A small North American insect that can cause damage to your lawn. One way to tell if you have chinch bugs and not drought is if the grass does not green up after it has been watered.

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                    </figure><p>A small North American insect that can cause damage to your lawn. One way to tell if you have chinch bugs and not drought is if the grass does not green up after it has been watered.</p>

🎥 Green and Growing: Chinch bugs

Eastern black nightshade, is an annual or occasionally perennial plant in the Solanaceae family. It is typically 15–60 cm tall and many branched. The leaves of eastern black nightshade are triangular to elliptic. The stems are circular, and sometimes slightly hairy.

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                    </figure><p>Eastern black nightshade, is an annual or occasionally perennial plant in the Solanaceae family. It is typically 15–60 cm tall and many branched. The leaves of eastern black nightshade are triangular to elliptic. The stems are circular, and sometimes slightly hairy.</p>

🎥 Green & Growing: Eastern black nightshade

The Ellis County Ministerial Alliance has partnered with Hays Post to bring you Encouraging Words, a series of messages from Ellis County faith leaders.

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                    </figure><p>The Ellis County Ministerial Alliance has partnered with Hays Post to bring you Encouraging Words, a series of messages from Ellis County faith leaders.</p>

🎥 Encouraging Words: Deacon Ken Billinger

Euonymus scale is part of a group of insects referred to as armored scale. Armored scales live under a protective covering and feed on plant juices. Euonymus scale appears on the stems and leaves of infested plants as tiny white lines 1/16 inch long or as slightly larger, swollen brown lumps.

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                    </figure><p>Euonymus scale is part of a group of insects referred to as armored scale. Armored scales live under a protective covering and feed on plant juices. Euonymus scale appears on the stems and leaves of infested plants as tiny white lines 1/16 inch long or as slightly larger, swollen brown lumps.</p>

🎥 Green & Growing: Fighting armored scale

The little barley is a diploid annual grass native to the United States, which arrived via multiple long-distance dispersals of a southern South American species of Hordeum about one million years ago.

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                    </figure><p>The little barley is a diploid annual grass native to the United States, which arrived via multiple long-distance dispersals of a southern South American species of Hordeum about one million years ago.</p>

🎥 Green & Growing: Little barley

<i>Check Hays Post on Wednesdays and Sundays for the latest Encouraging Words.</i>

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                    </figure><p>The Ellis County Ministerial Alliance has partnered with Hays Post to bring you Encouraging Words, a series of messages from Ellis County faith leaders.</p><p><i>Check Hays Post on Wednesdays and Sundays for the latest Encouraging Words.</i></p>

🎥 Encouraging Words: Celeste Lasich, First Presbyterian Church

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                        <iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xqvhAM9Fej8"></iframe>
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                    </figure><p>The Ellis County Ministerial Alliance has partnered with Hays Post to bring you Encouraging Words, a series of messages from Ellis County faith leaders.</p><p><i>Check Hays Post on Wednesdays and Sundays for the latest Encouraging Words.</i></p>

🎥 Encouraging Words: Brenda Rodger, Trinity Lutheran Church

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                        <iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/E36K2PO9vKg"></iframe>
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                    </figure><p>The Ellis County Ministerial Alliance has partnered with Hays Post to bring you Encouraging Words, a series of messages from Ellis County faith leaders.</p><p><i>Check Hays Post on Wednesdays and Sundays for the latest Encouraging Words.</i></p>

🎥 Encouraging Words: Pastor Kyle Ermoian

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                        <iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MHeymvafEG8"></iframe>
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                    </figure><p>The Ellis County Ministerial Alliance has partnered with Hays Post to bring you Encouraging Words, a series of messages from Ellis County faith leaders.</p><p><i>Check Hays Post on Wednesdays and Sundays for the latest Encouraging Words.</i></p>

🎥 Encouraging Words: Micah Sanderson, CrossPoint Church

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                        <iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CH6uHAxjWt8"></iframe>
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                    </figure><p>The Ellis County Ministerial Alliance has partnered with Hays Post to bring you Encouraging Words, a series of messages from Ellis County faith leaders.</p><p><i>Check Hays Post on Wednesdays and Sundays for the latest Encouraging Words.</i></p>

🎥 Encouraging Words: Brant Rice, Celebration Community Church

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                    </figure><p>The Ellis County Ministerial Alliance has partnered with Hays Post to bring you Encouraging Words, a series of messages from Ellis County faith leaders.</p><p><i>Check Hays Post on Wednesdays and Sundays for the latest Encouraging Words.</i></p>

🎥 Encouraging Words: Kevin Daniels, Hays Christian Church

The bagworm family is fairly small, with about 1,350 species described. Bagworm species are found globally, with some, such as the snailcase bagworm, in modern times settling continents where they are not native.

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                        <iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JOOwyj-XCAk"></iframe>
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                    </figure><p>The bagworm family is fairly small, with about 1,350 species described. Bagworm species are found globally, with some, such as the snailcase bagworm, in modern times settling continents where they are not native.</p>

🎥 Green & Growing: Dealing with bagworms

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                        <iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-A7O3kk4QEo"></iframe>
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                    </figure><p>The Ellis County Ministerial Alliance has partnered with Hays Post to bring you Encouraging Words, a series of messages from Ellis County faith leaders.</p><p><i>Check Hays Post on Wednesdays and Sundays for the latest Encouraging Words.</i></p>

🎥 Encouraging Words: Kathy Dinkel, Liberty Foursquare

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                        <iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CWcOZVpDXd8"></iframe>
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                    </figure><p>The Ellis County Ministerial Alliance has partnered with Hays Post to bring you Encouraging Words, a series of messages from Ellis County faith leaders.</p><p><i>Check Hays Post on Wednesdays and Sundays for the latest Encouraging Words.</i></p>

🎥 Encouraging Words: Dave Buller, North Oak Community Church

Lauren Fick, Horticulture Agent for the K-State Research &amp; Extension office in the Cottonwood District, talks about tree blight. Tree blight can be detrimental to the health of the tree and, if left unchecked, could result in a need for tree removal.

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                    </figure><p>Lauren Fick, Horticulture Agent for the K-State Research &amp; Extension office in the Cottonwood District, talks about tree blight. Tree blight can be detrimental to the health of the tree and, if left unchecked, could result in a need for tree removal.</p><figure>
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🎥 Green and Growing: Tree blight

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                    </figure><p>The Ellis County Ministerial Alliance has partnered with Hays Post to bring you Encouraging Words, a series of messages from Ellis County faith leaders.</p><p><i>Check Hays Post on Wednesdays and Sundays for the latest Encouraging Words.</i></p>

🎥 Encouraging Words: Sabian Chaney, New Life Center

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                    </figure><p>The Ellis County Ministerial Alliance has partnered with Hays Post to bring you Encouraging Words, a series of messages from Ellis County faith leaders.</p><p><i>Check Hays Post on Wednesdays and Sundays for the latest Encouraging Words.</i></p>

🎥 Encouraging Words: Brenda Rodger, Trinity Lutheran

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                        <iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GFSAAz9m9N8"></iframe>
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                    </figure><p>The Ellis County Ministerial Alliance has partnered with Hays Post to bring you Encouraging Words, a series of messages from Ellis County faith leaders.</p><p><i>Check Hays Post on Wednesdays and Sundays for the latest Encouraging Words.</i></p>

🎥 Encouraging Words: Pastor Micah Sanderson

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                        <iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4HDGvK-z4wo"></iframe>
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                    </figure><p>The Ellis County Ministerial Alliance has partnered with Hays Post to bring you Encouraging Words, a series of messages from Ellis County faith leaders.</p><p><i>Check Hays Post on Wednesdays and Sundays for the latest Encouraging Words.</i></p>

🎥 Encouraging Words: Father Jarett Konrade

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                        <iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QTkpSf3RiTs"></iframe>
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                    </figure><p>The Ellis County Ministerial Alliance has partnered with Hays Post to bring you Encouraging Words, a series of messages from Ellis County faith leaders.</p><p><i>Check Hays Post on Wednesdays and Sundays for the latest Encouraging Words.</i></p>

🎥 Encouraging Words: Pastor Leslie Radius

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                        <iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WOmhOBsUvqY"></iframe>
                        <figcaption></figcaption>
                    </figure><p>The Ellis County Ministerial Alliance has partnered with Hays Post to bring you Encouraging Words, a series of messages from Ellis County faith leaders.</p><p><i>Check Hays Post on Wednesdays and Sundays for the latest Encouraging Words.</i></p>

🎥 Encouraging Words: Pastor Steve Dinkel

<b>By DUSTIN ARMBRUSTER</b><br><i>Hays Post</i>

The Hays High Indians were guaranteed two more games in 2020.&nbsp; But those two games never occurred after the Kansas State High School Activities Association elected to cancel the final two days of the state basketball tournaments due to concerns of COVID-19. 

Hays High ended the season on an eight-game winning streak after dropping four of five in the middle of the season.

During that final eight-game winning stretch, Hays played four state-ranked teams beating the No. 7 team in 4A twice and the No. 6 and No. 5 teams in 5A.&nbsp; The unranked Indians were set to play their third-straight ranked 5A team — No. 3 Basehor-Linwood — when the season was cut short.

Over the final eight games, Hays scored 51 points per game while allowing just 41 points and holding two opponents in the 20s.

The Indians shared the Western Athletic Conference title with Great Bend, both with a 7-1 mark. Hays beat the Panthers in the rubber match in Great Bend to earn a berth in the 5A state tournament.&nbsp; 

The 17-6 Indians had six players average six or more points per game with T.J. nunnery at 10.3 per contest. Dayln Schwarz ended just under double figures at 9.8 points per game. Dylan Ruder led the way on the boards with 6.5 per contest. Carson Kieffer likely would have become the 19th&nbsp;player in Hays High history to collect 100 or more assists in a single season, but ended the year with 95.&nbsp;

Ruder and Schwarz were named to the Western Athletic Conference first team, Nunnery second team and Kieffer honorable mention. All four were also name to the 5A All-State team by Sports in Kansas. Ruder and Schwarz to the second team and Nunnery and Kieffer received Honorable Mention. Ruder was also named to the KBCA Academic All-State team.

In his first year, Coach Alex Hutchins was a finalist for Sports in Kansas 5A Coach of the Year.

Both seniors on the team will continue their athletic careers.&nbsp; The 6’10” Dylan Ruder will play basketball at Kansas Wesleyan. Brock Lummus will play baseball at Butler County Community College.&nbsp;

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                    </figure><p><b>By DUSTIN ARMBRUSTER</b><br><i>Hays Post</i></p><p>The Hays High Indians were guaranteed two more games in 2020.&nbsp; But those two games never occurred after the Kansas State High School Activities Association elected to cancel the final two days of the state basketball tournaments due to concerns of COVID-19. </p><p>Hays High ended the season on an eight-game winning streak after dropping four of five in the middle of the season.</p><p>During that final eight-game winning stretch, Hays played four state-ranked teams beating the No. 7 team in 4A twice and the No. 6 and No. 5 teams in 5A.&nbsp; The unranked Indians were set to play their third-straight ranked 5A team — No. 3 Basehor-Linwood — when the season was cut short.</p><p>Over the final eight games, Hays scored 51 points per game while allowing just 41 points and holding two opponents in the 20s.</p><p>The Indians shared the Western Athletic Conference title with Great Bend, both with a 7-1 mark. Hays beat the Panthers in the rubber match in Great Bend to earn a berth in the 5A state tournament.&nbsp; </p><p>The 17-6 Indians had six players average six or more points per game with T.J. nunnery at 10.3 per contest. Dayln Schwarz ended just under double figures at 9.8 points per game. Dylan Ruder led the way on the boards with 6.5 per contest. Carson Kieffer likely would have become the 19th&nbsp;player in Hays High history to collect 100 or more assists in a single season, but ended the year with 95.&nbsp;</p><p>Ruder and Schwarz were named to the Western Athletic Conference first team, Nunnery second team and Kieffer honorable mention. All four were also name to the 5A All-State team by Sports in Kansas. Ruder and Schwarz to the second team and Nunnery and Kieffer received Honorable Mention. Ruder was also named to the KBCA Academic All-State team.</p><p>In his first year, Coach Alex Hutchins was a finalist for Sports in Kansas 5A Coach of the Year.</p><p>Both seniors on the team will continue their athletic careers.&nbsp; The 6’10” Dylan Ruder will play basketball at Kansas Wesleyan. Brock Lummus will play baseball at Butler County Community College.&nbsp;</p>

🎥 2020 HIGHLIGHTS: Hays High's remarkable season cut short

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                    </figure><p>The Ellis County Ministerial Alliance has partnered with Hays Post to bring you Encouraging Words, a series of messages from Ellis County faith leaders.</p><p><i>Check Hays Post on Wednesdays and Sundays for the latest Encouraging Words.</i></p>

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                        <iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wVVr8fIH71o"></iframe>
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                    </figure><p>The Ellis County Ministerial Alliance has partnered with Hays Post to bring you Encouraging Words, a series of messages from Ellis County faith leaders.</p><p><i>Check Hays Post on Wednesdays and Sundays for the latest Encouraging Words.</i></p>

🎥 Encouraging Words: Pastor Kevin Daniels

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