HILLSBORO Star-Journal

With more students taking test, Marion ACT scores up

Marion County schools saw a mixed bag in performance on the ACT college entrance exam for the class of 2013. The average score at Marion increased nearly a point, while Goessel school leaders were caught off-guard by an almost 5-point decline. No school’s graduating class had more than a third of students who were fully ready for college, according to the ACT’s benchmarks.

Instruments become animals

Instruments will become animals at the Tabor College faculty chamber recital Carnival of the Animals Sept. 8 at Tabor College Chapel-Auditorium. The recital is free. The recital will feature a musical ensemble in which instruments will be used to imitate sounds and movements of animals such as elephants, donkeys, swans, and kangaroos. English professor Christopher Dick is narrating.

Certificate proves family name change

During a recent trip to visit her aunt, Margaret Bryan, in Wichita, Katherine Bryan, formerly of Canton, confirmed that the spelling of the family name “Youk” had changed twice since the family immigrated to Kansas. The Youk family is descended from Germans who immigrated to Russia before coming to the U.S. When the family left Russia, the name was spelled Jauk, as written on a church confirmation certificate for Martha Louise Jauk, Bryan’s grandmother. The certificate from Zion Church in Hillsboro is dated 1906.

Hillsboro City Council holds special meeting

Hillsboro City Council met in closed session Tuesday night for an hour and ten minutes, discussing attorney-client privilege. In addition to council members present were administrator Larry Paine and J.T. Klause of Triplett, Woolf and Garretson, LLC, representing the city.

Tabor set to start swim team in Marion

If all goes according to plan, Tabor College will have the first and only colligate level coed swim team in the state of Kansas, starting in the 2014-2015 academic year. “We will begin advertising for a head coach next week,” Vice President for Athletics Rusty Allen said Monday. “We plan to hire one by the middle of October.”

Commission rejects request for gravel on bus route

County commissioners voted Monday not to put gravel for a school bus route on Quail Creek Rd. between 250th and 260th Rds. The road is within USD 408, but the proposed change was meant for the transportation of Centre students.

300 pounds of pulled pork served at Tampa hog roast

Although this was the first year that there was no hog at the Tampa State Bank hog roast, bank officials served about 300 pounds of pulled pork from Carlsons’ Grocery to those patrons in attendance. “Lonnie Nickel used to always smoke a pig,” Mickey Lundy of Tampa State Bank said. “But he retired this year.”

Irma Ens

Irma V. Ens, 96, died Friday at Parkside Homes in Hillsboro. She was born March 2, 1917, to Peter and Anna (Goossen) Richert in Las Vegas, N.M. She was a school teacher.

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Antique wagon wheel sheds light on Sieberts

When Rex Siebert, 89, of Marion married in 1943, his father, Floyd, gave him a team of mules, Bess and Jane, and a high-sided wooden wagon that was used to hold husked corn. Siebert used the wagon to feed silage and grain to feeder lambs. Many years later, in 1970, when he and his wife, Vernolis, were planning to build a new house on their farm, Siebert told contractor Steve Jost to put a “good strong spot” in the middle of the living room because a wheel from that wagon was going to be hung there.

Herbs have many uses

Herbs can be used for cooking, medicine, and a variety of other uses. Karyn Woodward makes it her mission to educate people on their uses. She has been teaching people in Florence about herbs and their various uses in monthly classes called herb workshops for a year.

Return to gardening gets results

Gerald Wiens of Marion has had more cucumbers than he knows what to do with this year. He has given plenty away to family, friends, and neighbors; he has sold some to Carlsons’ Grocery; and he has sold dozens at a time after advertising online. He has picked at least 100 cucumbers a week for more than a month, although the quantity has been declining lately. Wiens credits the excellent growth to the cool, moist weather in late June and early August. Not bad for a return to gardening after two decades away.

Farmer discovers weed removal remedy

Jerry Plett of Lincolnville has discovered that his cows love the weeds growing in his empty cattle lots. He opens the gates, and in they go. He said they spend a lot of time in those lots even though they have access to grass. Kathy Voth, owner of Landscapes for Livestock, said toxins usually aren’t a problem because animals use their internal feedback mechanism to decide how much of a food to eat. If cattle taste a bad weed, they won’t eat more of it.

On the right path

If 100 students took the ACT in 2012, and 138 students took it in 2013, what was the percent increase in students taking the ACT from 2012 to 2013? While compiling information about county schools’ ACT scores, that was the easiest calculation to make because of the nice round starting number — probably easier than any of the actual math questions on the test.

Sisters share more than blood

Marion County Relay for Life had an atmosphere of hope Saturday at USD 408 Sports and Aquatic Center. Thirty-seven cancer survivors, all in purple, kicked off the relay with a victory lap. Two survivors shared more than cancer. Anita Hooper and Jan Peter from Marion are sisters.

44 donate blood

A Red Cross blood drive Aug. 12 at Hillsboro United Methodist Church collected 44 donations. The next Hillsboro blood drive will be Oct. 7 at Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church. Co-chairmen Gladys Funk and Shirley Kasper encourage people who haven’t been regular donors or have never given to consider going to the drive.

Couple to wed Sept. 21

Bridgett Michelle Burns and Jesse Willis Hamm, both of Hillsboro, announce their engagement and forthcoming marriage. Bridgett is the daughter of Victor and Gail Burns of Lincolnville.

Local talent to entertain at Labor Day

Familiar acts will open entertainment for Florence’s 76th annual Labor Day celebration Saturday with Cottonwood River Band at 5 p.m. and Tallgrass Express String Band at 7 p.m. Tallgrass Express features guitarist Annie Wilson, who was named Flint Hills Balladeer by Gov. Sam Brownback in January.

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Tabor volleyball off to 3-1 start

The Tabor College volleyball team started the season by going 3-1 in the Northwestern College tournament Friday and Saturday in Orange City, Iowa. The Bluejays defeated Northwestern College, ranked 23rd in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. They also defeated Morningside College and Dordt College. The team’s lone loss was to Hastings College in a match that went to five sets. Upcoming

Tabor runners on top of preseason teams

Two Tabor College runners headline the men’s and women’s preseason Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference all-conference cross-country teams this preseason. Junior Joel Allen, a three-time all-conference runner, finished second at the KCAC meet last year, and 95th out of 309 at the NAIA Cross County Championships. A Hillsboro native, Allen was Tabor’s top runner in each of its seven meets in 2012.

Goessel High to break ground on addition

In addition to its annual sports preview night Friday, Goessel High School will break ground for a new west annex that will house science, vocational agriculture, and family and consumer science classrooms. The groundbreaking ceremony will be at 6 p.m. A grilled hamburger supper will be served from 5 to 6:45 p.m. in the high school cafeteria. Patrons are asked to use the east entrance.

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