The City of Salina has adjusted rental rates for its facilities. From the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/salina.ks.gov">City of Salina Facebook page</a>:

Effective May 2, 2022, The City of Salina will establish new hourly rates for Neighborhood Centers and Park Shelters. The fees are listed in the graphic below.

For more information about reserving neighborhood centers or park shelters, please visit <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsalinaparks.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0J3JhWh30AM17zFJd6Q9pfNjPN9MdD_B2nrIh6XEz3RRWIJvnz4RNFDNU&amp;h=AT2PvwJW-hoiKG31JoI3ufb9t39A8aUFe9h4wE8yrQMBfRNFXObH4FkonrWIKQYyg0q-vHnjb08Ik8tJdgrcKIa38PBn8YbjInxkQh0XUJT686oLfmyk1D0oDJaC0qvaFg&amp;__tn__=-UK-R&amp;c[0]=AT1tuUZtHlx4mcIksz4LdM00lrlUvqLTG6hwfAbBgN3NClT0Vt2BIPtuWddK-X0Am9ebGsheBxIjKPT2K9lkJ-BhHgtqspmxo-5T-CGVy3VU1nWOZxo_R7N0qAlym1KNESI-DNCXA0luwQDGvPrfmx7Z6P0CR9WuZqNkhgqc6hrsGU_xYfrwriZSdO1xPYiFM7rVwQ_Qf8gM" target="_blank">salinaparks.com</a> or call the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SalinaParksAndRecreation/?__cft__[0]=AZWgRG37tU1RBGqg2chG1ZrqRh34o-6l7sLX4zNyySQM0ggJrCDg3JQLiH3hqLkmppkiD4l05gtZ_iaaUg18Hzr_gBQjnCQT7WCu3wF2vXMV5zAbX7tbL1rygjQ7D2j7eUSrO34XQGyGg0tJfwLm6qFfz63QJNKQ4BRwh238nDMZ7GRleA_OFwCTMMYagsJbAtQ&amp;__tn__=kK-R">Salina Parks and Recreation</a> Office at (785) 309-5765.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The City of Salina has adjusted rental rates for its facilities. From the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/salina.ks.gov">City of Salina Facebook page</a>:Effective May 2, 2022, The City of Salina will establish new hourly rates for Neighborhood Centers and Park Shelters. The fees are listed in the graphic below.For more information about reserving neighborhood centers or park shelters, please visit <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsalinaparks.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0J3JhWh30AM17zFJd6Q9pfNjPN9MdD_B2nrIh6XEz3RRWIJvnz4RNFDNU&amp;h=AT2PvwJW-hoiKG31JoI3ufb9t39A8aUFe9h4wE8yrQMBfRNFXObH4FkonrWIKQYyg0q-vHnjb08Ik8tJdgrcKIa38PBn8YbjInxkQh0XUJT686oLfmyk1D0oDJaC0qvaFg&amp;__tn__=-UK-R&amp;c[0]=AT1tuUZtHlx4mcIksz4LdM00lrlUvqLTG6hwfAbBgN3NClT0Vt2BIPtuWddK-X0Am9ebGsheBxIjKPT2K9lkJ-BhHgtqspmxo-5T-CGVy3VU1nWOZxo_R7N0qAlym1KNESI-DNCXA0luwQDGvPrfmx7Z6P0CR9WuZqNkhgqc6hrsGU_xYfrwriZSdO1xPYiFM7rVwQ_Qf8gM" target="_blank">salinaparks.com</a> or call the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SalinaParksAndRecreation/?__cft__[0]=AZWgRG37tU1RBGqg2chG1ZrqRh34o-6l7sLX4zNyySQM0ggJrCDg3JQLiH3hqLkmppkiD4l05gtZ_iaaUg18Hzr_gBQjnCQT7WCu3wF2vXMV5zAbX7tbL1rygjQ7D2j7eUSrO34XQGyGg0tJfwLm6qFfz63QJNKQ4BRwh238nDMZ7GRleA_OFwCTMMYagsJbAtQ&amp;__tn__=kK-R">Salina Parks and Recreation</a> Office at (785) 309-5765.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure>
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City of Salina: New rates for neighborhood centers, park shelters

Redistricting, the jail project, and vehicles are among the items on the Saline County Commission agenda for Tuesday.

Saline County Commission is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday in room 107 of the City-County Building, 300 W. Ash Street. The meetings also can be viewed on Saline County’s YouTube channel:

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwwZp_cTSJ3Nepp_5rOGevA">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwwZp_cTSJ3Nepp_5rOGevA</a>.

To participate in the meetings, citizens will need to use the Zoom link. Use the following link and put in the Meeting ID and passcode:

<a href="https://zoom.us/j/96835819901?pwd=bUEvaExUb2ppMEFaUnd6cUd6MmNMUT09">https://zoom.us/j/96835819901?pwd=bUEvaExUb2ppMEFaUnd6cUd6MmNMUT09</a>

For further information, contact the County Commission’s Office at (785) 309-5825.

Commissioners are scheduled to consider a resolution re-aligning the commission districts to make the five districts as close to equal in population as possible.

If approved, the commission districts would include the following townships and precincts.

Townships: Cambria, Dayton, and Elm Creek

District No. 2 (Robert Vidricksen)

Townships: Eureka, Greeley (including voting areas Greeley 1, Greeley 2 and Greeley 3), Gypsum, and Solomon

Precincts: 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 34, and 36

Townships: Falun, Smoky View, Smolan, and Washington

Townships: Glendale, Ohio, Pleasant Valley, Smoky Hill, and Spring Creek

Other items on the county agenda for Tuesday include the following.

●Consider approving a request to proclaim Entrepreneurship Week in the county

●Consider a request for installation of a dedicated fiber optics cable to link the new Saline County Jail with the Saline County data center. "The fiber will be used by the Sheriff’s office to connect to the City County building in order to access applications and data required by the Sheriff’s Office operations," according to information from the commission meeting packet.

●Consider awarding a bid for the county's 2022 hot-mix asphalt construction

●Consider awarding a bid for the county's 2022 bituminous crack sealing

●Discuss the county's vehicle fleet management

To see the Saline County Commission meeting packet for Tuesday (45-page pdf), <a href="https://www.saline.org/Portals/0/Content/Commissioners/Documents/Agenda/Current/20220308.pdf?ver=E0TtMxdumGr14fENKHaUpg%3d%3d">click here</a>.

By SALINA POSTRedistricting, the jail project, and vehicles are among the items on the Saline County Commission agenda for Tuesday.About the meetingSaline County Commission is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday in room 107 of the City-County Building, 300 W. Ash Street. The meetings also can be viewed on Saline County’s YouTube channel:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwwZp_cTSJ3Nepp_5rOGevA">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwwZp_cTSJ3Nepp_5rOGevA</a>.To participate in the meetings, citizens will need to use the Zoom link. Use the following link and put in the Meeting ID and passcode:<a href="https://zoom.us/j/96835819901?pwd=bUEvaExUb2ppMEFaUnd6cUd6MmNMUT09">https://zoom.us/j/96835819901?pwd=bUEvaExUb2ppMEFaUnd6cUd6MmNMUT09</a>Meeting ID: 968 3581 9901Passcode: 144636For further information, contact the County Commission’s Office at (785) 309-5825.Agenda itemsCommissioners are scheduled to consider a resolution re-aligning the commission districts to make the five districts as close to equal in population as possible.If approved, the commission districts would include the following townships and precincts.District No. 1 (Monte Shadwick)Townships: Cambria, Dayton, and Elm CreekPrecincts: 1, 2, 5, 8, 15, 16, 17 and 18District No. 2 (Robert Vidricksen)Townships: Eureka, Greeley (including voting areas Greeley 1, Greeley 2 and Greeley 3), Gypsum, and SolomonPrecincts: 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 29District No. 3 (Rodger Sparks)Townships: Liberty and WalnutPrecincts: 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 34, and 36District No. 4 (James Weese)Townships: Falun, Smoky View, Smolan, and WashingtonPrecincts: 12, 13, 14, 32, 33, and 35District No. 5 (Michael White)Townships: Glendale, Ohio, Pleasant Valley, Smoky Hill, and Spring CreekPrecincts: 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, and 24Other items on the county agenda for Tuesday include the following.●Consider approving a request to proclaim Entrepreneurship Week in the county●Consider a request for installation of a dedicated fiber optics cable to link the new Saline County Jail with the Saline County data center. "The fiber will be used by the Sheriff’s office to connect to the City County building in order to access applications and data required by the Sheriff’s Office operations," according to information from the commission meeting packet.●Consider awarding a bid for the county's 2022 hot-mix asphalt construction●Consider awarding a bid for the county's 2022 bituminous crack sealing●Discuss the county's vehicle fleet management●Hear a jail project updateTo see the Saline County Commission meeting packet for Tuesday (45-page pdf), <a href="https://www.saline.org/Portals/0/Content/Commissioners/Documents/Agenda/Current/20220308.pdf?ver=E0TtMxdumGr14fENKHaUpg%3d%3d">click here</a>.

Redistricting, jail among Saline Co. agenda items

TOPEKA — Chief Justice Marla Luckert reappointed Jerome Hellmer, a retired judge, to the Kansas Government Ethics Commission.

Hellmer’s term runs through Jan. 31, 2024.

Hellmer has served on the ethics commission since his January 2015 retirement as chief judge of the 28th Judicial District, which is composed of Saline and Ottawa counties. He served as a district court judge from 1996 to 2011 and chief judge from 2011 to 2015. Before being appointed judge, Hellmer practiced law in Salina for 22 years.

The nine-member Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission is charged with administering, interpreting and enforcing the state's Campaign Finance Act and laws relating to conflicts of interest, financial disclosure, and lobbying regulation. These laws establish the public’s right to information about the financial affairs of Kansas’ public officials, lobbyists, and candidates for office. The commission also renders advisory opinions and can adopt rules and regulations under a less comprehensive conflict-of-interest law covering local government officials and employees.

The chief justice appoints one member of the commission. The governor appoints two members, and the secretary of state, attorney general, Senate president, House speaker, Senate minority leader, and House minority leader each appoint a member.

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 </figure>Kansas Judicial BranchTOPEKA — Chief Justice Marla Luckert reappointed Jerome Hellmer, a retired judge, to the Kansas Government Ethics Commission.Hellmer’s term runs through Jan. 31, 2024.Hellmer has served on the ethics commission since his January 2015 retirement as chief judge of the 28th Judicial District, which is composed of Saline and Ottawa counties. He served as a district court judge from 1996 to 2011 and chief judge from 2011 to 2015. Before being appointed judge, Hellmer practiced law in Salina for 22 years.The nine-member Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission is charged with administering, interpreting and enforcing the state's Campaign Finance Act and laws relating to conflicts of interest, financial disclosure, and lobbying regulation. These laws establish the public’s right to information about the financial affairs of Kansas’ public officials, lobbyists, and candidates for office. The commission also renders advisory opinions and can adopt rules and regulations under a less comprehensive conflict-of-interest law covering local government officials and employees.The chief justice appoints one member of the commission. The governor appoints two members, and the secretary of state, attorney general, Senate president, House speaker, Senate minority leader, and House minority leader each appoint a member.

Hellmer reappointed to state Government Ethics Commission

SALINE COUNTY —A Kansas woman was injured in an accident just before 7:30 a.m. Monday in Saline County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2003 Ford F150 driven by Tristen R. Witt, 20, Manhattan, was eastbound on Old 40 Highway just east of Interstate 135.

The pickup slid on the ice and off the roadway into the ditch and struck a tree.

EMS transported Witt to Salina Regional Health Center. She was properly restrained, according to the KHP.

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 </figure>SALINE COUNTY —A Kansas woman was injured in an accident just before 7:30 a.m. Monday in Saline County.The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2003 Ford F150 driven by Tristen R. Witt, 20, Manhattan, was eastbound on Old 40 Highway just east of Interstate 135.The pickup slid on the ice and off the roadway into the ditch and struck a tree.EMS transported Witt to Salina Regional Health Center. She was properly restrained, according to the KHP.

Kansas woman hospitalized after pickup slides, strikes tree

By TIM UNRUH For the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce

Seasoned by decades of duty, the old grill was beginning to sizzle as Andrea (Howard) Windholz smashed small mounds of ground beef into patties and sprinkled them with chopped onions.

Outside, a customer wearing construction orange, snarfed an early lunch while soaking up a beautiful spring day.

Quiet was soon to wane, however, as meal time approached on the early-March morning at the Cozy Inn in downtown Salina.

Owner Steve Howard — Andrea’s father — noticed through the walk-up ordering window that customers were gathering outside.

That’s Cozy speak for jam the ancient cook top into full throttle for yet another lunch rush at 108 N. Seventh.

On a busy day, the grill will fry up to 55 Cozy Burgers every seven minutes or so — producing 1,700 of them daily from Memorial Day through the summer — requiring 800 pounds of ground beef a week.

The tiny restaurant with one entrée and two other menu items — Cozy Burger, chips and soda — isn’t blessed with the amenities of other internationally known eateries, yet it boasts 45,000 visitors a year, 90 percent of them travelers, some from one of up to 40 countries, Howard said.

With stool seating for six — in a mere 700 square feet of space, customers see only 192 square feet of it — a less-than-ideal location, and a pungent onion-esque aroma that can waft for blocks or stick to clothing, one might surmise a lack of appeal.

But the diner’s sheer charm supplants those voids, Howard said, along with a rich history.

Google “best burgers in Kansas” and the Cozy Inn pops up first; at least it did March 3 at 5 p.m. It’s one of the Eight Wonders of Kansas Cuisine, according to the Kansas Sampler Foundation. The Cozy has garnered loads of mentions on social media.

Made fresh daily, Cozy Burgers covet global attention, and the inn has survived all the ups and downs of nearly a century in business.

A big birthday party is planned March 12 when the Cozy Inn reaches 100, with a ribbon cutting ceremony, a bouncy house, Hurts Donuts and commemorative T-shirts for sale, and drawings for prizes.

“The 100th customer will receive up to 24 free Cozy Burgers,” Howard said.

Blessed with a sense of homespun marketing and imagination, intense work ethic, and a sincere passion for the fare, Howard has prospered in his 15 years of owning the eatery.

“It’s great being involved,” said the 59-year-old restauranteur. “Not many companies last 100 years. I take a lot of pride in that.”

It’s a big miniature business with a huge heart, said Leslie Bishop, executive director of Salina Downtown Inc.

“The Cozy Inn IS Downtown Salina,” she said. “It has survived economic downturns, construction, COVID, and it’s alive and going for 100 years. The Cozy is a landmark for downtown Salina. It’s a destination and an anchor.”

The owner since 2007, Howard is the outright boss who has turned every crumb into profit by massaging literally every aspect of the operation. He can man the grill and quality control, maintain supplies, clean, do most repairs — through savvy, mechanical prowess, common sense and innovation — while also greeting, welcoming and befriending customers, and melding marketing and promotions into most any action, including a claim that the little building in haunted by ghosts who make messes after hours.

“I like to tell people these are the Hershey’s kisses of hamburgers,” he said. “You can get a bigger bite of burger, but you can’t get a bigger taste.”

There is even a jingle for the infamous aroma.

Howard laughs off the comments and stories of lunchtime Cozy bans from some downtown business owners and managers. In a way, the smell is a badge of honor, and a way to gauge demand.

“The smell pays the bills, for sure,” he said.

It’s a scent that evokes thoughts of home and tradition, a special charm, said Max Holthaus, a former Cozy Inn co-owner.

“Somebody went into the Cozy Inn, sat down and ate. Then he got on a plane and flew to Denver to make a connecting flight to someplace else. While walking through a throng of people at the airport, he was tapped on a shoulder and a man said ‘Salina, you’ve been to Cozy,’ ” he said. “I’ve got lots of stories.”

In the early days of involvement, Holthaus noticed a negative reaction from tellers when he took daily deposits to a local bank. But visits to the drive-through were soon welcomed, he said, and the essence morphed into a smell of success. 

The Cozy Inn chugged its way through a century, and won hearts of thousands.

“Some guy was on his death bed, and all he wanted was a Cozy at the end of his life,” Holthaus said.

One local grandma made the same request on March 1, Howard said.

“A lady got married at the courthouse, and came over to the Cozy in her dress (with her new husband) for the reception,” Holthaus said.

While former Gov. Bill Graves served as Kansas Secretary of State, the Salina native often asked staff members to bring Cozy Burgers back to Topeka during their travels through north-central Kansas, Holthaus said, but it enraged officials at the state motor pool.

“Bill Graves loved those Cozy Burgers,” Holthaus said.

Neither Howard nor his living predecessors, have any solid record of who owned the Cozy Inn when it opened in the spring of 1922, although one fan suggested the founding proprietor was named “Al” with a last name of either “Surreal” or “Surault,” according to an Aug. 1, 1999, Salina Journal story by Scott Aldis-Wilson.

The Cozy came to be not long after White Castle, a hamburger restaurant, started in Wichita, according to the Cozy Inn website. Both entities were examples of “a craze of six-stool diners with very limited menus that popped up around the USA,” according to the company’s history.

The Cozy’s second owner, Robert Kinkel, bought the restaurant within three months of it opening. He was in the wake of a semiprofessional baseball career in Kansas. Kinkel moved to Salina in search of opportunity, the website reads. Sliders were sold for a nickel back then. They’re $1.39 now.

Cozy Inn trudged through the Depression years by offering “a satisfying, yet inexpensive meal,” as the story goes.

The Cozy’s popularity soared before and during World War II when the military built installations in Saline County, among them Camp Phillips and Smoky Hill Air Force Base, later named Schilling Air Force Base.

The Cozy Inn was a “hangout for GIs needing a good meal on Soldier’s pay,” according to the restaurant website.

Robert Kinkel and his wife, Kathryn, also ran the business during the 1950s and 1960s (he died in 1960), when youths “became obsessed with hamburgers, soda pop and tucked away joints like the Cozy Inn,” according to the website.

“The Kinkels were friends with my grandparents (the late Bill and Mattie Schafer). They played cards every weekend during the 1950s,” said John Betterson, a longtime Salina resident. Others in the card group were Oscar and Edith Linn, and Mr. and Mrs. Mel Rudy (he couldn’t recall her first name). All are deceased.

After Bob Kinkel’s passing, Kathryn continued “The Cozy legacy,” eventually adding a partner after 1966, her second husband, Dick Pickering. They were known in the 1970s for their annual anniversary celebrations, “offering Cozys, chips and beverages at yesterday’s prices,” the store history reveals.

When the Pickerings died in the 1990s the Cozy Inn was bequeathed to St. John’s Military School, Kansas Wesleyan University and Salina Regional Health Center. The organizations sold the restaurant to Max Holthaus, Gregg Boyle, and Monte Shadwick in 1996, during its 75th year. A former Salina mayor and Saline County commissioner and commission chairman, Shadwick left the business in 2001 and launched other ventures.

Howard bought The Cozy Inn during April 2007.

The Cozy’s appeal reaches across oceans and into other continents. Customers have come from most of the United States, including Alaska, and overseas.

Love affairs with the little sliders prompt some to order them shipped frozen. One package of frozen Cozy burgers were sent to Colorado March 1.

“She should be getting hers about now,” Windholz said, as noon approached on March 2.

Windholz paused to answer the phone and quickly corrected a caller.

“No, we don’t have any cheese here,” Windholz said.

Those dairy slices are strictly forbidden at the Cozy.

“That’s a six-letter word we don’t use,” Howard said.

Jim “Smiley” Meyer, a retired city worker in Salina, plans a trip later this month to visit friends Charlie Tulson, and his wife, Kathy, in Sarasota, Fla. Meyer spent 32 years at the Bicentennial Center, and Charlie is a former Salina Journal pressman.

“Whenever Charlie’s in Salina, he goes to the Cozy Inn. He called me up to tell me about the 100th anniversary,” Meyer said.

While planning a trip to see the Tulsons, he decided to surprise Charlie by shipping him three dozen Cozy Burgers.

“They’ll ship them the day before I leave, so they’ll be there when I get there,” Meyer said. “I’ll try to have a Cozy experience with a tailgate party.”

The winner of a Cozy Inn story contest in 1997, when the restaurant turned 75, was from Jim Baughan, who delivered Bob Kinkel’s newspaper, according to the 1999 Journal story. Before school, Baughan peeled and ground onions for the Cozy, and was paid in bubble gum.

Later stationed in Guadalcanal in 1943 during World War II, he received a February Christmas package containing Cozy burgers, and gum.

The Cozys were coated in mold. After a week, Baughan’s sergeant ordered him and fellow Marines to “give the box a proper burial,” according to the Salina Journal story.

The restaurant gave work to possibly thousands over the years. Howard counted 358 employees since 1996.

Possessing a “soft spot” for baseball, early owners Bob and Kathryn Kinkel were known to hire local players as cooks, among them Bruce and Bob Swift. Included in the stories from the 1999 article were accounts that Bob would return home from playing catcher for the Detroit Tigers, and work at the Cozy Inn.

The restaurant was well known providing employment through the decades to young people. The experiences instilled a sense of loyalty to them, also pride.

A bit of lineage was developed for one family in particular, starting with Shorty Kellams, one of the first Cozy Inn fry cooks, pictured among four colleagues in 1940.

His daughter, Kay Bishop, reported for duty one day at the Cozy, “so she could say she worked there,” said Nicole McClintock, of Salina, a granddaughter.

Her uncle, Salinan Donnie Bishop II, also worked there a few years, now at Salina Vortex.

McClintock landed a job a the Cozy Inn while a student at Salina Central High School.

“I worked there about five years before they offered me a manager position in Manhattan,” said McClintock, referring to the Cozy Inn that opened 2009 in Aggieville near Kansas State University’s main campus.

“I was happy to start a new adventure and chapter in Manhattan,” she said. “I had started (college) at K-State. It was kind of a nice fit.”

That store closed during the spring of 2021. McClintock finished her bachelor’s degree in tech management from the K-State campus in Salina. She now works as an information technology specialist at Salina Area Technical College.

McClintock’s younger sister, Ashlee Bishop, of Solomon, also a Salina Central graduate, worked at the original Cozy Inn. Today, she’s an accounting clerk at Salina Scale.

“It’s really special,” McClintock said. “We have a lot of fun memories and great stories from all the (Cozy Inn) customers who came in from near and far.”

“Some people travel hundreds to thousands of miles. They come in excited, and you just want to feed off their excitement and enthusiasm,” he said. “I had a professor in here and she said ‘I can tell when my students have ‘it’ and you have ‘it.’ ”

Years earlier, Howard was searching for a better future when he was recruited to be a bartender by Holthaus, who was general manager at the Salina Country Club. Howard’s day job was a building operator at Franklin and Heusner elementary schools for the Salina School District. Before that, he spent 14 years with McDonald’s, and was taking a management course in Kansas City, all while recovering from a broken neck suffered in a swimming accident in 1985.

“I was lucky,” Howard said. “God had plans for me.”

Holthaus developed a liking for Howard’s work ethic and enthusiasm at the country club. The high praise prompted him to consider pushing Howard to consider the Cozy Inn.

“Steve’s just a great guy,” Holthaus said. “I had been asking him (about the Cozy) for a couple years, and he said he just wasn’t ready.”

He began to work, sort of undercover, at the Cozy Inn during January of 2007, and was a natural.

“Steve got in there and did a great job. He was just perfect for the Cozy,” Holthaus said, “He knew the community and how to talk to customers. He was enthused and wanted it to be successful.”

Holthaus and Boyle financed the purchase and Howard paid for the Cozy Inn within 10 years.

The owner has spent the past 15 years coming up with innovative ways to promote the restaurant, among them donating Cozy Burgers to Ell-Saline schools, where they are sold at school events. With a bit of tape to hold wrappings in place, the sliders are tossed into the crowd at Liberty arena football games at the Tony’s Pizza Events Center.

As an employer, Howard aims to help young people, and give a hand up to others who could use a boost.

“He’s a pretty flexible boss,” daughter Andrea said. “He’s understanding. He listens and gives people second chances, and helps out at the Ashby House, (family shelter) by giving girls jobs.”

Andrea, 24, who has worked at the Cozy Inn since she was 11, is an important cog in the future of the restaurant. She’s being groomed to take over.

“I’m pretty much my dad,” she said. “I’m the person right under him. I’ve been manning the grill and telling people what to do since I was 13, and I was considered a manager at 16.”

Howard said his daughter could run the restaurant “like a champ” when she was 12.

“We had a contest for awhile, offering two free sliders if you could guess her age,” Steve Howard said. “They usually guessed she was older, and only got it right twice.”

Her brother, Landon, 21, works as a welder for Great Plains Manufacturing in Salina, but spent some formative years at The Cozy Inn.

Howard’s wife of 30 years, Kris, also helps out occasionally at the restaurant.

Proud to be part of the downtown, Steve Howard is happy where he is with the business and its future, selling an average of 10,000 Cozy Burgers a week.

“If you drive the interstate a lot, you’re either gonna pass some people with our burgers in their car, or be passed by one with them,” he said. “I’m in the tourism industry, and like I tell the chamber, I’m putting Salina on the map. We’re Salina’s taste sensation destination, and we ARE a destination.”

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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2022/3/1646682459727.jpeg" alt="Andrea (Howard) Windholz fills Cozy Burger orders in early March at the Cozy Inn nestled in downtown Salina. Photos by Tim Unruh" />
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 </figure>By TIM UNRUH For the Salina Area Chamber of CommerceSeasoned by decades of duty, the old grill was beginning to sizzle as Andrea (Howard) Windholz smashed small mounds of ground beef into patties and sprinkled them with chopped onions.Outside, a customer wearing construction orange, snarfed an early lunch while soaking up a beautiful spring day.Quiet was soon to wane, however, as meal time approached on the early-March morning at the Cozy Inn in downtown Salina.Owner Steve Howard — Andrea’s father — noticed through the walk-up ordering window that customers were gathering outside.“Better fill it up,” he said.That’s Cozy speak for jam the ancient cook top into full throttle for yet another lunch rush at 108 N. Seventh.On a busy day, the grill will fry up to 55 Cozy Burgers every seven minutes or so — producing 1,700 of them daily from Memorial Day through the summer — requiring 800 pounds of ground beef a week.The tiny restaurant with one entrée and two other menu items — Cozy Burger, chips and soda — isn’t blessed with the amenities of other internationally known eateries, yet it boasts 45,000 visitors a year, 90 percent of them travelers, some from one of up to 40 countries, Howard said.With stool seating for six — in a mere 700 square feet of space, customers see only 192 square feet of it — a less-than-ideal location, and a pungent onion-esque aroma that can waft for blocks or stick to clothing, one might surmise a lack of appeal.But the diner’s sheer charm supplants those voids, Howard said, along with a rich history.Google “best burgers in Kansas” and the Cozy Inn pops up first; at least it did March 3 at 5 p.m. It’s one of the Eight Wonders of Kansas Cuisine, according to the Kansas Sampler Foundation. The Cozy has garnered loads of mentions on social media.<figure>
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 <figcaption>Cozy Inn owner Steve Howard happily hands over another sack of hot and fresh Cozy Burgers.&nbsp;</figcaption>
 </figure>Made fresh daily, Cozy Burgers covet global attention, and the inn has survived all the ups and downs of nearly a century in business.A big birthday party is planned March 12 when the Cozy Inn reaches 100, with a ribbon cutting ceremony, a bouncy house, Hurts Donuts and commemorative T-shirts for sale, and drawings for prizes.“The 100th customer will receive up to 24 free Cozy Burgers,” Howard said.Festivities begin at 8:30 a.m.Blessed with a sense of homespun marketing and imagination, intense work ethic, and a sincere passion for the fare, Howard has prospered in his 15 years of owning the eatery.“It’s great being involved,” said the 59-year-old restauranteur. “Not many companies last 100 years. I take a lot of pride in that.”It’s a big miniature business with a huge heart, said Leslie Bishop, executive director of Salina Downtown Inc.“The Cozy Inn IS Downtown Salina,” she said. “It has survived economic downturns, construction, COVID, and it’s alive and going for 100 years. The Cozy is a landmark for downtown Salina. It’s a destination and an anchor.”The owner since 2007, Howard is the outright boss who has turned every crumb into profit by massaging literally every aspect of the operation. He can man the grill and quality control, maintain supplies, clean, do most repairs — through savvy, mechanical prowess, common sense and innovation — while also greeting, welcoming and befriending customers, and melding marketing and promotions into most any action, including a claim that the little building in haunted by ghosts who make messes after hours.He’s also a meticulous record keeper.“I like to tell people these are the Hershey’s kisses of hamburgers,” he said. “You can get a bigger bite of burger, but you can’t get a bigger taste.”There is even a jingle for the infamous aroma.Howard laughs off the comments and stories of lunchtime Cozy bans from some downtown business owners and managers. In a way, the smell is a badge of honor, and a way to gauge demand.“The smell pays the bills, for sure,” he said.It’s a scent that evokes thoughts of home and tradition, a special charm, said Max Holthaus, a former Cozy Inn co-owner.“Somebody went into the Cozy Inn, sat down and ate. Then he got on a plane and flew to Denver to make a connecting flight to someplace else. While walking through a throng of people at the airport, he was tapped on a shoulder and a man said ‘Salina, you’ve been to Cozy,’ ” he said. “I’ve got lots of stories.”In the early days of involvement, Holthaus noticed a negative reaction from tellers when he took daily deposits to a local bank. But visits to the drive-through were soon welcomed, he said, and the essence morphed into a smell of success. The Cozy Inn chugged its way through a century, and won hearts of thousands.Stories abound.“Some guy was on his death bed, and all he wanted was a Cozy at the end of his life,” Holthaus said.One local grandma made the same request on March 1, Howard said.“A lady got married at the courthouse, and came over to the Cozy in her dress (with her new husband) for the reception,” Holthaus said.While former Gov. Bill Graves served as Kansas Secretary of State, the Salina native often asked staff members to bring Cozy Burgers back to Topeka during their travels through north-central Kansas, Holthaus said, but it enraged officials at the state motor pool.“Bill Graves loved those Cozy Burgers,” Holthaus said.Neither Howard nor his living predecessors, have any solid record of who owned the Cozy Inn when it opened in the spring of 1922, although one fan suggested the founding proprietor was named “Al” with a last name of either “Surreal” or “Surault,” according to an Aug. 1, 1999, Salina Journal story by Scott Aldis-Wilson.The Cozy came to be not long after White Castle, a hamburger restaurant, started in Wichita, according to the Cozy Inn website. Both entities were examples of “a craze of six-stool diners with very limited menus that popped up around the USA,” according to the company’s history.The Cozy’s second owner, Robert Kinkel, bought the restaurant within three months of it opening. He was in the wake of a semiprofessional baseball career in Kansas. Kinkel moved to Salina in search of opportunity, the website reads. Sliders were sold for a nickel back then. They’re $1.39 now.Cozy Inn trudged through the Depression years by offering “a satisfying, yet inexpensive meal,” as the story goes.The Cozy’s popularity soared before and during World War II when the military built installations in Saline County, among them Camp Phillips and Smoky Hill Air Force Base, later named Schilling Air Force Base.The Cozy Inn was a “hangout for GIs needing a good meal on Soldier’s pay,” according to the restaurant website.Robert Kinkel and his wife, Kathryn, also ran the business during the 1950s and 1960s (he died in 1960), when youths “became obsessed with hamburgers, soda pop and tucked away joints like the Cozy Inn,” according to the website.“The Kinkels were friends with my grandparents (the late Bill and Mattie Schafer). They played cards every weekend during the 1950s,” said John Betterson, a longtime Salina resident. Others in the card group were Oscar and Edith Linn, and Mr. and Mrs. Mel Rudy (he couldn’t recall her first name). All are deceased.After Bob Kinkel’s passing, Kathryn continued “The Cozy legacy,” eventually adding a partner after 1966, her second husband, Dick Pickering. They were known in the 1970s for their annual anniversary celebrations, “offering Cozys, chips and beverages at yesterday’s prices,” the store history reveals.When the Pickerings died in the 1990s the Cozy Inn was bequeathed to St. John’s Military School, Kansas Wesleyan University and Salina Regional Health Center. The organizations sold the restaurant to Max Holthaus, Gregg Boyle, and Monte Shadwick in 1996, during its 75th year. A former Salina mayor and Saline County commissioner and commission chairman, Shadwick left the business in 2001 and launched other ventures.Howard bought The Cozy Inn during April 2007.The Cozy’s appeal reaches across oceans and into other continents. Customers have come from most of the United States, including Alaska, and overseas.Love affairs with the little sliders prompt some to order them shipped frozen. One package of frozen Cozy burgers were sent to Colorado March 1.“She should be getting hers about now,” Windholz said, as noon approached on March 2.Windholz paused to answer the phone and quickly corrected a caller.“No, we don’t have any cheese here,” Windholz said.Those dairy slices are strictly forbidden at the Cozy.“That’s a six-letter word we don’t use,” Howard said.Jim “Smiley” Meyer, a retired city worker in Salina, plans a trip later this month to visit friends Charlie Tulson, and his wife, Kathy, in Sarasota, Fla. Meyer spent 32 years at the Bicentennial Center, and Charlie is a former Salina Journal pressman.“Whenever Charlie’s in Salina, he goes to the Cozy Inn. He called me up to tell me about the 100th anniversary,” Meyer said.While planning a trip to see the Tulsons, he decided to surprise Charlie by shipping him three dozen Cozy Burgers.“They’ll ship them the day before I leave, so they’ll be there when I get there,” Meyer said. “I’ll try to have a Cozy experience with a tailgate party.”The winner of a Cozy Inn story contest in 1997, when the restaurant turned 75, was from Jim Baughan, who delivered Bob Kinkel’s newspaper, according to the 1999 Journal story. Before school, Baughan peeled and ground onions for the Cozy, and was paid in bubble gum.Later stationed in Guadalcanal in 1943 during World War II, he received a February Christmas package containing Cozy burgers, and gum.The Cozys were coated in mold. After a week, Baughan’s sergeant ordered him and fellow Marines to “give the box a proper burial,” according to the Salina Journal story.The restaurant gave work to possibly thousands over the years. Howard counted 358 employees since 1996.Possessing a “soft spot” for baseball, early owners Bob and Kathryn Kinkel were known to hire local players as cooks, among them Bruce and Bob Swift. Included in the stories from the 1999 article were accounts that Bob would return home from playing catcher for the Detroit Tigers, and work at the Cozy Inn.The restaurant was well known providing employment through the decades to young people. The experiences instilled a sense of loyalty to them, also pride.A bit of lineage was developed for one family in particular, starting with Shorty Kellams, one of the first Cozy Inn fry cooks, pictured among four colleagues in 1940.His daughter, Kay Bishop, reported for duty one day at the Cozy, “so she could say she worked there,” said Nicole McClintock, of Salina, a granddaughter.Her uncle, Salinan Donnie Bishop II, also worked there a few years, now at Salina Vortex.McClintock landed a job a the Cozy Inn while a student at Salina Central High School.“I worked there about five years before they offered me a manager position in Manhattan,” said McClintock, referring to the Cozy Inn that opened 2009 in Aggieville near Kansas State University’s main campus.“I was happy to start a new adventure and chapter in Manhattan,” she said. “I had started (college) at K-State. It was kind of a nice fit.”That store closed during the spring of 2021. McClintock finished her bachelor’s degree in tech management from the K-State campus in Salina. She now works as an information technology specialist at Salina Area Technical College.McClintock’s younger sister, Ashlee Bishop, of Solomon, also a Salina Central graduate, worked at the original Cozy Inn. Today, she’s an accounting clerk at Salina Scale.“It’s really special,” McClintock said. “We have a lot of fun memories and great stories from all the (Cozy Inn) customers who came in from near and far.”Service is a big deal to Steve Howard.“Some people travel hundreds to thousands of miles. They come in excited, and you just want to feed off their excitement and enthusiasm,” he said. “I had a professor in here and she said ‘I can tell when my students have ‘it’ and you have ‘it.’ ”Years earlier, Howard was searching for a better future when he was recruited to be a bartender by Holthaus, who was general manager at the Salina Country Club. Howard’s day job was a building operator at Franklin and Heusner elementary schools for the Salina School District. Before that, he spent 14 years with McDonald’s, and was taking a management course in Kansas City, all while recovering from a broken neck suffered in a swimming accident in 1985.“I was lucky,” Howard said. “God had plans for me.”Holthaus developed a liking for Howard’s work ethic and enthusiasm at the country club. The high praise prompted him to consider pushing Howard to consider the Cozy Inn.“Steve’s just a great guy,” Holthaus said. “I had been asking him (about the Cozy) for a couple years, and he said he just wasn’t ready.”Then one day, Howard declared interest.He began to work, sort of undercover, at the Cozy Inn during January of 2007, and was a natural.“Steve got in there and did a great job. He was just perfect for the Cozy,” Holthaus said, “He knew the community and how to talk to customers. He was enthused and wanted it to be successful.”Holthaus and Boyle financed the purchase and Howard paid for the Cozy Inn within 10 years.The owner has spent the past 15 years coming up with innovative ways to promote the restaurant, among them donating Cozy Burgers to Ell-Saline schools, where they are sold at school events. With a bit of tape to hold wrappings in place, the sliders are tossed into the crowd at Liberty arena football games at the Tony’s Pizza Events Center.As an employer, Howard aims to help young people, and give a hand up to others who could use a boost.“He’s a pretty flexible boss,” daughter Andrea said. “He’s understanding. He listens and gives people second chances, and helps out at the Ashby House, (family shelter) by giving girls jobs.”Andrea, 24, who has worked at the Cozy Inn since she was 11, is an important cog in the future of the restaurant. She’s being groomed to take over.“I’m pretty much my dad,” she said. “I’m the person right under him. I’ve been manning the grill and telling people what to do since I was 13, and I was considered a manager at 16.”Howard said his daughter could run the restaurant “like a champ” when she was 12.“We had a contest for awhile, offering two free sliders if you could guess her age,” Steve Howard said. “They usually guessed she was older, and only got it right twice.”Her brother, Landon, 21, works as a welder for Great Plains Manufacturing in Salina, but spent some formative years at The Cozy Inn.Howard’s wife of 30 years, Kris, also helps out occasionally at the restaurant.Proud to be part of the downtown, Steve Howard is happy where he is with the business and its future, selling an average of 10,000 Cozy Burgers a week.“If you drive the interstate a lot, you’re either gonna pass some people with our burgers in their car, or be passed by one with them,” he said. “I’m in the tourism industry, and like I tell the chamber, I’m putting Salina on the map. We’re Salina’s taste sensation destination, and we ARE a destination.”

Cozy Inn a global treasure in downtown Salina

Snowfall was plentiful in parts of our area, thanks to a late-winter storm that blew through on Sunday.

Following are 24-hour snowfall totals as of 7 a.m. Monday (unless otherwise noted) from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cocorahs.org/ViewData/StateDailyPrecipReports.aspx?state=KS">Community Collaborative Rain, Hail &amp; Snow Network</a>.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;

Hillsboro 0.4 ESE, 1.5 inches (reported at 8 a.m.)

Lindsborg 0.7 NNW, 5.5 (reported at 6 a.m.) 	

Galva 1.5 NE, 2.0 inches (reported at 7:45 a.m.)

Brookville 8.1 N, 1.5 inches (reported at 7:20 a.m.)

By SALINA POSTSnowfall was plentiful in parts of our area, thanks to a late-winter storm that blew through on Sunday.Following are 24-hour snowfall totals as of 7 a.m. Monday (unless otherwise noted) from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cocorahs.org/ViewData/StateDailyPrecipReports.aspx?state=KS">Community Collaborative Rain, Hail &amp; Snow Network</a>.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<h2>Clay County</h2>Clay Center 12.4 NNE, 1.0<h2>Cloud County</h2>Jamestown 2.4 NW, 0.5Concordia 9.3 SSW, 1.0<h2>Dickinson County</h2>Hope 0.3 S, 2.0Carlton 2.1 NNW, 3.5Abilene 10.3 S, 3.0Abilene 1.1 NNE, 5.0<h2>Ellsworth County</h2>Ellsworth 0.3 E, 0.6<h2>Jewell County</h2>No totals reported<h2>Lincoln County</h2>Beverly 4.6 S, 1.1<h2>Marion County</h2>Hillsboro 0.4 ESE, 1.5 inches (reported at 8 a.m.)<h2>McPherson County</h2>Lindsborg 0.7 NNW, 5.5 (reported at 6 a.m.) 	McPherson 6.6 WSW, 2.8McPherson 1.1 NW, 2.7Inman 2.5 SSW, 2.1Galva 1.5 NE, 2.0 inches (reported at 7:45 a.m.)<h2>Mitchell County</h2>Beloit 9.9 SSW, 0.2<h2>Ottawa County</h2>Ada 7.0 NNW, 1.0<h2>Republic County</h2>Belleville 4.2 N, 1.0<h2>Saline County</h2>Salina 2.9 ENE, 2.0New Cambria 2.1 NW, 4.2Salina 0.4 SE, 5.1Brookville 8.1 N, 1.5 inches (reported at 7:20 a.m.)

Snowfall varies across the area

By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY Salina Post

Two people from Salina were arrested after a pickup allegedly going more than 100 mph on Country Club Road failed to negotiate a turn and struck a power pole early Sunday morning.

A deputy patrolling in the eastern part of the county allegedly clocked a white 2015 Ford F150 going 107 mph on Country Club Road just after midnight on Sunday, Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan said this morning. The deputy attempted to stop the pickup, but as the pickup attempted to turn onto N. Woodward Road, it missed the turn and struck a power pole.

Once the deputy caught up to the pickup, a passenger in the pickup, identified as Jayden Miller, 20, of Salina, claimed he had a gun, Soldan said. As the deputy was taking Miller into custody, the driver of the pickup, identified as Kaleb Kugler, 21, of Salina, allegedly ran into a nearby wooded area. Eventually, the deputy was able to take Kugler into custody as well, Soldan said. 

Miller was arrested on the following requested charges, Soldan said.

●Concealed possession of a firearm while under the influence

Kugler was arrested on the following requested charges, Soldan said.

●Driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs

●Interference with a law enforcement officer

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2022/3/1646677505453.jpeg" alt="The pickup crashed into a power pole near the intersection of Country Club Road and N. Woodward Road. Photos courtesy Saline County Sheriff's Office" />
 <figcaption>The pickup crashed into a power pole near the intersection of Country Club Road and N. Woodward Road. Photos courtesy Saline County Sheriff's Office</figcaption>
 </figure>By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY Salina PostTwo people from Salina were arrested after a pickup allegedly going more than 100 mph on Country Club Road failed to negotiate a turn and struck a power pole early Sunday morning.A deputy patrolling in the eastern part of the county allegedly clocked a white 2015 Ford F150 going 107 mph on Country Club Road just after midnight on Sunday, Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan said this morning. The deputy attempted to stop the pickup, but as the pickup attempted to turn onto N. Woodward Road, it missed the turn and struck a power pole.Once the deputy caught up to the pickup, a passenger in the pickup, identified as Jayden Miller, 20, of Salina, claimed he had a gun, Soldan said. As the deputy was taking Miller into custody, the driver of the pickup, identified as Kaleb Kugler, 21, of Salina, allegedly ran into a nearby wooded area. Eventually, the deputy was able to take Kugler into custody as well, Soldan said. Miller was arrested on the following requested charges, Soldan said.●Alcohol consumption by a minor●Concealed possession of a firearm while under the influenceKugler was arrested on the following requested charges, Soldan said.●Driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs●Interference with a law enforcement officer●Speeding●Improper turn

Two arrested after allegedly speedy pickup crashes into power pole

A Salina man was arrested in connection with a break-in at a liquor store at which he allegedly was a regular.

Officers were sent to Wholesale Liquor, 2300 Planet Avenue, for the report of a burglary early Saturday morning, Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester said this morning. When they arrived, they found the front door glass shattered.

Surveillance video showed a male subject enter the business at 12:15 a.m. Saturday. He allegedly took a 24-ounce can of Twisted Tea and left. He then returned and allegedly took two bottles of Modelo beer and left again, Forrester said.

The manager of the store told police that the man seen in the video was a regular customer in the store and identified him as Karl Felber, Forrester said.

Officers went to Felber's residence in the 2100 block of Tulane Avenue and were told by neighbors in the apartment complex that he was on the second floor. Officers made contact with Felber and attempted to take him into custody, but he allegedly fought the officers.

Felber allegedly attempted to punch one of the officers and allegedly continued fighting the officers even after being tased, Forrester said. Felber, 60, of Salina, eventually was arrested on the following requested charges, Forrester said.

●Felony interference with a law enforcement officer

Damage to the door was estimated at $1,000 and the alcohol was valued at $10, Forrester said.

By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY Salina PostA Salina man was arrested in connection with a break-in at a liquor store at which he allegedly was a regular.Officers were sent to Wholesale Liquor, 2300 Planet Avenue, for the report of a burglary early Saturday morning, Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester said this morning. When they arrived, they found the front door glass shattered.Surveillance video showed a male subject enter the business at 12:15 a.m. Saturday. He allegedly took a 24-ounce can of Twisted Tea and left. He then returned and allegedly took two bottles of Modelo beer and left again, Forrester said.The manager of the store told police that the man seen in the video was a regular customer in the store and identified him as Karl Felber, Forrester said.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2022/3/1646674864160.png" alt="Karl Felber. Photos courtesy Saline County Sheriff's Office" />
 <figcaption>Karl Felber. Photos courtesy Saline County Sheriff's Office</figcaption>
 </figure>Officers went to Felber's residence in the 2100 block of Tulane Avenue and were told by neighbors in the apartment complex that he was on the second floor. Officers made contact with Felber and attempted to take him into custody, but he allegedly fought the officers.Felber allegedly attempted to punch one of the officers and allegedly continued fighting the officers even after being tased, Forrester said. Felber, 60, of Salina, eventually was arrested on the following requested charges, Forrester said.●Two counts of burglary●Damage to property●Felony interference with a law enforcement officer●Battery on a law enforcement officer●Assault on a law enforcement officerDamage to the door was estimated at $1,000 and the alcohol was valued at $10, Forrester said.

Salina man allegedly seen on video burgling liquor store twice

GYPSUM - The Saline County Sheriff's Office is looking for a car trailer and load of pallets that were stolen from Gypsum earlier this month.

Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan said this morning that sometime between Wednesday and Friday, someone stole a black 18-foot 2004 RH car trailer that was loaded with pallets from a property in the 200 block of Spring Street in Gypsum. The trailer had a Kansas license plate of 569FZY and was valued at $2,000.

The trailer and pallets were owned by a 68-year-old man from Sells, Ariz., who had inherited the property after a family member died.

By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY Salina PostGYPSUM - The Saline County Sheriff's Office is looking for a car trailer and load of pallets that were stolen from Gypsum earlier this month.Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan said this morning that sometime between Wednesday and Friday, someone stole a black 18-foot 2004 RH car trailer that was loaded with pallets from a property in the 200 block of Spring Street in Gypsum. The trailer had a Kansas license plate of 569FZY and was valued at $2,000.The trailer and pallets were owned by a 68-year-old man from Sells, Ariz., who had inherited the property after a family member died.

Car trailer, pallets stolen from property in Gypsum

Police are looking for a silver SUV with front-end damage that was involved in a hit-and-run accident that occurred in western Salina Friday evening.

A 2017 Ford Fusion driven by a 15-year-old girl from Salina was westbound in the 1700 block of W. Crawford Street shortly after 7 p.m. Friday when it was struck by a silver SUV that was exiting the parking lot at Spangles, 1720 W. Crawford Street, Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester said this morning.

The Fusion sustained damage along the passenger side of the vehicle, Forrester said.

By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY Salina PostPolice are looking for a silver SUV with front-end damage that was involved in a hit-and-run accident that occurred in western Salina Friday evening.A 2017 Ford Fusion driven by a 15-year-old girl from Salina was westbound in the 1700 block of W. Crawford Street shortly after 7 p.m. Friday when it was struck by a silver SUV that was exiting the parking lot at Spangles, 1720 W. Crawford Street, Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester said this morning.The SUV then fled the scene.The Fusion sustained damage along the passenger side of the vehicle, Forrester said.

Police on lookout for silver SUV involved in hit-and-run Friday

UPDATE 10:34 a.m. Monday: The Salina Police Department has canceled the Emergency Accident Reporting Plan. Regular reporting of motor vehicle accidents has resumed.

The Salina Police Department has activated the Emergency Accident Reporting Plan and released the following statement.

The “Emergency Accident Reporting Plan” has been implemented due to severe weather and/or hazardous driving conditions as the number of motor vehicle accidents exceeds the Department’s ability to respond in a timely manner.

Eligible accidents: Any non-hit and run, non-personal injury motor vehicle accident that does not require towing, and does not involve alcohol or drugs.

Driver requirements: Exchange personal information with the other driver(s) involved or property owner.

Complete an Emergency Accident Reporting Plan accident report form as completely as possible and mail or deliver the completed report to the Salina Police Department within 48 hours. Emergency Accident Reporting Plan forms are available at the Salina Police Department, they are also available on-line at <a href="http://www.salina-ks.gov/reportsandnotifications">www.salina-ks.gov/reportsandnotifications</a> by selecting the Emergency Accident Report Form.

UPDATE 10:34 a.m. Monday: The Salina Police Department has canceled the Emergency Accident Reporting Plan. Regular reporting of motor vehicle accidents has resumed.The Salina Police Department has activated the Emergency Accident Reporting Plan and released the following statement.The “Emergency Accident Reporting Plan” has been implemented due to severe weather and/or hazardous driving conditions as the number of motor vehicle accidents exceeds the Department’s ability to respond in a timely manner.Eligible accidents: Any non-hit and run, non-personal injury motor vehicle accident that does not require towing, and does not involve alcohol or drugs.Driver requirements: Exchange personal information with the other driver(s) involved or property owner.Complete an Emergency Accident Reporting Plan accident report form as completely as possible and mail or deliver the completed report to the Salina Police Department within 48 hours. Emergency Accident Reporting Plan forms are available at the Salina Police Department, they are also available on-line at <a href="http://www.salina-ks.gov/reportsandnotifications">www.salina-ks.gov/reportsandnotifications</a> by selecting the Emergency Accident Report Form.

UPDATE: SPD cancels Emergency Accident Reporting Plan

A Salina woman was able to escape her wrecked vehicle before it became engulfed in flames Saturday morning.

Mary Kay Kuhn, 60, of Salina, was northbound in the 2200 block of S. Niles Road when she lost control of her 2003 Ford Escape, Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan said this morning. The Escape went off the west side of the road and struck a tree. The wreck occurred at approximately 11:50 a.m. Saturday.

Kuhn was able to get out of the vehicle before it was destroyed by fire, Soldan said. She was transported by EMS to Salina Regional Health Center as a result of her injuries.

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 <figcaption>The Ford Escape was destroyed by fire after it struck a tree. Photos courtesy Saline County Sheriff's Office</figcaption>
 </figure>By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY Salina PostA Salina woman was able to escape her wrecked vehicle before it became engulfed in flames Saturday morning.Mary Kay Kuhn, 60, of Salina, was northbound in the 2200 block of S. Niles Road when she lost control of her 2003 Ford Escape, Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan said this morning. The Escape went off the west side of the road and struck a tree. The wreck occurred at approximately 11:50 a.m. Saturday.Kuhn was able to get out of the vehicle before it was destroyed by fire, Soldan said. She was transported by EMS to Salina Regional Health Center as a result of her injuries.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2022/3/1646671016643.jpeg" alt="The remains of the Escape after the fire." />
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Local woman escapes fiery crash east of Salina

The title of the March 3, 2022 report in the journal&nbsp;Science, revealed “Africa battles out-of-control polio outbreaks.”&nbsp;&nbsp;Science&nbsp;reporter Leslie Roberts details how cases have fallen in the last countries to harbor the polio virus, Pakistan and Afghanistan. But now African outbreaks are out of control and a “grave threat to eradication.” My earliest childhood memories are the relief my parents showed when I received my polio shots in the mid-1950s. Now we have to rethink our assumption that polio vaccines will erase polio from the earth.

This threat continues, as the CDC website states: “It takes only one traveler with polio to bring the disease into the United States. The best way to keep the United States polio-free is to maintain high immunity (protection) in the U.S. population against polio through vaccination.”

This vaccination story is complicated. The polio vaccines were developed in the United States, first the 1955 injected vaccine by Jonas Salk (1914–1995) and in 1961 the sugar cube vaccine by Albert Sabin (1906–1993). Salk’s vaccine was an inactivated or “dead” virus (although viruses by themselves are never living) that had no ability to infect cells, but did elicit solid immunity and was the first to turn the tide on polio from 1955 to 1960.

Sabin’s vaccine was a modified active polio virus that did not cause paralysis but did stimulate the immune system to produce immunity. Vaccine drops were placed on sugar cubes and taken orally. They became common after 1960. This active virus vaccine had an apparent advantage of reproducing in the intestinal tract and being shed to in turn “vaccinate” others. This would allow a vaccination campaign to be more effective since vaccinating one person could end up protecting their family and neighbors. &nbsp;

But there was a potential problem with the Sabin oral vaccine: variations can arise similar to what we are seeing in the covid-19 virus. On April 5, 1988, public television ran a program that interviewed both Salk and Sabin—separately, because they were enemies. “NOVA: Can You Still Get Polio?” appears to still be accessible on the WGBH site and describes the problem very well. While nearly all of the people who received the oral vaccine gained solid immunity, a few very rare individuals contracted polio.

One of those cases was a Kansas farmer who was brought into the hospital in Ottawa, Kansas. Young doctors no longer had experience with patients with polio. Fortunately, the emergency doctor on duty was old, and seeing the symptoms, said that if he didn’t know better, he would think this was polio—and he ordered the tests. Indeed, this was one of the few rare cases known as vaccine-derived polio caused by the Sabin oral vaccine.

Twelve years later, in 2000, the U.S. would return to Salk’s completely safe inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV). However, due to its rare cases and more extensive spread, producing immunity in the unvaccinated, Sabin’s oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) has continued to be used overseas and has been relatively effective eradicating polio worldwide. —With the exceptions of Pakistan, Afghanistan and now Nigeria. The longstanding problem completing vaccination in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and thus eliminating polio worldwide, has been science-ignorance and the belief that it is an attempt to sterilize people. In Nigeria, it is vaccine-derived polio and there is hope a new more stable oral vaccine will work.

But now a new case of wild polio has showed up in Malawi. The journal&nbsp;Science&nbsp;reported that “On 17 February, Malawi’s Ministry of Health announced a...3-year-old girl who was paralyzed in November 2021 was infected with the wild poliovirus, which Africa officially vanquished in 2020. The sequence of the virus showed it had somehow made the leap from Pakistan, one of the last two holdouts of the wild virus. A week later came bad news from Afghanistan: Gunmen killed eight polio workers in the country’s northeast.”

Similar to the smallpox agent, polioviruses only infect humans. So the potential for eliminating this disease remains. But because just one traveler could bring polio back into the United States, the CDC recommends children get four doses of polio vaccine (at 2 months old, 4 months old, 6 through 18 months old, and 4 through 6 years old). But this disease may never be eradicated.

Afghanistan has gunmen. The United States has anti-vaxxers.&nbsp;&nbsp;

John Richard Schrock has trained biology teachers for more than 30 years in Kansas. He also has lectured at 27 universities during 20 trips to China. He holds the distinction of “Faculty Emeritus” at Emporia State University.

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 </figure>By JOHN RICHARD SCHROCKThe title of the March 3, 2022 report in the journal&nbsp;Science, revealed “Africa battles out-of-control polio outbreaks.”&nbsp;&nbsp;Science&nbsp;reporter Leslie Roberts details how cases have fallen in the last countries to harbor the polio virus, Pakistan and Afghanistan. But now African outbreaks are out of control and a “grave threat to eradication.” My earliest childhood memories are the relief my parents showed when I received my polio shots in the mid-1950s. Now we have to rethink our assumption that polio vaccines will erase polio from the earth. This threat continues, as the CDC website states: “It takes only one traveler with polio to bring the disease into the United States. The best way to keep the United States polio-free is to maintain high immunity (protection) in the U.S. population against polio through vaccination.” This vaccination story is complicated. The polio vaccines were developed in the United States, first the 1955 injected vaccine by Jonas Salk (1914–1995) and in 1961 the sugar cube vaccine by Albert Sabin (1906–1993). Salk’s vaccine was an inactivated or “dead” virus (although viruses by themselves are never living) that had no ability to infect cells, but did elicit solid immunity and was the first to turn the tide on polio from 1955 to 1960. Sabin’s vaccine was a modified active polio virus that did not cause paralysis but did stimulate the immune system to produce immunity. Vaccine drops were placed on sugar cubes and taken orally. They became common after 1960. This active virus vaccine had an apparent advantage of reproducing in the intestinal tract and being shed to in turn “vaccinate” others. This would allow a vaccination campaign to be more effective since vaccinating one person could end up protecting their family and neighbors. &nbsp; But there was a potential problem with the Sabin oral vaccine: variations can arise similar to what we are seeing in the covid-19 virus. On April 5, 1988, public television ran a program that interviewed both Salk and Sabin—separately, because they were enemies. “NOVA: Can You Still Get Polio?” appears to still be accessible on the WGBH site and describes the problem very well. While nearly all of the people who received the oral vaccine gained solid immunity, a few very rare individuals contracted polio. One of those cases was a Kansas farmer who was brought into the hospital in Ottawa, Kansas. Young doctors no longer had experience with patients with polio. Fortunately, the emergency doctor on duty was old, and seeing the symptoms, said that if he didn’t know better, he would think this was polio—and he ordered the tests. Indeed, this was one of the few rare cases known as vaccine-derived polio caused by the Sabin oral vaccine. Twelve years later, in 2000, the U.S. would return to Salk’s completely safe inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV). However, due to its rare cases and more extensive spread, producing immunity in the unvaccinated, Sabin’s oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) has continued to be used overseas and has been relatively effective eradicating polio worldwide. —With the exceptions of Pakistan, Afghanistan and now Nigeria. The longstanding problem completing vaccination in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and thus eliminating polio worldwide, has been science-ignorance and the belief that it is an attempt to sterilize people. In Nigeria, it is vaccine-derived polio and there is hope a new more stable oral vaccine will work. But now a new case of wild polio has showed up in Malawi. The journal&nbsp;Science&nbsp;reported that “On 17 February, Malawi’s Ministry of Health announced a...3-year-old girl who was paralyzed in November 2021 was infected with the wild poliovirus, which Africa officially vanquished in 2020. The sequence of the virus showed it had somehow made the leap from Pakistan, one of the last two holdouts of the wild virus. A week later came bad news from Afghanistan: Gunmen killed eight polio workers in the country’s northeast.” Similar to the smallpox agent, polioviruses only infect humans. So the potential for eliminating this disease remains. But because just one traveler could bring polio back into the United States, the CDC recommends children get four doses of polio vaccine (at 2 months old, 4 months old, 6 through 18 months old, and 4 through 6 years old). But this disease may never be eradicated. Afghanistan has gunmen. The United States has anti-vaxxers.&nbsp;&nbsp;John Richard Schrock has trained biology teachers for more than 30 years in Kansas. He also has lectured at 27 universities during 20 trips to China. He holds the distinction of “Faculty Emeritus” at Emporia State University.

EDUCATION FRONTLINES: Will polio return?

Today is Monday, March 7, the 66th day of 2022. There are 299 days left in the year. 

On March 7, 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, by state troopers and a sheriff's posse in what came to be known as "Bloody Sunday." 

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a U.S. patent for his telephone. 

In 1911, President William Howard Taft ordered 20,000 troops to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border in response to the Mexican Revolution. 

In 1916, Bavarian Motor Works (BMW) had its beginnings in Munich, Germany, as an airplane engine manufacturer.

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 </figure>By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSToday is Monday, March 7, the 66th day of 2022. There are 299 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 7, 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, by state troopers and a sheriff's posse in what came to be known as "Bloody Sunday." On this date: In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a U.S. patent for his telephone. In 1911, President William Howard Taft ordered 20,000 troops to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border in response to the Mexican Revolution. In 1916, Bavarian Motor Works (BMW) had its beginnings in Munich, Germany, as an airplane engine manufacturer.In 1926, the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversations took place between New York and London. In 1936, Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact. In 1945, during World War II, U.S. forces crossed the Rhine at Remagen, Germany, using the damaged but still usable Ludendorff Bridge. In 1975, the U.S. Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present. In 1994, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a parody that pokes fun at an original work can be considered "fair use." (The ruling concerned a parody of the Roy Orbison song "Oh, Pretty Woman" by the rap group 2 Live Crew.)In 1999, movie director Stanley Kubrick, whose films included "Dr. Strangelove," "A Clockwork Orange" and "2001: A Space Odyssey," died in Hertfordshire, England, at age 70, having just finished editing "Eyes Wide Shut."In 2005, President George W. Bush nominated John Bolton to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, an appointment that ran into Democratic opposition, prompting Bush to make a recess appointment.In 2016, Peyton Manning announced his retirement after 18 seasons in the National Football League. In 2020, health officials in Florida said two people who had tested positive for the new coronavirus had died; the deaths were the first on the East Coast attributed to the outbreak. Ten years ago: President Barack Obama, speaking at a Daimler truck plant in Mount Holly, North Carolina, made his most urgent appeal to date for the nation to wean itself from oil, calling it a "fuel of the past" and demanding that the United States broaden its approach to energy. The Indianapolis Colts released injured quarterback Peyton Manning, who went on to play for the Denver Broncos.Five years ago: WikiLeaks published thousands of documents described as secret files about CIA hacking tools the government employed to break into users' computers, mobile phones and even smart TVs from companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. The Commerce Department reported the U.S. trade deficit jumped in January 2017 by 9.6 percent to $48.5 billion, the highest level in nearly five years as a flood of mobile phones and other consumer products widened America's trade gap with China. A freight train smashed into a charter bus at a rail crossing in Biloxi, Mississippi, leaving four people dead.One year ago: In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, their first since they stepped aside from royal duties, Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, spoke of racism and mistreatment from within the royal family; Meghan, who is biracial, said the palace had failed to help her when she had suicidal thoughts, and that a member of the royal family had raised "concerns" about the color of her baby's skin when she was pregnant with her son, Archie. Pope Francis wrapped up a historic whirlwind tour of Iraq that sought to bring hope to the country's marginalized Christian minority. Team LeBron romped to a 170-150 win over Team Durant in the NBA's 70th All-Star Game. Today's Birthdays: International Motorsports Hall of Famer Janet Guthrie is 84. Actor Daniel J. Travanti is 82. Entertainment executive Michael Eisner is 80. Rock musician Chris White (The Zombies) is 79. Rock singer Peter Wolf is 76. Rock musician Matthew Fisher (Procol Harum) is 76. Pro Football Hall of Famer Franco Harris is 72. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Lynn Swann is 70. R&amp;B singer-musician Ernie Isley (The Isley Brothers) is 70. Rock musician Kenny Aronoff (BoDeans, John Mellencamp) is 69. Actor Bryan Cranston is 66. Actor Donna Murphy is 63. Actor Nick Searcy is 63. Golfer Tom Lehman is 63. International Tennis Hall of Famer Ivan Lendl is 62. Actor Mary Beth Evans is 61. Singer-actor Taylor Dayne is 60. Actor Bill Brochtrup is 59. Author E.L. James is 59. Author Bret Easton Ellis is 58. Opera singer Denyce Graves is 58. Comedian Wanda Sykes is 58. Actor Jonathan Del Arco is 56. Rock musician Randy Guss (Toad the Wet Sprocket) is 55. Actor Rachel Weisz is 52. Actor Peter Sarsgaard is 51. Actor Jay Duplass is 49. Classical singer Sebastien Izambard (Il Divo) is 49. Rock singer Hugo Ferreira (Tantric) is 48. Actor Jenna Fischer is 48. Actor Tobias Menzies is 48. Actor Sarayu Blue is 47. Actor Audrey Marie Anderson is 47. Actor TJ Thyne is 47. Bluegrass singer-musician Frank Solivan is 45. Actor Laura Prepon is 42. Actor Bel Powley is 30. Poet and activist Amanda Gorman is 24. Actor Giselle Eisenberg (TV: "Life in Pieces") is 15.