New facility will help local company expand services

Written by Jerry Engler Tuesday, 15 January 2013 14:20

The new 9,600-square foot building on the campus of Ag Service Inc. on Kanza Road two miles from Hillsboro will help the company expand its services to include bulk-seed sales and environmentally sound agronomic applications of pesticides and nutrients, according to owner Mike Kleiber. An extension into farm bulk-seed sales has led Ag Service Inc., located on Kanza Road southeast of Hillsboro, to greatly expand its facilities with the addition of a new 60-foot by 160-foot building.

Mike Kleiber, owner and manager of ASI, said the building will help the company also expand its services in supplying and applying environmentally sound agronomic applications of pesticides and nutrients.

He will schedule a grand opening for the building soon.

Although most company trucking will continue to operate from Hillsboro, Kleiber said he expects business expansion also at the company’s branch operations center at Whitewater.

The company, established in 1975, is adding two employees to its average 40-person workforce, Kleiber...

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City to be ‘conduit’ for donations supporting new businesses

Written by Don Ratzlaff Tuesday, 08 January 2013 15:43

The Hillsboro City Council approved a proposal at its Jan. 7 special meeting that will enable the City of Hillsboro to serve as a conduit for private donations for the purpose of supporting economic development projects.

Under the arrangement, cash donations can be made through the Hillsboro Community Foun­dation and be used by Hillsboro Ventures Inc., an arm of Hills­boro Development Corp., as a locally controlled revolving loan fund.

HCF cannot designate donations directly to HVI because the latter is a 501(c)(4) organization.

City Administrator Larry Paine said the process would begin with a donor contributing funds to HCF, which would issue a tax receipt and then distribute the funds to the City of Hillsboro as a 501(c)(3)...

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Marion council sets minimum price for building

Written by Patty Decker Tuesday, 18 December 2012 14:24

The Marion City Council agreed at its Dec. 10 meeting not to accept bids for the city-owned Arlie’s Paint Body &?Glass building and land for under $200,000.

The unanimous decision came after Mayor Mary Olson asked City Administrator Doug Kjellin of he had anything new to report on the property.

“Nothing is on the (Dec. 10) agenda,” Kjellin said, adding that perhaps Barry Linnens, president and owner of Cottonwood Valley State Bank, who was present at the meeting, would like to talk about it.

Kjellin said, “We still have an offer on the table (of $130,000 in cash and no financing). If we can’t come to an agreement on the lease purchase or outright cash purchase of the building agreement then (Linnens) will be under a time...

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USPS rep explains future options for Cedar Point patrons

Written by Patty Decker Tuesday, 11 December 2012 14:44

The U.S. Postal Service is moving forward with a plan to reduce hours at some 13,000 offices to include Cedar Point and other facilities in Kansas, according to information presented Wednesday at a public meeting in Cedar Point.

As a result of the Post Office Structure Plan or POStPlan, Mike Monnington, manager of post office operations for the Kansas Central Plains, said Cedar Point’s facility is going from seven hours a day to four.

The change is expected to happen in the latter part of January.

A handful of people learned about the decision at the meeting in Cedar Point’s old school gymnasium.

“I like to describe the post office as being similar to a coop (both are not-for-profit businesses),” Monnington told the...

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Auxiliary launches funding projects

Written by Patty Decker Tuesday, 04 December 2012 18:20

Velma Hadley, co-chair of the Hillsboro Community Hospital Volunteer Auxiliary, organizes books ready to be purchased as Christmas gifts or for someone in the hospital. The bookcase is inside the main entrance of HCH on the northside of the waiting room lobby. The Hillsboro Community Hospital Auxiliary raised $500 last month at its Bake & Book Sale with proceeds going toward the purchase of a portable ultra sound, said Velma Hadley, auxiliary volunteer co-chair.

“The portable ultra sound will be for use in the emergency room and hospital,” she said.

Now in its fifth year as an auxiliary, the group provided Amy Bartel of Hillsboro with a scholarship last year.

The organization will have another fundraising event in mid-February for a second scholarship, Hadley said.

The auxiliary is also hoping to raise money by selling books in the north end of the waiting area lobby.

“We have a bookcase filled with a variety of books to include Christian, medical, children’s and more,”...

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