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WEDNESDAY JuLY 6, 2016

Dont miss Deep

Sea Discovery at
Trinity Faith
Church next week
Deep Sea Discovery at Trinity Faith
Church in Liberal begins Sunday
and ends Thursday, July 14
Special to the L&T

Each day begins at Celebration Reef, where

children will sing, shout, praise, pray and be introduced to a Bible story and the daily theme. Then
after children experience the other activities of the
day, they gather back at Celebration Reef to be
encouraged to love God and to be motivated to
serve others.
The staff is waiting for some brave deep-sea
divers to join them in serving and having fun!
Who: Children age 4-11 (through fifth grade)
are invited from 6 to 8:30 p.m. from Sunday. July
10 through Thursday, July 14 at Trinity Faith
Church, one mile south of Pine Street on Kansas
Ave.
For more information, contact the TFC Office
624-5729 or Kim Buller 580-539-1094.

Local candidate
forum scheduled
for Thursday
Seward Countys local candidate forum is slated
for 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Rock Island Depot.
County Commission:
District 1 CJ Wettstein/Cecil Milhon
District 5 Jack Jacob (unopposed)
County Clerk:Stacia Long/Colleen Parmenter
Unapposed candidates Kitty Romine(County
Treasurer); Karen Warden(Register of Deeds);
Russell Hasenbank(County Attorney)
and Bill McBryde(Sheriff) will also be present.
The Chamber will be taking questions prior to the
forum by telephone(624-3855);
and by email at brenda@liberalkschamber.com.
Written questions will be accepted from the
audience during the forum.
Both forums will air on KSCB 1270AM and both
forums are sponsored by Liberal Chamber of
Commerce, KSCB Radio and the Leader & Times.

Early Risers
Kiwanis to off No.
1 quality Georgia
peaches Satuday
Special to the L&T

The Liberal Early Risers Kiwanis Club has been

fortunate enough to
acquire
fresh
Georgia peaches
for
sale
on
Saturday. The
group will
have seven
pallets of No.
1
quality
G e o r g i a
peaches. They
will
sell
from
approximately 6:30 a.m.
Saturday until they are all gone.

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ALL-STARS
Rosters set
for All-Star
game
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Screen shots of Joyce Warshaws Twitter account

show her support of Hillary Clinton, for the Affordable Care Act and for Barack Obamas Supreme
Court appointee. Warshaw also thanked Obama for following the Constitution. Warshaw is running
as a Republican for the 38th District Kansas Senate seat. Screen shots of Warshaws Twitter account taken June 12

Warshaw runs as Republican, tweets support for Democrats

L&T investigative report

According to cnsnews.com, Republican opposition to Obamacare was 85

percent in South Carolina and 74
percent in Florida.
Hillary Clinton tweeted an appeal for
voting in the Democratic Primary May
17. The Tweet encouraged those that
were voting for Hillary to retweet the
post. Warshaw retweeted it.
After the death of Antonin Scalia, a
champion of conservative causes on the
U.S. Supreme Court, Obama immediately announced Merrick Garland as a
replacement, but the Republican-led
Senate refused to hold hearings, opting
to allow the next president to fill the

vacancy.
Obama sent out a tweet asking those
who believed Merrick deserved fair
consideration to retweet the post. Not
only did Warshaw retweet it, but she
added her own tweet, saying, @BarackObama Thanks for following the
Constitution now if only others
would!!!!!
I am not going to apologize or take
down what I have done because at that
moment that is the way I felt, Warshaw
said. That is the way I read it. It is what
it is now.

LACF receives Partnership

for Success 2015 grant

Commissioners
give green light
on 4-H
building
bidding process

Joyce Warshaw is running as a Republican for the Kansas Senate, but her
Twitter account paints a much different
picture than a Kansas conservative.
Warshaw, the mayor of Dodge City
and a principal in the Dodge City
school system, is seeking to replace
Garrett Love as senator for the 38th
District which includes Liberal and
Seward County.
She is running against Representative
Bud Estes, who currently represents
Dodge City in the Kansas House.
Warshaws Twitter account has shown

support for The Affordable Care Act,

President Barack Obamas nominee for
the U.S. Supreme Court and
encouraged voters in Kentucky and
Oregon to vote for Hillary Clinton
during the Democratic Primary.
She also had tweets from Massachusetts liberal Elizabeth Warren.
Warshaw retweeted an Obama meme
that touted the success of the
Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare,
while most conservatives and a majority
of Americans support its repeal. Real
Clear Politics currently is showing a 7.2
point lead for repealing Obamacare, 51
to 43.8.

Special to the L&T

TOPEKA The Kansas Department for Aging

and Disability Services (KDADS) announced on
Monday grantees for the Partnership for Success
2015 (PFS 2015). Grantees will use these funds to
address the problems of underage drinking in their
communities.
The four Kansas coalitions awarded the PFS 2015
underage drinking prevention grants included the
Woodson County Interagency Coalition, Live Well
Live in Atchison, the Liberal Area Coalition for
Families in Liberal and the Ness County Coalition.
The PFS 2015 grant was designed by the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA) to prevent and reduce
underage drinking, both past-30-day alcohol use,
binge drinking among youth and young adults aged
12-20, and to prevent and reduce the incidence and
prevalence of prescription drug abuse and misuse
among individuals aged 18-25 in high-risk, high
need, sub-recipient communities and pilot areas
across the state.
This new federal funding allows KDADS to
broaden its current prevention efforts targeting
youth abuse, KDADS Interim Secretary Tim Keck
said. Nearly 17 percent of all Kansas sixth, eighth,
10th and 12th graders reported drinking in the past
30 days in the most recent Kansas Communities
That Care student survey. The data clearly demonstrates the need to continue to work with local
communities to prevent and reduce substance
abuse, which leads to multiple harmful consequences.
This grant funding offers our state some great
new opportunities to address what are very serious
problems, Sarah Fischer, the director of Prevention
and Promotion Services at KDADS, added. We
look forward to seeing the positive community
outcomes that our grantees will be able to achieve
over the next five years.
Andrea Clements, Executive Director of Live
Well Live Atchison echoed Fischers enthusiasm.
We are excited to have received PFS funding
which will help kick start a community conversation
regarding underage drinking, Clements
said. These funds will allow Live Well Live Atchison
to partner with the community on underage
drinking prevention efforts and initiatives.
The coalitions awarded grants are ready to move
into the implementation phase of their programs
with sustainable plans that incorporate the Strategic
Prevention Frameworks guidance and evidencebased strategies. They will be supported in their

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By ELLY GRIMM
Leader & Times
With Liberals own Liberal Area Coalition for Families being one of
the four recipients of this grant, LACF member Sarah Foreman was
very pleased to be honored with the money.
Because of where we fall in a lot of the community health needs
assessment, and where our county falls in a lot of those needs,
Foreman said. We realized there was a need for this, the timing was
right for us to address this. Also, the people were working with at the
college, we have a pretty good working relationship with them, and
they felt for their student population, this was a need that had to be
addressed, whether through education, different policies, or different
programs we could offer. So it was just a good time for us to start this.
The grants purpose is for the prevention of underage drinking, and
underage drinking for this grant is for those 12 to 20 years old,
Foreman said. It will be used for prevention efforts to stop underage
drinking, and as far as the actual program policy, or practice, that is
being determined right now, according to Foreman. The LACF was
notified of the grant in April.
"We have myself and eight other members of the community on the
leadership team, including college employees, who have direct student
contact, and some high school employees as well, Foreman said.
Over the next several months, well be going through a planning
process called a Strategic Prevention Framework to see what our
community needs are, how ready the community is for that change,
who the key players would be in making those changes. Its a very
outlined, step-by-step process to help us identify how best to use those
dollars.
Overall, Foreman added, the coalition is excited to get started
working on programs for this grant.
One of the great things about the coalition is our mission is pretty
broad, so we can morph to what the community needs are, and then
seek out funding for those needs, Foreman said. And based on some
community assessments, underage drinking was highlighted as one of
the areas needing to be addressed, because when you have children
drinking who are underage, that can lead to other risky behaviors. So
kind of all those risky behaviors underage drinking is associated with,
we fall very high in the rankings for counties in our state. Underage
drinking is not the only problems, but there are other risky behaviors,
which I think can be defined as teenage pregnancy, DUIs, MIPs,
truancy, and other issues. So were addressing not only underage
drinking, but also the behaviors associated with that.
The planning process will go through the end of September,
Foreman said, and the grant is actually for four years. Foreman added
she hopes the coalitions work will last after the four years and even
show improvement.
Because of where we fall in a lot of the community health needs
assessment, and where our county falls in a lot of those needs,
Foreman said. We realized there was a need for this, the timing was
right for us to address this. Also, the people were working with at the
college, we have a pretty good working relationship with them, and
they felt for their student population, this was a need that had to be
addressed, whether through education, different policies, or different
programs we could offer. So it was just a good time for us to start this.

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By ROBERT PIERCE
Leader &Times
After some issues with mold and
other pollutants forced the closure
and destruction of the former 4-H
building at the Seward County
Fairgrounds a few years ago, a
recent move has been made for
building a new facility for youth in
the organization to use.
Tuesday, that move took a step
forward as Seward County commissioners voted unanimously to give
county officials the green light to go
forward with a bidding process to
construct a new 4-H building.
County administrator April
Warden said the 4-H building,
which is a multi-purpose facility, has
been on the agenda before, and a
site and floor plan have been
completed by the local firm Earles
Engineering.
Warden said the estimated cost of
construction is $260,000.
We are coming to you this
evening to finally ask for approval to
be able to move forward with a
licensed contractor, be able to
submit this out for bids, she said to
the commission. Kent Hamlin with
the
planning
and
zoning
department will be putting together
those specs for the bid with your
approval. Were just asking to move
forward with this process.
Warden said the final floor plan
commissioners had recommended
does not have a basement.
Weve asked K-State Research
and Extension to look at the floor
plan, she said. There were a few
modifications made to the kitchen
area, cutting back a little bit on what
they were wanting in the kitchen.
Those changes have been made.
The commission voted 5-0 to
allow for solicitation of bids for the
project.

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