is currently unem-ployed, it is by choice.

“I get military compen-sation, so I decided I’m just going to sit back and enjoy it for a while,” he said

In the meantime, he is writing another book and has ideas for several more, even if it is just for fun.

Kent Williams, from Fiz Gig, one of the bands that performed Saturday night, said the idea behind Saturday’s fund-raiser started as a plan to offer the proceeds of a show they originally planned to do that night at another venue.

“After that, people got behind us, and the tiny little rock show turned into a huge concert,” Williams said.

Though the drummer admitted he never knew the Savoys, he’s done his part over the past three weeks to spearhead Saturday’s event in their memory. About 40 volun-teers helped serve food, run raffles and the auc-tion, in addition to nearly 100 businesses that donat-ed items for the event.

“It’s just beauti-ful, really. The commu-nity has done so much to make this happen. ... We went from a zero-dollar budget, and with the zero dollars we’ve been able to put togeth-er this amazing event,” Williams said. “We’re a community, but Garden City is also a family com-munity. We want to show our support and love for Mike’s girls.”

Mike Savoy is Nichole’s husband and father to the girls,

Nichole Savoy was born Dec. 16, 1985, in McCook, Neb., the daugh-ter of Rudy C. Overton and Patricia M. Kincaid. She was a receptionist at Mid-west Body Shop in Garden City.

Bryn Savoy was born Aug. 15, 2005, in Wichita. She was a first-grader at Jennie Barker Elementary School. Madelyn Rae “Sissy” Savoy was born June 26, 2010, in Garden City.

The family members attended Cornerstone Church in Garden City.

Memory: Paying tribute

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Labor: Ag secretary seeks waiver for illegal immigrants

By DAn VoorhisThe Wichita Eagle

(MCT) — Kansas has been an underperformer in wind energy compared to some other states, but that’s about to change.

Kansas, ranked 14th among states in installed wind generation, is sched-

uled to see an increase this year of 1,188 megawatts of wind generating capac-ity -- the most of any state, according to the American Wind Energy Association. That will nearly double the state’s existing 1,277 mega-watts of installed wind power generation.

Much of the wind

power generated in the state remains here because of the aggressive role of Westar Energy in develop-ing or buying wind farms. Dorothy Barnett, executive director of the Climate and Energy Project, said wind power supplies 7 percent of Kansas’ electrical demand.

Nationwide, the wind

industry is set to install more than 8,300 megawatts this year, up from the 6,810 megawatts installed in 2011.

This will be a big year for wind farm openings as developers race to cash in before a key tax credit expires at end of the year.

“If the production tax credit isn’t extended, much

of that will stop next year,” Barnett said. “That is what we are hearing from the industry.

“For us in Kansas, that not only impacts jobs, but because we have such a growing supply base, with Siemens and the other com-panies, we could get a dou-ble whammy.”

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Deep South drama “The Help” won three prizes Sunday at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, including best actress for Viola Davis and supporting actress for Octavia Spencer.

“The Help” also claimed the guild’s ensemble award, the show’s equivalent of a best-picture prize.

Davis and Spencer won as black maids going pub-lic with uneasy truths about their white employers in 1960s Mississippi.

Jean Dujardin won the lead-actor honor for “The Artist” as a silent-film superstar whose career crumbles when the sound era arrives. Christopher Plummer won for support-ing actor as an elderly dad who comes out as gay in “Beginners.”

The wins boost the actors’ prospects for the

same honors at the Feb. 26 Academy Awards.

Plummer would become the oldest actor ever to win an Oscar at age 82, two years older than Jessica Tandy when she won best actress for “Driving Miss Daisy.”

Backstage, Plummer joked about whether he would like to win an Oscar, an honor so elusive during his esteemed 60-year career that he did not even receive his first Academy Award nomination until two years ago, for “The Last Station.”

“No, I think it’s frightful-ly boring,” Plummer said. “That’s an awful question. Listen, we don’t go into this business preoccupied by awards. If we did, we wouldn’t last five minutes.”

Spencer, a veteran actress who had toiled in small TV and movie parts previously, had a breakout role in “The Help” as a brassy maid

whose mouth continually gets her in trouble.

“I’m going to dedi-cate this to the downtrod-den, the under-served, the underprivileged, overtaxed — whether emotionally, physically or financially,” Spencer said.

On the television side, comedy series awards went to “Modern Family” for best ensemble; Alec Baldwin as best actor for “30 Rock”; and Betty White as best actress for “Hot in Cleveland.”

“You can’t name me, without naming those other wonderful women on ‘Hot in Cleveland,”’ the 90-year-old White said. “This nomi-nation belongs to four of us. Please, please know that I’m dealing them right in with this. I’m not going to let them keep this, but I’ll let them see it.”

The TV drama show win-ners were: Jessica Lange as

best actress for “American Horror Story”; and Steve Buscemi as best actor for “Boardwalk Empire,” which also won the ensem-ble prize.

For TV movie or mini-series, Kate Winslet won as best actress for “Mildred Pierce,” while Paul Giamatti was named best actor for “Too Big to Fail.”

Before the official cer-emony, the Screen Actors Guild presented its honor for best film stunt ensemble to “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.” The TV stunt award went to “Game of Thrones.”

The winners at the SAG ceremony typically go on to earn Oscars. All four acting recipients at SAG last year later took home Oscars — Colin Firth for “The King’s Speech,” Natalie Portman for “Black Swan” and Christian Bale and Melissa

Leo for “The Fighter.”The same generally holds

true for the weekend’s other big Hollywood honors, the Directors Guild of America Awards, where Michel Hazanavicius won the fea-ture-film prize Saturday for “The Artist.” The Directors Guild winner has gone on to earn the best-director Oscar 57 times in the 63-year his-tory of the union’s awards show.

The guild’s ensemble prize, considered the cere-mony’s equivalent of a best-picture honor, has a spotty record at predicting what will win the top award at the Oscars.

While “The King’s Speech” won both honors a year ago, the SAG cast recipient has gone on to claim the top Oscar only eight times in the 16 years since the guild added the category.

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TIVOLI, Texas (AP) — For decades, farmers and fishermen along the Gulf of Mexico watched as their sensitive ecosystem’s waters slowly got dirtier and islands eroded, all while the country largely ignored the destruction.

It took BP PLC’s well blowing out in the Gulf — and the resulting environ-mental catastrophe when millions of gallons of oil spewed into the ocean and washed ashore — for the nation to turn its atten-tion to the slow, methodical ruin of an ecosystem vital to the U.S. economy. Last month, more than a year and a half after the spill began, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a three-year, $50 million ini-tiative designed to improve water quality along the coast.

“I’m not going to say that it’s the silver lining,” Will Blackwell, a district conservationist with the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Services, said of the oil spill. Blackwell is one of many regional offi-cials who have long worked with farmers and ranch-ers to fence cattle, reseed native grasses and take on other seemingly inane projects that go a long way toward preventing pollu-

tion and coastal erosion.“I’m going to say that

it will help get recognition down here that we have this vital ecosystem that needs to be taken care of,” he said. “This will keep it at the forefront.”

NRCS administrators struggled for years to divide a few million dol-lars among farmers and

ranchers in the five Gulf states. Now, they are get-ting an eleven-fold increase in funding, money that will allow them to build on low-profile programs that already have had modest success in cleaning cru-cial waterways by working with farmers and ranchers to improve land use prac-tices.

The nation’s focus turned sharply to the Gulf when the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig blew up in April 2010. Images of oil-coated birds and wet-lands were splashed across newspapers and cable news networks. Coastal wetlands that are habitat to all sorts of wildlife were soiled and oyster beds were

wiped out, underscoring the Gulf’s ecological and economic importance.

The project is called the Gulf of Mexico Initiative, the first concrete step from a year’s worth of meetings, studies and talking by the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force, a committee formed by President Barack Obama in the spill’s wake.

Sometimes, the money is spent on simple projects, such as building fences and installing troughs to keep cattle away from rivers and creeks that flow into the Gulf. The minerals in cow manure can pollute those upstream waters and then flow into the ocean. Those minerals can deplete oxy-gen in the Gulf, creating “dead zones” where wild-life can’t thrive.

Other times, the pro-gram pays for expensive farming equipment that turns soil more effective-ly and creates straighter rows. That helps keep fertilizers on the farm — where it helps crops — and out of the Gulf, where the nutrients choke oxygen from the water. This equip-ment also decreases ero-sion, which has eaten up hundreds of miles of Gulf Coast habitat in the past century.

Until now, most counties in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Texas got right around $100,000 apiece to spend annually on these pro-grams. The demand was far greater in many areas, but money was hard to come by, Blackwell said, highlighting the popularity of the program in Refugio County, Texas — the rural area of Southeast Texas he oversees.

The influx of money has many farmers and ranch-ers — especially those who have reaped the program’s benefits in the past — eager for more opportunities to improve the environment they rely upon for their livelihood.

Now, they are hurriedly filling out applications and waiting for officials to rank the paperwork — those considered to have the greatest possible impact are the most likely to be approved.

“Fifty million dollars sounds like a lot. But when you consider — Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and Texas, it’s not going to be enough,” said Glen Wiggins, a Florida farmer applying for help buying new farming equip-ment.

“But it’ll help.”

Oil spill brings attention to delicate Gulf coast

MIAMI (AP) — Newt Gingrich slammed GOP rival Mitt Romney on Sunday for the steady stream of attacks he likened to “carpet-bombing,” try-ing to cut into the resur-gent front-runner’s lead in Florida in the dwindling hours before Tuesday’s piv-otal presidential primary.

Surging ahead in polls, Romney kept the pressure on Gingrich, casting him at an appearance in south Florida as an influence peddler and continuing his heavy advertising blitz questions the former House speaker’s ethics.

In what has become a wildly unpredictable race, the momentum has swung back to Romney, staggered last weekend by Gingrich’s victory in South Carolina. Romney has begun adver-tising in Nevada ahead of that state’s caucuses next Saturday, illustrating the challenges ahead for Gingrich, who has pledged to push ahead no matter what happens in Florida.

An NBC News/Marist poll published Sunday showed Romney with sup-port from 42 percent of like-ly Florida primary voters, compared with 27 percent for Gingrich.

Romney’s campaign has dogged Gingrich at his own campaign stops, sending surrogates to remind report-ers of Gingrich’s House eth-ics probe in the 1990s and other episodes in his career.

Gingrich reacted defen-sively, accusing the former Massachusetts governor and a political committee that supports him of lying, and the GOP’s establish-ment of allowing it.

“I don’t know how you debate a person with civility if they’re prepared to say things that are just plain factually false,” Gingrich said during appearances on Sunday talk shows. “I think the Republican establish-ment believes it’s OK to say and do virtually anything to stop a genuine insurgency from winning because they are very afraid of losing control of the old order.”

Gingrich objected specifi-cally to a Romney campaign ad that includes a 1997 NBC News report on the House’s decision to discipline Gingrich, then speaker, for ethics charges.

Romney continued to paint Gingrich as part of the very Washington estab-lishment he condemns and someone who had a role in the nation’s economic prob-lems.

“Your problem in Florida is that you worked for Freddie Mac at a time when Freddie Mac was not doing the right thing for the

American people, and that you’re selling influence in Washington at a time when we need people who will stand up for the truth in Washington,” Romney told an audience in Naples.

Gingrich’s consulting firm was paid more than $1.5 million by the federally-backed mortgage company over a period after he left Congress in 1999.

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, trail-ing in Florida by a wide margin, stayed in his home state, where his 3-year-old daughter, Bella, was hospi-talized. She has a genetic condition caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 18th chromosome. Aides said he would resume campaigning as soon as pos-sible.

Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who has invested little in Florida, looked ahead to Nevada. The libertarian-leaning Paul is focusing more on gathering delegates in caucus states, where it’s less expensive to campaign. But securing the nomination only through caucus states is a hard task.

The race began moving toward a two-person fight in South Carolina, and has grown more bitter and per-sonal in Florida.

The intense effort by Romney to slow Gingrich is comparable his strategy against Gingrich in the clos-ing month before Iowa’s leadoff caucuses Jan. 3.

Gingrich led in Iowa polls, lifted by what were hailed as strong performanc-es in televised debates, only to drop in the face of wither-ing attacks by Romney, aided immensely by ads sponsored by a “super” political action committee run by former Romney aides.

Gingrich has responded by criticizing Romney’s conservative credentials. Outside an evangelical Christian church in Lutz, Gingrich said he was the more loyal conservative on key social issues.

“This party is not going to nominate somebody who is a pro-abortion, pro-gun-control, pro-tax-increase liberal,” Gingrich said. “It isn’t going to happen.”

But Gingrich, in appear-ances on Sunday news pro-grams, returned to com-plaining about Romney’s tactics, rather than empha-sizing his own message as that of a conservative with a record of action in Congress.

“When we get to a posi-tive idea campaign, I consis-tently win,” Gingrich said. “It’s only when he can mass money to focus on carpet-bombing with negative ads that he gains any traction at all.”

Time short for Gingrich to close gap in Florida

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Rancher Dallas Ford talks about his cattle Dec. 16, 2011, in Tivoli, Texas. Ford has put in new fencing to keep his cattle in separate fields to prevent them from chewing the grass too far down and force them to drink out of strategically located troughs.

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Helen Hall to celebrate 90th

The family of Helen (Mahoney) Hall of Sublette is celebrating her 90th birth-day. Relatives and friends are welcome to celebrate from 2 to 4 p.m. Feb. 11, 2012, at Sublette United Methodist Church. In case of inclement weather, an alternate date of Feb. 18 is planned at the same time and location.

Congratulatory cards may be sent to Mrs. Hall at Box 114, Sublette KS 67877.

Helen was born Feb. 8, 1922, in Sterling. She moved to Sublette in 1941 and worked at Haskell County State Bank. For 33

years she was head book-keeper and office manager at Old Santa Fe Feeders, Sublette, and still contin-ues to work at the Haskell Township Library. She enjoys playing bridge, doing word puzzles and reading. Her hobbies also include gar-dening and collecting angels.

She married John Raymond Hall in August 1945 in Hutchinson. He died in January 1987.

Her children and families

are: Larry “Pete” and Bev Hall, and Mary Gail and Rich Baker, all of Sublette. She has five grandchildren, three stepgrandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

Happy Hustlers FCENine members of Happy

Hustlers FCE answered roll call at the Jan. 8 meet-ing by naming one thing they did over Chistmas break. The leader’s report focused on the chili feed to send the World War II veterans of Finney County to Washington, D.C., to see their memorial. She also spoke about the animal fair.

A motion was made to do a skit for 4-H club days, which will be Feb. 11. Another motion was made to donate $50 to the 4-H committee for the chili and other foods for the chili feed. A motion also was made to let members do career ideas and descriptions as part of their programs. All three motions passed.

Abby Murrell told how to make candy cane mice. For recreation, members had a scooter race.

The next meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 12 at the 4-H Building.

Senior center pinochle

Jerry Wallace won high

in the two tables of senior center pinochle played Wednesday at the Senior Center of Finney County,

907 N. 10th St. Mary Joseph took second place. Third went to Jeanette Taylor.

Duplicate bridge

The Garden City Duplicate Bridge Club played a regular game Jan. 23 using a 28 board Howell movement, with a scoring range of a single point encompassing the five top finishing pairs.

Only 21 games were made and split evenly, no-trump up by one. May Craig and Jon Kempton eked out first place by one-half point over Roberta Renick and Helen Lee. Another half-point separated them from third place in which Jerry Soldner and Gerry Schultz, Dorothy Bartlett and Virginia Enslow, and Shirley Klotz and Irene Bryant all tied with 51

percent games.Regular games begin

at 7 p.m. Monday and 1:15 p.m. Tuesday at the Senior Center of Finney County, 907 N. 10th St., plus sanc-tioned games begin at 2 p.m. on the second, third and fourth Sundays, with all bridge players wel-come.

For partners, call Kempton at 276-2876.

Senior center bridge

Betty Nally won high in the two tables of senior center bridge played Friday at the Senior Center of Finney County, 907 N. 10th St. Second place went to Grace Reimer. Ducky Tricks took third.

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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I refill plastic water bottles with regular tap water. When the bottle is empty, I wash it and the cap, and refill it with water. I hear that toxins are released from plastics after reusing them. Reusing is cost-efficient and saves the planet from more trash, but it’s not worth the risk if it endangers health. What’s the potential harm in reusing these bottles? — P.G.

THE plAsTic sTORy is complicated and has no unimpeachable, authoritative answer. Most of the atten-tion focuses on bisphenol A, BPA, an ingre-dient in many plastic contain-ers and in the lining of many cans used in canned foods. A relationship between BPA and heart disease, type 2 diabetes and liver damage has been suggested. It might affect the fetus. And BPA is a weak estrogenlike sub-stance.

Some European countries and Canada have banned the use of BPA in baby bottles as a safety precaution.

One good aspect of BPA is its quick exit from the body. The American Chemical Council views it as safe. The World Health Organization feels it’s pre-mature to ban it. Our Food and Drug Administration hasn’t issued proceedings to take it off the market.

The decision to use BPA plastics is up to the user at the present time. Some safe-ty tips are worth passing along. Don’t use plastics in the microwave or to reheat foods. Heat increases the release of BPA. Limit con-sumption of foods contained in cans lined with BPA plas-tics, or look for canned goods in containers without this material. Don’t put BPA-con-taining plastics in the dish-washer. Look for labels that say “BPA-free.” A “7” on the bottom of plastics indicates BPA. The six major U.S. companies producing baby bottles and infant feeding/drinking cups have not mar-keted BPA-containing mate-rials since January 2009.

How great the BPA threat is can’t be determined cur-

rently. It has been used in plastic products for more than 40 years, which is some-what of a testimonial to it.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Do 40 years of so-called social drinking have any effect on your muscles or strength? By “social drink-ing,” I mean three to four drinks at dinnertime.

I play a lot of golf and am losing distance on driving the ball.

I am 80 years old and in good shape. I swim, exer-

cise and am very active. Should I cut down on alco-hol?

THE sAfE AlcOHOl intake for a healthy male is two drinks a day; for women, it’s one. A drink is 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine or 1.5 ounces of distilled alcohol (whiskey, hard

liquor, whatever you call it).I would advise you to cut

back to one drink, partly because of your age.

Are you doing any strength-enhancing exercis-es with weights? They can keep your muscles strong. You don’t have to use heavy weights. Aging probably has more to do with your strength loss than has alco-hol, but cut back all the same.

TO READERs: The booklet on peripheral artery disease explains this com-mon condition that strikes so many older people. To order a copy, write: Dr. Donohue — No. 109, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S. with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My question is: Do physi-cians other than urologists prescribe Viagra, Levitra and Cialis? — S.C.

All licENsED pHy-siciANs prescribe all medi-cines, including Viagra, Levitra and Cialis.

There are fewer urolo-gists than all the other kinds of doctors. Urologists, I’m sure, write prescriptions for these medicines, but since they are in a minority, the majority of prescriptions for erectile dysfunction have to be written by other doc-tors.

What’s the problem with plastic goods?DEAR READERs:

Want to add something special to a Valentine’s Day card? Since 1947, “The Sweetheart City,” Loveland, Colo., has been hand-stamping cards with a special Valentine’s-themed verse and then sending them on.

More than 50 volunteers stamp 150,000-plus cards sent to the town from all 50 states and more than 100 countries! That’s a lot of work!

To have your cards spe-cially stamped, address and stamp (45 cents for U.S. postage) each card. (Make sure to add one for yourself !) Place all of these in a large envelope and mail to: Postmaster, Attention: Valentine Re-Mailing, 446 E. 29th St., Loveland, CO 80538.

To be sure your card is delivered by Valentine’s Day, it must be received in Loveland no later than Feb. 9. For destinations outside the United States, cards must be received by Feb. 4 at the latest. — Heloise

Fast factsDEAR READERs:

Here are my favorite alter-nate uses for chopsticks:

• As a stake to support small plants.

• Use to pull cooked food out of a toaster oven.

• Use to hold my hair up.

• Wrap a paper towel around them and clean h a r d - t o - r e a c h places.

• Aerate plant soil with them. — Heloise

Fixing fingernailsDEAR READERs:

Hate finding a chip in the nail polish you’re wearing? I do! Here is a handy hint for how to fix this little problem. I call it “tipping.”

First, use a little clear polish to fill in the dent, and let dry. Then use the colored polish and paint a thin layer over your nail. Your nail will be as good as

new! — Heloise

Flowers galore

D E A R HElOisE: I often receive or buy a beautiful floral arrange-ment. Instead of leaving as one arrange-ment, I take the flowers and make several smaller ones. I place one or two flowers in

several vases. To add full-ness, I search my house for any greenery I might be able to add. For example, I trim my ivy and add that to the vase. I then place the vases in different rooms, or for a different look, put several small ones next to each other. This is one way to really spread the beauty of flowers all through my house. — K.M.C., Rosebud, Texas

WHAT A blOOm-iNg beautiful idea, and one I do myself. One small

$4 grocery-store bunch makes four vases of flow-ers to spread the cheer! — Heloise

Sound off

DEAR HElOisE: I visited a store today, and all the medium-priced merchandise had the big, clunky anti-theft devices that must be removed with a hand tool resembling a cross between pliers and wire cutters. Ugh! They leave holes. Why should I pay a premium price for a new garment that has a hole in it before I even carry it out of the store? — Mary Joyce in Amarillo, Texas

Send a money-sav-ing or timesaving hint to Heloise, P.O. Box 795000, San Antonio, TX 78279-5000, or you can fax it to (210) HELOISE or email it to Heloise@Heloise.com. I can’t answer your letter personally but will use the best hints received in my column.

DEAR ANNiE: I have loved a gay man all my life, and I am now 64, so I know a little something about the problem.

I work in an office where a 35-year-old man is dating a female co-worker who is 50. I believe they both care for each other, but he is concealing his sexual orientation. I happen to know he has a boyfriend in another city.

I have not mentioned this to anyone not only because it could hurt his position in our conservative company, but also because it’s not my business. However, I’ve begun to wonder whether I ought to say something to his girlfriend. She is going through hell. He’s nice to her and takes her out to lunch often, and she reports their doings with stars in her eyes. Then they will fight, and she avoids him while he waits to get back in her good graces.

She doesn’t understand what’s going on, and she’s miserable. I don’t think he’s going to tell her the truth, and at this point, she would be furious if she knew he has been leading her on. What would you

suggest? Should I butt in to save her? I still have to work with both of them. — No Name, No City

DEAR NO NAmE: We strongly urge you to stay out of this. Your female co-worker realizes she is miserable in this relation-ship, but is still unwilling to break it off. Unless there is physical abuse, relation-ship issues between co-workers are not your busi-ness. It’s very likely that your comments would be resented, and this could damage your work environ-ment.

DEAR ANNiE: I am a psychologist with a heart-felt piece of advice for those whose teenage children are struggling with addictions or other issues, and who aren’t facing the situation squarely.

Many parents hope their teen will “grow out of it.” The problem is, most don’t. When the child is under age

18, parents still have lots of power. They can sign their child into a treatment cen-ter and communicate with the doctors. This power is lost once the child reaches 18. Doctors are not allowed to talk with family mem-bers of legal adults unless the child signs consent. And an angry young adult who resists treatment is not likely to sign (or attend treatment, for that matter).

Yes, parents can tell the child that treatment is a condition of financial sup-port, but this can backfire because parents are under-standably hesitant to force a mentally ill or addicted child onto the street.

It breaks my heart to see parents of young adults wringing their hands over their child’s substance abuse, bipolar disorder or whatever, when that child could have been forced into treatment years earlier. Please, parents, recognize this window of opportuni-ty when you have it. — A Concerned Psychologist

DEAR cONcERNED: Unfortunately, it can be difficult to recognize the severity of the problem at the time, and some things,

like schizophrenia, are not apparent until the child is older. Parents do the best they can, but those who fear their child is slipping away should make sure to seek help while they still have the opportunity.

DEAR ANNiE: I agree with your advice to “Left-Out Sister,” but why does she wait for her older sister to tell her what the Sunday plans are? Why doesn’t she initiate a chat so they can make plans together? Or she could make her own plans with Dad if she wants. She knows that Sunday comes around every week. There’s no reason for her to always be left hanging. She sounds too passive. She needs to get involved and ask what’s up for the week-end and become part of the decision-making. — P.J.

Annie’s Mailbox is writ-ten by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime edi-tors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmail-box@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

A well-versed Valentine’s Day card

Reader weighs interfering in relationshipANNIE’SMAILBOX

KATHY MITCHELLMARCY SUGAR

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Lee Barrett, left, presented Kayla Dalton from the Kansas Children’s Service League as the speaker at the Garden City Rotary Club meeting Jan. 11. Dalton spoke about the many programs run by KCSL, including Head Start, Early Head Start and Healthy Families. She reported on the success of the agency’s Red Stocking Breakfast. The second annual “Chair’ish the Children” special event and auction is to be March 3 at the Clarion Inn and will feature artist-decorated children’s chairs. For more information on KCSL, call (877) 530-5275. For informa-tion on becoming a Rotarian, call 640-1787.

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Sunrise today 7:50 a.m.Sunset tonight 6:04 p.m.Moonrise today 11:22 a.m.Moonset today 12:42 a.m.

5-DAY GARDEN CITY FORECAST GARDEN CITY ALMANAC

TODAY'S HEAT INDEX

STATE FORECAST

AGRICULTURE REPORT

NATIONAL FORECAST

SUN AND MOON

56° 25°

TUESDAYPartly sunny,

breezy and cooler

Wind: N 12-25

59° 26°

WEDNESDAYMostly sunny

Wind: SW 8-16

50° 21°

THURSDAYPartly sunny,

breezy and cooler

Wind: NNW 25-35

51° 19°

FRIDAYPartly sunny

Wind: NNW 10-20

63° 27°

TODAYMostly sunny andpleasantly warm

Wind: SSW 7-14

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High 60°Low 19°Normal high 45°Normal low 17°Record high 71° (1971)Record low -11° (1949)

24 hours through 7 p.m. yest. 0.00"Month to date TraceNormal month to date 0.44"Year to date TraceNormal year to date 0.44"Record for the date 0.63" (1999)Days of precipitation in January 2

An indication of how hot it feels based on thehumidity and temperature.

Yesterday 0Season to date 4414Normal season to date 3418

Yesterday 32°

Temperature-Humidity Index 60Cattle Stress Category SafePoultry Stress Category SafeSwine Stress Category Safe

Mostly sunny and pleasantly warm today.Winds south-southwest 7-14 mph.Expect 6-10hours of sunshine with average relativehumidity 35%.Partly cloudy tonight.Windsnorth-northwest 8-16 mph.Average relativehumidity 55%.Partly sunny, breezy and coolertomorrow.Winds north 15-25 mph.Expect 3-6hours of sunshine.

source: Iowa State University

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Houston70/55

Chicago48/38

Minneapolis39/27

Kansas City64/43

El Paso63/39

Denver62/31

Billings49/29

Los Angeles69/48

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Seattle50/40

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BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian military launched an offensive to regain con-trol of suburbs on the east-ern edge of Damascus on Sunday, storming neighbor-hoods and clashing with groups of army defectors in fierce fighting that sent residents fleeing and killed at least 12 people, activists said.

Violence elsewhere in the country killed at least 17 more people, including six soldiers in a roadside bomb-ing south of the capital.

But the heaviest fight-ing was focused in a belt of suburbs and villages on the eastern outskirts of Damascus, where gov-ernment troops reinforced by dozens of tanks and armored vehicles battled with armed defectors who have grown increasingly bold, staking out positions and setting up checkpoints in recent days.

Some of the fighting on Sunday was only two miles from Damascus, in Ein Tarma, making it the closest yet to the capital as President Bashar Assad’s regime pushes to uproot protesters and dissident sol-diers who have joined the opposition.

“There are heavy clash-es going on in all of the Damascus suburbs,” said Rami Abdul-Rahman, direc-tor of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, who relies on a network of activists on the ground. “Troops were able to enter some areas but are still facing stiff resis-tance in others.”

The ten-month upris-ing against Assad, which began with largely peaceful demonstrations, has grown increasingly militarized recently as more frustrated protesters and army defec-tors have taken up arms against the regime.

The assault on the sub-urbs seemed to be a sign of the growing presence of dissident soldiers closer to

Damascus, and the regime’s rising concern about the sit-uation. Although the tightly controlled capital has been relatively quiet since the uprising began, its outskirts have witnessed intense anti-regime protests and army defectors have become more visible and active in the past few months.

The military has responded with a wither-ing assault on a string of Damascus suburbs in a bid to stamp out the resistance, leading to a spike in vio-lence has killed nearly 100 people since Thursday.

The rising bloodshed has added urgency to new attempts by Arab and Western countries to find a resolution to the 10 months of violence, which accord-ing to the United Nations has killed at least 5,400 peo-ple as Assad seeks to crush persistent protests demand-ing an end to his rule.

The U.N. is holding talks on a new resolution on Syria and next week will discuss an Arab League peace plan aimed at ending the crisis. But the initiatives face two major obstacles: Damascus’ rejection of an Arab plan that it says impinges on its sovereignty, and Russia’s willingness to use its U.N. Security Council veto to pro-tect Syria from sanctions.

Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby told reporters in Egypt on Sunday that contacts were under way with China and Russia.

“I hope that their stand will be adjusted in line with the final drafting of the draft resolution,” he told reporters at before leaving for New York with Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim.

The two will seek U.N. support for the latest Arab plan to end Syria’s crisis.

The plan calls for a two-month transition to a unity government, with Assad giving his vice president full powers to work with the proposed government.

The Arab League on Saturday halted the work of its observer mission in Syria because of the esca-lating violence, until the League’s council can meet to decide the mission’s fate. Arab foreign ministers were to meet Sunday in Cairo to discuss the Syrian crisis in light of the suspension of the observers’ work and Damascus’ refusal to agree to the transition timetable, the League said.

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said he was “concerned” about the League’s decision to suspend its monitoring mission and called on Assad to “immediately stop the bloodshed.” He spoke at an African Union summit in Addis Ababa Sunday.

Syrian army launches offensive to regain Damascus suburbs

EAST HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — The arrests of four police officers accused of tyrannizing Latinos could mark the start of a bigger scandal in this working-class suburb, where the FBI is targeting additional suspects. The state is pre-paring for the possibility of widespread arrests that could cripple the town’s police department.

Federal prosecutors have urged witnesses to come forward with details of abuses in East Haven, which was rocked by last week’s arrests of the offi-cers. The FBI described them as a “cancerous cadre” that subjected Hispanics to beatings and false arrests.

In a community that saw many Hispanics move away at the height of the abuse complaints, one obstacle for investigators is finding victims who are not deterred by fear of police or, in some cases, concerns about their resi-dency status. The officers preyed on illegal immi-grants who were unlikely to report abuse, according to the indictment.

“Many people are afraid to talk. We have to be careful,” said Wilfrido Matute, the owner of My Country Store, the site of many incidents of alleged harassment of its largely Hispanic clientele.

The case adds to a his-tory of friction between police and minorities in East Haven, an increasing-ly diverse community of 28,000 people that was near-ly all white a generation ago. A separate civil rights investigation released last month found a deep-rooted pattern of discriminatory policing, and the town is under pressure from the U.S. Justice Department to make reforms.

For the police depart-ment, a more immediate concern is the prospect of more arrests.

FBI targets more suspects in Connecticut police scandal

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Protesters shout slogans as they carry pictures of Syrian President Bashar Assad and Syrian flags during a demonstration Sunday in front of the Russian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, to express gratitude for the Russian position in support of Syria. Russia has said it will use its Security Council veto to block any resolution threatening Syria with sanctions or lacking a clear ban on any foreign military interference.

SportsTHE GARDEN CITY TELEGRAM

MONDAY, January 30, 2012 GCTelegram.com/Sports SWKPrepZone.com

FIRST: Azarenka gets No. 1 with Aussie title.PAGE B8

DUMPED: K-State, KU drop Big 12 games.PAGE B4

B

Coming up big

ByBRETTMARSHALLbmarshall@gctelegram.com

For the second straight year, the Garden City High School girls basketball team headed home from the Newton Invitational with a 1-2 record in the always-tough mid-season tournament.

In the consolation fifth-place game on Saturday, the Lady Buffaloes put together two solid quarters, but struggled offensive-ly in the other two, resulting in a 40-33 loss to traditional power-house Shawnee Mission Bishop Miege.

For coach David Upton, the three days of seeing different teams, the tournament provided

a mixed review.“Overall, I thought we played

pretty well at times, especially in the second game (a 49-36 victory over Rose Hill),” Upton said. “I don’t necessarily like going 1-2, I would have preferred 2-1, but I think we saw a lot of encourag-ing things from the girls, espe-cially the effort that they gave.”

Saturday’s game saw the Lady Buffs jump to an early lead, hold-ing a slender 12-10 margin after one quarter. Then, as they have in other games this season, the offense stalled, scoring just eight points in the middle two periods to fall behind 23-14 at the half and 31-20 after three quarters.

“It was one of those days

where we were hit and miss on a number of things,” Upton said. “We had some good shots that normally would fall, and they just didn’t.”

Facing that 11-point deficit heading to the final eight min-utes, the Lady Buffs rallied with a strong defensive effort. Taryn Tempel scored five points during the early fourth quarter while Abbey Campbell came up with a 3-point play and Casey Curran chipped in with a pair of free throws to cut into the Lady Stags’ lead. With three minutes left, the Lady Buffs were down just two, 33-31.

Then, as it has happened before, they couldn’t score again

until just 17 seconds were left in the game. By then, howev-er, Miege had made 8-of-9 free throws to ice the game. Miege’s leading scorer, point guard Alexis Hughes, who had been held in check most of the game, knocked down all eight of her free throws.

Illund Shurn, the Stags’ 5-10 center, scored a game-high 14 points, including an 8-of-12 free throw performance. The charity stripe proved to be the difference as Miege was 18-of-24 compared to 9-of-11 for the Lady Buffs.

In other final day games, Rose Hill defeated Dodge City for seventh place, 58-50; Andover Central downed Wichita Kapaun-

Mt. Carmel, 51-43, for third place; and Olathe Northwest captured the championship game with a 46-42 win over host Newton.

Tempel finished with 11 points to pace Garden City. The Lady Buffs are now 8-6 and will be idle until Friday, when they travel to Winfield for a 6 p.m. contest.

———Bishop Miege 10 13 8 9 — 40Garden City 12 2 6 13 — 33Bishop Miege (6-7) — Wolf 2 1-1 7, Hughes 1 9-10 12, Miller 0 0-0 0, Rocker 0 0-0 0, Johnson 0 0-0 0, Villegas 1 0-0 2, Vaughn 2 0-0 5, Shurn 3 8-12 14. Totals 9 18-24 40.Garden City (8-6) — McClelland 1 0-0 2, Curran 1 1-1 3, Heiman 2 0-0 6, Campbell 1 1-1 3, Brunson 0 0-0 0, Tempel 4 3-4 11, Miller 0 0-0 0, Heatwole 0 0-0 0, Bernbeck 2 4-5 8, Hinde 0 0-0 0. Totals 11 9-11 33.3-point goals—Miege 4 (Wolf 2, Hughes 1, Vaughn 1), Garden City 2 (Heiman 2).

Lady Buffs drop final test to Bishop Miege at Newton Invitational

Scott City’s Hayes grabs heavyweight crown at 54th Welton InvitationalByBRETTMARSHALLbmarshall@gctelegram.com

Luke Hayes had waited all Saturday to meet up with Clay Wilcox of Chaparral for the 285-pound championship match at the 54th Annual Rocky Welton Wrestling Invitational at The Garden.

The wait was worth it for the 6-foot-5-inch Scott City wrestler as he came up with the narrow-est of wins, 1-0, over Wilcox, and walked off the mat with his unbeaten record intact at 21-0.

Hayes’ triumph was the lone title garnered by area high schools at the prestigious Welton tournament. Only one other area wrestler — Hugoton’s Colten Lissolo at 220 pounds — reached the finals.

Lissolo was handed a tough, 4-2, decision by Hays’ Cash Drylie.

For the host Garden City Buffaloes, Saturday was once again a day with mixed results as the Buffs moved up the team scoring ladder, going from 12th to finishing ninth. Of the four wrestlers who advanced to the consolation finals, not one of them could come up with a vic-tory and thus ended with fourth-place finishes.

And for historical purposes, it was the final day, final year for the Invitational, once known as the Garden City Invitational, to be held at The Garden. The 2013 edition will debut at the new Garden City High School gymna-sium, with a number of exciting additions and changes that will be announced later.

Arkansas City claimed the team title with 194.5 points while Newton (169.5), Pine Creek, Colo. (160.5), Andale (144) and Ponderosa, Colo. (123) rounded out the top five. Garden City moved from 12th on Friday to fin-ish ninth in the team chase with 99.5 points. Other area teams

were Scott City in 13th (69.5), Hugoton at 15th (63.5), Ulysses in 17th (49) and Holcomb 27th (8). Western Athletic Conference rivals Hays (95.5), Dodge City (80.5), Great Bend (44) and Liberal (32) finished in 11th, 12th, 18th and 20th.

For Hayes, however, in the final match of the night, his anticipation of going against the No. 1-ranked wrestler in Class 3-2-1A, the same class as the Beavers, was every bit as grati-fying as the buildup to facing Wilcox.

“He’s really a hard one to get in on,” Hayes said of Wilcox after his triumph. “When I knew Chaparral was coming to the tournament, I got pretty excited. It gives me a chance to see how I match up with some of the best.”

The two heavyweights battled to a scoreless first period. When Hayes won the flip to decide whether he would take the up or down position for the second period, he didn’t hesitate.

“It was my first choice because I think at the heavyweight level, who gets the first escape will always have the edge,” Hayes said.

The decision worked as he managed to get the 1-point escape just 20 seconds into the period. From there, it was both wres-tlers trying to figure out a way to get a takedown, and neither one could.

In the third period, with Wilcox in the down position, Hayes was able to use his supe-rior height to leverage against the Roadrunner wrestler. He managed to to keep the shorter Wilcox from slipping away to tie the score, or to earn any sem-blance of a 2-point reversal.

“I’ve just really been getting into the wrestling the last cou-ple of weeks,” said Hayes, who indicated he will sign a football letter-of-intent on Wednesday with Butler Community College

in El Dorado. “This builds up my confidence, and it shows I can wrestle with the top ones in Class 3-2-1A.”

For Garden City coach Monte Moser, the Buffs’ performance provides him with the knowl-edge that many of his team’s losses came against top-ranked opponents from other states, as well as other classifications.

“We’ll not see this depth of quality, even at the state meet,” Moser said at the conclusion of the meet. “We’ve learned a lot from the two days. We’ve got some things to work on, but I feel like if we’ve got everyone ready to go, we’ll do well at regional and state.”

Fourth-place finishers includ-ed freshman Tevin Briscoe at 113

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Scott City’s Luke Hayes, top, grabs the arm of Chaparral’s Clay Wilcox for leverage Saturday in the 285-pound championship match of the Rocky Welton Wrestling Invitational at Garden City High School. Hayes took the title with a 1-0 win.

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Garden City High School’s Jon Heiman, left, works on a reversal against Emporia’s Noel Torres in the 160-pound third-place match Saturday during the Rocky Welton Wrestling Invitational.

Williams’ 3-point barrage lifts GCCC men past DodgeByADAMHOLTaholt@gctelegram.com

Chauncy Williams got to the Perryman Athletic Complex early on Saturday. To get his mind right, he said.

Williams might have to start arriving early to all the Broncbusters’ home games now.

The Milwaukee, Wis., native scored a game-high 29 points, including seven 3-pointers, as the Garden City Community College men’s basketball team beat rival Dodge City, 77-69.

It was the Busters’ first home win during conference play, and combined with Wednesday’s win over No. 9 Seward County on Wednesday, gave Garden City back-to-back wins for the first time since winning three

straight from Dec. 2 to Jan. 4.There was no hiding the

relief in winning at home for the first time since Nov. 26.

“We weren’t trying to scare our fans away,” Williams said with a laugh. “It felt great.”

Williams helped make sure the Busters, who led by double-digits for much of the game, would reach the .500 mark in conference play, with a 4-4 record (16-6 overall).

The sophomore was 10-of-18 from the field and 7-of-14 from 3-point range, managing to find himself open in the corner often and rarely missing.

“I thought Chauncy was outstanding, GCCC coach Kris Baumann said. “In fact, their coach gave them high praise, he said, ‘Boy, I’ll be happy when Chauncy’s gone because he kills

us every year.’ And that’s what I told Chauncy, I said that shows how much he’s got respect for you, that says a lot about you. I thought he was outstanding tonight, making seven 3s was good. So I was very happy with him tonight.”

The Busters led by as much as 15 in the second half and the last of Williams’ seven treys made it 66-53 with 3:12 to play. With this Garden City squad, no lead is to be taken for granted, but the Busters showed a small improvement in their late-game play — and how much further they have to go.

“We practice it, we work on it. We work on late-game sit-uations, and as you can see, we’re not very good at it, even in practice yet,” Baumann said. “And I’ve been trying to get it

through their heads. But that team that won the region wasn’t very good at this point in the year either, and they got a lot better at it in the end. We’ve got to continue to get better at it.”

And while they got the win and a dominant performance from Williams, the Busters were not as crisp as they were on Wednesday, in what was their best performance of 2012.

Early on, Dodge City (15-6, 3-4) was able to move the ball quickly around Garden City’s zone and hit some open shots. The defense tightened up, but the Busters didn’t quite look in control like they did against the Saints.

Baumann said the team may have regressed a bit, and Williams agreed.

“I would say we took one

step back,” he said. “But the only thing I can say is, we keep going hard in practice, listen-ing to coach, making sure our minds stay clear and just keep winning games. And everything will be good. But I would say we took a step back.”

The positive thing is, the Busters took a step back with a win. Garden City weathered a 22-point game from Dodge City’s Tyshaun Pickett and 18-point performance by R.J. McGhee. Geron Johnson had 22 points for the Busters, and Carl Porter had 11 points for the second straight game.

Garden City gets a bye on Wednesday and will host last-place Butler at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday.

See boxscore in Scoreboard, Page B2.

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ScoreboardB2 MONDAY, January 30, 2012 THE GArDEN CiTY TElEGrAM

Scores & MoreBASKETBALL

PROFESSIONALNational Basketball AssociationBy The Associated PressEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division W L Pct GBPhiladelphia 14 6 .700 —Boston 9 10 .474 4.5New York 7 13 .350 7New Jersey 7 14 .333 7.5Toronto 7 14 .333 7.5Southeast Division W L Pct GBMiami 15 5 .750 —Atlanta 15 6 .714 .5Orlando 12 8 .600 3Washington 4 16 .200 11Charlotte 3 18 .143 12.5Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 17 5 .773 —indiana 13 6 .684 2.5Milwaukee 8 11 .421 7.5Cleveland 8 11 .421 7.5Detroit 4 17 .190 12.5WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division W L Pct GBDallas 13 8 .619 —Houston 12 8 .600 .5San Antonio 12 9 .571 1Memphis 10 9 .526 2New Orleans 4 16 .200 8.5Northwest Division W L Pct GBOklahoma City 16 3 .842 —Denver 14 6 .700 2.5Utah 11 7 .611 4.5Portland 12 8 .600 4.5Minnesota 9 11 .450 7.5Pacific Division W L Pct GBl.A. Clippers 11 6 .647 —l.A. lakers 12 9 .571 1Phoenix 7 12 .368 5Golden State 6 12 .333 5.5Sacramento 6 14 .300 6.5

———Saturday’s GamesWashington 102, Charlotte 99Philadelphia 95, Detroit 74Houston 97, New York 84Milwaukee 100, l.A. lakers 89Phoenix 86, Memphis 84Utah 96, Sacramento 93Sunday’s GamesMiami 97, Chicago 93Cleveland 88, Boston 87Toronto 94, New Jersey 73indiana 106, Orlando 85Dallas 101, San Antonio 100, OTAtlanta 94, New Orleans 72l.A. lakers 106, Minnesota 101l.A. Clippers 109, Denver 105Monday’s GamesChicago at Washington, 6 p.m.Orlando at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.New Orleans at Miami, 6:30 p.m.Minnesota at Houston, 7 p.m.San Antonio at Memphis, 7 p.m.Detroit at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.Dallas at Phoenix, 8 p.m.Portland at Utah, 8 p.m.Oklahoma City at l.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.Tuesday’s GamesBoston at Cleveland, 6 p.m.New Jersey at indiana, 6 p.m.Atlanta at Toronto, 6 p.m.Detroit at New York, 6:30 p.m.Denver at Memphis, 6 p.m.Sacramento at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.Charlotte at l.A. lakers, 9:30 p.m.

———COLLEGE MENBig 12 StandingsSchool Conf OverallKansas 7-1 17-4Missouri 6-2 19-2Baylor 6-2 19-2iowa State 5-3 15-6Kansas State 4-4 15-5Oklahoma 3-5 13-7Texas 3-5 13-8Texas A&M 3-5 12-8Oklahoma State 3-5 10-11Texas Tech 0-8 7-13

———Saturday’s ResultsBaylor 76, Texas 71Missouri 63, Texas Tech 50Iowa State 72, Kansas 64Texas A&M 76, Oklahoma State 61Oklahoma 63, Kansas State 60Today’s GameMissouri at Texas, 8 p.m.Tuesday’s GamesOklahoma State at Texas TechKansas State at Iowa State, 8 p.m.Wednesday’s GamesOklahoma at Kansas, 8 p.m.Baylor at Texas A&M

———OKLAHOMA 63, No. 22 KANSAS ST. 60OKLAHOMA (13-7)Fitzgerald 1-7 1-2 3, Osby 2-9 5-7 9, Grooms 1-8 2-2 4, Pledger 11-17 4-4 30, Clark 5-9 1-3 11, Washington 2-3 0-0 4, Blair 0-2 2-2 2, Neal 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 22-55 15-20 63.KANSAS ST. (15-5)Samuels 3-6 3-4 9, Gipson 0-0 0-0 0, rodriguez 4-10 1-2 10, McGruder 6-14 6-6 19, Spradling 2-10 2-2 6, Southwell 0-0 0-0 0, irving 1-5 0-0 3, Ojeleye 2-2 0-0 4, Diaz 0-1 0-0 0, Henriquez 3-3 3-4 9. Totals 21-51 15-18 60.Halftime—Oklahoma 34-28. 3-Point Goals—Oklahoma 4-9 (Pledger 4-7, Grooms 0-1, Blair 0-1), Kansas St. 3-17 (irving 1-2, rodriguez 1-3, McGruder 1-6, Samuels 0-1, Spradling 0-5). Fouled Out—Fitzgerald, rodriguez. rebounds—Oklahoma 29 (Clark 6), Kansas St. 33 (Samuels 8). Assists—Oklahoma 16 (Grooms 7), Kansas St. 11 (irving, McGruder, rodriguez, Samuels, Spradling 2). Total Fouls—Oklahoma 21, Kansas St. 20. A—12,528.

———IOWA ST. 72, No. 5 KANSAS 64KANSAS (17-4)robinson 5-11 3-4 13, Withey 4-5 2-2 10, Taylor 6-11 3-6 16, Johnson 4-6 0-1 10, releford 3-5 2-3 10, Tharpe 0-0 0-0 0, Teahan 1-7 0-0 3, Wesley 0-0 0-0 0, lindsay 0-0 0-0 0, Juenemann 0-0 0-0 0, Young 1-5 0-0 2. Totals 24-50 10-16 64.IOWA ST. (15-6)Babb 3-7 0-0 7, Ejim 4-9 6-8 15, Allen 1-2 0-0 3, Christopherson 2-7 9-10 14, White 6-11 6-11 18, railey 0-0 0-0 0, Booker 2-5 1-2 7, McGee 2-4 3-3 8. Totals 20-45 25-34 72.Halftime—iowa St. 37-34. 3-Point Goals—Kansas 6-17 (releford 2-3, Johnson 2-3, Taylor 1-3, Teahan 1-6, robinson 0-1, Young 0-1), iowa St. 7-17 (Booker 2-4, Christopherson 1-2, McGee 1-2, Ejim 1-2, Allen 1-2, Babb 1-4, White 0-1). Fouled Out—None. rebounds—Kansas 23 (robinson 7), iowa St. 36 (White 9). Assists—Kansas 18 (Taylor 10), iowa St. 11 (White 5). Total Fouls—Kansas 23, iowa St. 14. A—14,376.

———DRAKE 93, WICHITA ST. 86, 3OTWICHITA ST. (18-4)Hall 2-5 2-2 6, ragland 8-15 5-5 25,

Williams 1-2 0-1 2, Murry 6-18 3-3 16, Stutz 10-16 6-6 27, Smith 3-8 1-2 8, Orukpe 0-0 0-0 0, Kyles 1-12 0-0 2, Cotton 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 31-76 17-19 86.DRAKE (13-9)Clarke 1-3 2-5 4, Jeffers 4-6 2-2 11, Simons 11-22 4-4 29, Madison 2-4 0-1 4, rice 5-23 9-12 19, Hawley 1-2 0-0 2, Alexander 5-9 6-9 17, Woods 3-4 1-3 7. Totals 32-73 24-36 93.Halftime—Drake 38-37. End Of regulation—Tied 63. End Of 1st Overtime—Tied 70. End Of 2nd Overtime—Tied 82. 3-Point Goals—Wichita St. 7-25 (ragland 4-6, Murry 1-2, Stutz 1-3, Smith 1-5, Williams 0-1, Kyles 0-8), Drake 5-17 (Simons 3-6, Alexander 1-1, Jeffers 1-3, Madison 0-1, Hawley 0-1, rice 0-5). Fouled Out—Murry, Stutz, Woods. rebounds—Wichita St. 46 (Murry 10), Drake 48 (rice 14). Assists—Wichita St. 15 (ragland 6), Drake 16 (rice 8). Total Fouls—Wichita St. 29, Drake 20. A—4,895.

———COLLEGE WOMENBig 12 StandingsSchool Conf OverallBaylor 7-0 20-0Kansas 5-2 16-3Oklahoma State 4-3 12-4Texas A&M 4-3 13-5Kansas State 4-3 13-6

Oklahoma 4-3 12-6Texas 3-4 13-6Texas Tech 2-5 14-5iowa State 2-5 11-7Missouri 0-7 10-8

———Saturday’s ResultsKansas State 67, Oklahoma State 56Texas Tech 75, Texas 71Oklahoma 62, Missouri 59Baylor 74, Kansas 46Sunday’s ResultTexas A&M 66, iowa State 64Tuesday’s GamesOklahoma at Kansas, 7 p.m.

———JUNIOR COLLEGEJayhawk ConferenceMen’s West Division Standings Con. All W L W LSeward County 6 1 18 3Colby 5 2 17 4Barton 5 2 19 2Cloud County 4 3 14 7Garden City 4 4 16 6Hutchinson 3 4 16 5Dodge City 3 4 15 6Pratt 1 6 10 11Butler 1 6 7 14

———Saturday’s ResultsGarden City 77, Dodge City 69Barton 88, Pratt 76Hutchinson 64, Cloud County 56Seward County 78, Butler 74 (OT)Wednesday’s GamesPratt at ColbyBarton at Cloud CountyHutchinson at Seward CountyButler at Dodge City

———Garden City C.C. 77, Dodge City 69Dodge City (15-6, 3-4) — Willard 4-10 4-7 13, Fields 3-4 0-0 7, Pickett 8-14 6-8 22, McGhee 6-21 4-5 18, Phillips 0-3 2-2 2, Wright 0-1 0-0 0, Hosman, 0-1 0-0 0, White 3-6 1-4 7. Totals 24-60 17-26 69.Garden City (16-6, 4-4) — Carter 2-6 3-4 7, Barnes 1-2 1-2 3, Porter 5-13 1-1 11, Johnson 4-13 13-14 22, Williams 10-18 2-3 29, rheubottom 1-4 0-0 2, Bryant 0-2 1-3 1, russell 0-0 0-2 0. Totals 23-58 23-30 77.Halftime score—Garden City 31, Dodge City 25. 3-point goals—Dodge City 4-23 (Willard 1-6, Fields 1-2, McGhee 2-13, Wright 0-1, Hosman 0-1), Garden City 8-23 (Carter 0-2, Johnson 1-6, Williams 7-15, Bryant 0-1). rebounds—Dodge City 35 (Pickett 10, McGhee 9), Garden City 35 (Johnson 9). Fouled out—Dodge City (Pickett), Garden City none. Assists—Dodge City 7 (Pickett, McGhee and White 2 each), Garden City 17 (Johnson 9). Turnovers—Dodge City 19, Garden City 18. Fouls—Dodge City 25, Garden City 23.

———Women’s West Division Standings Con. All W L W LHutchinson 7 0 20 0Seward County 7 0 18 2Garden City 5 3 13 9Cloud County 4 3 13 7Barton 3 4 13 8Butler 2 5 13 8Pratt 2 5 12 9Colby 2 5 6 15Dodge City 0 7 8 13

———Saturday’s ResultsGarden City 71, Dodge City 48Pratt 53, Barton 46Hutchinson 69, Cloud County 67Seward County 76, Butler 59Wednesday’s GamesPratt at ColbyBarton at Cloud CountyHutchinson at Seward CountyButler at Dodge City

———Garden City C.C. 71, Dodge City 48Dodge City (8-13, 0-7) — Williams 9-16 0-0 23, Villa 2-9 5-8 9, Strong 2-11 1-2 6, Papaleo 2-5 0-0 4, raines 0-1 0-0 0, Stegman 1-1 0-0 2, Harris 2-6 0-1 4, Casey 0-1 0-0 0, McCauley 0-1 0-2 0. Totals 18-51 6-13 48. Garden City (13-9, 5-3) — Moore 0-5 4-4 4, Skidmore 2-2 1-2 5, Jones 10-14 5-6 25, Walker 5-12 2-4 13, Schmale 3-6 4-4 10, Jacobs 0-2 2-4 2, Christmas 0-1 0-0 0, Gross 1-2 0-0 2, Gottschalk 4-8 0-2 10. Totals 25-52 18-26 71.Halftime score—Garden City 36, Dodge City 23. 3-point goals – Dodge City 6-12 (Williams 5-6, Strong 1-3, Villa 0-2, Harris 0-1), Garden City 3-12 (Moore 0-3, Jones 0-1, Walker 1-2, Gottschalk 2-6). rebounds—Dodge City 30 (raines 9), Garden City 37 (Jones 11, Schmale 8). Fouled out—Dodge City none, Garden City none. Assists—Dodge City 9 (Villa 5), Garden City 13 (Skidmore 6, Walker 4). Turnovers—Dodge City 20, Garden

City 16. Total fouls—Dodge City 22, Garden City 17.

FOOTBALLNFL Playoff GlancePro BowlSunday’s ResultAt HonoluluAFC 59, NFC 41Super BowlSunday’s GameAt IndianapolisNew England vs. N.Y. Giants, 5:20 p.m.

———NFC-AFC StatsNFC 14 14 7 6 — 41AFC 14 14 10 21 — 59First QuarterNFC—Fitzgerald 10 pass from rodgers (Akers kick), 9:14.NFC—Fitzgerald 44 pass from rodgers (Akers kick), 9:05.AFC—Green 34 pass from roethlisberger (Janikowski kick), 6:54.AFC—Marshall 74 pass from roethlisberger (Janikowski kick), 2:35.Second QuarterNFC—J.Graham 2 pass from Brees (Akers kick), 9:47.AFC—Marshall 29 pass from rivers (Janikowski kick), 5:22.NFC—G.Jennings 11 pass from Brees (Akers kick), 2:36.AFC—Gates 27 pass from rivers (Janikowski kick), :00.Third QuarterAFC—FG Janikowski 37, 12:23.NFC—S.Smith 55 pass from Newton (Akers kick), 11:12.AFC—Marshall 47 pass from Dalton (Janikowski kick), 3:53.Fourth QuarterAFC—leach 1 run (Janikowski kick), 11:40.AFC—Marshall 3 pass from Dalton (Janikowski kick), 8:25.AFC—D.Johnson 60 interception return (Janikowski kick), 5:16.NFC—Fitzgerald 36 pass from Newton (kick failed), 2:37.A—48,423.

——— NFC AFCFirst downs 26 26Total Net Yards 546 596rushes-yards 16-73 24-126Passing 473 470Punt returns 0-0 4-115Kickoff returns 4-135 1-29interceptions ret. 2-4 3-176Comp-Att-int 33-59-3 24-39-2Sacked-Yards lost 1-8 0-0Punts 4-51.0 0-0.0Fumbles-lost 3-2 1-1Penalties-Yards 0-0 0-0Time of Possession 33:03 26:57

———INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—NFC, lynch 8-43, Newton 4-14, McCoy 2-10, Forte 2-6. AFC, Jones-Drew 6-56, Mathews 8-35, McGahee 4-23, leach 3-7, Jackson 1-7, Dalton 2-(minus 2).PASSING—NFC, Newton 9-27-3-186, Brees 10-14-0-146, rodgers 13-17-0-141, lee 1-1-0-8. AFC, rivers 11-19-1-190, roethlisberger 6-11-1-181, Dalton 7-9-0-99.RECEIVING—NFC, Gonzalez 7-114, Fitzgerald 6-111, S.Smith 5-118, J.Graham 5-74, G.Jennings 5-42, White 2-25, Peterson 1-8, Forte 1-4, rodgers 1-(minus 15). AFC, Marshall 6-176, Jackson 4-64, Gates 3-67, Green 2-42, Wallace 2-34, Jones-Drew 2-25, Brown 2-15, McGahee 1-20, Gresham 1-14, leach 1-13.MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

PREPSBASKETBALLSaturdayGirlsNewton InvitationalConsolationBishop Miege 40, Garden City 33rose Hill 58, Newton 50Third PlaceAndover Central 51, Wichita Kapaun-Mt. Carmel 43ChampionshipOlathe Northwest 46, Newton 42Haven Wildcat ClassicThird PlaceHaven 54, Ulysses 19

———Southern Plains/Iroquois LeagueBoysThird PlaceSouth Gray 44, Kiowa County 37ConsolationGirlsChampionshipSpearville 48, ingalls 45 (OT)

———Other ScoresBoysGreeley County 75, rolla 51Meade 78, Guymon, Okla. 47GirlsGreeley County 48, rolla 45Meade 53, Guymon, Okla. 16

———Haven Lady Wildcat ClassicUlysses 7 6 6 0 — 19Haven 17 16 14 7 — 54Ulysses (19) — Corral 0 1-2 1, Westover 2 0-0 4, Bohl 0 2-2 2, langley 2 0-4 4, Branscum 1 0-0 2, Britton 2 1-4 6. Totals 7 4-12 19.Haven (54) — Boese 2 1-1 5, rogers 7 0-0 21, Caffrey 1 0-0 3, Stephan 1 2-2 4,

Davis 4 3-3 11, Ezell 0 2-4 2, Preisser 1 1-2 3, Achilles 1 0-0 2, Hatchel 1 1-2 3, Miller 0 0-1 0. Totals 18 10-15 54.3-point goals—Ulysses 1 (Britton), Haven 8 (rogers 7, Caffrey 1).

WRESTLING54th Rocky Welton InvitationalSaturday at Garden CityTeam Scores1. Arkansas City 194.5; 2. Newton 169.5; 3. Pine Creek, Colo. 160.5; 4. Andale 144; 5. Ponderosa, Colo. 123; 6. Emporia 122.5; 7. roosevelt, Colo. 113; 8. Cleveland, N.M. 103.5; 9. GArDEN CiTY 99.5; 10. Bear Creek, Colo. 98; 11. Hays High 95.5; 12. Dodge City 80.5; 13. SCOTT CiTY 69.5; 14. Canon City, Colo. 66; 15. HUGOTON 63.5; 16. Abilene 50; 17. UlYSSES 49; 18. Great Bend 44; 19. St. James Academy 39.5; 20. liberal 32; 21. Conifer, Colo. 31; 22. Sand Creek, Colo. 28.5; 23. lewis-Palmer, Colo. 28; 24. Chaparral 20; 25. laJunta, Colo. 17; 26. Maize 15.5; 27. HOlCOMB 8.

———Individual ResultsChampionship Finals106—Terrill, ArK fall Watson, PC.113—Mascarenas, ClE maj. dec. Mies, AND, 9-0.120—Garcia, BC dec. Borrego, ClE, 3-0.126—Watters, ArK dec. Edwards, DC, 4-0.132—Martinez, PC fall Eastman, ArK.138—Charbonneau, EMP dec. lopez, rOS, 3-1.145—Johns, NEW dec. lewis, PON, 3-0.152—McMichael, ArK dec. Armstrong, AND, 5-2.160—Duhr, AND dec. Dice, ArK, 6-3.170—Eck, AND dec. Weigel, HAY, 2-0.182—Montelongo, CC dec. Kelly, ABl, 5-1.195—Archer, NEW dec. Tribble, PC, 9-3.220—Drylie, HAY dec. lissolo, HUG, 4-2.285—Hayes, SC dec. Wilcox, 1-0.Ed Cramer Outstanding Wrestler Award—Geordan Martinez, Pine Creek, 132-pounds. Four wins, all by falls.

———Consolation Finals (3rd-4th; 5th-6th)106—Yakobson, BC dec. D. Eck, AND, 10-9; Cokeley, STJ fall Hayden, rOS.113—Garcia, DC dec. Briscoe, GC, 2-1; Perez, UlY dec. Cos, PC, 5-1.120—Burley, GB dec. Calderon, GC, 1-0; Harrison, NEW dec. Hensley, STJ, 3-1 (OT).126—Martinez, PON fall Carlson, EMP; Stiles, HAY dec. Wallace, PC, 1-0.132—Mulligan, SC dec. Monares, NEW, 6-4; Dakin, EMP dflt. Engles, AND.138—Villers, ArK dec. Phillis, GC, 10-3; Del rio, lAJ dec. Bretz, GB, 9-3.145—Fiss, HUG dec. Ortiz, PC, 3-2; Marick, rOS fall Braimah, liB.152—Weaver, HUG dec. Morales, UlY, 3-2; McMullen, PON dec. Urban, rOS, 1-0.160—Torres, EMP dec. Heiman, GC, 3-2; Markowski, PC dflt. Eggers, DC.170— Gallegos, PON dec. Salisbury, STJ, 7-3; Sanchez, rOS dec. langley, NEW, 6-5.182—Napier, ClE dec. McConnell, NEW, 5-1; Sandoval, UlY dflt. Williams, PON.195—Crane, PON fall Ashi, EMP; rule, HAY dec. Phillips, BC, 5-0.220—Morton, BC dec. Gallegos, NEW, 8-1; Bennell, CC dec. Davis, rOS, 3-2.285—Fuller, CON fall lee, NEW; Busch, CC dec. laulu, SND, 4-2.Consolation Semifinals106—Yakobson, BC dec. Cokeley, STJ, 7-5; Eck, AND fall Hayden, rOS.113—Garcia, DC dec. Cos, PC, 5-1; Briscoe, GC dec. Perez, UlY, 3-1.120—Calderon, GC dec. Harrison, NEW, 3-2; Burley, GB dec. Hensley, STJ, 3-1. 126—Carlson, EMP dec. Stiles, HAY, 1-0; Martinez, PON Maj.dec. Wallace, PC, 11-0.132—Mulligan, SC dec. Dakin, EMP, 3-0; Monares, NEW def. Engles, AND.138—Villers, ArK fall Del rio, lAJ; Phillis, GC Maj.dec. Bretz, GB, 12-4.145—Ortiz, PC fall Braimah, liB; Fiss, HUG fall Marick, rOS.152—Morales, UlY dec. Urban, rOS, 6-2; Weaver, HUG dec. McMullen, PON, 4-2.160—Heiman, GC dec. Eggers, DC, 6-2; Torres, EMP fall Markowski, PC.170—Gallegos, PON dec. Sanchez, rOS, 9-2; Salsbury, STJ dec. langley, NEW, 2-0.182—McConnell, NEW dec. Sandoval, UlY, 3-1; Napier, ClE def. Williams, PON.195—Ashi, EMP dec. Phillips, BC, 7-5; Crane, PON fall rule, HAY.220—Morton, BC Maj.dec. Benell, CC, 11-0; Gallegos, NEW fall Davis, rOS.285—lee, NEW fall Busch, CC; Fuller, CON fall laulu, SND. Consolation Quarterfinals106—Yakobson, BC Maj.dec. Crider, MZE, 15-4; Hayden, rOS dec. Detwiler, EMP. 1-0. 113—Cos, PC Maj.dec. Whitson, EMP, 11-1; Briscoe, GC dec. Perez, ArK, 6-0.120—Harrison, NEW dec. Dietrich, ArK, 3-1; Hensley, STJ dec. Hartling, lEW, 7-1.126—Carlson, EMP dec. Kear, AND, 3-1; Wallace, PC dec. roberts, GB, 3-1.132—Dakin, EMP fall OT Hurtado, GC; Monares, NEW Maj.dec. Sare, ABl, 8-0.138—Del rio, lAJ dec. Miller, AND, 7-4; Bretz, GB fall McEachern, NEW.145—Braimah, liB def. Adler, GC; Marick, rOS fall Perez, ArK.152—Urban, rOS fall Wilson, liB; McMullen, PON Maj.dec. Vigil, ClE, 17-3.160—Heiman, GC fall Glenn, lEW;

Markowski, PC fall Meyers, HAY.170—Gallegos, PON dec. King, ClE, 8-6; Salsbury, STJ dec. Hockenbury, ArK, 5-3.182—Sandoval, UlY fall Cox, ArK; Williams, PON dec. OT Frank, rOS, 3-2.195—Ashi, EMP dec. OT Simon, ClE, 3-1; Crane, PON dec. reyes, GC, 7-2.220—Benell, CC dec. Serna, DE, 9-2; Davis, rOS dec. lennon, PON, 3-0.285—Busch, CC fall Noah, ArK; laulu, SND dec. OT Madden, HAY, 2-1.Consolation Fourth Round106—Yakobson, BC T-fall Sanchez, GC, 17-2; Crider, MZE dec. Nicoley, ClE, 11-6; Hayden, rOS fall Baugh, ABl; Detwiler, EMP dec. Fairleigh, SC, 13-6.113—Cos, PC Maj.dec. Jurgens, SC, 9-0; Whitson, EMP Maj.dec. McDowell, ABl, 11-1; Perez, ArK dec. Segura, BC, 2-0; Briscoe, GC dec. Wilgers, MZE, 9-2.120—Harrison, NEW def. Francis, rOS; Dietrich, ArK fall Nelson, SND; Hartling, lEW Maj.dec. Graves, DC, 14-5; Hensley, STJ dec. russel, EMP, 2-0.126—Carlson, EMP dec. Strauss, ABl, 3-1; Kear, AND dec. Torres, NEW, 3-1; Wallace, PC fall roybal, ClE; roberts, GB fall Sutton, SND.132—Dakin, EMP dec. Nieto, ClE, 9-2; Hurtado, GC dec. Sively, CON, 8-6; Monares, NEW fall Cary, rOS; Sare, ABl def. Grosvenor, BC.138—Miller, AND dec. Smith, liB, 9-2; Del rio, lAJ dec. Eggleston, SC, 8-3; Bretz, GB fall Munoz, HOl; McEachern, NEW fall Baldwin, MZE.145—Adler, GC dq Franco, HAY; Braimah, liB dec. Berry, CC, 6-4; Marick, rOS fall Paul, SC; Perez, ArK fall rivera, BC.152—Wilson, liB dec. Altamirano, lAJ, 9-0; Urban, rOS fall Wells, PC; Vigil, ClE dec. Deterding, HAY, 5-2; McMullen, PON dec. Barringer, lEW, 8-3.160—Heiman, GC dec. Good, PON, 6-4; Glenn, lEW dec. Yager, GB, 9-7; Meyers, HAY fall Maik, lAJ; Markowski, PC fall Hutton, NEW.170—King, ClE fall Turner, SC; Gallegos, PON dec. Haller, HUG, 4-1; Salsbury, STJ dec. Kelly, BC, 16-11; Hockenbury, ArK fall Ortiz, PC.182—Sandoval, UlY Maj.dec. Glenn, lEW, 14-0; Cox, ArK fall list, PC; Frank, rOS fall Nance, MZE; Williams, PON fall Eckman, EMP.195—Simon, ClE dec. Glenn, lEW, 10-6; Ashi, EMP dec. Hernandez, DC, 5-3; reyes, GC, dec. Schmidt, rOS, 3-2; Crane, PON Maj.dec. Salas, UlY, 15-4.220—Benell, CC dec. Prieto, GB, 5-0; Serna, DC fall Nunez, liB; lennon, PON fall Webster, PC; Davis, rOS fall Castaneda, GC.285—Busch, CC fall Todd, ABl; Noah, ArK dec. OT Banz, AND, 2-1; laulu, SND fall Carreon, GC; Madden, HAY dec. Fields, PC, 3-1.Consolation Third Round106—Sanchez, GC dec. Mcroberts, DC, 11-6; Crider, MZE fall Kohl, HAY; Baugh, ABl def. Miller, UlY; Fairleigh, SC fall roybal, SND. 113—Jurgens, SC dec. Swafford, rOS, 5-0; Whitson, EMP dec. Vanderpool, lEW, 6-0; Perez, ArK dec. Amos, HOl 10-5; Wilgers, MZE dec. Schipper, CC, 6-1.120—Francis, rOS fall Frye, PC; Nelson, SND dec. laursen, MZE, 7-5; Graves, DC fall Mendoza, UlY; russel, EMP dec. rein, ABl, 5-1.126—Carlson, EMP T-fall Bending, rOS, 15-0; Kear, AND dec. Coffey, CC, 6-0; roybal, ClE fall Anchondo, SC; Sutton, SND T-fall littell, HUG, 15-0.132—Nieto, ClE dec. Turco, PON, 10-9; Shively, CON fall Schubert, SND; Monares, NEW fall Bethune, CC; Sare, ABl Maj.dec. Martinez, HUG, 12-0.138—Miller, AND dec. lermaseux, ClE, 6-4; Eggleston, SC fall Nolin, CON; Munoz, HOl dec. Pincola, BC, 7-1; Baldwin, MZE fall Farrell, SND.145—Franco, HAY fall Ostrom, DC; Braimah, liB Maj.dec. Anderson, lEW, 10-1; Paul, SC dec. Oliver, CON, 6-4; Perez, ArK dec. Garcia, EMP, 5-0.152—Altamirano, lAJ dec. Mock, NEW, 6-2; Wells, PC dec. Jackson, EMP, 6-1; Deterding, HAY dec. Esquivel, GC, 1-0; McMullen, PON T-fall Jaquess, SND 18-2.160—Good, PON Maj.dec. Yarbrough, ClE 14-3; Yager, GB fall Garnette, UlY; Maik, lAJ dec. Burdick, BC, 3-1; Hutton, NEW fall Campbell, HUG.170—Turner, SC dec. OT Gardner, GC 1-0; Haller, HUG dec. Wyman, lEW, 5-3; Kelly, BC dec. Monrroy, EMP, 9-5; Ortiz, PC dec. Tussey, CON, 13-9.182—Glenn, lEW fall Drylie, HAY; list, PC dec. rodriguez, GC, 5-2; Nance, MZE

dec. Henry, GB, 4-2; Eckman, EMP dec. Ward, DC, 9-2.195—Glenn, lEW Maj.dec. Tenorio, lAJ, 14-6; Ashi, EMP dec. Dorantes, ArK, 4-1; reyes, GC fall Henely, ABl; Salas, UlY fall lay, liB.220—Nunez, liB fall McGrew, ArK; Webster, PC fall rodriguez, UlY. 285—Todd, ABl fall Phillips, DC; Banz, AND fall Fowler, lEW; Carreon, GC fall Kent, BC; Fields, PC dec. licon, HUG, 3-1.

TENNISAustralian Open ResultsBy The Associated PressSundayAt Melbourne ParkMelbourne, AustraliaPurse: $26.83 million (Grand Slam)Surface: Hard-OutdoorSinglesMenChampionshipNovak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. rafael Nadal (2), Spain, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-5.DoublesWomenChampionshipBethanie Mattek-Sands, United States, and Horia Tecau (8), romania, def. Elena Vesnina, russia, and leander Paes (5), india, 6-3, 5-7, 10-3 tiebreak.SaturdayAt Melbourne ParkMelbourne, AustraliaPurse: $26.83 million (Grand Slam)Surface: Hard-OutdoorSinglesWomenChampionshipVictoria Azarenka (3), Belarus, def. Maria Sharapova (4), russia, 6-3, 6-0.DoublesMenChampionshipleander Paes, india, and radek Stepanek, Czech republic, def. Bob and Mike Bryan (1), United States, 7-6 (1), 6-2.Junior SinglesBoysChampionshipluke Saville (1), Australia, def. Filip Peliwo, Canada, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4.GirlsChampionshipTaylor Townsend (14), United States, def. Yulia Putintseva (4), russia, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3.Wheelchair SinglesMenChampionshipMaikel Scheffers (1), Netherlands, def. Nicolas Peifer, France, 3-6, 7-6 (2), 6-0. WomenChampionshipEsther Vergeer (1), Netherlands, def. Aniek van Koot (2), Netherlands, 6-0, 6-0.QuadChampionshipPeter Norfolk (2), Britain, def. David Wagner (1), United States, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2.

GOLFFarmers Insurance Open ScoresBy The Associated PressSunday At San Diegos-Torrey Pines (South Course): 7,698 yards, par-72n-Torrey Pines (North Course): 7,094 yards, par-72Purse: $6 millionFinal Round(x-won on second playoff hole)x-B. Snedeker $1,080,000 67s-64n-74-67 — 272Kyle Stanley (300), $648,000 62n-68s-68-74 — 272John Rollins (190), $408,000 70s-65n-68-71 — 274Bill Haas (123), $264,000 63n-71s-70-72 — 276Cam.Tringale (123), $264,000 67n-72s-66-71 — 276Hunter Mahan (95), $208,500 69s-65n-74-69 — 277John Huh (95), $208,500 64n-71s-68-74 — 277Jimmy Walker (75), $162,000 73s-65n-70-70 — 278Martin Flores (75), $162,000 65n-67s-75-71 — 278Justin Leonard (75), $162,000 65n-70s-71-72 — 278Rod Pampling (75), $162,000 64n-75s-68-71 — 278D.A. Points (75), $162,000 70s-70n-67-71 — 278Vijay Singh (54), $96,667 64n-75s-71-69 — 279Bill Lunde (54), $96,667 74n-68s-68-69 — 279Rickie Fowler (54), $96,667 68n-70s-71-70 — 279Bryce Molder (54), $96,667 71s-70n-68-70 — 279Stewart Cink (54), $96,667 69s-68n-72-70 — 279Bud Cauley (54), $96,667 69n-70s-73-67 — 279Bubba Watson (54), $96,667 69n-71s-68-71 — 279Ryo Ishikawa (0), $96,667 69s-69n-69-72 — 279Scott Piercy (54), $96,667 70n-68s-68-73 — 279Keegan Bradley (47), $57,600 69n-68s-73-70 — 280Robert Allenby (47), $57,600 68n-67s-73-72 — 280Pat Perez (47), $57,600 66n-70s-71-73 — 280Camilo Villegas (47), $57,600 65n-72s-70-73 — 280

Television On TapTodayCollege Basketball — 6 p.m., ESPN, Pittsburgh at West Virginia; 8 p.m., ESPN, Missouri at Texas.College Women’s Basketball — 6 p.m., ESPN2, Connecticut at Duke.Pro Basketball — 9:30 p.m., FSN, Oklahoma City Thunder at los Angeles Clippers.Pro Hockey — 6 p.m., FSN, AHl All-Star Game.

TuesdayCollege Basketball — 6 p.m., ESPN, Michigan State at illinois; ESPN2, Clemson at Virginia; 7 p.m., MNT, Oklahoma

State at Texas Tech; 8 p.m., ESPN, Vanderbilt at Arkansas; FSN, Kansas State at iowa State.Pro Soccer — 1:55 p.m., ESPN2, English Premier league, Manchester United vs. Stoke City.

WednesdayCollege Basketball — 6 p.m., ESPN2, Connecticut at Georgetown; 7 p.m., FSN, Drake at indiana State; 8 p.m., ESPN2, Baylor at Texas.Pro Basketball — 7 p.m., ESPN, Oklahoma City Thunder at Dallas Mavericks; 9:30 p.m., ESPN, los Angeles Clippers at Utah Jazz.

TuesdayPrep Boys Basketball — 8 p.m., Hugoton at Ulysses; Scott City at Colby; Ashland at South Gray; Hodgeman Co. at Cimarron; Hooker, Okla. at Elkhart; lakin at Satanta; Stanton Co. at Springfield, Colo.; Deerfield at Sublette; Forgan, Okla. at SW Heights; Wichita Co. at Dighton; rolla at Syracuse; Fowler at Moscow; Bucklin at ingalls.Prep Girls Basketball — 6:30 p.m., Hugoton at Ulysses; Scott City at Colby; Ashland at South Gray; Hodgeman Co. at Cimarron; Hooker, Okla. at Elkhart; lakin at Satanta; Stanton Co. at Springfield, Colo.; Deerfield at Sublette; Forgan, Okla. at SW Heights; Wichita Co. at Dighton; rolla at Syracuse; Fowler at Moscow; Bucklin at ingalls.Prep Bowling — 2 p.m., Garden City at Dodge City, WAC inv.

ThursdayPrep Bowling — 3 p.m., Garden City at Dodge City.Prep Wrestling — 4:30 p.m., Garden City at liberal (vs. Great Bend, Hays).

FridayPrep Boys Basketball — 8 p.m.,

Garden City at Winfield; Hugoton at Colby; Scott City at TMP-Marian; Healy at Greeley Co.; Bucklin at South Gray; lakin at Cimarron; Elkhart at Syracuse; Meade at Wichita Co.; Satanta at Deerfield; SW Heights at Stanton Co.; Western Plains at Dighton; Moscow at Hooker, Okla.Prep Girls Basketball — 6:30 p.m., Garden City at Winfield; Hugoton at Colby; Scott City at TMP-Marian; Healy at Greeley Co.; Bucklin at South Gray; lakin at Cimarron; Elkhart at Syracuse; Meade at Wichita Co.; Satanta at Deerfield; SW Heights at Stanton Co.; Western Plains at Dighton; Moscow at Hooker, Okla.

SaturdayCollege Men’s Basketball — 7:30 p.m., Butler at Garden City C.C.College Women’s Basketball — 5:30 p.m., Butler at Garden City C.C.Prep Boys Basketball — 8 p.m., Garden City at Derby; Stanton County at Greeley County.Prep Girls Basketball — 6:30 p.m., Garden City at Derby; Stanton County at Greeley County.Prep Wrestling— 9 a.m., Cimarron at lyons; lakin at Phillipsburg; Elkhart, Meade, Sublette at Wichita Co.

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Welton: Area wrestlers claim medals

By ADAM HOLTaholt@gctelegram.com

After absorbing a lop-sided loss on Wednesday at Seward County, the Garden City Community College women’s basket-ball team returned home Saturday and laid its own 23-point beatdown on rival Dodge City.

The Lady Broncbusters got a balanced scor-ing attack early before Tamara Jones took over in a 71-48 win over the Lady Conquistadors at the Perryman Athletic Complex.

Garden City (13-9, 5-3 Jayhawk Conference) opened the second half with a 13-point lead and never let it shrink below double-figures, as Jones

scored almost all of her game-high 25 points in the second half.

Still, a glance over at the Busters’ bench part-way through the second half would show Garden City head coach Alaura Sharp looking less than thrilled, even given her team’s lead.

“I still thought our energy was a bit low,” Sharp said. “That’s been our focus since we left Seward, finding a way to keep yourself energized. I guess I’m just frustrated with that right now.”

Even with the energy issues, the Busters kept a smaller Conquistadors lineup relatively cold from the floor, as Dodge City shot just 35.3 percent from the field despite hitting 6-

of-12 3-pointers.Dodge City (8-13, 0-7)

had a difficult time getting the ball inside on offense, and its guards seemed hesitant to shoot from out-side, even when open in the first half.

Part of that may have been the Busters’ size advantage; just four play-ers on the Conquistadors’ roster are taller than 5-foot-7, while Garden City has six players in its rota-tion who are 5-foot-10 or taller.

“We passed up a few open shots in the first half at times, which is not normal for us. I don’t have to beg us to shoot,” Dodge City coach Lucas McDonald said. “I don’t know about frustrated, but we just had some opportu-

nities where we set some good screens, we got some good looks and we didn’t take advantage of those times.”

For the most part, Dodge City’s attempts to get into the lane were thwarted, which meant for the fourth-straight game, the Conquistadors would not reach 50 points.

“I thought we did a nice job keeping the ball out of the lane,” Sharp said. “Early on, they were able to get some post touches and go to work on the block. Once we tightened up defensively — we were just a little soft, defen-sively right away — once we got that tightened up, I thought that’s when we were able to open it up a little bit, once we started

getting some nice stops.”Garden City also got

some balance on offense, with Carly Schmale scor-ing the Busters’ first six points of the game and Breanna Gottschalk — known more for her out-side shooting — taking the ball to the rim. Both finished with 10 points.

“It was good to see that balanced attack from us, we have not seen that in quite a while, so I am really proud of that,” Sharp said.

The Busters found themselves down 11-4 less than four minutes into the game. From that point on in the half, Garden City outscored Dodge City 32-12, capped by a 3-pointer by Gottschalk as time expired.

The game was tied at 17 with just less than seven minutes to play in the half. In that last 6:49, Garden City went to the line 16 times, making 12.

Dodge City’s Kalyn Williams did most of the damage for the Conquistadors, with 23 points. No other Conquistador topped double figures, although Jazmin Villa added nine points.

The Busters are in third place in the divi-sion, behind Hutchinson and Seward County, which are both 7-0 in conference play. Garden City will host Butler at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at Perryman.

See boxscore in Scoreboard, Page B2.

Lady Busters get back on track with rout of Lady Conqs

By The Telegram

At Dodge City on Saturday night, the Ingalls Lady Bulldogs lost for just the second time this season as they came up short in a 48-45 overtime decision to the Spearville Lady Royal Lancers in the champion-ship game of the Southern Plains/Iroquois League tournament.

It was a close game throughout as Spearville led just 12-11 and 24-22 in the first half, before extend-ing it to 31-27 after three quarters. Ingalls rallied with a 13-9 fourth quarter to tie the game at 40 at the

end of regulation.Tara Whipple and

Taylor Bleumer had nine points each, and Maria Galaviz and Rebecca Wyatt added eight apiece. Sarae Kistler had a game-high 17 points, including three 3-pointers, while Katie Rabe added 13 for Spearville.

———Ingalls 11 11 5 13 5 — 45Spearville 12 12 7 9 8 — 48ingalls (45) — J. Droste 2 0-0 4, Estrada 2 0-0 5, Whipple 3 3-6 9, Galaviz 3 0-0 8, r. Wyatt 4 0-0 8, Bleumer 1 7-10 9, C. Wyatt 1 0-1 2. Totals 16 10-17 45.Spearville (48) — Helfrich 1 0-0 2, rabe 4 4-7 13, Kistler 5 4-4 17, Offerle 1 2-3 4, Heskamp 0 4-4 4, Stein 4 0-4 8. Totals 15 14-22 48.3-point goals—ingalls 3 (Estrada 1, Galaviz 2), Spearville 4 (rabe 1, Kistler 3).

Greeley Co. 48, Rolla 45

At Rolla on Friday, the Lady Jackrabbits of Greeley County lost almost all of a 15-point halftime lead before surviving to beat the Rolla Lady Pirates, 48-45, in a non-league game.

Kelcy Crittenden scored a game-high 19 points for the Lady Jackrabbits while Kennedy Schneider and Hannah Whitaker each contributed 10 points. Kaleigh Barrett paced Rolla with 18 points.

———Greeley Co. 21 12 4 11 — 48Rolla 13 5 14 13 — 45Greeley Co. (48) — Schneider 5 0-0

■ 10, Crittenden 7 5-12 19, Nemechek 1 0-0 2, Whitaker 5 0-0 10, Veleta 3 1-2 7. Totals 21 6-17 48.rolla (45) — Howe 1 0-0 3, King 3 0-0 8, reza 0 0-2 0, Hall 3 1-2 8, Clinesmith 2 0-0 4, Bucher 1 2-3 4, Barrett 8 2-4 18. Totals 18 5-11 45.3-point goals—Greeley County 0, rolla 4 (Howe 1, King 2, Hall 1).

BoysSouth Gray 44,

Kiowa Co. 37At Dodge City, South

Gray’s Rebels bounced back from their second loss of the season on Friday with a 44-37 victory over Kiowa County in the third-place game of the Southern Plains/Iroquois League tournament.

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Trenton Holloway scored 18 points to take game-high honors for the Rebels while Kendall Watson’s 10 points were high for Kiowa County.

———Kiowa Co. 8 13 12 4 — 37South Gray 11 12 13 8 — 44Kiowa Co. (37) — ralstin 1 2-2 4, Davis 3 0-0 8, Wyrick 2 1-1 5, Ardery 0 2-5 2, Odle 3 0-2 6, Behm 0 2-2 2, Watson 4 0-2 10. Totals 13 7-14 37.South Gray (44) — Martens 1 3-4 6, Slaven 3 1-2 7, Skinner 2 1-5 7, Watkins 2 0-4 4, Skidmore 1 0-0 2, Holloway 7 4-9 18. Totals 16 9-24 44.3-point goals—Kiowa County 4 (Davis 2, Watson 2), South Gray 3 (Martens 1, Skinner 2).

Greeley Co. 75, Rolla 51

At Rolla on Friday, the

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Greeley County Jackrabbits easily rolled by the Rolla Pirates, 75-51, in a non-league game.

Cesar Yanez scored 22 points to pace a balanced Jackrabbit attack as AJ Govert followed with 19 and Adam Smith contributed 13.

———Greeley Co. 16 21 19 19 — 75Rolla 8 6 22 15 — 51Greeley Co. (75) — Govert 7 3-3 19, Wineinger 4 0-0 9, Schneider 3 0-0 8, Yanez 10 1-2 22, Trejo 2 0-1 4, Smith 5 3-4 13. Totals 31 7-10 75.rolla (51) — link 4 0-0 8, rusch 4 3-4 12, Telford 5 0-0 10, littlefield 2 4-4 8, Garcia 3 5-6 11, Wasson 1 0-0 2. Totals 19 12-14 51.3-point goals—Greeley County 6 (Govert 2, Wineinger 1, Schneider 2, Yanez 1), rolla 1 (rusch).

Ingalls girls fall in SPIAA finals; Greeley Co. sweeps Rolla teams

pounds, Anthony Calderon at 120 pounds, Tyson Phillis at 138 pounds and Jon Heiman at 160 pounds. Heiman was returning from a knee injury sus-tained in the Buffs’ final football playoff game in early November. After reaching the quarterfi-nals on Friday and losing to Emporia’s Noel Torres, Heiman then won three matches on Saturday to reach the consolation final, again meeting up with Torres, falling by a slim 3-2 decision.

“I’m disappointed to lose this one, but it’s been an awesome weekend to get back on the mat,” said Heiman, a fifth-place state finisher his junior year. “Considering what I’ve gone through and that I had the flu earlier in the week, I’m surprised at how good I’ve felt, and I’m satis-fied that I could place.”

Briscoe’s two losses in the tournament came at

the hands of Alex Garcia of Dodge City, the last one by a 2-1 decision in the third-place bout. Ulysses’ Jason Perez was fifth at 113 with a 5-1 decision over Chris Cos of Pine Creek, Colo.

Calderon dropped his consolation final in anoth-er close match, a 1-0 deci-sion to Great Bend’s Chris Burley.

Scott City’s Clay Mulligan repeated as a third-place finisher, this time at 132 pounds, when he claimed a 6-4 decision over Anthony Monares of Newton. The Buffs’ Phillis dropped a 10-3 decision to Wyatt Villers of Arkansas City in his consolation final match.

Hugoton’s Lawson Fiss (145 pounds) and Patrick Weaver (152) both earned third-place medals. Fiss notched his win by vir-tue of a 3-2 decision over Derrik Ortiz of Pine Creek, Colo. Weaver grabbed his highest finish at the Welton with a 3-2 decision over rival Razzy Morales

of Ulysses. In one of the feature

matches of the night, Abilene’s Kane Kelly, the grandson of Rocky Welton, lost his 182-pound champi-

onship bout by a 5-1 deci-sion to Miguel Montelongo of Canon City, Colo. It was Kelly’s second loss of the year against 30 wins. Ulysses’ Armando

Sandoval took fifth with a default win over Corry Williams of Ponderosa, Colo.

The Outstanding Wrestler Ed Cramer Award

was won by Geordan Martinez of Pine Creek, Colo. Martinez was a repeat winner of the award.

See results in Scoreboard, Page B2.

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Hugoton’s Colten Lissolo, left, works on escaping the grasp of Hays’ Cash Drylie in the 220-pound cham-pionship match Saturday during the Rocky Welton Invitational at The Garden.

Brad Nading/Telegram

Ulysses’ Razzy Morales, right, works on a reversal on Hugoton’s Patrick Weaver during the 152-pound third-place match Saturday in the Rocky Welton Invitational at The Garden.

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LAWRENCE (AP) — Charlie Weis could have spent the rest of his career basking in the Florida sun, then ambled off into retire-ment with a bunch of Super Bowl rings and a reputation burnished over two decades as one of football’s great offensive minds.

Instead, he ambled to a lectern on a crisp December day, using a cane to help him along as he awaited hip replacement surgery. He smiled and grimaced, some-times simultaneously.

“I am not the greatest coach in the world,” he said. “I’ve made a lot of mistakes, but I have learned how to show humility and I have never lost my passion and drive to win.”

With that, Weis set about the monumental rebuilding task at Kansas.

There’s no aura of Notre Dame’s golden dome in Lawrence. Touchdown Jesus doesn’t stand with arms outstretched over Memorial Stadium, one of the smallest venues in the Big 12. Fans don’t pack Allen Fieldhouse before home football games like they do the Joyce Center on campus in South Bend, where Weis was once feted as a native son and then run out of town with equal zeal.

But it’s on the hilly cam-pus of Kansas, one of col-lege football’s wayward out-posts, where Weis has cho-sen to make one more stand. He wants to prove he can

build a winning program, and that five mediocre sea-sons at Notre Dame would not define his legacy.

“Anyone who is goal-driven in anything, whether it was starting up a busi-ness that was doing bad and turning it into something good — it’s no different,” he said. “It’s what I do.”

He’s wasted little time getting started.

In the hours after Kansas athletic director Sheahon Zenger hired him to replace Turner Gill, Weis set about constructing a coaching staff heavy on NFL experi-ence. He reeled in a trio of high-profile transfers and embarked on the recruiting trail with the passion of a man decades younger.

The fruits of those labors will be revealed Wednesday, when high school prospects make their intentions offi-cial on national signing day.

The school has fol-lowed Weis’ lead, putting together a marketing pro-gram with him as the new face of Kansas football. Advertisements in newspa-pers, billboards scattered across the Midwest and TV and radio spots remind fans that even in the heart of basketball season, football has become a priority for a school that’s had a mere three winning seasons in the past 16 years.

“As I look back over 25 years in this business, the few things I know about football are: It begins with

hard work, tireless hard work and attention to detail,” said Zenger, who spent time as an assistant coach at several colleges before getting into athletic administration.

“That’s what I found first and foremost in Coach Weis,” Zenger said, “that relentless pursuit of excel-lence and a passion for the game and for the kids. If you talk to people who know his teams, he’s a disciplinarian, and they love him. To me, there’s a magic in that.”

Mark Mangino took over a moribund program and

returned it to respectabil-ity, going to a pair of bowl games in his first four sea-sons. Then a breakthrough in 2007, when Kansas went 12-1 and won the Orange Bowl, the lone loss coming against Missouri in its reg-ular-season finale.

The program regressed the following year, and went 5-7 in what turned out to be Mangino’s final season. After an investigation was launched into allegations that he physically and verbally abused players, Mangino agreed to a $3 mil-lion buyout.

Gill was brought on and given a five-year, $10 million deal, all of it guaranteed. But when he managed just five wins over two seasons, Zenger decided it was a bet-ter investment to fire Gill and pay his remaining sal-ary than watch ticket sales and fan interest continue to wane.

Several high-profile can-didates rose to the forefront when Zenger sets out on his coaching search, but one by one they fell to the wayside. Finally, after clutching his cards closely to his vest, Zenger let it slip that Weis

was his guy. The 55-year-old Weis

will receive $2.5 million annually over the course of his five-year deal, with incentives that could push the total to over $3 mil-lion.

“I don’t think it’s real-istic to think we can com-pete on a regular basis for a national championship or go to a BCS bowl, but I’d like to think we can fin-ish in the upper 50 percent of the league,” said Dana Anderson, a real estate executive and perhaps the school’s biggest donor.

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AMES, Iowa (AP) — Royce White has been so bad from the free throw line lately that his struggles have literally turned into night-mares.

A few hours after waking up from a dream in which he couldn’t hit anything from the line, White sank the two biggest freebies of his career to give Iowa State a landmark win for coach Fred Hoiberg.

White had 18 points and nine rebounds as the Cyclones upset fifth-ranked Kansas 72-64 on Saturday, snapping the Jayhawks’ winning streak at 10 games.

White, the versatile big man who entered shooting an abysmal 39 percent from the line in Big 12 games, hit a pair that rattled in to put Iowa State up 64-59 with 1:47 left.

Kansas then threw the ball away and Chris Babb drained a backbreaking 3 to give the Cyclones an eight-point lead with 55.6 seconds left.

“I woke up this morn-ing dreaming about miss-ing free throws. So I was in the gym this morning and

shot free throws trying to get it right,” White said. “Teammates keep encourag-ing me and telling me, ‘You can make free throws.”’

Tyshawn Taylor led five players in double figures with 16 points and 10 assists for Kansas (17-4, 7-1 Big 12), which hadn’t lost since Dec. 19 against Davidson.

Big 12 player of the year favorite Thomas Robinson had 13 points, but he com-mitted five turnovers and the Jayhawks were out-

rebounded 36-23.“I thought we got stops,

but I didn’t think we cleaned up. How many times did they miss a shot and the ball go off of us and us not secure or whatever?” Kansas coach Bill Self said. “Obviously, we didn’t do a good last 3 minutes defensively at all.”

Melvin Ejim had 15 points and Scott Christopherson added 14 for the Cyclones (15-6, 5-3), who had lost 13 straight to Kansas since their last victory in 2005.

Iowa State students celebrat-ed the program’s biggest win in years — and first over Kansas at home since 2004 — by storming the floor.

“It was a great win for our program. But like I told our guys, you know, you’ve got to expect to win your home games,” Hoiberg said. “I told the guys to enjoy it and get refocused.”

This was Kansas’ tough-est true road test of the year so far — and it ended with the Jayhawks’ first true road loss of the season.

But Kansas caught the Cyclones napping to start the second half and took its biggest lead to that point, 45-39, thanks to an 11-0 run. Big man Anthony Booker brought Iowa State back, sinking a rare 3-pointer to put the Cyclones ahead 50-49 with 12:13 left.

Neither team could get much going over the next 6 minutes, but Tyrus McGee’s three-point play gave Iowa State a 56-53 lead with just over 6 minutes left. Robinson then blew an open dunk and White hit two layups — one a reverse he spun off the glass — to make it 60-55.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Ben Simons scored 29 points and Kurt Alexander scored six of his 17 points in the third overtime as Drake outlasted Wichita State 93-86 on Saturday night.

Rayvonte Rice added 19 points, 14 rebounds, eight assists and four steals

for the Bulldogs (13-9, 6-5 Missouri Valley).

Garrett Stutz scored 27 points and Joe Ragland 25 for the Shockers (18-4, 9-2), who lost for the first time in seven road games this season and fell out of a first-place tie in the con-ference with Creighton,

which defeated Bradley on Saturday.

Kraidon Woods made a layup for Drake with two seconds remaining in regu-lation to knot the score at 63-all. Alexander’s 3-point-er gave the Bulldogs an 82-79 lead with 19 seconds remaining in the second OT,

but Ben Smith matched it for Wichita State with eight seconds left.

Jeremy Jeffers scored 11 points for Drake.

Toure’ Murry had 16 points and 10 rebounds for the Shockers, whose eight-game winning streak was snapped.

By ARNE GREENSpecial to The Telegram

MANHATTAN — What disappointed Frank Martin most was not losing to Oklahoma for the second time.

It was the way his Kansas State Wildcats lost.

The Sooners harassed No. 22-ranked K-State defen-sively and the Wildcats wilted, going 3 of 17 from 3-point range and turning the ball over 20 times Saturday night as OU escaped sold-out Bramlage Coliseum with a 63-60 victory. “When you’ve only got one guy that makes perimeter shots, it’s hard to win against a good team,” said Martin, whose Wildcats still had a last shot at forcing overtime, only to see Rodney McGruder’s last-second 3-pointer rim out. “They dug up and got after us – give them credit – and made it a real physical game.

“Obviously we didn’t respond and we turned it over 20 times.”

The victory, in K-State alum Lon Kruger’s first visit to Bramlage as an opposing coach, was Oklahoma’s sec-ond against the Wildcats in two weeks and completed a sweep of the season series. The Sooners improved to 13-

7 with a 3-5 Big 12 record while K-State fell to 15-5 and 4-4.

“It sucks to lose and it sucks to lose twice,” said McGruder, one of the few offensive bright spots for K-State after finishing with 19 points. “It’s not a good feel-ing.

“It’s not a good feeling to lose at all, but to lose to a team that came to your house and celebrated is not a pleasant sight to see.”

While McGruder kept K-State in the game, scoring 13 of his points in the second half, the Wildcats had no answer for Oklahoma guard Steven Pledger at the other end. Pledger, who finished with 30 points, knocked down back-to-back 3-point-ers to give the Sooners the lead for good, 52-51, with 5:23 left and stretched it to four at the 4:37 mark.

“He was just catching the ball wherever he wanted to and getting open looks,” McGruder said. “You can’t let a shooter do that.”

Pledger, who also hit two big free throws down the stretch – the Sooners were 6 of 6 from the line in the last 1:07 – played the last 6 minutes, 48 seconds with four fouls. He picked up two quick ones to start the sec-

ond half, then was whistled for his fourth at the 10:55 mark and returning with OU trailing by three.

“We went in at halftime and I only had one fouls, so I tried to pick it up defen-sively, and then it cost me and my team,” Pledger said. “(After the return) it was just a matter of getting to the right spots and helping my team out.”

K-State trailed just 59-58 when Will Spradling scored on a hard drive to the bas-ket with 45.4 seconds left, then got a defensive stop. But after Jordan Henriquez grabbed the defensive rebound, OU point guard Sam Grooms stepped in to strip the ball.

Romero Osby hit two free throws with 9.3 seconds left and the Sooners fouled Henriquez on purpose at 5.2 seconds. Henriquez made both foul shots and K-State immediately fouled, sending Grooms to the line.

Grooms made both shots and Kruger said the Sooners were trying to foul again, preventing the 3-point attempt, but K-State was able to get it to McGruder on the right wing.

“I had a clean look,” McGruder said. “It just came up short.”

The Wildcats did not have a timeout left to dia-gram the play, but Martin had no complaints about the execution.

“We got the shot we asked to get,” he said. “That is the shot we wanted.

“I’d rather Will Spradling have gotten open higher up on the floor, but I give them credit.

“They guarded; the made him catch it further away.”

Oklahoma scored the last five points of the first half to lead 34-28, but K-State used an eight-point run to tie it at 40 on McGruder’s long jumper with 13:03 left. After OU stopped the bleed-ing with a Sam Grooms tip-in, McGruder scored again and Will Spradling hit two free throws to put the Wildcats in front.

They led 48-45 on two McGruder free throws when Pledger and Andrew Fitzgerald, who also had four fouls, returned for OU.

In addition to Pledger, Oklahoma got 11 points and six rebounds from Cameron Clark. Angel Rodriguez fouled out with 10 points for K-State, while Jamar Samuels had nine points and eight rebounds as the Wildcats enjoyed a 33-29 advantage on the boards.

Drake outlasts Wichita State, 93-86, in 3 OT

Cyclones stun No. 5 Jayhawks, 72-64

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Iowa State’s Scott Christopherson (11) celebrates as fans start to storm the floor after their 72-64 win over Kansas in a Big 12 Conference game on Saturday.

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The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH Curb a need to be overly pos-sessive and touchy. You’ll see situa-tions differently from day to day. You gain constant new insights. Don’t fight the inevitable process. Accept a helpful hand from a respected friend. Tonight: Treat yourself.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH You could be quite tired with everything that is happening around you. Step out and start manifesting your vision of how life needs to flow. Though you are strong, you are sen-sitive, too. Approach someone who is fearful of change. Tonight: Whatever makes you happy.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)HHHHH Your smiling style takes you to a new level of understand-ing. However, you might not want to express everything that you are feeling. You are processing as usual, but the end results could be very different from what you anticipated. Tonight: Shhhhh ... you don’t need to tell.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)HHHH Others always wish they had what you have. What they don’t realize is that you really work on the qualities they admire. If you can, help a key person understand it is simply a matter of addressing what he or she wants. Then this person might feel more empowered. Tonight: Wherever you are, you are noticed.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)HHHHH Push yourself to detach, even if you are feeling overly emo-tional. You simply need to do some-thing differently. You will gain a unique perspective and find a more applicable solution. Be open to the possibilities swirling around you. Tonight: Allow your mind to drift.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You could be challenging and working very hard to make a difference. Your sense of direction emerges and could cause a prob-lem, as it could be different from a partner’s. You made an assumption and it backfired. Touch base with a family member. Tonight: Let another person take the lead.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Defer to others, making sure you see life through renewed eyes. How you handle a personal matter could make a difference. You need to listen more to those around you and respect their opinions. Remember, they witness what you witness, too. Tonight: A discussion could floor you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)HHH Give 100 percent in your life, and you will feel good no matter what happens. That kind of security is important. Confusion surrounds what you hear or what you say. The distortion in how the words were intended becomes obvious. Know how much effort you are willing to put into a project. Tonight: Make it easy.

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CLASSIFIEDSB6 THE GARDEN CITY TELEGRAM MONDAY, January 30, 2012

(Published in the Garden City Telegram January 23, 30& February 6, 2012.)

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF FINNEY COUNTY,KANSAS

WELLS FARGO BANK, NAPLAINTIFF

Case No. 10CV276Div. No.K.S.A. 60Mortgage

Foreclosure

BETINA SUE HASKELLDEFENDANTS

NOTICE OF SUITThe State of Kansas to: BETTINA SUE HASKELL;JOHN DOE (REAL NAME UNKNOWN); MARY DOE(REAL NAME UNKNOWN)and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devi-sees, trustees, creditors, and assigns of such of the de-fendants as may be deceased; the unknown spousesof the defendants; the unknown officers, successors,trustees, creditors and assigns of such defendants asare existing, dissolved or dormant corporations; the un-known guardians and trustees of such of the defen-dants as are minors or are in anywise under legal dis-ability; and all other persons who are or may be con-cerned:

You are hereby notified that a petition has been filed inthe District Court of Finney County, Kansas, by WellsFargo Bank, Na for judgment in the sum of $63,898.65,plus interest, costs and other relief; judgment that plain-tiff's lien is a first lien on the said real property and saleof said property to satisfy the indebtedness, said prop-erty described as follows, to wit:

LOT FOURTEEN (14), BLOCK TWENTY-THREE (23),JONES ADDITION TO THE CITY OF GARDEN CITY,FINNEY COUNTY, KANSAS. Commonly known as606 North 10th Street, Garden City, Kansas 67846

and you are hereby required to plead to said petition insaid Court at Garden City, Kansas on or before the 8thday of March, 2012.

Should you fail therein judgment and decree will be en-tered in due course upon said petition.

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT ANDANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FORTHAT PURPOSE.

SHAPIRO & MOCK, LLCAttorneys for Plaintiff6310 Lamar – Suite 235Overland Park, KS 66202(913)831-3000Fax No. (913)831-3320Our File No. 10-001474/klf

212572

(Published in The Garden City Telegram Monday, Janu-ary 30, February 6 & 13, 2012)

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF FINNEY COUNTY, KANSASIN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF

GERALD W. GIGOT, DECEASED. No. 12PR5NOTICE OF HEARING AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED:You are hereby notified that on January 25, 2012, a

Petition was filed in this Court by Terry K. Gigot, Executornamed in the Last Will and Testament of Gerald W. Gigot,deceased, dated September 6, 2011, praying the Willfiled with the Petition be admitted to probate and re-cord; Petitioner be appointed as Executor, without bond;and Petitioner be granted Letters Testamentary.

You are required to file your written defensesthereto on or before February 23, 2012, at 11 a.m., in theDistrict Court, Garden City, Finney County, Kansas, atwhich time and place the cause will be heard. Shouldyou fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered indue course upon the Petition.

All creditors are notified to exhibit their demandsagainst the estate within the latter of four months fromthe date of the first publication of this notice under K.S.A.59-2236 and amendments thereto, or if the identity ofthe creditor is known or reasonably ascertainable, thirtydays after actual notice was given as provided by law,and if their demands are not thus exhibited, they shall beforever barred.

Terry K. Gigot, PetitionerKyler KnobbeBox 937Cimarron, Kansas 67835(620) 855-3100Lawyer for Petitioner

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Registered NurseSalary and Hours Negotiable

$2,000 Retention BonusThe Registered Nurse provides assessments andmonitors all medical/psychiatric issues of personsserved to administer comprehensive medical care.Other duties include coordinating physician andmedical services for consumers by overseeing ap-pointments scheduling and ensuring follow up. Thisposition also monitors and reviews consumer medi-cal records to monitor pertinent issues and providethorough documentation, including preparation ofany related reports. In addition, the RN will facili-tate the training and orientation of new staff regard-ing medical procedures, health related in-servicesand delegation of nursing tasks and order necessarymedication and supplies for individuals served.Qualified candidates will possess a Kansas RN li-cense in good standing, must be able to pass a drugscreen, criminal background and motor vehiclecheck and have a valid driver’s license.

Mosaic, a Leader in the field of nonprofit serviceproviders for people with intellectual disabilities,

offers a competitive salary and a highly competitivebenefits package including No cost Health with

Vision and Prescription Insurance option, Dentaland Life insurance, Retirement Plan, tuition

assistance plus Paid Time Off. Qualified candidates should submit a letter of

interest with salary requirements and an applicationor resume to:

MOSAIC, Attn: Kriss Ayala, HRM,2708 N 11th Street, Garden City, KS 67846-2714,620.275.9180 OR Kriss.Ayala@mosaicinfo.org

Complete an application on-line and see our otherjob opportunities at

www.mosaicingardencity.orgE.O.E. 212601

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE POSITION

LOCAL INSURANCE AGENCYAvailable immediately: Customer service

position available working in our truck insurance department. No experience required as training will be provided. Position requires a diligent, motivated, and intelligent individual who can accurately complete daily tasks with little or no supervision; can work as part of

a team in a fast-paced environment; and can prioritize multiple tasks on an ongoing daily

basis. Must have good computer and telephone skills and must have the ability to obtain

your Property and Casualty insurance license (requires high school diploma or a GED). Our work environment can be hectic but

rewarding for the right person. We offer a competitive salary, vacation benefits,

sick-leave, medical insurance, long-term disability insurance and a 401k profit sharing

plan for the successful candidate. Please prepare a resume including past

employment references (references will be verified) along with a letter of application

and mail it to:Rutter/Cline/Associates, Inc.

Attn: Personnel ManagerP.O. Box 993

Garden City, KS 67846No phone calls please. 212726

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2141 Sandia CircleBeautiful 2 story custom built home! 5 bedrooms, Master suite includes whirlpool tub and separate shower. 4 full baths/1 half bath, formal dining room, office, main floor laundry, stainless steel appliances, 2 car garage, Fenced yard, beautifully landscaped, great patio Security system. Quiet neighborhood.

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Free clothing AvailableMon - Wed - Fri 8am-6pm,

509 Chesterfield DR.All donations / non-perish-

able items gratefully accepted

(620) 275-2961

Did you know that post-ing signs on utility polesand street signs, instreet right-of-ways, orother public property isprohibited in GardenCity. All such signs willbe removed without no-tice! Your cooperationis greatly appreciated.The City of Garden City

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LEARNING CENTER

Would you or someoneyou know like a secondchance to receive ahigh school diploma?If so, the Bison AdultLearning Center canhelp. The Bison AdultLearning Center is forpeople that are 18years old or older. Atthe center, students willcomplete academic cur-riculum using com-puter-based courses.Students are allowed towork at his or her ownpace and there is ateacher available forass i s tance whenneeded. The length oftime to receive a di-ploma depends on thenumber of creditsneeded and the timethat a student can com-mit to the program. ABison High School Di-ploma can be earnedupon completion of thefollowing 21 credits:

4 Language Arts1 Fine Arts3 Math3 Social Studies1 Physical Education3 Science6 Electives

Hours at the BisonCenter are 8:00 a.m. to7:00 p.m. Mondaythrough Thursday and8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.on Friday!s. Thesehours are flexible to al-low students to holddown a job and attendclass each week.Classes at the BisonProgram are Free tostudents. To apply,please contact Phil Kei-del at 620-805-8612 orstop by the Bison AdultLearning Center at J.D.Adams Hall, GCHSCampus, 1401 N. MainSt, Garden City.

Education & TrainingAIRLINES ARE HIR-ING - Train for handson Aviation Career.FAA approved pro-gram. Financial aid ifqualified - Job place-ment assistance. CALLAviation Institute ofMaintenance.888-248-7449.

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Help WantedAN ESTABLISHEDTruck, Auto & TowingCompany in GardenCity, KS Is seeking afull time Diesel Me-chanic , with own tools& a CDL. Also seekinga CDL Truck Driver.Call (620) 275-5252 fordetails.

EXPERIENCED FULLTIME OR PART TIMECOOK. Must be at least18 years of age. Applyin person at Time Out.

Help WantedDirector of Nursing

Hamilton County Hospi-tal in Syracuse, Kansasis now interviewing can-didates for Director ofNursing. HCH is a 25bed, critical accesshospital in SouthwestKansas. The successfulcandidate will be aRegistered Nurse whohas experience in ER,Acute Care, OR, andManagement. This is achallenging career per-fect for a highly moti-vated individual. Salaryis commensurate withexperience, and reloca-tion assistance is avail-able. Call us today toschedule an interviewand tour our facility.Hamilton County Hospi-tal, Box 948, Ave. G &Huser, Syracuse, KS67878. Contact AngelaTalbot, Human Re-sources Manager at620-384-7461. Drugscreening required.EOE

Experienced StylistNeeded. Shear HeavenBeauty Salon, 911 N.9th, Garden City. (620)275-4470.

Help WantedExpanding AsphaltConstruction Companyseeking applications forlay down foreman, plantforeman, milling fore-man, shop mechanicforeman and diesel me-chanics. Experience re-quired. Top pay andbenefits. Contact Leslieat 620-792-5921 orsend resume to ven-tureoff@hotmail.com.Equal Opportunity Em-ployment, veterans, mi-norities and women areencouraged to apply.

FEED MERCANTILETransport is hiring.Over The Road and Lo-cal Drivers needed.Late model trucks.Steady miles.!Class Acdl with 2 years experi-ence. Clean MVR andgood refrences re-quired. !Pick up appli-cation at 50 GrandviewDr.!620-275-0128

GROWING BUSINESSin need of a countercustomer service per-son. Must have a goodlicense, people skills,ability to lift 70 lbs andpass a drug test. Paidholidays, uniforms, in-surance, retirementplan. Apply at Big LRentals & Sales, 2208W. Mary St, GardenCity.

TRUCK DRIVINGpositions available.

Class A CDL required.2 years experience.Home every Night,

Call (620) 275-5499.

Help Wanted

MID AMERICAMillwright Service

is currently seekingfull time laborers forbui ld ing erect ioncrew. Successful can-didate need to have ahigh school diplomaor GED. Need a validdrivers license, CDLwould be helpful.Need to be able to lift50 lbs. Experiencehelpful. Apply in per-son at:2720 N. 11th St.Garden City, KS67846

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Office Assistant withsecretarial skills, re-search and marketingto assist an accountingsales and your daily of-fice skills inputing data.Only experienced needapply. Brent!s Concrete2305 W Jones AveGarden City, KS 67846

Phoenix Restoration islooking for a water res-toration technician. Ex-perience preferred butnot required. Must beable to pass randomdrug screenings, havea clean driving record,clean, presentable ap-pearance, and able towork occasional latehours. Wages dependon experience. Mustapply in person at 1612Terminal Ave.

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Help WantedPOST & Mastin WellService is now hiringmultiple floor hands,derrick hands, opera-tors, and tool pushersfor its Garden City andNorth Dakota opera-tions. Excellent payand benefits with sig-nificant overtime poten-tial. HS grad required.We will train entry levelhands in GC. Regularrotations to and fromND. Applications atBakkenWellService.com or stop by 3210 W.Jones.

Help Wanted

WE ARE GROWING!Freddy’s Frozen Custardis seeking fun and ener-getic Restaurant Manag-ers who can match ourlevel of passion for excel-lence and guest service.Please send resumes to

econtizano@jrimanagement.net

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LostLOST: 5 month yellowGolden Retriever. An-swers to“ SAMMY”,very friendly. From theCenter & Pat!s DR /Walgreens neighbor-hood. 620-640-7632.

United Suppliers seeks a Terminal Manager within its Crop Nutrient Business Unit located in Cimarron, KS. This position will oversee all production plant and terminal operations by performing the duties either personally or through subordinates including:

Day-to-day operations of the terminal, plus budgets, safety, inventory control, expenditures and asset requests.

and establish operating procedures for incoming ship-ments, indicating storage tanks and warehouse facilities to be used.

Job requirements:

college or technical school; or six months to one year relatedexperience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

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stored and loaded in and out of the terminal.

For a complete job description and how to apply, go to: www.unitedsuppliers.com/

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Classified: A Bargain Hunters Paradise

1940 Kensington Blvd.Maintenance free living at Southwind. 4, 790 sq. foot detached townhome with 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms on hole #3. A cook’s dream in a gourmet kitchen, open

floor plan, walk-in wine cellar, plenty of room for entertaining and much more.

Call 620-640-2277 for your private showing.

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AUCTION 20TH ANNUAL WESTERN KANSAS

CONSIGNMENT AUCTIONFARM EQUIPMENT

INDUSTRIAL / CONSTRUCTION EQUIPSHOP - TRUCKS - IRRIGATION - BOATS - RV’S

GARDEN CITY, KANSASMON./ TUES./ WED. FEB. 17- 18 - 19, 9:AM CT

TRACTORS: ‘02 JD 790 utility tractor, 169 hrs – ‘90 JD 4955, Cab, loaded – ‘86 JD 855 utility tractor, 754 hrs, 72” Mid-Mower – ‘80 555 Versatile, 3837hrs – ‘68 IHC 856 w/GB 800 loader w/Grapple – ‘65 IHC 606 w/IHC hyd. loader – ‘65 JD 3020 RC Dies. - Hyd. loader, for Case 700 - JD loader QA forks - 2 doz.+ used tractor tires/tubes/wheels - ANTIQUE TRACTORS, ETC.: ‘40’s Farmall H, restored, w/5’ mower – ‘49 Ford 8N – ‘67 AC D21 Series II Wheatland, Fresh restoration - IHC Farmall A , complete - Case 701B, restorable - Antique Horse Equip./ etc: - grain wagon – buggy - wagon wheels - IHC 1 cyl. eng. - 4 Mod. A wheels - 2 steel thrashing machine wheels - buck rake - COMBINES - GRAIN CARTS - HARVEST EQUIP.: ‘95 Case/IH 2188, 3500 hrs, w/1030 header - JD 650 Grain Cart – ‘04 Easy Trails 500 bu. Grain Cart - JD 400 Grain Cart - A&L 600 Bu. grain cart – ‘07 Macdon 35’ FD 70 draper header – ‘06 AGCO 3000 12-30 Cornhead - 2 JD 853A Row Heads – ‘99 Case/IH 1083 corn header – ‘88 JD 843 Cornhead - JD 912 pickup head - Dirks Welding 5th wheel 48’ combine trlr – SB Semi 5th wheel 25.5’ combine trlr – ‘97 Kent Combine trlr, 12’x30’ – ‘97 A-frame combine trlr, 12’x30’ - Case header trlr – ‘03 Cimarron CM30HTB header trlr - SB adj. length header trlr - UFT header trlr – Combine tires, parts & repairs - INDUSTRIALEQUIP.: ‘99 Case 821 wheel loader, slick – ‘88 L-70 Volvo wheel loader, slick, no bucket - White 46A packe, towable – ‘86 Cat. 613 - 13 yrd earth mover, field ready - Hancock 292B 12 yrd earth mover - Hancock 292 11 yrd earth mover - Case 580 Loader/Backhoe - Bobcat 943 Die. Skid loader - Cat 246 Skid steer - 7’ 3 yrd dirt mover - Midland 6 1/2’ dirt scraper - Malsam dbl belt terracer - McKee 720 3pt Snow-blower - Midmark 321 4x4 trencher - NEW SKID STEER ATTACHMENTS: 5 hyd. posthole diggers, 3 brush grapple buckets, 2 grapple buckets - Rock Bucket Grapple – 2 Material buckets - 2 receiver plates - Grapple attachment - 2 Regular Plates - 2 Solid Plates – 2 48” pallet forks - Set over tire steel tracks – used 5’ pallet forks - 2 lots plywood concrete forms - TRUCKS: ‘96 IHC 930 sa semi w/sleeper – ‘94 Chev 25 Step Van – ‘91 Mack E 3180, 2000 gal. tank, pump – ‘91 IHC Fuel Trk, 5 comp/2300 gallon – ‘90 IHC 9300 16 ton fertilizer box – ‘86 IHC 1954, 10 ton dry fert. tender – ‘81 KW c/o ts semi – ‘81 Chev C70 ts grain trk – ‘80 Dodge 250 dump trk – ‘79 Chevy C70 Feed Trk, Harsh Mobile Mix, Scale – ‘76 Chevy C60 Feed Truck, BJM C900B Feeder Box, Scale – ‘76 Chev C65 ta grain trk, not running – ‘75 Ford LN750 sa tractor, - ‘75 Ford LN700 ta Grain Trk – ‘75 Dodge D600 grain trk – ‘72 Ford F600 feed trk, Oswalt 280 Ensilbox – ‘69 GMC 6500 TS grain trk – ‘65 IHC 1700 w/20’ hyd tilt flat winch bed – ‘64 Ford F600 Grain trk – ‘63 Ford F600 Grain trk – (2)’59 Chev Viking grain trks – ‘57 IHC Wench Trk – ‘54 Ford F6 trk, - - Truck parts/Tires: 20’ Field Queen grain/silage bed - Semi headache rack - Wench bed – 2 Wet kits - 150+ good truck tires - -PICKUPS - SUV’s: 35 pickups & flatbed from ‘10 to ‘74, see web site for detailed list – take off beds & flat beds etc. - TRAILERS: ‘08 Muaer 36’ grain trlr – ‘04 Wilson Pace Setter, 43’ grain trlr – ‘99 Jantz 30’ ta dove tail flatbed – ‘98 Transcraft 48’ s/a drop deck, 7’ exten. – ‘96 Timpte 42’ grain trlr – ‘95 Wilson 42’ grain trlr – ‘94 Timpte 42’ grain trlr – ‘88 Wilson 42’ Convertible grain trlr – ‘87 Timpte 42’ SH grain trlr – ‘86 Wilson ADL700 47’ alum. cattle trlr – ‘86 Timpte SH 42’ grain trlr – ‘79 Wilson 42’ grain trlr – ‘74 Alloy 40’ grain trlr - 26.5’ SB Drop-deck sprayer nurse semi-trailer, 2 - 1500 gal. poly tanks - 30’ G/N stock trailer - 24’ dove tail HD trlr - SB 32’ g/n 3 axle stock trlr – ‘80 Hale 2 Horse Trlr – ‘70 SB 4 horse g/n stock trlr - 20’ semi gravel trlr, w/dolly - 21’ Redi Haul 3 axle dove tail backhoe trlr - 23.5’ dove tail trlr – ‘75 Jantz custom round bale trlr - 16’ flatbed utility trlr – other small trailers - HAY EQUIP.: ‘07 NH HW325 swather, 18’ HS Haybine head – ‘02 JD 4890 swather, 16’ head - 25’ NH HB25 drapper header – ‘95 NH 2550 SP Swather, 18’ header - JD 510 rnd baler - Gehl 1450 rnd baler - Vermeer 1400 bale retriever trlr - NH 144 inverter - Buffalo bale retriever trlr - NEW sb rnd bale trlr - Gopher Getter - IMPLEMENTS: Sweeps & Discs - Planter & Drills - Cultivators & Toolbars - Field Conditioners & Chisels - Mowers, Shredders & Rotovators - Blades, Scrappers, Plows, Misc. – see scottauction.com for complete list - IRRIGATION ENGINES & EQUIPMENT – PIPE & fittings – sprinkler tires – pivot tanks – 10 ATV’S - PWC’s - TOPPERS – 3 GOLF CARTS – RV’s - GARDEN TRACTORS & MOWERS – SPRAYERS ; ‘05 Raptor/Miller sprayer, 850 gal., 90’ boom – ‘96 Spray Coupe 220 – ‘97 Best Way 750 gal. spray rig – ‘88 Spray Coupe 220 - 15,000 gal upright fib/glass tank – lots other spray rigs & tanks - GRAIN BIN TO BE MOVED: 2 Columbian 2500 bu. bins near Kindall, KS – see website for info. - 500 bu. upright bin – 3 drive over auger pits - grain augers - 100’ lots LIVESTOCK EQUIP. – New continuous fencing & panels - FUEL TANKS - SHOP EQUIP. – tools & misc. - 100’s MISC. ITEMS to numerous to mention. 100’S MORE ITEMS CONSIGNED BY SALE TIMECONSIGNMENTS WELCOME until WED., FEB. 8th. Loading equip. sight. For info. on consigning = Scott Auction. 620-276-8282 or 800-466-8214, E-MAIL auction@scottauction.com, Fax 1-620-277-2044. TERMS: CASH, Checks w/Positive ID. - 1% BUYERS FEE ON ALL SALES - 3 AUCTION RINGS WILL BE SELLING AT MOST TIMES - ALL ITEMS TO BE REMOVED BY 3/4/12 – LOADING ASSISTANCE UNTIL SAT., 2/25/12.LUNCH SERVED - NO WARRANTIES EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, ANNOUNCEMENTS TAKE PRECEDENCE - BUYERS ARE RESPONSIBLE TO DETERMINE CONDITION OF ITEMS PRIOR TO BIDDING.FOR COMPLETE UPDATED LISTING & PICTURES

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B7MONDAY, January 30, 2012GArDeN CitY teleGrAM

(Published in The Garden City Telegram Monday, Janu-ary 23, 30 and February 6, 2012)

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF FINNEY COUNTY, KANSASHSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Indenture

Trustee of the Fieldstone Mortgage Investment Trust,Series 2006-3, Plaintiff

vs.William Purdy AKA William Joseph Purdy , et al.,

Defendants.Case No. 11CV21

K.S.A. 60Mortgage Foreclosure

Division 4NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE

Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued by theClerk of the District Court in and for the said County ofFinney, State of Kansas, in a certain cause in said CourtNumbered 11CV21, wherein the parties above namedwere respectively plaintiff and defendant, and to me, theundersigned Sheriff of said County, directed, I will offerfor sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidderfor cash in hand at 10:00 AM, on 02/14/2012, front doorof Finney County Courthouse, the following describedreal estate located in the County of Finney, State of Kan-sas, to wit:

LOT TWELVE (12), BLOCK TWO (2), ARTER ANDYOUNG ADDITION TO THE CITY OF GARDEN CITY, FIN-NEY COUNTY, KANSAS.

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Associated Press

Novak Djokovic of Serbia celebrates after defeating Rafael Nadal of Spain during the men’s singles final at the Australian Open in Melbourne, Australia, early today.

M E L B O U R N E , Australia (AP) — Victoria Azarenka started celebrat-ing, then suddenly did a double-take to ask her coach, “What happened?”

The answer: She had just produced one of the most lopsided Australian Open final victories to cap-ture a Grand Slam title and the No. 1 ranking for the first time.

Azarenka routed three-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-0 in 1 hour, 22 minutes on Saturday night, winning 12 of the last 13 games after dropping her first service game and falling behind 2-0.

“It’s a dream come true,” she said. “I have been dreaming and work-ing so hard to win the Grand Slam, and being No. 1 is pretty good bonus. Just the perfect ending and the perfect position to be in.”

Azarenka had won 11 straight matches, includ-ing a run to the Sydney International title, and reached her first Grand Slam final. Her previ-ous best performance at a major was a semifi-nal loss to Petra Kvitova at Wimbledon last year. Sharapova had all the experience, being in her sixth major final and hav-ing won three — dating to her 2004 Wimbledon title.

But it didn’t unnerve the 22-year-old Azarenka, the first woman from Belarus to win a singles major. She’s also the sev-enth different woman to win a Grand Slam since Francesca Schiavone won the 2010 French Open, and the fifth different winner in as many majors.

Azarenka became only the third woman to earn the No. 1 spot after winning her first major title. She moved from No. 3 to No. 1 in the rankings, helped by Caroline Wozniacki’s loss in the quarterfinals.

The third-seeded Azarenka set up champi-onship point with a stun-ning forehand, her 14th clean winner, and sealed it when Sharapova netted a backhand.

She dropped to her knees at the baseline with her hands over her face. She got up, held her hands up and jogged over to her coach, Sam Sumyk, in the stands to celebrate.

“The best feeling, for sure,” Azarenka said. “I don’t know about the game. I don’t know what I was doing out there. It’s just pure joy what happened. I

can’t believe it’s over.”And she paid special

credit to her grandmother, “the person who inspires me the most in my life.”

Azarenka has been a distinctive presence at Melbourne Park as much for her shrieks and hoots with each shot and seem-ingly boundless energy as for her white shorts, blue singlet and lime green head and wrist bands.

Against Sharapova, she maintained the fre-netic movement that has been the hallmark of her performance in Australia, her 25th consecutive major. She won the Sydney International title last weekend and is on a 12-match winning streak — the first player since 2004 to win a WTA tour event the week before winning a major.

“She did everything bet-ter than I did today. I had a good first couple of games, and that was about it,” Sharapova said. “Then she was the one that was tak-ing the first ball and hit-ting it deep and aggressive. I was always the one run-ning around like a rabbit, you know, trying to play catch-up all the time.”

Sharapova also won only three games in a 2007 final loss to Serena Williams, who also conced-ed only three games in the 2009 final against Dinara Safina.

When Sharapova won the first two games, there was no indication of how lopsided the match would be. Azarenka took control after holding for the first time, breaking Sharapova at love and then holding again on a three-game roll.

M E L B O U R N E , Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic wore down Rafael Nadal in the longest Grand Slam singles final in the history of professional ten-nis, winning 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-5 after 5 hours, 53 minutes to claim his third Australian Open title.

Djokovic wrapped it up at 1:37 a.m. local time on Monday, becoming the fifth man since the Open Era began in 1968 to win three straight Grand Slam finals.

The 24-year-old Djokovic tore off his shirt in cel-ebration after the riveting final. He went to his sup-port camp and repeatedly thumped the side of the arena in front of them in delight and relief.

Nadal leaned on the net, while Djokovic sat on his haunches before the trophy presentation. Eventually, an official brought them chairs and a bottle of water each.

“We made history tonight and unfortunately there couldn’t be two win-ners,” Djokovic said.

Djokovic maintained his mastery of Nadal, who has lost seven straight finals against the Serb since March last year. The Spaniard became the first man in the Open Era to lose three straight major finals. He lost in four sets to Djokovic at last year’s Wimbledon and U.S. Open.

Having reduced Roger Federer to tears when he won the title over five sets in 2009, Nadal maintained his composure during the on-court speeches — and even managed a joke.

“Good morning, every-body,” Nadal said, earn-ing laughs and loud applause from the crowd. “Congratulations to Novak and his team. They deserve it. They are doing some-thing fantastic, so congrat-ulations.”

After coming back from 5-3 down to win the fourth-set tiebreaker, Nadal was up a break at 4-2 in the fifth set against Djokovic, who

seemed to be tiring.But the No. 1-ranked

Djokovic, who needed almost five hours to win his semifinal against Andy Murray, somehow respond-ed. He broke for a 6-5 lead and saved a break point before finally claiming the win.

The previous longest major singles final was Mats Wilander’s win over Ivan Lendl at the U.S. Open in 1988, which lasted 4 hours, 54 minutes.

The longest Australian Open final also involved Wilander in 1988, when the Swede beat Pat Cash. Sunday’s match was also the longest in the tourna-ment’s history.

A tense, error-strewn opening set offered no indi-cation of the high drama to follow. In hot, humid condi-tions, both players strug-gled for consistency.

After an exchange of breaks, Nadal took it after 80 minutes — two minutes short of the entire wom-en’s final the previous day.

Nadal had only lost one match of his previous 134 in Grand Slams after win-ning the first set, but he found his serve coming under increasing pressure as the match wore on.

As if to demonstrate the pervading tension of the occasion, Djokovic dou-ble-faulted at break point down while serving for the second set at 5-3 before Nadal returned the favor by double-faulting in the next game to give the Serb the second set.

By the time Djokovic took a 3-1 lead in the third set, Nadal’s shoulders were visibly slumping and he was talking to himself more often, unable to stop his opponent from pepper-ing the baseline with his returns to take control of the points.

At 5-2, his uncle and coach Toni Nadal moved to the front row of the play-ers’ box to try to get some positive messages to his nephew.

Australian Open

Djokovic defends title; Azarenka claims first Slam crown

Associated Press

Victoria Azarenka of Belarus celebrates after defeating Maria Sharapova of Russia during the women’s singles final at the Australian Open in Melbourne, Australia, on Saturday.

rout of Sharapova brings No. 1 ranking to champ.

Djokovic downs Nadal in marathon final

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Even the usually dour Bill Belichick was joking around as the New England Patriots arrived in Indianapolis for Super Bowl week.

At his opening news conference Sunday night, Belichick was asked if he expected some Hoosier hos-pitality.

“I never had too much hospitality here,” he said, noting that the Patriots aren’t exactly popular in Colts country, “until I went for it on fourth-and-2.”

His gamble on that play at the New England 28 with 2:08 to go failed and led to the Colts’ winning field goal in a 2009 regular-season game.

“Fans greeted us lots more and were awfully friendly” after that, he added.

All-Pro receiver Wes Welker wasn’t familiar with the term when asked the same question.

“What is Hoosier hos-pitality? What does that consist of?” Welker asked to laughs before getting a full explanation from a local television reporter. “I think it will be a little strange practicing at the Colts’ facil-ity. I don’t know how many people like that, but we’ll be calm and polite and not try to rub it in, so I hope every-one is appreciative of it.”

Belichick, dressed in a suit — no hoodie for the coach this time — also

said All-Pro tight end Rob Gronkowski is “day to day” with a high left ankle sprain for next Sunday’s NFL title game against the New York Giants. Gronkowski has been wearing a walking boot since being injured in the AFC title game.

“You’ve got to prepare for every one of these situ-ations that come up,” quar-terback Tom Brady said of the possibility Gronkowski will be limited or sidelined. “You always have to have some contingency plans.”

Brady knows the Giants will bring lots of heat with their pass rush, but for now he was more comfort-ed by not having to face a local rival who frequently has put Brady on his back.

“I see Dwight Freeney’s picture up there (on the stadium),” Brady said.

The Patriots drew about 25,000 fans to Gillette Stadium earlier Sunday for what Brady termed “a pep rally.” Team owner Robert Kraft, who has had an emotional year — his wife passed away last July and he was instrumental in resolving the NFL’s lock-out of the players — was thrilled by the turnout.

“We had 25,000 people

come to our stadium today to send the team off,” Kraft said. “At the stadium today it was so special, the time we are in now, to have 25,000 of our fans cheer our team is a very emotional experience.”

This is Kraft’s sixth Super Bowl as owner, and he vividly recalled the days

when the team was lucky to draw 25,000 for a game.

“I sat with those crowds. I sat in the stands for 34 years and we had one home playoff game, in 1978, which we lost to Houston,” Kraft said. “And last Sunday, we were privi-leged to host our 15th play-off game.”

Brady, Belichick in good mood as Pats arrive

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