By Tim Hay, Wellington Fire/EMS Chief — There are only two public tornado shelter locations in the city of Wellington.

They are located at Sumner Regional Medical Center at 1323 North A (enter on the southeast side)….

…and Sumner Care Center Nursing Home 1600 West 8th (enter on the west side).

The old junior high located at 311 North A is no longer a public shelter as the building was sold to a private entity.  

by Tracy McCue, Sumner Newscow — My son, who is 11-years-old, asked me a few weeks ago if he could play baseball. I was a little surprised. He had never showed interest in playing the game. He hadn’t played since his T-Ball days. He said one of his buddies wanted him to play with him.

I was OK with that, but feared my son may be a step behind with some of his teammates coming in so late to the game.

It didn’t work out for a myriad of reasons. Ultimately, it came down to the fact Quinn is a busy boy, at least during the evening, and baseball got cut from the schedule. 

by Tracy McCue, Sumner Newscow — Sumner County Attorney Kerwin Spencer said the four Wellington residents charged with distribution of heroin felonies last week could have fact-finding preliminary hearings set in two months — a process expedited by lab tests of the drugs in question before the arrests were made.

Jeffery Redford, 34, of Wellington; Maggie A. Redford, 33, Wellington; William Sirmons, 49, Wellington and Billy Russell, 49, Wellington were all charged with at least one count of selling or distributing heroin, all felonies after an eight month Wellington Police Department investigation.

Spencer said normally a preliminary hearing will not be called for at least three months in felony drug cases due to waiting on lab test results. But because the drugs distributed by the alleged perpetrators were already tested to be heroin, then the legal process can move forward more quickly. A preliminary hearing is set to determine whether there is enough admissible evidence to stand trail.