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Second snow socks wheat crop
Written by Jerry Engler Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:50
This wheat field, like many in Marion County, depicts the severe impact of this month’s record snow fall and cold temperatures. “Everybody is interested in what happens next,” said Jeff Cady, crop insurance agent and partner in the National Farmers Union agency in Marion. Several state sources have called the crop at least 45 percent gone. (Click photo to enlarge.) Flattened and discoloring wheat fields, like this one near Hillsboro, were a common...
Most changes at high school would address athletic needs
Written by Don Ratzlaff Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:18
The floor plan of Hillsboro Middle School and Hillsboro HIgh School show where the building additions would take place if the district’s bond election is passed. The pink area is the renovated science room and the blue areas indicate the location of the new locker rooms, rest rooms and weight-training area.The most obvious structural changes proposed by the USD 410 Board ofEducation at the high school and middle school campus will enhance theenvironment for athletics.<p>This portion of the district’s$6.625 million total project, estimated to cost just over $2.44million, will include new dressing rooms, office space for coaches, atraining room and a new weight room for strengthconditioning.<p>But it...
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Two Hillsboro manufacturers join forces
Written by Hillsboro Free Press Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:38
The recently enlarged brain trust at Hillsboro Industries shares a mutual vision for the potential value of the core technology behind Kintec Inc.’s groundbreaking hitch. From left are Phil Wyssenbach, company president, Merle Friesen, national sales manager, Tom Kaufman, Kintec founder and now an engineering manager at HI, and Mike Gerken, chief operating officer. (Click photo to enlarge) Sometimes you can go home again.After an absence of a little more than 21⁄2 years, Tom Kaufman is back at Hillsboro Industries as an engineering manager.
And he’s brought with him the key reason he left the local trailermanufacturing company in summer 2004: an innovative braking system...
Old Man Winter returns with one last (?) blast of snow...just in time for the holiday
Written by Don Ratzlaff Wednesday, 11 April 2007 10:07
Just when you thought it was safe to pack away the parka for anotheryear, winter returned to Kansas Thursday with cold temperatures andbetween 6 and 7 inches of snow in the Hillsboro area. Marion County wasin the area of Kansas that received the most snow from the storm. Inthe top right photo, snow piles on cars parked on Main Street in thelate afternoon. The lower photo illustrates the juxtaposition ofbeautiful blossoms of spring blanketed with winter snow. When the time came to start the annual Kiwanis ClubEaster Egg Hunt on Saturday, most of the snow was gone but the childrenand parents who participated endured 24-degree temperatures to findtheir favorite chocolate goodies among the remaining snow...
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Larsen on board as EMS director
Written by Jerry Engler Wednesday, 04 April 2007 13:24
Jerry Engler / Free Press Larry Larsen, now on the job as permanent director of Marion County EMS, said knowing so many people in a small town makes ambulance duty tougher for volunteer EMTs: “You wonder if you did everything you could do, and you feel like others wonder, too.” Larry Larsen has made Emergency Medical Services so much a part of his life that it was almost no wonder that the Marion County Commission named him head of the EMS department in mid-February.
Larsen, 56, even met his wife, Karen, because of EMS. She is a paramedic and nurse who is the education manager for Midwest Life Team, a helicopter emergency airlift service for this area. They met in paramedic class.The Larsens are raising...
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