April 25, 2018
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What's In Outdoors (1)
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Every Friday morning at 8:15, Phil Taunton will join the KVOE Morning show and let listeners know What’s In Outdoors.
Below you can listen to past shows and find information relating to all kinds of stuff. ENJOY!
PICTURES, STORIES, RECIPES, COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, AND/OR IDEAS FOR FUTURE SHOWS?
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What's In Outdoors Calendar |
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All Year |
Kansas Crappie Club Tournaments - More Info |
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Apr 20-21 |
Rendezbous at Council Grove - https://www.facebook.com/events/566815313676531/ |
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Apr 20-21 |
SETHFEST - https://www.facebook.com/events/405505549875329/?notif_t=plan_user_invited¬if_id=1520271902596334 |
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Apr 21 |
Youth Outdoor Education Day, part of Seth Fest at Marina Cove, Council Grove Reservoir. What's in Outdoors will be giving away a KDWPT lifetime fishing license - Flyer |
| Apr 21 |
Kansas Secretary of State's 8th Annual Ad Astra Archery Tournament! - http://www.sos.ks.gov/archery/main.html |
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Apr 23 & 24 |
Kansas Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus Annual Fishing Tournament and Sporting Clays Shoot - Flyer |
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May 5 |
Spring Fishing Clinic at Bluestem Farm and Ranch |
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May 12 |
Aquatic Education Day, Clinton Lake. - Flyer |
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May 20 |
Eric Brown, Blake Rapp, Kansas Hunting and Fishing and Pass it On Outdoor Mentors. BBBS event, Camp Alexander |
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8th Annual Yeager/Jenkins Memorial Catfish Tournament - |
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Aug 11 |
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One of the better explanations for bad things happening to good people is that without bad things we would not appreciate the good things.
This is especially true for baseball fans.
Our Kansas City Royals are struggling. After winning the World Series in 2015 they have lost player after player through attrition for the most part beyond their control. Some say ownership isn’t willing to pay, but the reality was greener pastures were available for stars like Ben Zobrist, Johnny Cueto, and Kendrys Morales. Unfortunately, we paid Alex Gordon.
In 2016 and 17 Royals management tried to compete keeping Hosmer, Cain, and Moustakas, but lost other key players like Wade Davis and Yordono Ventura.
This year the Royals are in full re-building mode! Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean a roster filled with up and coming prospects, but a group of mostly journeymen while the true prospects are kept in the minor leagues so not to ruin them with premature exposure to the big time.
While these Royals are painful to watch and it’s not like we haven’t had bad baseball in Kansas City before.
I’m old enough to remember the A’s arriving in 1955 – I was 9 years old but still remember Joe DeMaestri, Hector Lopez, Gus Zernial, Vic Power and Harry “Suitcase” Simpson, and Bobby Shantz.
The A’s stayed in Kansas City through the 67 season. They won 69 games twice and 74 games in 1966, but only 62 their last year before owner Charlie Finley moved them to Oakland.
The Kansas City A’s were awful, but who can forget Shantz who was traded to the Yankees where he became the league MVP! How about Marvelous Marv Throneberry and Campy Campaneras. Roger Maris was in Kansas City also. There was even a mechanical rabbit behind home plate to give the umpires baseballs and a mule behind the outfield fence.
The Kansas City Athletics were terrible, but we endured!
In 1969 Ewing Kauffman started the Kansas City Royals. From 69 to 79 the new Royals ramped up and we discovered some cool players with names like Freddy, Cookie, Big John and Famous Amos and a no-hit hurler named Steve. Then came Hal McRae, Frank White, Willie Wilson, Splitt, Leonard, Cone, Sabes, Al Cowans and a guy named George.
There was a period of Yankee frustration but finally a World Series in 1980. Herzog left and Dick Howser took over and the Royals won it all in 85.
But then Kansas City fans suffered for nearly 30 years before having another contender, but the love affair never ended. There have been disputes, a strike, several managers and more, but baseball which can be fickle and cruel survives in Kansas City.
In 2018 our Royals short on talent, but real fans still watch and listen and go to the K. The Royals will no doubt contend again, unfortunately, it may not be in my lifetime!
I’m Steve Sauder.
For Sale: gravel 341-9429
Wanted: lawn work 481-9035
For Sale: kids battery powered riding vehicles, aluminum extension ladder, pickup bed cover 343-6417
Wanted: Yard work, tilling jobs and gravel jobs 794-7541
For Sale: 1993 Mercury Marquee 109K miles $2500 344-5735
For Sale: Wrangler jeans, assorted ammo, Bose speakers, people with knowledge of stamp collecting, golf clubs, white sewing machine 443-5181
For Sale: four drawer file cabinets, and two desks (one with extension) 342-2160
For Sale: breads makers, refrigerator 785-220-6906
For Sale: power chair 412-1508
For Sale: '06 Chevy Colorado $3500 (obo) 785-630-1118
For Sale: John Deere model H tractor (for parts) 6 bale dump trailer $1000, 1973 Skeeter boat (needs work) $700 and wanting mowing jobs 443-5051
For Sale: pickup bed topper for Chevy or Ford truck 794-1096
Wanted: Junk Washers, dryers, stoves, refrigerator, freezer, washers, dryers, riding and push lawn mowers, air condition, any aluminum, any steel or aluminum rims, old cars and old machineries call 620-366-2679. Will travel anywhere to pick up junk.
For sale: '99 Chevy S10 Extreme edition $900 366-0411
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Friday's show will feature the Sethfest celebration in Council Grove
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Greater Prairie Chicken's booming on the lek. Quite a site to behold
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Fire N the Flinthills.
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Two-headed snake?
No hardly, just two garter snakes Phil captured enjoying a sunny afternoon on a gooseberry bush while fishing for Catfish.
It’s amazing how many times you can hear TV talking heads suggest “there's a circus going on!” in regards to our national politics.
That’s as good way as any to describe our show with our President and his former FBI Director openly calling each other liars, slimeballs and other terms of endearment.
It is a circus for certain.
It was amusing recently to see Trump supporters defend their guy on FaceBook with: "We didn't hire Trump because we thought he had a squeaky clean past!"
We hired Trump to sweep out the trash......."
Okay, cool, supporters of our sitting president are willing to forgive his earlier transgressions; but what about his conduct since taking office?
Would it be a stretch to think we might have expected President Trump to be truthful, lawful and a role model for morality?
How is he doing?
Truthful is not a term we see used to describe our new President. His exaggerations would be comical if they weren't so frequent and blatant. How on earth can anyone - especially someone with help available to research his claims before he makes them be so sloppy?
Add to this his out and out lies and President Trump is beyond description in regards to the truth.
Our American form of government has been successful in large part because it puts laws before men. President Trump and some of his appointees test this concept almost daily. If not checked our democracy could be in serious peril.
America rightly expects our President to demonstrate moral leadership. A moral code that suggests "if I don't get caught it's okay" is dangerous and accurately describes how the Trump Administration seems to operate.
So my thought or question today for you supporters of President Trump who can forgive his conduct prior to his election - i.e, "We didn't hire Trump because we thought he had a squeaky clean past!" - is how do you accept since his election his struggles with the truth; his willingness to put himself and his administration above the law and his failure to be the moral leader our country expects and demands?
Yes, it's cute to say we knew he wasn't a choir boy, but leading our country is far different from leading a big - even if successful - business.
All this has me really scared because it appears to me that President Trump has too much power and that he demonstrates daily that he lacks the respect needed to handle it. If Donald Trump does not change fast America is headed for a crisis of epic proportion.
I’m Steve Sauder and “There’s something to think about!”
I like and use Facebook a lot. It offers up lots of good information although it has become more and more difficult to discern truth from fiction, but for me, the good far outweighs the bad.
This whole Facebook idea started in a college dorm with Mark Zuckerberg and several friends literally screwing around with the concept of connecting college kids using the internet.
Obviously what they started or stumbled onto has become massive and changed human habits in ways no one could have predicted.
Currently, Facebook is under siege because of their failure to adequately protect the information they have collected about users from outside groups who have used this data for purposes it was not designed for – so we are told.
This has me confused. What or how exactly has this supposed data breach hurt me?
What does Facebook know about me that makes me vulnerable to the Russians, the Democrats or the Trump campaign: My email address? My phone number or mailing address? Where do I work? Maybe, even my social security number? My credit cards have not been compromised, so what?
Maybe I'm naive, no, admittedly I am naïve, but I do not understand.
I do understand if one of these organizations wanting to influence opinion can send a message to 87 million Facebook users with one SEND that's pretty powerful, but how am I hurt? Lots of folks are trying to influence me and most of them bother me a lot more than some strange Facebook message.
Zuckerberg is appearing before Congress and they are roasting him like a pig on a spit. Next Congress will likely develop a plan to regulate Facebook type companies. Regulation might be necessary and helpful, but I'm not so sure given Congress’ track record.
What I don't want Congress to do is "throw the baby out with the bath
water!"
Facebook is fun, informative and more of a positive thing than bad, so please don't ruin it!
I like bragging about the accomplishments of my grandkids and learning about the good things others have accomplished too and I really enjoyed receiving more than 150 Happy Birthday greetings.
Conclusion: Facebook is fun!
I’m Steve Sauder
It’s always good to come home. While we’ve been gone the world situation hasn’t changed that much, but conflict is still rampant with school shootings, gun debates, international tensions escalated and a general fear for the future of our lives as we know them.
Often in the past when situations look very bleak I have suggested prayer as a solution.
While as a Christian this makes me feel better it occurs to me that not all my listeners are believers.
So does that mean I should stop suggesting prayer?
To answer that question my thought is maybe I should try explaining why I see prayer as a good option.
To start that process today I’m sharing with you an Affirmation of Faith recited by the congregation in the church we attend in California. It is a good definition of what Christians believe.
If you are already a believer this can be a good refresher, if you are not a believer or have doubts this hopefully will give you something to ponder.
This is a Lenten Affirmation of Faith.
We believe in God, the creator of heaven and earth, granter of grace and life.
We believe that nothing in all the world can separate us from the love of God, who always forgives a repentant heart.
We believe in Jesus Christ, God in human vesture, who came to love us into new life.
We believe that Jesus took the burden of our sins upon himself and carried that burden to the cross, where he relinquished his own life for our sakes.
This act was his ultimate gift to us.
We believe his death was not the end, but that he was raised from the dead and he will come again one day.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, who speaks truth to all people, in every language.
Our hearts are warmed when we embrace that Spirit, and God’s presence within us is revealed.
As the church, and as members of the body of Christ in the world, we believe we are called to make a difference in the world.
Thanks be to God.
I’m Steve Sauder and There’s Something to Think About!
A study presented to the Legislature last week by Texas A&M researcher Lori Taylor, showed that the average efficiency rate of Kansas schools is 96 percent.
That number backs up a 2017 study from the Kansas Association of School Boards that showed Kansas ranks in the top 10 in an average of student outcomes while its per-pupil spending is below the national average.
Kansas school districts are resourceful. Districts around the state are filled with teachers and administrators who are the heart of education and best know how to try to achieve great things in the classroom. Our teachers and staff are dedicated, and I am grateful and proud our public schools are rated so highly.
Our circumstance, however, is perilous given we are experiencing growing teacher shortages and our average teacher pay is no higher than 42nd in the nation. Our teacher salaries are nearly 8% below Nebraska’s. It is obvious that this has been a decade where school districts, and their individual schools, have had to learn how to function with fewer resources when funding from the state was cut following the 2008 recession and revenue shortfalls in the wake of the 2012 tax reductions.
The Taylor study presented last week was commissioned by the Kansas Legislature which is working to address the Kansas Supreme Court’s ruling that Kansas schools are unconstitutionally underfunded. The study clearly confirms, just as the earlier Augenblick and Myers study and the Legislative Post Audit study, that funding matters when it comes to improving education outcomes.
As I have had the opportunity to serve in the legislature and more recently the opportunity to be a close observer of this legislature I am encouraged that in the coming few weeks our Kansas policy makers will successfully meet the school funding challenge.
Having courageously addressed tax reform in the 2017 legislative session, lawmakers have no appetite for raising taxes which I understand. The question then becomes – can we reach the goal of constitutional funding with existing resources?
I believe we can and here is how. First, we can make meaningful changes but confirm the essence of our current and historic school funding formula. This formula has been touted as a model nationally and has been upheld by our Supreme Court.
We can set realistic goals which, while not as aspirational as we might wish, will improve outcomes significantly for Kansas students.
We can draw on available and likely resources which includes current ending balances and revenue which, 8 months into the current fiscal year, is up $270 million. Experts believe that amount will grow. Kansas is currently benefitting from revenue created by tax reform at the federal level. Prospects for resolving the inequity with internet sales tax are better than they have ever been and could also provide meaningful additional revenue to Kansas. The Kansas economy is improving and that will obviously help address K-12 funding challenge as well as other pressing needs.
Any legislative solution will necessarily be phased in over three to five years and I trust the Supreme Court will agree with a responsible phased in plan.
The path ahead for our legislature is daunting but I am confident they will be up to the challenge. I am Don Hill and that is something to think about.
For Sale: riding mower $225 412-7132
For Sale: 2006 Nissan Maxima $4250 342-8428
For Sale: Brown 3 cushion sofa $65 412-2794
Wanted: Yard work, tilling jobs and gravel jobs 794-7541
For Sale: 4 tires (3 on wheels), aluminum extension ladder, pickup bed cover and bed topper 343-6417
For Sale: Wrangler jeans, assorted ammo, Bose speakers, people with knowledge of stamp collecting, golf clubs, white sewing machine 443-5181
For Sale: Farm fresh eggs 794-8759
For Sale: 1988 Chrysler LeBaron $800, 18 cemetery lots 481-3791
For Sale: John Deere X300 riding mower, Whirlpool fridge, Kennmore Washer and (gas) dryer, dining table (oak) and drop leaf table (walnut) 720-534-5718
Wanted: odd jobs 412-1868
For Sale: Portable ice maker, garage door opener, window AC unit $40 757-3285
For Sale: 2 person jacuzzi 343-3786
Wanted: Junk Washers, dryers, stoves, refrigerator, freezer, washers, dryers, riding and push lawn mowers, air condition, any aluminum, any steel or aluminum rims, old cars and old machineries call 620-366-2679. Will travel anywhere to pick up junk.
Wanted: Junk batteries, and junk ac units 803-1668
For sale: Samsung bottom mount freezer black in color $125. 757-6577
For Sale: Large & nice Office Desk & Credenza set w/hanging file drawers $200 Dual (2-dog) Hunting travel kennel $30 341-1947
For Sale: 2006 Dodge Grand Caravan $2500 794-0553
For Sale: Load of dry oak split small and ready to burn great for fireplace, fire pit or camping. Call or text 366-2850
For Sale: 55 gallon metal trash barrels. Heavy 3/4 ton 2 wheel trailer. Heavy duty welding table. Call 620-344-2661.
For sale: 1985 Celebrity Bowrider ski boat 21 ft long good shape.$4,200 366-1101.
For sale: 2002 Chevy Astro van 342-8344
For Sale: gravel 341-9429
For Sale: 3 speed girls bike 341-3821
Wanted: Junk 757-0534
Wanted: Someone who can weld 794-1096
For Sale: four foot florescent light fixture $5 and 18pc stainless steel flatware set 208-9059
For Sale: 8 barrels (55 gallon) $10 each 220-0069
Wanted: Handyman 481-0001
For Sale: sewing and quilting magazines (giving away) child's desk 342-0767
For Sale: fridge $100, water color, and jointer 757-6577
For Sale: 2001 Chevy 4x4 truck $6000 and looking for 92-96 3/4 ton Chevy truck turbo diesel 344-5735
For Sale: riding mower $225 412-7132
Wanted: chain link fence or vinyl fencing 481-1756
Wanted: Junk Washers, dryers, stoves, refrigerator, freezer, washers, dryers, riding and push lawn mowers, air condition, any aluminum, any steel or aluminum rims, old cars and old machineries call 620-366-2679. Will travel anywhere to pick up junk.
For Sale: antique baby cradle $45
For sale: 2002 Chevy Astro van 342-8344
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(Mailed to Governor Brownback on Monday)
Governor Brownback, just wondering what you thought when your picture went up Sunday at KU/WSU game in Omaha and the crowd booed?
You are good at imagining - like not knowing your tax plan is running Kansas into the poorhouse.
So how do you explain that spontaneous response in Omaha?
I’m sure your handlers had a great answer for you.
Is it possible you are really unpopular and your leadership is a failing?
KU and WichitaState laid it on the line Sunday and the best team prevailed. When it was over there were no excuses, no stories, just honest rhetoric about what worked and what failed.
Too bad you aren't willing to man up like the Shockers and Jayhawks and tell the truth !
Suck it up Governor your leadership is ruining a great state and you can’t even see it!
I’m Steve Sauder
Steve Sauder
President Emporia’s Radio Stations, Inc.
1420 C of E Drive
Emporia, KS66801
Click below to read the article by David Brooks published on NYTIMES.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/26/opinion/the-governing-cancer-of-our-time.html?_r=0
Undoubtedly you know there was an earthquake in Oklahoma on Saturday that we felt locally and throughout many states.
Earthquakes have become more commonplace in the Midwest and a – not new process called “fracking” used by oil and gas producers is being blamed by some for these events.
Just so you will better understand here is a text book explanation of “fracking.”
“Fracking” is shorthand for hydraulic fracturing; a type of drilling that has been used commercially for 65 years. Today, the combination of advanced hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, employing cutting-edge technologies, is mostly responsible for surging U.S. oil and natural gas production.
Hydraulic fracturing involves safely tapping shale and other tight-rock formations by drilling a mile or more below the surface before gradually turning horizontal and continuing several thousand feet more. Thus, a single surface site can accommodate a number of wells. Once the well is drilled, cased and cemented, small perforations are made in the horizontal portion of the well pipe, through which a typical mixture of water (90 percent), sand (9.5 percent) and additives (0.5 percent) is pumped at high pressure to create micro-fractures in the rock that are held open by the grains of sand. Additives play a number of roles, including helping to reduce friction (thereby reducing the amount of pumping pressure from diesel-powered sources which reduces air emissions) and prevent pipe corrosion, which in turn help protect the environment and boost well efficiency.
Why “Fracking”?
Safe hydraulic fracturing is the biggest single reason America is having an energy revolution right now, one that has changed the U.S. energy picture from one of scarcity to abundance. “Fracking” is letting the U.S. tap vast oil and natural gas reserves that previously were locked away in shale and other tight-rock formations.
“Fracking” isn’t new. My dad used “fracking” nearly 50 years ago to turn tired, old oil leases viable again.
“Fracking” today is accomplished using a chemical reaction. My dad and his cronies likely started their “fracking” with gun powder, but advanced to nitroglycerin. Whatever their methods it was far more dangerous than today’s process.
As for the earthquakes and the part “fracking” plays in them I refer you to a quote from a geologist who said, “this weekend's event was nearly 300 million years in the making.”
Let the debate continue!
I’m Steve Sauder.
We don’t always agree with Governor Brownback, but we sure did when he declared the first week in September as Kansas Literacy Week.
You see “Literacy” is a big deal in Emporia not only because we have the best Teacher’s College in America here, but also because of two amazing efforts to improve literacy in early age children that are now based in Emporia.
Much like being the “Founding City of Veterans Day,” being home to both the Kansas Masonic Literacy Center and the Kansas Literacy Center is huge.
The Mason’s are investing are investing $4 million here over the next ten years to provide “unprecedented literacy development that will give richer meaning and greater potential to the future of 50,000 children throughout Kansas.”
The goals are: Service for Schools; teachers and students across Kansas, and Service for families and communities and Research for the betterment of literacy development.
This program is in its first year and will benefit children all across Kansas.
The second program at Emporia State is funded by a $330,000 gift from the Jones Trust. It is designed to assist children in being ready for school and the task of reading and writing. Eleven schools in Lyon, Coffey and Osage Counties are the beneficiaries of this effort.
Combined at ESU these programs make our university the hub for improving literacy in Kansas. Children living in the three counties will have the opportunity to be the best trained ever in terms of early childhood reading and writing – provided we take advantage of what is being offered.
Dr. Ken Weaver is Dean of the ESU’s Teacher’s College and Dr. Dennis Kear is the person in charge of the literacy programs. Both are veteran educators and well qualified to lead.
When comes to the Three R’s I’m not certain about arithmetic, but it would appear kids in our area have been blessed with a great opportunity to be really good at readin’ and writen’!!
Thanks for listening, I’m Steve Sauder
